Former Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott was shot and killed yesterday as he got on stage to perform with his new band Damageplan.
You can find details here:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/apmusic_story.asp?category=1403&slug=Obit%20Dimebag
I've never been very good at the whole "fan" thing, so even though I do like a lot of Panera's music, the fact that a man I didn't know has been killed isn't going to shatter my world the way it might for some people. However, I did admire him as a guitarist and I feel that this is a definite loss for the music industry, and I felt it was worth mentioning here.
Years ago when I lived in Minnesota, I knew some people who worked at a music store. One of the products they sold was a line of Dimebag Darrell guitars. As a promotional tool, the store featured some life-sized cardboard cut-out pictures of Dimebag.
One of the people I knew who worked there had been able to snag one and take it home, and while visiting on a night of drunkenness, myself and several others had our pictures taken with Dimebag.
While I am saddened by the thought that he's gone, I can't help but smile when I think that somewhere in the world there may very well be a picture of a drunken Jon pretending to sodomize a cardboard cut-out of him.
Okay, so it's not exactly a touching eulogy, and it's not really the way most of us would like to be remembered, but somehow I think he'd approve...
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