Death of Dimebag Darrell
Its December 8 2004. Former Pantera members Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul are playing a show in Columbus, Ohio with their new band Damageplan. It appears that its going to be a great night. The band takes the stage and begins to play. The crowd goes wild. Soon, things go terribly wrong. It is about to become one of the darkest days in Rock n Roll history.
Little more than a minute into the first song, an tall gunman appears on the stage. He walked over towards Dimebag Darrell and fired off fifteen shots. The gunman is Nathan Gale, an ex-Marine with a serious mental issue. Gale believed that Pantera could read his thoughts and was laughing at him. During the event, he injured several people until he was finally taken out by a police officer armed with a shot gun.
Darrell was hit in the back on the head and died instantly. Dimebag Darrell has become an inspiration to many aspiring guitar players and even current stars of the rock genre.
