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ALTER BRIDGE Guitarist Pays Tribute To DIMEBAG On 'Tonight Show With Jay Leno'

ALTER BRIDGE/ex-CREED guitarist Mark Tremonti paid tribute to late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott by displaying Dimebag's photo on his guitar during ALTER BRIDGE's appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Tuesday night (Jan. 18). Watch ALTER BRIDGE's performance of "Find...
January 19, 2005
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DESTINY Complete Work On 'Beyond All Sense 2005'

Swedish metallers DESTINY have posted the following message on their web site: "It took a long time but 'Beyond All Sense 2005' is finally completed. "This is not the new DESTINY album or even the follow up to 'Future of the Past' released in 2004. This is a rerecorded version of DESTINY's very firs...
January 19, 2005
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'Hero' Police Officer Makes Appearance At DAMAGEPLAN Benefit Concert

Columbus Police Officer James D. Niggemeyer made a brief appearance on stage during BOBAFLEX's set at the Jan. 14 benefit concert held at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, with all proceeds helping the families of two local victims of the DAMAGEPLAN concert shooting, Erin Halk and Nathan Bray. The crowd...
January 18, 2005
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DAMAGEPLAN Shooting: What Happened The Night DIMEBAG Was Murdered?

The following story by John Futty was published in the January 16, 2005 edition of The Columbus Dispatch: His high-pitched scream spoke to all of the things William Wever couldn't say. "It was like he suddenly realized, 'I've got another man's blood on me,' " said his friend Crystal Levings, 25, of...
January 16, 2005
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Report: DAMAGEPLAN Club Shooting Prompts Security Check

Ray Waddell of Billboard is reporting that more than a month after a shooting spree at the Alrosa Villa club in Columbus, Ohio, left five people dead, including the assailant and DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, many questions remain unanswered. Still, most in the touring industry do n...
January 15, 2005
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Club Where DIMEBAG Was Murdered Reopens With Benefit Concert

A sellout crowd of 700 marked the reopening of the Alrosa Villa club in Columbus, Ohio that was the scene of last month's shooting spree in which five people were killed, including former PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. The Alrosa Villa held a benefit concert and auction Friday night (Ja...
January 15, 2005
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Manager: New DAMAGEPLAN Recordings May Surface

Although DAMAGEPLAN may be finished as a touring entity in the wake of last month's on-stage murder of guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, the group's manager told Billboard.com another release is likely. DAMAGEPLAN's lone album was its 2004 Elektra debut, "New Found Power". "There were recordings t...
January 14, 2005
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STARWOOD Bassist Issues Update

STARWOOD/GEORGE LYNCH bassist Marten Andersson has issued the following update: "Last year had some really good highlights for me, the STARWOOD album came out and we got the live show off the ground. I also had a lot of fun touring with GEORGE LYNCH among other things. Of course there was also some...
January 13, 2005
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Police: Killer Didn't Say Anything To DIMEBAG Before Shooting Him

Ohio's NBC 4 is reporting that the man who killed four people at the Alrosa Villa nightclub last month, including former PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, had several unused rounds before he was shot and killed by an officer, police said Thursday (Jan. 13). Nathan Gale, 25, of Marysville,...
January 13, 2005
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QUEEN Musical May Add DIMEBAG Tribute

antiMUSIC is reporting that the QUEEN musical "We Will Rock You" may add a tribute to late PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott during a key sequence in the show. Dimebag was shot by a deranged fan that stormed the stage during a DAMAGEPLAN concert in Ohio last month. Paul Crook is...
January 12, 2005
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Web Site That Made Light Of DIMEBAG's Murder Apologizes, Suspends Development

The WeWontMissHim.com web site, which recently selected late DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott as its January 2005 "Dead Guy of the Month," has officially "suspended development" after receiving 250,000 hits in less than 24 hours and a number of complaints resulting from a Jan...
January 12, 2005
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DIMEBAG On 'L.A. Lloyd's Rock 30': Replay Scheduled For This Weekend

On February 14, 2004, "Dimebag" Darrell and Vinnie Paul of DAMAGEPLAN/PANTERA co-hosted "L.A. Lloyd's Rock 30", a three-hour rock countdown syndicated nationally through Excelsior Radio Networks. Due to the overwhelming e-mail requests from fans, L.A. Lloyd will replay that show this weekend on stat...
January 12, 2005
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OBITUARY Frontman Talks About Upcoming Album

OBITUARY frontman John Tardy recently did an interview with Sweden's Global Domination about the group's upcoming album and the group's current label situation, among other topics. A couple of excerpts from the interview follow: Global Domination: Last I heard you guys were pretty much done with wri...
January 12, 2005
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Founder Of Club Where DIMEBAG Was Murdered Dies At 91

The Associated Press is reporting that one month after a shooting at a nightclub left five dead including the gunman, the club's 91-year-old founder has died. Albert Cautela died Sunday at Riverside Methodist Hospital, said his son, Rick Cautela, owner of the Alrosa Villa. The elder Cautela had suff...
January 11, 2005
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Newly Launched Web Site Makes Light Of DIMEBAG's Murder

A newly launched web site, WeWontMissHim.com, has selected late DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott as its January 2005 "Dead Guy of the Month." The site's home page features a photo of Dimebag complete with a superimposed "bullet hole" in his forehead along with the message, "H...
January 11, 2005