the story of the shooting of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott is one of the sickest and most horrible things that has happened in music probably since Woodstock 1999. (I would include the Station fire, but it was an accident. For amazing coverage of how that event unfolded, see the Providence Journal's 160 stories, including a step-by-step of the club's ownership, about the tragedy).
I cannot imagine the horror of having been in that audience, or the incredible sadness of family and friends getting a phone call that their loved one is dead because some psychotic, paranoid metal fan decided to seek revenge and take other people as well. I hope to see Columbus do some excellent reporting on this, because I am deeply interested in the motivation of this nutso and because I fear that this may a have deeply negative for the rock and metal live show world.
It's times like this that I really think about how the extreme lauditory nature of music sociology has missed something -- something about the negative and dark parts of fandom, of the collapse between fantasy and reality for some people, and how music and the cultures surrounding it are powerful and often mishandled, treated as 'pop' when, for so many people, it is the way that they frame their emotional lives, good or bad.
friends speak abt DBD
MTV coverage
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