Thursday, December 09, 2004

Terrible Music Story

I can't stop blogging today, what the deal?

Getting coffee at the Mud Truck this morning, I was told that mugaflug was shot five times last night during a concert. I didn't ask it to be repeated, because it was anyway five or six times to various people on line, and I still didn't understand who they were talking about. Maybe that's because the Mud Truck BLASTS THEIR MUSIC, but who am I to criticize when they're coffee is so delicious?

Turns out it was Dimebag Darrell, formerly of Pantera. This is actually a terrible story. During a show in Columbus, Ohio last night, some guy jumped on stage, shot Dimebag point blank five times, and then started firing on the crowd.

A police officer snuck in the back, hearing shots, and confronted the gunman on stage. The gunman took a hostage, and threatened to kill him, at which point the police officer took the gunman down with one well placed shotgun blast.

All in all six people (including the gunman) were killed, and it seems like more would have if the PO hadn't blown away the gunman. There also didn't seem to be any reason for the attacks other than the guy being crazy.

I'd say this was all unbelievable, except the exact same thing happened at the last Elephant Larry show, which is why there are only five guys in the group now.

Actually, this isn't a funny subject to joke about. Sorry about that. Now, back to your regularly scheduled Barbie talk.

3 comments:

christopher said...

Actually, you know what the saddest thing about it is?

You dissing the Mudtruck.

Jesus, man. Have some respect.

Geoffrey said...

When I heard about this on the radio this morning, I thought of an awful joke. But now I can't remember it. I guess it's just as well, as Alex's awful joke was better. You're a cruel, funny man, Zalben!

Anonymous said...

Nah...the worst thing is that they didnt even get to play "cowboys from hell."