DARRELL ABBOTT's Public Memorial Service: Video Report Available

December 15, 2004

Dallas-Fort Worth's WFAA-TV has posted a video report from the public memorial service Tuesday night (Dec. 14) for slain DAMAGEPLAN/ex-PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. Watch the two-minute video at this location (Windows Media).

According to the Dallas Morning News, a couple of thousand people assembled Tuesday night at the Arlington Convention Center to say farewell to Abbott, who along with four others was shot to death during a Columbus, Ohio, concert last week.

Music fans from their teens to their 40s tailgated in the convention center parking lot, blasting the aggressive music of their idol from their car stereos. Later, they filed inside to mourn the 38-year-old Dalworthington Gardens resident in a service expected to last until midnight.

"Let us remember his happiness," Nick Bowcott, former guitarist with the metal band GRIM REAPER, told the crowd. "He never lost sight of where he came from. He started as a fan, and he was always a fan."

Band videos and home movies were shown, and fans raised their drinks in salute and chanted Mr. Abbott's nickname, a slang term for a $10 bag of marijuana.

The funeral Tuesday for Mr. Abbott was closed to the public. However, DAMAGEPLAN's management and record company scheduled the later service so fans could pay their respects to the guitar hero.

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