RIGOR MORTIS Vocalist Pays Tribute To Late Joe's Garage Owner

February 26, 2009

Vocalist Bruce Corbitt of veteran Texas thrashers RIGOR MORTIS was interviewed by the Dallas Observer about Abboud "Ab" Greig, owner of the Joe's Garage venue in Fort Worth, Texas where bands like PANTERA and RIGOR MORTIS got their start.

Greig was found shot in the head on January 12. He was 74 years old.

"He didn't like our music at all," Corbitt recalls. "He was a funny guy, a nice guy. He was in his 50s, and he didn't like our music, but he was smart enough to see that we had a pretty big crowd. Joe's became our home for all of that. People from Dallas would drive a good hour just to get out there. It was far, but it was the original birthplace for underground metal in the area, so we'd drive."

Joe's was just a small part of Greig's legacy, says Corbitt, who points out that Greig helped bring youth soccer to Fort Worth as well.

"He always loved helping kids," Corbitt says. "And he knew that we [in the metal scene] didn't have a place of our own. In his life, it was a small thing. But for us, it was a big deal. I don't think he ever realized the impact he had on the metal scene in DFW. As soon as [Joe's Garage] was gone, we were lost there for a while. It was like the best of the metal scene, and then the end of an era when it closed. We felt it for a while. For years, I've been getting messages from people from back then, and they all remember the same thing: the Joe's Garage years."

Read the entire article from the Dallas Observer.

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