Roadies Offer Detailed Account Of DIMEBAG Shooting Incident

December 16, 2004

Karl Kuenning RFL of Roadie.net has issued the following report:

"Today I was contacted by two local Columbus roadies that were both eyewitnesses to the DAMAGEPLAN shootings exactly one week ago tonight in Columbus Ohio at the Alrosa Villa club. They are members of the local stage crew in Columbus, and work several venues including the Alrosa. 'Jon' is the club's stage manager and 'Tubbs' is the club's F.O.H. (Front of House Sound Man) and was working monitors that fateful night as he normally did when a national act like DAMAGEPLAN played the club. Neither Jon nor Tubbs have spoken publicly until now, even though both have been contacted by several national and local news sources and have been asked for comments. They have chosen to tell their story here to make sure their words are not misrepresented or taken out of context.

"Here is their story of those terrible few minutes that have changed their lives forever and taken a close friend from them in the same instant. As Jon emotionally told me, 'It was the worst thing I have ever seen in my life.'

"Both Jon and Tubbs said that the afternoon could not have gone any better. The band and their crew were extremely professional and friendly. Jon remembers Jeff 'Mayhem' Thompson (the head of the band's security) making sure the local crew all had plenty of water and Dimebag Darrell Abbott even made small talk with some of them during the sound check. 'They were all incredible,' said Jon. During the day however, a strange man made a nuisance of himself, and was finally told to leave the area by 'Mayhem'. Hangers-on and want-ta-bees are common in the music business, and no one figured this guy was really dangerous. This of course turned out to be Nathan Gale, who as we know now ended up shooting six people, and killing four of them later that day. Other than that apparently minor incident, the set-up for the show went remarkably smooth. Tubbs now also remembers that just prior to the show Gale's van was parked behind the band's tour bus, and they announced over the PA several times for the owner to have it moved or it would be towed...which Gale reportedly did shortly before DAMAGEPLAN took the stage. Read more.

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