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Born on August 20, 1966 in Dallas, Texas; but then unfortunatly murdered on December 8, 2004 Darrell Lance Abbott also known as "Dimebag" Darrell, rocked the faces of everyone who listened to metal. Dimebag Darrell was the lead guitarist of the monster thrash metal band named Pantera along with his brother on drums Vinnie Paul, bassist Tommy Bradford, and former friend Phil Anselmo as the lead singer. Dimebag in highschool at the age of 16 won his first guitar competition and won a Dean ML with a Floyd Rose tremelo; and ever since then he has used the ML guitar his entire carrer. Dimebag and his brother made three albums with vocalist Donnie Hart from "Metal Magic" to "I Am The Night". Soon after "I Am The Night" album vocalist Donnie Hart left Pantera but was then soon replaced by Phil Anselmo; and from there they created 8 albums from "Cowboys From Hell" to "Reinventing The Steel." About a year after their last album though Phil Anselmo and Dimebag started to clash heads and eventually Dimebag and his brother Vinnie left the band. Dave Mustaine, guitarist and lead singer of Megadeth invited Dimebag to join Megadeth but Dimebag said that if he were to join, his brother had to join with him. Unfortunatly Dave Mustaine had to decline for he already had a drummer. Eventually Dimebag and his brother decided to make their own band named "Damageplan" which grew quickly to be a huge success. On the 4 of December, 2004 at Columbus, OH while onstage was shot 8 times by an outraged Pantera fan, but the fan was shot by a police officer 5 minutes after he shot dimebag.

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