Very informative new 8 minute video about the shooting of Dimebag with unseen footage

New video on YouTube. Uploaded on December 8th in conjunction with the 20th anniversary.

At first glance, it looks like one of those awful clickbait videos but I learned more information from it than I’ve ever learned anywhere else about that night.

It starts with when the band arrived at the venue and also a little bit about what Nathan Gale did earlier that day. In detailing the shooting, it makes good use of computer graphics to tell the whole story. It even goes into detail about how many times each person was shot and parts of the body they were shot.

The previously unseen footage from floor level is not of the shooting itself, but starts very shortly afterward and shows some chaos and people fleeing the stage area. Also some footage from the floor shortly after Gale was killed.

The very end is extremely cool. I’m sure any big fan would appreciate being able to find the spot where Dimebag died. With Al Rosa Villa being torn down some time ago, it seems quite difficult to find it via googlemaps. This video provides the next best thing. There is now an apartment complex on the site, but what the computer graphic does with the highlighted figure of his body literally pinpoints the exact spot where he died. I’ll let y’all see how it does that.

I passed through Columbus last January on my way to Grand Rapids. I would’ve loved to visit the site, but had no idea how to find it and not enough time to stop to do a thorough internet search. If I find myself in the area again, this video will make it very easy to find the precise spot.