It's a real shame that the right wing is going to find some way to scapegoat heavy metal music over this.

Can you picture Bedhead fans doing something like this?

we will hang for that wrote:Funniest news i've heard all year

Just to keep this argument in perspective, I think tmidgett's reaction wasn't that ridiculous.

The first reaction was "oh shit, what if I was on stage, or in the audience, or etc" which, once personalized, doesn't make this incident very funny at all.

My second reaction was "man, there were way more things that happened this year that I would consider funnier than this." For example, R Kelly's "U saved Me" video is easily six to seven times as funny as a metal guitarist getting shot.

So, my conclusion is that the "idiot" label that tmidgett placed is, in fact, correct for two seperate reasons

a: It is, in fact, not a funny incident.
b: This guy's sense of humor obviously sucks, if he thinks this is "the funniest" thing all year.

So I say, albeit a quick and judgmental call, it is a correct call.

Been a reader of this forum for a long time, but this is the first thread that has compelled me to sign up.

we will hang, zoidberg, you are pricks.

Really depressing.

djanes1 wrote:

It's a real shame that the right wing is going to find some way to scapegoat heavy metal music over this.

I'm positive the interest generated from this tragedy will be in the name of Lefty Gun Control, not Evil Rock Music bible thumping.

I'm just glad the officer on patrol could respond in a timely manner, the gunman started firing into the crowd after he dispatched Dimebag and the bouncer.

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yep, black humour. thats what it is. we are all too white to get it, i guess... like someone said, "just 11 posts, and so many friends!"



good work



btw, you must listen to 'emo' too, because you are so sensitive.

lata

Personally, and I'm prepared to accept the fact that this makes me an asshole, I laughed my ass off for like a month after the Great White concert disaster.

I just couldn't get over the fact that 50 people died to see Great White. I mean, they've got to be in the afterlife wondering to themselves "Gee, was it worth it?" I picture them all looking like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force telling god "HELL YEAH IT WAS WORTH IT! GREAT WHITE FRICKIN' RUUUULZ!"

I can kinda see a little of your point there actually. I mean, wasn't it because they tried to do a Magic Kingdom sized fireworks display indoors?

Yeah, Pantera weren't much of a band, I'm certain Damageplan weren't any better, and their fans were/are probably a sad collection of losers and dumbasses, but I can't glean much humor from the idea of a guy being shot repeatedly at point-blank range just for playing a gig. Especially when his brother was playing drums and had to watch the whole thing.

C'mon, hasn't this been every musician's greatest nightmare ever since the movie "Nashville"? Isn't anyone else a little freaked that this line has been crossed? Not good, and not funny.

ok...here's the thing. at its core, this--and the great white incident--are totally horrifying events. they are simply terrible. people being shot or burned to death just isn't funny. it's pretty much as bad as the world gets, that kind of thing.

but the surrounding circumstances--the disembodied details--that so many people burned to death at a great white show specifically, that it was specifically a pantera-related shooting, that stuff has an element of humor to it.

the disconnect between the horror of what happened and the weirdness of the details, that's where the humor, such as it is, exists. which is why some of the comments are funny, and some are not. some of them lampoon the situation very gently while allowing for the humanity of the people involved, and some of them just steamroll over the whole thing nihilistically.

a good friend of mine, shortly after 9/11, took to calling the whole thing 'the traj.' i thought this was very funny, esp. coming from a longtime new yorker/east coaster, as rattled as anyone by what happened.

it was funny b/c 9/11 was familiar--we all experienced it in hours upon hours of tv, if nothing else--and making up a slang term for it acknowledged the familiarity--that common bond--while allowing (passively) for the human qualities of the event, even as it ignored them.

saying a bunch of people getting killed is 'the funniest thing' you've heard all year just doesn't cut it. i realize i'm probably addressed a 15yrold here, but there it is.