{"id":70193,"date":"2018-06-27T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=70193"},"modified":"2018-06-29T11:52:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:52:37","slug":"news-former-pantera-drummer-vinnie-paul-abbott-dies-aged-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-former-pantera-drummer-vinnie-paul-abbott-dies-aged-54\/","title":{"rendered":"VINNIE PAUL: Public Memorial For Former PANTERA Drummer To Be Held In Dallas On Sunday (June 27th, 2018) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

VINNIE PAUL: Public Memorial For Former PANTERA Drummer To Be Held In Dallas On Sunday<\/strong><\/span>
\nJune 27th, 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A public memorial for late Pantera and Hellyeah drummer Vinnie Paul will be held at the Bomb Factory in Dallas, Texas on Sunday, July 1st, commencing at 3:33pm. The line for wristbands to attend Vinnie Paul: A Public Celebration Of Life will begin at noon outside the venue. No advance tickets will be available.<\/p>\n

Vinnie Paul Abbott passed away on June 22nd, 2018 at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 54. The cause of death has yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

Hellyeah guitarist Tom Maxwell issued the following statement: \u201cJust so broken hearted and in shock. I\u2019m struggling to write this but we want to thank you all for your kind words and support in this tragic time. We don\u2019t have much info to give you other than Vinnie is now with Dime and they are together in a better place. Sadness, shock, confusion, anger, despair. We feel it all together. Hug your loved ones and keep them close.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you all again for all your love. Vinnie will be and is greatly loved and missed but his music will live forever. Crank it loud today and scream to the heavens so he can hear you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hellyeah vocalist Chad Gray added: \u201cFirst off I\u2019m sorry to all of you for our loss. It\u2019s consumed me as I\u2019m sure it has many of you. I\u2019m sure you can all understand this has been incredibly hard and impossible for me to wrap my head around. I just don\u2019t want to believe it\u2019s real.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to tell all my crew I love you guys so much. We couldn\u2019t do what we do with out you. And I want to say thank you to everyone around the world for your kind words, blessings and condolences to all of us through this tragic time. We love you all! And to all of my friends in and out of the music business thank you for reaching out to me. It means more to me then I could ever express. I don\u2019t know what I would do without you. So Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! It really has taken \u2018the heavy metal family\u2019 to another level.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been one of the toughest things I\u2019ve ever had to face in my life! I\u2019m so confused, sad and as helpless as I\u2019ve ever been. I\u2019m at a loss and completely devastated. But I\u2019m trying. It\u2019s the equivalent of an emotional riot in my head and in my heart as I write this. But I\u2019m trying to focus on anything good. I know Vinnie would want that. And the good things are my memories of him. His smile, his infectious laugh and his personality that beamed light.<\/p>\n

\u201cHim and his brother Dimebag lived to make people smile. That\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna miss the most. I just want to say thank you Vinnie Paul! For saving my life, for your music, for your endless generosity, for accepting me into your life, for creating our music that touched people, for being proud to be in Hellyeah and for always treating me like a brother, and more importantly for treating me like a friend. So many times I\u2019ve looked back to see you just bashing away and have to pinch myself. It was Unbelievable! And for all of those things you will live forever in my heart. And I will never let you go!!! I will always love you and go to the end of the earth to carry the torch for you and Dime\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cR.I.P Vincent Paul Abbott. I know you\u2019re with Dimebag right now, smiling down on us. Even in all this emotional darkness, that thought alone makes me smile right back. I LOVE YOU! Your eternal friend – Chadnesss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hellyeah guitarist Christian Brady offered the following words, meanwhile: \u201cI\u2019m sitting here in tears writing this. I haven\u2019t been able to find the words to do this… maybe I just haven\u2019t had the will to do it yet because I knew once I did, it would make it real and I still keep hoping that this is just a horrible nightmare that I\u2019m going to wake up from. But I know it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

\u201cA friend of ours said to me today… \u2018sometimes you get to meet your heroes and they turn out to be cool, and then maybe you got lucky enough to meet Vinnie Paul.\u2019 Vinnie… not only was I lucky enough to meet you, I was lucky enough to be taken in as your family. I was lucky enough to create and play music with you. I was lucky enough to have you call me your brother and tell me you love me. I was lucky enough to call you my brother and tell you I love you. You will always<\/em> be with me. I can\u2019t even begin to thank you for everything you did… for me, for our band. You were the most incredibly generous person I\u2019ve ever known. You changed my life in so many ways and I will forever<\/em> be grateful for you.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing that makes me smile right now amidst the ocean of tears is that I know you\u2019re with Dime again. I know he was there waiting for you with a shot and smiling… \u2018Drink it or wear it big bro!\u2019… and I know the heavens are rocking harder than ever right now. You always believed that when you lose someone so close to you, you have to live for two. That\u2019s exactly what you did and now that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019m going to do. You will be missed everyday. You will be on my mind and in my heart for the rest of my life. I love you with all of my heart bro. Thank you for everything. May you Rest In Peace. Until we meet again my dear friend…\u201d<\/p>\n

Vincent Paul Abbott was born on March 11th, 1964 in Abilene, Texas. In 1981 he co-founded Pantera alongside his younger brother and guitarist \u2018Diamond\u2019 Darrell Abbott (whose moniker was later revised to \u2018Dimebag\u2019). <\/p>\n

Pantera disbanded in 2003, after which Vinnie and his brother formed Damageplan. On December 8th, 2004, while performing with Damageplan at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, Darrell Abbott was shot and killed onstage by Nathan Gale at the age of 38.<\/p>\n

Since 2006, Vinnie had been the drummer for Hellyeah.<\/p>\n

A private funeral service for Vinnie Paul will be held on Saturday, June 30th, beginning at 3:33 pm local time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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