So I just finished reading Zac Crain's book "Black Tooth Grin" which is an unauthorized biography of Dimebag Darrell's life. While not the best written book it was a decent read and really made me think again about how senseless the murder of Dime really was.
It has been a little over 5 years and in all that time there has been nothing that has surfaced about Dime being anything other than what he always claimed to be which was just a fun loving, heavy drinking guitar player. A guy with a pink beard and a drinking problem, was more or less a saint. This guy toured the world for 20 years and managed to keep his shit together and yet the people that run our states and country can't be bothered to keep their shit straight.
A guy who never hurt anyone is dead, and we have jails that are filled to the brim and overflowing with the filth of society and yet we keep them alive.
Somewhere in history the phrase "only the good die young" was coined, I don't know if Billy Joel should get the credit, or if it should go to some hillbilly somewhere in the back country that nobody has ever heard of, but whoever said it first certainly had it right.
glad it was a good book
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