{"id":15469,"date":"2010-08-26T19:26:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T00:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=15469"},"modified":"2010-09-11T19:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T00:11:54","slug":"last-venue-dimebag-played-in-texas-to-be-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=15469","title":{"rendered":"Last Venue DIMEBAG Played In Texas To Be Demolished?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z89\/themetalden2007\/ridglea68embeddedprod_affiliate117.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTMD has learned that the legendary Fort Worth, Texas venue Ridglea Theater where late great PANTERA\/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist Dimebag Darrell played his final hometown date while in DAMAGEPLAN is to be demolished and made into a bank. TMD has not received final confirmation but according to people closest to the situation&#8230; the Ridglea will likely be closing its doors <em>for good<\/em> by end of 2010.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i189.photobucket.com\/albums\/z89\/themetalden2007\/288560724_72b8b01a61.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/TMDbanny.gif\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTMD&#8217;s creator Randy &#8220;Rocket&#8221; Cody adds:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a damn shame that such a historic heavy metal landmark is falling victim to real estate redevelopment. I raise my horns in respect for all the bands that played that venue and Dimebag Darrell, who made his<br \/>\nfinal stand in Texas there before some psycho took the most beloved metal guitarist away from those who loved him so much, his family, friends and fans!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMore on the entire sad situation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfw.com\/2010\/06\/20\/295133\/ridglea-theater-running-out-of.html\">here<\/a>. Dimebag now cries tears from Heaven. His last fateful night at the<br \/>\nvenue was one of his proudest moments. He looked to the crowd that night after DAMAGEPLAN took<br \/>\nthe stage and said: &#8220;We&#8217;re all older now&#8230; but we&#8217;re still here doing it!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSoon after, Dime would be shot dead on stage (with three others: Nathan Bray, Jeff &#8220;Mayhem&#8221; Thompson and Erin Halk) by a crazy former Marine at the Alrosa Villa Nightclub in Columbus, Ohio on Dec 8, 2004.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLong live heavy metal&#8230; and God Bless another great Texas rock venue that&#8217;s bit the dust.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ridgleatheater\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ridgleatheater<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TMD has learned that the legendary Fort Worth, Texas venue Ridglea Theater where late great&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}