Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about Pantara's dime bag Daryl Abbott are insane.

He was a heavy metal wonder kid whose guitar playing was so face-melting that he won teenage competitions.

His band Pantara is one of the most influential and successful metal bands of all time.

He was famous for his friendliness and generosity to fans,

beloved by aspiring heavy metal guitarists who worshipped him as the groundbreaking guitar hero he was,

and he was lauded by the guitar heroes he worshipped growing up, Eddie Van Halen, Ace Freely, and Kerry King among them.

But most disgracefully, Dimebag Darrell was gunned down by a deranged fan on December 8th, 2004,

24 years to the exact day that John Lennon met the same exact fate. But before that, Dimebag Daryl made great music. Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Dirt Road Fish Tail, MK1.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to My Boo by Usher and Alicia Keys.

And why would I play you that specific slice of first-kissed cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on December 8th, 2004.

And that was the day Nathan Gale entered the Alrosa Vista Nightclub with a loaded 9mm

barretta and ended the life of one of heavy metals's most talented and beloved musicians.

On this episode, a deranged heavy metal assassin,

a real-life superhero in Pantera's dime bag Daryl.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is Disgraceland. Roll Call was boring.

Him and a handful of other cops plop down in metal chairs.

Some hung over, most disinterested, others grab-assing, talking

shit. They looked and sounded more like high school kids settling into a classroom before

their biology teacher arrived than they did authority figures. That's in part because that's

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