And I was having such a good day!!!

http://www.nbc4i.com/news/3983630/detail.html

For you heavy metal fans out there, the above link tells of the tragic, senseless death of Dimebag Darrell, former guitarist of Pantera. I'm still sitting here in shock. Goddamnit, Phil fucking Anselmo is out there walking around injecting enough herion into his system on a daily basis to kill a goddamn elephant and yet just keeps_on_living while the guy whom I actually respected and somewhat looked up to as an artist goes out like this.

Eat me!

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I have seen the writing on the wall. Don't think I'll need anything at all.

Dimebag Darrell
Jimi Hendrix
Robert Johnson
Randy Rhoades
Duane Allman

What do all these names have in common? They are all virtuoso guitarists who died untimely and extremely painful deaths. I think I have figured out the way Satan conducts his bargains: for every waste-of-life unrepentent drug addict like Keith Richards or Phil Anselmo who go on living age after age like some breed of chemically-preserved vampire, at least five relatively decent, talented people have to die. No wonder Eddie Van Halen has become a recluse and won't play live anymore!

Well I ain't goin' out like that! I am onto the conspiracy. I am throwing music theory out the window and not practicing guitar any more than absolutely necessary. Good guitarists die, period. Therefore I must NEVER become one. Either that or switch to bass as my full-time instrument. Think about it: the bass player always lives! Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crash? The bass player didn't die! Motley Crue's bassis Nikki Sixx crashed his car and killed a friend of his, but he lived! He even overdosed and came back from the dead! Bass players don't die. (John Entwhistle is merely the exception that proves the rule.) So yeah, gonna be a bassist from now on and laugh as the bullets bounce off me.

::EDIT::

I stand corrected. It was Vince Neil in the car wreck, not Nikki Sixx. But still!