Over $4,000 Raised At Joe's Garage Tribute Weekend In Fort Worth
May 25, 2009, 15 years ago
The Joe's Garage Tribute Weekend was held from May 22nd-24th at the Rockstar Sports Bar in Fort Worth, Texas and was headlined by SOLITUDE AETURNUS. The shows remembered Abboud "Abb" Greig and the impact his club, Joe's Garage, had on the original Dallas metal underground. Greig was killed in in January 2009 during an attempted robbery.
WARBEAST (formerly TEXAS METAL ALLIANCE) singer Bruce Corbitt (RIGOR MORTIS) has issued the following post-show review:
"What a great time we all had at Joe’s Garage Tribute Weekend. We had record attendance for the Rockstar Sportsbar on Friday and Saturday night. There were over 280 people that paid on Friday night. Over 320 paid on Saturday night and 85 paid for the Sunday night show. So combine that with all the band members and crew etc… the club was packed like it never was before.All together with the paid admission, the sales off the old Joe’s Garage memorabilia and the raffle for the Dimebag painting… $3,545.00 was raised to give to Abb’s wife Ruth for the Greig family. Not bad at all considering we only charged 5 measly dollars for door admission on all three nights. Plus, we still haven’t added all the money made off the t-shirt sales. But it looks like another four to five hundred bucks profit was made off the T-shirt sales. That would put the final total over 4 grand. Unbelievable!"
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