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Great White Manager Responsible for Detonating 2003 Nightclub Fire Will Be Up for Parole

8/1/07, 9:59 am EST

Photo: Great White

Daniel Biechele, the former manager of Great White, will be up for parole next month after serving sixteen months of his four-year prison sentence. Biechele pleaded guilty last year to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter related to the February 20, 2003 disaster at the Station, the Rhode Island nightclub that erupted into flames after Biechele illegally detonated pyrotechnics accompanying the band’s show. According to the chairwoman of the parole board, a four-member panel will meet with Biechele at the Rhode Island prison he is currently housed in and victims’ families will have a separate hearing on September 5. Station co-owners owners Michael and Jeff Derderian — the pair responsible for installing flammable foam in the club — were sentenced to a four-year term and a suspended sentence with community service and probation, respectively, last year.

In addition, lawyers representing the fire’s victims want Biechele to speak about what happened that night in a civil lawsuit. During the time of his criminal trial, a judge ordered that Biechele did not have to undergo questioning under oath in the civil suit for fear he might incriminate himself. Now the victims’ attorneys are seeking to determine whether members of Great White were telling the truth when they said they weren’t involved in the decision to use the pyrotechnics.

Photo: Marino/Retna 


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qewrty | 8/1/2007, 10:30 am EST

somebody needs to tell them that their wigs are on crooked.

Burnt Crispies | 8/1/2007, 11:19 am EST

Keep the bastard locked up! No one gives a shit about Great White anyway. Throw those guys in prison too for releasing such shitty music. They need pyrotechnics in their concerts otherwise everyone will get bored.

pkrocket22 | 8/1/2007, 11:39 am EST

Let’s not forget that Ty Longley, the guitarist for Great White was killed as well before we go and make random callous statements.

pseu·do·nym | 8/1/2007, 11:59 am EST

Rhode Island is like one big small town. When that shit-hole burnt down everybody knew somebody who was at the show (even if they were wicked embarrassed to say they were going to see Great White). Daniel Biechele is responsible for one of the largest travesties to ever occur on Warwick soil and should have to serve out his sentence, perhaps even forced to listen to “Shot in the Dark” over and over again until his release.

luddite shredder | 8/1/2007, 12:57 pm EST

what happened was a tragedy, but that picture of great white has to be one of the funniest things i’ve seen all morning.

Sammy | 8/1/2007, 1:25 pm EST

I hated Great White until they killed 100 people. Score one for the dark prince!

Ass Wipe | 8/1/2007, 1:29 pm EST

That singer is one ugly looking motherfucker.

Mule | 8/1/2007, 1:34 pm EST

Why there isn’t more outrage about that night is a mystery to me. Sure, the manager is at fault. So was the lighting guy. So was the band. So was the OWNERS who padded the place with EGG CARTONS and didn’t have a strict NO PYRO policy because of it! Community service??? Suspended sentence??? After 100 people perished? Yeah, that’s justice.

Max | 8/1/2007, 1:44 pm EST

Great White are felching shit-eaters.Can you print that?

Ian St. Ian | 8/1/2007, 1:56 pm EST

Hell ya,a hundred less Great White fans?Get him out of prison and give that man a medal!

Sammy | 8/1/2007, 1:57 pm EST

Justice was served. You go pay money to watch some douche bag sing “Once Bitten”, you fucking deserve to Burn! Great White should keep playing gigs to rid the world of retarded crackers. Give them fuckers a medal!

jungleland | 8/1/2007, 1:59 pm EST

I hope this is not a current pic of the band. They were an OK band that fell for the Hair Metal thing and turned to crap. In another era they might have been a good classic rock band.

As far as the manager, that was a stupid idea to run pyro at all in a club that small but keeping him in prison will not help anything.

Are you serious? | 8/1/2007, 2:51 pm EST

The fact that Dan Biechele is the one to go down for this is a friggin travesty. Biechele did the same thing he did every other night. The club owners and the delinquent fire marshall are the ones who should be locked up. The fact that the idiots on this board haven’t taken the time to think twice about this makes me question the quality and age of the other posters.

Sammy | 8/1/2007, 3:10 pm EST

Trying to have some good clean fun at 100 or so peoples expense and some douche is talking about “quality” and “age”. Write about wine elsewhere dickface!

Stoner Bill | 8/1/2007, 3:54 pm EST

Ok I’ve given this story a lot of thought and have come to the stark realization about one very important thing: I need to get me a new dealer because this fuckin weed I’m smokin sucks.

urmoms | 8/1/2007, 5:11 pm EST

they look dead
hh hhh hhhh hhhh..

t h | 8/1/2007, 5:32 pm EST

wow, some real wise, intelliegent, well-thought out comments on this site in regards to this sad affair. unbelieveable!

Mule | 8/1/2007, 6:05 pm EST

“Intelliegent”? Hmmm…”unbelieveable” indeed!

Saltlick | 8/2/2007, 6:39 pm EST

That evening in Rhode Island was the nightmare side of the Spinal Tapish rock world of dumb rock and dumb beer selling clubs .So very sad that innocent people died this way.

Great White Cloud O' Smoke | 8/3/2007, 2:43 am EST

My My My I’m Once Bitten, Twice…Oh FUCK! This place is ON FIRE! Let’s get the fuck outta here!

Helvis | 8/3/2007, 7:32 am EST

you got that right!

Helvis | 8/3/2007, 7:33 am EST

you got that right!

Bob | 8/5/2007, 6:20 pm EST

I cant believe some of your comments , three years later ! I feel deaply for the victoms and thier families ! What does that have to do with thier Wigs ? Qewrty,luddite shredder,asswipe,Ian st.Ian,Stoner bill, and UR MOMS, What is wrong with you all ? It’s about the victoms,You’r all asses !

Bunch of Pricks | 8/20/2007, 12:15 pm EST

This Band sucks after helping these ass holes out for a benefit concert in Yankton South dakota. there need to find some Cocane to snort and pot to smoke was more wheighed much more important the 100 people they killed. Actually two band memebers came up to us and asked “Hey man who know where I can find some coke or weed

Hillary Clinton | 3/9/2008, 7:52 pm EST

Yo, it’s “Victums” not “Victoms”. Well..nevermind I’m relying on stupid poor fucks to vote for me…

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