To have lived the 70s and 80s was better - the music evolved so much in that time. Grunge in America? For get that shit, For the rest of the world it was hard rock, then prog, then punk then NWOBHM, then metal, then thrash... etc. etc.
@@Henelund only an American would think he's the best, he's just average an nothing like him? He is a ozzy wanna be, he's like a drummer from rush Neil incredibly overrated
Unfortunately, Ronnie at this point was dealing with stomach cancer and you can hear him straining with his higher register. I had followed him from his ELF days, and he was never one to let his fans down. He was and is the voice of rock and roll forever.
And this is Ronnie in his mid 60's and had the flu during this show. Check out the band 'Rainbow', Ronnie at his best, 1975-1977 Rainbow. He also replaced Ozzy in Black Sabbath making them far better. Ronnie was the GOAT vocally, but his stage presence was amazing..Check out 1970's, 1980's and 1990's Ronnie James Dio! RIP GOD OF VOCALS!!
ronnie, lemmy n more never forgotten you were cool guys glad i was lucky enough to meet both ronnie n lemmy over 30 years several times greatest voice in history in rock n metal
Thank you Katie. Greatest metal singer ever! He also started the horns 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 I picked this song for you because of the lyrics, there are ones he sings better but this one fit you. He replaced Ozzy in Black Sabbath.... Classic metal not old... He is older in this performance RIP DIO One of the vocal coach reactors has a big thing for him. _YourBiggestFan
I was so lucky to see him once in my life. It was at the Black Sabbath gig in Wacken when they performed as "Heaven and He'll". Sabbath of the Dio-years... I am so grateful to this. Half year later he died. One of the biggest. Thank you for your music, Ronnie James.
When Dio was in his prime - most of his career - he didn't get the recognition that he deserved from American media for his musical genius. Most of his music wasn't played on mainstream American radio very much, especially in the Bible Belt states. And MTV showed what a F@cked up representation of music they were by ignoring most of his music. In spite of that, many people knew who he was. I discovered him in the mid-1980s, and he quickly became one of my favorite musicians to listen to. He is easily one of the top 5 metal musicians ever to sing the genre. RIP RJD. Your music is missed!
Ronnie: One of the best singers of all time, in any genre! Ozzy: A unique voice without vibrato, with a lot of presence, that works like dynamite - for some reason...
If you like Doug Aldrich and that old school hard rock/metal sound, his last two projects are pretty good, the Dead Daisies and Revolution Saints. Deen Castronovo was in Journey and you'll see why. ;) And of course, Ronnie James Dio is an absolute legend you should deep dive into.
Ronnie was one of the best vocalists in music, not just metal. You have to check out his early stuff with Elf, Rainbow and Black Sabbath. He was also helped to form Hear N Aid, A Metal version of Live Aid. The song they did for it, Stars, features all the best of 80's metal, it's really a treat.
Dio was one of the best ever! Range, phrasing, emotion, color, breath control.... and this was later in his career, when he had cancer, and was still killing it, but he was limited. Check out the really early stuff by Ronnie and the Prophets, the Electric Elves, or the Elves, for a totally different style. Then Elf; before he joined Rainbow. One of his best performances ever is "Stargazer" by Rainbow.
first time here.. kinna stunned you found DIO .... oh darling you don't know what you are in for.. he really rewrote the book. loving your reactions!! ♥
RJD (RIP) actually did sing with Black Sabbath and replaced Ozzy for a while. He also sang 'Love is all' by Roger Glover. I'm old enough to have seen hem perform live.
Dio was and always will be the sound of heavy metal IMHO. His early days with Richie Blackmore in Rainbow are classic. The Rainbow Rising album was a game changer in the sound of hard rock/metal. Definitely check out Stargazer and Do You Close Your Eyes from this album and Gates of Babylon from Long Live Rock and Roll. Also check out Heaven and Hell, Children of the Sea with Black Sabbath.
It's funny you said Ozzy, Ronnie took over for Ozzy for Black Sabbath. Check out the Black Sabbath songs "Heaven & Hell", "Sign of the Southern Cross", "Lonely is the Word", "I" and so many more. I highly recommend his previous band called Rainbow -"Stargazer" is a classic. "Catch the Rainbow", Gates of Babylon", "Temple of the King' and many more. Great voice since 1957. Check out more.
Ronnie James Dio was in the band Rainbow, and as someone mentioned below you should definitely check out "Stargazer" to really be wow'd by his vocals. He went on to take over for Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath (I recommend "Heaven and Hell" and "Neon Knights" as standouts from his Sabbath catalog). Here, you are seeing his later years as a solo artist. I always loved this song, but pretty much any song from the album "Holy Diver" is great, especially the title track and the radio hit "Rainbow in the Dark". FUN FACT: Dio was the one who popularized the "devil horns" hand gesture that pretty much everyone on the planet knows, including the makers of emojis. He got the gesture from his old Italian grandmother who used the gesture back in the Old Country to ward off evil spirits. Ironic that the rest of the world assumed it was a demonic gesture... lol.
Well that's from Dio's classic first album which came out in 1983.... The band with Doug Aldrich in the guitar indeed kills it ... I saw Dio in 84 and met the main man himself at a signing after the gig at the Manchester Apollo... If you want to go back to the seventies and see him perform with Rainbow you will be astounded . I think that gig was probably only a couple of years before he passed away. Trixie is awesome by the way. She knows good music when she hears it!
This was live in London...Ronnie was in his early sixties..battling cancer.He passed 15 months after this concert.RIP Ronnie James Dio🤟. Iron Maiden,Judas Priest,Metallica,Scorpions,Queensrych,Pantera,Dio,Rainbow,Black Sabbath are just a handful of the awesome metal rock bands of 70 & 80's which I agree is the best era of that genre
Well to be certainly, he didnt died 15 months later. This is a live Recording which was taken at 2005, he died 2010. So the premise that he was battling cancer already in 2005 is also wrong. There are no evidents that Dio have had any pain from stomach cancer before 2009. sry for my bad english.
This is him past his prime, he was good into his 60s where he is here i believe this is 2005. His prime was a very long span his really good stuff stuff was the late 70s-the early 90s, his elf era stuff and butterfly ball is very different softer or more blues/southern rock flavored. Hell he even did some bigband- doowop stuff in the early 1960s and christian rock with kerry livgren in the early 80s he is quite an enigma he can do anything.
2 of my best friends in high school lost their spot on the football team, for blowing off a game to go a Dio concert with us. Maybe a bad choice, but we’ll never forget that concert lol
Start from the beginning, Man on the Silver Mountain, then Stargazer, Gates of Babylon, & Kill the King, & his first rock ballad Catch the Rainbow. On to Ronnie with Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, Children of the Sea, The Mob Rules, and the great but always missed Neon Knights. Then to Dio, Holy Diver, & Rainbow in the Dark are a must listen. There is not a Dio featured song that is bad, these are my fav’s
Unfortunately, you could hear it towards the end. My favourite Dio song, Bible Black - you can hear the drop in quality. I just wish this song had been available when he was younger. Saying that, whenever I hear Ronnie James, I say to my Husband NEVER talk when he sings!
That guitar is a Gibson Les Paul Standard "Gold Top". The Gibson Les Paul was designed by.. you guessed it... a guy named Les Paul. He also designed the Gibson SG (watch ANY ACDC video, Angus played the SG exclusively during his career). But Les Paul didnt like the SG and told Gibson to not put his name anywhere on it. So it was named SG for Solid Guitar. Les' wife, Mary Ford who also played guitar, loved the SG. She had a white SG with gold hardware. Les Paul and Mary Ford were a musical act back then and performed together on stage. Just to irritate Les, Mary had a little plastic piece made to fit right where the fretboard ends and the top of the body begins. Its a very highly visible spot. The piece had a trapezoidal shape and had 'Les Paul Custom' engraved into it. Les was not thrilled about it. Les Paul also saved Epiphone Guitars. Epiphone is owned by Gibson but made over seas. Back in the day Epiphone was about to go under. Les knew people at Epiphone and wanted to help them stay afloat. Les went to Gibson and suggested they buy them and make them a licensee of Gibson products. So today, you can buy a Gibson Les Paul, made in USA, and very expensive, or you can buy an Epiphone Les Paul, made in China (or Korea if you can find a good old one), and are more affordable. Both look great, the difference is the quality of the craftsmanship and build. Gibson's are pricey but are well worth it.
Apart from the singer and drummer, this was a different lineup than the one that recorded the original version of this song in 1983, but the people you see in this clip are all worthy of recognition. So, here we go: RONNIE JAMES DIO (vocals) got his amazing set of pipes from playing trumpet as a child. He started releasing rock singles as a teenager in the late 50s, originally as a bass player and/or singer. In the early 70s he had his first break with hard rock band Elf, that in 1975 merged into Rainbow - a subset of the Deep Purple family tree. Rainbow gave Ronnie a reputation, but it was after he replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath in 1979 that he truly became a star. His time in Black Sabbath remains one of the most cherished eras in the band's history. It did, however, end acrimoniously, after which Ronnie formed his own band, Dio, debuting in 1983 with the album "Holy diver" from which this song is picked. "Holy diver" was an instant super classic, and Ronnie remained, through good and bad times, one of the most beloved and admired heavy metal musicians for the rest of his career and life. There's LOTS more to be told, but this will do for now. He succumbed to stomach cancer in 2010. VINNY APPICE (drums) followed Ronnie from Black Sabbath to Dio in 1982 and stayed on for, not all, but most incarnations of the Dio band. He also followed Ronnie for two reunions of that Black Sabbath lineup - the latter of which, a massive success, under the monicker Heaven And Hell, since the Ozzy version of Black Sabbath remained active at the time. Vinny is the younger brother of another heavy metal drumming legend, Carmine Appice. SCOTT WARREN (keyboards) was another trusted ally of Ronnie's from the early 90s and onwards. He has a background in the hair metal scene and his earlier employers include Warrant, of "Cherry pie" fame. DOUG ALDRICH (guitar) was a guitar contender for a loooong time - he was, for instance, considered as a replacement for Ace Frehley in Kiss in 1982, but missed out because of his youth - until he finally got his recognition in this lineup of Dio in the early 00s. He was however fired, for accepting an offer to tour with Whitesnake at a time when Dio needed his services. He remained in Whitesnake for a very long time, and that is where he got truly famous. He and Ronnie did, thankfully, reconcile before Ronnie's death. Doug left Whitesnake in 2015 to focus on his own band Burning Rain, and has since also joined modern day supergroups Dead Daisies and Revolution Saints. RUDY SARZO (bass) is nothing short of a living legend. One of the most prolific bass players in heavy metal history, but in his early days he was not taken seriously by large parts of the audience because he was just too damn good looking. Bizarre, but true. In his old age, this is no longer a problem - even if he's still in great shape - and his resumé speaks for itself. Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Yngwie Malmsteen and Blue Öyster Cult - to name but a few.
Well this is one hell of a starting point.....this came out when I was 15 and it blew my mind back then. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was my initiation to metal. Just keep in mind that the lyrics that he and many others wrote had a true meaning that was not just in anger but a message to not be fooled by the advertisement of wealth and fame that was easy to get if you sign on the dotted line. Keep going !!
Hey Girl you are new to me, but anyone who loves DIO you are in my heart instantly:-), he was and will always be a GOD, and yeah the Guitar is awesome in this Doug Aldridge played the shit out of that gibson:-P..., but the voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I grew up with this music, and me and my friends had so much fun with this music and beer...and some hash just for the fuck of it. i would have loved to meet u when i was ure age, first i love redheads and second i love metal chicks. I do love new metal, my son introduced me to some stuff i missed out in the 90´s till 2005. Now i have all the stuff from 70-90 i grew up with and also this new shit that i also like. The metal world opened up for me.
While the song was originally released in 1983, this performance was from 2004 or so. Ronnie was about 62 when he did this, and his voice wasn't as strong as it had been a decade or two earlier. Think about that for a minute - as great as Ronnie is here, this is him on the decline!
Dough Aldrigde is one of the best players at the moment, what I like is, that he doesn`t got the modern way with sweeping and tapping, is an old school very fast and exact player, who knows exactly what to do. And DIO will be the best singer ever!
Doug Aldrich had a great long stint in Whitesnake.... check out some of their live stuff with him and Reb Beach (Winger) on guitar... insane!! They worked great together!
I have seen Dio many times over the years and he has always had great guitar players. However when I saw the "Evil or Devine" tour with Aldrich I was blown away.
Been a metal fan since 1980 been to loads of shows. Here is the deal my top tier of live concerts I have seen are Iron Maiden and Dio PLUS Jinjer and Babymetal. There are great new bands out there as well. Of course I still love the bands and songs I grew up on but don’t sleep on newer bands. For some reason Japan has really stepped forward and has loads of great metal bands right now.
hi great reaction from almost sleep, , dio is the best....., my suggestion,,, its.....therion ayahuasca fron the last album.....enjoy a trip... a real true trip cheeres from chile
A relisten and new comment Dio and Ozzy had a lot in common. Dio replaced Ozy in Black Sabbath and they both left Sabbath for a solo career. In song styles, they have much in common in voice very little. Completely different singing styles.
Also want to add, I grew up listening to Ozzy and Dio and love them both, but there is no comparison at all between Ozzy & Ronny. Ronny is so much better. Listen to him earlier in his career. Dio 🤟🤟🤟
So you said here you want to react to more old school metal huh? Why haven't you? RJD is the godfather of metal🤘. Need to see him in Rainbow (Stargazer) Black Sabbath (Heaven and Hell) along with other old school bands like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Judas Priest etc.
Yeah, I feel bad for everyone that missed the 80s, it was a blast!
Yep, I lived in Vegas then....One of these every weekend, tickets like $15....loved it
What we can remember of it anyway. 😈
i still live there, best music ever 80s early 90s, now its just sheit.....
Yes it was
To have lived the 70s and 80s was better - the music evolved so much in that time. Grunge in America? For get that shit, For the rest of the world it was hard rock, then prog, then punk then NWOBHM, then metal, then thrash... etc. etc.
RIP to the one...the only....Godfather of Metal,Mr.Ronnie James Dio!!!🤟
Best Singer ever DIO WILL NEVER DIE !!!!
He's average Ozzy, Robert plant and Corey Taylor come way before him
@@FrostThorn you are not really bright are you??..
A God amongst sheep, there were nothing like him before before and will probably be nothing like him in metal vocal terms anytime soon..
@@FrostThorn Ozzy is a better singer you think?, yout need a brainscan dude, and a certificate before you speak or write again.......
@@Henelund only an American would think he's the best, he's just average an nothing like him? He is a ozzy wanna be, he's like a drummer from rush Neil incredibly overrated
Unfortunately, Ronnie at this point was dealing with stomach cancer and you can hear him straining with his higher register. I had followed him from his ELF days, and he was never one to let his fans down. He was and is the voice of rock and roll forever.
And this is Ronnie in his mid 60's and had the flu during this show. Check out the band 'Rainbow', Ronnie at his best, 1975-1977 Rainbow. He also replaced Ozzy in Black Sabbath making them far better. Ronnie was the GOAT vocally, but his stage presence was amazing..Check out 1970's, 1980's and 1990's Ronnie James Dio! RIP GOD OF VOCALS!!
that helluva guitarist is the legendary Doug Aldrich.
ronnie, lemmy n more never forgotten you were cool guys glad i was lucky enough to meet both ronnie n lemmy over 30 years
several times greatest voice in history in rock n metal
Thank you Katie.
Greatest metal singer ever!
He also started the horns 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
I picked this song for you because of the lyrics, there are ones he sings better but this one fit you.
He replaced Ozzy in Black Sabbath....
Classic metal not old...
He is older in this performance
RIP DIO
One of the vocal coach reactors has a big thing for him.
_YourBiggestFan
There are so much more songs from Ronnie to listen to :)
The Charismatic Voice. 👍
@@donadams9496 I don't advertise any other reactor by name on my favorite.
I was so lucky to see him once in my life. It was at the Black Sabbath gig in Wacken when they performed as "Heaven and He'll". Sabbath of the Dio-years... I am so grateful to this. Half year later he died. One of the biggest.
Thank you for your music, Ronnie James.
When Dio was in his prime - most of his career - he didn't get the recognition that he deserved from American media for his musical genius. Most of his music wasn't played on mainstream American radio very much, especially in the Bible Belt states. And MTV showed what a F@cked up representation of music they were by ignoring most of his music. In spite of that, many people knew who he was. I discovered him in the mid-1980s, and he quickly became one of my favorite musicians to listen to. He is easily one of the top 5 metal musicians ever to sing the genre. RIP RJD. Your music is missed!
both him n Blackie was mistreated by the US however they were allways sold out in europe
And this Divine performance, is while he was suffering from deadly cancer.
Natural Talent at its best
Guitarist is Doug Aldrich ✨
Saw him in 1984 at donnington and he had me hooked on his voice straight away. So sad he passed away when he did .
Dio, that was dying of cancer, sang 8 months before his passing, in 2010. He was the true godfather of heavy metal.
Ronnie: One of the best singers of all time, in any genre! Ozzy: A unique voice without vibrato, with a lot of presence, that works like dynamite - for some reason...
He was 976 years old here. And still pipes like a god
If you like Doug Aldrich and that old school hard rock/metal sound, his last two projects are pretty good, the Dead Daisies and Revolution Saints. Deen Castronovo was in Journey and you'll see why. ;) And of course, Ronnie James Dio is an absolute legend you should deep dive into.
Dead Daisies current line up is immense!
Lion, Hurricane, Bad Moon Rising, Burning Rain...Whitesnake. All high quality bands.
Ronnie was one of the best vocalists in music, not just metal. You have to check out his early stuff with Elf, Rainbow and Black Sabbath. He was also helped to form Hear N Aid, A Metal version of Live Aid. The song they did for it, Stars, features all the best of 80's metal, it's really a treat.
Dio was one of the best ever! Range, phrasing, emotion, color, breath control.... and this was later in his career, when he had cancer, and was still killing it, but he was limited. Check out the really early stuff by Ronnie and the Prophets, the Electric Elves, or the Elves, for a totally different style. Then Elf; before he joined Rainbow. One of his best performances ever is "Stargazer" by Rainbow.
He was already weaker and more ill but still great.
one of the greatest voices ever,, RIP.. the guitar is a Gibson Les Paul "Gol Top"
80s was definitely the golden era for metal
first time here.. kinna stunned you found DIO .... oh darling you don't know what you are in for.. he really rewrote the book. loving your reactions!! ♥
The man, the myth, the magnificence that is Ronnie James Dio.🤘🤘
RJD (RIP) actually did sing with Black Sabbath and replaced Ozzy for a while. He also sang 'Love is all' by Roger Glover. I'm old enough to have seen hem perform live.
old enough to have met him n lem 14 times over 30 years
Saw Dio 3 times live. Super loud!!
Dio was and always will be the sound of heavy metal IMHO. His early days with Richie Blackmore in Rainbow are classic. The Rainbow Rising album was a game changer in the sound of hard rock/metal. Definitely check out Stargazer and Do You Close Your Eyes from this album and Gates of Babylon from Long Live Rock and Roll. Also check out Heaven and Hell, Children of the Sea with Black Sabbath.
Dio is always awesome
It's funny you said Ozzy, Ronnie took over for Ozzy for Black Sabbath. Check out the Black Sabbath songs "Heaven & Hell", "Sign of the Southern Cross", "Lonely is the Word", "I" and so many more. I highly recommend his previous band called Rainbow -"Stargazer" is a classic. "Catch the Rainbow", Gates of Babylon", "Temple of the King' and many more. Great voice since 1957. Check out more.
Classic heavy metal 👌!Rock on !
im already in love with your passion of music
Ronnie James Dio was in the band Rainbow, and as someone mentioned below you should definitely check out "Stargazer" to really be wow'd by his vocals. He went on to take over for Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath (I recommend "Heaven and Hell" and "Neon Knights" as standouts from his Sabbath catalog). Here, you are seeing his later years as a solo artist. I always loved this song, but pretty much any song from the album "Holy Diver" is great, especially the title track and the radio hit "Rainbow in the Dark". FUN FACT: Dio was the one who popularized the "devil horns" hand gesture that pretty much everyone on the planet knows, including the makers of emojis. He got the gesture from his old Italian grandmother who used the gesture back in the Old Country to ward off evil spirits. Ironic that the rest of the world assumed it was a demonic gesture... lol.
Or the man on silver mountain
Well that's from Dio's classic first album which came out in 1983....
The band with Doug Aldrich in the guitar indeed kills it
... I saw Dio in 84 and met the main man himself at a signing after the gig at the Manchester Apollo...
If you want to go back to the seventies and see him perform with Rainbow you will be astounded . I think that gig was probably only a couple of years before he passed away.
Trixie is awesome by the way. She knows good music when she hears it!
The guitar is a Les Paul Gold top, the guitarist is Doug Aldrich, the singer was a fucking legend!
This was live in London...Ronnie was in his early sixties..battling cancer.He passed 15 months after this concert.RIP Ronnie James Dio🤟.
Iron Maiden,Judas Priest,Metallica,Scorpions,Queensrych,Pantera,Dio,Rainbow,Black Sabbath are just a handful of the awesome metal rock bands of 70 & 80's which I agree is the best era of that genre
Well to be certainly, he didnt died 15 months later. This is a live Recording which was taken at 2005, he died 2010. So the premise that he was battling cancer already in 2005 is also wrong. There are no evidents that Dio have had any pain from stomach cancer before 2009.
sry for my bad english.
Dio was so good live. He never dialed it in.
Dialing it in means doing it really well and precisely. I think you mean phoning it in, which means a lazy and lackluster effort.
He is the best singer of all times
This is him past his prime, he was good into his 60s where he is here i believe this is 2005. His prime was a very long span his really good stuff stuff was the late 70s-the early 90s, his elf era stuff and butterfly ball is very different softer or more blues/southern rock flavored. Hell he even did some bigband- doowop stuff in the early 1960s and christian rock with kerry livgren in the early 80s he is quite an enigma he can do anything.
Enjoyed your reaction. Ronnie James Dio is the KING! 🤘
So funny you mentioned Ozzy ....the base player Rudy Sarzo, was Ozzy's base player on tour for the first albums! haha
Rewatching some of your uploads.
Think Dio is in his 60's here.
2 of my best friends in high school lost their spot on the football team, for blowing off a game to go a Dio concert with us.
Maybe a bad choice, but we’ll never forget that concert lol
My fav song from my fav singer! Doesn't get much better than this.
Start from the beginning, Man on the Silver Mountain, then Stargazer, Gates of Babylon, & Kill the King, & his first rock ballad Catch the Rainbow. On to Ronnie with Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, Children of the Sea, The Mob Rules, and the great but always missed Neon Knights. Then to Dio, Holy Diver, & Rainbow in the Dark are a must listen. There is not a Dio featured song that is bad, these are my fav’s
This was his voice in his 60's! Surprising his voice did not diminish as he got older all that much.
Unfortunately, you could hear it towards the end. My favourite Dio song, Bible Black - you can hear the drop in quality. I just wish this song had been available when he was younger. Saying that, whenever I hear Ronnie James, I say to my Husband NEVER talk when he sings!
That guitar is a Gibson Les Paul Standard "Gold Top". The Gibson Les Paul was designed by.. you guessed it... a guy named Les Paul. He also designed the Gibson SG (watch ANY ACDC video, Angus played the SG exclusively during his career). But Les Paul didnt like the SG and told Gibson to not put his name anywhere on it. So it was named SG for Solid Guitar. Les' wife, Mary Ford who also played guitar, loved the SG. She had a white SG with gold hardware. Les Paul and Mary Ford were a musical act back then and performed together on stage. Just to irritate Les, Mary had a little plastic piece made to fit right where the fretboard ends and the top of the body begins. Its a very highly visible spot. The piece had a trapezoidal shape and had 'Les Paul Custom' engraved into it. Les was not thrilled about it. Les Paul also saved Epiphone Guitars. Epiphone is owned by Gibson but made over seas. Back in the day Epiphone was about to go under. Les knew people at Epiphone and wanted to help them stay afloat. Les went to Gibson and suggested they buy them and make them a licensee of Gibson products. So today, you can buy a Gibson Les Paul, made in USA, and very expensive, or you can buy an Epiphone Les Paul, made in China (or Korea if you can find a good old one), and are more affordable. Both look great, the difference is the quality of the craftsmanship and build. Gibson's are pricey but are well worth it.
Doug Aldrich killed it! Before him, Vivian Campbell killed it!
he was pretty ill at this point
that bassist is thee man himself Rudy Sarzo
Im a young old dude 51. seen them twice. 1st concert when i was 16! We rock was my fav.
Apart from the singer and drummer, this was a different lineup than the one that recorded the original version of this song in 1983, but the people you see in this clip are all worthy of recognition. So, here we go:
RONNIE JAMES DIO (vocals) got his amazing set of pipes from playing trumpet as a child. He started releasing rock singles as a teenager in the late 50s, originally as a bass player and/or singer. In the early 70s he had his first break with hard rock band Elf, that in 1975 merged into Rainbow - a subset of the Deep Purple family tree. Rainbow gave Ronnie a reputation, but it was after he replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath in 1979 that he truly became a star. His time in Black Sabbath remains one of the most cherished eras in the band's history. It did, however, end acrimoniously, after which Ronnie formed his own band, Dio, debuting in 1983 with the album "Holy diver" from which this song is picked. "Holy diver" was an instant super classic, and Ronnie remained, through good and bad times, one of the most beloved and admired heavy metal musicians for the rest of his career and life. There's LOTS more to be told, but this will do for now. He succumbed to stomach cancer in 2010.
VINNY APPICE (drums) followed Ronnie from Black Sabbath to Dio in 1982 and stayed on for, not all, but most incarnations of the Dio band. He also followed Ronnie for two reunions of that Black Sabbath lineup - the latter of which, a massive success, under the monicker Heaven And Hell, since the Ozzy version of Black Sabbath remained active at the time. Vinny is the younger brother of another heavy metal drumming legend, Carmine Appice.
SCOTT WARREN (keyboards) was another trusted ally of Ronnie's from the early 90s and onwards. He has a background in the hair metal scene and his earlier employers include Warrant, of "Cherry pie" fame.
DOUG ALDRICH (guitar) was a guitar contender for a loooong time - he was, for instance, considered as a replacement for Ace Frehley in Kiss in 1982, but missed out because of his youth - until he finally got his recognition in this lineup of Dio in the early 00s. He was however fired, for accepting an offer to tour with Whitesnake at a time when Dio needed his services. He remained in Whitesnake for a very long time, and that is where he got truly famous. He and Ronnie did, thankfully, reconcile before Ronnie's death. Doug left Whitesnake in 2015 to focus on his own band Burning Rain, and has since also joined modern day supergroups Dead Daisies and Revolution Saints.
RUDY SARZO (bass) is nothing short of a living legend. One of the most prolific bass players in heavy metal history, but in his early days he was not taken seriously by large parts of the audience because he was just too damn good looking. Bizarre, but true. In his old age, this is no longer a problem - even if he's still in great shape - and his resumé speaks for itself. Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Yngwie Malmsteen and Blue Öyster Cult - to name but a few.
Dio is the greatest vocalist EVAH!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Well this is one hell of a starting point.....this came out when I was 15 and it blew my mind back then. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was my initiation to metal. Just keep in mind that the lyrics that he and many others wrote had a true meaning that was not just in anger but a message to not be fooled by the advertisement of wealth and fame that was easy to get if you sign on the dotted line. Keep going !!
Just before he died Dio was due to play The Muni in Pontyptidd, seen some great bands there but Dio would have been special
his first band Ronnie and The Red Caps was a doo-wop band so the man had range as well one of the grates R.I.P
Hey Girl you are new to me, but anyone who loves DIO you are in my heart instantly:-), he was and will always be a GOD, and yeah the Guitar is awesome in this Doug Aldridge played the shit out of that gibson:-P..., but the voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rainbow in the Dark, Holy Diver, Children of the Sea with Sabbath, Stargazer with Rainbow are the usual suspects when it comes to requests for Dio.
oh my/...you never stop in the middle of the guitar solo...lol....
His name is Doug Aldrich
Don't forget Dio was ageing here and battling cancer. This is 1/8th as good as Ronny in his prime. Love Dio 🤟
Thais guitarrista work whit WHITESNAKE too.
I grew up with this music, and me and my friends had so much fun with this music and beer...and some hash just for the fuck of it. i would have loved to meet u when i was ure age, first i love redheads and second i love metal chicks. I do love new metal, my son introduced me to some stuff i missed out in the 90´s till 2005. Now i have all the stuff from 70-90 i grew up with and also this new shit that i also like. The metal world opened up for me.
While the song was originally released in 1983, this performance was from 2004 or so. Ronnie was about 62 when he did this, and his voice wasn't as strong as it had been a decade or two earlier. Think about that for a minute - as great as Ronnie is here, this is him on the decline!
Dough Aldrigde is one of the best players at the moment, what I like is, that he doesn`t got the modern way with sweeping and tapping, is an old school very fast and exact player, who knows exactly what to do. And DIO will be the best singer ever!
DOH!!!
Doug Aldrich had a great long stint in Whitesnake.... check out some of their live stuff with him and Reb Beach (Winger) on guitar... insane!! They worked great together!
I have seen Dio many times over the years and he has always had great guitar players. However when I saw the "Evil or Devine" tour with Aldrich I was blown away.
R.I.P....R.J.D...
DIO - Lord of the Last Day
You’re right there . Old metal is the 🐕 dogs balls❤🎉🎉🎉
IMO Doug Aldrich was the best Dio´s guitarrist ever. With all respect for Vivian Campbell
welcome to music as it was meant to be.
Ozzy could not hold Dios jockstrap!!!
This is Old Dio... gotta make sure you year 70s or 80s Dio.
Nice live but when ritchie played guitar it synched alot better with singer. Both good tho
Doug Aldrich on guitar
It's funny for you to mention ozzy Osborne because Ronnie james dio actually replaced ozzy in black sabbath.
Dio is the best singer al time,blues,jazze,broadvei ,opera.he hawe evrithing.👍
You probably heard holy diver ? .man of the silver mountain? Lasts in line.
I would check out the live show from 86 at the Spectrum on this song, it's so good too!
DIO !!!!!!
RJD's voice is meant for heavy metal music, there's none to match or come near his vocal power.
You should see the music video version.
Rip Ronnie James you were irreplaceable
SEE what we HAD to listen to in the 70s and 80s?
Dio is god in Italian!
You should react to Stargazer, by Rainbow. You'll know how sounded a young Dio.
Been a metal fan since 1980 been to loads of shows. Here is the deal my top tier of live concerts I have seen are Iron Maiden and Dio PLUS Jinjer and Babymetal. There are great new bands out there as well. Of course I still love the bands and songs I grew up on but don’t sleep on newer bands. For some reason Japan has really stepped forward and has loads of great metal bands right now.
hi great reaction from almost sleep, , dio is the best....., my suggestion,,, its.....therion ayahuasca fron the last album.....enjoy a trip... a real true
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Dio and Ozzy had a lot in common. Dio replaced Ozy in Black Sabbath and they both left Sabbath for a solo career.
In song styles, they have much in common in voice very little. Completely different singing styles.
When I see Doug Aldrich play I just want to throw my guitar in a dumpster.
This video kinda new you should check 80’s. Dio is timeless legend.
You got it my friend the first and second wave of British metal is where it's at the late 70s early 80s after that American thrash took the crown.
Dio in Italian means God
Nice reaction
Also want to add, I grew up listening to Ozzy and Dio and love them both, but there is no comparison at all between Ozzy & Ronny. Ronny is so much better. Listen to him earlier in his career. Dio 🤟🤟🤟
Dio is god
Ronnie James Dio and Ozzy Osbourne were the ones who plowed the road of metal,yet both entitled to thier own leagues.
The guitar is a Gibson Les Paul
ozzy and Dio were two totally diferent singer styles. Both great but totally different
By the way , the best reaction to Bohemian Rhapsody ... yours ... by far ...
Have you heard helloween - eagle fly free? The singer is a god . Do studio if u can
You got some space-time continuum anomaly in your room there, off to your right. Be careful!
So you said here you want to react to more old school metal huh? Why haven't you? RJD is the godfather of metal🤘. Need to see him in Rainbow (Stargazer) Black Sabbath (Heaven and Hell) along with other old school bands like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Judas Priest etc.