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Love this band started doing a relisten to all their albums again almost done with Contagious. All great albums. Funny tho Dave says the exact same thing Paul Stanley says. "I could write another Let It Be but someone will say hey play Love Gun" and Dave says the same thing. I love new music tho can't wait to listen to Facemelter. Come more east Dave. Would love to see you guys again.
Was Blackie An Addict or Alcoholic?U can tell he’s a driven person.I mean I was Never into Wasp ,but I respect the body of work.Theres a decent amount of Wasp Albums out there
The only time I saw Dio live at a concert was in March 2007 at the John Labatt arena in London, Ontario Canada. When he had rejoined Black Sabbath for the 3rd time (or "Heaven & Hell") as they called the band at the time since it was the Tony Iommi-Geezer Butler-Ronnie James Dio- and Vinnie Appice line-up. The opening bands were Down & Megadeth. Dio is by far my favorite Black Sabbath singer. And even with Dio being only about two years from his death from cancer when I saw him in 2007 his voice was still better than Ozzy Osbourn could ever sing, with his weak, out of tune voice. Black Sabbath is the only band I can think of where their first singer, is their WORST singer. Every other vocalist Sabbath ever had: (Ronnie James Dio, Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen, Tony Martin) ALL had stronger and better voices than Ozzy Osbourne EVER had. The only other time I saw Black Sabbath in concert was in my home state of Michigan in February 1994 at the State Theater in Detroit, MI. on the Cross Purposes tour with the Line-up being: Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Tony Martin (vocals), Bobby Rondinelli (drums) and Geoff Nichols on keyboards. Opening bands were: Morbid Angel & Motorhead. And even though Tony Martin was my 2nd favorite vocalist Black Sabbath ever had, after Dio. I actually preferred this concert over the time I saw them in 2007 in Canada. This 1994 concert was in a very small narrow concert hall, so the sound and view were fantastic. And it was by far the loudest and heaviest concert I've ever been to in my life. I could barely hear anything for 3 days afterward it was so loud. The problem with the concert I saw the band at in 2007 in Canada, was the fact that it was in a huge arena this time. So the sound wasn't nearly as good as the 1994 concert in Detroit. And I was so far away from the stage this time that you practically needed a telescope to even see anything. But I'm still glad I went to the concert though. Since it was the only time I'd ever seen Dio live in a concert. Here's a link to an interview with Dio on the Eric Blair show that goes into a lot more detail into the situation with him refusing to open for Ozzy when they were on the Black Sabbath Dehumanizer tour in 1992. I 100% agree with him. I heard Dio in another interview at some point say something to the effect of: "Black Sabbath shouldn't haven to open up for anybody. Especially their former singer." I couldn't agree more. Here's the link to the interview: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SVQ76xqJY0A.html
Great to hear new Heavens Edge and looking forward to more albums! Discovering a karaoke version of 'When the Lights Go Down' made it even more epic! As a musician from the '70s/'80s/'90s myself working on a post-Y2K comeback, especially when I'm making up for lost guitar practice time post-surgery, the karaoke scene pre-surgery and post-surgery became the inspiration for the comeback path. I always hoped to find Heavens Edge songs in some karaoke catalog along the way; especially 'Hold on to Tonight' & 'Find Another Way' & 'Come Play the Game' since I always loved covering those at keggers in the '90s with my party bands like Bone Dry & Vendetta back then.
He's a great guitarist but a horrible lyric/sing writer, and vocalist. He should just play for another thrash band. Also much of the music was/is too cheesy, that's why Annihilator were/are overlooked. But yeah his leads are KILLER!!
Thank you for posting this "old" interview!!! Vanden Plas is my favorite band and this is one more brick to learn as much as possible about them and their approach ❤
One of the Greatest Hard Rock Bands in the world, their first album released in 1976 is my favorite, a huge inspiration for me as a Drummer for sure, Leonard Haze RIP was a bad ass.
those firsrt 3 albums were fantastic.... had them on vinyl and later CD..saw the band suppost Hagar and AC DC at the Liverpool Empire............. what an act
It was the 90s, in 92 he was playing small theaters bc he reunited with Sabbath, In 94 was when he was starting to play clubs, he was not the only one, almost every band were playing small venues unless you were Metallica or Guns and Roses, or Ozzy with his huge ozzfest bc of all the bands in the bill, Grundge took over and it was not only Dio suffered the consequences. I went to many of the shows and they were pretty sold out, some places were big clubs, To me it was awesome to see Dio playing in small places and Dio obviously didn't mind as he continued doing it until 2004, then came 2007 with Sabbath again and he was playing theaters again and then he unfortunately died.
Any chance to made interviews with : prong, flotsam & jetsam,death angel, exodus, destruction,sodom, grave digger, kreator, Don Dokken,Mick ,Pilson or Lynch, Ratt : Croucier or Blotz, Lita, - Uriah Heep ,Jeff Waters (Annihilator) , Phill Ridd (Sacred Reich) Mike Muir (Suicidal T.) - Cronos or Mantas (Venom Venom Inc) Dee Snider, - Eddie Ojeda or Jay Jay French(Twisted Sister) - - Chris Caffery (Savatage ,TSO,Spirits of Fire) - Rudy Sarzo - Ynwie - Bobby or Ray Fates Warning - Lizzy Borden Vescera ex Ynwie , Holmes from WASP, Zlozower,Mark Weiss,Def Leppard,Motley, Flotsam,Overkill,Anthrax, Vanderberg,etc
@michaelstephen819 BIG big mistake on Dio's part ! It cost him dearly. WHY - Dio didn't fare well through the Grunge years I.e. 1992 - 95. His albums stopped selling and when it came to concerts, Dio ended up experiencing the Spinal Tap cliche. E.g. he was pulling crowds of 1500 on average. On occasion, he drew 3,000. Roger Glover - Purple-MkII Take 3 There's a relatively short Glover video doing the rounds circa 1993. Glover asserts that Dio was struggling for monies. Blackmore had Glover look after the Rainbow finances when he took over in 1979. Roger confirmed what we ALL suspected but couldn't prove. Dio was a paid Rainbow Employee and received NO Copyright Revenue. Ronnie was supposed to receive equal Copyright royalties from the fourth Rainbow studio album. There was NO fourth album. Critics of Blackmore and long-time cynical Rainbow fans for years have said " Ronnie
Ronnie and I stayed friends between Dream Evil and Magica ( and up til his passing ) and I was at the dinner table when Ronnie was discussing this reunion and at first I was excited about it. But it was contingent upon Candess Night's Mother being the Manager and the money, music publishing and so forth all went back to how Blackmore held onto everything and controlled everything and Ronnie wanted no part of that again regardless of his current circumstances with his own band Dio at that time.
@michaelstephen819 Ronnie and I stayed friends between Dream Evil and Magica ( and up til his passing ) and I was at the dinner table when Ronnie was discussing this reunion and at first I was excited about it. But it was contingent upon Candess Night's Mother being the Manager and the money, music publishing and so forth all went back to how Blackmore held onto everything and controlled everything and Ronnie wanted no part of that regardless of his current circumstances with his own band Dio at that time.
I loved WASP.I went to so many shows also dated Tony Richards and my 2 friends dated Blackie and Chris.The nicest guy was Randy.Tony is also really good guy.Blackie is a good human musician not a good human.At least not back then.
