Vivian Campbell on DIO's Sacred Heart Album, "Nobody wanted to be around Ronnie" + Hear N Aid, Stars 

but they were the "fall gals". ronnie and ozzie knew what was going on and did nothing to stop it.

the blonde muppet 100😅

@@p_e_t_e Then the wives were not fallgirls, they were the instigators who were enabled by P-whipped betas.

Funt

But she is known so shame on both those greedy manipulative women!

checkout that 1983 live in Donnington recording as well (RJD produced that before he passed) truly even more blistering live fretwork, jaw dropping talent !!

Sacred Heart also a great album.

Probably the best two Dio ever did on his solo career.

Yeah for sure! But I still also love Craig Goldys work in Dio.

@@ed6911 Yes, of course Graig is also a very nice player. I love Deam evil album too.!

So true. Sounds like Wendy took the pages right out of Sharon's playbook. Love your Big Mike avatar by the way. Watch when they run him as their guy next year when crooked Joe is 25thed.

Spinal Tap...

Journey. Neal Schons wife has caused trouble last year and even Polly Sampson of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour stirred up issues attacking Roger Waters.@@peterk.rosenthal1417

Ronnie pulled the same shit with Rainbow and got himself sacked ..

​@@peterk.rosenthal1417can I raise a practical question at this time?😂😂

Agreed

And yet in DIO, he was just a "hired hand."

I had no idea, yeah that part made me break eye contact with my fret board.

@@couchwarrior2449 but he wasn't supposed to be a hired gun in the beginning. That's the whole point .Ronnie told them at the start it was a band .and it wasn't till after they started recording the 2nd album that Viv and the others were told to just be patient that management had so much tied up in the live shows that after a 3rd record would be recorded things (the money) would start rolling in .they were told that after the first record so they were just getting strung along endlessly just making a set amount per week and no royalties came their way period and that was the double cross .then when they started bucking up with them Wendy said just replace them .same exact thing that happened in Blizzard Of Ozz Band. Sharon cut em loose when Bob .Lee .and Randy wanted record royalties that was only 2 % each for the 3 while Ozzy took 6% himself .at that time 12 % was all a band got for record sales .and at first ozzy said they would split the 12 evenly between the 4 and pay Don a set weekly fee for the tour but Bob and Randy thought since Ozzy already had a record deal they thought it would be fair to give half the 12% (6) and they were kool with 2% each. Plus splitting whatever on concert sales and Merchandise sales . But Ozzy and Sharon wouldn't even do that even though it was agreed upon ( verbally ) hell after Randy died they changed the original contracts and refused to pay Randy's family his due share so him mom sued and was awarded the money .which they still never paid wat was owed .took Bob and Lee 25 years before they got any royalties and publishing from those first two records

I never knew he was that young🤯

You partied with Dio and that’s all you can say?

Like smoked it without you guys pretty much?

😂😂😂

@@basher5107right?

The fact you even were in the presence of dio smoking your stuff is amazing. Id be the luckiest kid alive

Me too man, Sab at the Orange Pavilion, Dio, at the Orange P, and Irvine meadows.

What most women understand about metal??…Pots and pans…🤪🤪

"You don't do heavy metal in dubly!"

No outside opinions need be considered ,period. Especially on their period.

In my 40 yrs of music, my best line about wives and gf's is: Be supportive, not involved .

Ozzy had been dead without Sharon!!

What year was that?

I’m in Nashville and saw Dio live five times. I guess I saw that last show with Viv. I just didn’t know it. All I know is that the music (for me) never felt the same after Viv.

1986@@troycleek7394

I saw that concert! It was awesome! I caught Dio twice that time around, the last show with Campbell and then one of the first shows with Goldy. Man... such good memories!

He battled cancer and overcame, he has been touring with The Last In Line band and busting out the solos from the records like a champ. Much Love

No

Yes. He looks the best out of the def leppard guys, then Phil collen. He def doesn't look 62. He looks in his 40s still. Very youthful

Saw that tour with Yngwie opening

Whitesnake 87 tour is the one I saw him with WS with Motley Crue .Vivian and Adrian Vandenberg on guitars .also saw him while in Def Leppard too but he was toned down with them .mostly rhythm .Phil had the spotlight even though Vivian was a better guitarist .was going his health issues (Cancer I believe) hasn't taken him yet though

Well, you’re missing out on a lot of good albums that came out after those two.

@@TravisBickle212 But still not as good;

@@MarkMay-cr6bv but still well worth listening to.

Yet he is still bad mouthing Ronnie 😡😡 Vivian has turned into a right bitter a*****e, ashamed to say I come from same country as him😡😡

Yeah. He even founded a band called Shadow King with Lou Gramm. Only made 1 album because Mick Jones made sure Atlantic records didn't promote them. There's a video of shadow king in a London theatre . He type it in ..shadow king London theater

No he isn't.

@@bobthebear1246 no?

The whole band then🤪🤨🤨

Yes, Jimmy was a great bassist and songwriter.

Agreed. Same with the first 2 Ozzy records

@@johnhagan582 totally the same, I agree! Kerslake and Daisley all the way.

I look at it more like ronnie said what needed to be said in each album and the band played the most fitting way for that album. If you realize this you can appreciate them all, the only other caviate is ronnie had so much bottled up passion and emotion with everything going on during the holy diver era. It is like dave mustain during the first few megadeth albums.

@@RyanHaragan Saw the Sacred Heart tour in Orlando, curtains dropped and Craig Goldy walked out. Heart sank and sank even further watching him butcher the songs. Gave the show three thumbs down and was pissed expecting to to see Vivian Campbell. Dream Evil is forgettable at best and when seeing Dio solo later with Doug Aldrich was brought back to those first three records. Doug played the Vivian stuff very well. Not a single song off of any but the first three records and some Sabbath and Rainbow. This says a lot

What Dream Evil lacks in "chemistry," it makes up for in the spontaneity and energy of a very new lineup searching for chemistry and taking musical risks. (The 7 minute, almost Rainbow-ish epic "All the Fools Sailed Away"? The strange dark atmospheric boogie "Naked in the Rain"? whatever the hell "Overlove" is? etc.) I always saw that album as one of the great underrated 80s metal albums. Vivian will always be "the" iconic Dio guitarist though, of course.

You nailed it. When I saw Def Leppard with Viv, because I had seen him with Dio, I just couldn’t understand why they wouldn’t use him to his fullest potential. He did nothing up there.

You know why ?.... Phil Collen isn't going to share the light. I'm not a fan of his.

I fully agree

Totally agree Def Leppard is dogshit.

Yep - he has done pretty much nothing of any relevance since then

You have a 12 inch what?

@@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490 record

Nice! I met a lot of them backstage at Irvine meadows. Dio was cool to us out of place surf rats, Bruce Dickinson was an asshole too us. Halford, Murray, Tate, Vivian, a lot of great people.

"He would turn into a Little Madman" -Ritchie Hugh Blackmore

Probably Randy Rhoads too, ... only Randy never lived long enough to talk about it.

Sharon actually f:cked randy. She did him dirty

That is awesome, was one of the first concerts witnessed in 1985 and the curtains came down. Craig Goldy walked out and my heart was broken. Viv had been diss-missed just a few days before. Was just an ok show and Craig was kinda lame.

Hungry for heaven, rock and roll children, some ofy favorite Dio, songs, ever! Also love DReam evil, the songs, night people, I could've been. A dreamer, sunset Superman, were all so amazing 😍!!! Dio is my favorite singer, band.

It might be a little better than LIL to me. Every song on Sacred Heart works for me. Meanwhile, Last in Line has Breathless, Evil Eyes and Eat Your Heart Out, which are about as filler as it gets.

@@sdjslkdjlsskldjslkdjsl8262 evil eyes, and breathless, and eat your ❤️ heart out, are all great songs! No filler on that album, at all! Actually I love evil eyes so much!

Dio and Wendy actually divorced in the '80s.

@@fullinbloom wow. I have to admit I didn’t know that. I’ve seen documentaries with them well after that where they were living together. 🤯

She continued to manage him, but they just acted like they were still married.

@@fullinbloom that’s an odd footnote that I didn’t know. Thanks for clarifying mate.

There's a link to the entire interview in the video description. They tell you this at the end of the video.

@@castleanthrax1833 - Yeah, I’m aware of that. But when I’m totally into these, and it ends so quickly, I don’t want to stop, click the link, then listen to what I already listened to again. Seems easier just to post the whole thing. But thanks again.

And Leppard treated Viv like an understudy for Phil Collen.

maybe Ron always envisioned DIO as just himself with revolving doors on musicians, right from the very beginning he was putting together a 'band' and gradually realised his true motivation .. and evolved from there

*sharon

Starz

It was Captain Low blow

Dude seriously?

Seriously.

He's now just coasting, making some decent scratch I suppose.

@@warrensleep9881 It's true... basically a rhythm guitar player who plays second fiddle to an inferior guitarist. I think they basically need him for his voice.

​@@clemguitar63It definitely worked out for Vivian financially no doubt.

Of course it took Ronnie's death for Vivian to come out to say good things and to play rock and metal again. There is a 1984 interview where even Vivian says he was doing well financially.

@@TheBoss0Time131 of course he was! No way he was getting paid 150.00 a week! Hell, that was minimum wage! It's beyond ridiculous! 😭 I can't believe people are so gullible! He probably felt he deserved to get more, that Different, but Ronnie, had the name, recording deal, paid the entire crew, including band, and costs of touring( hotels, 🚐 buses, food,), etc etc etc. Now, he says he was fired! When he's been crying for years, how he quit because he got paid less than the crew! Then he now, plays Dios 's music! And says he arranged the entire ( stars) ⭐✨ charity! Ya, sure, he was a 21 y.o. brat!

So we can't say anythign negative about...hmmm...nevermind. Too easy.

He said these things when Dio was alive as well.

Well, Holy Diver has a synth intro. Dio came from an era where keyboards in rock were very common--he was Rainbow's singer afterall. So that's an element of Rainbow that stuck around in his solo career, even as he started sounding less 70s and more 80s in other ways.

@@sdjslkdjlsskldjslkdjsl8262 Yeah I wasn't really counting the Diver intro nor did I put Mr Crowley down for the same reason (intro) but you get wat I'm saying I'm sure outside of those few songs from Ozzy first records that had small sections like Crowley. Revelation Mother Earth .on the Blizzard now Diary Of a Madman had a few the title track and Tonight .Believer (more live than studio album) on or two intro on Diver .(you right about the rainbow influences) and Van Halen non on first 2 records at all .started with Woman And Children First and all VH records from that point on .Ozzy absolutely hated them and had to be talked into it by Randy and Bob .and Dave Roth begged Eddie not to have keys but we kno who ran that so whatever Ed wanted he was gonna do .I guess I just like the 4 piece hard rock sound without so yeah I'm biased lol

"Lyrics and vocal melody" credit is for publishing, ensuring that Ronnie would get 50% of it, irrespective of who wrote the music, either individually or as a group. Craig Goldy wrote a complete song for DL Roth and only got 50%, if that, using the same publishing criterion. See the Dio doco "Dreamers Never Die", fills in the whole story as to why Ronnie did this accreditation with his solo band.

@@ianoz1 yes i`ve seen the documentary,i`m still not convinced.

@@MichaelRowe-cv3oq Ozzy wrote all the lyrics and music on "Bark At the Moon," even though he doesn't play any instruments (except maybe the occasional "mouth organ"). Imagine... writing all those songs banging on a piano with one finger! 😱

@@MichaelRowe-cv3oq okay... nothing I say about my 31 year friendship with Ronnie will convince you either. Have a nice day.

@@ianoz1 I put a lot of Ronnie's decisions/bad decisions down to the fact that Wendy still had a hold on him,it was the Sharon Osbourne effect.

He did. And said much much worse things about Dio. Where were you?

And Perry Farrell