RIP Ronnie James Dio

[Roshi]

Wrong song, Mutenroshi.

Dio has rocked for a long, long time,
Now it's time for him to pass the torch.
He has songs of wildebeests and angels,
He has soared on the wings of a demon.

it's not the song per se cause I know it's Tenacious D's, but rather the image of Dio in the movie: on a fucking throne!

 

[TheBrew]

Did you post a pic? I can't see most pics here, so I might have have missed that.

Dio does belong on a fucking throne, though.

 

[I am not Spock]

He wasn't too old to rock (in his 60s, Heaven and Hell freaking ruled), but he sure was too young to die. RIP Dio. This sucks. We've lost one of the metal greats.

Yeah, I'm very surprised that Ozzy outlived Ronnie.

 

[Chaos Descending]

I guess it depends on how you look at it, if Ozzy really has "outlived" Ronnie. Ozzy is a bit younger than RJD is.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^Chronologically, maybe. But add in the self-abuse and it's surprising Ozzy outlived the 1980's, let alone any given person.

Just reordered the first 3 Rainbow CD's. Haven't had these in my collection for years.

 

[Roshi]

Did you post a pic? I can't see most pics here, so I might have have missed that.

Dio does belong on a fucking throne, though.

Here it is:

taken from Tenacious D's Pick of Destiny. Goddamn that man ruled!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

HardraDio.com has some nice tributes/notes from artists under the Hardnews section.

Lars Ulrich's in particular.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

This sucks so hard. I thought he'd been doing well, guess he took a turn for the worse. Sucks. The man was a legend, and the bands he was associated with were legends. I didn't even hear about this until earlier this afternoon. I'm going to wear my Dio shirt tonight.

 

[Goliath]

What a fucking drag.

In my mind, Dio is inseparably linked with the first heavy metal album I ever heard--Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell--and the first heavy metal song I ever heard:

Oh no, here it comes again
Can't remember when we came so close to love before
Hold on, good things never last
Nothing's in the past, it always seems to come again
Again and again and again ooh again oh

Cry out to legions of the brave
Time again to save us from the jackals of the street
Ride out, protectors of the realm
Captain's at the helm, sail across the sea of lights

Circles and rings, dragons and kings
Weaving a charm and a spell
Blessed by the night, holy and bright
Called by the toll of the bell

Bloodied angels fast descending
Moving on a never-bending light
Phantom figures free forever
Out of shadows, shining ever-bright

NEON KNIGHTS!

"Good things never last," indeed. RIP.
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[Australis]

Yep, 'Neon Knights', great, great song. Been on my playlists and mix tapes since 1980.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I don't think people generally realize just how long Dio has been around. People know him for Holy Diver, but he'd done so much stuff before and after that.
Some highlights I found browsing youtube:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmbuHKuyDRc&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuqcbxcPlc0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgno5KDWVy8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhe1SuBGkiA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcxHdr43rp8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7eqxg92YG0

I'll always maintain that Dehumanizer is the most underrated Sabbath album. It's heavy as fuck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_CY2bq2lcU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfGerxKgn7E

And he went out still on top of his game. Look at him kicking all kinds of ass here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sdz7fP-p_0

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I have one Elf CD, and one on vinyl. And those are from fairly well into his career.

Yeah, Dehumanizer was really moving into the heavyness that was more like Dio's solo material at the time.

I personally love Live Evil. Ronnie's takes on classic Sabbath material was pretty much awesome. The way he screamed "I am Iron Man", opposed to Ozzy's almost synthesized sound.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I have one Elf CD, and one on vinyl. And those are from fairly well into his career.

Yeah, Dehumanizer was really moving into the heavyness that was more like Dio's solo material at the time.

I personally love Live Evil. Ronnie's takes on classic Sabbath material was pretty much awesome. The way he screamed "I am Iron Man", opposed to Ozzy's almost synthesized sound.

I don't have any elf stuff, really. I just thought it was interesting just how far he goes back.
Yeah, Live Evil is awesome. I remember in high school we watched this video tape about "The dangers of Rock and Roll." Now, this was in 1993 or so, and the tape was ridiculously out of date(from 1987 or something), but it had tons of cool footage from bands I'd never heard of, like Mercyful Fate and Venom. It's funny, because this tape drove my interest in '80s metal even deeper than it already was, thus having the opposite of the intended effect. Throughout the '90s I listened to my fair share of Weezer, Nirvana, Offspring, Sonic Youth and all that, but for the most part I was all about Slayer, Maiden, Dio, Megadeth, etc etc etc, and I went through that whole decade thinking that most of the music of the day sucked. (I also played the shit out of the Sex Pistols album, which none of my peers could ever appreciate the awesomeness of.)

They showed a clip from a live Sabbath show with Dio, the part on Sign of the Southern Cross about "A little white shape looked down at me," etc, and I was like, "Damn, this is EVIL! I must have it!"
I'd already had Dehumanizer for awhile, but being that I was only 14 or 15, and of course, this being before I'd ever heard of the internet, I had no idea that Dio had done other albums with Sabbath.
I was disappointed when I saved up my Lawn mowing money and purchased Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules, only to find out that the "Big Black shape/little white shape" part was not to be found in the studio versions. Couple years later I stumbled upon Live Evil, and finally, there it was, in all its splendor.
So a big thanks goes out to religious fanaticism and the "satanic panic" of the '80s for introducing me to some kickass metal!

 

[John Picard]

I have one Elf CD, and one on vinyl. And those are from fairly well into his career.

Yeah, Dehumanizer was really moving into the heavyness that was more like Dio's solo material at the time.

I personally love Live Evil. Ronnie's takes on classic Sabbath material was pretty much awesome. The way he screamed "I am Iron Man", opposed to Ozzy's almost synthesized sound.

I don't have any elf stuff, really. I just thought it was interesting just how far he goes back.
Yeah, Live Evil is awesome. I remember in high school we watched this video tape about "The dangers of Rock and Roll." Now, this was in 1993 or so, and the tape was ridiculously out of date(from 1987 or something), but it had tons of cool footage from bands I'd never heard of, like Mercyful Fate and Venom. It's funny, because this tape drove my interest in '80s metal even deeper than it already was, thus having the opposite of the intended effect. Throughout the '90s I listened to my fair share of Weezer, Nirvana, Offspring, Sonic Youth and all that, but for the most part I was all about Slayer, Maiden, Dio, Megadeth, etc etc etc, and I went through that whole decade thinking that most of the music of the day sucked. (I also played the shit out of the Sex Pistols album, which none of my peers could ever appreciate the awesomeness of.)

They showed a clip from a live Sabbath show with Dio, the part on Sign of the Southern Cross about "A little white shape looked down at me," etc, and I was like, "Damn, this is EVIL! I must have it!"
I'd already had Dehumanizer for awhile, but being that I was only 14 or 15, and of course, this being before I'd ever heard of the internet, I had no idea that Dio had done other albums with Sabbath.
I was disappointed when I saved up my Lawn mowing money and purchased Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules, only to find out that the "Big Black shape/little white shape" part was not to be found in the studio versions. Couple years later I stumbled upon Live Evil, and finally, there it was, in all its splendor.
So a big thanks goes out to religious fanaticism and the "satanic panic" of the '80s for introducing me to some kickass metal!

You missed the 80's, when the religious nuts proclaimed "hidden messages from Satan" on LPs when played backwards. Oh, and how Ozzie was the Devil incarnate.

Good times!

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

I have one Elf CD, and one on vinyl. And those are from fairly well into his career.

Yeah, Dehumanizer was really moving into the heavyness that was more like Dio's solo material at the time.

I personally love Live Evil. Ronnie's takes on classic Sabbath material was pretty much awesome. The way he screamed "I am Iron Man", opposed to Ozzy's almost synthesized sound.

I don't have any elf stuff, really. I just thought it was interesting just how far he goes back.
Yeah, Live Evil is awesome. I remember in high school we watched this video tape about "The dangers of Rock and Roll." Now, this was in 1993 or so, and the tape was ridiculously out of date(from 1987 or something), but it had tons of cool footage from bands I'd never heard of, like Mercyful Fate and Venom. It's funny, because this tape drove my interest in '80s metal even deeper than it already was, thus having the opposite of the intended effect. Throughout the '90s I listened to my fair share of Weezer, Nirvana, Offspring, Sonic Youth and all that, but for the most part I was all about Slayer, Maiden, Dio, Megadeth, etc etc etc, and I went through that whole decade thinking that most of the music of the day sucked. (I also played the shit out of the Sex Pistols album, which none of my peers could ever appreciate the awesomeness of.)

They showed a clip from a live Sabbath show with Dio, the part on Sign of the Southern Cross about "A little white shape looked down at me," etc, and I was like, "Damn, this is EVIL! I must have it!"
I'd already had Dehumanizer for awhile, but being that I was only 14 or 15, and of course, this being before I'd ever heard of the internet, I had no idea that Dio had done other albums with Sabbath.
I was disappointed when I saved up my Lawn mowing money and purchased Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules, only to find out that the "Big Black shape/little white shape" part was not to be found in the studio versions. Couple years later I stumbled upon Live Evil, and finally, there it was, in all its splendor.
So a big thanks goes out to religious fanaticism and the "satanic panic" of the '80s for introducing me to some kickass metal!

You missed the 80's, when the religious nuts proclaimed "hidden messages from Satan" on LPs when played backwards. Oh, and how Ozzie was the Devil incarnate.

Good times!

Yeah, but that's when that tape was from. I did get to see all the devil worshipping panicky stuff as a kid in the '80s, but I couldn't appreciate it like I could have as a teenager. At the time I thought it was all scary and real.
All that being said, around 1998 or so I was living in Texas and there was a group of people I knew who harassed me for wearing an Ozzy shirt, even invited me over one day, and I walked in to find a sort of "intervention," with a bunch of people with Bibles sitting around the room prepared to rid me of my demons.
I couldn't believe it, I asked them if they thought this was 1985, and they shot off all of these "facts" about devil worship, Ozzy Osbourne causing suicides, etc etc etc. It was bizarre, but strangely fascinating.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I definitely didn't miss the 80's, or any of that other nonsense. I just ignored the nonsense and was actually still into more pop & classic rock in the 70's & 80's.

I started listening to AM radio around 1975. I remember hearing Boston's debut right when it came out.

I really didn't go outside of Maiden & Priest as far as metal till the late 80's. Then after I found that Kerry Livgren record (didn't come out on CD till the late 90's) and heard Ronnie for the first time. It's been more metal for me ever since then, though the last few years have been a whole other type of metal known as symphonic metal.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Ah, here's the dio clip from the tape we watched.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f8tNOL6B2s&feature=related

 

[Keith1701]

Wow! RIP. One the the greatest metal voices ever. He will be missed.

R.I.P