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CALL ME THE DEVIL – IT’S TRUE
Mar. 27th, 2011 11:33 amFor yr Sunday listening pleasure:
You’ll burn,
This is dF
You’ll burn,
This is dF
For yr Sunday listening pleasure:
Touch the sky,
This is dF
Touch the sky,
This is dF
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jasonfranks reports that Ronnie James Dio is gone.
This was unexpected. Yes, he was 67, and yes, he was undergoing treatment for stomach cancer, but I’d heard the treatment was going well, so the news is still a bit stunning.
I’m a fan, as many of you may have already deduced from reading this blog, And like a lot of people my age, my introduction to RJD was his Black Sabbath work – specifically, Mob Rules, which I scammed from the Columbia House Record Club.
I was already familiar with Ozzy-era Sabbath at the time (albeit mainly via Paranoid), and some of my peers didn’t care for Dio as a replacement singer. I liked Ozzy too (and I was on the Crazy Train by this time as well), but I saw Dio-era Sabbath as almost a different band entirely. Ozzy prophecized doom. Dio brought it to yr front door, kicked the fucker in, then told you to run for it. NOW.
Which made an impression on my 16-year-old psyche, I can tell you. As Holy Diver would a year later.
Granted, by Dream Evil, Dio was becoming a bit of a self-parody, but years later I would revisit his stuff, pay a little more attention and see there was more to him than slaying dragons on stage than I realized at the time. I would also discover his earlier work with Rainbow (after having grown up wit Joe Lynn Turner-era Rainbow), which was when I learned Rainbow used to be a lot better before they started having hits in the US.
Anyway, Dio was a master front man with a distinctive voice that could make Christmas carols sound apocalyptic. And say what you will about his sword/sorcery fantasies – Dio always stuck to his artistic guns, never changed his style to sell more records and (as far as I know) never took himself too seriously.
Not bad for a kid from New Hampshire.
CREDITS: Headline idea stolen from Goldfinger, who comically deployed some Dio around the 2:00 mark in their cover of Duran Duran's "Rio".
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a big Goldfinger fan. But I appreciate a good Dio reference.
Tomorrow never comes,
This is dF
jasonfranks reports that Ronnie James Dio is gone. This was unexpected. Yes, he was 67, and yes, he was undergoing treatment for stomach cancer, but I’d heard the treatment was going well, so the news is still a bit stunning.
I’m a fan, as many of you may have already deduced from reading this blog, And like a lot of people my age, my introduction to RJD was his Black Sabbath work – specifically, Mob Rules, which I scammed from the Columbia House Record Club.
I was already familiar with Ozzy-era Sabbath at the time (albeit mainly via Paranoid), and some of my peers didn’t care for Dio as a replacement singer. I liked Ozzy too (and I was on the Crazy Train by this time as well), but I saw Dio-era Sabbath as almost a different band entirely. Ozzy prophecized doom. Dio brought it to yr front door, kicked the fucker in, then told you to run for it. NOW.
Which made an impression on my 16-year-old psyche, I can tell you. As Holy Diver would a year later.
Granted, by Dream Evil, Dio was becoming a bit of a self-parody, but years later I would revisit his stuff, pay a little more attention and see there was more to him than slaying dragons on stage than I realized at the time. I would also discover his earlier work with Rainbow (after having grown up wit Joe Lynn Turner-era Rainbow), which was when I learned Rainbow used to be a lot better before they started having hits in the US.
Anyway, Dio was a master front man with a distinctive voice that could make Christmas carols sound apocalyptic. And say what you will about his sword/sorcery fantasies – Dio always stuck to his artistic guns, never changed his style to sell more records and (as far as I know) never took himself too seriously.
Not bad for a kid from New Hampshire.
CREDITS: Headline idea stolen from Goldfinger, who comically deployed some Dio around the 2:00 mark in their cover of Duran Duran's "Rio".
DISCLAIMER: I'm not a big Goldfinger fan. But I appreciate a good Dio reference.
Tomorrow never comes,
This is dF
KEEPING THE SABBATH
Aug. 30th, 2009 06:33 pmIt’s Sunday morning.
Get yr black on.
For maximum enjoyment of this poster, stare at it intently making devil-horn hand gestures while listening to this.
That’s what dEFROG does.
PRODUCTION NOTE: I’m not saying this is going to lead to a series where I post Black Sabbath stuff every Sunday morning. But I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
Keep it holy,
This is dF
Get yr black on.
For maximum enjoyment of this poster, stare at it intently making devil-horn hand gestures while listening to this.
That’s what dEFROG does.
PRODUCTION NOTE: I’m not saying this is going to lead to a series where I post Black Sabbath stuff every Sunday morning. But I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
Keep it holy,
This is dF
