RIP DIO

polara said:
What a voice! And more importantly, from what I could tell in an NPR interview, a funny, smart, self-deprecating guy. We all have finite lives and it seems his was spent well even if it was cut short. RIP
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+1, RIP Ronnie. NPR will hopefully rebroadcast that interview soon, they did a similar retrospective for Alex Chilton.

 
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I'm just sad...so sad

Listening to Catch the Rainbow, and to Gates of Babylon...

Can't help it but to be profoundly sad for his passing....

He was legendary in life, he just became inmortal...

 
There was nothing like those Rainbow albums at that time, nor did Sabbath know how good hey could be before Ronnie. He didn't leave his mark on the rock music, he put his stamp on it. The first band I was ever in played Kill the King, Run with the Wolf, and 16th Century Greensleeves.. and we only had 12 songs. To be alive at the time that stuff was coming out was just awesome. I remember despising Graham Bonnet and Joe Lynn Turner for ruining Rainbow. And then Heaven and Hell came out and I remember wondering why Sabbath had stuck with Ozzie Osborne for soooo long.

For me, he added dimension to the dramatic and brought images to motion through his melodic inflections and snarling defiance. That sense of foreboding and danger.. life and death.. the eternal struggle with the demons we both create, and deny. It was so powerful and yet I didn't take it literally, seriously, or with any ill-intent.. it was just good, clean storytelling - art, in the sense that the movie playing in my head, was merely a song being brought to life by a voice like no other.. with ominous guitars to polish the mood.

So, live for today.. for tomorrow never comes..

I am more one to celebrate a life than to mourn a death, but Still I'm Sad..

Sleep in peace

 
humfree said:
There was nothing like those Rainbow albums at that time, nor did Sabbath know how good hey could be before Ronnie. He didn't leave his mark on the rock music, he put his stamp on it. The first band I was ever in played Kill the King, Run with the Wolf, and 16th Century Greensleeves.. and we only had 12 songs. To be alive at the time that stuff was coming out was just awesome. I remember despising Graham Bonnet and Joe Lynn Turner for ruining Rainbow. And then Heaven and Hell came out and I remember wondering why Sabbath had stuck with Ozzie Osborne for soooo long.

For me, he added dimension to the dramatic and brought images to motion through his melodic inflections and snarling defiance. That sense of foreboding and danger.. life and death.. the eternal struggle with the demons we both create, and deny. It was so powerful and yet I didn't take it literally, seriously, or with any ill-intent.. it was just good, clean storytelling - art, in the sense that the movie playing in my head, was merely a song being brought to life by a voice like no other.. with ominous guitars to polish the mood.

So, live for today.. for tomorrow never comes..

I am more one to celebrate a life than to mourn a death, but Still I'm Sad..

Sleep in peace
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Dude, you've said it all --but "Still I'm Sad" too... /emoticons/default_biggrin.png

 
I think it was on That Metal Show where he was interviewed with Geezer Butler and I was very surprised by how funny he was. They were cracking on Vinnie Appice. Unbelievably strong voice too. What a sad day for the metal community.

 
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very sad news. i remember in grade school being so bummed when i heard sabs (my fave band) fired ozzy. then, i heard "lady evil" on the radio, and i rode my bike to the mall and bought heaven & hell. i took it home, and was blown away! in jr high i saw sabs on the mob rules tour, in fact the dallas show i saw was recorded for side 3 of live evil. also saw him w/ dio at the texxas jam while still in high school.

although his life was cut short, we can all be happy that he had such a long and high quality career. watch heaven & hell live at radio city music hall, they sounded amazing right up to the end.

 
"Long Live Rock and Roll" -- my opinion is that was his best work right there. Just love that record.... a Turdus top 5 for sure.

 
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I mentioned the news of Ronnie's passing to my staff members and neither one of the girls had ever heard of him. Granted, they're both 24 and like country music...

Either way, as soon as I finished telling them who RJD was and how talented he was, Hair Nation started playing "We're Stars."

Fitting...

RIP

 
I saw him live twice on the Holy Diver and Sacred Heart tours. Heaven and Hell is my favorite Sabbath album. R.I.P. Ronnie James.

 
Very sad indeed. He was a gentleman. I met him perhaps five, six years ago backstage. He invited me to his dressing room and I was treated like an old friend.

 
I'll take Heaven and Hell or The Mob Rules over Paranoid any day. Dio was awesome. I saw him live on several occasions and he always brought it. RIP

 
RJD will indeed be sorely missed. His work with Sabbath had such a profound effect on me at a pivotal age. He brought an impressive level of class and epic granduer to heavy music. RIP.

 
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Bummer.... I saw this yesterday and winced--then breathed a sigh of relief at the thought he might still be around.

Over the years, one of the things I've discovered I love the most in music, no matter the sytle, is authenticity. Dio was genuine. Sang with conviction...

Never saw him live, but my wife saw him in about '94 and said it was one of the best shows she'd ever seen.

One of the cornerstones of Heavy Metal is gone now.

 
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