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Dio, the best metal singer? As a singer this guy is just fucking awesome! I'm listening to "Buried Alive" off Black Sabbath's 92 Dehumanizer album. Man that song is exactly what Dio Sabbath should of been about doom\gloom AS WELL AS hard rocking. I'm a not huge fan of his tunes but his voice is just so... metal. Power, venom, range as well as a really sweat clean sound as well... he's got it all. I even enjoy listening to him talk in between songs on concert cds!
My fav Tracks by him are: SABBATH Heaven & Hell Buried Alive I After All (the dead) Letters from Earth War Pigs (Live) Iron Man (Live) DIO Straight through the Heart (Absolute hands down favourite track) 
Holy Diver Egypt (the Chains are on) Jesus, Mary and the Holy Ghost Evilution Rock & Roll It's such a shame his time with Sabbath didn't work out and how it ended, both times. First time Iommi accussed him and Vinnie Appice of sneeking into the recording studio to mix themselves higher on the Live Evil album  Him and Vinnie quit out of protest. Then he quit the second time cause Iommi wanted Sabbath to play as openers for Ozzy on his last two shows. Dio suspected (rightly so) that it was a ploy to reunite the original Sabbath and didn't feel they should open for anyone least of all someone the band fired.
My dream scenario would of been if after the original Sabbath couldn't reunite after LiveAid they had worked out their differences and reunited before Dio's own band lost their momentum. Also this would of stopped the pointless eventual reunion of Ozzy and Sabbath, the guy can't even talk anymore let alone sing . Even in his prime he couldn't hold a candle to Dio now, in his 60's! Oh yeah Dio also came up with the 'metal' or 'horns' hand gesture, is shockingly short, keeps his age a secret (He's been rocking since the 50's!) and has always had a terrible hair style cause of a car accident in his youth scarring his scalp! He's quite a character and a singer... anyone agree? [Edited 10/16/06 7:51am] [Edited 10/17/06 3:33am] [Edited 10/17/06 3:48am] | |
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rainman1985 said: As a singer this guy is just fucking awesome! I'm listening to "Buried Alive" off Black Sabbath's 92 Dehumanizer album. Man that song is exactly what Dio Sabbath should of been about doom\gloom AS WELL AS hard rocking. I'm a not huge fan of his tunes but his voice is just so... metal. Power, venom, range as well as a really sweat clean sound as well... he's got it all. I even enjoy listening to him talk in between songs on concert cds!
My fav Tracks by him are: SABBATH Heaven & Hell Dehumanizer: Buried Alive I After All (the dead) Letters from Earth Live Evil: War Pigs Iron Man DIO Straight through the Heart (Absolute hands down favourite track)
Holy Diver Egypt (the Chains are on) Jesus, Mary and the Holy Ghost Evilution Rock & Roll It's such a shame his Sabbath didn't work out and how it ended, both times. First time Iommi accussed him Vinnie Appice of seeking into to the recording studio to mix themselves higher on the Live Evil album Him and Vinnie quit out of protest. Then he quit the second time cause Iommi wanted Sabbath to play as openers for Ozzy on his last two shows. Dio suspected (rightly so) that it was a ploy to reunite the original Sabbath and didn't feel they should open for anyone least of all someone the band fired.
My dream scenario would of been if After the original Sabbath couldn't reunite after LiveAid they had worked out their differences and reunited before Dio's own band lost their momentum. Also this would of stopped the pointless eventual reunion of Ozzy and Sabbath, the guy can't even talk anymore let alone sing . Even in his prime he couldn't hold a candle to Dio now, in his 60's! Oh yeah Dio also came up with the 'metal' or 'horns' hand gesture, is shockingly short, keeps his age a secret (He's been rocking since the 50's!) and has always had a terrible hair style cause of a car accident in his youth scarring his scalp! He's quite a character and a singer... anyone agree? i saw a video of his just last night on vh-1 classic for an excellent song called "Mystery" he has a great powerful voice and he did pretty well with his solo albums in the mid 80's he had quite a few in the top 100 album chart Check it out ...Shiny Toy Guns R gonna blowup VERY soon and bring melody back to music..you heard it here 1st! http://www.myspacecomment...theone.mp3 | |
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Ronnie James is Great ! but, I think Bon Scott may be another choice to look at. I thought Brian did a great job in the replacement seat as well. "You can go Fly ya Mama's Kite" (c) Prince | |
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Rob Halford is up there to. a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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Stax said: Rob Halford is up there to.
Fa sho, Fa sho... Chris Cornell is probably my fav out of the new skool. "You can go Fly ya Mama's Kite" (c) Prince | |
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Yes! I loved Dio in my metal days! LOL.
I just added "Holy Diver", "Rainbow In The Dark", "Last In Line" and a few others to my ipod. | |
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I have pure, completely non-ironic love for this album...
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Bon Scott isn't really impressive to me at all.
I like Halford a lot more now than I used to, his voice has certainly gotten meaner over the years. I think in his younger days he tried to wow people with his range to make up for the thin quality his voice had. Like I said though that's not really the case any more. His falsetto screech on the Rising in the East show on Painkiller sounds positively demonic. Chris Cornell is good on record but his live peformances sound like a different singer almost. I was really dissapointed the first time I heard an Audioslave bootleg. Dio though always had it all, I was surprised when I read he never had any training accept for breath control as child learning trumpet. He always made his singing sound easy, his live performances in his peak were identical quality wise to the studio. He's been slipping a bit the last decade but hey the guy's in his 60's and growling and screaming better than everyone else on the metal scene I've heard. [Edited 10/17/06 3:47am] | |
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Dio is great, as evidenced by this performance with Rainbow 
http://www.youtube.com/wa...ghDDOBSP5k Joe Lynn Turner had a great voice too, despite looking like a ladyboy http://www.youtube.com/wa...J29pVhsdMs Bruce Dickinson and Phil Anselmo (think Cemetary Gates style Pantera) are also high on the list. | |
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He has a powerful voice.
Crank up "Rainbow In The Dark" "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
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