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R.I.P Ronnie James Dio... Holy Diver
Posted: May 17, 2010 • 6:40 pm
by lestat666
To all you metal fans out there..... Ronnie James Dio has passed away.
Famous for
Holy Diver, Heaven and Hell & The Man on the Silver Mountain.
Part of bands such as
Black Sabbath
Dio
Heaven and Hell
Rainbow CORRECTION
&
Elf
You will be missed.
Re: R.I.P Ronnie James Dio... Holy Diver
Posted: May 17, 2010 • 7:09 pm
by Bafitis
Fred mentioned this death in his Sister-In-Law's thread... A Sad Loss indeed...
Re: R.I.P Ronnie James Dio... Holy Diver
Posted: May 17, 2010 • 10:56 pm
by Fred Buer
An amazing vocalist to be sure. He was probably one of the greatest singers of our time, regardless of genre.
-Fred
Re: R.I.P Ronnie James Dio... Holy Diver
Posted: May 18, 2010 • 6:59 am
by Joel
Not a Sabbath fan myself nor am I big on Metal (apart from Zeppelin and Metallica) but I definitely know enough to understand Dio's legacy. I was actually watching a heavy metal documentary recently which he featured when they were performing at the Wacken Metal festival in Germany. He shared an interesting anecdote with the origins of the devil horns (also known as the maloik). Apparently, when he had first migrated from Italy to America, when walking down the street with his grandmother, if ever she saw someone who was threatening she would raise her hands with the devil horns as a means of repelling alleged evil. An interesting irony given the satanic stigma that is usually attached to it. Instead, it's the opposite.
A sad day for fans, no doubt.