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The King is dead, long live the king!
His Rainbow years, his Black Sabbath years, never understood the bullshit Ozzy vs. Dio fight, Ozzy was fucked up so they made a little bit different music with RJD, different meaning Ozzy would not be able to sing RJD stuff and RJD sounded weird singing Ozzy stuff, some people just love to stir shit and can't see it as two totally different line ups, different eras and different music.
Can't imagine some nights without "Heaven and Hell" and "Mob Rules" on my stereo.
The Dio era - especially the first two records are a trademark 80's heavy metal, his reunion with Sabbath in 1992 - pretty heavy record, late Dio - as stellar as it goes.
Glad that I saw him live twice:
2005 in Warsaw with DIO where they played the whole "Holy Diver" album
2007 in Prague with Sabbath aka Heaven and Hell
Btw. I'd say he sounded like at 95 pct. of his Rainbow years, incredible power performance.
Here's "Neon Nights" that I always digged.
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