When Dio left Black Sabbath, he was not a wealthy man. He and Wendy had bought a single-storey house in the middle-class Tarzana district of LA, which they shared with several cats and dogs.
But we mortgaged it because it was expensive to put something on the road. It was a risk. But I believed in him. He believed in himself. They became inseparable over the next few years and married in As a wife, Wendy had looked after Ronnie like a wolf mother protecting her cub. As a manager, she would become an attack dog. Ronnie had left Sabbath with another valuable asset: drummer Vinny Appice.
When it became clear that Ward was not coming back, Appice stayed on for the second Dio-era Sabbath album, Mob Rules , and the subsequent live album, Live Evil. A pair of Italian Americans, Ronnie and Vinny bonded easily. In the summer of , Dio took Appice for dinner and told him of his plans to leave Sabbath and start his own band. He asked Vinny if he wanted in. Fuck yeah!
I looked at him as a brother. I loved Tony and Geezer too — they asked me to stay, but it was just a lot easier to go with Ronnie and start something new. They also began a search for a new guitarist. But Ronnie was keen to make the band an international proposition. A visit to London to uncover new talent proved fruitless — Dio and Appice even ended up checking out the guitarist from a reggae band by mistake.
The year-old Bain was a hard-living Scotsman whose petite frame belied his steely constitution. Bain was finishing up some Wild Horses dates in Ireland when he got a call from Dio. Dio later claimed that Bain had misunderstood his call — that he was simply asking if Bain knew of any good guitarists.
According to Bain, there was no doubt in his mind as to what Dio was after. Bain had never actually heard Campbell play, although the bassist was aware of his reputation. The four of us got there, set up and played.
It was just fucking magic. Vivian Campbell was asleep when he got the call about joining Dio. It was the middle of the night, and his father had woken him to say there was a drunken Scotsman on the phone. The band had released a pair of well-received singles and supported Thin Lizzy and Ozzy Osbourne. Campbell was a fan of both Rainbow and Sabbath, though only the Dio-led incarnation of the latter.
The original vinyl release had a photo-montage LP-liner, with images from both Rainbow and Black Sabbath days. The album was remastered and re-released by Rock Candy Records in The only notable addition to the original album is an audio interview with Ronnie James Dio. Tracks on the edition are Dio's answers to various questions about the album. The questions are not posed during the interview itself, but can be found inside the CD's booklet instead. The cover features the band mascot, Murray spinning chains around waves where a man with a priest or minister's collar in chains is floating.
Dio was quick to argue that appearances are misleading, that it could just as easily be a priest killing a devil, wanting people not to "judge a book by its cover".
Murray is featured on several other Dio albums. Ronnie James Dio has called this purely coincidental. Around the time of the making of the album a rise of heroic adventure elements in the popular culture such as J. Dio found a fertile fantasy framework for the big Sabbath themes of madness and desolation".
Smartest thing I ever did. The debut Holy Diver by his band, Dio, reduced lush moral landscapes to simple good-versus-evil conflicts, using the lyrical duality of 'Rainbow in the Dark' and 'Holy Diver' to raise questions about deceit and hypocrisy in romance and religion.
In the sharp contrasts of Dio's imagery, there was always a built-in contradiction that fed adolescent revolt: a black side to every white light and a hidden secret behind every loud proclamation of truth.
In a similar way, Dio's music balanced torrents of rage with brief acoustic interludes. Allmusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia praised the album, stating that "aside from Ronnie's unquestionably stellar songwriting, Holy Diver' s stunning quality and consistency owed much to his carefully chosen bandmates, including powerhouse drummer and fellow [Black] Sabbath survivor Vinny Appice, veteran bassist Jimmy Bain, and a phenomenal find in young Irish guitarist Vivian Campbell, whose tastefully pyrotechnic leads helped make this the definitive Dio lineup.
Holy Diver remains the undisputed highlight of Dio's career, and, indeed, one of the finest pure heavy metal albums of the s. Aaron Arneson considers Holy Diver "an influential and undeniable classic", which contributed to the birth of the power metal subgenre with "Dio's lyrical themes of fantasy and his epic sounding songs". Mortgaged the house for that one. Despite the success of Holy Diver , the seeds of discontent were already being sown.
He was gonna present it as a band even though it was gonna be named Dio for obvious name recognition reasons. I had a certain reputation, and it just made sense. They were on retainers, whether they worked or not. Plus they got all their publishing. All those other people were unknown. I refused to accept a contract that they offered me which was contrary to the original agreement Ronnie had made with Jimmy, Vinny and myself.
Of the musicians who made Holy Diver , two of them are no longer with us. Jimmy Bain died of lung cancer in
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