On 2006-03-03 18:52:00, stillahippie564 wrote:
"that must have been a weird concert with out ozzie singing....i can't imagine that....hippie"
Actually, RJ Dio did a pretty good job of infusing some life into a band that was, at the time, disentegrating. A lot of the songs on
Heaven and Hell sound a lot like Rainbow (Dio's band with Deep Purple alum Ritchie Blackmore) and a lot of them sound very much like Black Sabbath. They opened the show with "War Pigs", encored with "Children of the Grave", and played a pretty solid set in between, with Sabbath classics and stuff off of
Heaven and Hell pretty well represented. There were LOTS of pyrotechnics, and some pretty cool lighting effects.....during the break in the song "Heaven and Hell", Dio sang a little ditty, culminating in the lines, "leave me alone/don't tell me what to do/cause I've got to burn in Hell with all of you",(you can hear it in it's entirety on
Live Evil, the live album from the two tours Sabbath did with Dio) as he pointed to the audience, and the lighting effects on him made him look like he was made out of glowing coal embers for a second or two. He did a good job filling in for Ozzy, but by the time the band came around the next year, they were again falling apart, and were sleepwalking through the tour for the album
The Mob Rules, which is a lame-ass record anyway. Saw the Sabs with Ozzy, too, but that's another story.