Rumpali Vinny Appice muistelee Dio-yhtyeen perustamista
Rumpali Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven & Hell) antoi hiljattain haastattelun Silk And Steel Power Hour -radio-ohjelmalle liittyen legendaarisen laulaja Ronnie James Dion sooloyhtyeeseen, jossa hänkin soitti aikoinaan. Appice kommentoi yhtyeen perustamista 1980-luvun alussa seuraavasti:
”The interesting thing about that time period is Ronnie had a solo deal while he was in BLACK SABBATH. And his first plan was to, obviously, stay with BLACK SABBATH and then do the solo record with all his friends on it. And he wanted me to play on it, Cozy Powell and… all his friends that were in different bands, and it would like an all-star album; that was the original plan. But then when things soured up with SABBATH, things got a little bit funky, and he decided, that’s it, he’s leaving, then it became he’s going to use that record deal to launch a new career, part of his career, and a new band. And that’s when he asked me if I wanted to join, and I said yes. And then we teamed up together and started playing. Originally, it was just me and him playing. We would go in the rehearsal studio and play parts of ’Holy Diver’ and parts of different songs that Ronnie had some riffs for, and that was it. Then we eventually auditioned guitar players and went over to Europe — England — to find somebody.”
Kysyttäessä oliko Dio valmistautunut soolouraansa varten, Appice vastasi:
”Well, to tell you the truth, I don’t think… He might have had a vision of what he wanted, but he… You know, both of us together were playing in the same vein, even though it was just bass and drums; we were playing kind of heavy and dark. And it never was planned out what the band should sound like until we auditioned [guitarist] Vivian Campbell and [bassist] Jimmy Bain at the same time, and then it just gelled. We just went, ’Damn, this feels right. This sounds great.’ And then we got together a month later back in Los Angeles with Viv and Jimmy and started writing and jamming, and it just went the way it went. And the band created its own sound. It was never really perceived as… beforehand, you know, what it should sound like.”
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