RIP Ronnie James Dio

[juv3nal]

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=140129

wizaard!

[Hermie]

Dio has rocked! For a long, long time... ;___;

Rest in peace, you crazy, tiny bastard!

[Kolzig]

I was supposed to see Dio for the first time in my life this August in Pori Sonisphere Festival...

I'm really sad now... One of the biggest metal gods is gone now...

[Murdoc]

So anyway, after my 3 hour marathon of Holy Diver this afternoon I really need to ask a stupid question.

"... ride the tiger, you can see his stripes but you know he's clean; oh don't you see what I mean?"

Well I don't know what he means; what the hell are is talking about? Or do I not want to know?

He mentions cats in blue near the end (which as I understand are the police at some point in history) so there a message in here? Because I'd rather just interpret it as riding a literal tiger and cats wearing blue clothing.

The music video is him cosplaying DnD so it was not much help.

Man, Dio was fucking awesome.

[Snooglebum]

Uh, this probably makes me an ignorant idiot, but who is Ronnie James Dio?

[Hermie]

  Snooglebum said:

Uh, this probably makes me an ignorant idiot, but who is Ronnie James Dio?

An acclaimed hard rock/metal vocalist. He first became widely known playing in Rainbow (with Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple), and then he replaced Ozzie as the vocalist for Black Sabbath. After that he formed his own band, Dio. If you know one song by him, it's probably

.

He recently toured again with Sabbath, but couldn't use the name, so they called themselves Heaven & Hell, after the first album Dio made with them.

[toblix]

What? Isn't he the "Life, nanananana" guy?!

[Kolzig]

  Hermie said:

He recently toured again with Sabbath, but couldn't use the name, so they called themselves Heaven & Hell, after the first album Dio made with them.

Yes, Ozzy's dear wife denied the other Sabbath members the use of Black Sabbath name if Dio is the singer.

I think she/Ozzy owns at least partly the rights to the name...

[juv3nal]

  Murdoc said:

"... ride the tiger, you can see his stripes but you know he's clean; oh don't you see what I mean?"

I always figured that was talking about heroin. Riding the tiger as a kind of parallel to chasing the dragon. So the heroin in this instance is clean. Stripes could be a couple of things: could be lines marking the volume in a syringe or it could be the uncooked product cut up into lines or even the tracks (2) of injection spots along someone's veins.

[Murdoc]

  juv3nal said:

I always figured that was talking about heroin. Riding the tiger as a kind of parallel to chasing the dragon. So the heroin in this instance is clean. Stripes could be a couple of things: could be lines marking the volume in a syringe or it could be the uncooked product cut up into lines or even the tracks (2) of injection spots along someone's veins.

Makes sense, I chose to interpret it literally though, for some reason this is the one case where it's more awesome, lol.

[Vorlonesque]

Who's going to be the third (Gary Coleman, Ronnie James Dio...now who?).

[Patters]

  Vorlonesque said:

Who's going to be the third (Gary Coleman, Ronnie James Dio...now who?).

The bassist from Slipknot died before coleman, as did Frank Frazzetta.

[Squid Division]

Dennis Hopper died today.