"Rainbow Rising"vs"Heaven and hell"vs"Holy diver"

[Andy Taylor]

Still hating the Dio

I've always hated Dio but I can manage to hear him on the first two Rainbow albums a couple on the first two Sabbath and the Dehumanizer album which I love. Holy Cheddar is pure awful crap.

[VHscraps]

Not a Graham Bonnet fan - that SChenker album was dreck. I think he skipped out of the MSG band just before they were due to go on tour - waaaaaaaay back in the 80s. But, all that said, couldn't resist this clip below - Bonnet in 1968. This is the song that got him the Rainbow gig. Blackmore remembered it and rescued him from oblivion - a place that he has since returned. These were the Marbles doing 'Only One Woman' (a song written by those Gibb brothers of the Bee Gees) - it was a big hit in Australia in '68. I assume that this is where the clip is from - Oz TV.

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[ELVIS]

Wow, Graham Bonnet sounds good in that clip...

[kissfan1976]

"It Goes On And On And On,It's Heaven And Hell."

[Green Manalishi]

I dig just about anything DIO regardless of which band / lineup , etc . however , I'm rather partial to the Heaven & Hell / Mob Rules / Live Evil era .

I saw Heaven And Hell right about two years ago and I thought they were fantastic ! Who would have guessed the inevitable .

DIO trivia that I heard from the man himself in a radio interview many years ago : He said that he purposely sings

, writes in a lyric , titles a song , or somehow incorporates onto the album cover the actual word " Rainbow "

at least once on every release that he has ever recorded regardless since the very first Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow

album in 1975 .

[ELVIS]

Heaven And Hell

Holy Diver

Rising

[ELVIS]

Rising has some boring extended jams...

[78/84 guy]

Heaven & Hell & Mob Rules are so good I don't even own the other two. They might make my top 10 heavy metal album's of all time. H & H sure is !!

[big fatty]

HEAVEN AND HELL Hard for any of them to top that one.

RAINBOW's Long Live Rock and Roll is actually my favorite from them, mainly because of, KILL THE KING.

It's such a shame that DIO and Cozy Powell passed on, they were awesome.

[binnie]

'Rising' - few things come close: a perfect blend of rock, metal, prog and emotion.

'Holy Diver' - dark and a lot of fun at the same time; people often think that Dio was a one trick pony, but every song here is very distinct.

'Heaven & Hell' - majestic and powerful for sure, but I'm not sure its as consistently 'killer' as the above 2. 90% killer rather than 100%.

Now if the choice was 'Paranoid', 'Sabotage' and 'Blizzard of Ozz' I'd have to go away and agonize over it.......

[bueno bob]

'Rising' - few things come close: a perfect blend of rock, metal, prog and emotion.

'Holy Diver' - dark and a lot of fun at the same time; people often think that Dio was a one trick pony, but every song here is very distinct.

'Heaven & Hell' - majestic and powerful for sure, but I'm not sure its as consistently 'killer' as the above 2. 90% killer rather than 100%.

Now if the choice was 'Paranoid', 'Sabotage' and 'Blizzard of Ozz' I'd have to go away and agonize over it.......

Let me make it easy for you:

Sabotage
Paranoid
Blizzard

See? Easy.

[binnie]

I dunno Bob.

The older I get, the more I seem to appreciate 'Paranoid'.........and 'Blizzard' was a transformative record for guitar and metal (although I'd say it hasn't aged as well as the other two).

Damn it, now I'm agonising over it!

[lesfunk]

Let me make it easy for you:

Sabotage
Paranoid
Blizzard



See? Easy.

Not that easy for me. I would say:
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Sabotage
Then maybe Blizzard