Heaven and Hell

[jharp84]

I woulda traded to ya fuck if you ever responded to my pm!!

[ELVIS]

I didn't know I had one...

Sorry dude, but i've never been into trading anyway...

[ELVIS]

[binnie]

Originally posted by ELVIS
I just ordered the LIVE AT HAMMERSMITH CD !!!

Congrats!

Let us know what it's like when you get it!

[binnie]

Tried to get "Black sabbath: the Dio years" yesterday and my local record store weren't stocking it!

Bastards.

What really pissed me off is that it was the store I worked at for 7 years, and the metal section just isn't the same since I left.

I know Dio doesn't have that much of a career here anymore (compared to the States and mainland Europe) but I expected the biggest record chain in the country to stock it in every store...

Ordered it from amazon about ten minutes ago.

[bueno bob]

I ended up picking it up from a Mom & Pop store...the local retailers here didn't have it either...

As in Binnie's case, though, most of the major music retailers around here don't carry shit in regards to metal...

[binnie]

I think the problem might be that (over here at least) it's not being released on a major label, so maybe they aren't pushing it enough (they haven't done an awful lot of press here, 1 feature in Classic Rock and Metal Hammer and a tiny review in Kerrang.)

Having said, Sony is the supplier which should negate the record label problem anyway.

[bueno bob]

Well, the tour's doing great business...and they're killing nightly...

Guess that's all that matters, really...

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by binnie
I think the problem might be that (over here at least) it's not being released on a major label, so maybe they aren't pushing it enough (they haven't done an awful lot of press here, 1 feature in Classic Rock and Metal Hammer and a tiny review in Kerrang.)

Having said, Sony is the supplier which should negate the record label problem anyway.

Classic Rock will probably give them a bigger feature closer to the tour.

[binnie]

I don't doubt that, but there should have been more press for the album, especailly since it has the new tunes on it.

That way it would be more widely stocked....

[ELVIS]

BTW, I picked up The Dio Years at Walmart for $9.72...

[Mr. Vengeance]

I ordered mine online from CDplus.com (Canadian company). Good price and it took only a day to get to me. I have it on now!

[cMb]

The remastering of the 'Heaven & Hell' trax on the 'Dio Years' is phenomenal. The Bass drum kicks sound tight as hell & Geezer's bass has been moved up in the mix. All the remastered tunes sound hella better, but the H&H trax really took to the remastering nicely.

I would rather have had 'The Sign Of The Southern Cross' instead of any of the new songs. The new trax are nice, but '...Cross' is a classic.

All in all, this collection is long overdue & hopefully we can get the complete albums, especially 'Live Evil', remastered & released properly.

[cMb]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
I say he (Johnson) is is a good fit for the band (AC/DC). Never had a problem with him.

IMHO, Johnson AC/DC is on par with Scott era. Much like Sabbath when Dio came aboard, AC/DC was really a different band with Johnson. Bon couldn't do songs like 'C.O.D.', 'Inject The Venom' or 'Evil Walks', three of my favorite AC/DC tunes.

Seems like Dio / Johnson get short-changed because of the now legendary status the original singers have.
But, at the time 'Back In Black' came out, nobody I knew was saying that 'Johnson isn't as good', because we were blown away by the masterpiece album they just put out. Same goes for Dio and H&H, which was actually quite a step forward from the previous Sabbath albums.

I've heard that Johnson's voice is shot & he can't do it live anymore, although I haven't seen/heard any proof of that.

[binnie]

Originally posted by ELVIS
BTW, I picked up The Dio Years at Walmart for $9.72...

Wow!

That's about half the price of a CD over here, maybe a third of the price in some cases....