Dio – Master Of Heavy Metal
| Interview By: David Priest If ever there was an artist that could be awarded the
title Master of Heavy Metal or King of Rock ‘N Roll that artist would no doubt
be the legendary Ronnie James Dio, a
man who has been active within the genre for nearly thirty years now and who is
an amazing musician that completely embodies the very spirit and art of Heavy
Metal music. He has been voted, time after time, the most powerful voice the
Metal world has ever known and ultimately is the epitome of what defines the passion
within the music. As he continually proves to be a musical presence worthy of
praise, he is also a true humanitarian and adamant lover of life. Taking
tremendous pride in his work, he never settles for anything less than
perfection but is also a realist and a man of true character who is known to
wear his heart on his sleeve. While much of his life and personality remains shrouded
in mystery, what matters most is always evident and to the point; that being
the incredible music that is poured forth from the heart and soul of his
magical genius. Having shared the stage with such monumental rock icons as
Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow)
and Tony Iommi (Black
Sabbath) before fronting his own
band simply titled Dio, he has developed a legacy that is sure
to live on for many years to come. Recently releasing what marks the tenth
studio effort for Dio, Ronnie and
band have once again outdone themselves and given the
fans a hearty feast to appease their appetite. Master of the Moon is an album filled with political incisiveness
and cynical points of view. Above all, though, the CD packs a musical wallop
that will leave metalheads spinning their brains for
a very long time to come. Plainly put; this is classic Dio at his best. Being an enormously diehard fan myself I never
grow tired of Dio’s
music and having the opportunity to once again sit down and chat with him is
beyond what words can ever express. Having tried desperately to pin Ronnie down
for the last year and a half I found myself running into one brick wall after
another, so I am tremendously proud to finally deliver to you my one-on-one
session with the man on the silver mountain himself; Mr. Ronnie James Dio. I spent a good long time brainstorming questions
to ask Ronnie and I could probably go on for days, but space and time permitted,
I hope you will find this particular set of questions and answers as fulfilling
as I did. Enjoy! OT: I’ve probably seen you perform at
least a dozen times in the last few years and I’m still amazed at how perfect
every show is delivered. What would you say is your secret to maintaining such
a tight performance? Dio: I think one of the things is you have to have a goal;
you have to have an idea about it all the time. And my goal has always been
that every show is supposed to be absolutely perfect. That’s impossible, that’s
absolutely impossible, but you have to have that desire to do that. And I think
the most important part of it is once you have one person who has that goal and
you’re able to surround yourself with people who feel exactly the same as you
do, who work as hard at rehearsal each time you play, whichever song it is, as
hard as you do live. I think that’s really the secret, for me it is anyway.
Having the people around me who really know how to do it and have the same care
about being great all the time.
OT: Right, absolutely. There are a number of people who are friends of mine that
only recently were introduced to your live show when you opened for Maiden last year. They would come back
and tell me how impressed they were that you sounded so ridiculously good and
that it was like CD quality in a live setting – which, of course, is almost
unheard of. Dio: Well that’s a wonderful compliment because
that’s the way it’s supposed to be. But we’re so consistent no matter where we
play, whether we play in a festival situation or an arena situation or a small
place, we’re always the same; with us you always get an arena attitude no
matter where we are. And so I think that that certainly helps a great deal because
the attitude is always the same, there’s not a let up; for five hundred people
or fifty thousand people, the show is always the same, and it’s always meant to
be good. Once again, with that kind of an attitude you really can’t go wrong. OT: That’s very true. Now, I’ve often wondered what you think about the various
interpretations people give for your songs. It seems that in many ways they
read into it whatever fits their specific ideas. With “Master Of The Moon” a lot of people see you slamming President Bush,
and in some ways I can see that, but in others it seems to present nothing more
than a question of confusion… “Are we doing right or are we blinded by our own
short-sightedness?” On the other hand a friend of mine, when I played the CD
for him, thought that it sounded like a Christian band at some point and I
don’t know exactly what led him to draw that conclusion, but it did get me
thinking. So what are your thoughts regarding the interpretations made by fans? Dio: Well I’ve always tried to write songs that are
able to be interpreted in a lot of different ways. I’ve tried not to force-feed
people with my ideas, with my philosophy. But of course my philosophy always
comes out into the song somewhere, which may mean in some ways, the people that
think it’s a Christian thought may be correct. And I don’t mean that I’m
writing things under the auspices of Christianity, but I’ve always been
probably more of a… not a dissenter, but an examiner of religious ideas.
Because I don’t agree with most of them [although I was certainly raised
Christian, I was raised a Catholic] didn’t mean I couldn’t have my own ideas
about what was going on, that perhaps it wasn’t correct. That being taught by
fear, just blind, completely totally blind faith, something I couldn’t get my
hand around, was not right. So there is a lot of Christian element that goes
into what I write. But I would say other than just Christian, more religious
attitudes, because it could be a Muslim attitude. There’s still a God there
that’s supposed to be deified by whichever religion it is. So I think there’s a
little bit of truth in that. But I’ve tried to write the songs so that people
can make them their own. I’ve been told quite a few times a song like “Rainbow In The Dark”, ‘Oh, I know what that’s about’, and they’ll
tell me. And I’ll get ten different interpretations of it and that’s cool
because that’s what I tried to do. The purpose of the music is to share it with
someone and then let them make it their own as well as it’s your own. So I think
all the things that have been said are rather true and that people can make
their own judgment as to the song, which I think makes it a lot more personal
and that’s what I’ve always tried to do. OT: It’s great that people are able to relate to the music no matter what their
personal views might be, it’s good that they get
something out of the songs for themselves. Dio: Well again, I’ve tried to write a lot about
people who are, I’d say, a bit more downtrodden; people who are too tall, or
too short, or too fat, or too skinny, or too stupid, or too smart, or too
pretty, or too ugly. We seem to deal with extremes a lot in our lives as humans
and I think that I’ve always tried to give a message of promise and a message
of: if you have a dream you can certainly go for it. Doesn’t necessarily mean
it’s going to come true, but it’s the trying to get there that’s important. So
I think a lot of the things I write are so embraced because they speak to these
people who feel they have no one speaking for them; a champion so to speak. And
I’ve tried to do that as much as I can, I think that’s another reason why they
‘get it’. OT: I totally agree. So let’s talk for a minute about imagery. It seems like,
in a way, that the artwork that you have on the albums can work the same way,
as far as interpretation goes. The new CD, Master
Of The Moon, features yet another monstrous image
that’s sure to raise a few eyebrows. I was actually talking to Thomas [Krause] at
the Dio: Exactly.
OT: What explanation, if any, do you give for this new creature that we see on Master Of The Moon? Dio: Well obviously the creature idea has been a
theme that’s run right through, not only just the things that we’ve done, but
most metal music. The ‘gothic’ness of it all is
something that has become kind of a tag on the kind of music we make. We know
the kind of people we’re trying to ‘capture’ with the kind of music that we
make and I would think that it probably wouldn’t be Becky in that particular
case - this is only alluding to the artwork y’know. I think it’s just very
important to have that ‘thread’ with the things that you do, so having started
it with Sabbath really, there weren’t
a lot of monsters in the original Sabbath things but as we went along there became more and more monsters perhaps. And I
think it’s just a connection between the artwork that always has been and the
music that has always supported that artwork. I didn’t want to change it and
have an angel on the cover, or a frog or something like that. It just made
sense to me to have something bigger than life. The title was Master Of The Moon
and whatever was going to be big enough to hold the moon in his hand had to be
pretty monstrous, so to me it was a no-brainer for that cover, really. OT: And like you said, it’s connected with the music so as far as heavy metal
circles go, it definitely helps to sell the album. Dio: It doesn’t hurt, y’know, and it certainly pops
out at you when you’re looking through CD’s because we don’t have the luxury of
the album size anymore, which is a shame in itself. Dio: There ya go.
OT: Now let me say, I really enjoyed the Evil
Or Divine DVD, but wasn’t too sure about the way
it was filmed. It seemed a little bit grainy at times, a little distorted maybe,
almost like it was shot in a 70’s type setting. Did it turn out to be all you’d
hoped for? Dio: Ah no, it didn’t turn out to be all I’d hoped
for but I can’t blame anyone but myself. When I saw the original presentation -
the director’s cut - it just looked to clean to me. It really looked so
pristine that I felt I was watching a soap opera of some kind and so I wanted
it to be made a little bit grainier. But we ran into so many time problems with
talking back and forth to the director who was three thousand miles away from
me, it just started to take forever and ever and ever to get what I was trying
to get out of them. And at the end of the day I just said, “Look, I guess we’re
going to have to release this at some point, so let’s just leave it as it is.”
But I agree with you it is grainy, I wanted it grainy, perhaps not quite that
grainy. Distorted, I don’t know, it’s maybe a little bit skewed here and there
but I don’t mind it looking like it does, I really, really don’t mind. Perhaps
to the DVD connoisseur or the digital connoisseur perhaps it’s disappointing
but to me it was a matter of capturing the music first and that’s what
happened. And then you see the images there, and I don’t think they’re so
grainy that anyone is gonna be rather disturbed that it’s not so pristine. Dio: Atta boy.
OT: (Laughing) Now during the last interview that we
conducted with you, you mentioned that you had planned on expanding on the Magica story to
include a part 2 and 3 and even shoot a DVD for the entire concept. Is this
still something that’s on the agenda? Dio: Yes, absolutely. It’s always been meant to be a
trilogy and I don’t want to do part 2 and then have some respite in between it
and then do a 3, I just felt it was important to get it over with. I guess that
doesn’t sound very good does it? It sounds as though, ‘well ok, well there ya go;
now I can carry on with my life.’ I don’t mean it that way, I just think that
with the presentation of Magica
and then the albums that came after it, Killing
The Dragon and now Master Of The Moon,
I really felt that I could draw upon those two albums to make either part 2 or
part 3 a little bit more like that, so you would get almost a fast piece in 2
and a slower piece in part 3 or the combinations of such; but it’s always been
in the works It was going to be this last album but we just didn’t have the
time to do what I felt was too overwhelming a project in too short a time and
to be limited to just these many days or these many months. So it’s in the
works and it should be the next one. Dio: I hope. OT: There’s been a lot of anticipation, people had expected Killing The Dragon to be part 2 and then
they expected Master Of The Moon to
be part 2 so if anything, at least it’s building anticipation. Dio: I can’t wait too long or nobody’s gonna believe
me anymore. (Laughter)
OT: Now I understand Warner Brothers is planning to release a Dio video collection, is that true? Dio: Yes it is. I don’t know when, I only hear these
things kind of subliminally because it’s not something that I stick my hand
into much. We have really good people at Warner’s who do that kind of work,
people that I know and really trust. So again, I don’t know when that’s going
to happen, there’s that and there’s a boxed set apparently in the workings as
well. OT: Awesome! Now I don’t know if you’re aware or not but there are a lot of
video/DVD bootlegs circulating on eBay as well. Dio: Oh sure.
OT: I personally know of the Rainbow concert,
one from The Last In
Line tour and even one from somewhere overseas I think, maybe Dio: That would be the Holy Diver one, which would be in Utrech,
yeah.
OT: Now how do you feel about not having control over those products? Dio: Well y’know, I’m a realist and I look at it this
way: there’s nothing I can do about it, short of going to the home of each
person who is doing these things and tying them up and burning all the product,
there’s nothing I can do about it. So being a realist, I just hope that
whatever is out there gives someone some satisfaction; a show is a show. A lot
of the problem is in the sound reproduction of course. You’ve got a bootleg
there and it’s probably done from two cheesy little mics
or one mic hidden in somebody’s cap and that bothers
me from a musical perspective. But again, there’s nothing I can do about it so
I only hope it’s at least presented somewhat properly. Dio: At this moment, no. It has been out now since
August, we’re four months in and there’s really been no talk about that so I
would say probably not. Unless, I mean we have done some shows obviously that
have been filmed and so we do have images. Whether we use them or not for
something like this I’m really not sure, I think a lot of that depends on
demand, but as of this point, no. Anyway Jack Black’s probably busy so I can’t
get him for it. (Laughter) OT: Yeah, that was great. Actually the
part that was shown with Jack, wasn’t that shot in front of Wendy’s store? Dio: Yeah.
OT: I thought I recognized the background. (Laughter) did you guys draw a crowd
for that one? Dio: Well y’know, Jack did. It’s really amazing, we
were on the front walk there on Ventura Boulevard and all these people would come
up and you’d see men with their sons and their sons would come rushing up to
Jack, ‘Oh let me have your autograph!’ I kept saying to Jack, “This is my video
not yours! What are you hogging all the attention for?” But obviously they know
who Jack is and that was great; I was very, very happy to see that. He deserves
that, he’s a great performer and he’s a really good guy. OT: So I’m gonna go a little bit deeper now and possibly touch on subject
matter that may be somewhat sensitive. You’ve had a falling out with a few of
the musicians that have played with you over the years and some continue to
harbor feelings of ill-will toward you. How do you deal with the feelings you
get when you realize you’ve either put some of these guys on the map or at
least greatly boosted their careers, only to have them talk shit about you
behind your back and basically spit on the opportunity that you gave them? Dio: Well I think people are what they are;
eventually everyone starts to believe their own form of the truth. ‘Falling
out’ is not something I’ve really ever had with anyone, I think that it
probably should be the other way around; I think they’ve had fallings out with
me, for whatever reasons they may have been. Most of the reasons are jealousy, some of the reasons are monetary, thinking they’ve
been screwed out of something. Money’s not important to me, I’ve never screwed
anybody out of anything, but I shouldn’t have to defend myself and I’m not
trying to. But these are some of the reasons why you have a falling out; egos
and money, those things do happen. How do I feel about what they say about me?
Well y’know, I’m not made of stone, I hurt like anybody else does when they get
smacked over the head with a hammer. And in a lot of ways this is a real blow
to the heart because I never felt like I did anything but the right thing for
everyone, that I never gave concern to myself over anyone. I’ve always said the things that I’ve done, it’s been
a band, it’s not just me and that
perhaps the success that some of them have had has been a little bit due to my
influence or to the bands that I’ve been in. And so it can become a little bit
hurtful but I just try to put it out of my mind and take the high road. I’ve
got nothing bad to say about those people, they all were great players and we
all had wonderful success together. I’m just disappointed that the friendship
part of it goes away because that’s what it was all based upon to me; if I
didn’t like the people I played with I wouldn’t play with ‘em.
And unfortunately you don’t find out how much you like or dislike someone until
a couple years after the fact and then it all blows up and then you hear all
these snide comments behind one’s back. But there’s nothing that I can do about
it, I think it speaks volumes of them, that all they seem to do now is bitch
and moan behind my back and you don’t get that from me. OT: I’ve noticed that talking a lot to the fans at the shows and on the
internet that they seem to get hurt a lot by it as well when a member walks
away from the band. You always have people wanting that member to come back and
be a part of it again and it affects the fans as well. Dio: Well it does but there are reasons why those
things happen and they’re for the right reasons. It’s not because someone
suddenly gets a hair up their butt and says, ‘I think we should fire someone
today.’ That never happens. These things that happen are created by the people
who are there, myself included. And what are you supposed to do? You can’t be
unhappy playing with a musician, because it’s all about being happy when you’re
creating and you can’t not do that just because someone is
going to be hurt by their favorite guitar player or bass player not being in
the band anymore. Once again, we’re dealing with reality here; life goes
the way life goes and unfortunately people do get hurt along the way. But
believe me, no one gets hurt more than the musicians in the band, it really
strikes home there because a part of you is being wrenched away, physically
wrenched away, because we do spend all this time together. So it’s not easy for
us either but reality strikes again and says this is the way it’s gotta be.
OT: Very understandable. Ok, die-hard fans always want to know every little
detail about their favorite artist, from what school they attended to what was
the first car they owned. Much of your life remains shrouded in mystery. Do you
feel the need to retain certain information in order to have some amount of
privacy? Dio: I certainly do, yes I do. I mean I never asked
to be this, I never asked to be Ronnie James Dio, all I wanted to be was the
bass player in the band, and I didn’t want to be the singer either. ‘Cause that
would have given me the most joy, I think anonymity is sometimes very special
and you discover that, when you have none left. So there have been things that
I have felt that people should wonder about and think about. After all, we are
human beings and we are above all these other animals on the planet because we
can think and we can reason, so I think it’s important to leave a little bit of
what they don’t know in the corner somewhere. If they discover what it is,
fine, it’s not a problem. But privacy becomes a great lack once you get to this
level and I really feel I need to protect a little bit of it anyway. OT: Absolutely. Y’know there’s probably a dozen or so websites out there all
telling a slightly different story about Ronnie James Dio history. Dio: Oh of course, but a lot of the things that are
said are the things people want to think about me and a lot of the things I’m
sure are very true; you can’t hide anything from the internet these days
because there’s always someone who knows something about you. But as you just
suggested, the problem is that the facts aren’t always correct and that, in
itself, is a little bit criminal, but there’s nothing you can do about it. Once
again, reality just kicks you right up the ass and here we go. OT: Right (Laughing) Now you've been working on a book for some time now… Dio: Yes. OT: …how is that coming along? Dio: Well Dave, if I only had some time I could do
anything - but that’s always the problem. There are things that take precedence
in my life and one of them is this band and the music that we make and the
music that we must make. It’s hard when you’re dealing with five plus months to
write and record, leaving you six plus months for other things and those six
plus other months are taken up with touring, with interviews, with all the
things that don’t allow you to focus on something so important. To me, I’m a
very focused person when I do something, when I’m writing music that’s all I do;
I don’t think in any other terms. If I’m writing something that’s a memoir in
scope, I need to really focus on it, especially if you’re talking about things
in your life. You need to be correct, if you can. Certainly I try to be
whimsical, I try to be funny with it all and that takes a lot of focus for me.
At the moment I have not found the time, I finished about a third of the book
so far and the only positive about that it’s not finished yet is just think of
all the other experiences I’ve gained since the time I wrote that third of the
book. So I’ve got all these other great stories to tell too, but as soon as I
have the time just to myself to focus in on that then I’ll begin again. But I
would say it’s probably a couple years down the line. OT: Wow, yeah I totally understand what you’re saying about having a lack of
time, that’s my complaint all the time. Dio: I think that’s humanity’s complaint; that time
goes so quickly. You don’t realize how time goes so quickly until you have
things to do, it’s the people who loaf and idle and do nothing who have all the
time to do everything and do nothing with it. So we should feel really lucky,
perhaps, that we don’t have the time and that we have a lot of filling to do
with that time because at least it doesn’t give us too much time to sit back
and think about all the miseries in the world. Dio: When we were in the studio last week we wrote a
backing track to what could be the
new song; I still haven’t convinced myself of it yet because the difficulty
lies in writing for the people who are going to perform on it. It’s easy to
write for myself, I know how to do that very well but you have to take in
consideration that people don’t have my vocal style and I don’t have theirs so
I have to write for everyone and I’m not sure whether the one we’ve done is the
right one. It may be, I hope it is because the backing
track is done and we seem pretty well set on this one and I think it’ll work
quite well. It’ll be much the same as Hear ‘N Aid was with that one long song
with the guitar players and vocalists on it and then songs given to us by
performers, who have not released that material, to make a whole album and
obviously, it’ll be filmed when we do what we do. And then re-releasing Hear ‘N Aid on CD/DVD at the same time
we do the Children of the Night which
will give it a whole total package, and then the filming from it as well, so it
should be a nice package. We’ll probably start that the middle of December I
think, getting it all tied up. OT: Very cool. I know there have been a lot of people anticipating that as
well. So we’ve been watching you on VH1 a lot lately, lots of interview
segments and of course Hear ‘N Aid was voted the #1 most metal
moment in history. Did that come as a surprise to you? Dio: Yes, actually it was, it was a surprise to me. I
think what it shows is the people who chose that, whether it be the VH1 people, or the fans, I don’t know how they came to that conclusion, but
what it shows is they chose the most important moment of all the choices
because it was something that was helpful to humanity, which was helping
someone. It shows that we care and it shows that they care by choosing that. I
was very, very proud of the fact that it was number one and I thought it should
be number one, not because of my inclusion in it but because of all of the
people who did take part and all the people who cared so much.
OT: Yeah I think you made the top 100 more than any other artist that was
mentioned during that show. Dio: Well y’know, I think I’ll be becoming a VH1
poster boy soon. (Laughter) I mean they’ve been great to me, they really have.
I think they enjoy my truthfulness, I think they enjoy…. the way that they tell
me I’m able to hold the viewer with a conversation; that’s a wonderful complement
given to me. I’ve always been very proud of my language skills and my
communication skills and it kinda makes it easier for me along the way to know
that I’m able to do this so well - it’s not like I’m pumping my own self up and
I don’t mean to. But I think when you find interesting people, and believe me
I’m not the only one there are a lot of interesting people out there, but there
are some that are just really good at it. To know that I’m considered to be one
of those people is a real point of pride for me. Once again, VH1 have been
really, really great to me and if I seem to be on it too much it’s only because
they want me to be and I feel I owe them. OT: Right on, no we don’t think you’re on it too much, bring it! It’s
interesting because there are a lot of people out there who aren’t necessarily
fans of heavy metal who still don’t know who you are. They’ll take somebody
like Ozzy and know him, but not from
his music or from his place in metal but because of all the stupid shit he’s
done over the years. (Laughter) Dio: (Laughing) Well y’know, the greatest
inconsistency to me seems that I’ve heard something about him going to meet
with President Bush again; I think
this will be the second time. And I’m just thinking to myself, ‘here’s a man
who pissed on The Alamo in your own home state and here you are having lunch
with him,’ good for you. But I think that because I’ve been so, kind of,
one-way on my own musical scale by the things I’ve written and by being true to
the things that people have liked about Dio,
about the band and about the things that have been written I think that it
doesn’t allow you to take too many side-steps and get into the public realm
where everyone knows who you are. It doesn’t really matter to me I never wanted
to do it like this anyway, I just wanted people to like the music and I think
that that’s what’s been accomplished. The people who know who Dio are, are
the people that I prefer to deal with, and the people who don’t and don’t
care…. I don’t need to get a reality show to make myself important, I mean I
feel important enough just being alive.
OT: I always feel the need to defend you regardless, though. Dio: (Laughing) Well thank you, I appreciate that and
y’know the people who really care about the music that I’ve been able to make
with these great people all these years, there’s been such a strong connection
that having defenders is not unusual for me. And I think the great thing about
the fans of this band and the fans of mine is that they really believe in the
things that I’ve done, they believe in me as a person, so they are a lot
quicker to defend me than they will anyone else. And I think, by the same token,
I think they’re proud of the person that they’re defending, because they’re not
defending someone who’s out there creating chaos but who’s only trying to be
positive all the time. OT: Exactly, yeah. And it’s really good seeing you on TV again. Dio: Yeah it is good. OT: Let me ask you, was there ever a
time early on in your career, before you became Dio, having not wanted to be this big icon but just really sell the
music, that you wondered if music was going to actually work for you? Dio: Mmmm, no, I’ve always
been a very, very positive person and when I decided that music was what I was
going to do there was no looking back for me. I always knew I would be
successful at it because I know I’m good at it and I know that my work ethic is
such that I would never even think that I would fail at it. So I think that
it’s just a lot of self-assurance a lot of self-confidence, I’m just built that
way. OT: So there was never a second thought
to what you might be doing instead of music? Dio: No, no not at all, no. I went to University and I have a degree; I could have used that. And it wasn’t that I did that so I would have something to fall back on, I did it for my folks. My folks wanted me to have a college education and worked extremely hard all their lives to get the money to do it and it was something I owed them; without them I wouldn’t be here. I wouldn’t be an important person without them; they’ve given me a degree of values. So I did that for them, not because I felt I needed something to fall back on, to me it was always gonna be music or nothing. OT: Right on, very cool. Now you recently wrapped up the fist leg of the Dio: March we’re going to
OT: How long do you plan to tour in support of Master Of The Moon? Dio: We’ll probably tour March, April, May, June,
July, probably another five months or so. OT: Very cool, so you guys’ll be comin’ back through again, that’s all I really
wanted to know is if you’re gonna be back my way. (Laughter) Dio: ‘Course we will. OT: Alright then. I have a question
here that really has no place in the overall scheme of the interview here, but
I just had to ask it because a lot of people have inquired about it. You wear a
cross and you’ve worn this same cross for many, many years. What’s the story
behind this cross? Dio: I bought the cross in OT: A lot of people have wondered about
it. I think it was Joey from Dio: Well it’s happened a couple of times, one time
it got ripped off my neck, I was leaning over the audience and there it was
dangling and someone just reached up and whipped it off my chest, but we
quickly get those things back. That’s something very important to me and the
people who work for me made sure it was gotten back again, without anybody
getting hurt or anything like that. OT: Right, cool. Well I think that’s
pretty much all I have for you. Again, I just wanted to let you know that we do
this magazine because you were a catalyst in its inception; in fact you were
the first feature we ever ran. Dio: That can’t be bad. OT: No, not by any means. (Laughter) Dio: That’s great Dave, and I really appreciate that
man, and I appreciate your being in defense of me all the time too. OT: Oh yeah, I wear your stuff like a
banner, man, jackets, t-shirts…. Dio: Defender of the Faith. OT: I was thinkin’ about getting my car converted into the Diomobile. Dio: (Laughing) It’s gonna be like the Batmobile but you’re gonna have OT: Yeah that would be cool! Thank you
so much Ronnie, for everything. We’ll see you next time around. Dio: ‘Bye Dave, take care kid, thanks. |
