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Back in the day,
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we were the people that stood in line
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at a record store waiting
for the gate to open.
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Because the discovery
of music was everything.
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For years, the only way you would be able
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to judge what you should get
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was you'd look at the cover and be like,
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"Oh, that's cool.
That's gonna piss off my parents"
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or "That looks rockin'," or whatever.
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And it was all we looked forward to
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was to open that cellophane
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and see what would
fall out of the jacket.
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Sometimes there would
be a picture or something,
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and smell it and hold it,
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put it on the turntable,
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drop the needle, and when
this music's in your blood
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and Dio and the music
he made's in your blood,
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it's just impossible to... to get out.
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When you're a kid,
you're looking for a voice,
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somethin' that says,
"This is my generation."
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And for us, it was Heavy Metal.
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And then all of a sudden comes this dude
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with the most powerful voice of all!
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With a Heavy Metal band,
the music is so powerful
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and so potent, you really have to know
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how to control it...
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specifically singers
because we have a message.
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We have things to say.
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He found a way to create
music that makes people
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unable to contain themselves
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to the point where they refuse
to live without that music.
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I was amazed by the way
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he was able to captivate people.
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I want to know how, why...
How do you get there?
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There are a lot of people
that think of Ronnie
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as being the guy that
did this and singing metal.
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That is him, but there's another side.
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The million dollar question...
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How do you describe Ronnie James Dio?
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I tend to be an enigma
to a lot of people, I think.
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There was something about the guy.
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There was just something about him.
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When Ronnie sang, he wanted to make sure
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that everyone never forgot it.
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People took it home with them
and they named their pet "Dio,"
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and they named their firstborn
"Ronnie."
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It was like, "This is Rock 'n' Roll
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that is gonna change your fucking life."
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It's been years since Ronnie passed.
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He passed on the 16th of May, 2010.
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I think he's here.
I think he's here still, all the time.
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Sometimes I hear my name called,
but there's nobody here.
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I'm probably just imagining it.
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Hello. Welcome to my home
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and welcome to Behind Closed Doors.
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This was a Christmas present
from my wife, from Wendy.
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We can see the lions and whatnot.
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Mick, away we go.
I'm gonna make this ball here,
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and then we can talk.
Ok.
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Ronnie's story traverses,
really, the whole history
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of Rock music.
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His career went on
for decade after decade.
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Here we are all these
years after he died,
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and he's still this huge
figure in Heavy Metal.
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You know,
some of these guys are immortal,
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but none more so than Ronnie James Dio.
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We now have a media room here,
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but I still have the lions
and I still have the nostalgia
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of when we used to
have the pool table here.
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Well, you've caught me in the library,
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one of my favorite
places in all the world
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because it contains words.
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You know, he had a message.
He was a messenger.
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His message was for the
people that lived regular lives,
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had regular dreams that
meant something real.
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You know I don't play piano.
I'm a singer.
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Let's go to the bar.
It's my favorite place anyway.
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This is his favorite place, was the bar.
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So I feel his presence much more here.
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And it's a warm, comforting feeling.
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Obviously, you've had
a lot of elbows resting
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on this at one time or another.
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We never started with this.
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And why should we think
that this should last forever?
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I was just as happy, and I'm
sure Wendy was just as happy
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before struggling and
being happy together.
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I think this is all
very transitory anyway.
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It's... It comes and it goes.
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I mean, you have ups and downs.
It's like life.
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Life goes through great
waves of emotion and passion
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and great lows of despair and whatnot.
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That's the way life is.
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There it is.
That's his beautiful trumpet
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that hasn't been played in a long time.
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He used to play this from
when he was 5 years old.
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He never played it for me.
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It's a beautiful thing,
but he had had enough of it,
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I think from all the hours of practice
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he had to do with his dad.
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I started as a trumpet player
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when I was 5 years old.
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Oh, so you've been very musical.
Where was that?
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Upstate New York,
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a town called Cortland, New York,
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which is right in the middle of nowhere.
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Dairy farming community.
18,000 people.
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It was a great place to
grow up because you got
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a good moral attitude.
You grew up well.
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This is the house where Ronnie grew up.
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After he became famous, the city decided
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that they were gonna
name the street after him
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'cause it was on the corner of his house.
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So, this is the Dio way.
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This had been stolen a couple of times.
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His immediate family,
they were pretty straight-laced.
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His mother was, you know,
a sweetheart, of course.
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You know, the moms were
always easier on the kids
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than the father.
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My father was harsh with me.
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You know, these were the
days when a good hiding was,
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you know, right around
the corner. And boy, I...
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Believe me, I was always
up for one of those.
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I wasn't up for it,
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but I always caused
one of those, apparently.
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Everyone had the same ideas.
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They were good ethics, good morals,
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a lot of church involved.
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Whether I believed in it
or didn't, it gave you rules.
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You know, Catholic, ya know?
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Ronnie was an altar boy.
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Ronnie loved classical music.
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His father insisted he practice trumpet
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3 hours every day, for years.
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He was a voracious reader.
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He was a smart kid in school.
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High grades, very intelligent,
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president of his class, actually.
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And he was a little bit crazy.
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One time we were riding in the car.
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There was a nun walking down the street,
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and Ronnie stuck his ass out the window
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and he mooned her, so he mooned a nun.
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He was a bit of a rebel.
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He had a gang called The Angels.
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Stole a car here and there
and got in some trouble.
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It could have escalated,
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but I think not in that
family background.
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I mean, it wasn't just his father.
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There was his grandmother,
and there are pictures of her.
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She doesn't look like the kind of lady
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anybody would want to cross.
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I think for him,
can you imagine in the '50s
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how conservative times were?
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Like most musicians,
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he realized music was
a route out of that.
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This was a road to good times.
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And what blows me away, as a fan,
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when I discovered that Ronnie James Dio,
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best metal voice you ever heard,
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he was singing in the
'50s before the Beatles.
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How is that possible?
Like, that's fascinating.
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Other than wine and weed.
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Everybody has their things.
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Some people like to go to football games.
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Some people like to bowl.
I collect Ronnie James Dio.
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I was a radio guy,
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so I came out of Syracuse
radio in the early '60s.
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Ronnie first started in bands back in...
around 1958,
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playing trumpets and
horns and bass at the time.
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It was earlier than the Beatles.
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So, it was Bill Haley.
It was Elvis Presley.
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It was all those rockers.
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That's what the inspiration was.
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So, Ronnie was born
Ronald James Padavona.
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But when he was in bands and stuff,
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it was too long a name
and not hip enough for him.
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Ronnie got his name, "Dio,"
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famously from a real life Mafia mob guy
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called Johnny Dio.
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Ronnie was like,
"This is evil, but it's cool."
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And so he decided,
"That's gonna be my name."
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And that was it.
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I was the guy who
didn't want to do anything
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but play the music.
I didn't want to sing.
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And everyone tried, and everyone kind of
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fell by the wayside,
and they finally said,
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"Ok, it's your turn."
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The training as a horn player
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was so absolutely perfect as a singer.
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You play from the same
place as you sing from,
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from your diaphragm.
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In my mind, my voice was a trumpet.
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In the Red Caps, Ronnie was so clean
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and could hit any
note he was looking for.
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You could tell this guy
is professional already
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and he's only 18.
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The Red Caps eventually
became The Prophets
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and through the years, The Prophets,
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they formed something special.
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He really had the passion
to do the best he can
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with the abilities that he was God-given.
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Ronnie got the dream,
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so we used to talk
about that all the time.
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Ronnie was gonna be the lead singer,
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star of the show.
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And then I was going to
be his lead guitar player.
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Nicky was gonna be the
leader of any orchestration
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or the band.
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Nick Pantas was Ronnie's kind of
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musical soulmate at that point,
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that he writes with, builds bands with,
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builds dreams with.
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Even from those very, very early days,
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you can tell his mission
in life was to be a singer.
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You can tell it.
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One of the problems that
we really had back then...
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we could not find the genre
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that would fit Ronnie perfectly.
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He was capable of
singing anything, basically.
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He would be doing songs
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by Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones.
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Ronnie did a version of "The Way of Love"
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that Cher had a big hit on.
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Before Cher recorded it.
It's phenomenal.
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I got in the band.
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I was just out of high
school in 1965, '66.
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We had a manager at the time from Ithaca,
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and he was pushing Ronnie
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into following that Tom
Jones route, you know?
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Careers go in different directions.
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In those days, it wasn't fashionable
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to be in Rock 'n' Roll in order
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to want to pursue that as a career.
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It really made no sense at all to do.
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Well, I loved it so much
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that it was going to
make sense for me to do.
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We found a way to be discovered
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All the series of pictures were taken
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in my parents' basement.
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And we took rolls of tinfoil,
and we hung it up in the back.
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And that's when the
Beatles first came out,
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so everybody started
to grow their hair long.
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We decided to change the
name to The Electric Elves.
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I mean, we used to have a van that said
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"Electric Elves" on it.
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They thought we were
electrical contractors.
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"Uh, my house needs wiring.
Call The Electric Elves over.
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They're small. They can get into
the crawl space really easily."
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You know and at that time, playing clubs,
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you're doing cover songs.
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When The Beatles album came out,
we learned the whole album.
252
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You know, because Ronnie
could sing the whole album.
253
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We were doing so well
from a playing standpoint,
254
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you know, going from Maine
to North Carolina to Detroit.
255
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We wanted to be better musically
256
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and wanted to be something special.
257
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1968, I had been out
of the band for a while
258
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and Ronnie was playing clubs,
259
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like they were always playing clubs,
260
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and they were called The Electric Elves.
261
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We played in, uh...
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I think it was Waterbury,
Connecticut, for a week.
263
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And, uh, we decided not to
stay overnight the last night.
264
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Our gear was in the back of the van.
We all rode in the van,
265
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so we decided to drive home that night
266
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rather than stay another night.
267
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And a drunk driver ends
up crossing the lane
268
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and hits us head on.
269
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I woke up in a hospital bed with Ronnie
270
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next to me in the other bed.
271
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We looked like zombies.
Ronnie hit the windshield.
272
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His whole scalp was torn back.
273
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He had over a hundred
stitches in his scalp.
274
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Nicky was driving,
and it impacted the front,
275
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pinned him in the steering wheel
276
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and he actually bled to death.
277
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Uh... it... it...
it was really hard to believe,
278
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to understand that that could happen.
279
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This is such a catastrophe,
280
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not just for, obviously,
for Nick and his family,
281
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but for Ronnie, it becomes a moment of,
282
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"Is this time to throw in the towel?
Is this a sign?
283
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Is this just not meant to be?"
284
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That's a slide...
That's one slide of Ronnie's.
285
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You can see it's...
it's after the accident
286
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when his hair was
just starting to grow in.
287
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Ronnie, when he was a kid,
succeeded really greatly
288
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as far as academics.
289
00:16:01,057 --> 00:16:05,270
At some point he started college
and he was taking pharmacy.
290
00:16:05,312 --> 00:16:08,607
So, after the accident,
he could have chosen anything,
291
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any avenue to go to.
292
00:16:10,734 --> 00:16:13,196
I remember the moment when I said,
293
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"We gonna put this thing
back together?" And he said,
294
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"Yeah, we're gonna put
this thing back together."
295
00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:19,826
In our minds, we were wanting to go
296
00:16:19,868 --> 00:16:22,579
to Led Zeppelin, The Who.
We idolized Deep Purple.
297
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Deep Purple, that's what
was heaviest, you know?
298
00:16:30,087 --> 00:16:33,256
And we just said, "Ok,
that's what we wanna do."
299
00:16:33,298 --> 00:16:36,009
And the death of Nick Pantas,
300
00:16:36,051 --> 00:16:38,136
that terrible crash
301
00:16:38,178 --> 00:16:40,639
that could have easily
dissuaded lesser men
302
00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,974
just to say, "You know what? I'm done,"
303
00:16:43,016 --> 00:16:45,853
Ronnie decides, "No, I'm not done.
304
00:16:45,895 --> 00:16:49,023
In fact, I'm only just getting started."
305
00:17:02,662 --> 00:17:04,455
He decides to build this
306
00:17:04,497 --> 00:17:06,749
into something more contemporary
307
00:17:06,791 --> 00:17:09,626
with, you know, a shit ton of power.
308
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There's just a power and a presence.
309
00:17:15,006 --> 00:17:17,343
It's remarkable when you think that a man
310
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of such small stature
311
00:17:19,554 --> 00:17:20,993
had the biggest voice
you're ever going to hear.
312
00:17:21,013 --> 00:17:23,808
Eventually, we became Elf.
313
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We were very small and
all kinds of hair and beards
314
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and the whole deal.
We'd walk out on stage
315
00:17:27,353 --> 00:17:29,854
and actually, people started to chuckle.
316
00:17:29,896 --> 00:17:32,441
But when we hit the first note,
it was like,
317
00:17:32,483 --> 00:17:35,319
jaws dropped, you know?
318
00:17:39,282 --> 00:17:43,703
And suddenly,
you've got not just a new band
319
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but a new sound, a new attitude.
320
00:17:46,414 --> 00:17:51,544
And the beginnings
of the Ronnie James Dio
321
00:17:51,586 --> 00:17:55,464
that would become famous.
322
00:17:59,677 --> 00:18:02,388
We came up with those songs,
323
00:18:02,430 --> 00:18:04,246
and that's what ended
up getting us an audition
324
00:18:04,266 --> 00:18:06,100
with, you know, Columbia.
325
00:18:06,142 --> 00:18:10,313
Elf were auditioning
for the famous Clive Davis
326
00:18:10,354 --> 00:18:13,107
who discovered everybody, just everybody.
327
00:18:13,149 --> 00:18:16,527
And we were gonna audition for him.
Wow.
328
00:18:16,569 --> 00:18:19,615
At the time, Roger Glover and Ian Paice
329
00:18:19,656 --> 00:18:21,241
from Deep Purple,
330
00:18:21,283 --> 00:18:22,681
out of the blue, for some reason,
331
00:18:22,701 --> 00:18:24,785
they wanted to become producers.
332
00:18:24,827 --> 00:18:27,622
So, somehow they got involved
in coming to this audition.
333
00:18:27,663 --> 00:18:29,270
We were told just at the last moment
334
00:18:29,290 --> 00:18:30,875
that Roger and Ian were coming.
335
00:18:30,916 --> 00:18:32,752
Well, that put us in quite a turmoil
336
00:18:32,793 --> 00:18:35,046
because 2 of our heroes?
Oh, my Lord.
337
00:18:35,087 --> 00:18:36,778
"Oh, my God.
Like, you know, 2 people
338
00:18:36,798 --> 00:18:38,488
from Deep Purple are
gonna be here, you know?"
339
00:18:38,508 --> 00:18:40,886
It's like, and I idolized
the band, you know?
340
00:18:40,927 --> 00:18:42,887
Some chairs set up, and Clive comes in
341
00:18:42,928 --> 00:18:45,139
and a couple people with him.
342
00:18:45,181 --> 00:18:46,658
And then Roger and Ian come in.
343
00:18:46,682 --> 00:18:48,559
Well, well, well.
344
00:18:48,601 --> 00:18:50,082
There were probably, I don't know,
345
00:18:50,102 --> 00:18:53,106
15 or 20 suits in the room.
346
00:18:53,148 --> 00:18:54,713
You know, Clive Davis, et cetera,
347
00:18:54,733 --> 00:18:56,210
all these people and white wine
348
00:18:56,234 --> 00:18:57,758
and you know, It's all,
"Thank you very much."
349
00:18:57,778 --> 00:19:01,280
And then these 4 midgets walked out.
350
00:19:01,322 --> 00:19:05,368
And I go, "What's this?
A circus act or something?" You know.
351
00:19:05,409 --> 00:19:08,246
Standing there and
playing in front of, like,
352
00:19:08,288 --> 00:19:10,624
you know, record executives,
353
00:19:10,666 --> 00:19:12,959
and not to mention 2 guys in Deep Purple,
354
00:19:13,001 --> 00:19:15,837
and you have to try to sell yourself.
355
00:19:15,879 --> 00:19:18,173
It was, like, a big deal.
356
00:19:18,215 --> 00:19:20,007
You know, we played the songs,
357
00:19:20,049 --> 00:19:21,739
and it was like, "Alright, that's enough.
358
00:19:21,759 --> 00:19:23,637
We don't need to
hear any more songs."
359
00:19:23,679 --> 00:19:25,619
And everybody gets up.
You know, we couldn't hear
360
00:19:25,639 --> 00:19:28,183
what they were talking about,
and everybody leaves.
361
00:19:28,225 --> 00:19:33,855
We don't know if they
hated it or if they loved it.
362
00:19:33,897 --> 00:19:36,608
I mean, we were knocked out.
Absolutely knocked out.
363
00:19:36,650 --> 00:19:38,673
And we said,
"Yeah, we'll do this. We'll do this."
364
00:19:38,693 --> 00:19:42,280
And we flew down to Atlanta
and recorded the album.
365
00:19:54,418 --> 00:19:56,629
And then we got to go
on tour with Deep Purple.
366
00:19:56,671 --> 00:20:00,882
So we went from playing
bars to playing arenas.
367
00:20:00,924 --> 00:20:03,510
We really felt like we made it
at that time, you know?
368
00:20:03,552 --> 00:20:05,409
Little did we know
there's a long way to go
369
00:20:05,429 --> 00:20:07,055
before you really make it.
370
00:20:07,097 --> 00:20:10,058
I always had places
that I wanted to get to.
371
00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:11,978
Deep Purple were my favorite band.
372
00:20:12,019 --> 00:20:14,230
We must have done probably 8 full tours
373
00:20:14,272 --> 00:20:17,899
with the band.
So, Elf took on the world.
374
00:20:17,941 --> 00:20:20,322
You know, that was the beginning,
certainly for me.
375
00:20:26,950 --> 00:20:28,745
So, over the course
376
00:20:28,786 --> 00:20:30,621
of the next couple of years touring,
377
00:20:30,663 --> 00:20:32,415
Ronnie was always around us.
378
00:20:32,457 --> 00:20:34,271
I fell in love with
the sound of his voice,
379
00:20:34,291 --> 00:20:36,418
then I fell in love with his personality,
380
00:20:36,460 --> 00:20:39,629
then I fell in love with
him as a human being.
381
00:20:39,671 --> 00:20:42,048
He was great.
He was funny, strong-willed.
382
00:20:42,090 --> 00:20:44,427
And he believed in what he did.
383
00:20:44,469 --> 00:20:47,555
Go for what you believe in,
and that's what Ronnie was.
384
00:20:47,597 --> 00:20:51,225
He was...
he was a hard fist coming at you.
385
00:20:51,267 --> 00:20:53,810
You know, I just loved the guy.
386
00:20:53,852 --> 00:20:55,937
I just genuinely loved him.
387
00:20:55,979 --> 00:21:00,443
It was born into him
from generations of eons
388
00:21:00,485 --> 00:21:02,904
of lifetimes ago
389
00:21:02,945 --> 00:21:06,365
to be... kind.
390
00:21:17,835 --> 00:21:20,797
Growing up a Deep Purple fan,
391
00:21:20,838 --> 00:21:23,883
it's just, like, they were the biggest
392
00:21:23,925 --> 00:21:27,762
and the fucking baddest
of all the musicians
393
00:21:27,804 --> 00:21:29,639
on the planet.
394
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:35,520
And... And fucking Blackmore.
Oh, my fucking God.
395
00:21:37,897 --> 00:21:39,482
Ritchie Blackmore...
396
00:21:39,524 --> 00:21:41,984
he's like the "Deep" in Deep Purple.
397
00:21:42,026 --> 00:21:44,487
Uh, he's a mystery within a riddle.
398
00:21:44,529 --> 00:21:47,616
He's not the easiest man to get on with.
399
00:21:47,658 --> 00:21:49,013
I barely saw Ritchie in Deep Purple
400
00:21:49,033 --> 00:21:50,993
when I was in the band.
401
00:21:51,035 --> 00:21:54,330
Ritchie was an isolator,
and this is in the days
402
00:21:54,372 --> 00:21:56,415
where there was no
separate dressing rooms.
403
00:21:56,457 --> 00:21:58,626
Well, he had his own dressing room.
404
00:21:58,668 --> 00:22:01,087
He stayed at different hotels, basically.
405
00:22:01,128 --> 00:22:04,758
And he never partook
in any group endeavors.
406
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:10,513
No after dinner parties, no...
No.
407
00:22:13,057 --> 00:22:15,142
Blackmore left Purple
408
00:22:15,184 --> 00:22:18,020
because they were going
in a more funk direction.
409
00:22:23,402 --> 00:22:25,529
I was going to leave Deep Purple
410
00:22:25,571 --> 00:22:28,135
no matter what because I didn't
respect that type of music
411
00:22:28,155 --> 00:22:29,824
that we were getting into,
412
00:22:29,866 --> 00:22:32,034
but luckily at the same time,
I met Ronnie.
413
00:22:32,076 --> 00:22:34,287
Ritchie and I really had
414
00:22:34,328 --> 00:22:36,206
the same kind of musical feelings.
415
00:22:36,248 --> 00:22:38,397
We were engrossed in
the classical kind of music,
416
00:22:38,417 --> 00:22:40,544
Bach especially.
417
00:22:40,586 --> 00:22:43,213
And we felt that there was
a great place in music
418
00:22:43,255 --> 00:22:47,592
to kind of revive
that mystical, magical aura
419
00:22:47,633 --> 00:22:51,221
and put it into
today's kind of, uh, context.
420
00:22:51,263 --> 00:22:53,599
Ritchie left and went to start, you know,
421
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,101
putting Rainbow together
with the guys in Elf,
422
00:22:56,143 --> 00:22:57,603
you know, pretty much.
423
00:22:57,644 --> 00:22:59,396
By the time Rainbow gets going,
424
00:22:59,438 --> 00:23:01,523
you got the Mount
Rushmore of heavy Rock...
425
00:23:01,565 --> 00:23:05,651
Purple, Sabbath, Zeppelin.
426
00:23:05,693 --> 00:23:08,822
All of them shared a common denominator
427
00:23:08,864 --> 00:23:11,491
in the sense that they were
all coming from the blues.
428
00:23:11,533 --> 00:23:14,828
Ronnie James Dio
and Ritchie Blackmore wanted
429
00:23:14,870 --> 00:23:19,374
to explore this kind of
neoclassical heavy Rock music
430
00:23:19,416 --> 00:23:22,418
that is something way beyond,
431
00:23:22,460 --> 00:23:26,214
so Rainbow is taking
this spaceship to a new place.
432
00:23:33,430 --> 00:23:36,016
As a teenager,
I came from an abusive family,
433
00:23:36,058 --> 00:23:37,935
physically and verbally abusive,
434
00:23:37,976 --> 00:23:42,272
in and out of hospitals
and stitches and, um, surgeries.
435
00:23:42,314 --> 00:23:45,442
So, music was extremely important to me
436
00:23:45,484 --> 00:23:47,486
because I had no one.
437
00:23:47,527 --> 00:23:52,449
I remember I was in a car.
Deep Purple had just broken up.
438
00:23:52,491 --> 00:23:55,328
Disco was starting to make its scene.
439
00:23:55,370 --> 00:23:58,289
The world was upside down.
440
00:23:59,790 --> 00:24:01,917
And all of a sudden,
441
00:24:01,959 --> 00:24:03,857
"Men on the Silver Mountain"
comes on the radio.
442
00:24:03,877 --> 00:24:05,963
And I was like, "Yeah!"
443
00:24:06,004 --> 00:24:07,235
You know, you're just all fired up.
444
00:24:07,255 --> 00:24:09,591
Ritchie Blackmore was back.
445
00:24:09,633 --> 00:24:12,428
Then, I first heard
Ronnie James Dio's voice,
446
00:24:12,470 --> 00:24:15,181
and I was like,
"Who the hell is that?"
447
00:24:23,689 --> 00:24:25,899
He was like a whole universe
448
00:24:25,941 --> 00:24:27,819
that was concealed within one man.
449
00:24:38,537 --> 00:24:42,249
And so at one point,
the world was upside down,
450
00:24:42,290 --> 00:24:44,168
and it turned it right side up again.
451
00:24:44,210 --> 00:24:46,671
This is not just another Rock band.
452
00:24:46,713 --> 00:24:49,173
It's gonna take what
we used to call "heavy Rock"
453
00:24:49,215 --> 00:24:54,012
into a whole vista that
really hasn't existed before.
454
00:24:54,053 --> 00:24:57,431
And it was all about this dynamic
455
00:24:57,472 --> 00:25:00,184
between this incredible guitarist
456
00:25:00,226 --> 00:25:01,978
and this extraordinary singer
457
00:25:02,020 --> 00:25:04,689
that almost everybody had never heard of.
458
00:25:04,731 --> 00:25:08,317
I remember going to
Munich to do an album,
459
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,028
and Ritchie was in the same studio.
460
00:25:10,069 --> 00:25:11,968
And he said,
"Oh, I gotta play you a song."
461
00:25:11,988 --> 00:25:14,614
"Stargazer," full blast.
462
00:25:20,538 --> 00:25:23,791
I was blown away.
That was like a masterpiece.
463
00:25:23,833 --> 00:25:29,714
Ronnie sang about mystical, magical stars
464
00:25:29,756 --> 00:25:31,675
and universe and dreams.
465
00:25:41,350 --> 00:25:43,561
That's what I do with my music.
I'm a narrator.
466
00:25:43,603 --> 00:25:46,230
I give people avenues
which they can go down.
467
00:25:46,272 --> 00:25:48,067
Safe avenues.
468
00:25:53,029 --> 00:25:54,947
I don't shove it down their throats.
469
00:25:54,989 --> 00:25:56,783
They're your dreams to try to attain.
470
00:25:56,824 --> 00:25:58,556
I don't tell them
this is what they must do.
471
00:25:58,576 --> 00:26:00,536
So, a narrator is what I am.
472
00:26:00,578 --> 00:26:04,583
In the "Runaways" days,
I would put on "Stargazer."
473
00:26:04,625 --> 00:26:07,419
All my dreams and all
my hopes would come out.
474
00:26:07,461 --> 00:26:10,129
That gave me all the strength
475
00:26:10,171 --> 00:26:11,648
and all the power I ever needed
476
00:26:11,672 --> 00:26:13,758
in guitar playing and music
477
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,344
and just my everyday shit.
478
00:26:16,385 --> 00:26:19,556
Even though Ronnie
could really sing blues
479
00:26:19,598 --> 00:26:21,391
if he wanted to,
480
00:26:21,433 --> 00:26:26,438
lyrically, he was never
the victim in his lyrics.
481
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,440
It was more of a sage.
482
00:26:29,482 --> 00:26:33,569
You can see, but you're blind
483
00:26:33,611 --> 00:26:36,698
Someone turn the sun around
484
00:26:36,740 --> 00:26:40,244
What you can see in your mind
485
00:26:40,285 --> 00:26:44,289
The gates of Babylon
486
00:26:44,331 --> 00:26:46,958
And the things we
wrote were so different.
487
00:26:46,999 --> 00:26:50,586
That was the band, you know,
I wanted to be in forever.
488
00:26:50,628 --> 00:26:53,132
That was my chance to do
what I was born to do,
489
00:26:53,173 --> 00:26:55,259
which is to write classically oriented
490
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,429
Ronnie was now firmly embedded
491
00:26:59,471 --> 00:27:03,392
into the Gothic
and medieval Rock of Rainbow.
492
00:27:03,433 --> 00:27:06,394
He'd found his niche.
He'd found his new character.
493
00:27:10,149 --> 00:27:12,776
Well, here we are...
494
00:27:12,818 --> 00:27:15,112
the famous Rainbow Bar and Grill.
495
00:27:15,154 --> 00:27:17,197
Uh, land of fruits and nuts,
496
00:27:17,239 --> 00:27:19,074
and, uh, they always used to say that.
497
00:27:19,116 --> 00:27:21,952
Moving and, uh, it was...
498
00:27:21,994 --> 00:27:26,498
it still is the place to be
on Sunset Strip.
499
00:27:26,540 --> 00:27:30,169
I came to Los Angeles in around '74.
500
00:27:30,210 --> 00:27:32,963
I got a job in a... in a diner,
501
00:27:33,005 --> 00:27:34,820
and then I was doing
a little bit of acting.
502
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,717
I didn't mean to do acting, actually.
503
00:27:36,758 --> 00:27:38,520
Uh, I went with a girlfriend of mine,
504
00:27:38,552 --> 00:27:41,014
and we went there, uh, as, um,
505
00:27:41,055 --> 00:27:41,806
stand-in, what do you call it?
Uh...
506
00:27:41,848 --> 00:27:43,432
Extras?
507
00:27:43,473 --> 00:27:45,038
Extras.
Yeah, we went in as extras.
508
00:27:45,058 --> 00:27:47,853
It was a movie called Death Race 2000.
509
00:27:47,895 --> 00:27:50,522
And this guy that I had to rub
510
00:27:50,564 --> 00:27:52,546
his shoulders and stuff,
he was telling me that
511
00:27:52,566 --> 00:27:56,154
he had written a movie and it
was gonna be a big time.
512
00:27:56,196 --> 00:27:57,969
And I thought,
"Yeah, yeah, right, whatever."
513
00:27:57,989 --> 00:28:00,491
It actually turned out
to be Sylvester Stallone.
514
00:28:00,533 --> 00:28:02,451
You schmuck.
515
00:28:02,492 --> 00:28:05,746
And then, I met a-a girl
at a party and she said,
516
00:28:05,787 --> 00:28:07,978
"Well, why don't you
get a job at The Rainbow?"
517
00:28:12,295 --> 00:28:14,088
We had everyone in here...
518
00:28:14,130 --> 00:28:16,716
Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, The Who.
519
00:28:16,758 --> 00:28:19,010
Anyone you could possibly
think of was in here.
520
00:28:22,512 --> 00:28:25,974
So this is the table
where it all happened.
521
00:28:26,016 --> 00:28:28,645
This is where
I met Ronnie, uh, with Ritchie,
522
00:28:28,686 --> 00:28:31,022
and he introduced me to Ronnie.
523
00:28:31,064 --> 00:28:33,171
And they invited me to go
to a party afterwards
524
00:28:33,191 --> 00:28:35,526
up at their house,
and so I went up there.
525
00:28:35,568 --> 00:28:39,947
We talked, and, uh,
followed me around a lot.
526
00:28:39,988 --> 00:28:42,241
I said,
"He's too short for me."
527
00:28:42,282 --> 00:28:44,786
But then he talked to me more,
528
00:28:44,827 --> 00:28:47,664
and we talked on the phone,
and Ronnie being Ronnie,
529
00:28:47,705 --> 00:28:51,167
he's a very personal person,
he was so interesting
530
00:28:51,209 --> 00:28:54,921
and such a very wonderful person
531
00:28:54,963 --> 00:28:57,714
who loved animals as I did.
532
00:28:57,756 --> 00:29:01,678
He love to talk about books,
movies, uh, everything.
533
00:29:01,719 --> 00:29:03,660
I think I fell in love
with his brain, actually,
534
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,432
and the way he was, his graciousness.
535
00:29:06,474 --> 00:29:12,438
You felt the same way
536
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,109
And then he went on tour with Rainbow.
537
00:29:16,150 --> 00:29:18,403
And then he asked me
to go on the road with him.
538
00:29:18,444 --> 00:29:21,364
I'd only known him for
a few weeks, and I said,
539
00:29:21,406 --> 00:29:22,991
"No, I can't quit my job.
540
00:29:23,032 --> 00:29:25,451
"I'll come for a couple of days,"
541
00:29:25,493 --> 00:29:27,100
which ended up being a couple of months,
542
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,216
which ended up being
for the rest of my life.
543
00:29:38,006 --> 00:29:41,801
We were both young when
we were experiencing the road.
544
00:29:41,843 --> 00:29:43,428
And it was fun for a while,
545
00:29:43,469 --> 00:29:46,556
and then it got a little bit tense.
546
00:29:46,597 --> 00:29:48,726
Rainbow are enormous in Japan.
547
00:29:48,767 --> 00:29:51,228
Rainbow are bigger in Japan
than The Stones.
548
00:29:51,270 --> 00:29:54,230
Rainbow are huge in Britain and Europe.
549
00:29:54,272 --> 00:29:57,817
Rainbow are not huge in America.
550
00:29:57,859 --> 00:30:02,238
In America, Rainbow never got there
551
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,325
with Ronnie as the singer,
552
00:30:04,366 --> 00:30:07,745
and I know that that bothered
Blackmore tremendously.
553
00:30:07,786 --> 00:30:10,164
And he was consumed
554
00:30:10,205 --> 00:30:13,291
with getting Rainbow
on U.S. radio.
555
00:30:13,333 --> 00:30:16,002
Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
was the last Rainbow album.
556
00:30:16,044 --> 00:30:17,942
They're working on
the next one, early stages.
557
00:30:17,962 --> 00:30:21,008
Ritchie decided it was time to get a hit.
558
00:30:21,050 --> 00:30:23,469
I was staying at Bruce's house one day.
559
00:30:23,510 --> 00:30:25,971
And he played me a song,
"Since You've Been Gone."
560
00:30:26,013 --> 00:30:29,516
Since you've been gone,
since you've been gone
561
00:30:33,353 --> 00:30:35,689
He said,
"Well, Ritchie wants to do it."
562
00:30:35,731 --> 00:30:37,816
I said, "Get outta here.
563
00:30:37,858 --> 00:30:40,527
"After...
after what he's done?"
564
00:30:40,569 --> 00:30:42,009
You know, especially with Rainbow Rising,
565
00:30:42,029 --> 00:30:43,906
how could he want to do this?
566
00:30:59,338 --> 00:31:01,006
You know, Ronnie spent, you know,
567
00:31:01,048 --> 00:31:04,051
the first 10, 15 years of his career
568
00:31:04,093 --> 00:31:07,554
putting on a suit,
looking for the hit song.
569
00:31:07,596 --> 00:31:08,869
You know, this is
something he'd left behind
570
00:31:08,889 --> 00:31:10,557
many years ago
571
00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:14,728
and believed that the unique
selling point of Rainbow
572
00:31:14,770 --> 00:31:18,524
had nothing to do with
"Since You Been Gone, Baby."
573
00:31:18,565 --> 00:31:20,025
And Ronnie spoke up.
574
00:31:20,067 --> 00:31:22,027
He stayed true to himself,
575
00:31:22,069 --> 00:31:25,990
and I think it really
pissed off a few people.
576
00:31:26,032 --> 00:31:27,908
It got very tense,
577
00:31:27,950 --> 00:31:31,161
and so Ronnie was actually fired.
578
00:31:31,203 --> 00:31:35,457
Since you've been gone,
since you've been gone
579
00:31:39,254 --> 00:31:41,965
That was the time
580
00:31:42,006 --> 00:31:44,717
where Rainbow did get airplay in America.
581
00:31:44,759 --> 00:31:48,137
It wasn't with Ronnie.
582
00:31:48,178 --> 00:31:52,057
For Ronnie on a personal level,
it was a disaster.
583
00:31:52,099 --> 00:31:54,643
He and Wendy were in a situation
584
00:31:54,685 --> 00:31:56,896
where the house they lived in,
585
00:31:56,938 --> 00:31:58,940
you know, was owned by the band.
586
00:31:58,982 --> 00:32:01,693
Uh, Ronnie didn't even see any royalties.
587
00:32:01,734 --> 00:32:04,445
This is a guy who
co-wrote all the big songs.
588
00:32:04,486 --> 00:32:06,989
Ronnie didn't get
any royalties from Rainbow
589
00:32:07,030 --> 00:32:09,450
until after he died.
590
00:32:09,491 --> 00:32:12,287
So they had no money.
591
00:32:12,328 --> 00:32:15,290
You know, Ronnie was
a very, very proud, man.
592
00:32:15,331 --> 00:32:17,760
He didn't want to admit
that he'd been hurt by this.
593
00:32:17,792 --> 00:32:21,629
He didn't want to admit
that maybe he'd blown it.
594
00:32:33,641 --> 00:32:37,604
I was a young Sabbath fan.
I remember watching
595
00:32:37,645 --> 00:32:39,814
Don Kirshner's Rock concerts,
seeing them do,
596
00:32:39,856 --> 00:32:42,649
"Never Say Die" live without lip syncing.
597
00:32:46,863 --> 00:32:49,491
You could tell that Ozzy
was sounding a little rough
598
00:32:49,532 --> 00:32:53,786
and kind of just doing that penguin clap,
599
00:32:53,828 --> 00:32:56,164
you know, just running around, just,
600
00:32:56,206 --> 00:32:58,458
looks like a wind-up toy after a while.
601
00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:01,377
Black Sabbath is
pretty much yesterday's news
602
00:33:01,419 --> 00:33:03,463
in the late '70s.
603
00:33:03,505 --> 00:33:05,632
The original Black Sabbath
604
00:33:05,673 --> 00:33:07,363
is some of the greatest metal ever made.
605
00:33:07,383 --> 00:33:09,302
No one was disputing that.
606
00:33:09,344 --> 00:33:11,201
But at that point,
ten years into the business,
607
00:33:11,221 --> 00:33:13,723
coming off of a couple
lackluster records,
608
00:33:13,765 --> 00:33:17,019
beat up from the road,
it was a mess at that time.
609
00:33:17,061 --> 00:33:21,689
Things weren't working out
at the end of the '70s for us.
610
00:33:21,731 --> 00:33:24,526
I think it was probably
a lot of different things.
611
00:33:24,567 --> 00:33:26,694
Disarray.
Maybe "disillusionment"
612
00:33:26,736 --> 00:33:28,696
might be a better word.
613
00:33:28,738 --> 00:33:30,991
We'd been in
Rock 'n' Roll for years, man.
614
00:33:31,033 --> 00:33:33,619
All of them were very badly riddled
615
00:33:33,661 --> 00:33:35,454
with drug problems.
616
00:33:35,496 --> 00:33:38,289
Ozzy was considered, like,
a huge mess and can't sing,
617
00:33:38,331 --> 00:33:39,874
can't write, can't do this.
618
00:33:39,916 --> 00:33:42,377
He was just a crazy dude from Birmingham,
619
00:33:42,418 --> 00:33:44,295
like a juvenile delinquent.
620
00:33:44,337 --> 00:33:45,880
He was never a professional,
621
00:33:45,922 --> 00:33:47,321
and that's what was great about him.
622
00:33:47,341 --> 00:33:49,760
And Ozzy's a sweetheart.
We all know that.
623
00:33:49,802 --> 00:33:53,013
But he... he was crazy in...
in the '70s.
624
00:33:53,055 --> 00:33:54,765
I mean, one night at the Rainbow,
625
00:33:54,807 --> 00:33:57,517
he set himself on fire
at a booth in the Rainbow.
626
00:33:57,559 --> 00:34:00,687
Fire extinguisher came out.
He could have died.
627
00:34:00,728 --> 00:34:02,480
He's laughing his ass off.
628
00:34:02,522 --> 00:34:04,900
And... And Oz,
he came to such a place.
629
00:34:04,942 --> 00:34:07,069
He needed to leave.
630
00:34:07,111 --> 00:34:11,740
Ozzy leaves,
and everybody was just like...
631
00:34:11,782 --> 00:34:16,160
"Ok, so that's it, they're done.
632
00:34:16,202 --> 00:34:18,538
"Black Sabbath is just done."
633
00:34:25,588 --> 00:34:27,756
So, by the end of the '70s,
634
00:34:27,798 --> 00:34:30,259
Ronnie and Wendy
take off for L.A.
635
00:34:30,301 --> 00:34:33,428
Ronnie would not go down the, you know,
636
00:34:33,469 --> 00:34:36,599
"Hey, baby, let's have a hit," route.
637
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,351
He's already in his 30s.
638
00:34:39,393 --> 00:34:42,771
He's already been around
the block a zillion times.
639
00:34:42,813 --> 00:34:44,940
He's got no career.
640
00:34:44,982 --> 00:34:47,443
I mean, you know, "What the fuck
am I gonna do?"
641
00:34:51,447 --> 00:34:52,886
But the Rainbow seems to have been
642
00:34:52,906 --> 00:34:54,575
such a lucky place for him.
643
00:34:54,617 --> 00:34:59,413
You know, he meets Wendy in the Rainbow.
644
00:34:59,455 --> 00:35:02,207
And now who does he
meet in the Rainbow one night?
645
00:35:02,249 --> 00:35:05,002
Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath.
646
00:35:05,044 --> 00:35:10,466
Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath,
who has just sacked Ozzy.
647
00:35:17,473 --> 00:35:20,142
At the Rainbow Bar and Grill, I met Tony.
648
00:35:20,184 --> 00:35:22,311
Saw him and I went
to the rehearsal place.
649
00:35:22,353 --> 00:35:24,773
I only went up there
just to say, "Hello."
650
00:35:24,814 --> 00:35:26,650
He came over to the house
651
00:35:26,691 --> 00:35:31,320
and, um, I played him a bit of the stuff,
652
00:35:31,362 --> 00:35:33,155
some of the riffs I got.
653
00:35:33,197 --> 00:35:35,991
And, uh, he said, "Oh, let me
have a go at that."
654
00:35:36,033 --> 00:35:38,077
Went off to the other room and wrote
655
00:35:38,118 --> 00:35:40,101
the beginning
and a verse to a song called,
656
00:35:40,121 --> 00:35:41,748
"Children the Sea."
657
00:35:55,345 --> 00:35:57,514
He'd walk out and just sing.
658
00:35:57,555 --> 00:35:59,162
You know, this voice would come out.
659
00:35:59,182 --> 00:36:02,060
I mean, he was just,
you know, unbelievable.
660
00:36:02,102 --> 00:36:04,270
When he first got offered the job
661
00:36:04,312 --> 00:36:06,146
in Black Sabbath, he was like,
662
00:36:06,188 --> 00:36:08,170
"I don't know if
I like this music or not."
663
00:36:08,190 --> 00:36:09,838
And I said, "We have
$800 left in the bank.
664
00:36:09,858 --> 00:36:11,361
You love this music."
665
00:36:15,615 --> 00:36:18,159
And so he...
666
00:36:18,201 --> 00:36:20,495
he joined the band,
and he did love the music.
667
00:36:20,537 --> 00:36:22,956
This was going into a band that to me,
668
00:36:22,997 --> 00:36:24,832
had been the Heavy Metal band,
669
00:36:24,873 --> 00:36:28,378
a band that didn't
apologize for coming to town.
670
00:36:28,420 --> 00:36:30,443
It just stepped on buildings
when it came to town.
671
00:36:30,463 --> 00:36:33,258
And to be included in that band
was very special to me.
672
00:36:33,299 --> 00:36:36,803
Takin' over for Ozzy in Sabbath?
673
00:36:36,845 --> 00:36:40,181
Can you imagine the pressure?
674
00:36:40,223 --> 00:36:42,225
To replace a singer is...
really a...
675
00:36:42,267 --> 00:36:44,227
It can go either way.
676
00:36:44,269 --> 00:36:46,730
And then putting in Ronnie,
in a tough spot, really.
677
00:36:46,771 --> 00:36:48,586
You know, again,
I'm a very positive person.
678
00:36:48,606 --> 00:36:50,066
I said to them,
679
00:36:50,108 --> 00:36:51,589
"They're never gonna say
anything bad about you.
680
00:36:51,609 --> 00:36:52,485
They're only gonna say something bad
681
00:36:52,527 --> 00:36:54,362
about the new guy who came in.
682
00:36:54,404 --> 00:36:56,094
And my shoulders
are big enough to take it.
683
00:36:56,114 --> 00:36:57,470
You know what we'll do? We're
gonna write some great songs.
684
00:36:57,490 --> 00:36:59,348
Don't worry about it.
I'll take care of it."
685
00:36:59,368 --> 00:37:01,661
At this point, I'm working
for the biggest, uh,
686
00:37:01,703 --> 00:37:05,415
Rock and Heavy Metal
P.R. company in the U.K.
687
00:37:05,457 --> 00:37:09,502
Suddenly, it comes 'round,
"Sabbath have sacked Ozzy,
688
00:37:09,544 --> 00:37:11,671
but they're gonna bring
Ronnie James Dio in."
689
00:37:11,713 --> 00:37:13,339
And there was a lot of blowback.
690
00:37:13,381 --> 00:37:15,468
"Where's Ozzy?
This guy can't be Ozzy."
691
00:37:15,509 --> 00:37:17,636
From the outside looking in,
692
00:37:17,678 --> 00:37:19,305
it doesn't sound promising.
693
00:37:19,346 --> 00:37:21,514
It does not sound promising.
694
00:37:21,556 --> 00:37:26,603
They had to rise above
and create an album
695
00:37:26,644 --> 00:37:29,647
that was far above anything
696
00:37:29,689 --> 00:37:31,609
that they had done in the past.
697
00:37:37,406 --> 00:37:39,763
You could think it's good,
you could think it's bad
698
00:37:39,783 --> 00:37:41,973
but you don't know
until the audience, the fans,
699
00:37:41,993 --> 00:37:45,079
they're going to tell you
if it's good or not.
700
00:37:45,121 --> 00:37:48,459
As a fan, you're
established to the singer,
701
00:37:48,501 --> 00:37:49,982
the drummer, the guitar player,
whoever...
702
00:37:50,002 --> 00:37:51,796
that's the band.
703
00:37:51,837 --> 00:37:53,652
And if there's something
that's different,
704
00:37:53,672 --> 00:37:55,800
what's going on, you know?
705
00:37:55,841 --> 00:37:58,468
Is it even gonna work?
Is it even gonna connect?
706
00:37:58,510 --> 00:38:00,950
Now, of course, there's
always gonna be a lot of, like,
707
00:38:00,970 --> 00:38:03,808
die-hard Sabbath followers who are like,
708
00:38:03,849 --> 00:38:08,729
"No, there's only one singer
of Black Sabbath."
709
00:38:08,771 --> 00:38:12,900
And then, all of a sudden,
here comes Ronnie James Dio.
710
00:38:16,778 --> 00:38:20,991
I think it's a creation that
happened many realms ago
711
00:38:21,033 --> 00:38:23,953
that Ronnie would be
the singer in Sabbath.
712
00:38:23,994 --> 00:38:26,789
It's all been written in stone.
713
00:38:28,165 --> 00:38:30,042
He was supposed to be there.
714
00:38:30,084 --> 00:38:32,127
He was supposed to replace Ozzy.
715
00:38:32,169 --> 00:38:34,587
He was supposed to take that microphone.
716
00:38:34,630 --> 00:38:37,424
He was supposed to write
"Heaven and Hell."
717
00:38:48,352 --> 00:38:52,315
When it actually starts to
blast out through the speakers
718
00:38:52,357 --> 00:38:56,443
and it's like, "Well, let's see
what you got, dude." You know?
719
00:39:07,622 --> 00:39:12,042
Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil
720
00:39:14,336 --> 00:39:16,569
And then when everybody
had saw what Ronnie had got...
721
00:39:16,589 --> 00:39:18,841
it's like, "Ok."
722
00:39:26,224 --> 00:39:28,810
There was just like, this is what I have
723
00:39:28,852 --> 00:39:32,688
always wanted to hear were
those Black Sabbath riffs,
724
00:39:32,730 --> 00:39:34,940
with Ronnie's voice.
725
00:39:50,205 --> 00:39:52,166
Everything about it was great.
726
00:39:52,207 --> 00:39:54,481
I mean, "Heaven and Hell"
is probably to this day
727
00:39:54,501 --> 00:39:56,379
my favorite Sabbath record.
728
00:39:56,421 --> 00:39:59,424
It's a masterpiece in...
in a lot of... in a lot of ways.
729
00:39:59,466 --> 00:40:02,177
And it's a very, very important record.
730
00:40:02,218 --> 00:40:05,722
One of the best albums ever.
Period.
731
00:40:13,939 --> 00:40:15,857
Ronnie was a big dreamer,
732
00:40:15,899 --> 00:40:18,693
but he wasn't afraid to tell you,
733
00:40:18,735 --> 00:40:21,613
if you're gonna fall,
you can't be frightened.
734
00:40:21,655 --> 00:40:23,740
You've got to get up and do it again.
735
00:40:23,782 --> 00:40:25,408
I made the statement that was,
736
00:40:25,450 --> 00:40:27,452
that I've always wanted to make,
737
00:40:27,494 --> 00:40:29,309
which was, "The world
is full of kings and queens
738
00:40:29,329 --> 00:40:30,852
who blind your eyes
and steal your dreams.
739
00:40:30,872 --> 00:40:33,124
And that all means they're your dreams.
740
00:40:33,166 --> 00:40:34,626
If you have those dreams,
741
00:40:34,668 --> 00:40:35,941
don't let anyone rob you of those,
742
00:40:35,961 --> 00:40:37,462
those wonderful ideas."
743
00:40:37,504 --> 00:40:39,130
That statement has been something
744
00:40:39,172 --> 00:40:41,341
that I've tried to live with in my life.
745
00:40:52,477 --> 00:40:56,523
This is Ronnie's
very iconic white blouse.
746
00:40:56,564 --> 00:40:58,483
He wore this when he was...
747
00:40:58,525 --> 00:41:01,153
the first round
of Black Sabbath in the '80s.
748
00:41:01,195 --> 00:41:03,155
He loved this shirt. He loved...
749
00:41:03,197 --> 00:41:05,657
always loved these sleeves,
these medieval sleeves.
750
00:41:05,699 --> 00:41:09,494
Going into Sabbath with the sleeves
751
00:41:09,536 --> 00:41:12,163
and the drama,
752
00:41:12,205 --> 00:41:17,420
he was able to captivate people
with an amazing presence.
753
00:41:17,461 --> 00:41:19,110
Well, yeah, it did become more mystical.
754
00:41:19,130 --> 00:41:20,923
And we built up the stage show,
755
00:41:20,965 --> 00:41:22,674
basically around the image of...
756
00:41:22,716 --> 00:41:27,345
uh, he had got this
theatrical way about him.
757
00:41:27,387 --> 00:41:29,597
I was always a little bit
intimidated by Ronnie
758
00:41:29,639 --> 00:41:31,350
because of not only his voice,
759
00:41:31,392 --> 00:41:33,477
but everything else around him.
760
00:41:33,519 --> 00:41:35,855
He projected something, you know.
761
00:41:35,896 --> 00:41:38,190
"Oh, my God, there's Dio?"
762
00:41:38,232 --> 00:41:40,568
But on those occasions
that we did get a chance
763
00:41:40,609 --> 00:41:43,361
to sit and talk,
he was just a very comforting,
764
00:41:43,403 --> 00:41:47,199
welcoming kind of a guy in every aspect.
765
00:41:47,241 --> 00:41:49,660
Every time I was with him, we'd laugh.
766
00:41:49,702 --> 00:41:54,081
We would laugh our asses off.
767
00:41:54,123 --> 00:41:56,959
Clownish behavior, boyish, you know?
768
00:42:00,754 --> 00:42:04,800
And that...
that behavior was very rampant.
769
00:42:04,842 --> 00:42:07,219
He was just Ronnie.
He was just mellow.
770
00:42:07,261 --> 00:42:10,723
But when he sang, he became a character.
771
00:42:10,765 --> 00:42:12,725
'Cause Dio, not Ronnie and Ronnie James,
772
00:42:12,767 --> 00:42:16,228
Dio was a huge character.
773
00:42:25,863 --> 00:42:28,574
Ozzy Osbourne, obviously,
was there before me,
774
00:42:28,616 --> 00:42:31,410
was throwing the peace sign
around everywhere.
775
00:42:31,452 --> 00:42:33,496
I felt something else was, you know,
776
00:42:33,537 --> 00:42:35,040
was needed to incorporate me
777
00:42:35,082 --> 00:42:37,249
into my own thing with that band.
778
00:42:37,291 --> 00:42:39,502
You know, I worked with Dio in Sabbath
779
00:42:39,543 --> 00:42:40,920
as his publicist.
780
00:42:40,961 --> 00:42:42,797
And I'll never forget this.
781
00:42:42,838 --> 00:42:44,799
Ronnie said, "I thought about this thing,
782
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,260
and I think it could be
a bridge between Ozzy and me."
783
00:42:48,302 --> 00:42:50,764
And he said,
"What do you think of this?"
784
00:42:50,806 --> 00:42:53,100
I said, "What's that?"
785
00:42:53,141 --> 00:42:56,977
He goes, "I'm thinking, it's like Ozzy,
786
00:42:57,019 --> 00:42:58,979
spirit of Ozzy is still here.
787
00:42:59,021 --> 00:43:02,608
This is still Black Sabbath,
but it's me now."
788
00:43:02,650 --> 00:43:05,903
I went, "That's brilliant."
789
00:43:05,945 --> 00:43:08,115
It was iconic as soon as you saw it.
790
00:43:08,156 --> 00:43:10,742
Even if you didn't know
what it meant, it was iconic.
791
00:43:10,784 --> 00:43:12,953
What's he doing?
792
00:43:12,994 --> 00:43:15,579
It became a trademark
for him, you know, to do that.
793
00:43:15,621 --> 00:43:18,124
And... And the fans,
you know, attached to that.
794
00:43:18,165 --> 00:43:20,314
Now, in a situation which is
not even involving metal,
795
00:43:20,334 --> 00:43:24,089
you see crowds,
and they're like, "Ah."
796
00:43:24,131 --> 00:43:26,424
I mean, even today, you go on Facebook,
797
00:43:26,466 --> 00:43:29,469
and there's all these kind
of middle-aged women going,
798
00:43:29,511 --> 00:43:31,763
When you see somebody do that,
799
00:43:31,805 --> 00:43:33,639
you know where it came from, you know,
800
00:43:33,681 --> 00:43:35,307
who originated that.
801
00:43:35,349 --> 00:43:37,393
People think this means something
802
00:43:37,434 --> 00:43:39,604
other than what it really is.
803
00:43:39,646 --> 00:43:42,649
If you'd all join us,
I'll tell you what it means.
804
00:43:42,691 --> 00:43:44,442
Ronnie who'd always,
805
00:43:44,484 --> 00:43:46,174
he'd grown up in
the Italian family, of course,
806
00:43:46,194 --> 00:43:47,968
would walk around with his grandmother.
807
00:43:47,988 --> 00:43:49,990
And his grandmother
was very superstitious
808
00:43:50,031 --> 00:43:52,158
and she would walk around
going like this,
809
00:43:52,199 --> 00:43:54,995
to ward off evil or give the evil eye
810
00:43:55,036 --> 00:43:57,747
or ward the evil eye off,
which is called the Malocchio.
811
00:43:57,789 --> 00:44:00,000
So, this, what we now
call the devil horns,
812
00:44:00,041 --> 00:44:02,669
that is Ronnie James Dio,
and it was out something
813
00:44:02,711 --> 00:44:06,089
his fierce-looking grandmother
used to do.
814
00:44:06,131 --> 00:44:09,593
It means, "Long live
Rock 'n' Roll." Put 'em up!
815
00:44:12,179 --> 00:44:15,682
And suddenly, by the end of every show,
816
00:44:15,724 --> 00:44:18,143
the whole audience was doing it back.
817
00:44:18,185 --> 00:44:20,000
And again, it was
another one of those moments,
818
00:44:20,020 --> 00:44:22,439
I thought, "This is
interesting shit here.
819
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,691
You know, this is really interesting.
820
00:44:24,733 --> 00:44:29,196
He's gonna work this
until it is just his band."
821
00:44:29,237 --> 00:44:32,866
And that's exactly what he did.
822
00:44:32,908 --> 00:44:37,037
So come with me, I'll give you the desire
823
00:44:37,078 --> 00:44:41,124
But first, you're gonna burn in fire
824
00:44:42,877 --> 00:44:44,545
The rest, as they say, is history.
825
00:44:44,587 --> 00:44:45,713
I mean, I'm not the only person
who's ever used it, of course,
826
00:44:45,755 --> 00:44:47,214
but you know, I must say
827
00:44:47,255 --> 00:44:49,070
that I've been the one who's used it most
828
00:44:49,090 --> 00:44:51,009
and probably the most known for it now.
829
00:44:51,051 --> 00:44:53,678
It's only meant as
a, you know, connection
830
00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:55,513
between the...
the music that we play,
831
00:44:55,555 --> 00:44:57,849
which is hard and heavy
and pretty damn evil.
832
00:44:57,891 --> 00:45:02,313
So, uh, that's what
that's all about, anyway.
833
00:45:02,355 --> 00:45:06,149
The whole thing was difficult for me.
834
00:45:06,191 --> 00:45:08,818
And Ronnie knew that I was, um,
835
00:45:08,860 --> 00:45:12,197
feeling uncomfortable
with certain things.
836
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,659
I really missed Oz.
837
00:45:14,700 --> 00:45:16,577
I felt like I'd lost a best friend.
838
00:45:16,619 --> 00:45:19,330
And so I was grieving there,
839
00:45:19,372 --> 00:45:22,083
and my drinking had accelerated.
840
00:45:22,124 --> 00:45:25,877
And that plays
a huge part in my departure
841
00:45:25,919 --> 00:45:27,545
from Black Sabbath.
842
00:45:27,587 --> 00:45:30,006
But Ronnie was supportive towards me
843
00:45:30,048 --> 00:45:33,427
as a... as a person throughout.
844
00:45:33,469 --> 00:45:37,181
So, that's how I first met Ronnie,
845
00:45:37,223 --> 00:45:38,933
and we hit it off right away.
846
00:45:38,975 --> 00:45:41,185
He's from upstate New York...
Cortland.
847
00:45:41,227 --> 00:45:42,770
And I'm from Brooklyn, New York.
848
00:45:42,812 --> 00:45:45,272
And, uh, Tony and Geezer...
849
00:45:45,313 --> 00:45:47,441
I couldn't understand them very well.
850
00:45:47,483 --> 00:45:49,443
I was pretty young,
851
00:45:49,485 --> 00:45:50,967
and they were kind of scary-looking
852
00:45:50,987 --> 00:45:55,783
with the mustaches and,
you know, "These are the guys."
853
00:45:55,825 --> 00:45:57,451
And they talk to me and I go,
854
00:45:57,493 --> 00:45:59,620
"Ronnie, what did they say?"
855
00:45:59,662 --> 00:46:01,830
I'd keep asking Ronnie,
856
00:46:01,871 --> 00:46:06,043
"What'd he say?
What does that mean? "Blimey"?"
857
00:46:09,297 --> 00:46:11,882
So Sabbath follows Heaven and Hell
858
00:46:11,924 --> 00:46:13,926
with Mob Rules.
859
00:46:13,968 --> 00:46:16,345
Mob Rules is an unbelievable record.
860
00:46:16,387 --> 00:46:19,433
"Sign of the Southern Cross."
Look at my arms.
861
00:46:19,474 --> 00:46:23,102
Just saying the name
of the song does this to me.
862
00:46:33,446 --> 00:46:35,282
Alright!
863
00:46:51,340 --> 00:46:53,925
We finished Mob Rules,
864
00:46:53,967 --> 00:46:57,095
the tour was fantastic,
so everything's going great.
865
00:46:57,137 --> 00:47:01,098
Then, I don't know what happened,
866
00:47:01,140 --> 00:47:04,393
but it's business between
those guys, three of 'em.
867
00:47:04,435 --> 00:47:07,147
A lot of times success breeds problems,
868
00:47:07,189 --> 00:47:09,274
and that happened.
869
00:47:09,316 --> 00:47:10,756
I felt that that really did happen,
870
00:47:10,776 --> 00:47:12,486
that, uh, all of the bad things
871
00:47:12,527 --> 00:47:18,282
that... that could be used
were used, you know,
872
00:47:18,324 --> 00:47:22,913
from drug abuse to, um, mental abuse.
873
00:47:22,954 --> 00:47:25,165
I'm not sure what happened.
874
00:47:25,207 --> 00:47:28,919
It was, uh...
I mean, we were all, uh, doing
875
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:32,214
quite a bit of nose powder at the time.
876
00:47:32,255 --> 00:47:35,508
This is the era of cocaine.
Everybody in the music business
877
00:47:35,549 --> 00:47:39,429
is doing too much cocaine,
but not at all, Ronnie Dio.
878
00:47:39,471 --> 00:47:44,726
That was... It was never...
never his thing, and they clashed.
879
00:47:55,946 --> 00:47:57,614
You know, sorry.
880
00:48:15,173 --> 00:48:20,053
It... It got difficult for
him behind the scenes.
881
00:48:20,095 --> 00:48:23,056
Egos getting involved.
882
00:48:23,098 --> 00:48:25,559
We recorded the Live Evil album,
883
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:29,230
and the mixing of that record
became a problem.
884
00:48:29,272 --> 00:48:30,939
When we're doing the Live album,
885
00:48:30,981 --> 00:48:35,193
he did get sort of...
upset about things.
886
00:48:35,235 --> 00:48:37,070
Ronnie could be fierce, very fierce.
887
00:48:37,112 --> 00:48:40,866
He cared about every single detail.
888
00:48:40,907 --> 00:48:42,743
I've heard a lot of rumors, you know,
889
00:48:42,785 --> 00:48:43,911
that I'm a control freak and you know,
890
00:48:43,953 --> 00:48:46,622
that, of course, led to, uh,
891
00:48:46,664 --> 00:48:48,479
"I think we should
let Tony mix this album."
892
00:48:48,499 --> 00:48:50,250
In other words,
893
00:48:50,292 --> 00:48:52,149
"Your services are
not required anymore."
894
00:48:52,169 --> 00:48:53,879
Dio joined the band,
895
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,131
and he turned it into
something incredible.
896
00:48:56,173 --> 00:48:58,175
But don't forget, Tony's still thinking,
897
00:48:58,216 --> 00:49:01,262
"Yeah, but I built this band
for ten years
898
00:49:01,304 --> 00:49:04,640
before you came along
and I offered you the gig."
899
00:49:04,682 --> 00:49:07,477
Another gram of coke, and it
gets even worse than that.
900
00:49:07,518 --> 00:49:11,521
Two more grams and, "I don't
even know who the fuck you are.
901
00:49:11,563 --> 00:49:13,587
Why don't you fuck off
and back where you came from?"
902
00:49:13,607 --> 00:49:16,694
It just got to the point
903
00:49:16,736 --> 00:49:19,697
where Ronnie wasn't happy anymore.
904
00:49:19,739 --> 00:49:21,782
It was his choice to leave 'em
and he left.
905
00:49:21,824 --> 00:49:27,746
Lonely is the word
906
00:49:27,787 --> 00:49:30,291
He had been through Rainbow,
907
00:49:30,333 --> 00:49:34,170
and even when he found
the sweet smell of success,
908
00:49:34,212 --> 00:49:36,422
it turned sour so quick.
909
00:49:36,464 --> 00:49:39,175
And then he does it again with Sabbath,
910
00:49:39,217 --> 00:49:42,220
and it turned sour so quick.
911
00:49:55,775 --> 00:49:58,361
You know, it was a very
traumatic time for me.
912
00:49:58,402 --> 00:50:00,154
You don't go from being, you know,
913
00:50:00,196 --> 00:50:01,719
one of the biggest bands in the world
914
00:50:01,739 --> 00:50:04,617
to not having a job anymore,
and what do you do?
915
00:50:04,659 --> 00:50:06,224
To me, it's always what comes next
916
00:50:06,244 --> 00:50:07,662
and what your ideas are,
917
00:50:07,703 --> 00:50:09,789
how many chances you want to take.
918
00:50:09,830 --> 00:50:12,208
I had no one, you know?
So I thought,
919
00:50:12,250 --> 00:50:14,190
"Well, better get off your ass and go out
920
00:50:14,210 --> 00:50:16,003
and start writing songs
on your own."
921
00:50:18,089 --> 00:50:20,842
I had a garage in the back,
and off the side of the garage
922
00:50:20,884 --> 00:50:23,844
was this tiny little shed kind of thing.
923
00:50:23,886 --> 00:50:26,222
And so I went in there
and went to Radio Shack
924
00:50:26,264 --> 00:50:28,891
and put all these little
boxes and plugged things
925
00:50:28,933 --> 00:50:30,935
into my little
reel-to-reel tape recorder,
926
00:50:30,977 --> 00:50:34,606
and that sounded so terrible
but you know, I loved it.
927
00:50:34,648 --> 00:50:36,964
I woke up and I went out
in that horrible little place
928
00:50:36,984 --> 00:50:39,236
that I set up as a little living room.
929
00:50:39,278 --> 00:50:41,404
I can do this.
930
00:50:41,445 --> 00:50:44,407
And so for me,
it was like a real genesis.
931
00:51:00,131 --> 00:51:02,258
I was a wife then.
I wasn't a manager.
932
00:51:02,300 --> 00:51:04,844
And then he said, "Ok,
so now you're managing me."
933
00:51:04,885 --> 00:51:08,015
Oh, this is
like, wait a minute. Um...
934
00:51:08,056 --> 00:51:10,392
I manage your affairs,
935
00:51:10,434 --> 00:51:13,103
but I don't know about managing a band,
936
00:51:13,145 --> 00:51:16,356
but I figured if
he's got confidence in me,
937
00:51:16,398 --> 00:51:18,233
then I'll do the best I can.
938
00:51:18,274 --> 00:51:20,131
In fact, I think it was Ritchie who said,
939
00:51:20,151 --> 00:51:22,362
"You know, she just
wants to make him a star."
940
00:51:22,404 --> 00:51:26,283
Yeah, I did.
Yeah, that was my goal.
941
00:51:28,327 --> 00:51:30,078
One night, Ronnie goes,
942
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:31,977
"Look, I'm gonna
put my own band together.
943
00:51:31,997 --> 00:51:34,916
"You want to join me?"
I went, "Wow. Yeah."
944
00:51:36,835 --> 00:51:38,317
When we put it together,
it was just me and him.
945
00:51:38,337 --> 00:51:41,340
He's playing bass.
We played "Holy Diver."
946
00:51:43,675 --> 00:51:46,261
Ronnie had written a bunch of material,
947
00:51:46,303 --> 00:51:50,474
and they begin the search
for the hotshot guitar player
948
00:51:50,515 --> 00:51:52,122
which everybody had to have at that time.
949
00:51:52,142 --> 00:51:55,146
So we went to London.
950
00:51:55,188 --> 00:51:57,189
Vinny and I went, going around to clubs.
951
00:51:57,230 --> 00:51:59,441
Here's a band playing.
Let's go see them.
952
00:51:59,483 --> 00:52:02,027
We went to all these different clubs.
953
00:52:02,069 --> 00:52:03,508
And I knew the kind of player I wanted.
954
00:52:03,528 --> 00:52:05,010
I didn't like the style of playing
955
00:52:05,030 --> 00:52:06,637
that American guitar players
were using at the time.
956
00:52:06,657 --> 00:52:08,555
They all wanted to be
as fast as Eddie Van Halen.
957
00:52:08,575 --> 00:52:10,224
I mean, after having played
with Tony and with Ritchie,
958
00:52:10,244 --> 00:52:11,517
I wanted someone who could be fast,
959
00:52:11,537 --> 00:52:13,665
but had to have romance in his soul.
960
00:52:13,706 --> 00:52:15,290
I said, "You know what?
961
00:52:15,332 --> 00:52:17,189
"I'm gonna give
Jimmy a call, Jimmy Bain."
962
00:52:17,209 --> 00:52:18,774
Because of course, Jimmy had
played with me in Rainbow.
963
00:52:18,794 --> 00:52:19,670
And I thought, who better to know
964
00:52:19,711 --> 00:52:21,338
guitar players than Jimmy?"
965
00:52:21,380 --> 00:52:23,862
So the call was only to ask him
if he knew guitar players.
966
00:52:23,882 --> 00:52:26,594
Jimmy just assumed that he was
gonna be the bass player.
967
00:52:26,636 --> 00:52:28,137
So, he was.
968
00:52:28,179 --> 00:52:32,100
Jimmy called this guitar player's house
969
00:52:32,141 --> 00:52:34,851
at two in the morning,
a young shredder from Ireland,
970
00:52:34,893 --> 00:52:36,520
this guy, Vivian Campbell.
971
00:52:36,561 --> 00:52:38,355
And the thing that sold Ronnie,
972
00:52:38,397 --> 00:52:40,712
we were jammin', and then
Viv was all out of things
973
00:52:40,732 --> 00:52:43,361
to play so he played,
like, a Chuck Berry thing.
974
00:52:45,571 --> 00:52:48,032
Just in this little section.
That was it.
975
00:52:48,074 --> 00:52:51,077
The missing ingredient
was Vivian Campbell,
976
00:52:51,119 --> 00:52:52,911
the guitar hero.
977
00:52:52,953 --> 00:52:55,205
So, now we've become
a family in a band, Dio.
978
00:53:03,423 --> 00:53:09,345
These are tapes
that I found that are, uh...
979
00:53:09,387 --> 00:53:11,138
from the beginning.
980
00:53:11,179 --> 00:53:14,142
You know, I haven't heard this stuff.
981
00:53:14,183 --> 00:53:15,935
"Jam."
982
00:53:15,977 --> 00:53:19,647
Let's see what's on here.
983
00:53:19,689 --> 00:53:22,734
1, 2,
1, 2, 3...
984
00:53:26,863 --> 00:53:29,531
Jam!
985
00:53:29,573 --> 00:53:30,930
So, we needed a place to rehearse,
986
00:53:30,950 --> 00:53:33,411
so Ronnie got this place
called "Sound City."
987
00:53:33,453 --> 00:53:36,247
It was like every night at seven o'clock
988
00:53:36,289 --> 00:53:38,271
going to the boys club.
They let us do anything there.
989
00:53:38,291 --> 00:53:40,084
They had candy machines.
990
00:53:40,126 --> 00:53:41,919
We'd go in...
"You want some candy?"
991
00:53:41,961 --> 00:53:44,756
"Yeah." Boom-boom-boom
till all the candy fell out.
992
00:53:44,797 --> 00:53:46,842
You know, pinball games.
993
00:53:46,884 --> 00:53:49,427
We got to make little ramps
so you never lost a ball.
994
00:53:49,469 --> 00:53:52,096
Have some drinks and smoked some pot.
995
00:53:52,138 --> 00:53:55,266
And we were playing.
Life was fantastic.
996
00:53:59,395 --> 00:54:02,483
Straight through the heart
997
00:54:02,524 --> 00:54:05,778
So, he's singing that in the room.
998
00:54:05,819 --> 00:54:08,613
You go, "Holy shit."
999
00:54:08,654 --> 00:54:11,324
What was the feeling
like with the band back then?
1000
00:54:11,365 --> 00:54:13,034
Oh, it was great.
1001
00:54:13,075 --> 00:54:14,599
It was such a wonderful
family atmosphere,
1002
00:54:14,619 --> 00:54:16,204
just a magical situation
1003
00:54:16,245 --> 00:54:17,560
where everybody loved being in that room,
1004
00:54:17,580 --> 00:54:20,459
playing, and we experimented.
1005
00:54:23,504 --> 00:54:26,214
So this one's a version
of "Rainbow in the Dark."
1006
00:54:26,255 --> 00:54:28,216
There's no keyboard part in it.
1007
00:54:28,257 --> 00:54:30,259
Ronnie's still testing the waters
1008
00:54:30,301 --> 00:54:33,137
with where the vocals should go.
1009
00:54:33,179 --> 00:54:36,391
When there's lightning
1010
00:54:36,433 --> 00:54:39,228
It always breaks me down
1011
00:54:39,269 --> 00:54:40,646
We had
"Rainbow in the Dark."
1012
00:54:40,687 --> 00:54:42,397
We're playing it back.
1013
00:54:42,439 --> 00:54:45,149
And Jimmy's got a cigarette in his mouth
1014
00:54:45,191 --> 00:54:47,401
with a big ash ready to fall
1015
00:54:47,443 --> 00:54:49,487
and a Jim Beam and Coke.
1016
00:54:49,529 --> 00:54:51,011
And he goes over to
this little shitty keyboard
1017
00:54:51,031 --> 00:54:52,616
of Ronnie's and he goes,
1018
00:54:55,536 --> 00:54:59,289
And he wrote that part
without the ash fallin'.
1019
00:54:59,331 --> 00:55:00,833
What? That's killer, dude.
1020
00:55:04,836 --> 00:55:07,923
Um, "Rainbow in the Dark."
1021
00:55:07,965 --> 00:55:10,259
uh, it's a song that I really disliked.
1022
00:55:10,300 --> 00:55:12,302
And when it was finished,
1023
00:55:12,344 --> 00:55:14,471
I announced to everyone that I was going
1024
00:55:14,513 --> 00:55:17,182
to take a razor blade
and just cut the tape up.
1025
00:55:17,224 --> 00:55:18,705
And so I went for the razor blade.
1026
00:55:18,725 --> 00:55:20,852
And they all went,
"No, no. Don't, don't."
1027
00:55:20,893 --> 00:55:22,604
And I didn't do that,
1028
00:55:22,646 --> 00:55:24,461
and I thanked them
over and over and over.
1029
00:55:24,481 --> 00:55:27,317
And so, you know, kudos
to them forever and ever.
1030
00:55:27,359 --> 00:55:30,445
We were just having time of our life,
1031
00:55:30,487 --> 00:55:32,698
and the roadies used to go,
1032
00:55:32,739 --> 00:55:36,702
"This is going platinum, dude."
Nah, never.
1033
00:55:40,372 --> 00:55:42,457
At that time, you had vinyl records
1034
00:55:42,499 --> 00:55:45,669
so on the first um, "Holy Diver,"
1035
00:55:45,711 --> 00:55:47,546
we both wanted to push the edges,
1036
00:55:47,588 --> 00:55:49,903
and the record company
were not that happy about it,
1037
00:55:49,923 --> 00:55:51,967
but we've got this idea.
1038
00:55:52,009 --> 00:55:53,927
We know what we want.
1039
00:55:56,055 --> 00:55:59,516
In the '80s, I was working,
uh, with Ronnie and Wendy
1040
00:55:59,558 --> 00:56:01,226
on pictures and just in general,
1041
00:56:01,268 --> 00:56:04,479
doing stuff that they
wanted me to do and everything.
1042
00:56:04,521 --> 00:56:07,983
I get a phone call from
this guy named Gene Hunter.
1043
00:56:08,025 --> 00:56:10,820
He says, "Wendy gave me
your phone number.
1044
00:56:10,862 --> 00:56:14,157
And do you know
of a good cove to go to?"
1045
00:56:14,198 --> 00:56:15,783
I said, "Cove?"
1046
00:56:18,952 --> 00:56:22,706
We ended up down at a place
called Paradise Cove.
1047
00:56:22,748 --> 00:56:25,792
So we get down there,
1048
00:56:25,834 --> 00:56:28,338
and he's got this wet suit
'cause it's really cold.
1049
00:56:28,379 --> 00:56:32,592
And on the top is a priest outfit,
1050
00:56:32,634 --> 00:56:35,844
and he's got the shitload
of chains, a lot of chains.
1051
00:56:35,886 --> 00:56:39,932
I'm going, "What's he doin'?"
1052
00:56:39,973 --> 00:56:43,102
So, he found a spot,
1053
00:56:43,144 --> 00:56:45,521
and he's trying to drag these chains
1054
00:56:45,563 --> 00:56:47,607
into this middle of this little cove.
1055
00:56:47,649 --> 00:56:50,443
It looked like he was
standing on a slippery rock
1056
00:56:50,485 --> 00:56:53,529
or something, but he
kept bobbing up and down.
1057
00:56:53,570 --> 00:56:55,781
I'm not taking pictures.
1058
00:56:55,822 --> 00:56:57,512
I'm just... He said,
"Take the fucking picture.
1059
00:56:57,532 --> 00:56:59,494
Take pictures!"
1060
00:56:59,535 --> 00:57:01,184
And he's bobbing and going up and down.
1061
00:57:01,204 --> 00:57:05,208
So, I'm taking, and snap, snap, snap.
1062
00:57:05,249 --> 00:57:06,814
"Are you alright?
Are you coming back up?
1063
00:57:06,834 --> 00:57:08,336
Oh, crap. Are you..."
1064
00:57:08,378 --> 00:57:10,922
"Take the pic..."
So he's... Glug-glug.
1065
00:57:10,964 --> 00:57:13,715
I don't know if I took
more than a roll and a half
1066
00:57:13,757 --> 00:57:16,427
before it's like, this is not good.
1067
00:57:16,469 --> 00:57:18,221
This is now bad
1068
00:57:18,262 --> 00:57:20,807
because it's like he's trying to breathe.
1069
00:57:20,848 --> 00:57:22,497
And he's trying to throw me the chain
1070
00:57:22,517 --> 00:57:25,269
to bring him in, but he can't lift it.
1071
00:57:25,311 --> 00:57:28,982
So I'm slipping.
He's drowning or falling
1072
00:57:29,023 --> 00:57:30,880
and going under again, and it's like...
1073
00:57:30,900 --> 00:57:34,946
So, somehow I yank him.
He pulls, and he gets up.
1074
00:57:34,988 --> 00:57:37,281
He... He's like, half-drowned.
1075
00:57:42,412 --> 00:57:45,498
I got the pictures developed,
and I turned them over to him,
1076
00:57:45,540 --> 00:57:49,003
and he said, "I'm working on the cover
1077
00:57:49,044 --> 00:57:51,796
for this 'Holy Diver' record."
1078
00:57:54,674 --> 00:57:56,926
So after the record came out, I'm like,
1079
00:57:56,968 --> 00:57:59,512
"That's what we were doing."
1080
00:57:59,554 --> 00:58:02,683
That was him. He was
literally fighting the waves.
1081
00:58:02,725 --> 00:58:06,603
And I was like,
"This is so beyond awesome."
1082
00:58:08,813 --> 00:58:10,815
So Ronnie now, he's been the singer
1083
00:58:10,857 --> 00:58:15,278
of two of the biggest
Heavy Metal bands in history.
1084
00:58:15,319 --> 00:58:18,949
Now, they say three times
a charm, but not in music.
1085
00:58:18,991 --> 00:58:20,347
You know?
This doesn't happen, man.
1086
00:58:20,367 --> 00:58:23,037
But this was Dio.
1087
00:58:23,078 --> 00:58:25,831
He's determined that either
he goes down in flames
1088
00:58:25,873 --> 00:58:29,625
or he finds glory.
1089
00:58:35,716 --> 00:58:37,885
Ronnie and Wendy have got enough money
1090
00:58:37,926 --> 00:58:40,095
to make this album, put together a tour,
1091
00:58:40,137 --> 00:58:42,097
pay for it themselves.
1092
00:58:42,139 --> 00:58:44,892
They bet the farm on it.
They really did.
1093
00:58:44,933 --> 00:58:47,935
Huge risk. Uh, we didn't know
what was going to happen.
1094
00:58:47,977 --> 00:58:49,250
We actually mortgaged our house
1095
00:58:49,270 --> 00:58:51,190
to take the first tour out.
1096
00:58:51,231 --> 00:58:55,861
He had to start the whole
circuit of playing anywhere.
1097
00:58:55,903 --> 00:58:59,573
The first show was Antioch, California.
It was a barn.
1098
00:58:59,615 --> 00:59:01,700
He played Bronco Bowl in Dallas,
1099
00:59:01,742 --> 00:59:03,368
which is a bowling alley.
1100
00:59:03,410 --> 00:59:05,119
So we'd like to do a song for you
1101
00:59:05,161 --> 00:59:08,332
called "Rainbow in the Dark."
Let's go!
1102
00:59:08,373 --> 00:59:10,850
It was just crazy.
You could feel it, the excitement.
1103
00:59:12,628 --> 00:59:16,048
The radio stations here was
playing the shit out of that
1104
00:59:16,090 --> 00:59:19,426
first record, and you just
heard it every 10 minutes.
1105
00:59:26,642 --> 00:59:29,937
We did Santa Monica Civic, sold out in,
1106
00:59:29,978 --> 00:59:32,731
I think, in an hour,
and then they did an in-store
1107
00:59:32,773 --> 00:59:34,588
after that where they
smashed through the window,
1108
00:59:34,608 --> 00:59:37,194
there was so many fans.
1109
00:59:37,236 --> 00:59:39,906
I think, because of the
introduction of a new band
1110
00:59:39,948 --> 00:59:42,116
just under Ronnie's name
1111
00:59:42,157 --> 00:59:45,202
with a new, young
hotshot guitar player...
1112
00:59:48,288 --> 00:59:52,167
Dio, the band,
it was an introduction for him
1113
00:59:52,209 --> 00:59:55,296
to a whole new world,
a whole new start for him,
1114
00:59:55,338 --> 00:59:57,924
this rising scene,
at the time, of Heavy Metal.
1115
01:00:12,647 --> 01:00:14,816
This is where we'd always sit,
1116
01:00:14,858 --> 01:00:16,840
and there's pictures
of Ronnie and Rainbow there.
1117
01:00:16,860 --> 01:00:18,569
Oh, how young we were.
1118
01:00:18,610 --> 01:00:20,988
So young. Babyface.
They're all babyfaces.
1119
01:00:30,165 --> 01:00:31,583
Oh.
1120
01:00:36,671 --> 01:00:38,569
There were some
of these songs that I think
1121
01:00:38,589 --> 01:00:41,175
reflect my own trauma
at the time as well.
1122
01:00:41,216 --> 01:00:43,032
I mean, you know,
I had some personal things
1123
01:00:43,052 --> 01:00:46,222
that were going on that
bothered me quite a bit.
1124
01:00:46,264 --> 01:00:48,349
Yeah, in the beginning,
1125
01:00:48,391 --> 01:00:51,477
it was, like, a normal relationship.
1126
01:00:51,519 --> 01:00:53,688
Everything was hunky dory, you know.
1127
01:00:53,730 --> 01:00:57,065
And then, things changed
between Wendy and Ronnie,
1128
01:00:57,107 --> 01:00:59,277
you know?
1129
01:00:59,319 --> 01:01:00,717
You know, obviously it's
very hard being married
1130
01:01:00,737 --> 01:01:02,488
to a musician for a start,
1131
01:01:02,530 --> 01:01:05,158
and managing him, as well, was very hard.
1132
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:07,535
Ronnie was a wonderful, sweet, loving,
1133
01:01:07,577 --> 01:01:10,371
giving person,
but he was a perfectionist.
1134
01:01:10,413 --> 01:01:13,499
He had dreams,
and he was gonna fulfill them.
1135
01:01:13,541 --> 01:01:15,064
And if you were not to his standard,
1136
01:01:15,084 --> 01:01:17,212
you were going to get it.
1137
01:01:17,253 --> 01:01:21,549
He would give it to his crew,
his band, to me.
1138
01:01:21,591 --> 01:01:25,386
So, we had a lot of fights,
a lot of, um...
1139
01:01:25,428 --> 01:01:27,410
I'll leave for a while,
come back for a while,
1140
01:01:27,430 --> 01:01:31,477
back and forth and back and
forth during our relationship.
1141
01:01:31,518 --> 01:01:33,875
You know, their relationship
was unique. Let's face it.
1142
01:01:33,895 --> 01:01:35,688
It wasn't traditional by any means.
1143
01:01:35,730 --> 01:01:37,982
It wasn't just an
artist-manager relationship,
1144
01:01:38,024 --> 01:01:40,215
and it wasn't just a husband
and wife relationship.
1145
01:01:40,235 --> 01:01:42,862
It was a lot of very complex things.
1146
01:01:42,904 --> 01:01:45,114
Any relationship has ups and downs,
1147
01:01:45,156 --> 01:01:47,284
and we had many ups and downs,
1148
01:01:47,326 --> 01:01:49,453
but we were always a team.
1149
01:01:49,495 --> 01:01:51,121
I had his back, he had my back,
1150
01:01:51,163 --> 01:01:53,915
so we were gonna
fight to the end together.
1151
01:01:59,754 --> 01:02:01,589
In the early '80s,
1152
01:02:01,631 --> 01:02:04,155
Los Angeles was just the
most exciting place on Earth.
1153
01:02:06,804 --> 01:02:09,932
The early '80s were badass.
They were badass.
1154
01:02:09,974 --> 01:02:13,184
It was magic.
All of a sudden, the Strip came alive.
1155
01:02:13,226 --> 01:02:14,749
Rock bands everywhere,
and there were parties
1156
01:02:14,769 --> 01:02:17,105
every night,
but everybody was into music.
1157
01:02:17,146 --> 01:02:20,109
Everybody was also kind
of into recreational things
1158
01:02:20,150 --> 01:02:21,966
that perhaps weren't as healthy for you.
1159
01:02:21,986 --> 01:02:23,968
Most of all, there was just
all this great Rock music
1160
01:02:23,988 --> 01:02:25,906
and all these great bands.
1161
01:02:25,948 --> 01:02:27,888
And my distinct memory
is Ronnie kind of being
1162
01:02:27,908 --> 01:02:29,784
in the center of all that.
1163
01:02:29,826 --> 01:02:32,287
You know, he fit in in a different way.
1164
01:02:32,328 --> 01:02:34,248
Ronnie wasn't a guy that was like,
1165
01:02:34,290 --> 01:02:36,146
"Hey, let's go out and chase chicks,"
you know?
1166
01:02:36,166 --> 01:02:40,129
Always the conversation seemed
to go to the same thing... music.
1167
01:02:40,170 --> 01:02:42,798
I think he acted more like a role model.
1168
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,259
There was this whole
undercurrent of metal bands
1169
01:02:45,301 --> 01:02:47,593
around L.A. that looked up to him,
1170
01:02:47,635 --> 01:02:49,304
and he was aware of that,
1171
01:02:49,345 --> 01:02:51,036
and he was very nurturing to everybody.
1172
01:02:51,056 --> 01:02:52,474
"Are you doing your best?
1173
01:02:52,516 --> 01:02:53,789
Are you doing the greatest thing
1174
01:02:53,809 --> 01:02:56,312
you could possibly be doing?"
1175
01:02:56,353 --> 01:02:59,481
Globally, metal was thriving,
1176
01:02:59,523 --> 01:03:02,901
was getting on the radio, it was selling.
1177
01:03:02,943 --> 01:03:06,113
And it's getting introduced
to a lot of people
1178
01:03:06,155 --> 01:03:09,074
on what was a new thing
at the time called MTV.
1179
01:03:09,116 --> 01:03:12,619
The advantages of the
MTV video explosion,
1180
01:03:12,661 --> 01:03:14,204
you can't understate it, really,
1181
01:03:14,246 --> 01:03:15,914
'cause it... it had a lot of value.
1182
01:03:15,956 --> 01:03:18,876
When I was in Quiet Riot,
"Cum On Feel the Noise"
1183
01:03:18,917 --> 01:03:21,337
was on every half-hour.
It's timing.
1184
01:03:21,378 --> 01:03:24,007
Ronnie had just put
together the Dio band,
1185
01:03:24,049 --> 01:03:27,843
and all of a sudden he's
getting the MTV exposure.
1186
01:03:27,885 --> 01:03:29,450
"Rainbow in the Dark" became the one that
1187
01:03:29,470 --> 01:03:30,846
MTV played all the time.
1188
01:03:30,888 --> 01:03:32,306
Ronnie loved that one
1189
01:03:32,348 --> 01:03:34,516
because it made him look really tall.
1190
01:03:34,558 --> 01:03:37,144
Him in the white boots on
the roof walking around,
1191
01:03:37,186 --> 01:03:39,002
I was like,
"I want white boots like that."
1192
01:03:39,022 --> 01:03:41,024
Record companies
would dump all this money
1193
01:03:41,066 --> 01:03:43,942
into the music videos.
1194
01:03:43,984 --> 01:03:47,529
I mean, now if you had to
look back, you could probably
1195
01:03:47,571 --> 01:03:49,136
do something way
better with your cellphone.
1196
01:03:49,156 --> 01:03:53,703
It's true.
1197
01:03:53,745 --> 01:03:57,332
So, he was at the forefront of that,
but he... he looked mean.
1198
01:03:57,374 --> 01:03:58,750
You know, he looked tough.
1199
01:03:58,792 --> 01:04:01,461
He was one of the very few artists
1200
01:04:01,503 --> 01:04:04,421
that actually had that metal image going.
1201
01:04:04,463 --> 01:04:06,757
You know, look at Dokken,
"Breaking the Chains,"
1202
01:04:06,799 --> 01:04:09,593
They got me chained down
in a kimono and I'm like,
1203
01:04:09,635 --> 01:04:12,764
"Oh boy."
And then you cut to Dio...
1204
01:04:12,806 --> 01:04:15,892
That was a totally different vibe.
1205
01:04:15,934 --> 01:04:17,999
Ronnie was pretty much all
about just going out there
1206
01:04:18,019 --> 01:04:21,730
and being as Metal as you could ever be.
1207
01:04:31,241 --> 01:04:33,993
I got this mysterious phone
call from these producers
1208
01:04:34,035 --> 01:04:36,246
that wanted me to come
over to Warner Bros.
1209
01:04:36,287 --> 01:04:39,248
They told me that they
had had great success
1210
01:04:39,289 --> 01:04:42,085
with "Holy Diver," and they
wanted to do something epic
1211
01:04:42,127 --> 01:04:45,255
to launch "The Last in Line."
1212
01:04:45,296 --> 01:04:49,884
So, Jeff, the Warner Bros.
Executive, popped a cassette in,
1213
01:04:49,926 --> 01:04:51,879
and I'm going,
"Oh, this is kind of cool,"
1214
01:04:53,805 --> 01:04:57,267
And there's this moment
in that song where...
1215
01:04:57,308 --> 01:05:00,145
We are coming
1216
01:05:00,186 --> 01:05:04,023
And then Ronnie
uncorks his amazing voice,
1217
01:05:04,065 --> 01:05:06,113
and I'm not going to
try to even imitate it.
1218
01:05:12,282 --> 01:05:15,119
You know, a chill goes down
my spine, and I thought,
1219
01:05:15,161 --> 01:05:17,829
"Ok, I... there could
be a video in this song."
1220
01:05:17,871 --> 01:05:20,665
Jeff pitched me an idea.
1221
01:05:20,707 --> 01:05:24,627
He wanted to have a video
about teenagers in hell.
1222
01:05:24,669 --> 01:05:30,601
So, uh, the studio wants to do
a video about teenagers in hell,
1223
01:05:30,843 --> 01:05:35,138
and Ronnie had a much
more philosophical take on it.
1224
01:05:35,180 --> 01:05:38,975
And he basically told me,
"Well, from birth to death,
1225
01:05:39,017 --> 01:05:41,644
we're all in a line.
1226
01:05:41,686 --> 01:05:45,273
And imagine if you're the last in line."
1227
01:05:46,692 --> 01:05:48,174
And then he says, "And of course,
1228
01:05:48,194 --> 01:05:49,737
you've got to put Murray in it."
1229
01:05:49,778 --> 01:05:51,822
Murray? who's Murray?"
1230
01:05:51,864 --> 01:05:54,240
Well, Murray,
1231
01:05:54,282 --> 01:05:58,953
you think his name would
be Damien or fucking Lucifer.
1232
01:05:58,995 --> 01:06:03,626
Ronnie one day, said "Murray."
So, he became Murray.
1233
01:06:14,761 --> 01:06:17,180
And so, I basically came up
1234
01:06:17,222 --> 01:06:20,309
with this slightly wonky idea
which is about a, you know,
1235
01:06:20,351 --> 01:06:21,602
a normal teenage kid.
1236
01:06:21,644 --> 01:06:23,562
He's, you know, going around.
1237
01:06:23,604 --> 01:06:25,669
He's got his delivery,
and he goes into the elevator,
1238
01:06:25,689 --> 01:06:28,150
and he pushes the button.
1239
01:06:28,192 --> 01:06:31,027
And I kind of took The Wizard of Oz motif
1240
01:06:31,069 --> 01:06:35,491
of, you know, being swept
up in a tornado and inverted it.
1241
01:06:35,533 --> 01:06:37,640
I got the teenagers in hell,
and I got the line
1242
01:06:37,660 --> 01:06:40,538
and, um, Murray in the distance.
1243
01:06:49,255 --> 01:06:52,049
All the elements of Ronnie's career seem
1244
01:06:52,091 --> 01:06:54,510
to come together with Dio,
1245
01:06:54,552 --> 01:06:58,305
the culmination of his
extraordinary presence
1246
01:06:58,347 --> 01:07:01,725
and extraordinary ability to write songs.
1247
01:07:01,767 --> 01:07:04,895
They weren't top 40 songs,
but the key factor
1248
01:07:04,937 --> 01:07:07,232
is that he knew how to connect.
1249
01:07:07,274 --> 01:07:11,110
That was the key,
that very direct connection
1250
01:07:11,151 --> 01:07:14,071
with his audience, which fans felt.
1251
01:07:18,993 --> 01:07:20,349
Is that good?
Is that in focus?
1252
01:07:20,369 --> 01:07:21,453
You got that shit?
1253
01:07:21,495 --> 01:07:23,039
I got it.
1254
01:07:25,667 --> 01:07:30,004
Where I really came
online as a-a metal head,
1255
01:07:30,045 --> 01:07:33,507
you know, '80s,
that period was real, like...
1256
01:07:33,549 --> 01:07:35,843
Devil-heavy.
1257
01:07:35,884 --> 01:07:39,514
Faceless creatures in robes,
from my study,
1258
01:07:39,556 --> 01:07:42,100
symbolize Druids, which, of course,
1259
01:07:42,142 --> 01:07:45,395
you go back to, uh, Satan worship.
1260
01:07:45,437 --> 01:07:49,898
It was Satan.
There was something extra seductive
1261
01:07:49,940 --> 01:07:53,778
and... and powerful about that.
1262
01:07:53,820 --> 01:07:56,865
Looking back on it now,
there is some humor.
1263
01:07:56,906 --> 01:08:00,243
Alright now, now you're
going to play this backwards?
1264
01:08:00,285 --> 01:08:03,163
Right. And then you'll
hear there's power in Satan.
1265
01:08:03,204 --> 01:08:07,750
There is power in Satan
1266
01:08:07,791 --> 01:08:10,253
Did y'all hear that?
I heard it!
1267
01:08:10,295 --> 01:08:13,006
My mom was a little concerned
1268
01:08:13,048 --> 01:08:16,217
with my consumption of Devil music.
1269
01:08:19,262 --> 01:08:22,724
And she gave me this
tape that was a preacher
1270
01:08:22,765 --> 01:08:24,975
who was talking about evil music.
1271
01:08:25,017 --> 01:08:27,896
Daily, young people are bombarded
1272
01:08:27,937 --> 01:08:32,484
by distorted visual images
and twisted music messages.
1273
01:08:32,525 --> 01:08:35,175
It was supposed to, like,
turn me away from the evil ways
1274
01:08:35,195 --> 01:08:37,030
but I was like, "Oh."
1275
01:08:37,072 --> 01:08:40,283
It was just sort of this rad
tape that turned me on
1276
01:08:40,325 --> 01:08:42,349
to new music that I
hadn't listened to before.
1277
01:08:42,369 --> 01:08:45,036
It had the opposite effect of
what it was supposed to do.
1278
01:08:48,416 --> 01:08:50,168
Dio had some Devil.
1279
01:08:50,210 --> 01:08:53,088
Dio's Devil was a little more theatrical,
1280
01:08:53,129 --> 01:08:55,173
like a Shakespearean Devil.
1281
01:08:55,215 --> 01:08:59,095
It's the thing that makes
all great stories interesting
1282
01:08:59,136 --> 01:09:00,887
is like, how good is your villain?
1283
01:09:00,929 --> 01:09:03,098
What's Star Wars without Darth Vader?
1284
01:09:03,139 --> 01:09:06,434
How good is the Bible without the Devil?
1285
01:09:06,476 --> 01:09:08,311
Dude, no spice.
1286
01:09:08,353 --> 01:09:10,897
There was blowback of people thinking,
1287
01:09:10,939 --> 01:09:13,901
"Oh, he's just some
sort of demonic guy."
1288
01:09:13,943 --> 01:09:15,466
I'm sure the evangelical church,
for instance,
1289
01:09:15,486 --> 01:09:17,009
in the States, isn't too
happy about what you do.
1290
01:09:17,029 --> 01:09:18,697
Not too pleased, no.
1291
01:09:18,738 --> 01:09:20,512
Well, they think that, uh, I'm the Devil
1292
01:09:20,532 --> 01:09:23,201
or this particular sign means
1293
01:09:23,243 --> 01:09:25,745
I'm putting a curse on you.
1294
01:09:25,787 --> 01:09:27,644
And what does that sign mean,
with two fingers?
1295
01:09:27,664 --> 01:09:30,668
Oh, I just cursed you,
and you're gonna die in hell.
1296
01:09:30,710 --> 01:09:34,505
Well, there's a myth that
the Dio logo says devil
1297
01:09:34,547 --> 01:09:36,757
when turned upside down.
1298
01:09:36,799 --> 01:09:39,592
That's not true at all.
Not at all.
1299
01:09:40,927 --> 01:09:42,512
Christians ruin everything.
1300
01:09:42,554 --> 01:09:44,723
I'm a... I'm an ordained minister,
you know.
1301
01:09:44,764 --> 01:09:46,907
I believe in God and
Jesus and all that stuff.
1302
01:09:46,934 --> 01:09:48,666
They just ruin everything.
They're idiots.
1303
01:09:48,686 --> 01:09:52,440
You want it to be dark.
You want it to be scary.
1304
01:09:52,481 --> 01:09:56,067
You want it to be powerful.
You want it to be intense.
1305
01:09:56,109 --> 01:09:59,571
For Ronnie, it was a tool.
He knew how to communicate.
1306
01:09:59,612 --> 01:10:00,655
I don't believe in either heaven and hell
1307
01:10:00,697 --> 01:10:03,159
as a place to go to.
1308
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:05,683
At the end of the day, if we all
just believe in the same thing,
1309
01:10:05,703 --> 01:10:07,768
you know, that we've got a
choice between good and evil.
1310
01:10:07,788 --> 01:10:10,122
Ok, make your choice.
That's all it's about to me.
1311
01:10:21,927 --> 01:10:23,929
The whole good and evil thing,
1312
01:10:23,971 --> 01:10:27,349
it came from a very deep place within him
1313
01:10:27,391 --> 01:10:30,227
where he wanted to empower people.
1314
01:10:30,269 --> 01:10:33,773
He authentically believed
that the weaker guy
1315
01:10:33,814 --> 01:10:36,442
needs to stand up for himself.
1316
01:10:36,484 --> 01:10:38,611
You can accomplish
anything without people
1317
01:10:38,652 --> 01:10:41,781
influencing you to do stuff
that you don't want to do.
1318
01:10:41,822 --> 01:10:44,492
As a kid, I just remember how strong
1319
01:10:44,533 --> 01:10:46,327
and resonant and powerful it was.
1320
01:11:01,008 --> 01:11:03,177
I've always felt to be
somewhat of a spokesman
1321
01:11:03,219 --> 01:11:05,179
for people who may be lonely,
1322
01:11:05,221 --> 01:11:08,934
maybe have been looked down upon.
1323
01:11:08,975 --> 01:11:11,310
His heart was for the downtrodden
1324
01:11:11,352 --> 01:11:13,145
and the black sheep of the globe.
1325
01:11:13,187 --> 01:11:15,731
He was our voice because
that's how he saw himself.
1326
01:11:15,773 --> 01:11:21,153
Climb the rainbow
1327
01:11:21,195 --> 01:11:23,073
You're a star
1328
01:11:23,114 --> 01:11:28,620
We are forever you and I
1329
01:11:28,662 --> 01:11:33,916
We're stars
1330
01:11:33,958 --> 01:11:37,838
At the time, uh, they were
doing, uh, "We are the World."
1331
01:11:45,387 --> 01:11:47,077
Ronnie had wanted to be part of that,
1332
01:11:47,097 --> 01:11:50,558
but we were nasty,
Heavy Metal, dirty people.
1333
01:11:50,599 --> 01:11:53,060
We are fire and stone
1334
01:11:53,102 --> 01:11:56,857
And we all want to touch a rainbow
1335
01:11:56,898 --> 01:12:00,151
You know, often, metal is marginalized
1336
01:12:00,193 --> 01:12:02,279
and thought of as lowbrow or whatever.
1337
01:12:02,320 --> 01:12:04,656
So, many times those
artists are not invited
1338
01:12:04,698 --> 01:12:07,783
to the charity events
and the charity recordings.
1339
01:12:07,825 --> 01:12:11,997
So, Ronnie decided to
do his own Heavy Metal,
1340
01:12:12,038 --> 01:12:15,041
"We are the World," and it was awesome.
1341
01:12:21,923 --> 01:12:24,718
This project came about
because of a radio-thon
1342
01:12:24,759 --> 01:12:28,471
that the station KLOS held for 2 days.
1343
01:12:28,513 --> 01:12:30,348
Our bass player, Jimmy Bain,
1344
01:12:30,390 --> 01:12:31,830
and guitar player, Vivian Campbell,
1345
01:12:31,850 --> 01:12:33,518
noticed the lack of people
1346
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:37,188
representing our genre
of music, our kind of stuff.
1347
01:12:37,230 --> 01:12:39,212
Ronnie just wanted to
show that we wanted...
1348
01:12:39,232 --> 01:12:41,067
We want to help, too,
1349
01:12:41,109 --> 01:12:43,321
but do something
that's a little bit different.
1350
01:12:43,362 --> 01:12:47,240
Every single musician
that made it in the '80s,
1351
01:12:47,282 --> 01:12:49,618
you know, we grew up listening to Ronnie.
1352
01:12:49,659 --> 01:12:52,746
So, any time Ronnie would say,
"Listen, I need you guys,"
1353
01:12:52,787 --> 01:12:55,415
and we'll say, "Yes, we're there,"
1354
01:12:55,457 --> 01:12:57,418
because we wanted to be like him.
1355
01:12:57,460 --> 01:13:00,087
He was a hero to all of us.
1356
01:13:00,129 --> 01:13:03,381
You can think about
anybody who was anybody
1357
01:13:03,423 --> 01:13:06,134
on top at that time, and they were there.
1358
01:13:06,176 --> 01:13:07,616
Do you know a lot of the people
1359
01:13:07,636 --> 01:13:09,304
involved with it?
1360
01:13:09,346 --> 01:13:11,077
Well, I'm meeting
them out there, aren't I?
1361
01:13:11,097 --> 01:13:14,268
I met the Yngwie Malmsteen
person, you know. He's great.
1362
01:13:14,310 --> 01:13:16,042
I like the way he puts
"Yngwie J. Malmsteen"
1363
01:13:16,062 --> 01:13:17,688
on his album,
1364
01:13:17,730 --> 01:13:19,128
so you know, you don't
confuse him with all the other
1365
01:13:19,148 --> 01:13:21,066
Yngwie Malmsteens in the business.
1366
01:13:21,107 --> 01:13:22,901
You've got all of these people.
1367
01:13:22,943 --> 01:13:24,611
We all know about each other
1368
01:13:24,653 --> 01:13:27,197
and what we're famous
for doing or not doing.
1369
01:13:27,238 --> 01:13:31,452
Ronnie was the captain
of the ship, and he steered us
1370
01:13:31,494 --> 01:13:35,581
through what could have
been an absolute catastrophe.
1371
01:13:35,623 --> 01:13:39,251
But singers and songs
will never change it alone
1372
01:13:43,964 --> 01:13:45,967
You can do better than that.
Yeah.
1373
01:13:46,008 --> 01:13:49,428
Everybody's giving a thousand
percent. You know, you can't...
1374
01:13:49,470 --> 01:13:51,430
"It's just a couple of notes."
1375
01:13:51,472 --> 01:13:52,954
You can't do that because
there's Ronnie Dio,
1376
01:13:52,974 --> 01:13:54,809
and he's the boss.
1377
01:13:54,850 --> 01:13:58,628
'Cause we are fire
1378
01:13:58,770 --> 01:14:04,318
'Cause we are fire
1379
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,239
And I have to say, I admit it, you know.
1380
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:10,241
I was scared shitless.
1381
01:14:10,282 --> 01:14:13,285
I'm like,
"I'm playing with Ronnie James Dio."
1382
01:14:16,372 --> 01:14:18,040
Shit.
1383
01:14:18,082 --> 01:14:20,035
Does "Dokken" really
rhyme with "rockin'"?
1384
01:14:21,419 --> 01:14:23,170
There's some debate in here,
1385
01:14:23,212 --> 01:14:24,944
but we'll sort that out later.
Ok, here we go.
1386
01:14:24,964 --> 01:14:26,882
I'm just nervous, man.
1387
01:14:26,924 --> 01:14:29,198
Fuckin' Ronnie James Dio
producin', I'll stand out here.
1388
01:14:29,218 --> 01:14:30,783
Goddamn. Never in my
wildest dreams have I thought
1389
01:14:30,803 --> 01:14:34,599
this would ever happen to me.
Good man.
1390
01:14:34,641 --> 01:14:38,769
Great. Right. Nice job.
I'm proud of you.
1391
01:14:38,811 --> 01:14:40,771
Mark.
1392
01:14:40,813 --> 01:14:42,857
We should have...
Rhymes with "rockin'."
1393
01:14:50,073 --> 01:14:54,035
The Hear 'N Aid song
is about 8 minutes long,
1394
01:14:54,076 --> 01:14:56,120
in its full length version,
1395
01:14:56,162 --> 01:14:58,414
and I think about 6 and
a half of those minutes
1396
01:14:58,456 --> 01:15:00,624
are guitar soloing going back and forth,
1397
01:15:00,666 --> 01:15:04,712
'cause there's about 15
players taking different sections.
1398
01:15:04,754 --> 01:15:07,674
But I don't know.
I mean, I'm such a fan
1399
01:15:07,716 --> 01:15:09,384
that I love every note of it.
1400
01:15:09,426 --> 01:15:11,928
I'm totally down with it to this day.
1401
01:15:11,970 --> 01:15:13,534
And I love that it showed that just
1402
01:15:13,554 --> 01:15:16,162
'cause you're into metal,
it doesn't mean you're a moron.
1403
01:15:16,182 --> 01:15:17,538
You can still have social issues.
1404
01:15:17,558 --> 01:15:19,101
You can still care about things.
1405
01:15:19,143 --> 01:15:20,936
You can still care about people.
1406
01:15:20,978 --> 01:15:22,961
After you stop listening
to this, to this record,
1407
01:15:22,981 --> 01:15:24,755
to what I say,
people will still be starving,
1408
01:15:24,775 --> 01:15:27,194
and only you can change it.
1409
01:15:27,235 --> 01:15:29,176
So, if this is the vehicle
to make you think,
1410
01:15:29,196 --> 01:15:31,697
to make you help another
human being, then so be it.
1411
01:15:31,739 --> 01:15:33,574
We've done our part.
1412
01:15:33,616 --> 01:15:37,078
We actually made,
I don't know, it was like over
1413
01:15:37,119 --> 01:15:41,249
a million dollars that we
got to send to, uh, to Africa.
1414
01:15:47,798 --> 01:15:49,446
It's easy to look back on that stuff
1415
01:15:49,466 --> 01:15:51,884
with a snicker now, but at that time,
1416
01:15:51,926 --> 01:15:53,845
that was the coolest thing in the world.
1417
01:15:53,887 --> 01:15:56,598
You know, I can't name all the Rock stars
1418
01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:58,663
who were in that video.
Rock 'n' roll was king.
1419
01:15:58,683 --> 01:16:02,437
MTV was king.
This was our prime.
1420
01:16:10,362 --> 01:16:14,199
Hello. I'm Ronnie James Dio.
1421
01:16:14,241 --> 01:16:16,451
We're about to embark
on our Sacred Heart tour.
1422
01:16:16,493 --> 01:16:18,350
It's a show that we feel
is the most spectacular
1423
01:16:18,370 --> 01:16:20,330
that we've ever produced.
1424
01:16:20,372 --> 01:16:23,375
And when we get to your town,
we're hoping to transport you
1425
01:16:23,416 --> 01:16:24,856
back to the days of knights and dragons,
1426
01:16:24,876 --> 01:16:26,879
damsels in distress, crystal balls,
1427
01:16:26,921 --> 01:16:28,797
and lots and lots of magic.
1428
01:16:28,839 --> 01:16:30,320
We feel we've got a great show for you.
1429
01:16:30,340 --> 01:16:33,009
I hope to see all of you really soon.
1430
01:16:33,051 --> 01:16:36,429
The original Dio band made a 3rd record
1431
01:16:36,471 --> 01:16:39,850
called Sacred Heart,
and the music videos got bigger,
1432
01:16:39,891 --> 01:16:42,436
the stage show got bigger.
1433
01:16:42,478 --> 01:16:45,981
He knew how to dream,
make that dream materialize,
1434
01:16:46,022 --> 01:16:49,276
and it just kept growing
and growing and growing.
1435
01:16:49,317 --> 01:16:52,821
He wanted a bigger
stage set and bigger and more,
1436
01:16:52,863 --> 01:16:54,948
and it cost a fortune, but he wanted it.
1437
01:16:54,990 --> 01:16:58,703
We had this huge 18-foot fire
breathing dragon with lasers.
1438
01:16:58,744 --> 01:17:00,788
He had this thing
about dragons, you know,
1439
01:17:00,830 --> 01:17:02,915
dragons and rainbows.
What a great thing.
1440
01:17:02,957 --> 01:17:05,625
You know, I've got leather studs
and whips and chains,
1441
01:17:05,667 --> 01:17:07,752
and Ronnie's got dragons and rainbows.
1442
01:17:07,794 --> 01:17:10,130
I wish we could flip.
1443
01:17:10,172 --> 01:17:11,339
He would slay the dragon
1444
01:17:11,381 --> 01:17:12,966
with a laser sword at the end.
1445
01:17:13,008 --> 01:17:16,929
It was absolutely
like going to Disneyland.
1446
01:17:16,971 --> 01:17:21,100
Greetings, my children.
1447
01:17:21,142 --> 01:17:24,728
Come with me now and discover the magic
1448
01:17:24,769 --> 01:17:28,607
that lies beyond the sea of dreams.
1449
01:17:28,648 --> 01:17:32,195
At that point, Ronnie
had reinvented himself fully
1450
01:17:32,236 --> 01:17:35,823
as being the caretaker
of the name, "Dio."
1451
01:17:39,118 --> 01:17:41,661
1986, Sacred Heart tour.
1452
01:17:41,703 --> 01:17:44,122
I remember bumping into him on that tour.
1453
01:17:44,164 --> 01:17:47,335
I'd never seen him so full of joy.
1454
01:17:47,376 --> 01:17:51,297
I'd never seen him so fulfilled.
1455
01:17:51,339 --> 01:17:54,300
He knew, I think, that he'd...
he'd done something remarkable
1456
01:17:54,342 --> 01:17:56,052
with his career at this point.
1457
01:17:56,093 --> 01:17:57,575
But it's taken Ronnie, you know, what,
1458
01:17:57,595 --> 01:18:00,472
nearly 40 years to get there.
1459
01:18:00,513 --> 01:18:02,642
And Ronnie defeating the dragon becomes
1460
01:18:02,683 --> 01:18:05,645
a kind of metaphor for the man.
1461
01:18:05,686 --> 01:18:08,147
His whole life had been a battle.
1462
01:18:08,189 --> 01:18:10,775
Everything Ronnie had,
he'd had to work for,
1463
01:18:10,816 --> 01:18:13,319
fight for, earn.
1464
01:18:13,361 --> 01:18:15,238
He's like Muhammad Ali,
1465
01:18:15,279 --> 01:18:19,659
the guy that became
world champion 3 times.
1466
01:18:19,700 --> 01:18:23,871
And, um, every time
Ronnie slew that dragon,
1467
01:18:23,913 --> 01:18:28,834
that was Heavy Metal
is all about... authenticity.
1468
01:18:28,876 --> 01:18:31,545
Here he is, top of the mountain,
1469
01:18:31,587 --> 01:18:35,300
and he'd done it
by not writing the hit single.
1470
01:18:35,342 --> 01:18:38,386
He'd done it by not kowtowing.
1471
01:18:38,427 --> 01:18:41,764
He stuck to his guns, come what may.
1472
01:18:58,155 --> 01:18:59,991
We've had about five offices, I think,
1473
01:19:00,032 --> 01:19:01,826
and I've always had "Holy Diver,"
1474
01:19:01,867 --> 01:19:04,495
uh, which is very, very precious to me.
1475
01:19:04,537 --> 01:19:06,395
The original artwork of "Holy Diver"...
1476
01:19:06,415 --> 01:19:08,959
I've always had
that hanging above my desk.
1477
01:19:09,001 --> 01:19:11,066
And of course,
gold records is just something
1478
01:19:11,086 --> 01:19:14,047
you always hang in your office
and things I'm proud of.
1479
01:19:14,089 --> 01:19:16,257
You know, Ronnie didn't care, you know.
1480
01:19:16,299 --> 01:19:18,614
In our house, we never had one
gold record hanging, not one.
1481
01:19:18,634 --> 01:19:22,014
He was a humble person.
He thought that was showing off,
1482
01:19:22,055 --> 01:19:25,350
so I showed off for him in my office.
1483
01:19:25,392 --> 01:19:29,271
This is his first gold record
that Ronnie ever got
1484
01:19:29,313 --> 01:19:32,441
in 1975 for "Love is All,"
which is a song he performed
1485
01:19:32,482 --> 01:19:34,400
on The Butterfly Ball.
1486
01:19:42,075 --> 01:19:44,870
And then I found a scrapbook.
1487
01:19:44,911 --> 01:19:48,081
I think his mum might have made it.
1488
01:19:48,123 --> 01:19:50,876
Wow, this is all Rainbow.
1489
01:19:54,296 --> 01:19:57,299
Black Sabbath here.
This is Black Sabbath now.
1490
01:19:57,341 --> 01:20:01,053
A lot of, uh, press releases here on...
1491
01:20:01,094 --> 01:20:03,930
Dio.
1492
01:20:03,972 --> 01:20:06,183
Those were fun days, real fun days.
1493
01:20:06,224 --> 01:20:09,854
Yes, yes. It was
a great time in our lives.
1494
01:20:09,896 --> 01:20:12,022
A great time in our lives.
1495
01:20:12,064 --> 01:20:15,692
Well, that's the end of that book.
1496
01:20:15,734 --> 01:20:19,112
Now, the entertainment.
1497
01:20:19,154 --> 01:20:22,032
Tonight, we got for you,
1498
01:20:22,074 --> 01:20:24,306
you know him, you love him.
He's a neighborhood boy,
1499
01:20:24,326 --> 01:20:27,789
Ronnie James Dio and the Dioski brothers!
1500
01:20:27,830 --> 01:20:29,873
Yay!
1501
01:20:29,915 --> 01:20:33,001
At this point with
Ronnie's career, you know,
1502
01:20:33,043 --> 01:20:36,171
he'd been following his own path
since he was a kid
1503
01:20:36,213 --> 01:20:40,217
and reached a kind
of new pinnacle with Dio.
1504
01:20:40,258 --> 01:20:42,241
We had a lot of fun
on the first two records,
1505
01:20:42,261 --> 01:20:44,555
by the time we were
doing the Sacred Heart album,
1506
01:20:44,597 --> 01:20:46,412
it was a very dark record for us to make.
1507
01:20:46,432 --> 01:20:48,392
It was really, really difficult.
1508
01:20:48,433 --> 01:20:49,956
All those fun times we had at Sound City,
1509
01:20:49,976 --> 01:20:51,853
it was a great atmosphere.
1510
01:20:51,895 --> 01:20:54,064
It wasn't such a business.
1511
01:20:54,106 --> 01:20:56,191
And then, the business end of this
1512
01:20:56,233 --> 01:20:58,319
started getting really frustrating.
1513
01:20:58,361 --> 01:21:01,572
And Viv was the one that would
point it out after a while.
1514
01:21:01,614 --> 01:21:03,995
The promise was made
to us that by the third album,
1515
01:21:04,033 --> 01:21:06,369
it would be more
of an equitable situation,
1516
01:21:06,411 --> 01:21:08,495
and I was...
I was a squeaky wheel.
1517
01:21:08,537 --> 01:21:10,727
I mean, the third album came,
and I was the one going...
1518
01:21:10,747 --> 01:21:14,168
"Uh, excuse me."
1519
01:21:14,210 --> 01:21:16,275
Vivian had just told me
that he wanted more money,
1520
01:21:16,295 --> 01:21:19,590
From Ronnie's perspective,
when I'd bring it up to him,
1521
01:21:19,632 --> 01:21:23,177
he looked at it
as a young kid who he found
1522
01:21:23,219 --> 01:21:25,887
and put on the map
that was being ungrateful
1523
01:21:25,929 --> 01:21:28,432
and pulling the leverage play.
1524
01:21:28,473 --> 01:21:30,415
Well, you know, you should
get paid for what you do.
1525
01:21:30,435 --> 01:21:31,958
And when Sacred Heart
came around, I said,
1526
01:21:31,978 --> 01:21:33,960
"What do you got, Viv?
We've had four months off."
1527
01:21:33,980 --> 01:21:36,774
"Oh, nothing." "Oh, really?"
"Nope, not a thing."
1528
01:21:36,816 --> 01:21:38,131
"Oh, I guess I didn't
pay you enough, then did I?"
1529
01:21:38,151 --> 01:21:40,278
Money is not what music is all about.
1530
01:21:40,319 --> 01:21:43,114
Ronnie had years
and years and years of banging
1531
01:21:43,156 --> 01:21:47,452
on the doors, and Elf
and Rainbow and everything else.
1532
01:21:47,493 --> 01:21:49,954
You can't just have
somebody come in the door
1533
01:21:49,996 --> 01:21:51,936
and go, "Oh, yeah, well,
I'm as important as you."
1534
01:21:51,956 --> 01:21:53,624
The band was called Dio...
1535
01:21:53,666 --> 01:21:56,127
for a reason.
1536
01:21:56,169 --> 01:21:59,589
He understands that
whether he likes it or not,
1537
01:21:59,630 --> 01:22:04,469
this time I'm the Blackmore,
I'm the Iommi.
1538
01:22:04,510 --> 01:22:06,387
He's the boss.
1539
01:22:06,429 --> 01:22:09,807
After a while,
Ronnie got tired of it and said,
1540
01:22:09,849 --> 01:22:11,497
"We're going to get rid of him
and get somebody else,"
1541
01:22:11,517 --> 01:22:14,187
and I'm like, "Are you crazy?"
1542
01:22:14,228 --> 01:22:19,318
Back in those days, losing
a band member was a huge deal,
1543
01:22:19,359 --> 01:22:22,487
especially a guy
that was a budding guitar hero
1544
01:22:22,528 --> 01:22:25,907
in Vivian Campbell.
1545
01:22:25,948 --> 01:22:29,452
Yes, it was magical.
It was great in the beginning,
1546
01:22:29,494 --> 01:22:32,163
but people have to go sometimes.
1547
01:22:32,205 --> 01:22:35,167
You know, Vivian Campbell had to go.
1548
01:22:35,209 --> 01:22:39,546
I mean. It was Ronnie's band.
1549
01:22:44,383 --> 01:22:46,344
You sometimes get very trapped
1550
01:22:46,385 --> 01:22:50,057
by your own existence,
uh, you must maintain.
1551
01:22:50,098 --> 01:22:53,393
When you get
to a certain success plateau,
1552
01:22:53,435 --> 01:22:56,230
the only thing you can do is
to either try to maintain it
1553
01:22:56,271 --> 01:22:57,856
or reach above that.
1554
01:22:57,898 --> 01:23:01,400
When I got the call to,
to join, you know,
1555
01:23:01,442 --> 01:23:03,257
headlining 20,000-seat arenas
every night,
1556
01:23:03,277 --> 01:23:06,073
it was like...
1557
01:23:06,114 --> 01:23:09,493
And so back then,
Heavy Metal was going strong.
1558
01:23:09,535 --> 01:23:12,412
And that was during
the time that bands came to L.A.
1559
01:23:12,454 --> 01:23:14,665
to find their fame and fortune,
1560
01:23:14,706 --> 01:23:17,583
and they all got their hair
ran up to, you know,
1561
01:23:17,625 --> 01:23:20,169
ten feet and tons of makeup.
1562
01:23:20,211 --> 01:23:22,444
This is the reason I am
a Rock 'n' Roll drummer, see?
1563
01:23:22,464 --> 01:23:24,196
Because girls like this
hang out with guys like me!
1564
01:23:24,216 --> 01:23:26,385
Can you believe it?
1565
01:23:26,426 --> 01:23:29,721
Motley Crue, Skid Row.
We looked like girls.
1566
01:23:32,099 --> 01:23:36,227
I mean, not just us, but you
know, all that look was huge.
1567
01:23:36,269 --> 01:23:39,898
And I'll always say it,
that the Rock scene of the '80s,
1568
01:23:39,940 --> 01:23:42,693
we were our own undoing.
1569
01:23:42,734 --> 01:23:46,071
It became more important
about their look,
1570
01:23:46,113 --> 01:23:49,825
and not the songs...
bands like Poison.
1571
01:23:51,451 --> 01:23:53,371
"Unskinny Bop" bop?
1572
01:23:53,413 --> 01:23:55,747
Ronnie couldn't write "Unskinny Bop" bop
1573
01:23:55,789 --> 01:23:57,916
if they put a gun to his head.
1574
01:23:57,958 --> 01:24:03,213
Dio... he was never a part
of that hair metal thing.
1575
01:24:03,255 --> 01:24:05,445
He wasn't singing about
getting laid and doing drugs
1576
01:24:05,465 --> 01:24:07,175
and, you know, crap like that.
1577
01:24:07,217 --> 01:24:09,220
I mean, the music was rubbish,
1578
01:24:09,262 --> 01:24:12,432
and they destroyed
what the rest of us created.
1579
01:24:12,473 --> 01:24:14,683
There's Sacred Heart
and what's the other one?
1580
01:24:14,725 --> 01:24:17,144
Dream Evil, I don't know.
1581
01:24:17,185 --> 01:24:18,875
Was there another one
after that? I don't know.
1582
01:24:18,895 --> 01:24:21,189
Sales, they started going down, you know?
1583
01:24:21,231 --> 01:24:24,401
And MTV, that was built
upon Heavy Metal music,
1584
01:24:24,443 --> 01:24:26,613
suddenly went,
"Oh, no more of that."
1585
01:24:28,865 --> 01:24:31,450
120 minutes.
1586
01:24:31,491 --> 01:24:33,577
Right here,
1587
01:24:33,619 --> 01:24:35,392
the 2nd of tonight's
2 world premiere videos.
1588
01:24:35,412 --> 01:24:37,456
It's from the Seattle band, Nirvana.
1589
01:24:37,497 --> 01:24:39,583
Here is the planet's first look at...
1590
01:24:39,625 --> 01:24:42,462
"Smells like Teen Spirit."
1591
01:24:44,922 --> 01:24:47,800
Basically, right after
Nirvana had their first play
1592
01:24:47,842 --> 01:24:50,802
of "Teen Spirit," it changed everything.
1593
01:24:54,848 --> 01:24:56,642
It needed it.
1594
01:24:56,683 --> 01:24:59,228
You know, the MTV toilet
needed to be flushed,
1595
01:24:59,270 --> 01:25:01,314
you know and clean up
1596
01:25:01,356 --> 01:25:03,691
and... and get something
else in there, you know?
1597
01:25:03,733 --> 01:25:05,943
You're talking to a guy
1598
01:25:05,985 --> 01:25:08,654
who worked in Rock radio for decades.
1599
01:25:08,695 --> 01:25:12,992
I literally saw the day
the program director comes in
1600
01:25:13,034 --> 01:25:17,789
and says, "All of these CDs...
in a box. No more.
1601
01:25:17,830 --> 01:25:20,833
Here's what
we're playing now."
1602
01:25:20,875 --> 01:25:23,316
There's a big misconception
that the birth of Nirvana
1603
01:25:23,336 --> 01:25:27,464
and all that took down the "hair bands,"
1604
01:25:27,506 --> 01:25:29,425
and it certainly did.
1605
01:25:29,467 --> 01:25:32,428
But it didn't discriminate to just that.
1606
01:25:32,470 --> 01:25:35,306
It took down everything.
Everybody got hit with that.
1607
01:25:35,348 --> 01:25:37,266
I don't care if you were Black Sabbath,
1608
01:25:37,308 --> 01:25:40,353
Judas Priest, Iron Maiden,
whoever you were,
1609
01:25:40,395 --> 01:25:45,192
across the board, was one of
the most harsh, abrupt things
1610
01:25:45,234 --> 01:25:48,986
I've ever seen in my life.
All of this goes away,
1611
01:25:49,028 --> 01:25:51,656
and all of this is suddenly uncool.
1612
01:25:51,698 --> 01:25:55,201
It was like that, cut and dry.
1613
01:25:55,243 --> 01:25:58,037
Dio in the box?
Dio was in the box.
1614
01:26:12,635 --> 01:26:15,012
The '90s were the darkest period
1615
01:26:15,054 --> 01:26:18,183
because he got dropped from Warner Bros.
1616
01:26:18,225 --> 01:26:19,957
Losing a record deal was devastating.
1617
01:26:19,977 --> 01:26:23,730
Absolute devastating.
1618
01:26:23,771 --> 01:26:26,983
The music industry
at that time, it was like...
1619
01:26:27,024 --> 01:26:30,528
Pfft. "We don't care, we don't
care about you anymore."
1620
01:26:30,570 --> 01:26:32,363
For someone like Ronnie,
1621
01:26:32,405 --> 01:26:34,304
it did get a little awkward in the '90s.
1622
01:26:34,324 --> 01:26:39,037
Nu Metal and Grunge
became what the public face
1623
01:26:39,079 --> 01:26:41,331
of Metal was depicted as.
1624
01:26:41,373 --> 01:26:43,124
Underground, Death Metal, Grindcore,
1625
01:26:43,166 --> 01:26:45,585
Black Metal got more intense.
1626
01:26:45,626 --> 01:26:48,755
The point being that stuff
like Ronnie James Dio,
1627
01:26:48,796 --> 01:26:51,216
people just kind of maybe said,
1628
01:26:51,258 --> 01:26:55,179
"We don't need any of that
stuff. That's dinosaur shit."
1629
01:26:55,220 --> 01:26:57,890
Bands like Dio
will find it very difficult.
1630
01:26:57,931 --> 01:26:59,872
It's only really
alternate Rock that seems
1631
01:26:59,892 --> 01:27:01,607
to be getting most of the attention.
1632
01:27:03,853 --> 01:27:06,128
Where... Where is it going?
God knows. I mean, that's...
1633
01:27:06,148 --> 01:27:08,358
A lot of that has to do with, you know,
1634
01:27:08,400 --> 01:27:10,652
with its acceptance, really.
1635
01:27:10,694 --> 01:27:12,593
It'll go as far as people allow us to go.
1636
01:27:12,613 --> 01:27:15,532
The mid-'90s, I remember he came over
1637
01:27:15,574 --> 01:27:18,952
to London to do interviews
to promote his latest album.
1638
01:27:18,994 --> 01:27:22,122
I had to beg, borrow, and steal
to try and get someone
1639
01:27:22,164 --> 01:27:25,042
to interview Ronnie James Dio.
1640
01:27:25,083 --> 01:27:28,420
I couldn't get anybody
interested in interviewing him.
1641
01:27:28,462 --> 01:27:30,798
That was, like,
a really down time for him.
1642
01:27:30,839 --> 01:27:32,966
He didn't feel loved anymore.
1643
01:27:40,432 --> 01:27:42,810
Well, because it's
a world that, uh, you know,
1644
01:27:42,851 --> 01:27:44,520
it's not a very happy place.
1645
01:27:44,561 --> 01:27:48,232
It's a world we live in that's,
uh, just really depressing.
1646
01:27:48,273 --> 01:27:50,214
And it couldn't allow me
to talk about dreams
1647
01:27:50,234 --> 01:27:51,507
and everything's going to be wonderful
1648
01:27:51,527 --> 01:27:53,613
and the world will be happy.
1649
01:27:53,655 --> 01:27:55,637
Just, you know, work hard
and your dreams will come true.
1650
01:27:55,657 --> 01:27:57,304
Shit. I look at the
world around me now,
1651
01:27:57,324 --> 01:27:59,306
and I see that that's pretty
impossible to happen.
1652
01:27:59,326 --> 01:28:01,036
So I couldn't in my conscience,
1653
01:28:01,078 --> 01:28:03,330
write about dreams and happiness.
1654
01:28:11,130 --> 01:28:14,259
I didn't really start going
to his house until the '90s.
1655
01:28:14,300 --> 01:28:16,510
I remember going
and taking photos of him,
1656
01:28:16,552 --> 01:28:18,887
and that's when everything was changing.
1657
01:28:18,929 --> 01:28:20,681
He noticed it,
1658
01:28:20,722 --> 01:28:23,183
because he wasn't
selling out arenas anymore.
1659
01:28:23,225 --> 01:28:25,333
I got here because
I believed in the music I made,
1660
01:28:25,353 --> 01:28:28,940
and somebody liked it.
So, hey, I got a nice house.
1661
01:28:28,982 --> 01:28:30,880
You know, as I told you
many times before,
1662
01:28:30,900 --> 01:28:32,340
I don't give a damn about this house.
1663
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:34,403
What do I care about this?
1664
01:28:34,444 --> 01:28:36,635
I could sleep on this table.
I could sleep on the floor.
1665
01:28:36,655 --> 01:28:39,074
It's not important.
It's all about playing.
1666
01:28:39,116 --> 01:28:40,994
It's all about playing for people.
1667
01:28:41,035 --> 01:28:42,642
It's the only thing that matters to me.
1668
01:28:42,662 --> 01:28:45,415
So, through the hard times,
love what you do.
1669
01:28:45,456 --> 01:28:47,730
He's one of those guys I don't
think would have ever retired
1670
01:28:47,750 --> 01:28:49,649
cause when you're an artist,
you're an artist.
1671
01:28:49,669 --> 01:28:51,754
That's what you do forever, you know.
1672
01:28:51,796 --> 01:28:55,757
You just... you... till you die.
1673
01:28:55,799 --> 01:28:58,136
You've got such a long career.
1674
01:28:58,177 --> 01:29:00,138
You haven't had any breaks.
1675
01:29:00,179 --> 01:29:01,744
No, I never...
I haven't taken vacations.
1676
01:29:01,764 --> 01:29:03,162
I don't. I wouldn't
know what to do with myself.
1677
01:29:03,182 --> 01:29:04,622
What am I gonna do, lay on a beach?
1678
01:29:04,642 --> 01:29:06,249
Waste...
That's a waste of my life.
1679
01:29:06,269 --> 01:29:08,585
Eating, sleeping, and vacations
are a waste of my life.
1680
01:29:08,605 --> 01:29:10,712
You only got so many years,
you may as well get
1681
01:29:10,732 --> 01:29:12,004
all you can out of it.
Just grind it out,
1682
01:29:12,024 --> 01:29:14,235
bring it out, go for it
1683
01:29:14,277 --> 01:29:15,987
because I got a lot more to do yet.
1684
01:29:16,029 --> 01:29:19,115
Start with this one.
Title track of Dio LP #2.
1685
01:29:19,157 --> 01:29:22,035
This is called
"The Last in Line."
1686
01:29:22,076 --> 01:29:24,746
It was very much a
different thing from the '80s.
1687
01:29:24,787 --> 01:29:26,456
For you, we especially do this one.
1688
01:29:26,497 --> 01:29:27,926
It's called
"The Last in Line."
1689
01:29:29,876 --> 01:29:31,816
But, uh, he would go to
the ends of the Earth
1690
01:29:31,836 --> 01:29:33,671
to play in front of people.
1691
01:29:33,713 --> 01:29:36,257
And I'd be the one going,
"Oh, Christ, I don't know.
1692
01:29:36,299 --> 01:29:38,343
You should think
about this, you know?"
1693
01:29:38,384 --> 01:29:42,805
He didn't care if 80 people
showed up to a show or 80,000.
1694
01:29:42,847 --> 01:29:44,934
He never lost sight of the guy
1695
01:29:44,975 --> 01:29:48,353
from Cortland, New York,
who, music was his salvation.
1696
01:29:48,394 --> 01:29:49,728
He never lost sight of that.
1697
01:29:54,150 --> 01:29:56,861
Ronnie never, ever complained.
1698
01:29:56,903 --> 01:29:59,781
You know, he never phoned it in.
1699
01:29:59,822 --> 01:30:02,451
That was... He couldn't do that.
It was impossible.
1700
01:30:02,493 --> 01:30:05,788
The enthusiasm and the
hunger and the conviction,
1701
01:30:05,829 --> 01:30:07,038
it was unbreakable.
1702
01:30:16,005 --> 01:30:19,259
Hard Rock was
out of favor. MTV was gone.
1703
01:30:19,301 --> 01:30:21,887
We got record deals on smaller labels.
1704
01:30:21,929 --> 01:30:25,390
Ronnie just continued
to keep making records
1705
01:30:25,431 --> 01:30:28,267
and keep creating, putting
together some great bands.
1706
01:30:28,309 --> 01:30:29,624
There were some great lineups,
1707
01:30:29,644 --> 01:30:31,980
people that were in and out of Dio.
1708
01:30:32,021 --> 01:30:34,650
They still did some
great work during that time,
1709
01:30:34,692 --> 01:30:37,152
whether it sold anything
or anybody acknowledged it.
1710
01:30:37,194 --> 01:30:39,655
Ronnie just kept going.
1711
01:30:39,697 --> 01:30:42,992
Think about the miles
that are on that voice.
1712
01:30:43,033 --> 01:30:47,120
And I always felt maybe
he would have sort of started
1713
01:30:47,161 --> 01:30:49,373
to relax a little bit.
1714
01:30:49,415 --> 01:30:53,293
But we did four whole albums,
maybe five DVDs,
1715
01:30:53,335 --> 01:30:55,212
and he would be here every minute,
1716
01:30:55,254 --> 01:30:57,631
of every day for every part of it.
1717
01:30:57,673 --> 01:30:59,113
Being in the studio with Ronnie,
1718
01:30:59,133 --> 01:31:01,802
it was un-fucking believable.
1719
01:31:01,844 --> 01:31:04,220
He was on a level
that some people never get to
1720
01:31:04,262 --> 01:31:07,808
in their prime when they're 21.
1721
01:31:07,850 --> 01:31:09,560
He would sing with the band
1722
01:31:09,601 --> 01:31:14,356
while they were cutting
all day long, every time.
1723
01:31:14,398 --> 01:31:17,026
I mean, I told him
a hundred times and said,
1724
01:31:17,067 --> 01:31:19,049
"We could just use the vocal
you just sang, you know,
1725
01:31:19,069 --> 01:31:20,864
every time they go through it.
1726
01:31:20,905 --> 01:31:22,970
You know, you don't
have to keep singing it."
1727
01:31:22,990 --> 01:31:25,868
He said, "No, no, no,
I'm singing with the band."
1728
01:31:25,909 --> 01:31:30,456
I said, "Ok."
He's such a remarkable person.
1729
01:31:30,497 --> 01:31:33,542
There's certain people out
there, people with conviction,
1730
01:31:33,584 --> 01:31:35,210
people who have it here.
1731
01:31:35,252 --> 01:31:37,714
"This is what I want to do,
and I'm doing it."
1732
01:31:37,756 --> 01:31:39,571
And that's all
that should fucking matter,
1733
01:31:39,591 --> 01:31:42,176
you know, forever.
1734
01:31:42,217 --> 01:31:43,741
I must say, I'm not going to go away.
1735
01:31:43,761 --> 01:31:45,763
No matter what happens.
1736
01:31:45,804 --> 01:31:47,911
I'm gonna be here again
to haunt you next year, too.
1737
01:31:47,931 --> 01:31:50,080
Perhaps the year after that
and the year after that.
1738
01:31:50,100 --> 01:31:53,730
I love to do what I do
very much, and as long as people
1739
01:31:53,772 --> 01:31:56,941
will accept me for what I am,
I'll still be back
1740
01:31:56,983 --> 01:31:58,298
year after year after year
doing this, and hopefully
1741
01:31:58,318 --> 01:32:00,069
getting better at it if I can.
1742
01:32:00,110 --> 01:32:03,030
There was always that
hardcore faction of fans.
1743
01:32:03,072 --> 01:32:04,865
They'd always be there,
1744
01:32:04,907 --> 01:32:07,076
and, uh, he felt
immensely grateful for that.
1745
01:32:07,117 --> 01:32:08,745
Dio's the best!
1746
01:32:08,787 --> 01:32:10,789
I told him to say that.
1747
01:32:12,582 --> 01:32:14,918
If there was 200 people or one person,
1748
01:32:14,959 --> 01:32:17,753
he'd treat them as if
he was their long lost friend.
1749
01:32:17,795 --> 01:32:20,756
And sometimes we used to argue about that
1750
01:32:20,798 --> 01:32:22,758
because he'd be, like,
1751
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:25,261
talking to two fans
till about three in the morning.
1752
01:32:25,303 --> 01:32:27,243
And we'd be going, "Come on,
Ronnie. It's time to leave.
1753
01:32:27,263 --> 01:32:28,953
We gotta get on
the bus to the next gig."
1754
01:32:28,973 --> 01:32:30,767
He's going,
"Yeah, just a minute."
1755
01:32:30,809 --> 01:32:33,728
He had this remarkable
way of, uh, remembering people
1756
01:32:33,770 --> 01:32:35,751
and what they were about.
You know, he'd see somebody,
1757
01:32:35,771 --> 01:32:37,773
you know, ten years later and he'd go,
1758
01:32:37,815 --> 01:32:40,359
"Oh, hi, Mary,
how's your mother doing?"
1759
01:32:40,400 --> 01:32:41,903
"Hey, Larry, how you doing?
1760
01:32:41,945 --> 01:32:44,072
How's your cousin, Bill?"
1761
01:32:44,114 --> 01:32:45,595
And he would rattle on all these names.
1762
01:32:45,615 --> 01:32:47,283
And I'm going, like...
1763
01:32:47,325 --> 01:32:50,036
He would say, "Hey, wait
a minute, your dad was sick
1764
01:32:50,078 --> 01:32:52,122
last time I saw you.
How's he doing?"
1765
01:32:52,163 --> 01:32:53,770
And you know, the look on fans' faces
1766
01:32:53,790 --> 01:32:56,416
would be like,
"He remembered that?"
1767
01:32:56,458 --> 01:33:00,922
He fed off that energy,
that direct connection
1768
01:33:00,964 --> 01:33:02,757
with every single fan.
1769
01:33:02,799 --> 01:33:04,926
You know, they've got the records.
1770
01:33:04,968 --> 01:33:07,095
They got the dreams.
1771
01:33:07,137 --> 01:33:10,348
That's living in the face
of career death, if you like.
1772
01:33:16,020 --> 01:33:17,220
Thank you!
1773
01:33:20,108 --> 01:33:23,319
Aah!
1774
01:33:26,614 --> 01:33:29,326
In the movie, The Pick of Destiny.
1775
01:33:29,368 --> 01:33:32,829
It's, uh, the origin story
of my band, Tenacious D.
1776
01:33:32,871 --> 01:33:35,165
We took some creative liberties,
1777
01:33:35,206 --> 01:33:37,021
but it starts off at
the beginning, you know,
1778
01:33:37,041 --> 01:33:38,668
when I'm a kid and, uh,
1779
01:33:38,710 --> 01:33:41,921
my parents disapprove of my rocking.
1780
01:33:41,963 --> 01:33:45,342
You gotta praise the Lord
when you're in my home
1781
01:33:45,384 --> 01:33:48,971
And I pray to Ronnie James Dio
to please show me the way.
1782
01:33:52,223 --> 01:33:54,517
And then, he, like,
comes to life in the poster,
1783
01:33:54,559 --> 01:33:57,187
and he delivers the advice.
1784
01:33:57,228 --> 01:33:59,230
Escape your father's clutches
1785
01:33:59,272 --> 01:34:00,941
In this oppressive neighborhood
1786
01:34:00,983 --> 01:34:02,651
On a journey you must go
1787
01:34:02,693 --> 01:34:06,864
To find the land of Hollywood
1788
01:34:06,906 --> 01:34:09,304
A lot of people say it's the
best part of the whole movie,
1789
01:34:09,324 --> 01:34:13,620
which is awesome and a little bit sad,
1790
01:34:13,661 --> 01:34:16,582
'cause me and Kyle aren't even in it.
1791
01:34:16,624 --> 01:34:20,711
It's Dio, Meat Loaf, and a
little kid that looks like me.
1792
01:34:20,753 --> 01:34:22,796
We had to record all the songs
1793
01:34:22,838 --> 01:34:24,965
before we started filming the movie.
1794
01:34:25,007 --> 01:34:26,488
Can you play it for me from the end
1795
01:34:26,508 --> 01:34:29,552
of "Go my... Now, go my son
and rock" into the softer bit?
1796
01:34:29,594 --> 01:34:33,724
So, he came over to the studio,
and, um, he brought a microphone
1797
01:34:33,766 --> 01:34:37,394
still, like, attached
to a stand with a cord.
1798
01:34:37,436 --> 01:34:39,313
And he was like, "I brought my mic,"
1799
01:34:39,355 --> 01:34:41,690
and we're like, "Awesome, but you know,
1800
01:34:41,732 --> 01:34:44,735
we're at John King's Studio.
He's a Dust Brother.
1801
01:34:44,777 --> 01:34:47,403
We've got, like, the best
mics in the world here.
1802
01:34:47,445 --> 01:34:49,261
Let's try it on
the Sennheiser 5000, first."
1803
01:34:49,281 --> 01:34:51,013
He was like, "Sure,
whatever you want to do."
1804
01:34:51,033 --> 01:34:52,890
And this sounds like I'm making this up
1805
01:34:52,910 --> 01:34:55,496
but dude laid down such a heavy vocal,
1806
01:34:55,537 --> 01:34:58,249
it, like, was distorting.
1807
01:34:58,290 --> 01:35:00,606
We're all just like, "Holy fuck,
turn down the levels."
1808
01:35:00,626 --> 01:35:02,878
"I did turn down the levels!"
1809
01:35:02,920 --> 01:35:07,299
And so, then he said, "Let's
take out the Sennheiser 5000,
1810
01:35:07,341 --> 01:35:10,886
bring in the Robotron 6000.
This is..."
1811
01:35:10,928 --> 01:35:12,888
And it's like, you know.
1812
01:35:12,930 --> 01:35:14,954
We went through, like,
three different, like,
1813
01:35:14,974 --> 01:35:18,269
state-of-the-art, cutting edge
bleeding edge microphones.
1814
01:35:18,310 --> 01:35:21,773
And he was just, like, too big a voice
1815
01:35:21,815 --> 01:35:23,440
for these fucking microphones.
1816
01:35:23,482 --> 01:35:24,483
And he's like, "I kind of told you guys.
1817
01:35:24,525 --> 01:35:27,027
"That's why
I bring my own mic."
1818
01:35:27,069 --> 01:35:29,029
And so, they're like,
"Oh, yeah."
1819
01:35:29,071 --> 01:35:31,615
And they plugged in his mic,
and it was like, ding.
1820
01:35:31,657 --> 01:35:34,285
And it was like,
it just sounded like Dio.
1821
01:35:34,326 --> 01:35:37,122
Now, go, my son
1822
01:35:37,163 --> 01:35:42,126
And Rock
1823
01:35:46,505 --> 01:35:48,424
Oh, yeah.
1824
01:35:48,465 --> 01:35:50,489
Yeah, I just can't believe
this is really happening.
1825
01:35:50,509 --> 01:35:54,806
I just felt an obligation
to thank him for, you know,
1826
01:35:54,848 --> 01:35:59,352
gracing us with his gift
of, uh, of his singing
1827
01:35:59,394 --> 01:36:01,729
and... and music
ability and inspiration.
1828
01:36:01,770 --> 01:36:04,648
It was deeply moving to me.
1829
01:36:04,690 --> 01:36:06,900
Holy Diver...
1830
01:36:06,942 --> 01:36:09,863
You've been down too long
in the midnight sea
1831
01:36:09,904 --> 01:36:13,241
Oh, what's becoming of me
1832
01:36:13,283 --> 01:36:15,243
Look out
1833
01:36:15,285 --> 01:36:16,995
Ride the tiger
1834
01:36:17,037 --> 01:36:19,913
You can see his stripes,
but you know he's clean
1835
01:36:19,955 --> 01:36:23,542
Oh, don't you see what I mean
1836
01:36:23,584 --> 01:36:25,191
Whatever happens, wherever you are,
1837
01:36:25,211 --> 01:36:28,465
as a musician,
you have to play through it.
1838
01:36:28,506 --> 01:36:29,988
Let the music push through
and play through
1839
01:36:30,008 --> 01:36:31,801
and still stay strong.
1840
01:36:34,387 --> 01:36:36,181
The music industry and music, it's...
1841
01:36:36,222 --> 01:36:38,057
everything has a season.
1842
01:36:38,098 --> 01:36:40,477
People missed that kind of music again.
1843
01:36:40,518 --> 01:36:43,688
I'll never forget it.
I was married to a woman.
1844
01:36:43,730 --> 01:36:46,171
She had two boys and they had
a ball because they were
1845
01:36:46,191 --> 01:36:48,651
kicking my ass in Guitar Hero
with "Holy Diver."
1846
01:36:48,693 --> 01:36:51,196
I was getting my ass
kicked on Guitar Hero
1847
01:36:51,237 --> 01:36:53,782
by these two nine-year-olds on a Dio song
1848
01:36:53,823 --> 01:36:56,534
and I was in Dio,
for fuck's sake, you know?
1849
01:37:00,997 --> 01:37:03,458
Suddenly, Rock and Heavy Metal,
1850
01:37:03,500 --> 01:37:07,087
people are starting to dig it.
It's not a passing fad.
1851
01:37:07,128 --> 01:37:08,777
It's something much deeper than that.
1852
01:37:08,797 --> 01:37:11,007
And sure enough, within a few years,
1853
01:37:11,049 --> 01:37:14,178
the whole classic Rock market
has matured.
1854
01:37:14,220 --> 01:37:16,971
And it's the ones
that really, really mean
1855
01:37:17,013 --> 01:37:20,558
something to people
that will always endure.
1856
01:37:20,600 --> 01:37:23,395
And we got a phone call
from the record label.
1857
01:37:23,436 --> 01:37:26,439
And they're going to re-release
the Dio years with Sabbath.
1858
01:37:26,481 --> 01:37:28,734
And I don't know,
out of the blue, Ronnie goes,
1859
01:37:28,776 --> 01:37:31,217
"Well, maybe we should just
write a couple of songs."
1860
01:37:31,237 --> 01:37:34,906
We worked on these songs
to go into the box set
1861
01:37:34,948 --> 01:37:38,368
and, uh, we really enjoyed it.
We really enjoyed doing it.
1862
01:37:38,410 --> 01:37:40,161
When we got together,
1863
01:37:40,203 --> 01:37:41,976
it was like old friends meeting again.
1864
01:37:41,996 --> 01:37:44,458
I don't know.
Just a certain vibe that you get
1865
01:37:44,500 --> 01:37:46,877
that just feels right.
1866
01:37:46,919 --> 01:37:50,339
And we said, "Well, let's get together,
1867
01:37:50,381 --> 01:37:52,424
"Let's make another album and go on tours
1868
01:37:52,465 --> 01:37:55,093
and get
the band back together."
1869
01:37:55,135 --> 01:37:56,950
And they decided
they were not going to call it
1870
01:37:56,970 --> 01:37:59,264
Black Sabbath, this time.
1871
01:37:59,305 --> 01:38:01,305
They were going
to call it Heaven and Hell.
1872
01:38:04,353 --> 01:38:07,106
Alright, let's check this out, guys.
1873
01:38:07,148 --> 01:38:10,484
Oh, for God's sakes, my eyes suck.
1874
01:38:10,526 --> 01:38:13,361
Can you tell me which...
1875
01:38:13,403 --> 01:38:15,238
God, I'm a little jittery from coffee.
1876
01:38:31,254 --> 01:38:34,800
Here's one thing that is true.
1877
01:38:34,842 --> 01:38:39,847
I think that Ronnie James Dio's
best-ever song
1878
01:38:39,889 --> 01:38:44,393
was his very last song,
which was called "Bible Black"
1879
01:38:44,435 --> 01:38:47,062
off the Heaven and Hell record.
1880
01:38:47,104 --> 01:38:49,565
How many artists can say that
1881
01:38:49,607 --> 01:38:52,276
their last single was among the best?
1882
01:38:52,318 --> 01:38:55,446
To me, it's the best.
I love that song.
1883
01:38:55,488 --> 01:38:57,136
Thank God, I remembered
to say that on here
1884
01:38:57,156 --> 01:38:59,138
because it's totally true.
You can put it on.
1885
01:38:59,158 --> 01:39:01,243
Thank me later.
1886
01:39:07,583 --> 01:39:09,293
How heavy is that?!
1887
01:39:20,388 --> 01:39:22,557
The fact that Ronnie got back together
1888
01:39:22,599 --> 01:39:25,768
with Tony and Geezer and Vinnie,
1889
01:39:25,809 --> 01:39:29,813
I've never known him quite so, uh, Zen.
1890
01:39:29,855 --> 01:39:32,816
This was exactly
the way it was supposed to be.
1891
01:39:32,858 --> 01:39:35,174
Just like the early days, just
like Heaven and Hell again.
1892
01:39:35,194 --> 01:39:38,532
And it was just so much fun.
It was just, wow.
1893
01:39:38,573 --> 01:39:42,244
Everybody was absolutely
kickin' ass, being friends.
1894
01:39:42,285 --> 01:39:45,204
Everybody was having
such an amazing time together.
1895
01:39:45,246 --> 01:39:46,830
You could tell.
1896
01:39:46,872 --> 01:39:50,000
Even Iommi would smile occasionally.
1897
01:39:50,042 --> 01:39:52,837
It was really great
because we've gone through
1898
01:39:52,879 --> 01:39:54,798
a lot together over the years.
1899
01:39:54,839 --> 01:39:57,050
And you get to appreciate things a lot...
1900
01:39:57,092 --> 01:39:59,678
Sometimes you can't see it
when you're involved in it.
1901
01:39:59,719 --> 01:40:02,494
But later on, you think, "Oh,
wow, that was great." You know?
1902
01:40:02,514 --> 01:40:06,892
We seemed to have grown
out of all our miserable days.
1903
01:40:06,934 --> 01:40:09,396
Life's too short now.
You realize as you get older,
1904
01:40:09,437 --> 01:40:13,858
you go, "Why carry
a grudge or be unhappy?"
1905
01:40:13,900 --> 01:40:16,069
You realize, you know, you don't get
1906
01:40:16,111 --> 01:40:18,530
these kind of friendships, really good,
1907
01:40:18,572 --> 01:40:21,407
strong friendships.
They're so hard to get.
1908
01:40:21,448 --> 01:40:23,409
So, this is a wonderful, wonderful time
1909
01:40:23,450 --> 01:40:25,245
of all of our lives.
1910
01:40:25,287 --> 01:40:27,060
Heaven and Hell has made great difference
1911
01:40:27,080 --> 01:40:29,916
in just my, my attitude
as a human being now.
1912
01:40:37,966 --> 01:40:40,635
Heaven and Hell
took off. It was killer.
1913
01:40:40,677 --> 01:40:44,139
Got a great reception.
The album did really well.
1914
01:40:44,180 --> 01:40:47,559
Heaven and Hell
embodied a time when the big,
1915
01:40:47,601 --> 01:40:52,939
major, important Heavy Metal
stars were authentic.
1916
01:40:52,981 --> 01:40:56,109
They didn't learn it from
the bands that came before.
1917
01:40:56,151 --> 01:40:59,654
They didn't learn it from MTV.
They invented it.
1918
01:40:59,696 --> 01:41:02,240
Heaven and Hell is an important band
1919
01:41:02,282 --> 01:41:04,451
because they came along at a time
1920
01:41:04,492 --> 01:41:06,453
when you need a kick in the ass.
1921
01:41:06,494 --> 01:41:09,414
And there's this man
all these years later,
1922
01:41:09,456 --> 01:41:12,335
still loving what he does
to do as a legendary singer.
1923
01:41:12,376 --> 01:41:15,755
That's remarkable, considering
we go all the way back
1924
01:41:15,796 --> 01:41:18,465
to The Red Caps.
1925
01:41:18,506 --> 01:41:21,134
It was like all
the chickens were coming home
1926
01:41:21,176 --> 01:41:24,137
to roost, and Heaven and Hell was as much
1927
01:41:24,179 --> 01:41:28,267
about the culmination
of his journey, his music,
1928
01:41:28,309 --> 01:41:31,479
his universe, the love
he gave out every night
1929
01:41:31,520 --> 01:41:33,147
he walked on stage.
1930
01:41:33,189 --> 01:41:34,982
It seemed to me that Heaven and Hell
1931
01:41:35,024 --> 01:41:39,611
was the encompassment
of all that good stuff.
1932
01:41:39,653 --> 01:41:42,177
It was awesome. I went to
a couple of different shows.
1933
01:41:42,197 --> 01:41:45,785
There he was
in a 20,000-seat arena again.
1934
01:41:45,826 --> 01:41:47,850
And it was like,
"Ah, you're back home, man."
1935
01:41:47,870 --> 01:41:50,873
Thank you!
1936
01:42:04,512 --> 01:42:06,514
It was absolutely fantastic.
1937
01:42:06,555 --> 01:42:08,683
Everybody was
enjoying what we were doing.
1938
01:42:08,724 --> 01:42:10,831
And I remember sitting
with Ronnie and saying,
1939
01:42:10,851 --> 01:42:12,750
"You know, do you fancy
doing another album?"
1940
01:42:12,770 --> 01:42:16,357
He said,
"Yeah, I'll be up for that."
1941
01:42:16,399 --> 01:42:19,360
But of course, we never did.
1942
01:42:21,904 --> 01:42:23,948
This is Damian
with BlackSabbath.com here,
1943
01:42:23,989 --> 01:42:25,825
backstage with Ronnie James Dio
1944
01:42:25,866 --> 01:42:27,556
after performing
the last show on the tour.
1945
01:42:27,576 --> 01:42:30,538
Ronnie, sum up
the tour for us. How was it?
1946
01:42:30,579 --> 01:42:34,875
Uh, it was, uh, tiring.
It was...
1947
01:42:34,917 --> 01:42:36,711
Every show was great, as always.
1948
01:42:36,752 --> 01:42:38,379
This band is never not great.
1949
01:42:38,421 --> 01:42:40,381
Uh, it was...
It was very productive.
1950
01:42:40,423 --> 01:42:42,405
We've been on the road
for such a long, long time.
1951
01:42:42,425 --> 01:42:44,198
Uh, you know, the music
made all the difference,
1952
01:42:44,218 --> 01:42:45,741
the shows we did made all the difference.
1953
01:42:45,761 --> 01:42:47,221
And that's all why we do it.
1954
01:42:47,263 --> 01:42:48,890
So, I guess I'll you know,
1955
01:42:48,932 --> 01:42:51,058
I'll give it a nine and a half
out of ten.
1956
01:42:51,100 --> 01:42:53,124
And is that half point because
of a little bit of sadness
1957
01:42:53,144 --> 01:42:55,062
that now the tour is ending?
1958
01:42:55,104 --> 01:42:56,460
Or is this actually the beginning,
1959
01:42:56,480 --> 01:42:58,190
the start of something new?
1960
01:42:58,232 --> 01:42:59,922
You always say, "Well, gee, maybe I...
1961
01:42:59,942 --> 01:43:03,696
I'm going home. Oh, what
am I gonna do when I get home?
1962
01:43:03,738 --> 01:43:05,365
Maybe we should have done more."
1963
01:43:05,407 --> 01:43:06,888
Of course,
there's always sadness for that,
1964
01:43:06,908 --> 01:43:09,076
but, uh, we will do...
we'll do more,
1965
01:43:09,118 --> 01:43:10,833
and we'll probably do another album,
1966
01:43:10,870 --> 01:43:13,038
and I'm sure we'll
certainly do another tour.
1967
01:43:13,080 --> 01:43:16,417
And for me, I know nothing
else other than to... to play.
1968
01:43:20,045 --> 01:43:22,299
Yeah, it was on the last...
We didn't know
1969
01:43:22,340 --> 01:43:25,135
it was the last tour
at the time. Heaven and Hell.
1970
01:43:25,177 --> 01:43:28,095
And before he was
going on stage, he'd be, like,
1971
01:43:28,137 --> 01:43:32,600
doubled up some nights,
terrible pain in the stomach.
1972
01:43:32,641 --> 01:43:35,603
And we're going, "Come on,
Ronnie. Go and see a doctor."
1973
01:43:35,644 --> 01:43:37,627
And he's going, "No, it will
pass. It will pass."
1974
01:43:37,647 --> 01:43:39,357
And he'd go on, as if nothing
1975
01:43:39,399 --> 01:43:41,026
was going on when he got on stage.
1976
01:43:41,067 --> 01:43:42,736
He was just the usual Ronnie.
1977
01:43:42,778 --> 01:43:44,696
He wouldn't let it interfere with him.
1978
01:43:44,738 --> 01:43:47,364
And then, he'd come off
and he'd be doubled up in pain.
1979
01:43:47,406 --> 01:43:49,033
He'd had problems for about a year
1980
01:43:49,074 --> 01:43:52,454
of, um, indigestion.
1981
01:43:52,496 --> 01:43:55,874
So he did a blood test.
The doctor called me
1982
01:43:55,916 --> 01:43:57,709
and he said,
"It's not good news."
1983
01:44:00,462 --> 01:44:04,299
When we first found out
that he had cancer,
1984
01:44:04,341 --> 01:44:07,635
the two of us cried all night.
1985
01:44:07,676 --> 01:44:10,096
My life fell apart then.
1986
01:44:10,138 --> 01:44:13,725
I... Actually,
Ronnie was comforting me.
1987
01:44:13,767 --> 01:44:16,478
That night, when we both cried,
he was comforting me
1988
01:44:16,520 --> 01:44:19,815
'cause I was hysterically crying.
I couldn't...
1989
01:44:19,856 --> 01:44:23,901
I just couldn't think
of life without Ronnie.
1990
01:44:23,943 --> 01:44:26,321
You know, I mean,
I just couldn't think of life
1991
01:44:26,363 --> 01:44:28,240
without Ronnie at all.
1992
01:44:28,281 --> 01:44:31,284
And he was comforting me, telling me,
1993
01:44:31,326 --> 01:44:33,829
"It's going to be ok,
it's going to be ok."
1994
01:44:36,122 --> 01:44:40,837
Every time I tried
to express concern and direct
1995
01:44:40,878 --> 01:44:42,692
the conversation towards
what he was dealing with
1996
01:44:42,712 --> 01:44:44,986
and let him know that I loved
him and I cared for him,
1997
01:44:45,006 --> 01:44:47,364
and I was there for him,
if I could do anything for him,
1998
01:44:47,384 --> 01:44:50,428
a lot of the conversation
was about him lifting me up
1999
01:44:50,470 --> 01:44:53,014
and making me feel good.
2000
01:44:53,056 --> 01:44:55,183
Where I was supposed
to be doing that to him,
2001
01:44:55,225 --> 01:44:58,521
as much as I tried,
that kept coming back to me.
2002
01:44:58,563 --> 01:45:01,106
Ronnie lost
the eyesight in one of his eyes.
2003
01:45:01,147 --> 01:45:03,984
Also, his hands started shaking as well.
2004
01:45:04,025 --> 01:45:05,569
Did he lose his voice?
2005
01:45:05,610 --> 01:45:08,822
No. No.
Never lost his voice. No.
2006
01:45:08,864 --> 01:45:11,992
Um, no.
That would have killed him.
2007
01:45:12,033 --> 01:45:15,663
A Heavy Metal music icon is in Houston
2008
01:45:15,705 --> 01:45:18,040
dealing with some serious health issues.
2009
01:45:18,082 --> 01:45:20,041
The staff are just so wonderful.
2010
01:45:20,083 --> 01:45:22,377
They just are the best people,
as you can see.
2011
01:45:22,419 --> 01:45:24,337
This is the Ronnie James Dio
2012
01:45:24,379 --> 01:45:26,214
few people have ever seen.
2013
01:45:26,256 --> 01:45:28,926
He's a bit soft-spoken.
He's relaxed.
2014
01:45:28,968 --> 01:45:31,637
Dio has stomach cancer.
2015
01:45:31,679 --> 01:45:33,848
You know, I've been
poked and prodded in holes
2016
01:45:33,890 --> 01:45:35,705
I didn't know I had before,
and they probably
2017
01:45:35,725 --> 01:45:38,039
made a few new ones. I don't
even know where they are.
2018
01:45:38,059 --> 01:45:40,228
I'm lucky that I am a very, you know,
2019
01:45:40,270 --> 01:45:42,397
hard person and strong within my beliefs.
2020
01:45:42,439 --> 01:45:44,400
Dio calls this experience
2021
01:45:44,442 --> 01:45:46,193
"Something to roll with."
2022
01:45:46,235 --> 01:45:48,529
I refuse to be beaten
in any way, shape or form
2023
01:45:48,571 --> 01:45:50,072
so I'm going to beat this, too.
2024
01:45:50,114 --> 01:45:51,574
I just want to get better.
2025
01:45:51,616 --> 01:45:53,826
I just want to be cured, you know?
2026
01:45:53,868 --> 01:45:56,183
They were trying a lot
of experimental drugs on him.
2027
01:45:56,203 --> 01:45:58,914
So, eyesight came completely back.
2028
01:45:58,955 --> 01:46:00,499
His hands stopped shaking.
2029
01:46:00,541 --> 01:46:03,169
Wendy Dio is always with him.
2030
01:46:03,210 --> 01:46:05,296
The treatment seems to be working.
2031
01:46:05,338 --> 01:46:09,842
She says the tumor in
his stomach is getting smaller.
2032
01:46:09,884 --> 01:46:11,802
We used to call it
"killing the dragon."
2033
01:46:11,844 --> 01:46:13,159
We used to skip down the halls going,
2034
01:46:13,179 --> 01:46:14,472
"We're killing the dragon.
2035
01:46:14,513 --> 01:46:17,141
We're coming to kill
the dragon."
2036
01:46:17,183 --> 01:46:20,144
And the Golden God goes to...
2037
01:46:20,186 --> 01:46:25,024
Ah! Ronnie James Dio!
2038
01:46:25,066 --> 01:46:28,361
About the Golden Gods,
I remember very much that
2039
01:46:28,402 --> 01:46:30,905
because that was
the night that we thought,
2040
01:46:30,947 --> 01:46:33,575
"This is it.
He's back on track."
2041
01:46:33,617 --> 01:46:36,410
It's great to be
back amongst people again.
2042
01:46:36,452 --> 01:46:38,851
It's been a little while since
I've been able to do that,
2043
01:46:38,871 --> 01:46:40,873
but I feel pretty good.
2044
01:46:40,915 --> 01:46:43,626
Can't wait to get back
on the stage again. Thank you.
2045
01:46:43,668 --> 01:46:45,024
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
2046
01:46:45,044 --> 01:46:46,473
I love everybody.
Thanks a lot.
2047
01:46:51,635 --> 01:46:54,136
"Dio, Dio, Dio."
Yeah, they were chanting
2048
01:46:54,178 --> 01:46:58,808
because I think that they also
were being as positive as I was.
2049
01:46:58,849 --> 01:47:00,184
It's all going to be over.
2050
01:47:00,226 --> 01:47:01,582
It's all going to be a bad dream.
2051
01:47:01,602 --> 01:47:03,437
Dio! Dio! Dio!
2052
01:47:12,571 --> 01:47:14,699
During Angry Machines,
2053
01:47:14,740 --> 01:47:16,742
the first record I ever made with him,
2054
01:47:16,784 --> 01:47:19,286
the record was done,
2055
01:47:19,328 --> 01:47:22,708
and he came in and he said,
"I wanna do one more song."
2056
01:47:22,749 --> 01:47:25,502
And I thought,
"Oh, really? You mean, so..."
2057
01:47:25,544 --> 01:47:28,630
I thought he meant, you know,
bring the whole band in.
2058
01:47:28,672 --> 01:47:30,236
And he said, "Oh, no, it's just gonna be
2059
01:47:30,256 --> 01:47:31,632
just me and some piano."
2060
01:47:31,674 --> 01:47:32,947
And I thought,
"Oh, ok, cool."
2061
01:47:32,967 --> 01:47:35,386
And just went out and sang that song,
2062
01:47:35,428 --> 01:47:37,139
"This is Your Life."
2063
01:47:45,522 --> 01:47:49,483
There are people in
this world that are...
2064
01:47:49,525 --> 01:47:53,238
There are people that make
the world a better place.
2065
01:47:53,280 --> 01:47:59,036
Who cares what came before
2066
01:47:59,077 --> 01:48:04,374
We were only starlight
2067
01:48:06,126 --> 01:48:09,546
One day then nevermore
2068
01:48:09,588 --> 01:48:14,176
And he was one of them.
2069
01:48:14,217 --> 01:48:19,222
Because we're whispers in the wind
2070
01:48:19,264 --> 01:48:22,100
He was in the hospital.
Everybody left.
2071
01:48:22,142 --> 01:48:25,396
I slept on the bed with him,
holding his hand.
2072
01:48:25,438 --> 01:48:29,149
It was like 7:15 in the morning,
2073
01:48:29,191 --> 01:48:32,986
and he just, like,
shot up and looked at me.
2074
01:48:33,028 --> 01:48:34,801
And I was calling the nurse.
It's fine.
2075
01:48:34,821 --> 01:48:37,324
Like, what's happened?
And then he died.
2076
01:48:37,365 --> 01:48:40,286
It was like... it was like,
almost like he said goodbye.
2077
01:48:40,328 --> 01:48:45,457
This is your life This is your time
2078
01:48:45,499 --> 01:48:49,836
What if the flame won't last forever?
2079
01:48:49,878 --> 01:48:54,091
Ronnie and I had
a mutual friend that called me,
2080
01:48:54,132 --> 01:48:56,552
and I heard him in tears,
2081
01:48:56,594 --> 01:48:59,555
and he just said to me,
"He's gone."
2082
01:48:59,597 --> 01:49:02,517
And, um...
2083
01:49:02,558 --> 01:49:04,935
Sorry, 'cause it's still...
2084
01:49:09,481 --> 01:49:11,233
Ronnie was that special, man.
2085
01:49:11,274 --> 01:49:14,862
All these years later,
it can still hit ya.
2086
01:49:14,904 --> 01:49:19,575
He was the heart and
soul of so many things,
2087
01:49:19,617 --> 01:49:21,743
so much music.
2088
01:49:21,785 --> 01:49:24,830
You don't always see that
while it's happening
2089
01:49:24,871 --> 01:49:28,126
because you feel like
there's gonna be more.
2090
01:49:28,167 --> 01:49:32,213
When Ronnie died, there wasn't more.
2091
01:49:32,255 --> 01:49:35,174
There's not more Ronnies out there.
2092
01:49:39,512 --> 01:49:43,557
He was the real deal.
That's who he was... is.
2093
01:49:43,598 --> 01:49:45,351
To me it's all about "is."
2094
01:49:45,393 --> 01:49:46,978
Ronnie still is in my head,
2095
01:49:47,019 --> 01:49:50,898
in my ears, you know, in my heart.
2096
01:49:50,940 --> 01:49:55,278
Most importantly,
the music is what lets us know
2097
01:49:55,319 --> 01:49:56,759
that Ronnie is alive and living with us.
2098
01:49:56,779 --> 01:49:59,114
Ronnie's beautiful messages in his songs,
2099
01:49:59,156 --> 01:50:00,867
you know, they're lifting people.
2100
01:50:00,908 --> 01:50:04,245
They're helping people get
through their own challenges.
2101
01:50:04,287 --> 01:50:05,518
These are the beautiful elements
of Ronnie
2102
01:50:05,538 --> 01:50:06,956
that will live forever.
2103
01:50:06,998 --> 01:50:09,333
That's why he's everlasting.
2104
01:50:09,375 --> 01:50:11,836
And that's one of
the things he once said to me.
2105
01:50:11,878 --> 01:50:16,133
He said, "The important thing
is it isn't just what you do
2106
01:50:16,175 --> 01:50:19,635
and what you learn,"
He said, "You gotta pass it on.
2107
01:50:19,677 --> 01:50:23,514
Then you've lived a life
worth living."
2108
01:50:23,556 --> 01:50:26,475
And now he passed his message
on to millions of us.
2109
01:50:26,517 --> 01:50:29,687
The message is, if you do
put your heart and soul
2110
01:50:29,729 --> 01:50:33,275
into something, no one
can take that away from you.
2111
01:50:33,317 --> 01:50:34,965
If you really have something to say,
2112
01:50:34,985 --> 01:50:36,507
if you have that love in your heart,
2113
01:50:36,527 --> 01:50:40,031
that really is the most important thing.
2114
01:50:42,533 --> 01:50:44,827
There's a quote that I live by,
2115
01:50:44,869 --> 01:50:47,079
that Ronnie definitely nailed,
2116
01:50:47,121 --> 01:50:49,208
is from Horace Mann, the educator.
2117
01:50:49,249 --> 01:50:51,043
He said, "Be ashamed to die
2118
01:50:51,084 --> 01:50:55,338
until you've won some
victory for mankind."
2119
01:50:55,379 --> 01:50:57,757
Ronnie ought not be ashamed.
2120
01:51:10,771 --> 01:51:13,294
I still talk to him, but it's
not like talking to him.
2121
01:51:13,314 --> 01:51:18,319
You know? I miss him.
2122
01:51:18,361 --> 01:51:20,989
The fans are still there.
2123
01:51:21,031 --> 01:51:23,909
I'm sure Ronnie would love to know that.
2124
01:51:23,951 --> 01:51:27,079
He would love to know that
his memory is still there.
2125
01:51:27,120 --> 01:51:29,061
He's not forgotten.
He'll never be forgotten.
2126
01:51:29,081 --> 01:51:32,041
I will never allow him to be
forgotten as long as I live.
2127
01:51:43,887 --> 01:51:48,767
I believe in reincarnation.
2128
01:51:48,809 --> 01:51:50,893
I think you have to be the ultimate being
2129
01:51:50,935 --> 01:51:52,938
before you get to that point.
2130
01:51:52,980 --> 01:51:54,962
You have to keep coming back
till you get it right.
2131
01:51:54,982 --> 01:51:59,820
I think Ronnie got it right.
2132
01:51:59,861 --> 01:52:02,447
I really think he got it right.
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