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Friday, May 29: Dio, "Here's to You"

R.I.P. Ronald James “Dio” Padavona (1942-2010)

Strange Highways was a dark, heavy and difficult album, which made “Here’s to You” with its hollering and cheering both feel like a welcome respite from the borderline oppressive heft and also a little awkward. Presumably it was meant as another Dio anthem along the lines of “Stand Up and Shout” and “We Rock”, and there was something of a hook in Tracy G’s riffing as well as the pre-chorus. But Ronnie’s growling had the same belligerence that made “Jesus, Mary & the Holy Ghost” and “Evilution” total monsters and this iteration of Dio was all about beatdowns, so “Here’s to You” felt a bit stuffy and claustrophobic even as the lyrics offered a rallying cry. Ronnie was aiming for something very deliberate on Strange Highways and for the most part he achieved his goal of crafting a more modern metal record more rooted in the real world, but that created a weird dichotomy on “Here’s to You” that he couldn’t fully reconcile.

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Há 33 anos: Ronnie James Dio se recusava a atuar como o ato de abertura para os shows de “despedida” de Ozzy Osbourne no Pacific Amphitheater em Costa Mesa, Califórnia. De acordo com a biografia de Tony Iommi, Dio nunca pensou muito em Ozzy, e muitas vezes se referia a ele como um “palhaço”. Em um esforço para salvar os shows em Costa Mesa, os membros restantes do Sabbath chamaram Rob Halford (que havia deixado recentemente Judas Priest) para substituir Dio nos vocais, o que ele concordou em fazer com a benção de Ronnie. Na segunda noite, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler e Bill Ward juntaram-se a Ozzy no palco para tocar quatro músicas, provocando a especulação imediata de uma reunião da formação clássica do Sabbath.