DIO "Lovers" The Mode Of Dress!
Listening to metal singers is like scratching a severed leg. A lot of them, anyway. Voices so thin that only the best of micrometers can register them. But not Ronnie James Dio. Uh-uh. Little man, big voice. Such a big voice he was wooed by Blackmore, Black Sabbath, and all sorts of good stuff with “Black” in it.
DIO "Lovers" The Mode Of Dress!
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Sylvie Simmons
Listening to metal singers is like scratching a severed leg. A lot of them, anyway. Voices so thin that only the best of micrometers can register them. But not Ronnie James Dio. Uh-uh. Little man, big voice. Such a big voice he was wooed by Blackmore, Black Sabbath, and all sorts of good stuff with “Black” in it. Such a little man, Sabbath’s road crew used to stick a box in front of his mike-stand during soundchecks to wind him up. And it worked. Ronnie James Dio does not like being referred to as “small,” “tiny,” “dwarf-like,” “piccolo” or anything denoting a lack of height. I’ve never found it a problem myself, and can’t see how it would bother anyone else—so long as they don’t have a Kevin DuBrow hair problem. And as my Italian nurse used to say, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen and if that means you have to cook your pizza on top of the iron, be sure not to get cheese on your underwear.