DIO DISCIPLES, which pays tribute to Ronnie James Dio and is absolutely supported by Dio‘s widow/supervisor Wendy, performed a nine-song set of DIO and Dio-era BLACK SABBATH and RAINBOW songs at this 12 months’s “Rock For Ronnie: A Live performance In The Park” fundraiser, benefiting the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Most cancers Fund, which came about on Could 18 on the out of doors area adjoining to the Autry Museum of the West in Griffith Park in Los Angeles.
For this efficiency, DIO DISCIPLES included former DIO members Simon Wright on drums and Scott Warren on keyboards, together with guitarist Ira Black and bassist Bjorn Englen in addition to singers Patrick Stone from the Los Angeles band BUDDERSIDE and Gabriel Colon, who’s finest identified for his current work with LYNCH MOB.
Fan-filmed video of the present might be seen under.
This 12 months’s “Rock For Ronnie” introduced in over $100,000 for the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Most cancers Fund. Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach headlined the occasion, which additionally included COUNT’S 77, KILL DEVIL HILL, Jason Charles Miller, Anita Squeeze and an all-star jam. Entrepreneur, writer and producer Ahmet Zappa hosted the occasion.
Dr. David Wong of the UCLA College of Dentistry accepted a test for $25,000 to advance his crew’s analysis to develop a easy, non-invasive saliva swab take a look at for early most cancers detection. As a result of most cancers fingerprints are seven occasions extra prevalent in saliva than in blood, this analysis is essential to early most cancers diagnoses.
Billed as a “celebration of the music and legacy of the best singer on the planet, Ronnie James Dio,” DIO DISCIPLES have been taking part in Ronnie‘s music on tour in a bid to maintain their outdated bandmate’s reminiscence alive.
5 years in the past, Wright informed The Metallic Voice that the proposed DIO DISCIPLES debut album had been put “on maintain” in order that he and his bandmates may deal with the “Dio Returns” tour. On the time, Simon stated that “about 4 or 5 demos” had been laid down of “completely different songs” that he and former DIO guitarist Craig Goldy had been engaged on. As for the fabric’s musical path, Wright stated: “It is troublesome to pin it down, as a result of a few of [the tracks] are just a little completely different. Nonetheless just a little little bit of [the] DIO [sound], the best way Ronnie would write, clearly, ‘trigger that is rubbed off on Craig, and I hear issues too. However in the mean time, it is just a little bit eclectic. In order that was gonna be one factor we have been gonna method. We have to consolidate it and make it right into a DIO DISCIPLES sound. In order that was a dialog we have been having: ‘We have to determine the place we’re going with this.’ For the time being, it is a bit far and wide. However they sound good. They’re nice concepts.”
A number of years in the past, Goldy revealed DIO DISCIPLES have been planning to start out work on a mission of unique materials, and so they debuted three of the brand new songs throughout their Could 2016 look on the “Experience For Ronnie” bike rally and live performance in Encino.
Craig beforehand informed “Speaking Metallic” that he has been collaborating with fellow former DIO member Jeff Pilson on the fabric for the debut DIO DISCIPLES album.
Goldy joined DIO throughout the “Sacred Coronary heart” tour in 1986 after unique guitarist Vivian Campbell was fired from the band following a contentious enterprise disagreement with the singer and Ronnie‘s administration.
Pilson is finest identified for enjoying bass with DOKKEN and FOREIGNER, however he additionally toured with DIO within the Nineteen Nineties and carried out on three of the group’s albums — “Unusual Highways” (1993),“Indignant Machines” (1996) and the group’s tenth and ultimate studio launch, “Grasp Of The Moon” (2004).
