Drummer Vinny Appice Talks About RONNIE JAMES DIO, New HEAVEN & HELL DVD/Blu-Ray
November 13, 2010, 14 years ago
Scott Smith from The Times Record spoke with HEAVEN & HELL drummer Vinny Appice (BLACK SABBATH) recently about a number of topics including the new DVD/Blu-ray Heaven & Hell: 30 Years Of Heaven & Hell - Live In Europe. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
On RONNIE JAMES DIO's illness: "Ronnie would have these stomach pains, but he told us it was just gas. We didn't know he was ill - Ronnie didn't know he was that ill - when we filmed that show. He would have these pains but then go up there and sing his butt off. Ronnie was amazing. We said, ‘If he can sing like that, then he's probably OK.' We didn't know."
On Live In Europe DVD/Blu-ray: When we filmed that, it was one of those magical nights where everything went right. The sound was great, we were playing great, and oh my gosh, all of those people there. There were so many people at that festival (Wacken)."
On life with Ronnie James Dio: "You know, ‘Neon Nights' was the very first song I played with Ronnie way back in my beginning with Black Sabbath, and it was also the very last song I played with him in Heaven & Hell. That was the full journey with Ronnie, right there. It was great."
Read the entire interview here.
