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Gillan and Hughes in RJD tribute
Wendy Dio is putting together a tribute album to Ronnie James Dio. It will tentatively include contributions from Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, Scorpions (Temple Of The King), Rob Halford (Long Live Rock’n’Roll), Metallica, Anthrax (Neon Knights), Lemmy Kilminster, Alice Cooper, Halestorm, Sebastian Bach, Chris Jericho and Dave Grohl.
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov and Blabbermouth for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
I always feel frustrated about the fact that the possibiity to cover each other’s songs is rarely used.
I think that used to be different before the 70’s?
Miss you Ronnie 🙁
February 5th, 2014 at 16:48hughes is always all over these 😀
February 5th, 2014 at 16:51Wonder if Blackmore will take part. I really think he and Ian Gillan should put their mutual animosity to one side for a few houirs or one night and get on stage again and celebrate the life and work of a wonderful singer.
February 5th, 2014 at 17:10Sounds great until I heard Metallica was on it. These guys bring nothing to the Metal Community anymore. Sorry.
February 5th, 2014 at 17:22Saw the Michael Schenker Group in New Jersey a week and change ago. Great gig and they played “Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead from his Temple Of Rock album, written for RJD. One would think it is a Dio tune. The current MSG sounding great with Doogie handling the pipes….
Peace,
February 5th, 2014 at 18:53Ted
“The Wizard Convention Part 2, hmm…? Salute…!
February 5th, 2014 at 19:04Oloko será sensacional hein! Não tinha visto.
February 5th, 2014 at 19:23No,no…don’t ask the question ..Ritchie will not play on this tribute album!
February 5th, 2014 at 20:39Sounds like a great L.P.
February 5th, 2014 at 21:16This is going to be the best tribute album ever
February 5th, 2014 at 23:24Hope they don’t just go for big names to sell goods, but rather include anyone who really touched Ronnies life with a significance & talent to match.
We saw Ronnie sing for Rainbow over 5 consecutive nights (UK) & each performance was better than the previous. LONG LIVE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL!
February 5th, 2014 at 23:30I wonder which song Gillan will sing ? from Sabbath/Rainbow albums,or
February 6th, 2014 at 01:18solo albums?
Wouldn’t it be great and magnanimous of Ritchie to contribute a version of “Catch The Rainbow” with his wife on vocals?
February 6th, 2014 at 12:42Ronnie james Dio’….is the best vocalist’…and good song writer’..
February 6th, 2014 at 12:51Long live rock and roll
February 6th, 2014 at 14:11Loved Gillan’s renditions of the DIO era Sabbath songs LIVE during the Born Again tour. ‘Heaven and Hell’ and ‘Neon Nights’ were incredible. Matter of fact, I’m listening to my personal recording of the Ft. Lauderdale show at the Sunrise Musical Theater as I type this…… “YEEEEEEOOOOOOWWWW!!!!”
Can’t wait for this release and looking forward mostly for the Gillan track. “Sing me a song, you’re the singer….”
!Ch-BeerZ”
February 6th, 2014 at 14:18I`m looking forward to this one because of the contributions of IG and GH of course. But I think it is a shame sometimes that only the usual suspects record (or are asked to) those tributes – it would be much more intersting to get other musicians with totally differnt styles in. Most tributes are rather poor efforts to re-do a song the way it has already been done – and better that is. Some of Dio`s songs could sound really good in an acoustic setting for example I imagine.
February 6th, 2014 at 18:55hey Guys, the album has already been recorded , mixed, and pressed, so here’s a great idea = let’s start making suggestion as to should play on it 😉
February 6th, 2014 at 22:24I hope that GH will not sing CTR in that funky style just like he used to do before
February 7th, 2014 at 09:42another shit from niji ent………………
February 7th, 2014 at 16:45It’s too late now but they should have had something from JORN Lande & Jeff Scott Soto.
February 8th, 2014 at 15:33Hate me all you want, dudes, but Gillan should drop this shitty band called Deep Purple today (it is NOT Seep Purple without Ritchie), rehire Torme, McCoy, Towns, and Underwood, and start recording some real hard rock music the way he did it in his golden solo days back in 1979 – 1982 …
February 9th, 2014 at 17:18Metal Prophet @22:
No hater here, but I have a much better alternative. Gillan stays with Purple, but does a side project with your suggested line-up. He has done solo stuff while in Purple already in the past (Gillan’s Inn, Dream Catcher, One Eye to Morocco, WhoCares). No reason he couldn’t do as you stated also. I’d love to see it. I have a feeling he couldn’t organize the rest of the band for it though. That being said, leave Purple to do it? “I Can’t Dance to That”….
Love you man…..
!Ch-BeerZ?
February 10th, 2014 at 23:44‘Metal Prophet’ is the same individual I presume, that has been recently commenting over at the Black-Sabbath.com site in regards to Tony Iommi & his ‘solo’ albums with Tony Martin & Ian Gillan. The albums that detail the comments from ‘Metal Prophet’ are 20 years since ‘Cross Purposes’ & also the 30 years since ‘Born Again’.
February 11th, 2014 at 04:02Me thinks he is a ‘stirrer’ of the pot so to speak. Now I see the very similar ‘joke or shit stir or sarcasm if you like’ here at this site! Woe betide the ‘Metal Prophet’! Cheers.