Dehumanizer is a great album. And Dio's Strange Highways was great follow up to it.

Whenever my friends and I happen to talk about this film, that's the one scene that stands out for all of us. We were all in college when we saw it and the part where the son walks in on the crime really got to us. When my wife and I were dating we watched this with some friends as part of a horror-thon and I made…

Aside from Ian's NY comment, John Brannon from Negative Approach was the one who allegedly dropped the F-bomb, shouting "Negative Approach will fuck you up".

Derf Scratch (Fear's original bassist) claimed that Philo wrote the song but was pressured by Lee not to take credit for it because Lee hated the guys who produced the song. http://www.markprindle.com/…

Bastards is a great album! I didn't know it was widely hated. I remember the big knock against it was that it was hard to find because the label that put it out didn't have good distribution.

The new bassist isn't on St. Anger. The producer played the bass parts.

Yeah, he's kinda shifted that animosity towards Dio's wife/manager now. I guess they made some promises on the business end then never came through with it. Vivian pushed the issue and they pushed him out. Jimmy Bain has a similar story. Even Vinny Appice, who was cool with Dio until the end, has confirmed Vivian's…

He did play drums with Tony and Ozzy at that Queen's jubilee thing, so it's not made up!

My friend was a huge Dream Theater fan. About 15 years ago, he made we wait in line with him to get Mike Portnoy's autograph at the Drum Pad in Palatine, IL. We were surrounded by people who only talked about the amazing virtuosity of Dream Theater and how people who hated them were really just jealous because they…

Sabbath didn't steal Gillan from Deep Purple. When he joined Sabbath, he'd been out of DP for about a decade and DP had been broken up for several years. Gillan actually jumped ship from Sabbath for the Purple reunion. If there was any band that Sabbath was poaching from, it was Rainbow. Rainbow alums that went…

One of Dio's gifts was to sing with absolute conviction. Whether or not his lyrics meant anything, he always delivered them as though they were the most powerful thoughts that the universe could convey through him. I think it's one of the things that many of the vocalists that cite him as an influence lack. It's…

Greg Ginn actually was said to be obsessed with the Dio-Sabbath albums and the first Dio solo album at the time My War was recorded.