Episode 86: Dio Rainbow in the dark year 1983. English Version

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you know I mean first of all we love you know we love doing it it's uh it's really a kind of a privilege to be you know 51 years old and being able to go out just still to have a void.

00:01:11 - Let me. Well it's felt differently everything is called orgasmatron.

00:01:14 - I think are useful, just because of the fact that with what I try and do, it's important to try and...

00:01:28 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley

00:01:30 - But piano was inconceivable, I mean, you can't just go and buy a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.

00:01:37 - I think I was very driven period.

00:01:40 - It was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.

00:02:10 - Holy Diver is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Dio, released in 1983, featuring the song Rainbow in the Dark.

00:02:23 - Vocalist Ronnie James Dio had just finished his first tenure in Black Sabbath, who's drummer, Dinia Pease, who brought along to form his own band.

00:02:32 - The roster was completed by his former rainbow bandmate Jimmy Bain on bass and young guitarist

00:02:37 - Vivian Campbell, from the new wave of British heavy metal band Sweet Savage.

00:02:42 - Rainbow in the Dark, according to Vivian Campbell, guitarist for Dio, its gigantic riff, used to be a Sweet Savage song called Lady Marianne.

00:02:51 - All the music on Rainbow in the Dark was from a Sweet Savage song I wrote when he was 16.

00:02:56 - Campbell recalled how the genesis of Dio's song came from a jam session he, bassist

00:03:01 - Jimmy Bain, and drummer Vinnie Apice had been having fun with when Ronnie came into the rehearsal studio one day.

00:03:08 - But we played it for Rani and he almost immediately started singing the melody over it.

00:03:13 - And then during one of the breaks, Jimmy walked up to this little Yamaha keyboard that we had set up, and he came up with the little keyboard motif and that was it.

00:03:22 - We had the damn song written in ten minutes.

00:03:25 - There is no one on the planet who plays drums like Vinnie a piece.

00:03:29 - He invented the rhythm, every time he wrote something, in my head, while playing,

00:03:33 - I thought that the snare goes here and the bass goes there.

00:03:37 - And nine times out of ten Biny would reverse that.

00:03:40 - That's what he did on Rainbow in the Dark.

00:03:42 - However, Ronnie Dio wasn't sold on the song, saying, It's a song that I don't really like, he explained in a track by track interview.

00:03:51 - I announced to everyone that I would take a razor blade and cut the tape.

00:03:55 - I went for the razor blade and they said, No, no.

00:03:59 - Do not do it.

00:04:00 - For me it was too pop for the album.

00:04:02 - I didn't want to create a pop piece because I come from Black Sabbath, a band that allowed me to do anything as dark as I wanted.

00:04:10 - I didn't want those people who liked what I did on Black Sabbath to say, now it's changed.

00:04:16 - He has become a pop artist, but they convinced me and I thank them again and again.

was quite deeply into the heavier side of things, and which is what I always wanted to do anyway.

00:04:39 - I'd like the riff, but I thought that the song became just a little bit poppy, and that was my problem with it.

00:04:45 - Compared to the rest of it, the other songs were a lot heavier to me.

00:04:48 - So I actually got to the point where I said, you know, I'm gonna destroy this tape.

00:04:53 - These are the days when we were using tape, and not digital things, anyway.

00:04:56 - So instead of hitting delete,

00:04:57 - I would have had to take the razor blade, and I was about to do that, and they all, the rest of the guys in the van, including a couple of people who wrote the song as well.

00:05:05 - No, don't, it's a great song, don't.

00:05:08 - So they talked me out of doing that and I'm very grateful that they did and grateful that I listened because it's certainly become one of the watchwords for this band, Rainbow of the Dark.

00:05:23 - Well, I've kind of become convinced of the song after all these years that it certainly has a place inside of what we do.

do it every show so I guess that means that but you know the job of the musician the entertainers to entertain people give them what they want and that because that song became so synonymous with this band because it was greeted with such success it's something that you have to do I'm of the ilk when I perform anyway that each song is there has to be interpreted and done as if it was a if it were the first time and after all these years very well the artist still the first time for me doing the song I just think that you know it's matured and knows what it's supposed to do and the people who play know that too so I know I enjoy doing the song very much now but that doesn't change what my early attitude was

00:06:30 - Cause it's free and I see it and it's me

00:06:36 - Who's lost and never found

00:06:39 - I cry out for magic

00:06:43 - I feel it dancing in the light

00:06:49 - It was cold

00:06:51 - Lost my hold to the shadows of the night

00:06:55 - No sign of the morning coming You've been left on your own

00:07:04 - Like a rainbow in the dark A rainbow in the dark

00:07:11 - Do your demons, do they ever let you go?

00:07:19 - When you try to hide deep inside Is it someone that you know?

00:07:29 - You're just a picture Your enemy's catching time

00:07:37 - We're a line You will die with walls without a rhyme

00:07:47 - There's no sign of the morning coming

00:07:51 - You've been left on your own

00:07:53 - Not the rainbow in the dark

00:07:57 - Just the rainbow in the dark

00:08:01 - Yeah

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00:08:47 - When I see lightning, you know it always brings me down

00:08:58 - Cause it's free and I see that it's me who's lost and above

00:09:07 - Feel the magic, I feel it floating in the air

00:09:13 - But it's fear and you're here in calling you beware

00:09:22 - Look out!

00:09:24 - There's no sign of the morning coming

00:09:28 - There's no sign of the day

00:09:32 - You've been left on your own

00:09:35 - Like a rainbow

00:09:39 - Like a rainbow in the dark

00:09:43 - Yeah, yeah, yeah

00:09:47 - You're a rainbow in the dark

00:09:55 - Just a rainbow in the dark

00:09:59 - No sign of a mountain

00:10:03 - You're a rainbow in the dark

00:10:13 - You