Religious experience

[alchemy1]

I just had to share with you guys and gals one of the single greatest experiences of my life. The 19th of October I actually got to meet one of my idols as both a kid and adult...Ronnie James Dio. First of all, the concert here at the Verizon theater was awesome. Dio still puts on one of the best shows ever. After the show, about 25 of us went out by the buses to wait for the band (I only do this with bands that I actually care about). After about 1 hour and 45 min, the man himself finally exited the club. I have to say that as much of a living legend as he is, he is also the warmest, nicest, most cordial person you will ever encounter. He actually SPENT TIME with his fans graciously signing everthing that they brought, possing for pictures, and even having conversations with them. So I could pontentially spend the most time with him I patiently got to the end of the "line" (which was cool because right before he got to me he looked at me and said "Last in line huh?"...awesome...). He signed my Holy Diver LP, ticket stub and promo concert poster. Through talking to him I basically let him know how inspirational and influential his music had been to me...to which he responded "That's wonderful. You see, you get it." I also took a couple pictures with us both making the sign of the devil at the camera. SWEET!!!
YOU RULE RONNIE!!! 😀

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

you are a lucky bastard according ot the hollywood brother. Dio has been a music choice for me for years. I am such a big fan that i drove twice to dio way which is the street he was raised at. It is right by a big factory that dio be working right now if he wasn't the only man capable of leading rainbow, sabbath and himself to greatness.

I love his work all the way from elf on up. the hollywood brother has never seen him but my friend saw him once and then met him. Just like your story, Dio was nice and signed crap. My friend however took it further. He just got a tat on his arm of the dio demon holding the chain from the holy diver album. Dio signed my friends arm right under the tat and my friend got the singature tat on his arm. What is amazing is that dio signed it so you can read it and took the time to talk to my friend in a parking lot at 1:00 a.m. in the morning.

The hollywood brother say we should all worship dio as a true rock and roll icon. Maybe after listening to his works again we can becoem dreamers so when we are the last in line, we will rock. Also maybe the hollywood brother can drink some good old fashioned all american coors light and think back to dio's rainbow days