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16 фев 2025 :	TRACY G Reflects On His Exit From DIO: 'They Didn't Kick Me Out Of The Band'
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27 окт 2024 :	SIMON WRIGHT Says Performing With RONNIE JAMES DIO Hologram Was An 'Enjoyable' Experience
27 июл 2024 :	VINNY APPICE On RONNIE JAMES DIO: 'He Loved His Fans' And 'He Loved The Music'
8 июн 2024 :	DIO - The Complete Donington Collection To Arrive In July
15 янв 2024 :	RONNIE JAMES DIO Funko Pop! Vinyl Figure Due Out This Month
10 янв 2024 :	WENDY DIO Says RONNIE Never Spoke To RITCHIE BLACKMORE Again After Getting Fired From RAINBOW
9 ноя 2023 :	WENDY DIO Says RONNIE JAMES DIO Hologram 'Worked For A While', But She Is 'Not Doing That Again'
27 сен 2023 :	Reissue Of Eighties Metal All-Star Project HEAR 'N AID Will Arrive 'Sometime Soon', Says WENDY DIO
25 сен 2023 :	WENDY DIO Says Remixed Version Of DIO's 'The Last In Line' Album Is In The Works For 2024 Release
22 сен 2023 :	VIVIAN CAMPBELL Says RONNIE JAMES DIO Initially Had 'No Interest' In Doing HEAR 'N AID Project
18 авг 2023 :	DIO: 'The Studio Albums: 1996-2004' Limited-Edition Deluxe CD And LP Box Sets Due In September
13 авг 2023 :	DOUG ALDRICH Confirms His Unreleased Song Collaboration With RONNIE JAMES DIO Will Finally See Light Of Day
28 июн 2023 :	RONNIE JAMES DIO Documentary 'Dreamers Never Die': Official DVD And Blu-Ray Release Details Revealed
9 май 2023 :	DAVID COVERDALE Says RONNIE JAMES DIO Was An 'Amazing' Singer
9 май 2023 :	Unreleased RONNIE JAMES DIO And DOUG ALDRICH Song Collaboration To Finally See Light Of Day Next Year
4 май 2023 :	Watch: Ex-DIO Guitarist ROWAN ROBERTSON Performs DIO, BLACK SABBATH Classics In Slovakia
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3 мар 2023 :	Former DIO Guitarist ROWAN ROBERTSON Performs Playthrough Of "Evil On Queen Street"; Video
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24 ноя 2022 :	DOUG ALDRICH Explains Why He Only Has Brief Appearance In DIO Documentary 'Dreamers Never Die'
17 ноя 2022 :	RONNIE JAMES DIO Gets His Own FUNKO Pop! Figure
26 окт 2022 :	TOBIAS SAMMET Says RONNIE JAMES DIO's Singing Was 'Out Of This World'
26 окт 2022 :	CRAIG GOLDY Was 'Surprised' By How Many Times He Appeared In RONNIE JAMES DIO Documentary
12 окт 2022 :	WENDY DIO Sets Record Straight: RONNIE And I Never Got Divorced

31 янв 2021

JEFF PILSON Remembers RONNIE JAMES DIO: 'He Was Just Such A Wonderful Person'

Bassist and producer Jeff Pilson is best known for playing with DOKKEN and FOREIGNER, but he also toured with DIO in the 1990s and performed on three of the group's albums — "Strange Highways" (1993), "Angry Machines" (1996) and the group's tenth and final studio release, "Master Of The Moon" (2004).

During a recent interview with Dave Lawrence of Hawaii Public Radio, Pilson was asked to recount how he first met Ronnie James Dio, as well as to share any cool stories about the legendary heavy metal singer. He responded (hear audio below): "I first met Ronnie, I believe it was 1982. I was in a band that came down to L.A. — I was living in San Francisco at the time, but I was in a band that came down to L.A. to play. And we were playing a gig with the band ROUGH CUTT that Ronnie's wife, Wendy, was managing, and Ronnie had been helping them out, producing them, I think, and whatnot. Anyway, so Ronnie came to the gig that night, and I certainly knew who he was, but I'd never met him. But I got to meet him, and he turned out to be just this wonderful, sweet, great guy, and I just had a wonderful first impression. Little did I realize that only about a year and some [months] later, I would be doing shows with DOKKEN [and] we would be opening for DIO.

"The DIO band and the DOKKEN band got to be very, very, very close, and that was a friendship that started in 1983 that probably, in a roundabout way, ended up with me being in [the DIO] band in 1993.

"[Ronnie] was just great," Jeff continued. "He was just such a wonderful person. The voice — that goes without saying; everybody he was a great singer. But he was a great musician, great band leader — just a great energy. He was a great person.

"I think the story that comes to mind is just how great he was with fans. I've never seen an artist anywhere close to approaching the level with fans that Ronnie was. Every night we would play, he would sit out there in front of the bus — and I'm talking in Buffalo, New York when it's degrees below zero — he would stand out there until everybody had an autograph, and he would not rush people. We would be there till one and two in the morning sometimes, and he signed everything from everybody. He knew the fans. He'd see somebody and say, 'Wait a minute. Your dad was sick. How's he doing?' And the person would look at him, like, 'Holy shit! You remember that?' [Laughs] But it was just amazing. He was incredible. And it was from the heart — he really, truly loved his fans and appreciated them. And even his lyrical message was always that, 'Don't be the small guy. Be the bigger person. Claim what is yours. Don't let anybody tell you that you aren't entitled to whatever you feel you're entitled to.' It was just a great message. And he was just such a great person and great musician. And I'm so glad his legacy will always live on because of that music."

In recent years, Pilson produced the first two albums by LAST IN LINE, the group formed in 2012 by former members of the original DIO band — Vinny Appice, Jimmy Bain and guitarist Vivian Campbell.

Pilson and the rest of FOREIGNER are next scheduled to perform at the Frontyard Festival at Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando, Florida on March 23 and March 24. The new purpose-built, live entertainment event is designed to re-engage artists and guests in a safe, socially distanced setting.

JEFF PILSON Remembers RONNIE JAMES DIO:

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