Vinny Appice, anyone?

smoke wrote:

Is no one learning anything from Dio's quick passing?

Least of them Bill Ward.

He opted out of the Heaven & Hell tour due to some disagreements.

not sure i agree w/this.
well, he's not like RATM in sofar as he's not shit, but what's Civil War or Chinese Democracy?

i do know where you're coming from. he's probably at his best on stuff like SCoM with it's personal but universal reach. but he doesn't shy away from social comment either - "organised religion makes a mockery of humanity etc"

UYI's especially are covered in lyrical genius
i thought he took a massive step-BACK on CD however - the over-reliance on the cut & paste, lack of anything worth singing along too (Better inparticular is ruined by this). they do tell good stories, tho very similar, & there are a few highlights (Sorry's playground chorus completely wipes the floor w/the similarly puerile How Do You Sleep?, Maddy is a tour-de-force).
but take Prostitute, or even TWAT. great fucking songs, & good stories but who the fuck is gonna be singing along to them in concert (that is, if he ever had the balls to play them) the way you can w/SCoM? there's no "whoa-oh's" on the album at all. The Blues is the only thing that comes close to a sing-along but even it stretches credibility with it's WhatITellYA/InsideofYou finish & bad tempo.

& another thing - where the fuck has all the sex gone? maybe one or two occasions it was discussed on the UYI's but CD is disturbing asexual for a band who did Anything Goes & Rocket Queen.

& it's gotten some stick on here the past few weeks but seriously, OIAM fucking kills lyrically. an absolutely awesome song & awesome, fearless lyric.