Among musicians who don’t actually make metal, Ryan Adams is one of the biggest metal fans; he’s right up there with John Darnielle. And he’s never been shy to cover old triumphant metal tunes in his own solo-acoustic way; we posted his version of Ratt’s “Round And Round” just last month. This past weekend in Los Angeles, he encored by taking on Dio’s absurd, glorious “Holy Diver,” introducing it with some nice words about the departed metal icon Ronnie James. A fan, blatantly flouting the show’s no-camera-phones rule, caught it on video and posted it to YouTube, and we’ve got it below.
(via Beats Per Minute)
Fun fact that you probably already know: If you look at Dio’s logo upside-down, it spells “devil.” I always thought that was awesome.
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haha, i guess i can give a half clap at the attempt BUT…no, no no no haha, i don’t care who you are you can not acoustic/strum-IZE a metal classic. it’ll never work:) now a female could MAYBE pull it off, that’d be the only way possible, cuz you need a totally different voice to confuse the senses not just slower tempo n unplug-age. Last In Line could possibly work though;)
searching for the upside down dio logo lead me to this page and its amazing comment section.
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-find-the-Hidden-Word-on-the-Dio-80s-Metal/?comments=all#C8E3XK7GQZJO58H
here’s wishing CDUKSHN and cima were SG commenters.
also, a theory: perhaps Ronnie James Dio (aka RJD) isn’t dead but in fact faked his death and is now making beat-oriented electronic and hip-hop music under some clever psuedonyms: Aphex Twin (aka Richard D James aka RDJ) and RJD2
if an MC Six Sixty Six pops up i’ll investigate
Video link is down …damn ;)
tragic haha, i dont know what was more annoying: the song or his 3 minutes of ‘look at me!’ witty banter with his adoring fans:)