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In Honor Of Ronnie James Dio: ‘Horns’
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Ronnie James Dio: HornsThe creation of this image was suggested to me by a friend via Twitter, and I immediately thought ‘Horns’ and got to work making it happen.

I created ‘Horns’ to honor of one of the most inspiring people in my life and the lives of many of my friends, the Godfather of Heavy Metal — Ronnie James Dio, who passed away yesterday.

Dio’s bold music scored such a large part of the backdrop of my youth that I can rarely think of good times without thinking of him (Look Out!!).

I was lucky enough to have seen him perform in concert more times than I can rightfully put a number to and I gotta tell ya, every single time I saw him he made that concert seem like the ‘best’ performance of his career.

My friend Greg said it best: ‘Black Sabbath with Ozzy may have created Metal – but it was RONNIE JAMES DIO that made metal a REALITY’

Rock in Peace, RJD!!

\m/ \m/ Hold those horns high!!

Click here to view the high-resolution version.

7 Comments »

  1. That is the definition of Epic! Thank you!

    Comment by Dex — May 17, 2010 @ 9:19 am

  2. Rock on, this is great!

    Comment by Bast — May 17, 2010 @ 3:05 pm

  3. \m/

    Comment by Dax — May 17, 2010 @ 7:14 pm

  4. Awesome, hope is ok for me to post the image on my facebook? Let me know if not and I’ll remove.

    RIP (perfectly changed to “ROCK IN PEACE” by someone I saw on another site) RJD

    We’ll miss you more than we know!

    Comment by Rob — May 18, 2010 @ 5:48 pm

  5. Went on Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC radio 2 to talk about this image, and Dio & the whole ‘Horns’ phenomenon i Heavy Metal a little while ago. I’m really happy that this is being appreciated. That’s all I wanted.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sfwfc

    Comment by Dave3 — May 20, 2010 @ 1:16 pm

  6. Sorry but I heard you on Simon Mayo’s show yesterday and you got some facts wrong. You stated Dio was in Sabbath with Ozzy and you saw them on the ‘Black & Blue’ tour in 1978.

    As you should know Dio replaced Ozzy in Sabbath and the above tour with Blue Oyster Cult didn’t take place until 1980.

    I don’t mean to be pedantic (it’s the British in me) but as a major fan of RJD it’s important all posthumous statements are correct.

    Comment by Wast — May 21, 2010 @ 7:46 am

  7. @ Wast

    Yes. Actually he was touring as the lead singer for Rainbow, the supporting act for Black Sabbath at the time. I did actually know this, but it was a case of ‘the nerves’ (and my current meds) that made my mind go numb just before they said “You’re on the air” to me. My apologies.

    And, no I didn’t see him on that tour as I was around five years of age. lol. The first time I saw Dio was about seven years after that tour. =)

    Comment by Dave3 — May 24, 2010 @ 11:37 am

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