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I came in the next day and said this is cool. I recorded the beginning, as I was always in charge of recording, we hit that chord and that feel was there. “We almost didn’t do that song, that song was a jam.
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Looking back at Dio Holy Diver album did you think Rainbow in the Dark would be a big hit at the time I had to have a talk with everybody and I decided to go with Ronnie.
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So I thought it would be exciting to do something with Ronnie, he’s the man and we lived miles apart it was easy to get together. So when that tour ended Ronnie said I’m going to put a band together and I would like you to join me and Sabbath wanted me to stay so I had a choice. It’s got to be a business thing cause it was not a musical thing. Obviously they had some business disagreements, I’m not sure. At the end of tour there was an American limo and a British limo and stuff like that started happening, It didn’t matter to me so much I would go in either limo. “Everything was going great then I don’t know exactly what happened as far as why the band split up. How did the band fall apart after Live Evil ‘The band was happy at that point and Ronnie was very happy and we all looked forward to going to rehearsals, when the band is happy the music comes out great. Tell us about Ronnie’s lyrics on Mob Rules It sounded like Heaven and Hell album with a little bit different approach here and there.” He did his thing in the background and got great sounds, great suggestions and was a great guy to work with and we were all on the same team, it was a good team. “I just remember he was such a really nice guy, sweat heart, very low key. Tell us about working with late Martin Birch as a producer on the Mob Rules We would record the music play it back and go that sounds good let’s work on that, that’s the way the album was put together.” The Mob Rules was just us sitting together in a room jamming. For the record we would just went in everyday and jammed nobody ever came in with songs written. and it was easier when we finally got around to writing all of Mob Rules record. So the band was excited that something that came out so good with a new drummer. We did the song in two days and it was mixed, finished and kicking ass. So we went to John Lennon’s house (Ringo Owned it) to record and we put together the ideas and wrote the whole song there.
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“On the Heaven and Hell album tour we did the song Mob Rules for the movie ‘Heavy Metal’. What was the feeling going into the writing and recording of Mob Rules And I would say hey Ronnie what are they saying but I got used to it over time “ I never really been around British people at that time and that Birmingham accent was really heavy and sometimes they talked and I didn’t know what they were saying. We were both from New York, we liked the same kind of food so we hit it off right away. “Ronnie and I were both Italian even though he was 14-15 years older than me we got along like brothers. We only had four days of rehearsal before the next show.”ĭid you get along with Ronnie James Dio right away The rehearsal went really well so they asked me to join the band until Bill comes back. I thought wow that new singer for Sabbath sounds great cause at the time I didn’t really follow Dio. Tony then invited me to rehearse the next day with Black Sabbath that is when I met Ronnie, Geezer Butler and Geoff Nicolls who was the keyboardist and the first song we ever played was Neon Knights cause I heard it on the radio a couple of weeks before. Tony like the album and we got along great. So I said yeah, so next day I went to meet Tony and he had an album under his arm that I did with a band called Axis and there was a really good drum sound on it. Bill Ward left the tour and they heard about me and would you like to come down and meet Tony Iommi at the hotel in LA. So I actually turned that gig down and then about two months later I get a call from Sabbath saying they are in town looking for a drummer.
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I thought I would ask my brother Carmine about Ozzy and I decided not to do it. “Before the Sabbath thing (1980) I got a call from Sharon Osbourne saying she is putting a new band together for Ozzy and they wanted me to fly to England and hang out with Ozzy and see how we would get along and possibly be in the band.