• Dave Walker (replaced Ozzy briefly in 1977 for one TV performance)
• Ian Gillan (ex-Deep Purple, vocals on 1983's Born Again)
• Glenn Hughes (ex-Deep Purple, vocals on 1986's Seventh Star)
• Don Airey (ex-Rainbow and Hammer keyboardist, played on Never Say Die)
• Vinny Appice (Tony Iommi look-alike, drums on Mob Rules, Live Evil, Dehumanizer, and several '90s reunion tours)
• Bev Bevan (ex-The Move, ex-Electric Light Orchestra, ex-Electric Light Orchestra Part II, drummer for 1983's Born Again tour)
• Terry Chimes (ex-Clash, drummer for 1987-1988's The Eternal Idol tour)
• Laurence Cottle (bass on 1989's The Headless Cross)
• Bob Daisley (bass on 1987's The Eternal Idol)
• Ronnie James Dio (ex-Elf, ex-Rainbow, frontman for Dio, vocals on Heaven & Hell, Mob Rules, Live Evil, and Dehumanizer)
• Ray Gillen (vocals on 1986's Seventh Star tour)
• Geoff Nicholls (bass at Heaven & Hell rehearsals, off-stage keyboardist for Seventh Star, The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross, and sporadic live stints through 2005)
• Cozy Powell (preeminent British classic rock drummer, played on Headless Cross, Tyr, and Forbidden)
• Eric Singer (current drummer of KISS, played on Seventh Star and The Eternal Idol)
• Dave Spitz (guitar on The Seventh Star)
• Jo Burt (bass for 1987-1988's The Eternal Idol tour)
• Dave Donato (vocals for 1985 and '85 rehearsal and demo sessions)
• Tony Martin (vocals on The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross, Tyr, Cross Purposes, Cross Purposes Live, and Forbidden)
• Jed Woodruffe (offstage live keyboardist for the Never Say Die tour)
• Rob Halford (Judas Priest frontman, vocals for various one-off live performances in the 90s)
• Mike Bordin (ex-Faith no More, drums for 1997's Ozzfest tour)
• Neil Murray (ex-Whitesnake, bass on Tyr and Forbidden)
• Bobby Rondinelli (drums on Cross Purposes and Cross Purposes Live)
Aaron Lefkove would most like to be remembered as the guy who coined the phrase "Summer of Megadeth."
You left out SATAN HIMSELF.
But He flows through all the Work of the Masters, and would thus be redundant.
And Tommy Saxondale
3:20 post? YEESH.
(Also you should all go to summerofmegadeth.tumblr.com and REFRESH CONSTANTLY, RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.)
Is that yours Matt?
Nevermind, I just discovered reading.
I'm not just a member, I'm also a contributor. (?) Also this is a thing that I've been known to do.
Hah, I think I followed you soon after I made a tumblr, but I know nothing about comics and shamefully unfollowed one day befuddled. But I didn't know it was you!
Ian Gillan hit on me in a crummy bar on the Upper West Side in 2005. I don't get hit on much, so it was weird to begin with. I thought at the time that "I'm the lead singer of Deep Purple" was just a really poor chat-up line. Googled him the next day and it was actually him, though.
I lit Tony Iommi's cigarette for him in the Tenerife Airport, in the Canary Islands. I didn't even know who he was at the time - I was 16 and into hardcore.
Then we get to Johannesburg and the airport is full of Sabbath fans - one guy asked me, 'hey, did you see Bleck Sebbeth on thet plyne'?
They were going down to play Sun City.
ouch.
Black and Blue, baby...1980.
Ronnie James Dio is on my short list for guys you don't want to be standing next to at the bar when the lights go on at 5AM. In 8 inch boots I think he came up to about my nipple.
According to Wikipedia: "His parents raised him in the Roman Catholic church, an experience he found unsatisfactory." ZOMG! Really!?!?!?! I would have never known!!!
That's for sure. Forget ex-Elf, I think he might be an *actual* Elf.
RONNIE JAMES DIO IS NOT DEAD!!! http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=140115
Bev Bevan has always been on my "best rock names of all time" list.
You're making a career of evil.
They're going to call you out, you know, for referring to a different band.
Yes, darling, I know it, but let's see who does. In every dreamhome, a heartache, etcs., you know.
It's okay, because that is one of the greatest songs ever written. We may have to do a series of BÖC posts now.
So why'd they go through so many people? Did they all, like, choke to death on someone else's vomit, or what?
I am learning to play 'Solitude,' today.
Three days after this post, Ronnie James Dio drops dead.
COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT.
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