Remembering DIO (July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010)
On September 7, 2007 I interviewed Ronnie James Dio. I explained to Ronnie my vision and was glad to oblige. "Sabbath created heavy metal music. Purple were much more of a musical entity. They were much more trained and from Jon Lord to Richie Blackmore to Roger Glover, all of them were just really great players who learned from other great musicians. Zeppelin, those guys were a little bit between Sabbath and Purple in that they had musical expertise but…