RONNIE DIO AND THE PROPHETS 1967

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  • This is a live concert of Ronnie Dio and The Prophets that I chose to include the song "Hey Look Me Over" as audio. I love how the camera man kept focusing on all the chicks butts lol (And there were some nice ones indeed!) Gary Driscoll's reaction at the end though, haha. I figure this must have happened sometime in 1967

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  • @acrovader
    @acrovader 3 роки тому +1356

    Hard to believe that just 8 years later he'd be singing 'Man on the Silver Mountain'.

    • @bennymoret447
      @bennymoret447 3 роки тому +55

      Stargazer....Wow an instant Classic. Gates Of Babilon.
      and Catch The Rainbow.
      My Top 3 Dio's Rainbow
      Songs.

    • @Santiago-qm6di
      @Santiago-qm6di 3 роки тому +10

      Tales of Rock Roll 🤘

    • @scsi_joe
      @scsi_joe 3 роки тому +27

      "Hard to believe that just 8 years later he'd be singing 'Man on the Silver Mountain'."
      Just goes to show how quickly things can change!

    • @reficul1984
      @reficul1984 3 роки тому +12

      Yeah it's funny he went from this shit music to making great music just a few years later. Ronnie is a great singer.

    • @JohnDoe-jc3cl
      @JohnDoe-jc3cl 3 роки тому +4

      @@scsi_joe ❌❗️
      EXACTLY ❗️
      ( a looong way from the Sacred Heart Tour!!! ‘85?? Wow. )
      Not one Marshall to be had
      This reminds me a LOT of my church’s picnic

  • @purplegrant
    @purplegrant 3 роки тому +2347

    When the cameraman doesn't realise he's filming a future legend and keeps getting distracted by butts.

    • @themetalfan9900
      @themetalfan9900 3 роки тому +149

      Distracted? He’s doing the same thing I would do

    • @timbowden1680
      @timbowden1680 3 роки тому +113

      Can't say that I blame him.

    • @danielfreitas4402
      @danielfreitas4402 3 роки тому +58

      BUTT WHAT'S THE PROBLEM FILMING THAT BEAUTIES ?

    • @Kelle0284
      @Kelle0284 3 роки тому +110

      Ride the tiger. You can see his stripes, BUTT you know he's clean.

    • @mikemorrison1690
      @mikemorrison1690 3 роки тому +50

      Even if I knew it I would still be distracted by butts.

  • @kasperkjrsgaard1447
    @kasperkjrsgaard1447 3 роки тому +466

    Sounds a lot like The Who. “Substitute”

  • @uppishcub1617
    @uppishcub1617 3 роки тому +610

    Imagine being the one guy who knows Dio from this and has never even heard of his metal songs

    • @bUwUmer1260
      @bUwUmer1260 3 роки тому +44

      That Ronnie guy? He's ok, bass is a little off beat though. LOL JK!

    • @ajricherson1099
      @ajricherson1099 3 роки тому +24

      Me. Only know music from this era, haven't gotten into metal yet

    • @uppishcub1617
      @uppishcub1617 3 роки тому +12

      @@ajricherson1099 are you for real?

    • @ajricherson1099
      @ajricherson1099 3 роки тому +23

      @@uppishcub1617 yep. It's not like I searched for this video though, it was recommended (probably because its 60s music)

    • @olenlotharjoo
      @olenlotharjoo 3 роки тому +7

      @@ajricherson1099 What are your favorite bands, besides Beatles?

  • @KozzmoKnight
    @KozzmoKnight 3 роки тому +974

    And despite his legendary career, that show set the all time record for women at a Dio concert

    • @maximummatt73
      @maximummatt73 3 роки тому +54

      Harsh but hilarious

    • @JG-no3iz
      @JG-no3iz 3 роки тому +47

      True but the ones that did hit the shows in the 80s were very...fun..

    • @donaldcady3839
      @donaldcady3839 3 роки тому +14

      @@JG-no3iz For sure. Metal titties.

    • @hbono1
      @hbono1 3 роки тому +36

      Maybe, though an attractive metal woman is more epic than approximately 666 regular women combined.

    • @mattmarshall2232
      @mattmarshall2232 3 роки тому +33

      Not even close to being true. Saw Dio in 88 and made out with some chick I didn't know. Even got a little stank fing lol

  • @stevencole184
    @stevencole184 3 роки тому +450

    I remember them playing at a school dance in Marathon NY must have only been a year or so after this. They were Ronnie Dio and the Electric Elves then. Not sure what year it was. 69 or 70? Use to see them locally after that as Elf. Was slways kind of proud a local boy made it so big. Was always a Dio fan, for sure. RIP RONNIE!

    • @johnjmass9335
      @johnjmass9335 3 роки тому +4

      i just read recently the Dio was from New Hampshire originally. Or born there at least.

    • @dumpygoodness4086
      @dumpygoodness4086 3 роки тому +21

      @@johnjmass9335 i live in Psmth and was SHOCKED to find out DIO is from there!
      THEY NEED A BIG STATUE so tourists can come from around the world!

    • @tomchrisfield7348
      @tomchrisfield7348 3 роки тому +8

      Wasn't Ronnie Dio from Cortland NY ?

    • @johnjmass9335
      @johnjmass9335 3 роки тому +13

      @@tomchrisfield7348 I guess we were both correct. Ronald Padavona was born in Portsmouth, N.H., and in Cortland, N.Y. He took his stage name in tribute to the gangster Johnny , and he began his career in rockabilly bands in the late 1950

    • @johnjmass9335
      @johnjmass9335 3 роки тому +9

      @@dumpygoodness4086 he was born there in NH but was raised in Cortland, NY

  • @imandan1966
    @imandan1966 3 роки тому +1315

    I tried to get into this show but I was the last in line....

  • @SonicVR12
    @SonicVR12 3 роки тому +276

    For a million dollars I wouldn't have been able to guess this was RJD.

    • @jeffo9396
      @jeffo9396 3 роки тому +3

      His face does a little bit, but that's where any and all similarity ends.

    • @gumballthechewy
      @gumballthechewy 3 роки тому +10

      @@jeffo9396 I can hear it in his voice, it's not the force of nature it soon would be but you can hear a bit of the cadence

    • @broman260
      @broman260 3 роки тому +12

      look at his face at 2:01 honestly you can tell it's him

    • @stevep.4236
      @stevep.4236 3 роки тому +4

      You are right! At 2:01 RJD is staring right at you.

    • @BarbRogersMs.SolarTerror
      @BarbRogersMs.SolarTerror 3 роки тому

      It reminds me of GG Alin

  • @nosferatu-369
    @nosferatu-369 3 роки тому +174

    I was hoping to see the barn blows up at the end and a huge dragon rise out of the flames.🔥

  • @ctgranto1
    @ctgranto1 3 роки тому +55

    Dio was perhaps the only relavant rock artist in the 1980's-2000's whose first legit records came out in the 1950's

    • @OnlyKaerius
      @OnlyKaerius 8 місяців тому +1

      The only one I can think of to come close was a friend of his, Pat Boone. Go listen to "Ain't that a shame", and then his cover of Dio's "Holy Diver", haha. Dio sings backup vocals on the cover.

    • @ctgranto1
      @ctgranto1 8 місяців тому

      Lol...I remember when Pat Boone's version came out. I took it to a party and played it for the buddies.

  • @anthonymuzyczek5599
    @anthonymuzyczek5599 3 роки тому +1300

    That's some Scooby doo music right there!

  • @martingoldfire
    @martingoldfire 3 роки тому +117

    1:50 Proto-twerk, inspired by DIO

    • @mikenukem
      @mikenukem 3 роки тому +4

      LMAO

    • @Bruce-Leroy
      @Bruce-Leroy 3 роки тому +6

      Ain’t no twerk goin on there, that was strait air humping……..motivated air humping at that!

    • @MrPizzababy79
      @MrPizzababy79 3 роки тому

      An Elettra Lamborghini ante litteram 😂😂😂

    • @Olegstuff21986
      @Olegstuff21986 3 роки тому +1

      @@Bruce-Leroy Motivated and brought to you by Dio (copyright). :)

    • @dj-um7el
      @dj-um7el 5 днів тому

      Lol

  • @anthonyspina5723
    @anthonyspina5723 3 роки тому +370

    Incredible that any video footage of him with the Prophets exists. Amazing! Thank you!

    • @gensaikawakami341
      @gensaikawakami341 3 роки тому +10

      Tbh yeah that is amazing. I'd be surprised to see any live footage of Elf much less this.

    • @anthonyspina5723
      @anthonyspina5723 3 роки тому +7

      @@gensaikawakami341 Perhaps something will surface in the soon to be released RJD documentary or a future box set containing Elf reissues.

    • @whom382
      @whom382 3 роки тому +1

      @@gensaikawakami341 ua-cam.com/video/jec4nGsL2LA/v-deo.html took me 2 seconds to find that. The audio is terrible though.

    • @matthewvoss7365
      @matthewvoss7365 2 роки тому +1

      Exactly and I’m grateful it does.

    • @michelejeican830
      @michelejeican830 Рік тому

      he used to play in my little city at the Catholic schools, lol. Before my time, unfortunately...

  • @j_freed
    @j_freed 3 роки тому +41

    This band has some seriously nice guitars… And I like how Ronnie is just strumming his rare Gibson bass like he’s a folkie holding an acoustic guitar.

  • @joeyjackman675
    @joeyjackman675 3 роки тому +21

    Just amazing how Dio went from Beach Boy style of music, to the the Legandary Heavy Metal Voice that he became. Just incredible R.I.P.

    • @patrickturner2417
      @patrickturner2417 3 роки тому +2

      Dont forget Elf.

    • @JMarinelli
      @JMarinelli 2 роки тому +5

      This is more early Who than Beach Boys.

    • @ohso41
      @ohso41 Рік тому +4

      They had a song out two years earlier that sounded just like the Beatles. This sounds like the Who

    • @joeyjackman675
      @joeyjackman675 Рік тому +2

      @@ohso41 Either way the transformation is incredible!

    • @ohso41
      @ohso41 Рік тому +3

      @@joeyjackman675 agreed. His really early stuff in the early 60's actually was very similar to Frankie Avalon and Dion and the Belmonts. It wasn't until around 1972 with elf that you can hear the Dio that we all know and love

  • @flyinyoku3543
    @flyinyoku3543 3 роки тому +121

    18 years after this: "The old ones speak of winter, the young ones praise the Sun, and time just slips away". 42 years after this: "Far beneath the world we missed the Sun". Long live Dio!

    • @justinmartyr8889
      @justinmartyr8889 3 роки тому +7

      And just a mere eight years after this, "Sail away on ships of wonder, But life's not a wheel, With chains made of steel, So bless me".

    • @poulwinther
      @poulwinther 3 роки тому +5

      Seven years after: "I'm a fire, Burning higher, Trying to burn the sun"

    • @beatlesrgear
      @beatlesrgear 3 роки тому +7

      "The world is full of kings & queens who'll blind your eyes and steal your dreams!"

    • @maximummatt73
      @maximummatt73 3 роки тому +3

      "My eyes are bleeding"

    • @FeelingShred
      @FeelingShred 3 роки тому +2

      " They say you never hear the bullet that kills
      And I don't hear a sound "

  • @sulufest
    @sulufest 3 роки тому +144

    For a few seconds there at the beginning, I thought they were covering “Substitute”, by The Who. Very similar intro and riffs.

    • @JosephFrancisBurton
      @JosephFrancisBurton 3 роки тому +2

      First thing I thought of too. Very inspired by The Who.

    • @swampdonkey67
      @swampdonkey67 3 роки тому +4

      The WHO copied it for sure 👍👍👍👍👍

    • @jroberts2nd
      @jroberts2nd 3 роки тому +11

      @@swampdonkey67 Yeah, sure, the Who stole a song by a completely unknown band in New York state and released it a year before this footage has been dated. "Substitute" was released as a single in the UK on March 4, 1966. They were obviously pretty heavily influenced by the Who. Christ.

    • @MoodyBlue42..
      @MoodyBlue42.. 3 роки тому +4

      "I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth " thought the same thing. Seeing this for the 1st time. Wow he could sing anything. I wonder when he decided to get after it and put some growl into it?

    • @jennerneto2788
      @jennerneto2788 3 роки тому +2

      ​@@jroberts2nd he is kidding!

  • @Sasquatch64
    @Sasquatch64 3 роки тому +48

    This is actually a good song. Thanks for sharing!

  • @stevemora7845
    @stevemora7845 3 роки тому +12

    He could sing softer pop type stuff just as well as kick ass metal an amazing talent! Rip

  • @artiemax
    @artiemax 3 роки тому +20

    Ronnie James was a "little giant" at 5' 4" and a Colossal song writer!

  • @28mmRPG
    @28mmRPG 3 роки тому +71

    Cameraman: "I luv butts..."

    • @taino1975
      @taino1975 3 роки тому +6

      He just did not know who Dio would become..Butts were butts back then and now and in the future XD

    • @kojam1
      @kojam1 3 роки тому +8

      ... and he cannot lie...

    • @stephenasbridge878
      @stephenasbridge878 3 роки тому +2

      @@taino1975 I find your sentiment about butts strangely comforting....

    • @rickkstir
      @rickkstir 3 роки тому

      That first one was too big for the time. Now it may be a tad small.

    • @kojam1
      @kojam1 3 роки тому +1

      @@rickkstir THANK GOD!!!

  • @blackholerainbow3029
    @blackholerainbow3029 3 роки тому +211

    Little known fact, but that Ronnie guy went on to have an amazing career.

    • @maximummatt73
      @maximummatt73 3 роки тому +13

      Yeah Richie Blackmore employed him at one point

    • @L3M0N4NDCH3RRYZZ
      @L3M0N4NDCH3RRYZZ 3 роки тому +10

      @@maximummatt73 Tony Iommi hired him for a while as well.

    • @jacobtrowbridge9767
      @jacobtrowbridge9767 3 роки тому +10

      @@L3M0N4NDCH3RRYZZ yeah and I think he might of done some solo work but I could be wrong

    • @manicdgr
      @manicdgr 3 роки тому +5

      @@jacobtrowbridge9767 Dio wasn't Dio's solo career. At least he didn't consider it so, which i think is waht actually matters

    • @HeadHunterSix
      @HeadHunterSix 3 роки тому +1

      @@manicdgr Almost every solo artist still has a band. I think if you've named the band after yourself and you're not part of a musical family like the Jacksons, Gibbs, Hansens or Van Halens, it counts as solo.

  • @rocknrobert1
    @rocknrobert1 3 роки тому +60

    Hard to imagine this morphing into what Dio became, a rock god imo

    • @MichaelBradley1967
      @MichaelBradley1967 3 роки тому +4

      They had yet to go through the Electric Elves/Elf phase before going over the Rainbow.

    • @StupidEarthlings
      @StupidEarthlings 3 роки тому +1

      Not really son, we all started somewhere.. well, unless you're just copying folks. ;) keep exploring, you might (will be) surprised.

    • @1998kid1
      @1998kid1 3 роки тому +7

      That’s just a man who loves music 🤙🏽

    • @mattskustomkreations
      @mattskustomkreations 3 роки тому +1

      Rewind another 10 years and he was with Ronnie and the Red Caps, singing Doo Wop! And no, I’m NOT making this up, RJD was a 50’s greaser.

  • @michaelmichaels138
    @michaelmichaels138 3 роки тому +30

    “If you listen to Ronnie James Dio or Black Sabbath then you ain’t black” - *Joe Biden*

    • @igotnothingbettertodo472
      @igotnothingbettertodo472 3 роки тому +4

      Guess i aint then my demented president.

    • @mburke1211
      @mburke1211 3 роки тому +3

      @@igotnothingbettertodo472 Let’s go Brandon!

    • @mdolinski4926
      @mdolinski4926 2 роки тому +1

      Let's Go Bannon!....to jail!

    • @NegaRenGenX2gay2lift
      @NegaRenGenX2gay2lift 2 роки тому

      @@mdolinski4926 did that guy tried to leave the country? sus amongus

    • @NegaRenGenX2gay2lift
      @NegaRenGenX2gay2lift 2 роки тому

      ​@@mburke1211Right-wingers are so Alpha that they’re afraid to swear

  • @DaveRucci
    @DaveRucci 3 роки тому +38

    Literally EVERYONE was influenced by the BEATLES and the 60's style music... even OZZY wanted to be the Beatles!

    • @ANDROLOMA
      @ANDROLOMA 3 роки тому +1

      There's a reason why.

    • @chrisbridston3438
      @chrisbridston3438 3 роки тому +4

      Then there’s the Beatles wanting to up the anti on The Beach Boys :) how cool were BOTH of those bands during the drug years lol.. both bands having dude crushes on each other .. tripping balls in the studio while using flutes .. mandolins.. slide whistles.. horns .. just crazy how those two bands shaped so much

    • @S21853
      @S21853 3 роки тому +3

      This song reminds me of "Substitute" by The Who.

    • @badbirdkc
      @badbirdkc 3 роки тому +2

      This sounds more like Bubblegum Rock than The Beatles to me.

    • @Sportingalagrieska
      @Sportingalagrieska 3 роки тому

      Sure! When high and young Ozzy wanted to be an astronaut if he could 😁

  • @twikirobot6897
    @twikirobot6897 3 роки тому +151

    When you could get Ronnie Dio to play your keg party.

    • @johndanielsforJesus
      @johndanielsforJesus 3 роки тому +10

      Back when people KNEW what a "keg party" was, lol.
      And before they got raided by the local police! 😯
      Haven't seen or heard anything like that for, at least, 20 years.

    • @fredolka8552
      @fredolka8552 3 роки тому +4

      If Ronnie was still with us , I think he would do a keg party if you asked

    • @MClover420
      @MClover420 3 роки тому

      @@johndanielsforJesus don't know about now but we still had plenty 15 plus years ago just not at college apartments or frat houses those got cracked down on "used to go to plenty of those in the late 90s before I was at the legal drinking age" but discreetly in friends basements or out on farms out of site when police showed up and no one knew about it unless you were invited or was with someone that was

    • @MClover420
      @MClover420 3 роки тому

      @@johndanielsforJesus I used to get Kegs for $60 with$10 to$15 off if I had the previous keg from a local liquor store and would either have a pump or rent one for about$15 or we would just get the stuff from a local Knights of Columbus hall because my friends parents were members and they have their own bars

    • @maximummatt73
      @maximummatt73 3 роки тому

      That would be one cool-ass keg party tho

  • @Cincinnatus1869
    @Cincinnatus1869 3 роки тому +79

    Small Faces and Who influence is apparent. Dio the Mod😆

  • @riprjd4500
    @riprjd4500 3 роки тому +59

    It's cool to see Ronald's transformation over the decades. His voice has always been AMAZING in all genres of music. 🤘RIP RJD

    • @aiden_macleod
      @aiden_macleod 3 роки тому

      It's okay.

    • @tomjulian7226
      @tomjulian7226 3 роки тому +2

      Only his mother calls him Ronald

    • @themetalfan9900
      @themetalfan9900 3 роки тому +1

      Ronald?

    • @riprjd4500
      @riprjd4500 3 роки тому +1

      To those questioning my reference to Ronnie as "Ronald", I was simply giving the man proper respect by using his full name. I've seen it used many times on various YT posts. 🤘RIP RJD

    • @themetalfan9900
      @themetalfan9900 3 роки тому +1

      No worries I thought you might have known him personally, then we could get a story

  • @IronSteam1
    @IronSteam1 3 роки тому +124

    1967 - A time when anyone could film an anonymous butt without being prosecuted.

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 3 роки тому +5

      They still do, all the time, GOP safe spacer.

    • @IronSteam1
      @IronSteam1 3 роки тому +17

      @@ColtraneTaylor I'm not American, so I wonder what is the link between me and GOP... (yes, the planet is vast beyond USA borders). I was born in 1967 and I can testify that liberty, which I tasted in my youth has vanished forever. No-one born after 2000 can imagine how free we were before that decade.

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 3 роки тому +1

      @@IronSteam1 But you're still RW aren't you?

    • @IronSteam1
      @IronSteam1 3 роки тому +1

      @@ColtraneTaylor Sorry I do not understand this word "RW" ?

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 3 роки тому +1

      @@IronSteam1 right wing.

  • @azimuth361
    @azimuth361 3 роки тому +34

    "Hey, want to join my band?"
    "Sure."
    "Can you sing harmony?"
    "Oh yeah."
    "The lead singer is Ronnie James Dio."
    "I quit."

    • @Glamosapien
      @Glamosapien 3 роки тому +2

      Eh he probably was no were near his peak ability at this point

  • @julioerit
    @julioerit 3 роки тому +13

    Amazing footage!!! 🙌🏻🎶
    Gary Driscoll on drums (lasted all the way through Rainbow's debut LP),
    Nick Pantas on lead guitar (sadly died in a car accident the whole band was involved in)
    David "Rock" Feinstein (Dio's cousin) on rhythm guitar (lasted up to Elf's debut LP)
    RJD on bass and vocals
    I believe they became The Electric Elves not long after this...

  • @ATOMICROBOT667
    @ATOMICROBOT667 4 роки тому +67

    Man on the silver mountain!

  • @thepatester
    @thepatester 3 роки тому +25

    Camera guy had no clue that Dio would go on to be one of the best singers ever, so @ 1:09: butts.

  • @JawTooth
    @JawTooth 3 роки тому +215

    The good days

    • @coreyjwingate
      @coreyjwingate 3 роки тому +6

      Compared to Dio? Lmao

    • @dr0117
      @dr0117 3 роки тому +4

      nah, thats "burn this footage" days

    • @MrJimbojamez
      @MrJimbojamez 3 роки тому +5

      The GAY old days, right grand pappy?

    • @jwtish7825
      @jwtish7825 3 роки тому

      Ah yes, Jaw Tooth! It seems like they recommend the same stuff to every railfan I guess!

    • @severinmelamud
      @severinmelamud 3 роки тому +1

      Yes. Before blm looking "singers" pissed and shitted everything around

  • @sds4life17
    @sds4life17 3 роки тому +13

    My first Concert was "SacredHeart 86" I'm fortunate to have seen Dio live 15 more times through the years. His voice and stage presence was unmatched in Heavy Metal!🤘

  • @chrisvesy7245
    @chrisvesy7245 3 роки тому +94

    I bet Ronnie got a thousand laughs showing this to his Party Buds over the decades! 😆😎 R I.P. Ronnie

    • @worldeconomicforum7210
      @worldeconomicforum7210 3 роки тому +4

      And doing a mountain of coke of a goth strippers DDs. Why smoking weed of a goat's Horn bong with water from .The river styx RIP DIO.

    • @michaelcraig9449
      @michaelcraig9449 3 роки тому +2

      Why laughs? This is totally cool, good vibes.

  • @AlexSosaBolivia
    @AlexSosaBolivia 3 роки тому +154

    This was filmed shortly after the Civil War.

  • @scottjohnsoltis7748
    @scottjohnsoltis7748 3 роки тому +23

    I clicked here to see a young Dio. It started out like a typical wholesome 60s type video, then came all the pervy but shots!!!

    • @MClover420
      @MClover420 3 роки тому

      😂

    • @maximummatt73
      @maximummatt73 3 роки тому +3

      The cameraman was a minor legend himself

    • @dvir12345
      @dvir12345 3 роки тому

      Lmao

    • @paulweisgerber7654
      @paulweisgerber7654 3 роки тому +1

      What might be pervy now was obligatory then.
      Actually, it’s still obligatory, but some are just more vocal about being uptight.
      About a lot of things.

    • @kma5699
      @kma5699 3 роки тому +2

      @@maximummatt73 don't tell me the camera guy was See More Butts.....

  • @Pagefire
    @Pagefire 3 роки тому +2

    Baby Dio, so young and precious!
    \m/_ØwØ_\m/

  • @michaelshanahan829
    @michaelshanahan829 3 роки тому +56

    This is still better than anything on the radio in the last 20 years

  • @johnrybarczyk8845
    @johnrybarczyk8845 3 роки тому +157

    Ronnie strumming the bass like Danny Partridge. Hard to believe it's the same guy. One of the top 5 Metal vocalist of all time in my opinion. RIP Ronnie!

    • @johnnyutah482
      @johnnyutah482 3 роки тому +2

      Fact

    • @thewildbruce5612
      @thewildbruce5612 3 роки тому +2

      Who are your other top 5?

    • @johnnyutah482
      @johnnyutah482 3 роки тому +4

      @@thewildbruce5612 Bruce is in there..

    • @Juliofiasco
      @Juliofiasco 3 роки тому +7

      @@thewildbruce5612 in no particular order: Rob Hallford, Bruce Dickinson, Geoff Tate, Ronnie Dio, Michael kiskie

    • @thewildbruce5612
      @thewildbruce5612 3 роки тому +3

      @@Juliofiasco My favorites are Bruce Dickinson, Ronnie James Dio and Michael Kiske too! 🤘

  • @termsofusepolice
    @termsofusepolice 3 роки тому +25

    Ronnie auditioned for the Davy Jones role in the Monkees. The producers liked his voice but said he wasn't tall enough.

  • @kevinstrang11
    @kevinstrang11 3 роки тому +75

    I'm proud to have worked for Ronnie and even more proud to say he was my friend ,
    Rest easy up on that Silver Mountain
    R.I.P.

    • @XxxXxx-hm3cv
      @XxxXxx-hm3cv 3 роки тому +2

      Can you please tell something about your job?

    • @kevinstrang11
      @kevinstrang11 3 роки тому +14

      @@XxxXxx-hm3cv
      I own a limousine service in the NYC area , and also do personal security for bands, I worked for Ronnie back in "98 - 05" . What a great human being,

    • @XxxXxx-hm3cv
      @XxxXxx-hm3cv 3 роки тому +2

      @@kevinstrang11 I have 1 serious question for you, please. But not in public. Can you give me your contact mail or FB page?

    • @kevinstrang11
      @kevinstrang11 3 роки тому

      @@XxxXxx-hm3cv
      Who are you ?

    • @XxxXxx-hm3cv
      @XxxXxx-hm3cv 3 роки тому +1

      @@kevinstrang11 I’m only a fan from Russia...

  • @bobmonk64
    @bobmonk64 3 роки тому +33

    When the cameraman doesn't realise he's filming butts and keeps getting distracted by a future legend.

    • @earlsreid4130
      @earlsreid4130 3 роки тому +1

      I think they handed the camera to the first person who wasn't stoned and said, keep waving it around...a lot.

    • @caseywebb410
      @caseywebb410 3 роки тому +2

      Someone said the EXACT same thing 5 months before you. Did you just cut and paste it, verbatim?

    • @bobmonk64
      @bobmonk64 3 роки тому

      @@caseywebb410 "EXACT?" 🤔 You sure..?
      You might want to read the other persons comment again to get the joke... 😂

  • @tomsenick2033p
    @tomsenick2033p 3 роки тому +31

    This whole era of Dio (doo wop, country, standards, and pop) before Rainbow is fascinating. I don't think any other artist has had such a unique musical career.

    • @jackblack9208
      @jackblack9208 3 роки тому +9

      Look up Brian Johnson of AC/DC. I recently seen a video of a band he was in before AC/DC and was shocked.

    • @jackblack9208
      @jackblack9208 3 роки тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/3wkyZLePyPg/v-deo.html

    • @tijuas
      @tijuas 6 місяців тому

      Maybe Frank Stallone

  • @smokerise
    @smokerise 3 роки тому +14

    Been a fan of 🤘DIO🤘 forever, saw him in concert...this is the first time I've ever seen him play an instrument.

  • @afterburner2869
    @afterburner2869 3 роки тому +67

    It was around this time that Ronnie realized that the world was full of kings and queens that blinded your eyes steals your dreams, a lesson he wouldn’t soon forget.🤘🏻

    • @robertmacdonald1102
      @robertmacdonald1102 3 роки тому +1

      Nice. 🤘

    • @janetsmith.1281
      @janetsmith.1281 2 роки тому

      U got that to

    • @janetsmith.1281
      @janetsmith.1281 2 роки тому +1

      Iwas just writunging explaininging how when one is discib8nging in a way of what u might of become in the then to a current realm in ur life that people helpful ways are a blesdinging not taken at the time in seweincinging of wantinging but as the fat rolls on till it's a stopper in like drains to cookinging fat just saying and there u are kno on goes out of there way anymore I've destroyed every familiar sence of stepping without crusinging the next bug under ur step and no one but even the loved ones try and really ad it all hails to towards the king Father in Heaven and life begins through less struggles and cement is the only then a stem is still there you and a rose is growingingand new ways begin generally speckinging true but but this is the signal to wounder why what and wasent it really a wounder as u was gettinginv at is couldn't ur existence threw the eyes of loved ones and friends just couldn't but except the obvious e and look around the item of blockage to see what is other sides 9fbthe person to see and doe a direction to pull to finding what one got of traights not exposed because they rather walk away it's like l8singing something that was in that spot but didn't look or want to accept a look cause what 100.00 bill is acceptable to
      Not worry about i. U have plenty more to get the endinging her sucked didn't know how to explain things so as it was when i just picked up my device to put on people are strange the cell phone turned on and it was talkinging to Jesus tellinging him i know ur there and blew my mind here's this Dio and the prophets and i couldn't believe it there song was exactly in my thoughts talkinging and writunging moments before so weird know one would trip but it's un believable ism talking the song as my interpretation others might have there 9wnn but as the sing goes There lonkinging around the all buts but/ buts go around around to see around the but all men or amen or Almonds ok cknu out on the road to

    • @afterburner2869
      @afterburner2869 2 роки тому

      @@janetsmith.1281 ?

    • @janetsmith.1281
      @janetsmith.1281 2 роки тому

      37stiches on the road to H,ail him heal ***gotback JesuslaughttPay forward⚡😎🌤️🙃😷😎💛👉👈👂👁️👩‍👩‍👦🌅🌖🐰🦌🦌🥂⛺💰💼🔧🔨✂️🔐⚔️

  • @cheapguitardude
    @cheapguitardude 3 роки тому +17

    If Beatles didn’t break up, they would also transform into heavy metal band.

    • @noiselabproject9659
      @noiselabproject9659 3 роки тому +9

      Helter Skelter almost hinted at that and some people cite it as being perhaps the 1st proto Heavy Metal song even !

    • @lenn741
      @lenn741 3 роки тому

      True, they were nearly there. How about 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' from Abbey Road. One of my fave beatles tracks.

    • @Kowasi
      @Kowasi 3 роки тому

      Hard to say… the ex-Beatles in their solo careers didn't go metal. If they stuck together, it wouldn't have been that different.

    • @lenn741
      @lenn741 3 роки тому +1

      @@Kowasi yeah but Wings kinda bordered on metal, you could call a lot of it heavy rock.

    • @jondias6260
      @jondias6260 3 роки тому

      Not!!!

  • @nursemedic17
    @nursemedic17 3 роки тому +8

    OMG...I am an old lady, I love Ronnie....just LEARNED something new....I can and WILL go on to fight another day for Planet Universe... THANK YOU for posting this! BE WELL ALL!!!!!

  • @victorguzman6595
    @victorguzman6595 3 роки тому +6

    Proud to say my first concert was Dio in Lubbock, TX in 1988 I was 16yrs old and it was an experience I will never forget. Ronnie was and will always be a legend. Thank you for the great music and memories. RIP

    • @esmeraldgreen5424
      @esmeraldgreen5424 3 роки тому

      Same here!! That was the " Dream Evil" Tour with Sabatage and Megadeth🤘

  • @paulspillane3109
    @paulspillane3109 3 роки тому +9

    And I, I'm darkness
    I'm anger, I'm pain
    I, I'm the master
    The evil song you sing inside your brain
    Drive you insane

  • @tomingersoll6836
    @tomingersoll6836 3 роки тому +141

    Social distanced in 1967!

    • @Joddy3411
      @Joddy3411 3 роки тому +1

      ESSA FOI FODA...KKKKKKKKKKK.!!!

    • @yogiesbeer
      @yogiesbeer 3 роки тому +4

      earth is FLAT!!!!!

    • @johnwisehart9344
      @johnwisehart9344 3 роки тому

      It looks like the socially distanced backyard rehearsals we were having last summer out here in the sticks of Oklahoma 🎸🥁🎤🔊🎶 It actually sounded great playing outside instead of being cooped up in the shop.

    • @ericmartinez6692
      @ericmartinez6692 3 роки тому +2

      Lol

    • @joseesquivel4020
      @joseesquivel4020 3 роки тому +1

      @M effin Patriot with their own camera

  • @deepinblack1940
    @deepinblack1940 3 роки тому +8

    It's something like.... A Heavy Metal singer singing a song made by The Byrds, but without the drive vocal 😄😄

  • @friendlyattack1944
    @friendlyattack1944 3 роки тому +7

    Dio was like an actual living breathing dnd character rip and forget the rock and roll hall of.fame if it doesn't include him

    • @dalethelander3781
      @dalethelander3781 3 роки тому +1

      I don't even acknowledge the legitimacy of the RNRHOF. Means nothing.

  • @ТехноДом-я1у
    @ТехноДом-я1у 3 роки тому +5

    Память на века всем ушедшим рокерам рок 🎸 рольщикам рокершам

  • @jesseserna8424
    @jesseserna8424 3 роки тому +4

    I didn't know who he was til I seen a video on MTV 1980 Neon night's with black Sabbath, from then on he was the shit to me ,I never seen this side of Dio I had all his albums ,freak me out watching this 💩

    • @Itelkner
      @Itelkner 3 роки тому

      Neon Knights was the Dio performance that traumatized me most from his career, in a good way, and got my attention. For me, that was the apex for Sabbath too.

    • @stobbinsboy
      @stobbinsboy 3 роки тому

      Yeah Neon Nights....

    • @anick5338
      @anick5338 3 роки тому

      Heaven and hell is a masterpiece..9 yr old me thought so and 50 yr old me still agrees...

  • @Mostlyonoff
    @Mostlyonoff 3 роки тому +11

    Listen ... To what the Flower People Say

    • @elvisparker4691
      @elvisparker4691 3 роки тому +2

      That was an Enormous Single. Tap toured the world & elsewhere...

    • @Itelkner
      @Itelkner 3 роки тому

      It's not too late... it's not too late

    • @dougbennett8592
      @dougbennett8592 3 роки тому

      The one song that confirms the existence of flower people and that we should listen to what they say... or something like that.

    • @elvisparker4691
      @elvisparker4691 3 роки тому

      @@dougbennett8592 - They ask you to listen, but you don't hear, you're blind to their sound... like a drummer suddenly exploding, it's getting closer every day...
      I saw a great Quadruple Bill in '67 at the Monterey Jamboree Jamm RockingAid Benefit for Pakistan ...
      Ronnie Dio & the Predictors ( pre-prophets ) with The Peter Criss Puppet Show Project, Elvis Presley & Spinal Tap.
      The Puppets got booed off stage. People were still booing the puppets when Tap was on. Tap was Incredible. During Flower People, they brought out Ronnie & Ozzy and did War Pigs... Then Mick Jagger joined them for a smoking rendition of GSM... Awesome Show !

  • @airsombra
    @airsombra 4 роки тому +8

    Liked a lot!
    My life's been one big second rate funny book
    No real connoisseur bother giving me a second look
    Can't say that I blame you
    Can't say that I blame you
    Hey look me over don't walk away from me
    Less than a pearl but you want a bag of me
    Girls are the best of my funny recollections
    Number forty four and I'm a sack of rejection
    Take a good look and a laugh at your personal sideshow
    I'll just pretend that love is a word that I don't know
    Can't say that I blame you
    Can't say that I blame you
    Hey look me over don't walk away from me
    Sixteen thumbs and ten fingers given to me
    Girl I'm aware of nuclear prediction
    I'm just a work of bad science fiction
    Hey look me over don't walk away from me
    Sixteen thumbs and ten fingers given to me
    Girl I'm aware of nuclear prediction
    I'm just a work of bad science fiction
    Hey look me over don't walk away from me
    Sixteen thumbs and ten fingers given to me
    Girl I'm aware of nuclear prediction
    I'm just a work of bad science fiction

    • @rlkissteller
      @rlkissteller 3 роки тому

      What is the music name?

    • @airsombra
      @airsombra 3 роки тому

      @@rlkissteller Hey Look Me Over

  • @sixxmickntom6719
    @sixxmickntom6719 3 роки тому +5

    This reminds me of when i saw brian johnson playing with his band geordie before acdc. Would not have guessed this was dio. Loved black sabbath and dio for years and never have seen this. WE ROCK!

  • @drbucker
    @drbucker 3 роки тому +6

    Even back then, tail prevailed

  • @canuckeh782
    @canuckeh782 3 роки тому +5

    Ok guys lets try the one Ive been working on Rainbow in the dark these kids might dig it

  • @richbeach9664
    @richbeach9664 3 роки тому +8

    pausing at 2:01 I can just imagine Ronnie giving the devil horns :)

  • @christ2906
    @christ2906 3 роки тому +41

    “Man on the Rusty Pickup !”
    Dio was probably a talented toddler too

    • @bryanlasermagiktyler3132
      @bryanlasermagiktyler3132 3 роки тому +1

      he came out of the womb singing just a rainbow in the dark feel the magic I feel it floating in the air

  • @rncine
    @rncine 3 роки тому +5

    What a great video. No one knew he’d be a legend! Saw him when he was performing with Heaven and Hell, right before he passed. I will always treasure that night.

  • @jondias6260
    @jondias6260 3 роки тому +5

    The little man with a big voice "Long Live Rock and Roll" RIP

  • @user-cd1id3gb8t
    @user-cd1id3gb8t 3 роки тому +5

    Cameraman later found fame with John Stagliano.

  • @Bradbull111
    @Bradbull111 3 роки тому +5

    They're even social distancing there

  • @tombasanasoraisam166
    @tombasanasoraisam166 3 роки тому +22

    Final conclusion is Dio is the best singer of this planet earth not Ozzy, not John Lennon not Elvis Presley, not bon Jovi not Freddie Mercury. Only Dio.

    • @johnjmass9335
      @johnjmass9335 3 роки тому +5

      no one ever said Ozzy or Bon Jovi were good singers tho lol

    • @johnjmass9335
      @johnjmass9335 3 роки тому +4

      @@heartsfear9216 I am quite familiar with Ozzy's history and music. I am a big fan. I was simply implying he was never known for being an amazing vocalist.

    • @interstellaraxeman4468
      @interstellaraxeman4468 3 роки тому

      @@johnjmass9335 My name is not No One Ever,....good, amazing, excellent, perfect for the unique aspect any given talent may bring to their area of performing,...it is all in the eyes and ears of the beholder. When Black Sabbath split with OO and Ronnie James Dio came aboard, as much as I loved Ozzy, it was like I now had TWO Black Sabbaths,...
      The original Black Sabbath back catalog, and a branching out with Dio making it new again, while at the same time allowing the catalog to be a viable ongoing touring option, that was an astounding position to fill.
      The Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz recordings and tours going forward was a third dimension of all the family of Sabbath as was the evolving Black Sabbath with its ever changing line-up. Everyone wants to be liking the "Greatest" or the "Best" , yet some of us are just able to have more "best" at once I suppose. Nobody said you can only have ONE. I can have as many as I say...I will concede that I never said Jon Bon Jovi was the best though. And even then, he has his moments of greatness...WE are all lucky to have lived through and seen this era of performers. Ozzy is lucky to be alive....One of the great things about Dio that make up his past is that he and the Prophets ( I think that was the name then) played an act in Las Vegas with a look to fit. From that to the Rock God, the contrast over the career,...that would be like Wayne Newton eventually becoming Ozzy. Now THAT is great...

    • @bryanlasermagiktyler3132
      @bryanlasermagiktyler3132 3 роки тому

      definitely do your became the man with the golden throat the man on the silver mountain

  • @Arcturian1111
    @Arcturian1111 3 роки тому +2

    Wow 1967. This is sweet.

  • @mattkaustickomments
    @mattkaustickomments 3 роки тому +1

    Based on this video, you’d have to be a REAL prophet to have predicted the lil guy with the SG would be the vocalist god of a musical genre that didn’t even exist yet...

  • @kevinz8930
    @kevinz8930 3 роки тому +6

    Thank you. Awesome to see footage of him from back then!

  • @pjm329
    @pjm329 3 роки тому +5

    Well, I never saw THAT coming!

  • @donaldkamei
    @donaldkamei 3 роки тому +8

    Back in the days when music is cool and Harmony 👍👍👍

    • @richsackett3423
      @richsackett3423 3 роки тому +1

      Music is still cool and has harmony. Running down the music of others doesn't make others like your music nor make it any better. .

    • @timjonesvideos
      @timjonesvideos 3 роки тому

      @@richsackett3423 No, but he is entitled to his opinion, too. A lot of people think the quality of popular music has deteriorated since the 60's/70's.

    • @richsackett3423
      @richsackett3423 3 роки тому +1

      @@timjonesvideos He's wrong and not entitled to his own reality. A lot of people are idiots who voted for 45*. A lot of people are very very stupid.

    • @timjonesvideos
      @timjonesvideos 3 роки тому +1

      @@richsackett3423 They are indeed.

  • @poppycock6572
    @poppycock6572 2 роки тому +1

    Take a look at when he was with "Elf". I had an album by Elf, saw Dio on the Last in Line Tour... I believe it was 1982-ish... was in the autograph Line after the show and handed him the Elf album to sign... 🤣
    You should have seen his face (like he saw a ghost!) He laughed his ass off and signed "To Jeff, Thanks for the laugh!!! All the best, always.) Big memory for a young metal fan!

  • @hacefendi4778
    @hacefendi4778 3 роки тому +1

    The girl with black pants(1:08) is my grandma and that's why I cannot stand to watch this footage :/ I'm not sure but that's probably on September 1967. My grandma was 22 years old in this footage. She got married 2 years after. I wish the cameraman hadn't recorded these kinda things but that's ok. My grandma died 4 years ago because of pneumonia, I'd be so happy if you say "rest in peace" for her...

  • @jasonrackawack9369
    @jasonrackawack9369 3 роки тому +22

    Wow and I thought Elf was a deep dive, very cool, sounds like a Monkees tune!

    • @dumpygoodness4086
      @dumpygoodness4086 3 роки тому +2

      i've been watching all the MONKEES episodes free on YT....and I was stunned at how the show is just as funny today and has aged so well, but also the RADICAL idea that every show is about SCAM ARTISTS in the music biz and other con artists in society! (Tha'ts pretty cynical!)

    • @MSicko
      @MSicko 3 роки тому +5

      Funny you say that ,because I thought the one guitarist had a " Nesmith " vibe goin' on.

    • @jasonrackawack9369
      @jasonrackawack9369 3 роки тому +2

      @@MSicko I thought that too, kind of looked like Richie Blackmore with the hat too......spooky!

  • @putridabomination
    @putridabomination 3 роки тому +17

    Is everyone going to ignore the fact that the camera man zoomed in on like 3 butts during this song? haha

    • @dre3261
      @dre3261 3 роки тому +3

      🔥lol

    • @johnnybicksatsixrichards505
      @johnnybicksatsixrichards505 3 роки тому +2

      Yes. I mean, no.

    • @cbh440
      @cbh440 3 роки тому

      Nope, not this guy!

    • @pangolinwu1269
      @pangolinwu1269 3 роки тому

      Isn't it in the video description?

    • @ericksousa911
      @ericksousa911 3 роки тому +1

      That was quite usual until mid 90s. At least I remember seeing butts on TV on a regular basis around 80-90s, them It slowly faded until the no-butts state we're today.

  • @mulepitproductions8713
    @mulepitproductions8713 3 роки тому +9

    The mighty Dio!!!!!!

  • @shuttledriver
    @shuttledriver 3 роки тому +2

    They actually sound pretty good, removed from the heavier music that would define him in later years though.

  • @gullscomic
    @gullscomic 2 роки тому +2

    Reading the Dio autobiography, Rainbow in the Dark, and the book with this video just sync up so well. It's a great read so far. Long Live Rock n' Roll!

  • @davidbrothers2765
    @davidbrothers2765 3 роки тому +5

    Sounds like the byrds

  • @wendellstamps
    @wendellstamps 3 роки тому +25

    The algorithm strikes again, hi everybody 👋🏻

  • @acrovader
    @acrovader 3 роки тому +3

    Actually a very good tune. Reminds me of the Monkees or the Who.

  • @michaelcraig9449
    @michaelcraig9449 3 роки тому +1

    Girls were actually good looking and friendly then.. And yes those girls jeans with no pockets in the back! Way better than these pissed off 400 pound hell hags around these days.

  • @markorendas1423
    @markorendas1423 3 роки тому +1

    ACTUALLY... THIS IS A VERY CATCHY ... FUN AND VERY MEANINGFUL. THE ONLY THING THAT DISTRACTION IS THE *CLOSE UP BUTT SHOTS* OH WELL. AFTER THE VIDEO, EVERYONE WENT BACK TO THE FARM AND AWAITING THEM WAS DR. TIM LEARY: FRESH FROM THE LABORATORY AT THE UNIVERSITY..WITH A SMALL VIAL OF L.S.D....!

  • @RobertSmith-lg7jp
    @RobertSmith-lg7jp 3 роки тому +6

    Definitely 'the Who' sound .

  • @jvon3885
    @jvon3885 3 роки тому +21

    Interesting timestamps:
    0.11 An Angel is sitting on the roof of the old barn
    0:14 They tell me to look it over so I did and this is what I seen
    0:32 The drummer was standing, now he is sitting
    0:52 Ronnie must have gotten heart broken
    1:05 The camera guy gets side tracked on a girls butt
    1:10 Still sidetracked by butts
    1:25 The sound of Seagulls are used to make it sound like girls are going crazy over the drum solo
    1:45 The Angel sitting on the barn roof, sees Ronnie Dio and the Profits future and bounces out
    1:48 The band has an epiphany and Ronnie is debating on becoming Ronnie James Dio or just Dio
    1:50 Twirking is born on a farm This is what lead to Ronnies previous thought
    1:59 RJD looks like if John Travolta and Glen Danzig had a love child
    2:00 John Stamos sees the bands future
    2:04 Drummer is looking at camera guy like hey man you were not filming us, all you filmed were the girls asses, this was a music video shoot not a skinamax feature. One day, there will be a market for band videos, and its going to spar on a plethora of fake reality shows that cause society to pretend like they live in one big frat house.
    Also starting at 2:05 The sound of the bands future is captured
    Hope you find these useful.

  • @jetclean
    @jetclean 4 роки тому +10

    Epic!

  • @michaelcraig9449
    @michaelcraig9449 3 роки тому +1

    This is awesome, I like this better than the later metal, except for when Ronnie was in Ritchies band. Hot chicks would actually show up to see this.. girls run from metal.

  • @Natural8Mystic
    @Natural8Mystic 3 роки тому +1

    What in the actual fuck. There is literally more footage dedicated to flat 1960's ass than there is to Ronnie - and he's the singer, so odd.

  • @grilledspaghetti
    @grilledspaghetti 3 роки тому +3

    The constant butt distractions made me realize how much Ronnie looks like John Stagliano. :D

    • @tahcria
      @tahcria 3 роки тому

      Haha! Oh good grief!

  • @KingAceHernandez1291
    @KingAceHernandez1291 3 роки тому +4

    Dio playing with a SG Bass looks awesome

  • @berlinupnorth982
    @berlinupnorth982 3 роки тому +6

    Dio: One of Portsmouth, NH's greatest sons.

  • @jonminosilva
    @jonminosilva 6 місяців тому +1

    If this video had been shot in Brazil, the cameraman wouldn't even have filmed the band

  • @jojordan5868
    @jojordan5868 3 роки тому +1

    Wow, CSNY meet Archie's. Surprised he's not the Ronnie that scared the crap out if us.

  • @aerahtv0000
    @aerahtv0000 3 роки тому +13

    this random butt shots are hilarious :))

  • @flashy5150
    @flashy5150 3 роки тому +32

    It’s funny listening to this and then listening to “Neon Knights” or “Holy Diver” lol. I’m glad Ronnie made the change, a change for the better.

    • @manny2fs
      @manny2fs 3 роки тому +8

      Change for the better? Only because we were blessed to have that time period.... but you have to respect this music also....

    • @angru5oklok
      @angru5oklok 3 роки тому +5

      Lol they kinda sound like the Who here!

  • @59plexi
    @59plexi 3 роки тому +28

    16 years later he would be worshiped by 80's rockers!!!

    • @maiconribeiro2668
      @maiconribeiro2668 3 роки тому +2

      nope, 8 years, Rainbow's 1975 first album

    • @adameves5970
      @adameves5970 3 роки тому

      @@maiconribeiro2668 there were no "80's rockers" in 1975 LOL.
      So really the correct answer is 13 years later he would be worshipped by 80's rockers.

    • @alexzoris7216
      @alexzoris7216 3 роки тому

      @@adameves5970 8 years later, he would be worshipped by the rockers in general 😛

  • @stevenhanson1454
    @stevenhanson1454 3 роки тому +2

    What a historic masterpiece. Perfect merging of a 1967 hippie gig with Ronnie James & Prohets. Wendy Dio should have this archived into his life-story DVD box set. Someone captured magic that day.

  • @jb-yi4di
    @jb-yi4di 2 роки тому +1

    I'm not putting this early piece down, but I'm glad that Ronnie became what Ronnie became.