The BIG NAME on 1980s Sunset??

[E-Z]

Been watching a Ronnie Dio DVD about his rise to worldwide rock superstardom and during the DVD maybe Sabastian Bach former Skid Row voice and frontman said that Ronnie was the BIGGEST NAME on Sunset strip back in the 1980s which may have been true but from my own memory the only name that was always being mentioned over here in the cold and rainy UK was Ozzy Osbourne when he was either biting the head off a bat and a dove or urinating over the Alamo and all the young guitar slingers wanting a gig with the Oz.

 

[Magic]

When I think of the Sunset Strip and the 1980’s first to come to my mind is all the glam bands. Honestly, Dio wasn’t from Sunset Strip, but he did hook up with Iommi at The Rainbow, which would place him in connection to Sunset. I can imagine Dio’s name was a big topic of discussion amongst musicians back in the day. Heaven and Hell was huge for Dio & Sabbath, but not really a Sunset Strip thing, IMO.

I’d have to agree with you @E-Z that Ozzy would have had more buzz surrounding him in the 80’s than Dio. Ozzy was, and has remained, a legend as far as frontmen goes.

When I think of bands that got talked about a lot from Sunset Strip, I’d have to say Van Halen was the band on everyone’s topic of conversation. Another biggie would be Motley Crue.

 

[Magic]

Just for a laugh…Sebastian Bach had a pretty big role in the TV show Gilmore Girls in the 2000’s as a guitar player in a teenage band. He wasn’t a very good actor nor was his guitar skills very good on the show…..but it was kinda cool to see him still doing something.

 

[E-Z]

Hi Magic, firstly Sebastian Bach didn't say that Dio was the BIGGEST NAME on Sunset Strip that was my mistake so if Sabastian reads this sorry dude. What was being said and implied was on Sunset Strip DIO was 'the man' and all the LA bands in the 1980s 'looked up to him' but I though OZZY was the main dude back then but never mind.

If anyone gets to see the Dio DVD Dreams Come True I was laughing at some of the stuff included especially the young dude who was commissioned to photograph the Holy Diver album cover which actually came out as a 'picture painting' on the album cover but the photographer actually went down to the sea with a guy dressed as a priest with metal chains all over his body and the guy dressed as a priest actually went into the sea and the guy was almost drowned but was at the same time shouting at the photographer to "Take the freaking pictures!!" "Take the freaking pictures!!" Anyway the photographer eventually pulls the guy dressed as a priest out of the surf and onto the shore where he lay on the rocks half dead!!. When the photographer related the story on DVD (he's in his late 50s now he says that when he saw it was for the Holy Diver album cover he says-

"THAT WAS SOOOO... BEYOND AWSOME DUDE!!!"

 

[Magic]

Interesting story @E-Z about Holy Diver album cover. I wasn’t aware the man in chains actually was from real photographs. I always thought it was just a creepy painting of Murray drowning a priest.

 

[TACdtf]

Dreams Come True is an amazing film. If anyone is a Dio fan, they owe it to themselves to see it.

I saw it a few years ago, but I don't remember the Sunset Strip comment per se. Dio was held with immense respect and regard during the early to mid 80's by the metal community, so that does kind of jive.

 

[E-Z]

Interesting story @E-Z about Holy Diver album cover. I wasn’t aware the man in chains actually was from real photographs. I always thought it was just a creepy painting of Murray drowning a priest.

Yeah on the Holy Diver album cover it did turn out as a picture/painting but the actual 'scene' did happen with some dude dressed as a priest with chains wrapped over himself before he walked into the surf and nearly drowned!!.

 

[E-Z]

Dreams Come True is an amazing film. If anyone is a Dio fan, they owe it to themselves to see it.

I saw it a few years ago, but I don't remember the Sunset Strip comment per se. Dio was held with immense respect and regard during the early to mid 80's by the metal community, so that does kind of jive.

A musician dude outa one of the LA 80s bands saying the 'the strip' was the most exciting place to be on the planet back in the early 80s with everyone into heavy rock music and partying 24/7 and doing a 'shed load of drugs' dude and yeah the LA bands had immense respect for Ronnie.

I have watched it 3 or 4 times in the last couple of days and it's not a bad DVD to watch with the 'killer' sequence being the young photographer (who didn't know wot da hell was going on??) says him and another dude go down to a cover and the other dude changes and is dressed as a priest and wearing a "s**t load of chains" then he falls off a slippery rock into the surf and almost drowns in the surf and is seen coming up for air and was shouting at him to "Take the freaking pictures dude!!" before almost disappearing again under the surf waves for yet another time!!. Eventually the 'priest' manages to throw a chain towards the photographer whereby he is pulled out half-dead and is seen laying exhausted on the rocks, classic stuff dudes.

When the photographer re-tells the story 40 years later that the photo session was for the Holy Diver album front cover artwork his comment is-
"THAT WAS TOTALLY BEYOND AWSOME!!."