Just to share: videos from the 'Tribute to Dio' gig

[kalapoka]

Hey everyone, just wanted to share 2 videos from a gig we did to pay tribute to Dio in July. It's pretty much a very big gig in our town, so just want to share my excitement with you. Ofcourse, I am not singing, just playing the guitar (white jackson, black sleeveless shirt). Enjoy!

Killing the Dragon

The Last In Line

[akarawd]

WOW. This is an awesome tribute.

Please get that singer on the forum PRONTO.

You lucky bugger.

[kalapoka]

Hehehe Thanos, that singer is a young kid (at least 5 yrs younger than me), and all these players are from different bands who came together for this special show. We auditioned him for this gig along with 2 more.

Fun fact: after a couple of weeks of this gig, we were hanging out at a release party of another band's album, and this kid says: 'Fahim bhai (big brother), will you please play permanently with us, we will pay you'...I rolled over laughing at the hilarious sincerity of him. LOL!

I am about to start jamming with them soon : )

and no, I am not taking any 'pay' lol :D

[ronws]

It was an excellent show you put on and I was thoroughly impressed with your playing skill. Nice fluid, like liquid metal.

[kalapoka]

It was an excellent show you put on and I was thoroughly impressed with your playing skill. Nice fluid, like liquid metal.

Thanks mate!

[jonpall]

Very good guitar playing and a cool guitar. Cool show, too and a good band. I need to start doing what you did there in that solo - put your guitar on your thigh and your foot on the monitor when playing difficult parts. My guitar is strung low. It seems that those metal bands have made a big influence on countries outside of the US for the past few decades because it seems that there are lots of good rock bands in India, Japan, etc.

[jonpall]

Btw. especially that second song was so AWESOME that I was starting to move and bob my head Great singer, awesome guitar playing and drumming and what a huge stage!

[kalapoka]

Jon, mate thanks again!!! I used to hang my guitar way up high earlier (easier to play legato lines that way) but I've lowered it a lot over the last few years, cuz frankly, (like it or not) it has an effect on people - thanks to one Mr. Jimmy Page . and yeah you should use the monitors that way, much easier and looks cool too . btw I checked out your 'for the love of god' solo and man it was really well done!

Bands like Dio, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, they were a HUGE part of our musical childhood growing up. Esp Iron Maiden & Metallica.

[kalapoka]

BTW, I will use this thread to put on more videos from this show later. There is one other singer who I really like and want you guys to check out. :cool:

[Stan]

Awesome! I miss Dio.

[kalapoka]

Here is 'Man on the Silver Mountain' by another vocalist from the same show:

[akarawd]

This gets better and better, keep them coming Fahim.

Would it be possible for the singer to share his approach with us ? He obviously uses a hell of a support and

I don't know of others who can cover DIO that well.

PS. That LP custom is a gorgeous piece.

[kalapoka]

This gets better and better, keep them coming Fahim.

Would it be possible for the singer to share his approach with us ? He obviously uses a hell of a support and

I don't know of others who can cover DIO that well.

PS. That LP custom is a gorgeous piece.

Thanks Thanos, will post as they come out of the processing room. We took the sound from the house board into a small 8-track recorder and post-processing it in the studio. The man behind this is the other guitarist who is playing the gorgeous Fender (its a Fender Eric Clapton Signature prototype, it never reached production...lucky bastard, and I pushed him to buy it when he was in doubt )

Anyway, which singer's approach did you want to know? The first one or the bass player one? I can tell you one thing I know - they are both untrained (meaning no formal lessons), and whatever minimal lessons they have had are in the eastern classical style, which involves learning/practicing while sitting down (and most of the time cross-legged or half-lotus position as well)...So I can pretty much tell you that they can't really break down how they are managing this .

I will try to talk to one of them to see if I can find anything.

BTW: the bassist-singer is one of the early pioneers of our metal scene, but my respect for him went up 10 times after this gig. The guy is a monster singer.

[akarawd]

I like both - they sound amazing - but I'd say the 1st one intrigues me more because of the rasp.

Cheers,

Thanos

[ronws]

Both singers are great.

[gno]

Sounds Great! Nice job on the guitar too! The quality of the audio is very good for a live show. Both the guitars sound great together - nice tone. Thanks for sharing

[DJDeth]

Hey! It looks like a really big show. Could you write something more about it? How long did it take to organize the whole thing, how many people attended, how many songs and so on? Your guitar playing is awesome!

I also organized a Ronnie James Dio tribute gig here in Poland. It took place last sunday. It was a charity thing, we've raised money for medical gear that is supposed to help fight cancer for a local child hospital. Just like you, Kalapoka, I was playing lead guitar in some songs, but I was also singing in one and doing both in another:) Here are some clips, my band Hateseed playing Heaven and Hell with Tomek Struszczyk - vocalist from a polish metal legend band Turbo:

our friends from Darkmere playing Stargazer with Tomek Struszczyk again:

Darkmere and me on vox playing Temple of the King:

Hope it's okay that I wrote this in this thread!

[kalapoka]

Hey i think it's very good that you wrote in this thread. Please feel free to share any tribute to dio in here, this goes to others in TMV as well.

As for our show it was pretty big actually, but it was possible because we got some big name sponsorships. We covered around 20 songs in total, all the great songs were there - holy diver, temple of the king, children of the sea, all of them. It was an invitation based event becuz the sponsor wanted it that way, but we managed to invite 300 fans. It was greaaat, the biggest show of my life!

Your show looks awesome too man! very good guitar playing and the vocalist in the first clip sounds very good. I also loved the voice of the girl in temple of the king, she has this beautiful tone to her. and she's also very beautiful : ).

Great work man! Ronnie lives on!