DIO - INTERMISSION LIVE 12" Vinyl LP Album

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Album Production Information:

Angelo Arcuri - Producer, Sound Engineer

Brett Newman - Sound Engineer

Greg Fulginiti - Mastering and Sound Engineer

Nick "Beeming" Basich - Sound Engineer

Steven Strassman - Sound Engineer

Gene Kirkland - Photography

P. G. "Wigan" Brunelli - Photography

Guy Chabernau - Sound Engineer

Steve Gerdes - Album Cover Design

This album was mixed at: Record Plant, Amigo Studios, , Sound City, Los Angeles

Album cover design: Steve Gerdes

Album cover photography: Gene Kirkland, P.G. Brunelli

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Personnel/Band Members and Musicians on: DIO - Intermission

Band-members, Musicians and Performers
• Ronnie James Dio (1943-2010) - Vocals, Producer
• Ronnie James Dio – Vocals

  I always loved how he could turn a one-word hook into scripture, then grin and hit you again. Read more...

  Ronnie James Dio, the pocket-sized volcano whose voice could turn a pub into a cathedral, and whose phrasing hit like a boxer's jab. I watched him climb from Ronnie Dio and the Prophets (1961-1967) and the hard-touring Elf (1967-1975) into Rainbow (1975-1979), where he helped bottle that mix of medieval melody and street-fight hard rock. He rebooted Black Sabbath in two spells-1979-1982 and 1991-1992-then ran his own ship with Dio (1982-1991; 1993-2010), delivering anthems like "Holy Diver" without ever sounding cute. Late in the game he returned with the Sabbath lineup as Heaven & Hell (2006-2010), still singing on stage like the lights might go out mid-chorus.

  Ronnie James Dio Wiki
• Claude Schnell - Keyboards
• Claude Schnell – Keyboards

  The secret weapon who made Dio sound twice as huge without stepping on the riffs. Read more...

  Claude Schnell, the Dio keyboard man who knew when to glitter and when to punch, played like he was painting light on top of heavy riffs. I first clocked him in the early-80s with Rough Cutt (circa 1980-1983), then he stepped into Dio (1983-1986), adding those ominous pads, churchy stabs, and quick runs that made tracks like "The Last in Line" and "Sacred Heart" feel bigger than the room. He wasn't there to steal the spotlight; he was there to widen it, turning choruses into stadium-sized weather systems. That tasteful restraint is exactly why his parts still sound expensive decades later. On the mid-80s tours he made space for the guitars and bass, never cluttering the mix.

  Claude Schnell Wiki
• Craig Goldy - Guitars
• Jimmy Bain (1947-2016) - Bass, Keyboards
• Jimmy Bain – Bass

  Jimmy Bain is one of those bass players I call “quietly essential”: he doesn’t steal the spotlight, he just makes the whole thing hit harder and feel bigger. His lines have that no-nonsense weight that lets the guitars fly and the vocals preach without the bottom end turning to soup.  Read more...

  Jimmy Bain, for me, is a perfect example of how a great bassist can be both glue and engine at the same time—solid timing, fat tone, and just enough bite to keep things from getting polite. Timeline-wise, I always track him from Harlot (early 1970s) into Rainbow (1975–1977), then a long stretch with Dio (1982–1989, plus later returns like 1993–1994 and 2004), with plenty of side quests in between—most famously with Riverdogs band (1990–1993). Jimmy Bain Wiki

• Vinny Appice - Drums
• Vinny Appice – Drums

  Vinny Appice hits like a wrecking ball that somehow keeps perfect time—tight, loud, and annoyingly tasteful. Late-70s grind with Rick Derringer (1976–1977) and Axis (1978) turned into the real deal with Black Sabbath (1980–1982), then that classic jump with Ronnie James Dio into Dio (1982–1989; back again for the 1994 and 1996 records). Read more...

  Vinny Appice, Brooklyn-born and raised on the kind of grit that doesn’t need a press release, has always sounded like he’s driving the whole band from the drum throne. First heard him properly when he slid into Black Sabbath on the Heaven and Hell tour in 1980 and then stamped his name on Mob Rules (1981) and the Live Evil chapter (1982). Late 1982 brought the big pivot: leaving the Sabbath orbit with Ronnie James Dio to build Dio, where my turntable still keeps coming back to that early run—Holy Diver (1983), The Last in Line (1984), Sacred Heart (1985), Intermission (1986), Dream Evil (1987)—before he stepped away in December 1989. The story didn’t end there, because heavy metal loves sequels: he flew back into Sabbath for Dehumanizer in 1992, reunited with Dio for Strange Highways (1994) and Angry Machines (1996), and later rode with the same core crew as Heaven & Hell from 2006 to 2010—proof that his groove isn’t a “style,” it’s a structural beam.

  Vinny Appice Wiki

Complete Track-listing of the album "DIO - Intermission"

The detailed tracklist of this record "DIO - Intermission" is:

Track-listing Side One:
1. King of Rock and Roll
2. Rainbow in the Dark
3. Sacred Heart

Track-listing Side Two:
1. Time to Burn
2. Rock 'n' Roll Children
3. We Rock

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