From Olivious - My hero is gone but not his legacy

[Jeffrey]

Olivious the Drummer asked me to post this note for him , as he is still banned from the forum. He is a moderator on here with me, and I miss his input and help here. Hopefully he can come back soon. This is the 10th anniversary of Dio's death today.

As I cant post in the Dio Forum (due to my ongoing ban) I would just like to say that it is 10 months today since Ronnie left this earth and I still feel grief for it.

It has been a personal grief, one which I feel I need to mark each month until the one year anniversary - then I shall finally let it go.

Ronnie was my hero......there will never be a more influential person. His music took me through the most inportnat years of my life and taught me so much.

Heres to Ronnie James Dio - the greatest.

--Olivious the Drummer

There you go Oli, Jeffrey
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Ronnie James Dio is a legend

[MySweetRonnie]

To Oli

I feel the same way about Ronnie - it is so hard to put it into words. I hardly ever talk about it now but my grief for Ronnie is still very real - why did he have to go, we loved him so much.

I can't understand all this business of banning people. We are all adults and 'heavy metal' fans for goodness sake - supposedly an intelligent and very tolerant, open-mined, un-shockable group of people. We should be able to cope with anything that gets posted - if it is offensive we can just ignore it or choose to argue the point - it's no big deal.

Maybe it's because I am British that I feel this way - unlike another country that shall remain unnamed we don't tend to homogenise everything until nobody has original thought processes on any subject at all - or if they do they don't speak out in case they are judged to be 'not nice'. Maybe that's why Ronnie actually preferred to be in Europe.

Anyway - in loving memory of Ronnie James Dio, always loved, always remembered.

[Jeffrey]

I miss Ronnie every day.


And I miss Oli, but he is still with us, but unable to share here.

I thought his banning was temporary. NOw that the HolyMagica
trouble is more in the past, I think it would be all right to have
him come back as a moderator and contributor.

Any other votes to bring back Oli?

Jeffrey
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Ronnie James Dio is a legend

[dioisgod]

i miss dio everyday i always said people who cry over singers dying were idiots i ate those words
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they'll take your diamonds and give you steel youll be caught in the middle of the madness lost like them and part of all the pain that they feel AND ALL THE FOOLS SAILED AWAY- Ronnie James Dio