L.A. Connection & Lady Of The Lake

RandyRhoads · Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 51

I personally love love these two songs, L.A. Connection & Lady Of The Lake, they both are newly discovered songs for me, I believe they both truely rock & was wondering what you Dio fans thought.
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agentalbert · Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 606 Location: San Antonio, TX

Lady of the Lake - good.
LA Connection - boring, imo.

That whole album is a bit of a letdown after Rainbow Rising. Some good songs, of course. Gates of Babylon is excellent. Rainbow Eyes is lovely, and one of the few songs of its type in Ronnie's catalog.

Mr.s8n · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 7 Location: Northern California

I think that Lady of the Lake is an excellent song myslef. L.A. Connection isn't quite as good, but still great none the less.

ronster500 · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Liverpool, England

The old timer fans out there will doubtless have the red vinyl 7" single with both these tracks on... 'LA Connection' was actually the 'A' side !

That said, I prefer 'Lady Of The Lake' too, if I were to pick just one to listen to !
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PurplePixie · Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 123 Location: Elemental Kingdom

I don't like LA Connection much. I love Lady of the Lake. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll is a great album, but still not as good as Rising, though I love the title track, Kill the King (though it's better live of course), Rainbow Eyes and LOTL. But my fave off that album is Gates of Babylon! Yeah, baby. Twisted Evil

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RandyRhoads · Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 51

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Lady of the Lake: is a wonderful Trip... Smile

...L.A.Connection: Was just down rite Heavy!... Twisted Evil

...I dont like to choose, when it comes to Ronnie's music...I will leave that up to him...he's never let us down before... Wink

...but it would be nice to hear more variety like these songs during "live perfomances"...

Jeffrey · Killing The Dragon Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 324

RandyRhoads,

I love the Long Live Rock and Roll album. Great songs. I, too discovered Dio in Rainbow after his solo efforts. That was a long time ago for me. 1984 or so.

"Rainbow Eyes" is one of my favorites on there, too.

Randy Rhoads is your name on this forum, huh? Interesting. I used to belong to that forum, but got banned last week after 3 years on there. Great site, though. Check it out if you haven't already at randyrhoads.tk. Lots of great information and DVD's you won't find anywhere else.

Enjoy, Jeffrey
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RandyRhoads · Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 51

Jeffrey · Killing The Dragon Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 324

RAndyRhoads,

Oh, "Man on the Silver Mountain". What a classic. I first heard that song in an MTV concert with Dio on the Holy Diver tour. He of course had Vivain Campbell with him. His newer version is so much faster than the Rainbow one. I just loved it.

Did you catch the Coors commercial about a year ago when they played that song at the end? Nice touch. Love hearing a little Dio stuck into people's lives when they don't realize it.

Stay cool. Oh, you ever looked up the Dio Early Years site? Has a lot of mp3's from Dio in the 1950's and 1960's. He sounds so different, and boy does he look different. Strange hearing a young Dio sing 'Love Potion #9" and "I left my heart in San Franscisco". He's been at this a long time.

Jeffrey
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RandyRhoads · Joined: 26 Sep 2004 Posts: 51

Jeffrey would you ever so kindly giving me the link to the Randy Rhoads site you want me to take a look see at.

I am having no luck with the information you supplied me with.
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Jeffrey · Killing The Dragon Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 324

RandyRhoads,

Here's a link. Hope it helps. Enjoy. Tell them I sent you.

http://randyrhoads.tk/

Jeffrey
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Jeffrey · Killing The Dragon Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 324

Here's the other one for Dio.

http://www.dimwhit.com/dio/

Jeffrey
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Hollywood Black · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 68 Location: Strange Highways

Lady Of The Lake 5/5
L.A. Connection 5/5

But I like more style and story of Lady Of The Lake.
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Flanker · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject:

“L.A. Connection” is a boring, generic song and a stereotypical Hard Rock composition.

” Lady of the Lake” is a beautiful song with a unique sound. I was always wondering what instruments were playing there? Was it guitar through some synthesizer, or was it some keyboard synthesizer? It proved to be Ritchie of course. But the cake in that song is Ritchie’s solo. It is so exceptionally smooth, so appealing in spite of being simple; and how Ritchie played it that it sounded unlike any of his previous solos? The answer I learned a couple of years later when I read one of Ritchie’s brainy quotes: “The way to play the slide is that it doesn’t sound like the slide”!