Somehow, still not real.

LindaJeanne · Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 186

I just watched the That Metal Show tribute. Feeling a lot of mixed emotions right now.

It also makes me realize that, almost six months later, it's still not real yet. Part of me was asking "why are they talking about the cancer, and May 16th, and the memorial service as though they actually happened? none of that was real, was it? Isn't it time to stop pretending that happened?".

You'd think by now it would have registered that yes, it was real. On some levels it has. But on others...

I heard the news. I read the tributes. I went to the memorial service. I saw the pictures of the marked gravestone. And yet, some part of me still doesn't believe any of it.

Rhonda Ross · Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 1070 Location: Los Banos,Ca

It's not real because we don't want it to be. Crying or Very sad

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Rainbow · Dio Member The Month Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 113

so true

DioInfinitum · Joined: 21 May 2010 Posts: 262 Location: Denver, CO

My feelings have gone through lots this summer. My heart has almost accepted it at times and then not.

Still, I listen to Dio almost on a daily basis. One of my dorky hobbies is looking at pictures of him throughout all of his life.

I still can't believe he's not around. I thought for sure I'd have met him again one day. I could have last summer but I did not take the initiative.

Ronnie James Dio to me is kind of like Dean Martin to my dad. So many celebrities have passed in recent history that I feel as though we've passed a cultural milestone. Old Hollywood is gone. New metal is hardly classic. We're in a new era now, without nearly the same charm and originality coming from new artists.

Again, forever, RIP Dio!
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Hamalane · Joined: 07 Jul 2010 Posts: 101 Location: France

I find it hard to believe it too. I just can't get it. The other day I caught myself watching a live video and thinking: "Oh, this must have been so great, I wish they play this one when I see them!".. And then coming back to reality: "No, it's over.."

The love is not over, the admiration is not over.. But part of me is still convinced tht I will finally see Dio live.

I just don't want to accept it, I cannot. And after all, when I gear him all the time, I see those videos all the time, I have these pictures everywhere, surrounding me, and I watch them all the time.. So I can't believe he's completely gone.
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MadMartin · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 21 Location: Stockholm, Sweden

True words fellows! Acceptance is a part of every mourning process i guess...
When my grand mother died a griefed her for years before her passing (since she was ill for so long) and I guess that made "accepting-phase" faster in that case. I have began to accept that RJD is gone but sometimes it is still hard to understand. When I listen to records he feels so alive, espacially the later albums where the recording technique can play back his voice and articulation perfectly.