How did your Dio collection come about?

[berserkur]

First I heard Diamonds: best of Dio in 2004 that my brother had. I thought the songs from the early albums there really rocked. I borrowed some albums from my cousin( Rainbow rising) and friend( Dream evil, 1st Rainbow & Elf albums). So as I went to Greece(Athens) in early 2005 I purchased Long live Rock'n roll, Holy Diver, Last in line & Dehumanizer at a fair price.

I got Killing the dragon from Amazon in the summer, coz I liked the songs on Evil or divine DVD that I had gotten a little earlier.
At the same period I got Heaven & hell and Mob rules at a reasonable price in a indie rock CD store in Reykjavík, Iceland.

In the winter I went to Boston, USA. And there I got the Magica album downtown, Master of the moon & 1st Rainbow in a used CD store in Harvard.

In the Summer of 2006 I got Angry machines at a used CD store in Reykjavík + Sacred heart. The Holy diver DVD & Rainbow '77 i got through play.com from the UK.

Then I went to Denmark and got Dream Evil in the store Phona. Strange Highways was bought at the Metalmarkt at the Wacken festival, Germany. A little later I went to Århus Denmark and got Live evil& Intermission the day after the Dio show there.
Lock up the wolves came from amazon in the fall.

I still only have the Rising album and Elf stuff on my computer and on CDR

[Spyke005]

I just ripped my dad's entire collection, it's really 1337 to have a dad with all the albums, I had to order KTD and MOTM myself though...

It all began with a lissten to DIamonds: best of Dio though.

[Breathless]

My father had some tapes of Rainbow, and I really liked it, especially the Rainbow with RJD. I wanted more music with that voice, so I looked around in the cd store and I bought Lock Up The Wolves. The first time I heard LUTW I was a bit disapointed. After several times listening I started to like the album more and more.

Strange Highways was next, which was again disapointed for me, and it took longer for me to like it. I do like it now, if I am in the mood for it.

Next were Master Of the Moon and Killing The Dragon. I liked them the first time I listened to them.

Next were Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules.

Next were Holy Diver, Last In Line, Sacred Heart and Dream Evil.

Next was Dehumanizer.

Next was Magica.

and the last studio album of Dio was Angry Machines.
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You're Breathless, ready to burn
Breathless, willing to learn
Breathless, the circle still turns
You're Breathless

[Dragon235]

Started with Killing the Dragon and the Very Beast of Dio. Then picked up Holy Diver and Last in Line.
Then Heaven and Hell and the Mob Rules.
Then Rising by Rainbow.
Finally, picked up the other Dio discs over the last 4 months and am only missing Intermission and one greatest hits.
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[Breathless]

Rainbow was the first I heard of Dio
Rainbow is still my favorite era of Ronnie James Dio.
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You're Breathless, ready to burn
Breathless, willing to learn
Breathless, the circle still turns
You're Breathless

[Ritchie K]

[Don't Tell the Kids]

First heard Inferno Last in Live after that Rainbow Live in Germany 1977. Within two weeks I had bought all records of Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio. I've been hooked for 8 years and loving every minute of it! Long Live Dio!!

[Holymagica]

All started when I got Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow as a Christmas present when I was 13 years old....since then I have been a fan of Ronnie James Dio!

[EternalLadyGoddess]

Well i was young, i guess you could say i was pretty lost too. Not like with drugs and stuff but i mean musically. Anyways i was in high school and i met this guy Tommy (who would become my boyfriend) and he was really obsessed with Mob Rules. It was all he ever played. At first i never knew what to think but then Ronnies voice just grew on me. I just can't describe the quenching feeling it gives to me. I love him soo much.


miss ladygoddess

[obscene]

Still working on it..........but I really began to collect Dio after getting Ozzy Osbourne's Trinute, the last album w/ Randy Rhoads.....Didn't care much for Zakk Wylde or Ozzy's drugged vocals. ///Already had the whole Ozzy Black Sabbath*
Decided to get some of the other Sab singer I liked......DIO!!

On an important note...
*Sites like http://www.black-sabbath.com will say that there were several Black Sabbath eras (the Illan Gillan era, the Glen Hughes Era, the Ronnie James Dio era, and the Ozzy Osbourne era, along with some other singers like Tony Martin)
however, there is only one era of Black Sabbath, from 1968-current, and that is the Tony Iommi era....
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Chase the horizons, catch the illusion
remember the child within
There's no tomorrow just sadness and sorrow
hold on to the Ancient Dreams

[Yngwie Malmsteen]

My first album with Dio's voice was "Rising" Rainbow and since that time I've loved his songs. When I heard "Gates of Babylon" I was so excited about this song because I think it is a real masterpiece. I listen to Dio's music every day and it seems never bored

[#75race]

I guess my collection started when I heard Rainbow in the Dark on a motorsports crashes tape I got. I had the tape for years, and didn't know who made the song until 2003, when I actually read the credits and the end of the tape. After I found out it was Dio, I did a little research on the internet, went to Balls to the Wal-Mart, and started looking. I searched and wouldn't you know it, Wal-Mart actually had ONE Dio album in stock, The Stand up & Shout Dio Anthology. I looked at the cover and was thinking, "Oh my God, my mom will never let me get this with all the demons and Murray on the cover!" Turns out she didn't really care. (The album DID though get me into some kind of trouble with my religous uncle, but that's a different story.) After that I bought Killing the Dragon, Inferno: Last in Live, Dream Evil, LUTW, then so on. That's how my collection came about.

[Breathless]

[screaming_4_priest]

The first time i heard Dio i was about 11 years old and i did not like him.
It was in my dad's car he had a made up tape on, and War Pigs from Live Evil came on and and i thought it sucked because it wasent Oz.

Then my dad brought the Killing The Dragon album, and put in on and i loved it.
shortly after i went on Holiday to see my family and i spent all my holiday money on Dio cd's

I got
Dream Evil
Lock Up The Wolves
Magica
Killing The Dragon
Heaven & Hell
Live Evil

They did me fine 4 rather a while, then about the time Master Of The Moon came out was when i found out Dio was In Rainbow.
I went on another spree
i got

Master Of the Moon
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Rainbow Rising
On Stage

Dehumanizer i picked up from a second hand shop for about £4
cant even rember when i got Mob Rules.

I got Holy Diver when i got my ticket to see Dio On the Holy Diver Live Tour.
i couldent beleive how good it was and i hadent got it yet.

And I Got Holy Diver Live the day it came out.

So still Got A few more to go yet.

want Next

Last In line
Long Live Rock & Roll
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[GUITARGOD]

When i was a teenager i was at a family reunion picking up chicks.. Just kidding.. anyway a friend of the family had heaven and hell playing in a tape player and i heard that voice! I said "who the hell is that?" he said Black Sabbath next thing i know i'm buying it in the store and could not stop listening to it, to this very day in my very late 30's it is my most played album i would say. Then shortly after that i was with a friend in the store and he talked his dad into buying him Holy Diver and same thing i had to have it and so i got it and later found Mob rules and so on with the last in line and then sacred heart and then for about three or four years my life took a huge turn for the worse and i had no tunes until i got back on my feet and started replacing all those albums and then some. And that brings me right to here and now.
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GUITARGOD