Legendary drummers and brothers Carmine and Vinny
Appice plan to release a new video to commemorate the ten-year
anniversary of the passing of the late, great Ronnie James Dio, who
passed on May 16, 2010 from cancer. The lyrics written by Paul Shortino are about Ronnie’s life and music
and are a great musical tribute to him.
Besides being a close friend, Vinny was also a longtime musical sidekick of Dio’s, performing with him in Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell. Vinny also performed with Rick Derringer and, as a sixteen-year old in 1974, met John Lennon at the Record Plant Studios in New York during the recording of Lennon’s classic Walls and Bridges album, adding background hand claps to the hit single Whatever Gets You Through the Night. And he and his original bandmates from the first Dio lineup reformed in 2012 as Last in Line to record and perform live. https://www.vinnyappice.com