I was a huge Dio fan back in the day. Always loved Vivian playing with Dio. They all sound really good 30 years later.
[url “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCBP6lcDnTk”]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCBP6lcDnTk
LAST IN LINE — the band featuring DEF LEPPARD/ex-DIO guitarist Vivian Campbell alongside fellow founding DIO members Vinny Appice, Jimmy Bain and Claude Schnell, plus singer Andrew Freeman, who has previously fronted HURRICANE and LYNCH MOB — performing the song “Don’t Talk To Strangers” on August 10 at the Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Park, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, can be seen below.
LAST IN LINE played its first-ever show (a warm-up to the band’s U.K. tour) on August 3 at Slidebar in Fullerton, California.
The band’s setlist was as follows:
- Stand Up And Shout
- Straight Through The Heart
- King Of Rock And Roll
- Don’t Talk To Strangers
- Sacred Heart
- Evil Eyes
- Holy Diver
- Caught In The Middle
- Egypt (The Chains Are On)
- I Speed At Night
- The Last In Line
- Invisible
- Shame On The Night
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Rainbow In The Dark
Encore: - Gypsy
- We Rock
LAST IN LINE performs material from the early DIO records that Campbell appeared on.
Campbell stated about reuniting with the original DIO band: "I’m excited about that. We’re calling it LAST IN LINE after the second [DIO] album. It’s the original DIO band — myself, Vinny Appice on drums, Jimmy Bain on bass, Claude Schnell on keyboards, and we found a terrific singer called Andy Freeman, who can totally do justice to the songs. Actually, he doesn’t sound anything like Ronnie [James Dio], which is great, [because] I don’t wanna draw that comaprison. Ronnie was a very unique singer, but Andy is a great singer in his own right, and he certainly sings the songs very respectfully.
"The original band, we actually wrote the majority of that material as a band, so I feel like we’re entitled to go out and play it. I don’t think we’re a tribute band or a cover band or anything like that.
“There’s obviously a big legacy of DIO music, and I think I’m right in saying that most people would think that those early DIO albums are the strongest, so we are just chuffed to play it.”
Campbell and Ronnie James Dio worked together on the first three DIO albums 1983’s “Holy Diver”, 1984’s “The Last in Line” and 1985’s “Sacred Heart” — before Irishman Campbell left to join WHITESNAKE in 1987.