And...a good venue (WAMU Theatre, Seattle). it's intimate enough, not hard to get good tix, and a good crowd. Between my fellow atendee and I there's a good seventy years experience of involvement in music from collecting to production and this was our joint opinion: In all those years Dio has lost nothing vocally. I suppose that's technically impossible, but his voice is still instantly recognizable, he's still as energetic as ever, and his range doesn't SEEM to have suffered. It was a pleasure just to hear Tony Iommi craft his power chord sound around Geezer Butler's assaultive bass. Vinny Appice was SOLID! My friend said it was certainly the best version of "Heaven & Hell" that HE'D ever heard, and he still has the vinyl. Biggest disappointment of the YEAR....not getting to see Coheed & Cambria...we're both BIG fans. Neurosis was certainly competent pummeling metal, but served mostly as background for beer garden conversation and comparing old-school Black Sabbath t-shirts. (Mine WAS, but still Ozzy-era.) Not much here of the younger, pierced crowd. Between us, we gave it four "devil signs"
WaMu Theater @
- Seattle @
,WA @
- Sat, Aug 8, 2009 @
Favorite moment: "Heaven and Hell" @
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Heaven and Hell
San Jose State Event Center Arena @
- San Jose @
,CA @
- Mon, Aug 10, 2009 @
Favorite moment: The whole concert, I just love to here the guys play !!! @
Posted 09/28/2009
by DIOSDRAGON
Location: On the floor in front of the stage at the Warfield
Concert was awsome!!!!! The change in venue to the Warfield was a great choice, we got in 30 min. earlier than the rest of the people. we were on the floor center left on the stage, during one song Ronnie leaned over to meet the croud, I got a high five!!!!!! Geezer was not feeling well and left right after the concert. I have never seen Toni smile so much, and he was in awsome form, Love to watch Vinnie play, he was awsome as well!! Over all the concert was totally Awsome!!!!! I got some great pic's!! Would have loved to get my vinal copy of The Devil You Know autographed, Would have made the night complete!!!!
San Jose State Event Center Arena @
- San Jose @
,CA @
- Mon, Aug 10, 2009 @
Favorite moment: The whole concert, I just love to here the guys play !!! @
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Heaven and Hell IS Black Sabbath!
WaMu Theater @
- Seattle @
,WA @
- Sat, Aug 8, 2009 @
Favorite moment: Tony Iommi lead-in for the song Heaven and Hell. @
Opening act(s): terrible. forgettable. so bad, i didn't know death metal was still alive. @
Posted 09/26/2009
by jigbuilder
Location: seattle suburb
Dio is a real singer and showed it for this show. The band played most of the songs off the Heaven and Hell album. Just what i went to the show to hear. Had the real lineup from Sabbath. Stage was adequate for a smaller venue.
WaMu Theater @
- Seattle @
,WA @
- Sat, Aug 8, 2009 @
Favorite moment: Tony Iommi lead-in for the song Heaven and Hell. @
Opening act(s): terrible. forgettable. so bad, i didn't know death metal was still alive. @
