And then during one of the breaks Jimmy went over to this little Yamaha keyboard we had set up, and came up with the little keyboard motif and that was it, we had the fucking song written in ten minutes.” “But we played it for Ronnie, and he almost immediately started singing the melody on top of it. That’s what he did on Rainbow In The Dark." And nine times out of ten Vinny would reverse that. Whenever I was writing something, in my head as I was playing I’d be thinking the snare goes here and the bass goes there. "There’s no one on the planet plays drums like Vinny Appice. We’d start playing it, and Vinny would give it his own unique flavour. “Jimmy and Vinny and I would just kick around riffs. Appice had been the drummer in Sabbath during the latter-days of Ronnie’s time in them. He was definitely the boss.”ĭio had first worked with Bain in Rainbow. ![]() “There was always a bit more tension in the room when Ronnie came in to rehearsal. ![]() But all the music in Rainbow In The Dark, was from a Sweet Savage song that I wrote when I was sixteen.”Ĭampbell recalled how the genesis of the Dio song came from a loose jam session he and bassist Jimmy Bain and drummer Vinny Appice had been having fun with when Ronnie arrived at the rehearsal studio one day. ![]() “I probably in the back of my mind didn’t think that Sweet Savage was gonna continue, because I was so much part of the band. Sweet Savage was the Belfast-based band Campbell had formed as a teenager before landing the gig, at age 20, with the fledgling Dio line-up.
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