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Heaven and Hell Playings a Heavenly set
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Target Center (Minneapolis, MN)
Concert Date: April 6th, 2007
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Sabbath with Dio ages well
BY ROSS RAIHALA
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 05/07/2007 01:17:44 AM CDT
There's little doubt Black Sabbath's first five or six years produced
an almost inhuman number of metal classics. And there's also little
doubt those very classics could get rather dull if you had to play the
same dozen live, night after night.
Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi himself has said as much. And Sunday night
at the Target Center, Iommi's ear-to-ear grin said even more, primarily
that a reprieve from "Iron Man" can do wonders for the soul. The
59-year-old Brit looked every bit as thrilled to be there as the
4,750-some rabid metalheads who came to worship at his feet.
Iommi is out on the road with Heaven and Hell, aka Black Sabbath: The
Dio Years. It's the same Sabbath lineup that made a pair of albums in
the early '80s (and a third a decade later) with diminutive powerhouse
Ronnie James Dio in place of original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. Dio's
presence not only revitalized Sabbath at the time, it also changed the
sound of the band, expanding it beyond the limits of the slow, loud and
heavy template.
Sunday night's show proved the music and the players have both aged
well. At 64, Dio has retained most of his vocal range and all of his
stage presence. The guy's barely a toadstool taller than a munchkin,
and he can't be more than 110 pounds dripping wet, yet he nearly
reduced grown men to tears while shrieking about queens of the night,
broken crystal balls, bringers of evil and other sundry AD&D-riffic
topics.
California's Machine Head opened the night to a sparse crowd, which
beefed up in time for Megadeth's fiercely potent set. But make no
mistake, this show belonged to Iommi, Dio, bassist Terry "Geezer"
Butler and drummer Vinny Appice.
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