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<description> They suck on the whole really, don't they. But I've heard a song recently which pricked my ears up faster then an Angus Young opening riff. I'm quite partial to Blind Guardian and when I heard the opening strains to &amp;quot;Don't Talk To Strangers&amp;quot; I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt it was BG doing the song. So I went looking for it and after much searching, found it was on the DIO tribute. Its called Holy DIO, has anyone heard it? Would love to hear your opinions on it if you have. The BG track is HUGE, I love it, in fact I'd buy the whole dam album for that track. Lemme know if you get a chance.

Cheers and beers

Benno</description><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,5391,5391#msg-5391</link><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:59 +1000</lastBuildDate>
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<title>RE: Tribute albums</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,5391,5564#msg-5564</link><description><![CDATA[ Sorry, but I think this whole fixation with tribute albums and those horrible, horrible tribute bands doing the rounds is a disease that is killing creativity in music today. Here, in England, these bands are the only bands that seem to play the venues we all used to go back in the day. Bradford Rio's (ALICE IN CCOPERLAND, I mean, for fuck's sake!),even Maximes had a BON JOVI tribute band a while back. ( I refused to go!)<br /><br />Stop trading on other peoples success and get your own sound, that's what I say.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Surfpunk</dc:creator>
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<title>RE: Tribute albums</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,5391,5396#msg-5396</link><description><![CDATA[ Benno, I generally dislike Blind Guardian because the singer is pretty much unbearable (plus that Tolkien fixation is getting seriously old...), but their version of 'Don't Talk 2 Strangers' is very good. Overall, 'Holy Dio' (double CD, btw...) is way above most tributes - highlights are Fates Warning - 'Sign Of The Southern Cross' (Joey Vera's got Geezer's bass sound DIALED IN!), Doro - 'Egypt', Yngwie - 'Gates Of Babylon' (off his 'Inspiration' CD), Gamma Ray - 'Long Live R&amp;R', Primal Fear - 'Kill The King' (Stratovarius contribute the same song, but their version is nowhere near as good...), Steel Prophet - 'Neon Knights', and Angel Dust - 'Temple Of The King'. On the downside, you get a HORRIBLE version of 'We Rock' from Grave Digger (who should be doing just that... either 'rock' or 'digging graves') and a few other tracks that aren't exactly stellar (Enola Gay, Hammerfall, Swano/Tagtgren, Destiny's End, Axel Rudi Pell).<br />Still, I think this is one of the best tributes out there along with the 2 Judas Priest tributes Century Media put out ('Holy Dio' is on the same label...), and the recent Randy Rhoads tribute on JVC.]]></description>
<dc:creator>John Q</dc:creator>
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<title>RE: Tribute albums</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,5391,5395#msg-5395</link><description><![CDATA[ Yea, I have it. I can't really say that it is too impressive. If you didn't know, it is a 2-CD set. There are a couple of gems, most of them are not by the more famous names on the album. The thing that bugs me about this is that there are two versions of &quot;Kill The King&quot;, what up with that. The Malmsteen track, &quot;Gates of Babylon&quot;, is straight from his Inspiration album. I suppose some others are as well. It's more of an early-Rainbow tribute really, there are nine Rainbow songs, five Black Sabbath, and six Dio.<br />I like the Doro version of Egypt(The Chains Are On) as well as anything. Very different!<br />It does feature some rather obscure artists: Grave Digger, Holy Mother, Steel Prophet, Solitude Returnus, Destiny's End, Angel Dust, Catch the Rainbow(not the song, the band), Primal Fear and some other band which I can't type their name with my aphanumerical keyboard.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
<category>Noticeboard</category><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2000 16:19:47 +1100</pubDate></item>
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<title>Tribute albums</title><link>http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,5391,5391#msg-5391</link><description><![CDATA[ They suck on the whole really, don't they. But I've heard a song recently which pricked my ears up faster then an Angus Young opening riff. I'm quite partial to Blind Guardian and when I heard the opening strains to &quot;Don't Talk To Strangers&quot; I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt it was BG doing the song. So I went looking for it and after much searching, found it was on the DIO tribute. Its called Holy DIO, has anyone heard it? Would love to hear your opinions on it if you have. The BG track is HUGE, I love it, in fact I'd buy the whole dam album for that track. Lemme know if you get a chance.<br /><br />Cheers and beers<br /><br />Benno]]></description>
<dc:creator>Benno</dc:creator>
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