[tobyhill]

He wasn't the first concert I saw but I remember Lock Up The Wolves Tour with the opening band called Love and Hate. During DIOs song Children Of The Sea the band members of Love and Hate came rowing in the stage in a bathtub with the fog coming out. It was one of the funniest moments I had ever seen at a concert.

[LS]

I just interviewed his bass player, Rudy Sarzo, last week and he hadn’t mentioned Dio was sick. But Rudy alternates between Blue Oyster Cult and Dio, so perhaps it wasn’t on his mind.