Yes, Iron Butterfly and I have though of a few more since I posted and I will probably think of many more. I think a best of list is very subjective to the list makers personal taste. I mean if you hate Nirvana, for example, you will not put Teen Spirit on a best of list. It doesn't make it any less of a good riff you just personally don't like Nirvana. Like choosing a favorite song. I would be hard pressed to pick one favorite song or one favorite band even because my moods change from week to week. This week it's death metal(Morbid Angel, Deicide, Suffocation ect.). Last week it was black metal(Venom, Mayhem, Darkthrone ect.). And next week it may be something else. Depending on which week you ask you may get an entirely different answer. I wrote about this condition one time and I coined the term "multiple music personality disorder" or m.m.p.d. for short. This is an affliction that render the person broke from trying to keep up with and collect so many different genres of music. I blame the internet for making all these obscure band readily available. Thanks for the background on the Black Sabbath riff. Oh that reminds me that riff in the middle of Chapel Of Ghouls(Morbid Angel) and Crazy Train(Ozzy) and Whiplash-Metallica,now thats a huge riff and Holy Diver(Dio) and The Trooper(Iron Maiden) and..........................................................

That's really generous Raven. I'm going to keep an eye your post however and when or if I can change out codes I'll put yours back in it's rightful position. Thanks for the offer. Cheers!

In reply to this comment by raven:
uh.... am rather fond of Dio... but, as I didn't have the time to fix it when i got the notice and, as I still don't have time to fix it... I say, go ahead and keeps it... consider it a present from me to you, to aid in your own quest for a diamond

In reply to this comment by gorgonheap:
Rave! Thought I would let you know there is an issue with the Dio post. Yours is dead and I posted a new one an looris is in a tizzy. So here's what I'll do. If you want to resurrect it then let me know and I'll trash mine. Otherwise it stays. Fair? let me know.

-Ty

I fail to see the issue. The other video is dead, it was pre 3.0, and as covered in a sift talk post, pre 3.0 vids need to be restored by the poster. I left a note for Raven. Way I see it, he'll fix it. If not, at least we have a copy on the sift that works and not a link no one can fix.

If you still have a problem with it your welcome to blog it again. I feel the issue is taken care of. If you don't blog it and we'll see what the rest of the community thinks. I'm sorry for the confusion. I have no problem with Ravens post other then that he hasn't fixed it an neither has anyone else. Once it's fixed I'll promptly take down my post.

In reply to this comment by looris:
you miss the point about how dead pool works. Still, it's bad habit if you have a discussion to someone to call these commands yourself.

It is a matter of courtesy here on the sift, now that we have the deadpool......I have had some righteous reminders, w/ or w/o a replacement suggested, matters not to me....I like it when folks are polite-makes it so much better for the times I am not....makes it better when RNA time comes......
*rip new asshole

But seriously, the real issue here is, Do we really need more than 1 Ronnie James Dio viddy???
"
Hide in the midnight turn out the lights you'll see them anyway
Sail into never they'll follow wherever you can go and take you to the places you don't know no no
It's the call of the city the way that black's pretty to the purest heart"
-from Dio's Evil Eyes

I mean, come on man, that shit blows some serious Spinal Tap chunks!!!!

Rave! Thought I would let you know there is an issue with the Dio post. Yours is dead and I posted a new one an looris is in a tizzy. So here's what I'll do. If you want to resurrect it then let me know and I'll trash mine. Otherwise it stays. Fair? let me know.

-Ty

dupe http://www.videosift.com/video/Ladies-Gentlemen-Ronnie-James-DIO

*blog

(again, blog because original is dead, though it already have a replacement suggested)

Best live performers I recall were Alison Krauss & Union Station, Scorps Love at First Sting, Sammy Hagar, Def Leppard, Dio.

dio is *dead!

Ronny James Dio-Heavy Metal Gnome.

You guys better not eat ants. I know, there are poeplw who dio.

aah ok, good.

In reply to your comment:
“oh, this was way back before the rock n' roll collective when it was harder to get stuff published... it had stalled so bad in the queue I discarded it... I later submitted it to the Rock n' Roll collective under a different title...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ladies-Gentlemen-Ronnie-James-DIO

In reply to your comment:
“i'd like to save this, but noticing you discarded it yourself i wondered if there was a reason.

In reply to your comment:
“*discard
”””

oh, this was way back before the rock n' roll collective when it was harder to get stuff published... it had stalled so bad in the queue I discarded it... I later submitted it to the Rock n' Roll collective under a different title...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ladies-Gentlemen-Ronnie-James-DIO

In reply to your comment:
“i'd like to save this, but noticing you discarded it yourself i wondered if there was a reason.

In reply to your comment:
“*discard
””

*undead

DIO Must Live!

Nice thumbnail, needs Dawkins doing the Ronny James Dio devil fingers too...

There's nothing like a video to ruin an otherwise great song... kinda like Dio's video for Holy Diver. Ich.