Yes he does!! He completely blew us away with Don't Talk To Strangers too. Ripper does an awesome job and so does the other singer, Oni Logan, who sounds so much like RJD it's amazing.
Becks wrote:
Ripper KILLS Man on the Silver Mountain doesn't he?! I saw him perform it with Hail! here in NZ a couple of years ago, with Scotty on drums. Amazing!
HOT ROCKIN' METAL GODDESS wrote:
Just saw Dio Disciples last night at Harpos in Detroit. WOW!!! Ripper was fantastic and the energy of the band was great! It was truly a celebration of RJD and wonderful to be singing all his songs in memory of him.
Guido, you will appreciate this - at one point Ripper said to someone in the crowd, "You don't need to worry about leaving. Don't worry about your car, it's not there anymore!" BAHAAHAHAHA!! Fortunately the place has security that keeps an eye on the cars because if they didn't I think they would all be broken into or gone. We stopped at the KFC a couple of doors down before the show and it had bullet proof glass and doors to pass the food and money through. HOLY SHIT!!!
After the show, we met Ripper. He is a really great guy!! I've never met him before and I always wanted to. I told him that I've been waiting to meet him since '98. We told him that we saw them in Kalamazoo for the Jugulator show and it was sold out. He said he remembered that show and it was a GREAT show. Damn right it was! I said that I thought the picture of a "sold out" sign on the '98 Meltdown disc looked like that sign! He thought about it for a minute and said, "You know, I think it is!" We got our pictures with him and had him sign our JP jean jacket. He didn't have a silver sharpie, so he signed on the Painkiller front wheel.
Highlights of the show for me were: The Last In Line, MOB Rules, Heaven and Hell, Man On the Silver Mountain, Rainbow In The Dark, Holy Diver, We Rock and Don't Talk To Strangers. It was a great show!! If you get a chance to see them, GO!!
