TONY IOMMI Says Upcoming RONNIE JAMES DIO Tribute Concert Will Be A One-Off
July 8, 2010Surviving HEAVEN & HELL members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice will play a very special tribute to their fallen bandmate, Ronnie James Dio, at this year's High Voltage festival on July 24 at Victoria Park in London, England. The musicians will be joined by legendary former DEEP PURPLE and BLACK SABBATH man Glenn Hughes and Norwegian vocalist Jorn Lande, who sings for power metallers MASTERPLAN and has just released his own tribute to Ronnie.
Proceeds from this performance will go to the Ronnie James Dio "Stand Up And Shout" Cancer Fund.
Speaking to U.K.'s Classic Rock magazine, Iommi said, "We thought it would be nice to do a final thing for Ronnie. To be honest, we didn't expect to be playing again. It's certainly going to be a strange feeling."
He added, "This is going to be the only one. It would have been good, I suppose, for other people to have seen it, but this is something that we needed to do for ourselves as well."
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