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Talk Is Jericho

Classic Album Clash - Dio's "Holy Diver" vs "The Last In Line"

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

It’s the return of the Classic Album Clash, and this time it’s DIO’s “Holy Diver” vs “The Last In Line!” Fozzy guitarists Rich Ward and Billy Grey, and drummer Frank Fontsere return to debate the songs, album art, songwriting, musicianship, guitar solos, and production of the two albums to ultimately crown the best among them. They also share Dio stories and trivia, remember the first time they saw the band live, and compare the management styles of Wendy Dio and Sharon Osbourne. Plus, they talk favorite songs, favorite Vivian Campbell guitar solos, and favorite Dio performances.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, so one of the biggest attractions for talk is Jericho.

0:18.4

The spreading all across the nation is the reaction to the classic album clash.

0:24.4

And we are here in Benetta, Dicev, in Italy with a day off on a Fosytour, so with Rich and

0:31.4

Billy and Frank, who's here under protest.

0:34.3

He won't get really to do an aerospace myth clash.

0:38.3

He did, and I said it's my show.

0:40.7

So we're going to do D.O., which we've talked about for a while.

0:43.5

Stand up and show it and last in line.

0:46.6

Holy Diver.

0:47.6

Sorry.

0:48.6

Holy Diver.

0:49.6

Yes, holy Diver.

0:50.6

But stand up and show it.

0:51.6

I mean, it's the lead off track.

0:52.6

But once again, when we're doing these shows, there's so many options and the rules.

0:57.4

Once again, though, it has to be the same amount of songs on each record.

1:03.4

And they have to be by the same band.

1:05.3

That's kind of my rule, because I've got a lot of suggestions.

1:07.0

So you guys should do, you know, the rain and blood versus spreading the disease band,

1:12.5

they're actually, it doesn't work that way.

1:14.1

It has to be with the same band, same amount of tracks.

1:16.6

So what we've found in doing these is there's a lot of albums from this time frame, which

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