Ronnie James Dio Memorial Gala -- Helsinki, Finland -- July 2nd, 2010

[ravenheart]

Venue: Tavaski Klubi
Set times: 23:00-01:10

Tarot Woman (1)
Kill the King (1) (10)
16th Century Greensleeves (2)
After All (The Dead) (3)
Rock & Roll Children (4)
Long Live Rock & Roll (5)
Gates of Babylon (6)
Temple of The King (7)
Catch The Rainbow (8) (2)
Children of The Sea (1)
Die Young (9)
The Mob Rules (4) (11)
Stand Up And Shout (3) (11)
Holy Diver (7) (12)
Don't Talk To Strangers (8) (12)
Man On The Silver Mountain (1)
The Last In Line (5)
Neon Knights (3) >
Heaven And Hell (7)
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Stargazer (3)
We Rock (6)
This Is Your Life (7)

Band:
Erkka Korhonen - guitar
Jari Ilomäki - bass
Janne Parviainen - drums
Vili Ollila - keyboards

Guests:
(1) Patrik Eriksson - vocals
(2) Aleksi Parviainen (Soulcage) - vocals
(3) Marco Hietala (Tarot/Nightwish) - vocals
(4) Tuple Salmela (Tarot) - vocals
(5) Pekka Heino (Leverage/Brother Firetribe) - vocals
(6) Anthony Parviainen (Machine Men) - vocals
(7) J. Ahola - vocals
(8) Ari Koivunen (Amoral) - vocals
(9) Asim Searah (The Nibiruan) - vocals
(10) Zachary Hietala (Tarot) - guitar
(11) Mr Crab (Bleak) - guitar
(12) Ben Varon (Amoral) - guitar

[JRA]

moar like Rainbow memorial gala. amirite?

[darkguardian50]

Bwhaha the kid that won the Finnish American Idol sang Don't Talk to Strangers. I'm kinda curious to see how bad it is. Marco does a fantastic job of covering Dio so I am sure he did a bang up job on the numbers he sang on. Dunno most of the other guys. Always happy to see Dio being honored.

[ravenheart]

Originally Posted by JRA

moar like Rainbow memorial gala. amirite?

Erm... yes?

[ravenheart]

Originally Posted by darkguardian50

Bwhaha the kid that won the Finnish American Idol sang Don't Talk to Strangers. I'm kinda curious to see how bad it is. Marco does a fantastic job of covering Dio so I am sure he did a bang up job on the numbers he sang on. Dunno most of the other guys. Always happy to see Dio being honored.

I just know him as the singer from Amoral, who are a great band, and he did a great job. All of the singers were superb.

[ravenheart]

The band/guests lists are now complete.

Some audience-shot footage has been posted:

Anthony Parviainen - Gates of Babylon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN0OQ8FGGzM

J. Ahola - Temple of The King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxC8tADZek8

Ari Koivunen + Aleksi Parviainen - Catch The Rainbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oOILB90dE

Asim Searah - Die Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJiyzfnIjfk

Tuple Salmela + Mr. Crab - The Mob Rules
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZjhwj7wswo

Marco Hietala + Mr. Crab - Stand Up And Shout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH0m6QKxWdM

J. Ahola + Ben Varon - Holy Diver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2y574rM0tU

Ari Koivunen - Don't Talk to Strangers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxr7iXVu3Vw

Marco Hietal - Neon Knight / J. Ahola - Heaven & Hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhfrP4Ue6wo

[darkguardian50]

Originally Posted by ravenheart

I just know him as the singer from Amoral, who are a great band, and he did a great job. All of the singers were superb.

I have to agree, he has vastly improved since his time on Finnish Idol. He did a very nice job on Don't Talk to Strangers (my favorite Dio song, so I'm picky). IMO the guy who sang Heaven and Hell (who is he? What band is he with?) just absolutely killed it. Stellar job. Marco was good but I've heard him do better. I'm hoping someone posts his rendition of Stargazers though.

[ravenheart]

As noted above, that's J. Ahola. He doesn't really do much. Northern Kings with Marco et al, and local Finnish stuff.

http://www.jahola.com/

I think the guy who did Die Young was also awesome. Really, they were all good. It was a great night

You will find if you search around that almost every singer/guitarist who played has done, or currently does, something local with the main guitar player Erkka Korhonen, who put the whole gig together.