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Although his trademark tales of “dungeons and dragons” may have single-handedly inspired Spinal Tap (even more specifically, Tap’s overblown epic “Stonehenge”), Ronnie James Dio was unquestionably among heavy metal’s most talented and instantly identifiable vocalists. Given birth to Ronald Wayne Padavona in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on July 10, 1942, the …

Although there are lots of more well known session drummers than Mark Nauseef, few have lent their talents to as wide a number of music styles as Nauseef has over time. Nauseef provides studied many percussive designs during his lengthy and winding profession, including Javanese gamelan with K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat; Balinese …

The early-’70s rock outfit Elf is best-known because the group that gave singer Ronnie Adam Dio his start and he’d eventually set his sights on the tougher, metallic sound, fronting famous brands Rainbow, Dark Sabbath, and his own solo music group, Dio. The group experienced several name adjustments in the …