Re: Dio connection & Cockney Rebjects

[MTARR@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU]

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Hi!

Chris writes:
 
>   I guess everyone forgot the obvious Kate and Ronnie James Dio connection;
>that Jimmy Bain, one of the legion of bassists on _The Dreaming_, was the
>bass player in Dio. There seems to be little overlap between Kate fans and
>Heavy Metal fans, but one of our old correspondents from California, Wayne
>Henderson, has a dream of seeing Kate and Ronnie James Dio singing a duet.
                                                                           
"Little overlap"?  I may be out on another planet on this one, but isn't KaTe
often mentioned in certain HM magazines?  And I don't know about you, but a
large number of the KaTefans at the KonvenTion last year looked like metalheads
to me.  Not to attach the long-haired-and-denim stereotype here, but I saw
quite a few metal patches interspersed with the KT's on quite a few jackets! 

Evan replies:

> My impression of HM fans (good grief I'm married to one!) is that they are
> no less open-minded than the next person (not that you implied they're
> not open-minded). KaTe's releases are _always_ reviewed in the HM press and

whoa, that answers my question right there! :)

> in my experience they are just as likely to dedicate a whole article on KaTe
> as the rest of the music press. The reviews are rarely unsympathetic I might
> add. In fact they are usually raves.
> 
> If none of this rings true then perhaps, like HM music, there are 
> differences between HM fans on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

Actually, Evan, you may be right- but I KonverTed an American metalhead last 
year, so there may still be hope after all... :)
  
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