Because he joined Def Leopard. We understand why he did, but that band is not as respected as many others. VC’s early stuff *still* blows me away. And I remember seeing him play with Whitesnake when I was really young. Respect!
He is Marty Friedman from Megadeth!a hired guitar monster, but Viv was a Gary Moore clone!still one hell of a guitarist! I want All of the guitarists of 2020s to play his stuff! They Wont!too clean these days, he was one of the origians of the 80s, so crazy and wild, nowadays every guitarst is Clean!
Vivian's playing on Holy Diver, is some of the most phenomenal playing & solo's one could create! As he said in this interview, making it up as he went along. Vivian said many years ago, every time he played a solo it was different. Just by his work alone on the Holy Diver, I have much respect to Vivian as one of the best in history!
@@jamiealder-martin9994 I agree! Also.. Strange Highways was an excellent Heavy Album and Magica and Killing the Dragon! You just cant go wrong with DIO! Im certainly not one of those people that didn't get into DIO simply cuz Viv wasn't in the Band! Hell NO! Viv shouldn't have been so pushy, Dio was the reason Vivian was recognized world wide! He became a second guitar player w/WS and DF..Go Figure🙄
@@esmeraldgreen5424 You make an excellent point, my friend. Vivian may have always been greedy like that. If it were about his creativity and recognition as an artist, then why didn't he ever form his own band where he could have played guitar, sang and done anything he ever wanted to do ? NO !!! He went straight to the big "money makers" to "showcase his talent", where as you stated so perfectly, he was relegated to duo sharing playing only established songs that had already been written by other musicians in which HE HAD ABSOLUTELY NO ROLE IN THE "CREATIVE PROCESS" !!!!!!!!
@@christophervigil7729 it's not an excellent point at all. If RJDio promised equity by the 3rd album, and then kept putting him off,wait for album finish, go on tour first, and then Wendy 'Sharon' Dio fires him mid-tour if he doesn't sign a peanuts contract...it certainly seems like he has a right to complain! as for no role in creative process, AFAIK he and the other two guys in Dio DID have input. He wasn't complaining about salary in Whitesnake.
I was able to open up for the Last in Line before covid. Vivian was a big influence for my guitar playing. But the best was just hanging out and trading stories from the road. He truly is a gentleman and humble musician. Great sense of humor and I'll ever be honored to have been able to share the same bill as him.
Viv is a class act. Met him in Hawaii in the 80’s, he was a celebrity judge for a radio station sponsored “Best Guitar Player” contest. My band was the house band for the contest. Really nice, down to earth guy.
Been a Dio fan since Elf. Love Viv’s guitar playing on every track he’s played; irrespective of which band he was in. I feel he brought the best out of Ronnie and those first 2 albums will always remain iconic.
Vivian Campbell is an AWESOME guitarist. His time in Dio was his Magnum Opus! No one could shred like him! Def Leopard is ok but doesn't really highlight the awesome talent that Vivian brings to the table as did Dio. He should have been paid for his amazing talents! Thank you Vivian Campbell for being such an inspiration!!!
Maybe Ronnie forced him to play like that and when you're 20 years old, you're not going to turn down Ronnie James Dio. They're always picking on him and Def Leppard for not playing exactly like he did in Dio. Who knows he might be more comfortable letting Phil take the lead. And you heard him say that he never felt confident or felt like he belonged in Dio. People just want him to play heavy Rock again for their own selfish reasons and not caring about what Vivian wants to do.
I met Vivian Campbell Rick Savage backstage before a Def Leppard concert. My buddy and I who are about the same age as the band members got the backstage passes. So it was just four guys standing around in a dirt parking lot talking. I was never really into Def Leppard and wasn't familiar with the guys except for Joe and Rick Savage. I have so much respect for Vivian because I didn't know who he was and we were kind of ignoring him until Rick said you know he's in the Band too! I didn't know I was in the presence of greatness until I looked him up later. Because of this I have so much respect for Vivian because he was so modest and unassuming and didn't get pissed that we didn't know who he was. I've met my share of celebrities and you can tell the ones that are sincere and awesome people and Vivian is one of those.
I met Viv after a Whitesnake concert (saw him with Dio on Last in Line), we were hanging, talking guitars. Groupies swarmed Sarzo, Vandenburg and Coverdale. When two girls came up to him and asked if he was in the band, I said 'naw, just some dude'. They left, he laughed and we chatted until the tour bus took off. Great guy, so down to earth, like you said, just a few guys standing in a dirt parking lot talking.
Holy diver and the last in line have some blistering guitar tracks on them, absolute treasures and this is coming from a drummer...Vinny is a very underrated drummer...
It’s really nice that Vivian was able to get past the entire Dio/Wendy Dio money issue because it was an incredible and very close tight band. Glad that he always stuck up for himself and wanted his due...
Wow - great interview. I have always had a lot of respect for Vivian - a true gentleman and great musician and individual who I have always admired. I have seen him several times with Dio and he was amazing - a huge part of the Dio band.... I love the Irish guitar players comment about singing - Fucking Gary Moore could sure sing!!! Damn, I forgot about Bolin. Thanks for everything you've done Vivian - I for one, greatly appreciate it.
Vivian's a good guy.. Great interview and I'm glad he's happy now and doing well.. He's beat cancer and been around playing and I'm glad he's doing well!
great interview. was a big fan of vivian's in and followed him even during whitesnake years. glad i finally heard the other side of the story with dio. I heard ronnie's side years ago but never vivian's. i finally got the full story. ronnie only talked about how he gave vivian a break and an opportunity but never all the details. thanks for sharing this!
Vivian Campbell is a CLASS HUMAN BEING! Unfortunately, RJD didn’t pay Vivian like he had promised which is ridiculous being that the band was making millions off of gate receipts and merchandise sales! When the third album came around, Vivian asked Dio to honor his promise to pay him appropriately! Dio refused and told Vivian that he had to sign a contract to remain in the band knowing that he was going to continue to be paid pennies! Vivian declined and left the band! As much as I like RJD I have to say that my opinion of him changed dramatically when I found out how poorly he treated Vivian! ONCE AGAIN, GREED WINS THE DAY!
Viv's is so brilliant for me..im just 46 year old now a listener too and a big salute to VC... Id just remembered the last album of Lou Gram in Foreigner Lou and Viv had a project they collaborated so the Shadow King made..the album so good and Class very well made with Bruce Turgon too... Russia the last track of the album was so awesome and very amazing riffs of guitar of VC... I really salute you VC...thanks for all music contribution.
Holy Diver will always be Vivian’s legacy. And what a legacy it is. Simply one of the greatest pure rock albums ever. Not many players can claim such a legacy.
My father meet Vivian's father back in the 1980's in Buncrana (I think his family had a holiday home there at the time)...and he mentioned that his son was a rock star :)
If anyone else had played guitar on "Rainbow In the Dark" , I never would have gone through three cassette tapes wearing that album out. I kept the two original vinyls. One is scratched to pieces and one is pristine. Thank you Vivian. Your living cheap bought this fan hours of music joy beyond compare. When I FINALLY got to see Dio live, I caught a guitar pick you chucked out. If I live to be 100 years old I will never forget that concert. Money isn't everything, right?
Don’t forget that Ritchie Blackmore both wrote and recorded the song - anything played afterward is just a cover (no matter the quality, no matter who played it!!’ - Thank you all so, so much....
Unfortunately many musicians got fucked out of royalties. Bowie screwed over Mick Ronson, and James Brown also screwed over his band members bad. Clyde Stubblefield created one of the greatest and most influential beats that was sampled by almost every rap group and he wasn’t paid shit.
Dio didn’t steal anyone’s publishing. None of his bandmates ever made that claim. Vivian Campbell said he paid him a meager weekly salary. I’ve never heard a complaint from Vinny Appice or Jimmy Bain about how they were paid. Facts matter.
Vivian campbell is from lisburn and i remember him many years ago at the lisburn swimming pool carpark. Trevor Flemming also was our local lad. Brilliant guitarists and our local legends
Vivian has and will always be one of the baddest, coolest axeslingers of all time. Being In Def Leppard has suited him so perfectly and the rest of the band had made the smartest choice to have him.#fan4life.
Vinny appeice has his own personality come through on the drums ,one of the few drummers that you can tell who it is just by hearing his playing ,the whole band was unique
...had the fortune to see Dio live on the Last in Line tour in 1984 and I still remember the guitar tone that Viv had..the power in the sound..like a roaring beast that came at you with the opening song Stand up and Shout..still to this day..one of the best guitarsounds ever at a show..and together with Jimmy and Vinnie..Dio kicked everybody's ass on that tour!💥💯👌
In 1979, Bain married Lady Sophia Crichton-Stewart, daughter of John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute. They had one daughter, Samantha Ella Bain, born in 1981 (for whom Phil Lynott and John Sykes' song "Samantha" was written)
One of the nicest guys in the business!!!!!! I love the way how Dio slags off Blackmore, calling him moody and horrible. Blackmore never ripped anyone off did he????????????????
Viv's style is different than the other killers. I've been playing hair guitar since 1985 when I was 15. He was the guy that I listened to but never tried to learn because I knew there was no chance. Going to Def Lep was definitely financially smart, but his chops suffer a bit when you play Pour Some Sugar On Me.
I was hugely influenced by Viv when I was a kid. Listening to this interview it just dawned on me where I got "vibrato on the chord" from. Of course it was Viv. I've destroyed the frets on every guitar I've owned thanks to that technique. I even do it on accoustic. The way it makes a chord "snarl" on electric particularly when you strike it a certain way and sustain with the vibrato. Powerful. I had thought I'd got it from Yngwie but he does it with scalloped frets and it sounds "prettier". Viv was just straight up "nasty" and I loved it. I saw a Dio video in the 80's live in Dublin or something. I never took it back to the video shop....🤣
Interview supports my hunch it was always about the money for Viv which explains him joining, Def Leppard. Riverdogs has some of the most inspiring and for the song work he ever did. Lost respect when he joined DL.
Funny that Dio used to have same criticisms of Blackmore that he got from other musicians in the Dio band. Still don’t know why he left WS or did WS not want him.
He wanted to be part of the writing process, whereas DC had other ideas..also their respective wifes didn't like each other while on tour with the band..
It seems like a joke. Dio always complained about Blackmore, who paid him very little for a couple of years. And here it is Campbell who complains to Dio about miserable pay. There are many stories like these. Ozzy has several, or rather his representative and wife, although he of course knew what was happening, for example with Jacke Lee
There are 2 conflicting stories about the Dio fallout. Viv days he wasn't paid much throughout. Wendy Dio says he was paid $1,700 a week in the early era, that enabled Viv to by a Ferarri. You can't buy that on $100 a week salary. All I know is that those 1st few albums are classics and I still listen to them often
Vivian might have been a little nervous coming over to LA just after Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads had made a name for themselves .so he was right there around Jake E Lee and George Lynch .Warren DMartini which all were great technical players forsure but Vivian was a MONSTER on those Dio records especially Holy Diver .that album is stacked from cover to cover some real solid guitar on there .not a bad track on the LP .IMO it's a Heavy Metal Guitar Oriented Masterpiece that was right up there with Eddie and Randy .maybe not quite as technical but had that really raw heavy tone and blistering fast solos and could really bend the strings with a lot of emotion and feel on the Les Paul just like Randy .you would be hard pressed to find a better player than Vivian Campbell in 1982 and 83 I'll put his solos on Holy Diver up against anybody at that time with maybe the exception of Ed and Randy .liked his tone better that Jake Lee or George Lynch. think Jeff Watson had that simular tone and sound to Vivian
Wow, first 2 albums very impressive. Why do people have this greed to have a successful band and not pay the players well. Vivian is an amazing musician.
Bottom Line: Nobody on Earth would have known who Viv was if it wasnt For Ronnie who got him in the band. He then went to be the "Second" guitarist for WS and DL.🙄
Sacred Heart had the potential of the first two albums, but the money just wasn't there. Literally. Rumors were that Ronnie was paying out of pocket for that level of production to continue. It was a stage and fx show the likes of we'd not seen before, or since. Unbelievable for a young teenager to see. Even though Viv was gone already, Craig Goldy did a bang up job keeping the dream alive.
Wow! Never knew about the rift between Dio and his bandmates....terrible! Viv is one of my favorite guitarists period! Holy Diver & Last in Line....quintessencial albums for the metalists out there and the years following when Vivian left and went to Whitesnake....I was thinking "why the fuck is Viv going to WS to play lullabies and ballads when he could be leveling everybody with real metal?!" I guess it's clear now....money & egos....the true enemies of METAL!!
Given the plentiful stories I've read about Blackmore, I doubt Dio was a bigger jerk than him. But all of those kinds of guys are alpha males with big egos so hard to tell. If you look at so-called "super groups" there's a reason most of them last a very short time.
Too bad Ronnie was so selfish with the money. I really love Ronnie until I heard how he screwed over Viv. Ronnie was a liar when it came to money. Just sad.
i think dio had been caught between Wendy and Viv,yes viv got screwed ,but its one of things things where dio was making promises in good faith ,but was to weak to take on Wendy .i get it ,some men will not stand to there wives and will throw friends employees under the bus .i dont think dio was lying when he said the things he did ,wendy made a lair of him . nothing like one of the bands wife girlfriend etc to f up a good thing .
Vivian Campbell was the best guitarist Dio ever had. I think Doug Aldrich had potential though. The live stuff from the Campbell/Vandenberg lineup of Whitesnake though seemed like a disaster. Should've let Campbell pick up more of the slack live, Vandenberg or Steve Vai never fit the Whitesnake sound. Campbell or Sykes, despite being shredders, definitely could.
I prefer him with Dio but I am not a musician and don't control a Band..sometimes skills are extraordinary but personality conflics are too much.. other times you just want a different sound
Without Vivian holy diver would have been meh at best. He brought and energy to the songs as equal to Ronnie’s voice. Without him dio would have crashed imo
@scottfugazi4956 - How the F do you know what Holy Diver would’ve sounded like without Campbell? Since it’s 100% speculation, maybe it would’ve been even better.
@@crusheverything4449 well opinions are like buttholes and everyone has one. Your idea that the album might have been better I disagree. You can’t improve upon perfect
RONNIE JAMES DIO AND OZZY OSBOURNE WERE VERY BAD PERSONS WITH THEIR BAND MUSICIANS!!!! VIVIAN CAMPBELL WAS THE BEST GUITARIST OF Ronnie James Dio Band!!!! 🤔 🗽
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Vivian Campbell is a class act who never got the credit he deserves!!! One of the greatest ever!!
I agree 100% with you.
Being in Def Leppard serves the credits pretty well i think considering for how long he has been in the band.
SHADOW KING impressive,very impressive,genius frontmen bring it out of you
Because he joined Def Leopard. We understand why he did, but that band is not as respected as many others. VC’s early stuff *still* blows me away. And I remember seeing him play with Whitesnake when I was really young. Respect!
He is Marty Friedman from Megadeth!a hired guitar monster, but Viv was a Gary Moore clone!still one hell of a guitarist! I want All of the guitarists of 2020s to play his stuff! They Wont!too clean these days, he was one of the origians of the 80s, so crazy and wild, nowadays every guitarst is Clean!
Vivian Campbell is such a class act!
So authentic
Vivian's playing on Holy Diver, is some of the most phenomenal playing & solo's one could create! As he said in this interview, making it up as he went along. Vivian said many years ago, every time he played a solo it was different. Just by his work alone on the Holy Diver, I have much respect to Vivian as one of the best in history!
All solos on Dio was amazing and great ones!! Uniques atm!
I think Last in line is way better...His guitar work in Last in line is superior..Last in Line is Dio's best album..!!!
Last in line was a lead I would rewind the cassette over and over again...one of my definite favorite leads
Beat me to it. I’m in my 50s and still play HD and LIL when I’m in the gym. Incredible shedding. And he was 18-20! Incredible.
The sound of his guitar was amazing to say the least. Although I enjoy last in line as well, it lacks the raw energy holy diver had.
Viv's era of Dio was by far the best. Dio shouldve been a bit more generous to Vivian.
Dream evil was a bloody good album and stacked up very well to holy diver
@@jamiealder-martin9994 I agree! Also.. Strange Highways was an excellent Heavy Album and Magica and Killing the Dragon! You just cant go wrong with DIO! Im certainly not one of those people that didn't get into DIO simply cuz Viv wasn't in the Band! Hell NO! Viv shouldn't have been so pushy, Dio was the reason Vivian was recognized world wide! He became a second guitar player w/WS and DF..Go Figure🙄
@@esmeraldgreen5424 Strange Highways is a really good album
@@esmeraldgreen5424 You make an excellent point, my friend. Vivian may have always been greedy like that.
If it were about his creativity and recognition as an artist, then why didn't he ever form his own band where he could have played guitar, sang and done anything he ever wanted to do ?
NO !!! He went straight to the big "money makers" to "showcase his talent", where as you stated so perfectly, he was relegated to duo sharing playing only established songs that had already been written by other musicians in which HE HAD ABSOLUTELY NO ROLE IN THE "CREATIVE PROCESS" !!!!!!!!
@@christophervigil7729 it's not an excellent point at all. If RJDio promised equity by the 3rd album, and then kept putting him off,wait for album finish, go on tour first, and then Wendy 'Sharon' Dio fires him mid-tour if he doesn't sign a peanuts contract...it certainly seems like he has a right to complain!
as for no role in creative process, AFAIK he and the other two guys in Dio DID have input. He wasn't complaining about salary in Whitesnake.
The first two Dio albums are the best. Still sound great production wise.
'That Rhythm Section' was soo ahead of it's time
You dont say
Agree. Don't know what happened on sacred heart. Production wasn't there IMO.
Sacred heart is meh. Kind of a repeat of the first two albums
Check out Joe Baresi, Queens of the Stone Age drummer, remix of Holy Diver.
Some of the greatest solos and chops ever laid down .
Viv is very humble and very clear minded about the road he traveled along with being a truly amazing musician! Great interview!
I was able to open up for the Last in Line before covid. Vivian was a big influence for my guitar playing. But the best was just hanging out and trading stories from the road. He truly is a gentleman and humble musician. Great sense of humor and I'll ever be honored to have been able to share the same bill as him.
What a great experience for you, Dan! I've always loved Viv in Def Leppard, and he's always seemed like such a cool, down to earth guy.
Viv is a class act. Met him in Hawaii in the 80’s, he was a celebrity judge for a radio station sponsored “Best Guitar Player” contest. My band was the house band for the contest. Really nice, down to earth guy.
Been a Dio fan since Elf. Love Viv’s guitar playing on every track he’s played; irrespective of which band he was in. I feel he brought the best out of Ronnie and those first 2 albums will always remain iconic.
Vivian Campbell is an AWESOME guitarist. His time in Dio was his Magnum Opus! No one could shred like him! Def Leopard is ok but doesn't really highlight the awesome talent that Vivian brings to the table as did Dio. He should have been paid for his amazing talents! Thank you Vivian Campbell for being such an inspiration!!!
Maybe Ronnie forced him to play like that and when you're 20 years old, you're not going to turn down Ronnie James Dio. They're always picking on him and Def Leppard for not playing exactly like he did in Dio. Who knows he might be more comfortable letting Phil take the lead. And you heard him say that he never felt confident or felt like he belonged in Dio. People just want him to play heavy Rock again for their own selfish reasons and not caring about what Vivian wants to do.
I met Vivian Campbell Rick Savage backstage before a Def Leppard concert. My buddy and I who are about the same age as the band members got the backstage passes. So it was just four guys standing around in a dirt parking lot talking. I was never really into Def Leppard and wasn't familiar with the guys except for Joe and Rick Savage. I have so much respect for Vivian because I didn't know who he was and we were kind of ignoring him until Rick said you know he's in the Band too! I didn't know I was in the presence of greatness until I looked him up later. Because of this I have so much respect for Vivian because he was so modest and unassuming and didn't get pissed that we didn't know who he was. I've met my share of celebrities and you can tell the ones that are sincere and awesome people and Vivian is one of those.
I met Viv after a Whitesnake concert (saw him with Dio on Last in Line), we were hanging, talking guitars. Groupies swarmed Sarzo, Vandenburg and Coverdale. When two girls came up to him and asked if he was in the band, I said 'naw, just some dude'. They left, he laughed and we chatted until the tour bus took off. Great guy, so down to earth, like you said, just a few guys standing in a dirt parking lot talking.
Vivian is a joy to listen to.
Holy diver and the last in line have some blistering guitar tracks on them, absolute treasures and this is coming from a drummer...Vinny is a very underrated drummer...
The drum fills on we rock we’re mind blowing
It’s really nice that Vivian was able to get past the entire Dio/Wendy Dio money issue because it was an incredible and very close tight band. Glad that he always stuck up for himself and wanted his due...
I have listen to this interview several times and I find it very fascinating. I love Vivian Campbell’s genuine character and his vulnerability.
That David Coverdale impression is actually spot on, lol.
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Saw all three shows with Vivian big arenas it was great ... sure miss the 80s concerts
Yes we do.All that energy boxed up.
Wow - great interview. I have always had a lot of respect for Vivian - a true gentleman and great musician and individual who I have always admired. I have seen him several times with Dio and he was amazing - a huge part of the Dio band.... I love the Irish guitar players comment about singing - Fucking Gary Moore could sure sing!!! Damn, I forgot about Bolin. Thanks for everything you've done Vivian - I for one, greatly appreciate it.
Hey - all jokes aside, we cannot forget about Rory Gallagher - he was a mast Irishman’s that both Vic and Gary Moore were heavily influenced by !!!!
Nice Vivian - loveit
Such a great storyteller - He put up with a lot of abuse and it's great he came out On Top. The signature guitars are awesome I have to own these.
Vivian's a good guy.. Great interview and I'm glad he's happy now and doing well.. He's beat cancer and been around playing and I'm glad he's doing well!
Vivian, you will forever be a legend in the minds of true rock fans!
great interview. was a big fan of vivian's in and followed him even during whitesnake years. glad i finally heard the other side of the story with dio. I heard ronnie's side years ago but never vivian's. i finally got the full story. ronnie only talked about how he gave vivian a break and an opportunity but never all the details. thanks for sharing this!
Wow, wonderful interview - love this kind of candid reminiscing.
Stand up and shout gets me pumped everything I hear it!! Never gets old.
Vivian Campbell is a CLASS HUMAN BEING! Unfortunately, RJD didn’t pay Vivian like he had promised which is ridiculous being that the band was making millions off of gate receipts and merchandise sales! When the third album came around, Vivian asked Dio to honor his promise to pay him appropriately! Dio refused and told Vivian that he had to sign a contract to remain in the band knowing that he was going to continue to be paid pennies! Vivian declined and left the band! As much as I like RJD I have to say that my opinion of him changed dramatically when I found out how poorly he treated Vivian! ONCE AGAIN, GREED WINS THE DAY!
Dio died of a painful stomach cancer at too young an age so he got his in the end.
Greed ruins music!!! and greatr musicians!! Ask that to Ozzy! :S
@@UptempoMusicLessons- Classy comment. So much for letting the departed rest.
vivian is one of my favorite guitarists...without him DIO really went downhill...his style made those first DIO albums
I love watching Vivian play his whole heart and soul can be seen in his face his body and his whole demeanour I love watching him play
Viv is a real person.
Viv's is so brilliant for me..im just 46 year old now a listener too and a big salute to VC...
Id just remembered the last album of Lou Gram in Foreigner Lou and Viv had a project they collaborated so the Shadow King made..the album so good and Class very well made with Bruce Turgon too...
Russia the last track of the album was so awesome and very amazing riffs of guitar of VC... I really salute you VC...thanks for all music contribution.
i love vivian in whitesnake!
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la gente no lo recuerda pero Vivian sonaba mil veces mejor que Adrian Vandenberg, cuando soleaba tenia mucho mas feeling que su compasñero
Holy Diver will always be Vivian’s legacy. And what a legacy it is. Simply one of the greatest pure rock albums ever.
Not many players can claim such a legacy.
Vivian is a genius and a humble man I like how he plays guitar 🤘🤘🤘🎸
It's great to know that one of your idols is a class act.
My father meet Vivian's father back in the 1980's in Buncrana (I think his family had a holiday home there at the time)...and he mentioned that his son was a rock star :)
If anyone else had played guitar on "Rainbow In the Dark" , I never would have gone through three cassette tapes wearing that album out. I kept the two original vinyls. One is scratched to pieces and one is pristine. Thank you Vivian. Your living cheap bought this fan hours of music joy beyond compare. When I FINALLY got to see Dio live, I caught a guitar pick you chucked out. If I live to be 100 years old I will never forget that concert. Money isn't everything, right?
Don’t forget that Ritchie Blackmore both wrote and recorded the song - anything played afterward is just a cover (no matter the quality, no matter who played it!!’ - Thank you all so, so much....
@@davidkiefer9875- What song? If you’re referring to Rainbow in the Dark, you’re smoking crack.
Both Ronnie and Ozzy ripped off and stole the publishing from their brilliant music writing guitar players.
you mean their wives :D
@@IgorsDeepPurpleUniverse Who chose the wives?
Unfortunately many musicians got fucked out of royalties. Bowie screwed over Mick Ronson, and James Brown also screwed over his band members bad. Clyde Stubblefield created one of the greatest and most influential beats that was sampled by almost every rap group and he wasn’t paid shit.
Dio didn’t steal anyone’s publishing. None of his bandmates ever made that claim. Vivian Campbell said he paid him a meager weekly salary. I’ve never heard a complaint from Vinny Appice or Jimmy Bain about how they were paid. Facts matter.
A comment totally based on ignorance.
It must be hard being a hired gun type musician in a successful rock band. You can be very good and still feel like a outsider.
Vivian campbell is from lisburn and i remember him many years ago at the lisburn swimming pool carpark. Trevor Flemming also was our local lad.
Brilliant guitarists and our local legends
Vivian has and will always be one of the baddest, coolest axeslingers of all time. Being In Def Leppard has suited him so perfectly and the rest of the band had made the smartest choice to have him.#fan4life.
Def Leppard is completely beneath Vivian’s abilities as a musician. It’s obvious he chose the big paycheck over artistic integrity. What a waste.
Two sides to every story. It was good to hear his perspective of the Dio situation.
Three sides..the truth
Vinny appeice has his own personality come through on the drums ,one of the few drummers that you can tell who it is just by hearing his playing ,the whole band was unique
...had the fortune to see Dio live on the Last in Line tour in 1984 and I still remember the guitar tone that Viv had..the power in the sound..like a roaring beast that came at you with the opening song Stand up and Shout..still to this day..one of the best guitarsounds ever at a show..and together with Jimmy and Vinnie..Dio kicked everybody's ass on that tour!💥💯👌
I seen Dokken with Dio on that tour in Detroit Dio opened with We Rock Great Show!
And how about Vinny’s drum sound?!! Best I’ve ever heard at a concert, every time I saw him play.
May 16 2010 - 10 years ago we lost Ronnie James Dio \mXm/
Those first 3 Dio album really kicked arse
I just wish the original dio lineup had done more albums.
Vrlo, vrlo zanimljivo! Hvaka!
Nema na čemu :)
In 1979, Bain married Lady Sophia Crichton-Stewart, daughter of John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute. They had one daughter, Samantha Ella Bain, born in 1981 (for whom Phil Lynott and John Sykes' song "Samantha" was written)
Great story!
Who is Bain?
@@Lynnm1956 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Bain
@@Lynnm1956, RJ Dio's bass player who passed away as well (RIP).
Nobody played like Vivian. He is a master
plays. Don't end it too soon.
This guy was an incredible guitarist
He still is!
Vivain Campbell is the best guitarist and he was great in dio I loved the band dio and dio was great.
My favourite British metal guitarist. Really inspired me when I was a teen. Always tried to copy his style. Melodic, clean and so fluid.
Vivian is Irish.
@@MrWilly2204 Oh yeah. My favourite Irish metal guitarist then.
I like vivian in shadowking
voices of lou gramm amazing
Have you ever listened to Riverdogs? That’s the band VC was in before Shadow King and Def Leppard
Vivian is incredibly humble. Probably the greatest guitar player of his time. He was robbed by Dio.
Only Vivian? only he out...
Jake E. Lee was robbed as well. Two great players from the 80s.
I like that, David and I sang in the shower. Together? 🤣
Lmfao
"and I got along fine with him...but it did get a little weird towards the end" ...in the shower?? :D :D
Vivian. I think your the best guitar player in the world. Unbelievable. Your just great.
VIVIAN ! My PET ! 👍👍👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🍷🇺🇦.
One of the nicest guys in the business!!!!!!
I love the way how Dio slags off Blackmore, calling him moody and horrible.
Blackmore never ripped anyone off did he????????????????
Uhhh yeah he did. Classical composers
@@daveg4236 I mean financially Dave. All musicians no matter how great are influenced by other musicians.
Blackmore is a freakishly talented asshole. Well-known fact.
Mr. Vivian Patrick Campbell 🔥 🎸💪👊😎🤘
YOU KNOW HIS MIDDLE NAME?!!!!! 😳
Viv's style is different than the other killers. I've been playing hair guitar since 1985 when I was 15. He was the guy that I listened to but never tried to learn because I knew there was no chance. Going to Def Lep was definitely financially smart, but his chops suffer a bit when you play Pour Some Sugar On Me.
I love how he gives Jon Sykes credit.
he's SUPER gracious about Steve Clark too. Class act for sure.
I was hugely influenced by Viv when I was a kid. Listening to this interview it just dawned on me where I got "vibrato on the chord" from. Of course it was Viv. I've destroyed the frets on every guitar I've owned thanks to that technique.
I even do it on accoustic.
The way it makes a chord "snarl" on electric particularly when you strike it a certain way and sustain with the vibrato. Powerful.
I had thought I'd got it from Yngwie but he does it with scalloped frets and it sounds "prettier". Viv was just straight up "nasty" and I loved it. I saw a Dio video in the 80's live in Dublin or something. I never took it back to the video shop....🤣
His Dio years was far and above the normal.
The thing about putting vibrato on the chords lol….I do the same thing on my Les Paul Junior for the same reason.
Vivian is just a good dude.....
The only guy in existence who drove a Ferrari on a 100 dollar a week pay
Interview supports my hunch it was always about the money for Viv which explains him joining, Def Leppard. Riverdogs has some of the most inspiring and for the song work he ever did. Lost respect when he joined DL.
Funny that Dio used to have same criticisms of Blackmore that he got from other musicians in the Dio band. Still don’t know why he left WS or did WS not want him.
He wanted to be part of the writing process, whereas DC had other ideas..also their respective wifes didn't like each other while on tour with the band..
It seems like a joke. Dio always complained about Blackmore, who paid him very little for a couple of years. And here it is Campbell who complains to Dio about miserable pay.
There are many stories like these. Ozzy has several, or rather his representative and wife, although he of course knew what was happening, for example with Jacke Lee
There are 2 conflicting stories about the Dio fallout. Viv days he wasn't paid much throughout. Wendy Dio says he was paid $1,700 a week in the early era, that enabled Viv to by a Ferarri.
You can't buy that on $100 a week salary.
All I know is that those 1st few albums are classics and I still listen to them often
Fist time..hear ..dio album..holly diver .solo..dio album..in 1984
Vivian might have been a little nervous coming over to LA just after Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads had made a name for themselves .so he was right there around Jake E Lee and George Lynch .Warren DMartini which all were great technical players forsure but Vivian was a MONSTER on those Dio records especially Holy Diver .that album is stacked from cover to cover some real solid guitar on there .not a bad track on the LP .IMO it's a Heavy Metal Guitar Oriented Masterpiece that was right up there with Eddie and Randy .maybe not quite as technical but had that really raw heavy tone and blistering fast solos and could really bend the strings with a lot of emotion and feel on the Les Paul just like Randy .you would be hard pressed to find a better player than Vivian Campbell in 1982 and 83 I'll put his solos on Holy Diver up against anybody at that time with maybe the exception of Ed and Randy .liked his tone better that Jake Lee or George Lynch. think Jeff Watson had that simular tone and sound to Vivian
Wow, first 2 albums very impressive. Why do people have this greed to have a successful band and not pay the players well. Vivian is an amazing musician.
wheres the rest????
Played with Ronnie James DIO & David Coverdale and ends up with Joe Elliott how sad
Bottom Line: Nobody on Earth would have known who Viv was if it wasnt For Ronnie who got him in the band. He then went to be the "Second" guitarist for WS and DL.🙄
Vivían Campbell in Def Lepp = Guitar player cryogenic sleep ready to explote in his next life
He's written some of the GREAT modern Lepp songs. Gods of War, Switch are hardly cryogenic sleep bits.
Sacred Heart had the potential of the first two albums, but the money just wasn't there. Literally. Rumors were that Ronnie was paying out of pocket for that level of production to continue. It was a stage and fx show the likes of we'd not seen before, or since. Unbelievable for a young teenager to see. Even though Viv was gone already, Craig Goldy did a bang up job keeping the dream alive.
Top 5 guitar players I have ever seen.
Vivian is all 5? WOW!!!
Jimmy Bain always reminded me of the dude from Land of the lost
Wow! Never knew about the rift between Dio and his bandmates....terrible! Viv is one of my favorite guitarists period! Holy Diver & Last in Line....quintessencial albums for the metalists out there and the years following when Vivian left and went to Whitesnake....I was thinking "why the fuck is Viv going to WS to play lullabies and ballads when he could be leveling everybody with real metal?!" I guess it's clear now....money & egos....the true enemies of METAL!!
Speaking of lullabies and ballads, he’s been in Def Freaking Leppard for 30 years, at this point. Total waste of his talent.
What a humble Guy... bottom line dio hired this guy because of his feel that dio KNEW he wanted... shredding doesn't sell hit records
First Dio lineup was basically VC + the Ronnie gang. JB, Ronnie and VA were older and had already been succesful.
A strange chemistry ....
Strange, but undeniably incredible!!
12:22 HOW DID IT GET WEIRD!?!?!?!?!?
David tried to show Vivian his sausage
Mob rules 🤘
Technical players have no soul in their playing..holy diver has some damn good guitar in it
Last In Line is the better of the ‘two’
Dio showed what a jerk he was. No wonder Blackmore had enough of him.
Given the plentiful stories I've read about Blackmore, I doubt Dio was a bigger jerk than him. But all of those kinds of guys are alpha males with big egos so hard to tell. If you look at so-called "super groups" there's a reason most of them last a very short time.
He gave dip the sound. Rjd had to work hard to keep up eith the guitar. Its so obvious on footage
Too bad Ronnie was so selfish with the money. I really love Ronnie until I heard how he screwed over Viv. Ronnie was a liar when it came to money. Just sad.
It was more Wendy's fault and not Ronnie's. In Ozzy's case, both Ozzy and $haron have screwed more people than anyone in this business.
i think dio had been caught between Wendy and Viv,yes viv got screwed ,but its one of things things where dio was making promises in good faith ,but was to weak to take on Wendy .i get it ,some men will not stand to there wives and will throw friends employees under the bus .i dont think dio was lying when he said the things he did ,wendy made a lair of him .
nothing like one of the bands wife girlfriend etc to f up a good thing .
@@fig1115- The band wasn’t called Wendy Dio. Ronnie could’ve put his foot down, if he wanted to.
@rowdynyc - How do you know Vivian isn’t full of shit?
Cant blame Vivian for speaking up....
Vivian Campbell was the best guitarist Dio ever had. I think Doug Aldrich had potential though. The live stuff from the Campbell/Vandenberg lineup of Whitesnake though seemed like a disaster. Should've let Campbell pick up more of the slack live, Vandenberg or Steve Vai never fit the Whitesnake sound. Campbell or Sykes, despite being shredders, definitely could.
The “sound” to which you refer, was created by John Sykes, so obviously, he fit.
Saw Whitesnake in Oakland Day on the Green '87 and they were terrible live.
Without Sykes it's no wonder why.
I prefer him with Dio but I am not a musician and don't control a Band..sometimes skills are extraordinary but personality conflics are too much.. other times you just want a different sound
Vivian is a great player. However Dio ripped the band off.
Without Vivian holy diver would have been meh at best. He brought and energy to the songs as equal to Ronnie’s voice. Without him dio would have crashed imo
@scottfugazi4956 - How the F do you know what Holy Diver would’ve sounded like without Campbell? Since it’s 100% speculation, maybe it would’ve been even better.
@@crusheverything4449 well opinions are like buttholes and everyone has one.
Your idea that the album might have been better I disagree.
You can’t improve upon perfect
so RJD backed out on his word and sent Vivian a contract Fedex that was still crap money. just lost a ton of respect for him
RONNIE JAMES DIO AND OZZY OSBOURNE WERE VERY BAD PERSONS WITH THEIR BAND MUSICIANS!!!! VIVIAN CAMPBELL WAS THE BEST GUITARIST OF Ronnie James Dio Band!!!! 🤔 🗽
I've lost almost all respect for DIO.
Because one person in the history of the world had a disagreement with the guy? Okie dokie.
Well holy fn diver.