Dios Forced to Change Bandname by Dio!
"In what's become one of the weirdest and most trivial name-changing fiascoes since Oingo Boingo became simply "Boingo", Californian psych-pop folkies Dios have been made to alter their bandname, in cooperation with a cease-and-desist order from Ronnie James Dio, who, since 1983, has fronted the hilarious cheese-metal band Dio."
It gets better:
"The 62 year-old Dio– who has also fronted Elf, Rainbow and Black Sabbath (post-Ozzy years) at various points throughout his career– contended that the two band names sounded too much alike, and added support to the claim that heavy metal fans can get befuddled over one letter of the alphabet. "It seems confusing to the public to have a band called Dio and a band called Dios," Dio's manager and wife Wendy told Rolling Stone recently."
Obviously, one should know better than to fuck with Dio.
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"In what's become one of the weirdest and most trivial name-changing fiascoes since Oingo Boingo became simply "Boingo", Californian psych-pop folkies Dios have been made to alter their bandname, in cooperation with a cease-and-desist order from Ronnie James Dio, who, since 1983, has fronted the hilarious cheese-metal band Dio."
It gets better:
"The 62 year-old Dio– who has also fronted Elf, Rainbow and Black Sabbath (post-Ozzy years) at various points throughout his career– contended that the two band names sounded too much alike, and added support to the claim that heavy metal fans can get befuddled over one letter of the alphabet. "It seems confusing to the public to have a band called Dio and a band called Dios," Dio's manager and wife Wendy told Rolling Stone recently."
Obviously, one should know better than to fuck with Dio.
<img src="http://www.dio.net/pictures_gallery/970224_ronnie_2.jpg" alt=" - " />
