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Do you need two full Marshall stacks to play this? Asking for a friend...

Dio was Craig Goldy's Godfather. (Craig was my guitar teacher and very short time band mate.) I wish I had had the chance to meet Ronnie through Craig!

Not completely inaccurate. Most things are better before Monday! ?

You need this, but taking it directly tends to not be that effective because we're meant to recycle what we have and that requires both enough of the precursors as well as efficient recycling which declines as we get older. Check out this doctor's explanation:

I'm completely blown away by this sphere!

ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

Wore Nature of the Beast out and had to buy it twice!

Well, only sort-of mentioned!

Subtle! I like it. ? (My birthday's the 22nd. ?)

Considering it's all they did for the better parts of their lives, do they even know anything else to do? ?

Been going through their discography and just realized how subtly dirty this song is!

I bet they were given a D- for that job. ?

Soitenly! ?

Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Cure - Hanging Garden

Has to be Terry Bozzio!

And a full house beats a flush, ya? ?

Not sure about that! In one year, at a Guitar Center itself, I spent over $40,000... No internet required!

Gene never looked like this! ?

I didn't understand it back then, but I was constantly on the search for a much harder rock sound. This was why almost all of the bands that I listened to featured humbucker guitars. I didn't get into any of the most popular bands and artists that use single-coils until much later. The upshot though, was I didn't have to wait years for a "next album" to come out so that was awesome! Rock and Roll Over was definitely harder rock than anything I had heard prior (which was mostly Beach Boys and Elton John type stuff, heck, the bulk of my collection back then was Classical!). The next big game changer was when Van Halen's first album came out. Then the bands that use Rectifiers. I remember when I had the chance to use a Marshall full-stack for the first time ("rented" from Guitar Center for that one, big gig we did when we opened for Blue Oyster Cult back in January of 1984!). I would just keep hitting an Am chord over and over while standing in front of the stack. Orgasmic! ? Unlike most of the people I knew, I rarely when to concerts when I was young. Sure, I missed out on the "experiences" but I could also afford to buy all the albums so my friends would always be over to listen over and over. As I got older, I loved to go out and see local bands play live, but I was never a fan of the big arena-type shows.

They say having a consistent sleep schedule (whichever you choose) is best, but I've never been able to do that. I always sleep in chunks. A standard sleep cycle is about 90 minutes long so I tend to have two or three sets of these throughout the night/day. Fortunately, I'm currently working from home which makes it nice. When I'm awake, I work. If I'm tired, I take a nap. I always hated trying to stay awake to keep on someone else's schedule! Not only was it annoying for me, but the work quality suffered.