BLACK SABBATH MOB RULES TOUR 1982 RONNIE JAMES DIO

BLACK SABBATH

MOB RULES TOUR 1981-1982 

BLACK SABBATH MOB RULES TOUR 1982 DENVER COLORADO 8 May 1982 Denver McNichols Sports Arena Mob Rules (album)

Black Sabbath feat;Ronnie James Dio vocals & Vinny Appicy Drums Toni Iommi Guitar Gezer Butler Bass
Mob Rules
Studio album by Black Sabbath
Released 4 November 1981
Recorded 1981
Length 40:25
Label Vertigo
Warner Bros. (US/Canada)
Producer Martin Birch
Black Sabbath chronology
Heaven and Hell
(1980) Mob Rules
(1981) Born Again
(1983)
Singles from Mob Rules
"The Mob Rules"
Released: 1981
"Turn Up the Night"
Released: 1982
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]
Rolling Stone 1/5 stars[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 3/5 stars[3]
Martin Popoff 10/10 stars[4]
Mob Rules is the 10th studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in November 1981. It followed 1980's Heaven and Hell, and it was the second and last Black Sabbath studio album to feature lead vocalist Ronnie James Dio prior to the 1992 album Dehumanizer.[5]
Produced and engineered by Martin Birch, the album received an expanded edition release in 2010.
The very first new recording Black Sabbath made after the Heaven and Hell album was a version of the title track "The Mob Rules" for the soundtrack of the film Heavy Metal. The track "E5150" also is heard in the film but is not included in the soundtrack. According to guitarist Tony Iommi's autobiography Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath, the band began writing and rehearsing songs for Mob Rules at a rented house in Toluca Lake in Los Angeles. Initially the band had hoped to record in their own studio to save money and actually purchased a sound desk but, according to Iommi, "We just couldn't get a guitar sound. We tried it in the studio. We tried it in the hallway. We tried it everywhere but it just wasn't working. We'd bought a studio and it wasn't working!" The band eventually recorded the album at the Record Plant in Los Angeles.
Mob Rules was the first Black Sabbath album to feature Vinny Appice on drums, who had replaced original member Bill Ward in the middle of the tour in support of the previous year's Heaven and Hell.[6] Asked by Joe Matera in 2007 if working with a new drummer was jarring after so many years, bassist and lyricist Terence "Geezer" Butler replied, "No, because Vinnie was a big fan of the band and loved Bill's playing. Bill was one of his favorite drummers and so he knew all his parts and my bass parts and he adjusted accordingly to everybody in the band. He was brilliant. He came in and totally filled in Bill's shoes."Less