When Ronnie James Dio almost Joined Sweet To Replaced Brian Connolly
Vložit
- čas přidán 16. 02. 2021
- You can now join our mailing list and have access to all our videos.
lp.constantcontactpages.com/s... Interview Clip #7 When Ronnie James Dio almost replaced Brian Connolly in Sweet
Check out Sweet's new album
thesweet.com
#RonnieJamesDio #Sweet #AndyScott
HELP SUPPORT ROCK HISTORY MUSIC..CHECK OUT OUR STORE FOR T-SHIRTS, MUGS ETC
teespring.com/stores/rock-his...
OUR NEW INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT / rockhistorymusic
We have 4 active CZcams Channels featuring John Beaudin
Subscribe to this (RockHistoryMusic) Channel / @rockhistorymusic
RockHistoryBook -Top 10 Rock & Pop Hit Lists / @rockhistorybook
RockHistoryCanada‚ Interviews & Current Music News From Top Canadian Acts. / @rockhistorycanada
Nail Sheet‚ More on the Pop Music Side plus TV & Movie News & Interviews. / @nailsheet
John Beaudin has been in major market radio (Edmonton, Vancouver & Calgary) for 38 years and a music journalist since 1989. He graduated from Broadcasting school as a newsman so he would have the skills to write about the artists that inspired him since he bought his first Elton John album as a teen. In the '80s Beaudin was the host of the syndicated radio show ‚”The Cross Canada Report‚” which had two versions (Rock and A/C). Beaudin was also asked to be a judge at the Juno Awards (Canada's answer to the Grammys) Twice. He has anchored every position in radio including morning and afternoon drive and was a Program and Music Director for The Breeze and California 103 in Calgary. He currently hosts the evening show at Move 103.5 (formerly QM-FM) in Vancouver and on iHeartRadio.
To Follow John Beaudin's posts on all subjects / johnbeaudinbroadcaster
To Follow John's ‚ Rock History Music only posts FACEBOOK / rockhistorybook
John Beaudin Official Website www.johnbeaudin.com
TWITTER for Rock History Music / rockhistorybook
TWITTER for John / johnbeaudin
Heading West by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license () Artist: audionautix.com/ - Hudba
always miss brian connolly
Sweet , Great band. I love to hear Andy Scott talk. Extraordinary high vocal range he had. Amazing. Many people do not realize how influential Sweet was on other rockbands !
I can't imagine Ronnie Dio singing "Ballroom Blitz" or "Fox on the Run."
Or Little Willy😂
To name the first guitar player in Sweet it was Gorden Fairminer. He stayed in for about 3 weeks. The 2nd was Frank Thophy, he was in for about 6 months he was followed up Mick Steward. Mick Steward even wrote some songs which were recorded on the B-side. Allthough those first 3 singles wasn't the band that play on the A-side Such as "Slow Motion", LolliPop Man" and "All you ever get From Me" but they had a bit off radio succes, Mick Steward left. Then Andy Scott steped in. And to use Andy's words, the rest is history.
Those 3 single's were pré recorded and the writers were looking wich voice suits the best.
Andy surely knows his history, people and places. Incredible recall of events some 50 years ago. Someone with his knowledge and respect for rock music should take over as CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Yes!!!!
This is a very interesting interview with some new things we've never heard (I think). So glad Andy is still around to tell all these stories and to keep the music alive.
Would’ve loved to hear Ronnie tackle “wig wam bam” or “funny funny” ! That would be interesting 😂
He’d be fire on songs like “Set me Free” though lol
Pretty sure they wouldn't have sounded like the originals. 😉
Little Willy, Coco...😂😂😂😂😂😂
Instablaster...
Sweet were my favourite band in my teens and as they got a little more prog it intoduced my ears to Yes, Rush and even Jeff Beck. Set Me Free is still, as I see it, the dawn of proper British metal.
Love Sweet!
Glad to see Andy still Rockin it!
Thanks for featuring Andy Scott and his reminisces of Sweet. We'd love to hear some more personal stories about Brian and Mick who both died way too young.
I could listen to Andy Scott all night he is a absolute legend
I agree! And I love his accent as well.
Yeah, he should do more chatting to fans
Same.
@@frschaddelee he’s from Wrexham in north Wales just over the border- about an hour drive from me
Andy’s playing on Give Us A Wink still makes me laugh with joy at how great it is! It still sounds fresh as a daisy to this day.
Another great part to the interview.
Man.... I REALLY like listening to Andy. He is obviously a real and true gentleman in the best sense of the word. Believe me, it is difficult to not talk shit about past members of a band, or other people you may have worked with.
Andy, you should come to Everett, Washington #houseofmanycolors #theSoundry #WarrenProject to do your next album...
Just wait until he starts talking about Brian
Amazing segment. I grew up listening to lots of Sweet music including the deep tracks, I still do. I had no idea about Ronnie James Dio potentially replacing Brian. I think the band made the correct decision in not pursuing that direction. It would have been interesting however Dio was too associated with early Rainbow and ELF.
Keep these coming!
As always, excellent interview, very enjoyable and again thank you for sharing with us your time with Andy Scott of the Sweet,one of my favorite groups of all time ! Foggy 🤯
Its nice to see Andy is still rocking away all these years later I have a huge respect for the man great guy
Brian, all time the best💓💓💓💓💓
Absofrigginlutely love this interview...can't wait for more!!
Imagine Ronnie singing Set me free or Into the night! We can only dream about this!
Great interview
Really enjoying your Andy Scott interview series...
Love these stories, thx
Hi John. In 2007 I was fortunate enough to meet Ronnie and I asked him about a story I had heard about him joining Sweet. He laughed and said " Oh that must have been Andy, I mean could you imagine me being in a band like Sweet, come on!" 🤘🎶👿😈😉
He just said that to get you out of his face.
Steve Priest told the same thing too. Dio had been looking for another band because he was not in Rainbow at those times!
Great interview!!
Love theses videos of Andy. Keep em’ comin.’
Lots of good comments. The amazingly, talented, & honest, down-to-earth, Andy Scott, being a, fantastic, guest. Great interview. Good stuff!
Andy is great in these interview series. Very interesting stuff going on.
Loved the interview so far, so insightful. At first thoughts Ronnie replacing Brian is laughable, it seems a mismatch, and don’t get me wrong I have most Sweet’s and Rainbow,s and Dio’s music, and seen singers both live. After further thought, think the heaviness of No You Don’t, most of the Give Us A Wink album, I think Ronnie would have taken that to the next level. Eg Remember when Bon died and Brian Johnson took over. We’ll never known, nor should we.
Ronnie é um homem fantástico...mas não existe Sweet sem Brian Francis Colonny..🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷... Love You as Andy Scott..m
Excellent interviews
This is really insightful.Thanks !
I'm really enjoying hearing andy's stories he's a very interesting man and I just love him
Great memories with Andy. 😊
Legend. These stories are fascinating.
This interview is an incredible gem! Gilmore unplugged, haha. So many gold nuggets, please get a hold of Andy more often!
Dio with Sabbath is some of my favorite music of all time but so is Sweet and I can't help wondering about what could have been. Also about where Sweet could have gone with an American in the band.
Trivia note: When Brian Connolly brought the song "Jeannie" (B-side of "Poppa Joe") to the other members of :Sweet", the other guys thought that Brian had written it. Actually, Roger Glover (Then a flat-mate of Brian's) had written it. Glover seemingly didn't care that it was credited to "Connolly/Priest/Scott/Tucker"
That's interesting. Roger Glover also wrote songs for a music publisher called Francis Day & Hunter, where he met Ian Hunter (no relation) who was doing the same job.
Brian he wrote spotlight with a guy called Eldrige years before sweet it was credited to sweet
what a great guy nice one andy, you stayed grounded unlike so many who go in their own little bubble
Andy became way milder with the years. These series are really great, we love it. Andy, I hope to see you on stage again shorlly. Congrats with everything you have been doing, we love your work. (i was at your 60th birthday in Bilston -James Bond cars)
The early guitarists of Sweet were Frank Torpey (one single on the Fontana label), and Mick Stewart (3 singles on Parlophone), but Sweet's distinctive vocal harmony sound didn't start until Andy Scott joined the group.
Nobody could replace Brian. Sweet should have finished when Brian left.
gr8 stories about pink floyd ' n deep purple ... so much knowledge there, RJ Dio in Sweet would have been cool too, thx 4 the upload.
another great interview 🙂....i agree with him about their relationship in the band...its like there's a video of them rehearsing "love is ' and Andy gave Brian a look . .. and people say there was tension happening between them....but I disagree....it just looks like someone muffed something and they had to repeat
Yes thats right there was no tension shown, it was andy missing his que for the riff and shaking his head at himself and letting brian no about it thats all. But behind the scenes yes ofcourse at times.
Definitely tension between them in my opinion having seen this and also can see the look on Steve and Mick's faces how uncomfortable they look.
Not sure it would have worked. Dio in a band that harmonised? With his extraordinarily powerful vocals i don't think he would have accepted it. But at least the band would have rediscovered their 'heaviness'. So i think Andy was wrong and of course Brian was the focal / vocal point and when he was booted out the band lost a vital part of their imagery.
Sweet es una banda grandiosa una verdadera leyenda
“SWEET”, Still Got the Rock!! Long live Sweet forever!! I love Sweet sooo much!! Sweet deserves to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!! Sweet inspired other bands and musicians, including me!!🎼🎤🎸🎵🥁
Most Excellent
Regarding the band lineups...they following questions needs to be answered.
What is the original lineup? What is the classic lineup? What is the current lineup?
In the 90s, Andy would drive to San Bernardino to jam with my band, we had a Hammond B3 player and did a lot Deep Purple, he'd call me Vinny Gillian, LOL
Dio was in his prime. A one time album would've been awesome.
There's a very good reason and not a coincidence that the DP lineup with Simper and Evans is referred to as the Mark 1 lineup, and the lineup with Gillan is Mark 2. Gillan 2, as in, SECOND version, not the FIRST. The FIRST is the ORIGINAL, not the second, third, 20th.......
What a nice guy Andy Scott is!
Imagine Ronnie singing Set me free or Sweet FA !! holy cow!!!!!
God Bless Andy Scott!
dio in sweet ya my mind is completly blown
One of the few things I remember from the Crue book, The Dirt, was the old adage of “never meet your heroes”. Nikki Sixx was terribly let down when he was treated poorly by Sweet when he met them.
Just Brian Connolly but yeah
I haven't heard that story. Treated badly how?
Andy Skott 😍
This series of interviews with Andy is really nice, but why did you never did the same with Steve while he was still here? I bet he would have liked to be interviewed too! Why you never invited him?
Where is Ronni James Dio ? Title of the video
Good thing not getting him, dio was alright for his stuff, and sweet on their own
That would've been awesome!
Andy did an extensive interview some years ago, talking about how life had turned horrible in the mid-eighties. The Sweet got hit with a huge tax bill something like a million pounds after they broke up. By mid nineteen eighty-five, Andy had found himself living in a bedsit in London on the dole. Now that took a $ load of guts to reveal this, as I grew up on the dole as a kid as well, no great memories I can assure you. And Andy just looked around and thought hey I can only go up from here, and he did. You don't always know how these guys feel? so imagine being a former rock god, traveling the world, with tons of money and women, and then your in a bedsit by yourself, applying for social services. ANDY IS A TRUE ROCK SURVIVOR
Cut Above the Rainbow
Die Young on Heaven and Hell with Sabbath
Or Call Me on Cut Above the Rest with Sweet. Hmm?
That's perplexing. I can't picture Dio singing a song with Petroleum Jelly in the lyric.
Love Dio. Love Sweet.
I think the right moves were made.
Such a good band, good guys
What year was Ronnie in the frame for the lead vocalist spot in The Sweet?
1979
"How can anyone turn around and say that Dave Gilmour is not an original member of Pink Floyd? How can anyone say Ian Gillan is not an original member of Deep Purple"? I can answer that for you; BECAUSE GILMOUR IS NOT ON THE FIRST PF RECORD, PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN, AND GILLAN ISN'T ON THE FIRST THREE, COUNT THEM 3, DP RECORDS. WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
Absolutely correct! And because there are 3 singles out, without Andy , he doesn't belong to the original lineup. But where is the problem?
I'm glad you posted this comment, I couldn't get my head around what Andy was saying. I wanted to say something but was afraid of looking stupid, then I read your comment and was relieved that I wasn't losing the plot!
@@thorstenkehde3453 The problem lies in how the word "original" is being redefined in this context, and this happens very often now. The word"original" means the beginning, or the first.
Amongst musicians nowadays, it seems that being part of the original lineup somehow means you were part of the "best" lineup. The "original" lineup should simply and only mean the FIRST lineup. Being in the FIRST lineup doesn't necessarily mean one was in the BEST version of the group. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't There are MANY examples of bands where the original lineup did not produce the music that went on to being considered their best work. In some cases the first lineup did produce what is considered largely to be the superior work in a band's career. The point is; "original" should not be in anyway an indication of QUALITY, it simply should mean what the word means, the FIRST.
@@vbassone ...well said..
Not sure I could picture Ronnie James Dio singing songs from Cut Above The Rest after hearing the songs he sang in his solo carrier. But they did not a front man.
❣️❣️❣️
Andy Scott brilliant in the band sweet but really the hair blonde at he's age now and long those days are over at your age with long hair like
Sweet forever brilliant memories
I was a huge fan of Sweet, especially of Brian. But I think that would be good decision if Ronnie replace Brian, because all other singer not even close to Brian's voice.
Hysterical the Van Halen moment. This is one for the books maybe rock history book🤣🤣🤣
Could replace Brian Connelly
I think hearing RJD sing Little Willy would’ve been interesting !
Ha Ha HA . . . Or Poppa Joe, . . . No , RJ DIO was an Outstanding and One of a Kind PowerHouse Vocalist . . But would not have ,,Matched,, with Sweet .
never knew crazy
Sweet would have thrived with Dio.
IT WOULD HAVE NEVER WORKED
I would have liked to be in Andy's band rather than doing my own Tribute band, but at least this is history repeating itself as Brian had his own band at the same time
True
You can't replace Brian.....👎👎👎👎👎
Unfortunately I dont think Dios style in singing would fit with The Sweet. I like Dio and The Sweet, but they made a good discission.
Never in my 35 years of being a fan of Dio, have I heard of this! Oh well🤔
Your all Legends Andy 🎶
NOT LONG ENOUGH!
dio had a huge big voice huge range.he would have put sweet on the worlds rock stage.that they should have been on
No , Although a Hughe Fan of Both . . It would not have worked . Sweet would have lost its specifick Sound / Style .
Steve was right, they all could sing. They didn't need a front man. Besides no one
Why would you were a wig that style with a face like that
Oh, Steve! Why?
THE LINEUP THAT "HAD THE MOST SUCCESS" DOESN'T MEAN IT WAS THE ORIGINAL LINEUP........
After Brian left the material went southward. So if Dio had joined it might have been a collosal failure and even though Sweet had a few successful crossover singles they were still known as a glam bubble gum band. I can't imagine Dio singing Little Willy 😨😨😨
ronnie with sweet,train had been full speed!
i not think ronnie scot would had worked out with sweet,sweet had been on the scene far to long,and elf ronnies band were doing ok
NOOOO!! COMPLETELY WRONG! "Original" means only one thing; you were there in the BEGINNING of the band, not in some subsequent lineup. Is this clear now? This burns me up. People need to look up the definition of the word "original" in the DICTIONARY, and not REINVENT or broaden the scope of what "original" actually means. NO, David Gilmour was ABSOLUTELY NOT an ORIGINAL member of Pink Floyd, although he was in the best version of PF, nor was Ian Gillan an ORIGINAL member of Deep Purple. YOU were not an ORIGINAL member of Sweet. Now having straightened that out I hope, the "original" lineup of a band should NOT imply BETTER or BEST version of a band either. In many cases yes, the original lineup was the strongest and most creative period of a given band but, there are MANY MANY instances where a subsequent lineup, not the ORIGINAL lineup, was superior. If you weren't in the band in the BEGINNING, or at least the beginning of the RECORDED and DOCUMENTED history of a band, you are not an ORIGINAL member. Done!
Nailed it. 👍
I actually like the three albums they did without Brian Connolly
It was said that Andy, had recorded the album in a higher key than Brian could sing in, so he struggled and believed he couldn’t manage any more, and they were able to get rid of him. It was said to be the most creative sabotage in music history. Scott had been jealous of Brian for years before this, and used Brian’s drinking against him. Karma came and boy him on the backside, as The Sweet never had another hit record, and split up a couple of years later.
Yeah, the band was never the same after they booted Brian out. Sadly they lost their way without Brian and Brian was completely lost without them.
They definitely needed each other..
They Gaslighted Brian... I'm on a Sweet kick and from what I've read from multiple sources the higher key was it.. Phil Wainman noticed it..
Dio surely would not have fitted Sweet, I for one sure is glad it did not happen, never been a fan of Dio´s singing style, lyrics or stage antics.
Hah.. and DIO to sing disco trash like songs Call me, Discophony,... Andy produced for CUT ABOVE THE REST!?!?🙄 Give me a break
Yeah that album was pretty awful, like really awful, I actually threw it out when I was seventeen in seventy nine, and I am a huge Sweet fan
Pink floyd deep purple van halen he thinks he has the same gravitas as that lot 😆😆😆😆😆
They were friends with Ian G & Roger Glover (Brian shared a flat with him for a time) & they were on the same circuit in the early days. Van Halen were newer kids on the block & took a lot of influence from British rock bands like Deep Purple, Sweet etc.
No he and we all think sweet was better.