Vinny's style was just _made_ for Dio and the Dio-era Sabbath. Amazing!

one of the great heavy rock drummers of his generation reminds me of Bonham

Vinnie is not only plaing the drums, he lives in every song what he plays and i appreciate that

Vinny is the reason I started playing drums. It all started with the Mob Rules, one of the best albums of all time. Everyone mentions all these influential drummers well he was mine.

Vinnie Appice is a very underrated drummer

Always loved his fills and rolls. Tasty.

5:31he's doing that unique grip of his that lets him rest his thumb. I get terrible friction burns when I do that He's such a musical drummer in this style, he puts down a lot of musical ideas. I was watching one of his streams, and he was talking favorite licks from Jon Bonham, and he cited many of them coming from Max Roach first. Saw a few of them in this performance

Every fill I'm like: "is he gonna make it?" and then he somehow does.

Next to Bonham, my favorite drummer.

Holy Diver was the reason that I became a drummer in 1983. I Vinnie is one of the best rock drummers there's ever been.

Vinny is simply incredible in every aspect of his drumming and best of all he is very humble and so down to earth. I have met him a few times and he spoke to me like I was his equal.

Saw him at a drum clinic in Portland, Maine in 1989. He was amazing, graceful, powerful and SWUNG like mad. And he managed to break 2 brand new Sabians as well!

My Favorite Drummer Ever!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤟🏽 He has a Very Unique Style...

he did a clinic at a store i used to work at in the 90's. he brought a guitar player and bass player, we didn't mic him up and he was...and still is the loudest and heavest hitter i've ever seen. love his playing.

my favourite drummer ! great groove ,very powerful and smart fills ... my primary inspiration :)

Vinny is the man! I have loved his drumming for years.

I Love vinnie. He SMOKES his brother. Such a solid player. Hes the best as far as im concerned

One of the best in harder rock...Dio and Sabb songs don't work without him..👍

Vinny one of the best rock & roll drummers out there!

I listened to the song a little while ago and realized how much groove he had when he recorded this tune. It's actually a hard song to play and keep interesting because it's so damn slow.

Vinny has fantastic groove and an incredible back beat where he plays slightly behind the beat (like Bonham). He's the type of drummer where when you hear him play, you know it's Vinny!

Love the space he creates in his fills, deffo has his own style, awesome

The beauty of the original is the way he let it breath which, created this monster groove.

What an awesome player with a great sound! People say he reminds them of Bonham but Vinnie's got his own vibe going on. Those quick 32nd note fills on slow tempo songs are his thing and very recognizable. He's got Bonham's chops and feel but with some additional stuff off his own.

haha - love the 5 count and how Vinny opens Hi Hat on 5 for others to cue 👍awesome, Rock on Vinny! Cheers to Carmine, 🥁😎DC

Gets better every time you watch. Vinny is what made DIO......DIO !!!

I'm not even a drummer but I watch all the Vinny Appacie videos on KZfaq that I can. The first three deal albums have been in my top 20 favorite albums of all time ever since they came out 30 years ago. I love Vivian Campbell's playing. And of course, Vinny's drumming.

What people don't understand, this is the video camera mic capturing the ambient sound in the room. This is not recording audio so his drums don't sound like crap the audio quality does.

In my opinion, Ronnie didn't have a better chemistry with a drummer than he had with VA. The singer-drummer-chemistry on Holy Diver and The last in line is pure gold.

Vin y has a,ways had that herd of dinosaurs plodding along style of drumming. Freakin’ love it!

The word that Vinny was looking for that RJD used was "Predictable"

I´m just amazed watching this video and I don´t even play drums

Vinny is a beast. So underated.

Vinny Appice to me is a John Bonham in metal,but has his own swagger.

Drumming during the guitar solo was great. So creative and fresh.

VINNY ROCKS..............

Great drummer love his stuff with Dio & sabbath

Great drummer!

Effortless. One of the cooler drummers for sure. Love his style!

VINNIEEEEE!!!! 🤘🏼🥁

this is talent

The absolute best rock drummer in my opinion. Just listen

Vinny is so bad ass!

As a studio drummer of several decades myself, I put him next to three of my other primary drum influences, the others being Neil Peart, Alex Van Halen and then Nicko McBrain, but Vinnie had what I'd call more advanced drum fills than all of them except for Peart. So to me, that says a lot, especially for the time frame being the 1980's. Very significant.

Vinny completely awesome...RIP RJD

Vinny is a monster on the kit. Yeah!!!

And oh yeah, one of the greatest singers to ever live singing the song....

Vivian Campbell, Dio, and Vinnie. What an amazing line up. Black Sabbath 3. With Ozzy as Black Sabbath 2. If you think about it. 3 Black Sabbath's were created. 🎸.

Huge smile from ear to ear during the whole thing.

Finally I know what he did for those triplet fills. I always thought of it as a common right/left triplet but it never sounded right when I played it.

I remember I had a live version of this song on cassette in the eighties and I kept rewinding it because of the drums, still great

He’s so damn smooth as a metal/rock drummer. He lays back and slams it, at just the right time!

💖Vinnie!

Vinnies use of space in his playing is so good

Priceless groove.beautiful fills

What a beast on the drums. Love the raw sound.

Much Love Vinnie! You ARE AMAZING!!

Always thought he had a nice groove. This one is very reminiscent of Bonham. I liked the stuff he played on the Heaven and Hell Tour. I have the DVD.

Him and his brother Carmine are both awesome

So Good . Best fills

Thanks Vinnie you're a Legend!!

What a great song! Drums, vocals, guitars, bass, all killing..I always liked Dio but now I'm really into him and Vinny's playing. Great stuff!

I got to open up for him in Minneapolis. He was a very nice humble person.

I love Vinny Appice!!

Very "melodic" drumming, and indeed, as someone already pointed out, tons of lovely fills, that you can hear much better here than burried in the bed of decibels produced by the other Dio members. Of course, there are many good drummers who can cover this, but it's quite another thing to "invent" all these decorations for the first time. Aping is easy, creating is yet another thing. Good job Vinny !

This video made my day.

Solid and powerful 👍🏻👍🏻 Thank you for posting 🙏🏻🙏🏻

LEGEND 🤘

Great drummer! 👍👍

The best replacement for Bill Ward. I still like Ward. But this guy is very good.

Love it !!!

That is WAY COOL! In some aspects I like this take better than the original. Awesome.

Grande VINNIE

One if not my favorite rock drummer. His fills are awesome. Used to think Lars was the best till they changed completely after Master of Puppets. Just love Vinnie's style. Love to have some DDrums but oh well. Right now it's fighting through the pandemic on unemployment. Thank you for posting this video! I never saw any video with him in it other than concert videos. This is very much appreciated! Btw, is there a website of his to follow his stuff? Thank you!

so good

awesome song indeed......

Thanks for that triplet fill there at the end!

Very good!

This Dude incredible drumming

Vinny is the best. 🤘

I love vinny no body has his style

Great drummer

The GREATEST❤️🤘

Phenomenal drummer. Vinny is GOD

Much respect for all that played with R D J

Awsome!

Vinny...THE greatest drummer of all time! He is the best drum fill guy, most exciting drummer live and on disc. I just enjoy studying his stuff more than any other drummer. Carmine too, is right there though. Hope so much to meet him some day, preferably at a clinic...Toronto...Port Hope,..Vinnie? You can stay at my house if you need a couch to crash on. Think of the money you'd save brother!

Vinny, Nicko Mcbrain, and Tommy Aldridge 🥁❤🥁🤘🥁

Definitely a unique grip

This is so cool. I've watched it about a hundred times. Still can't play it though. (yet)

Vinny no longer reps Ddrum. Now its Sawtooth. I met him a couple years ago and he is such a down to earth guy.

I think he's probably the one I've learned the most just watching him the way he explains the count the five is the best such a great drummer I'd pay top dollar for a one-on-one for a week so I could correct and get rid of my phobias when playing he would be the one you just seem so down the Earth and it also seems like he'd be the one to make your drum kit sound like a million bucks even though it was under a thousand

a lot of vocalist I've played with need that count in before "home" comes in

he makes it look so easy :D I want to hear this only with ghost notes, no actual hits.

badazz drummer right there boy!

ddrums sound awesome!

I like the look of that Kit, Glossy Matt Black.

Amazing. Rip dio

2:36 drums start!

I hate the way those drums sound. He's such a killer drummer. I've been playing guitar since 85 and this is the stuff I learned on. It's my favorite Dio album and one of my favorite songs and the drums just don't sound like the recording.