RONNIE JAMES DIO: THE ELF ALBUMS is a CD compilation released in 1994. Sit Down Honey (Everything Will Be Alright)

However, Ronnie James Dio continued to sing lead vocals for the band.ĥ. It was released in 1972.Īfter this album, Steve Edwards replaced David Feinstein on guitar, and Craig Gruber replaced Ronnie James Dio on bass. After they finished recording the album, however, Driscoll, Gruber, and Soule were replaced by Cozy Powell, Jimmy Bain and Tony Carey, who played with Dio and Blackmore during the subsequent tour Elf was no more.ĮLF is the first album by Ronnie James Dio's blues rock band called Elf. He decided to use Elf for this album, and the band Rainbow was thus formed, with Blackmore replacing Edwards. Dio's rich, soulful voice gained the attention of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore who had just left Deep Purple and was looking for musicians for his first solo album, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. In 1974, Dio was asked by Glover to sing on his solo album The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast. He would not return to the music scene until 2004, when his band, Feinstein, released the album Third Wish on the Magic Circle Music label. Feinstein formed a band called The Rods, which met with a moderate amount of success, touring with groups such as Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, as well as Metallica, before finally retiring from the music industry. The same year saw Feinstein quit the band, to be replaced by Steve Edwards. For the next few years, the band enjoyed mild success as an opening act for Deep Purple.ĭio both sang and played the bass guitar until, in 1973, bass player Craig Gruber was asked to join. Present day he works at Metropolitan Talent as an artist manager, working with artists such as Art Garfunkel, Bruce Hornsby & Ratdog).Ĭover of Elf's debut self-titled albumElf's self-titled debut album was produced by Deep Purple members Roger Glover and Ian Paice, who happened to see Elf auditioning in 1972. In 1983, he became co-manager of Mötley Crüe. (Upon leaving in 1972, Thaler moved to New York and got a job as a booking agent - Elf was one of the bands he booked. After recovering from his injuries, Doug Thaler quit the band, and was replaced by Micky Lee Soule. In 1970 the band was involved in an automobile accident which claimed the life of Nick Pantas, whom the band decided not to replace.

Elf disbanded in 1975, after recording three albums. The band was originally called The Electric Elves, but was shortened to The Elves and finally Elf in mid-1970. Elf - was a Blues-rock band founded in 1967 by singer and bassist Ronnie James Dio, keyboardist Doug Thaler, drummer Gary Driscoll, and guitarists Nick Pantas and David Feinstein (Dio's cousin).

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