Originally Posted by: john race;) graham bonnet was the best vocalist ritchie blackmore ever hired. dio is undoubtably a great vocalist, but blackmore's rainbow was'nt a metal band. rainbow was a hard rock band, there is a notable difference between the two!

Listen to DIO, the band, holy diver, last in line, sacred heart, the more recent albums, that is unarguably and undoubtedly metal, like it or not.