Former Rainbow and Dio bassist Jimmy Bain, who passed away Jan. 23 while on tour with Last in Line as part of Def Leppard's Hysteria on the High Seas Cruise, was suffering from undiagnosed lung cancer.
I wrapped up the week's tribute to bassist and songwriter Jimmy Bain from legendary bands such as Dio and Rainbow. So I decided to finish with a track from Rainbow's live On Stage album, released in July 1977. Paired up with "Man on the Silver Mountain and "Mistreated" along with "Kill the King," this single failed to chart in the U...
Yesterday's Power 96 Cool One came from the remnants of the original Dio lineup minus Ronnie James Dio, of course, who died in 2010, and now minus Jimmy Bain, who passed away last Sunday while on the Def Leppard multi-artist "Hysteria on the High Seas" cruise...
We rocked on yesterday's Power 96 Cool One with Dio's "We Rock" from the Last in Line album. Dio is another band that Jimmy Bain played bass with and co-wrote songs for. As I've mentioned throughout the week, Bain died Sunday while on the Def Leppard "Hysteria on the High Seas" cruise...
Bassist and songwriter Jimmy Bain passed away on Sunday, January 24, while on the Def Leppard "Hysteria on the High Seas" cruise. He was a member of the group Last In Line, which was composed of artists who had performed together in the original Dio line-up, including Vivian Campbell, Vinny Appice and Andrew Freeman...