Bobby Rondinelli

Bobby Rondinelli (born July 27, 1955 in New York , USA ) is an American drummer .

Early years

Bobby Rondinelli learned to play drums from the age of eleven. Before that he played the guitar. At the age of 13 he played in his first band, The Wanderers . They played at school balls and brotherhood meetings. He also founded the band Tusk with his brother Teddy . He was still playing in a band called Samantha .

Promotion to Rainbow (1980–1982)

In 1980 Rondinelli failed when trying to become the new drummer for Kiss . The band chose Eric Carr because he could sing better, which is important for Kiss in the background vocals. That same year Ritchie Blackmore called Rondinelli and asked him if he wanted to join his band Rainbow to replace Cozy Powell . Rondinelli, then still with Samantha , agreed. The band then consisted of Blackmore and Rondinelli from Roger Glover , Don Airey and Joe Lynn Turner . With this line-up, the band released the album Difficult to Cure in 1981 . In the same year Don Airey left the band and was replaced by David Rosenthal. In 1982 the album Straight Between the Eyes was released with this line-up . Then Rondinelli left the band.

Further paths (1982–1993)

In 1983 he was involved in the creation of the Scorpions ' album Love at First Sting . However, the tracks he and Jimmy Bain made in the Polar Studios in Sweden were not used. In 1984 he founded the band Rondinelli with his brother Teddy (vocals, guitar). In 1985 the album Wardance was released with Ray Gillen on vocals, James LoMenzo on bass and Corey Davidson on keyboards. Then he joined Doro Pesch's band . He released the album Force Majeure with her in 1989 . In 1990 he went to Quiet Riot , with whom he released the album Terrified in 1993. The collaboration ended shortly afterwards and Rondinelli founded the band Sun Red Sun with ex-Rondinelli singer Ray Gillen . However, he died shortly afterwards of AIDS .

Black Sabbath & Blue Öyster Cult (1993-2004)

In 1994 Black Sabbath released the album Cross Purposes with Rondinelli on drums . In addition to Rondinelli, Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler , Tony Martin (vocals) and Geoff Nichols (keyboards) were in the band. On April 13, 1994, the band recorded the live album Cross Purposes Live at Hammersmith Apollo in London . In June 1994 he left Black Sabbath due to contractual problems. He then released the album Sun Red Sun in 1995 by the band of the same name, which had broken up due to Ray Gillen's death two years earlier. These were the original recordings, but they were not previously published. From 1995 to 1996, however, he returned to Black Sabbath. Since Geezer Butler left Black Sabbath again, Neil Murray was now on bass. From 1997 to 2004 Rondinelli played in the band Blue Öyster Cult . In addition to Eric Bloom and Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, he played there with Danny Miranda (bass) and Allen Lanier (keyboards, guitar). He released 3 albums with the band.

At the same time he re-founded the band Rondinelli with Tony Martin (vocals) and Neil Murray (bass). His brother Teddy was there too. She released the album Our Cross, Our Sins in 2002 . Meanwhile, Rondinelli also played with Riot , The Lizards and The Sign .

Currently (since 2004)

In 2008, Bobby Rondinelli's last album, Archeology, was released with The Lizards, which he ran with Randy Pratt (bass, Ex- Cactus ) and Patrick Klein (guitar). In 2013 the German guitarist Axel Rudi Pell announced that Bobby Rondinelli was his new drummer. He replaced Mike Terrana and played for the first time on the album Into The Storm (2014).

Discography by Rondinelli

Rainbow

Difficult to Cure (1981)
Straight Between the Eyes (1982)
Finyl Vinyl (1986)

Rondinelli

Wardance (1985)
Our Cross, Our Sins (2002)

Doro

Force Majeure (1989)

Quiet riot

Terrified (1993)

Black Sabbath

Cross Purposes (1994)
Cross Purposes Live (1995)

Sun Red Sun

Sun Red Sun (1995)
Lost Tracks (1999)
Sunset (2000)

Dali Gaggers

Just ad Nauseam (1998)
Confessions of a Spooky Kid (1998)

Blue Öyster Cult

Heaven Forbid (1998)
Curse of the Hidden Mirror (2001)
A Long Day's Night (2002)

The Sign

Signs of Life (2000)

Riot

Through the Storm (2002)

The Lizards

Rule (2003)
The live! (2005)
Cold blooded kings (2005)
Against all odds (2006)
Archeology (2008)

Axel Rudi Pell

Into the Storm (2014)
Game of Sins (2016)
Knights Call (2018)

Web sources

Biography at drummerworld.com, last accessed September 15, 2014
Information about Bobby Rondinelli on Black Sabbath Online, last accessed September 15, 2014
Biography from Paiste, last accessed on September 15, 2014

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Rondinelli, Bobby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American drummer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 27, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York , USA

[1] ttp://www.blabbermouth.net/news/scorpions-guitarist-doesn-t-rule-out-recording-new-album-with-michael-schenker-uli-jon-roth/

[2] ttp://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-Rondinelli-l-de.html


Studio albums	Black Sabbath (1970) • Paranoid (1970) • Master of Reality (1971) • Volume 4 (1972) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabotage (1975) • Technical Ecstasy (1976) • Never Say Die! (1978) • Heaven and Hell (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Born Again (1983) • Seventh Star (1986) • The Eternal Idol (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Tyr (1990) • Dehumanizer (1992 ) • Cross Purposes (1994) • Forbidden (1995) • 13 (2013)
Live albums	Live at Last (1980) • Live Evil (1982) • Cross Purposes Live (1995) • Reunion (1998) • Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon (2007)
Compilation albums	We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll (1976) • The Best of Black Sabbath (2000) • Greatest Hits 1970–1978 (2007) • Black Sabbath: The Dio Years (2007) •
Singles	Black Sabbath (1970) • Evil Woman (1970) • NIB • Paranoid (1970) • The Wizard (1970) • Iron Man (1971) • War Pigs (1971) • Fairies Wear Boots (1971) • Sweat Leaf (1971) • Children of the Grave (1971) • After Forever (1972) • Snowblind (1972) • Tomorrow's Dream (1972) • Supernaut (1973) • Changes (1973) • Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) • Sabbra Cadabra (1974) • Am I Going Insane (1975) • Hole in the Sky (1975) • Symptom of the Universe (1975) • Rock'Roll Doctor (1976) • Never Say Die (1978) • Hard Road (1978) • Dirty Woman (1979) • Neon Knights (1980) • The Young (1980) • Mob Rules (1981) • Turn Up the Night (1982) • Voodoo (1982) • Trashed (1983) • No Stranger to Love (1986) • The Shining (1987) • Headless Cross (1989) • Devil and Daughter (1989) • Feels Good to Me (1990) • TV Crimes (1992) • The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (1994) • Psycho Man (1998) • Selling My Soul (1999) • The Devil Cried (2007) • God is Dead? (2013) • End of the Beginning (2013) • The Loner (2013)