If you knew Jerry Fogle or Sky Saxon back then, you probably met me. I was at a lot of Cirith Ungol shows. Sky was a smoking buddy, he was the guy that said "Where's the budz?" first thing to anyone he met LMAO
As for live playing, I was in a few obscure metal bands of which there is maybe only cassette tapes recordings of left somewhere (Parallax, Mayhem). I know a lot of dudes in the music scene from the 80s but ended up having 4 kids instead of career in music. Such is life, I have no regrets. I probably would have overdosed and been one of those tragic rockstar tragedies
Jason, funny that you mention Dio. I met him when I was going to RIT through his cousin Dave Feinstein who formed The Rods, a Western NY metal band. He was a cool cat and an iconic vocalist in any band he was in; Ronnie and the Prophets, Elf, Rainbow (my favorite era0 and of course Dio. There was also Heaven and Hell at the end before he died