Ronnie James Dio Tour Dates 1975 until Rainbow

This page lists Ronnie James Dio's tour dates and other such events from 1975 until Rainbow. Ronnie's band or artist name mentioned in the comments column.

Date	Venue	City and State	Country	Ronnie's band	Other bands	Comments
1975-01-07	Brookside Club	Syracuse, NY	USA	Elf
1975-02-14 - 15	New York State Fair, Center Of Progress	Syracuse, NY	USA	Elf	James Gang Alligators Cross Creek Kane Denim Scarecrow Jones Walrus Timrick Erie Street Todd Hobin Madstop Harpy Darlin Crystal Blues Band Toots Review Magic Fingers Stan Colella Orchestra	Unknown on which day Elf played.
1975-03-16	Palata Sportova Pionir (Pioneer Hall)	Belgrad	Yugoslavia	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners) Smak	Capacity 4000. Click here for gig ad picture. Click here for ticket stub picture. Click here for 2nd ticket stub picture.
1975-03-17	Sportska Dvorana (Sport Hall)	Zagreb	Yugoslavia	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners)	Capacity 5000. Click here for gig poster picture. Click here for ticket stub picture. Click here for 2nd ticket stub picture. Click here for 3rd ticket stub picture. Click here for 4th ticket stub picture. Click here for 5th ticket stub picture. Click here for 6th ticket stub picture.
1975-03-20	Brondby-Hallen	Copenhagen	Denmark	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners)	Capacity 4500. Click here for ticket stub picture.
1975-03-21	Scandinavium	Gothenburg	Sweden	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners) John Holm	Often listed but Elf didn't travel to Sweden on this tour.
1975-03-23	Westfalenhalle	Dortmund	Germany	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners) Chicken Shack East of Eden Randy Pie	Capacity 15400. Click here for ticket stub picture. Click here for gig poster picture.
1975-03-25	Oster-Meeting '75, Sporthalle	Böblingen	Germany	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners) Chicken Shack East of Eden Randy Pie	Capacity 6500, approximately 4000 people. City is often listed as Stuttgart, but the venue is in the neighboring town Boblingen instead. Click here for ticket stub picture. Click here for gig poster picture. Click here for 2nd gig poster picture. Click here for page 1 of gig review picture from German Micky Maus magazine, May 27th 1975 issue. Click here for page 2 of gig review picture from German Micky Maus magazine, May 27th 1975 issue.
1975-03-27	Oster-Meeting '75, Friedrich-Ebert-Halle	Ludwigshafen	Germany	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners) Chicken Shack East Of Eden	Capacity 2250. Click here for ticket stub picture. Click here for gig poster picture. Click here for 2nd gig poster picture.
1975-03-29	Oster-Meeting '75, Sporthalle	Cologne	Germany	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners) Chicken Shack Randy Pie East Of Eden	Capacity 8000. Click here for ticket stub picture. Click here for gig poster picture. Click here for 2nd gig poster picture. Click here for gig shirt picture (may be self-made).
1975-03-30	Oster-Meeting '75, Ernst-Merck-Halle	Hamburg	Germany	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners) Chicken Shack Randy Pie East Of Eden	Capacity 5600. Click here for ticket stub picture. Click here for 2nd ticket stub picture. Click here for article from 1975-03-26 unknown newspaper. Click here for article from unknown magazine.
1975-04-03	Bundeseisstadion Liebenau	Graz	Austria	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners)	4000 people, sold-out or almost sold-out show. Click here for ticket stub picture. Click here for gig poster picture. Click here for gig ad from unknown newspaper.
1975-04-05	Saarlandhalle	Saarbrucken	Germany	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners)	Capacity 5500. Click here for ticket stub picture. Click here for gig poster picture. Click here for 2nd gig poster picture.
1975-04-07	Palais Des Sports	Paris	France	Elf	Deep Purple (headliners)	Capacity 4600. Click here for ticket stub picture. Click here for gig ad from unknown newspaper. Click here for gig review page 1 from unknown magazine. Click here for gig review page 2 from unknown magazine.
1975-04-??	The Heater	Wellsville, NY	USA	Elf		Elf apparently played only one gig at The Heater after the Deep Purple European tour before splitting up and most of the members continuing as Rainbow.