One fan is going bowling with Tool. Adam Jones, Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey have formed a team for Bowl for Ronnie, the annual celebrity bowling party benefiting the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund, and the final spot is up for auction on eBay. Joining them are Alice in Chains‘ Jerry Cantrell and Mike Inez.
The event takes place Thursday, November 12th, at PINZ Bowling Center in Studio City, California, starting at 6:30 p.m. with open bowling and a VIP pre-party for lane sponsors, celebrities and guests. Bidding ends Monday, November 2nd, at around 7 p.m. PT, and travel isn’t included. One hundred percent of net proceeds go to the fund.
Spectator tickets are $75 each via Eventbrite, while supplies last. Teams and companies can sponsor a private lane for six bowlers for $3,000, which includes their logo on the lane and screens, six VIP party passes, two drink tickets per bowler, six T-shirts, pizza and shoe rental.
Eddie Trunk‘s team will feature Tom Morello, Geezer Butler, Lita Ford, Brent Woods and Jason Allen, the winner of a separate eBay auction. Members of Return to Dust, Fuel, Anthrax, Whitesnake, Quiet Riot and Stryper are also expected, along with KLOS host “Full Metal Jackie” Kajzer. Last year’s top celebrity team, Yachtley Crew, won’t be defending their title because they’re on tour.
The 2025 edition, held November 13th at the same venue, raised more than $85,000. Adam Jones bowled that night too, alongside Geezer Butler, Shavo Odadjian, Nuno Bettencourt, Sebastian Bach and George Thorogood, among others.
Now in its 16th year, the fund is a privately funded 501(c)(3) public charity created in Dio’s memory, and it has raised more than $2 million. It has supported the T.J. Martell Foundation and the gastric cancer research unit at Houston’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where Dio was treated. Since 2016, it has backed Dr. David Wong‘s team at the UCLA School of Dentistry, which is developing a non-invasive saliva test for early cancer detection, adding another $25,000 in 2025. Wong will present gastric cancer biomarker research at the Stanford Gastric Cancer Summit on December 7th and 8th. The fund’s next event, Rock for Ronnie, is set for May 23rd, 2027.
Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer on May 16th, 2010, at 67. His diagnosis was announced in November 2009, a few months after his final concert, with Heaven & Hell, on August 29th of that year at the House of Blues in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He sang for Rainbow, for Black Sabbath on 1980’s ‘Heaven and Hell’ and for his own band, Dio.