The Rock Family Trees on Deep Purple is on youtube and is a must watch, Ian Gillan and Jon Lord were quite the raconteurs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9tXVt5-_1w
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 25 August 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
my favorite thing is when a band has a separate wikipedia entry & one of those colored bar charts just for past & current members <3thank you based richie blackmore https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_band_members
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 August 2021 04:59 (two years ago) link
I like how inside the gatefold for the '70s live album there's a itemized breakdown <of all the gear> they used on those shows,
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 2 August 2021 05:20 (two years ago) link
lol that is very on-brand & i wholly support it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 August 2021 05:24 (two years ago) link
Actually it was the Back Cover.
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 2 August 2021 05:38 (two years ago) link
hey cool i can make my own stage Rainbow(TM) with these specs
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 August 2021 05:45 (two years ago) link
AND TOOK SIX MONTHS FROM DESIGN TO DELIVERY
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 2 August 2021 05:48 (two years ago) link
DON: Rock'n'Roll had become something of a spectator sport by the late '70s, and we really weren't there for it. Spending six months of time and money--like Rainbow did--on a backdrop to distract the audience from the performers they'd paid to see was a no-go in Eagleland.
GLENN: I cleaned some weed on that Rainbow live LP one time and just couldn't get over that those dweebs listed all their equipment on the cover, with nary a Joe Walsh with a chainsaw or bathtubs full of Budweiser or primo West Coast Real Estate to be found! There's 'Rock'n'Roll' and then there's "Rock-and-fuckin'-Roll", you know?
DON: Well, yeah.
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 2 August 2021 06:02 (two years ago) link
lmao
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 August 2021 06:10 (two years ago) link
According to that gear list, Rainbow had 3 synths, 3 basses and two clavinets onstage, but no guitars?!?(Unless two of the basses are misidentified, I've never heard of a "Telecaster bass")
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 2 August 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
There was a Telecaster bass, mostly made in the late '60s I think. Didn't Dusty Hill play one?
― Josefa, Monday, 2 August 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
Tele bass produced 1968-1979 (and of course reissues years later)
― Josefa, Monday, 2 August 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
The mystery remains - were Blackmore's guitars too sacred to be listed with the rest of the group's equipment?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 2 August 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
has he ever played anything but a Strat?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 2 August 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
Blackmore played a 335 with a bigsby up through the early Deep Purple stuff.
― earlnash, Monday, 2 August 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
https://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20130824/19/rockcont/41/a5/j/t02200249_0386043712659859812.jpg?caw=800
― earlnash, Monday, 2 August 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/static/article/draft/89406_UrOyLG_mppswGe4b_44748.jpg
― earlnash, Monday, 2 August 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link