(Ritchie Blackmore's) Rainbow - C/D S/D

"Elf", with Dio (then called Ronald Padavona, though he'd used the Dio name before in the late 50's-early 60's) dressed as an elf on the cover and "Gambler, Gambler", "Hoochie Kootchie Lady", "Sit Down Honey", etc. on it.

"Carolina County Ball", where the band is looking down from a railing. This has "Rainbow", "L.A. 59" and "Ain't it All Amusing" on it (I think this might have been released as "L.A. 59 as well, though can't be sure).

"Trying to Burn the Sun", with a graphic of Dio lifting a microphone stand superimposed over a setting sun. This one has "Black Swampy Water", "Streetwalker" and "Wonderworld" on it.

I forgot to mention that double live Rainbow album with Dio, where they give an entire side to "Catch the Rainbow" and, worse, a cover of Deep Purple's "Mistreated". Hopefully I'm remembering incorrectly and it doesn't exist.

"Spotlight Kid" and "I Surrender" sound in the same vein but with Turner on vocals.

just picked up a sweet mint orig. pressing of the first Raibow record! so good....great great tunes and man Blackmore is amazing...he's really the bridge between 70s hard rock soloing and 80s style metal soloing.

I actually went to a wedding where "Catch The Rainbow" was the bridal dance song...

I bought the remastered CDs of the first three studio albums with Dio (the Elf one, Rainbow Rising and Long Live...) some months back. They're still in my iPod, so that's something.

"Man on the Silver Mountain" is still my favourite, but I love the fact that the same band could do something like that and something like "All Night Long".

(Same nominal band, obv, allowing for personnel changes and all.)

<i>I actually went to a wedding where "Catch The Rainbow" was the bridal dance song...

-- henry s, Monday, July 2, 2007 7:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link</i>

unreal! that's awesome...

unperson,

i heard that rising was even better than the self-titled first rainbow record...true/false?

Rising was our album of choice as serious rockin' teenagers, it's more consistent than the first but I don't think it hits the same peaks.

"Catch The Rainbow" was covered -- and not badly, if memory serves -- by, of all people, His Name Is Alive.

I used to have, once 'ponzatime, several Rainbow's on vinyl. Not any more, tho.

Rising is actually my least favorite of the three. I rank 'em: the debut, Long Live, Rising. Never heard the live album; I had another live 2CD set by this lineup, recorded in Germany, that was some of the most bloated crap I ever tormented my ears with. Dio at his pandering worst, Blackmore soloing at Abu Ghraib-worthy length...awful.

I think Rising totally kicks. Blackmore did have a tendency to overdo it live, which makes Made In Japan by Purple all the more excellent, because (for him relative to his other live stuff) its economical.

His Name Is Alive also covered "Man On The Silver Mountain"...great riff, that one...

I liked Difficult To Cure at the time, dug the imagery of the band with surgeon's masks on...(wonder where Clinic came up with that idea?)...

I picked up that Live in Munich 1976 2-CD earlier this year, I got into that a lot more than any of their studio albums I'd heard.

I heard a live boot that had an awe-inspiring version of "Stargazer" on it.

a few weeks ago, RB did one of those medieval shows at the theatre my mother works in.
the tales she has to tell re the rider and the demands.
oh - and in case you think this was in a rock-roll valhalla, nah. Yeovil.
and it still didn't sell out.

the tales she has to tell re the rider and the demands.

dude c'mon spill the beanz!

oh it was all about the clean towels. apparently.
the theatre had never had such extravagent demands.
the staff are still reeling from the excess.
like i said though this was Yeovil.
there was also the small factor that he was ushered into the venue via some strange use of a truck in front of a door to stop the masses from actually seeing the Rock Star from entering the premises, with one of the clean towels over his head to stop anyone recognising him.
i just know this one will become a xmas story my mother will tell for many a year.

(bet you're glad you asked Mat)
i cant wait until the next exciting installment when Van The Man treats the staff like shit. again.

The live album with Dio, it was their second offering, was and is awful. In agreement with upstream. Defines the word bloat, with an endless version of "Mistreated," almost exactly like the version of "Mistreated" from Purple's "Live in Europe" from about a year before. Could have been winnowed to a decent live single: "Kill the King."

I like Rainbow's Graham Bonnet/Joe Lynn Turner CDs. They wanted to be hit machines.

80s Rainbow is so awesome

then again, that endless version of "Mistreated" that Gorge hates doesn't really bother me at all, as soon as Dio shuts up I'm all about it

i finally found "rising" on vinyl....so good...love the awesome analog synth jackoff sesh that begins "tarot woman"

Yeah, that's a good'un!

Personally, I wish there was MORE moog-wank on that album. But I guess the band wasn't "Tony Carey's Rainbow", after all.

having now been to Yeovil, it is hard for me to get my head around Blackmore doing a show in Yeovil

some of the new black mountain record reminds me of street of dreams, which is a-okay with me.

wow! I'm a huge Black Mountain fan. and I'm a huge Ritchie Blackmore fan. I still haven't heard that new Black Mountain lp. But that comparison does NOT make me feel good at all...

I mean I do like Rainbow's AOR stuff -- I think Straight Between the Eyes was a sweet LP ("Power"!), but "Street of Dreams" ? eh....

this is the song that made me think of street of dreams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiR4lZvZ4EQ

i'm probably way off base with the comparison, but there it is.

I like that! I would not have thought of Rainbow tho. But I am happy that you posted that, Daniel, it takes a little of the sting off of all the reviews that pan the record ( I still have not heard the record, but it seems like people dislike it )

also, i mean i can see yr comparison, I could see this as a Rainbow track ( with the keybs and so forth ), maybe just not "Street of Dreams" itself (which was kinda wimpy)

i mean i was thinking along these lines ... (which I fucking LOVE) ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfgO9ojUQ8M

Roger rocking the Panama hat

it does seem like people dislike the black mountain record. massively underrated imo. it's one of my favorites of this (very strong) year.

didn't John McVie always rock a Panama? i think Roger might have bit his style. bass player solidarity or something

man. "Rising" where have you been all my life

that album is trump tight

Fucking "Stargazer," man.

Fuck.

Ronnie's greatest moment.

Stargazer's about as sick as it gets.

Graham Bonnet was so slick, dressing like Fredo Corleone in Cuba

ruling my day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2B8ii_Yf4

Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Rising and Long Live Rock'n'Roll = all searchable, all classics.

After RJD leaves the band = dud.

Yup

Stargazer sounds so much like a Heaven and Hell outtake

'Kill the King' sounds to me like a template for Dickenson era Iron Maiden.

'Catch the Rainbow' is 'Little Wing'

The synths on Stargazer sound an awful like Kashmir in melody and timbre. Still an awesome song. RB on fire and RJD bringing it as always. My eyes are bleeedan

My eyes are bleeding etc

classic as hell

Now look look look look look at his tower of stone

CLAAAAAAAASIC

With whips and chains

best ever

Dio Rainbow obv classic but i love Bonnet Dio too bc it is classique

https://youtu.be/1P17ct4e5OE

^ it's kind of a curious fact that three versions of that song charted in the US from '78 to '80: first by Head East, then Rainbow, then Cherie & Marie Currie - none of which was the original version

...cuz I always wondered which of them came first and it turns out the answer is "the one I've never heard"

there is an album Live in Munich 1977 that's up on streaming, ok sound quality, hot set

Cozy Powell is a fucking beast

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

my favorite thing is when a band has a separate wikipedia entry & one of those colored bar charts just for past & current members <3

thank you based richie blackmore

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_band_members

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,

lol that is very on-brand & i wholly support it

Actually it was the Back Cover.

hey cool i can make my own stage Rainbow(TM) with these specs

AND TOOK SIX MONTHS FROM DESIGN TO DELIVERY

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.

lmao

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")

There was a Telecaster bass, mostly made in the late '60s I think. Didn't Dusty Hill play one?

Tele bass produced 1968-1979 (and of course reissues years later)

The mystery remains - were Blackmore's guitars too sacred to be listed with the rest of the group's equipment?

has he ever played anything but a Strat?

Blackmore played a 335 with a bigsby up through the early Deep Purple stuff.

https://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20130824/19/rockcont/41/a5/j/t02200249_0386043712659859812.jpg?caw=800

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/static/article/draft/89406_UrOyLG_mppswGe4b_44748.jpg