<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?
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― t**t, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― unperson, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Bill Magill, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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?)...
― henry s, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard a live boot that had an awe-inspiring version of "Stargazer" on it.
― Bill Magill, Monday, 2 July 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
the tales she has to tell re the rider and the demands.
dude c'mon spill the beanz!
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
(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.
― mark e, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Gorge, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― J0hn D., Sunday, 28 October 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i finally found "rising" on vinyl....so good...love the awesome analog synth jackoff sesh that begins "tarot woman"
― banana thug (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 24 November 2008 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 24 November 2008 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
having now been to Yeovil, it is hard for me to get my head around Blackmore doing a show in Yeovil
― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 3 October 2010 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
some of the new black mountain record reminds me of street of dreams, which is a-okay with me.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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....
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i was thinking along these lines ... (which I fucking LOVE) ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfgO9ojUQ8M
Roger rocking the Panama hat
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
it does seem like people dislike the black mountain record. massively underrated imo. it's one of my favorites of this (very strong) year.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't John McVie always rock a Panama? i think Roger might have bit his style. bass player solidarity or something
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 3 October 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
man. "Rising" where have you been all my life
― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
that album is trump tight
― a strapping 40-year-old caorni rapper at a party (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Fucking "Stargazer," man.
Fuck.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 25 August 2014 06:07 (nine years ago) link
Ronnie's greatest moment.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 25 August 2014 06:18 (nine years ago) link
Stargazer's about as sick as it gets.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Monday, 25 August 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Graham Bonnet was so slick, dressing like Fredo Corleone in Cuba
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Monday, 25 August 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
ruling my day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx2B8ii_Yf4
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Rising and Long Live Rock'n'Roll = all searchable, all classics.
After RJD leaves the band = dud.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Saturday, 8 April 2017 00:26 (seven years ago) link
Yup
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 8 April 2017 02:23 (seven years ago) link
Stargazer sounds so much like a Heaven and Hell outtake
― calstars, Monday, 10 April 2017 00:26 (seven years ago) link
'Kill the King' sounds to me like a template for Dickenson era Iron Maiden.
― earlnash, Monday, 10 April 2017 01:34 (seven years ago) link
'Catch the Rainbow' is 'Little Wing'
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 10 April 2017 01:51 (seven years ago) link
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
― calstars, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 02:42 (seven years ago) link
My eyes are bleeding etc
― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
classic as hell
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 August 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
Now look look look look look at his tower of stone
― michael schenker group is no laughing matter (Matt #2), Saturday, 24 August 2019 08:00 (four years ago) link
CLAAAAAAAASIC
― what's wrong with being centre-y? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 August 2019 08:00 (four years ago) link
With whips and chains
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 24 August 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
best ever
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
Dio Rainbow obv classic but i love Bonnet Dio too bc it is classiquehttps://youtu.be/1P17ct4e5OE
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 August 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
^ 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
― Josefa, Sunday, 25 August 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link
...cuz I always wondered which of them came first and it turns out the answer is "the one I've never heard"
― Josefa, Sunday, 25 August 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
there is an album Live in Munich 1977 that's up on streaming, ok sound quality, hot set
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 August 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
Cozy Powell is a fucking beast
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 August 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
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