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

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