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Live In Germany 1976 (Album) by Rainbow

Artist Biography For Rainbow

Rainbow Is The Name Of At Least Four Bands 1. A British Rock Band.
2. A K-Pop Group 레인보우 .
3. A U.S. Psychedelic Rock Band.
4. Mid-80's Hi-NRG Project. 1. Rainbow Was A British Rock Band Formed By Deep Purple Founder And Former Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore In 1975. In Addition To Blackmore The Band Originally Consisted Of Former Elf Lead Singer Ronnie James Dio Bassist Craig Gruber Drummer Gary Driscoll And Keyboardist Micky Lee Soule. Over The Years Rainbow Went Through Many Lineup Changes. Including Bringing In Other Vocalists Graham Bonnet And Joe Lynn Turner Before It Folded In 1999. The Name Of The Band Was Inspired By The Rainbow Bar And Grill A Los Angeles California Eatery Which Catered To Rock Stars Groupies And Rock Enthusiasts. It Was Here That Ritchie Spent Some Of His Off Time From Deep Purple And Met Dio Whose Band Elf Had Toured Regularly As An Opening Act For Deep Purple. Blackmore Originally Got Together With Dio To Record "Black Sheep Of The Family" As A Single And It Turned Out So Well They Needed A B Side When The B Side Was Recorded However It Turned Out To Be Even Better. This Led To Them Recording An Album And That Effort Caused The Formation Of The Entire Band. Rainbow's Debut Album 'Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow' Was Released In 1975 It Featured The Minor Hit "Man On The Silver Mountain". Blackmore Fired Everybody Except Dio Shortly After The Album Was Recorded. He Recruited Drummer Cozy Powell Formerly Of The Jeff Beck Group Bassist Jimmy Bain And Keyboard Player Tony Carey. This Lineup Went On To Record The Album 'Rising' Which Was Released In May 1976 And Was A Big Success In The U.S. Hitting #48 On The Billboard 200 Chart . For The Next Album 1978's 'Long Live Rock 'n' Roll' Blackmore Kept Powell And Dio And Replaced The Rest Of The Band. Blackmore Had Difficulty Finding A Bass Player For This Record So He Played Bass Himself On All But Three Songs "Gates Of Babylon" "Kill The King" And "Sensitive To Light" . After The Release And Supporting Tour Dio Left Rainbow. Blackmore Continued With Rainbow Replacing Dio With Ex-Marbles Vocalist Graham Bonnet. Powell Stayed And Was Joined By Former Deep Purple Bassist Roger Glover And Keyboardist Don Airey. The First Album From The New Lineup 1979's 'Down To Earth' Featured The Band's First Single Successes "All Night Long" And "Since You Been Gone". Bonnet Possessed A Powerful Voice On Stage Yet He Struggled With The Band's Quieter Numbers And Lacked Dio's Range. In 1980 The Band Headlined The Inaugural Monsters Of Rock Festival At Castle Donington In England. This Was Powell's Final Performance With Rainbow. The Next Album Saw Yet Another Line-Up Change As Bonnet And Powell Were Replaced By Joe Lynn Turner And Bobby Rondinelli Respectively. The Title Track From Their 1981 Album 'Difficult To Cure' Notably Was A Version Of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The Album Also Contained The Guitar-Driven Piece "Maybe Next Time". Although Facing Mixed Success Commercially The Difficult To Cure Tour Was The First Tour In Which Rainbow Headlined In The U.S. Rainbow's Next Studio Album Was 'Straight Between The Eyes'. The Band Added A New Keyboardist David Rosenthal. The Album Was More Cohesive Than 'Difficult To Cure' And Had More Success In The U.S. The Band However Was Alienating Some Of Its Earlier Fans With Its More Slick Arena Rock Based Sound. The Single "Stone Cold" A Popular Power Ballad Had Some Chart Success And Has Since Been Included In Several Multi-Artist Collaboration Albums. The Successful Supporting Tour Skipped The U.K. Completely And Focused On The U.S. Market. 1983's 'Bent Out Of Shape' Saw Drummer Rondinelli Fired In Favour Of Chuck Burgi. The Album Featured The Single "Street Of Dreams". The Song's Video Was Banned By MTV For Its Supposedly Controversial Hypnotic Video Clip. The Resulting Tour Saw Rainbow Return To The U.K. And Also To Japan Where The Band Performed With A Full Orchestra. Though Fans Greatly Enjoyed The Band's Lively Touring The Band's Material Was Getting Mixed Critical Reviews And Its Members Had A Sense Of Needing To Find Direction. By The Early To Mid-80s Blackmore And Glover Had Reformed The Deep Purple "Mark II" Lineup And Rainbow Was Disbanded In 1984. A Final Rainbow Album 'Finyl Vinyl' Was Patched Together From Live Tracks And B-Sides Of Singles. This Album Contained The Instrumental "Weiss Heim" Made Widely Available For The First Time. After Ritchie Blackmore Left Deep Purple For The Final Time In 1993 He Put Together A New Version Of Rainbow In 1994 This Time Named Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. This Incarnation Of The Band Included Doogie White Vocals Paul Morris Keyboards Greg Smith Bass And John O'Reilly Drums . The New Band Released Stranger In Us All In 1995 And Embarked On An Extensive World Tour To Promote It From Late 1995 To Late 1997. For The Tour John O'Reilly Was Replaced By Chuck Burgi And Then By John Micelli For The U.S. Leg Of The Tour As Well As Their Final Show In Esbjerg Denmark . The Tour Proved Very Successful And A Show In Germany Was Professionally Filmed By Rockpalast. It Has Never Officially Been Released But Has Been Heavily Bootleged. The Live Shows Featured Frequent Changes In Set Lists And Musical Improvisations That Proved Popular With Bootleggers And Many Shows Are Still Traded Over A Decade Later. However Fed Up With Stadium Rock Blackmore Turned His Attention To Rennaisance And Mediaeval Music A Lifelong Interest Of His. Rainbow Was Put On Hold Once Again And Played Its Final Concert In Denmark In 1999. Blackmore Together With His Partner Candice Night As Vocalist Then Formed The Renaissance-Influenced Blackmore's Night. 2. Rainbow The Tag For All Releases By The K-Pop Group 레인보우 Responsible For Tracks "A" "Gossip Girl" "Mach" And About A Dozen More. 3. One Of Any Number Of Los Angeles U.S.A.Groups Of Their Time 1968 Rainbow's Best-Known LP Was After The Storm The Album's One Cover Is A Take With Saxophone Of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want To Make Love To You". The Lineup Was Darrell Devlin Drums Bob Gay Bass W. David Mohr Keyboards And Harry Vavela Guitars . 4. Rainbow Was A Short-Lived Hi-NRG Project By Allan Coelho Of Tapps And More That Released Only One Single Humpty Dumpty In 1986.

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Stepping Out From The Shadows Of Deep Purple In 1975 Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore Quickly Took His New Band Rainbow To The Forefront Of Hard Rock With Two Powerful Studio Albums. Yet It Was Not Until The Band Hit The Road That Their Full Potential Began To Be Realized. This Collection Of Previously Unreleased Performances From The Band's 1976 Tour Of Germany Clearly Illustrates The Breath Of Blackmore's Vision His Guitar Playing Has Rarely Been Better And With The Talents Of Cozy Powell On Drums And Ronnie James Dio On Vocals These Tapes Show Why Fans Regard This As The Classic Rainbow Line-Up. Rainbow's 1976 World Tour Kicked Off In June With Two Months Of Dates In America.
The Band Arrived In Europe At The End Of August After Which They Were To Spend Almost The Whole Of November In Australia Finishing The Tour In Japan In December. To Many Deep Purple Fans Blackmore Had Been The Essence Of That Band. This Feeling Had Been Reinforced By The Group's Lackluster UK Dates With His Replacement Tommy Bolin. Rainbow's Shows Were Thus Eagerly Awaited And People Were Been To See What He Could Deliver Given A Free Musical Reign.
Their Faith Was To Be Amply Rewarded. Blackmore's Total Musical Control Gave Him A Freedom On Stage Which He Never Had Before And While The Set Remained Constant. He Was Able To Develop And Change The Structure Of The Tracks As He Wished. The Net Result Was Guitar Playing Which Reached New Heights With Solos Stretched Out Or Curtailed As The Mood Took Him Running The Spectrum Of Emotions From Gentle Runs To Intense Heavy Riffing. At Many Gigs Audiences Were Reduced To Absolute Silence In Which You Could've Heard The Proverbial Pin Drop As Blackmore Went Off Into The Outer Reaches During “Catch The Rainbow.” An Album Of The Tour Originally Planned For Just The Japanese Market Was Released In July 1977.
Disappointingly For Many Fans Rainbow's - “On Stage” Album Came In The Main From The Japanese Shows With A Slightly Edited “Mistreated” And Some Of “Still I'm Sad ” The Only Known German Contributions And While We Couldn't Be Sure Of It Seemed To Lack The Intensity Of The European Gigs. In Addition To The Editing The Set Lacked The Band's Most Popular Track “Stargazer ” As Well As The Climatic Guitar Blitzing Encore. A Decade On Several Abandoned Reels Of Tape Were Found In Vaults In London.
While Three Were Dated Accurately The Fourth Was Not. Marked “Nuremberg Sept. 29th” The Band Was In Munich That Right. But On Their Tour List Nuremberg To The Best Of Our Knowledge Wasn't Included. Assuming That The Rolling Stones Mobile Recorded Shows In Succession For Economic Reasons The Mystery Set Probably Comes From Mannheim. Permission Was Sought To Use One Or Two Of These Unreleased Performances For The Second Ritchie Blackmore Rock Profile Set. When We Heard How Good They Were The Chance Of Issuing A Complete Set Seemed Worth Pursuing. Here Then In Original Running Order For Those Legions Of Rainbow Fans For Whom The Classic Blackmore/Dio/Powell/Carey/Bain Line-Up Was Never Really Equalled Another Chance To “Catch The Rainbow.” Original CD Inlay Informations – Eagle Records Connoisseur Collection ER302392 Track Listing Disc 1
01 – Kill The King Blackmore/Dio/Powell – 5 31 Munich 02 – Mistreated Blackmore/Coverdale – 15 41 Munich 03 – Sixteenth Century Greensleeves Blackmore/Dio – 8 01 Cologne 04 – Catch The Rainbow Blackmore/Dio – 14 46 Dusseldorf Disc 2
05 – Man On The Silver Mountain Blackmore/dio – 13 33 Mannheim 06 – Stargazer Blackmore/Dio – 17 00 Cologne 07 – Still I'm Sad Samwell-Smith/McCarthy 15 04 Cologne 08 – Do You Close Your Eyes Blackmore/Dio 10 11 Munich

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