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Free Music Review: One of the best albums of any kind from any time. BUY IT!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Rainbow is the unrecognized creator of modern heavy metal, but this album proves they are much more than a pioneer; this album is incredible in its own right. The first time I listened to this album, with the incredible opening keyboard solo (a monumental feat of its own given the nature of programming analog additive synthesis in 1976) I knew it might be the best record ever recorded. I wasn't wrong.
Dio's vocals are incredible (as on any other album he is on) Blackmore's playing is revolutionary (he pioneered the use of scalloped fret boards), Cozy Powel creates a whole sound world with his drumming (just about anything with him on it is worth buying too), Edie Bain provides super slick bass lines, and Carrey creates a keyboard sound in 1976 that isn't the least bit cheesy, only incredible. All this talent is heard well on this record, with some of the best production quality I've ever heard, and not just good production with the equipment used in 1976 in mind.
This album has one of the best lineups ever in rock music, and some of the best songs ("Stargazer" is right up there with "stairway to heaven"), but this album is more than the sum of its parts. It only has six songs, but every one of them is memorable and moving. The last two, "Stargazer" and "Light in the Black," tell the story of a wizard and his slaves building him a tower, then his death and the after- math. This is truly progressive and undoubtedly influenced later power metal bands like helloween and rhapsody.
There are very few records that can compete with this one, and I really can't say enough good things about this one. One of these comparable records, Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell," actually features Dio on vocals, and he delivers no less than an untouchable performance there as well.
Buy this cd, and put it in your cd player. You'll have trouble getting yourself to remove it.
Free Music Review: Blackmore goes solo!
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is just plain awesome. I listen to it all the time and am just amazed at the qaulity of musicianship it possesses. Rainbow is probably the best supergroup ever formed and this is their best album period. Even though *Rising* only clocks in a little more then a half-hour (it has only 6 songs), it is the supreme qaulity of these songs that make up for the short running time. I have to say that i enjoy every track on this except for maybe "Do You Close Your Eyes", which is a filler song, but still not bad. My 3 favorites are "Tarot Woman", "Stargazer" and "Light in the Black". the last two tracks form sort of a mini epic story. "Stargazer" is about a wizard and "Light in the Black" is about his demise and his slaves excaping. Every member on this line-up is essentialy a virtouso at their instrament, yet there is no ego at all here and every one does there part to make this album amazing.
Ritchie Blackmore is the undisputed god of rock guitar, he completely shows his old Deep Purple mates that he can indeed form a band every bit as good and thenesome as his former one. RJD got his start with Rainbow and this is one of his best preformances in ANY band he has ever played with. Bain and Powell lock and gell together for a exellent rythm section and then there is Tony Carey, this guy is phenomenal on the keys! Here is my song rating for this god-like album:
< 10/10 > Tarot Woman
< 8/10 > Run w/ the Wolf
< 9/10 > Starstruck
< 7/10 > DO You Close Your Eyes
< 10/10 > Stargazer
< 10/10 > Light in the Black
Highest possible recommendation for anyone interested in classic rock. Oh yeah, and it was produced by Martin Birch, so you know it's gonna sound good too.
Free Music Review: Band that never gets it's due
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a Led Zeppelin lover. That aside, I , like most people, have other bands that I keep close to my heart. One of them is Rainbow. When I first heard of the the band it was in a guitar mag about Euro-Metal. I had heard a bit about Deep Purple, but, I didn't know that Blackmore had another 70's metal band. The name didn't exactly fit with my vision of hard rock metal. My mood quickly changed when I found out they had Dio fronting the early years.This line up and album should stand as one of the all-time greats. Only two people were carried over from the debut album. Blackmore struck gold with Bain and Cozy Powell( who I think is the greatest drummer ever) giving him a brick wall of crushing drums and bass.
This album carries very Deep Purple sounding songs. But, with one exception. These are ten times as better. "Stargazer" is one of my all time favorites. Sure it's a Zeppelin rip-off, however, the harmonies, double kick drum, and Dio's tenor-esque voice stirs up passion in you when you hear it.
The other is "Tarot Woman". This track is the lesser known and should have been on the the Very Best Of Rainbow. The old 70's keyboards never sounded cooler. That and the song reminds me of an old friend.
From an enginering stand point this is one of the clearest sounding old school cd's out there. Too bad other classics like Blizzard of Ozz and Machine Head couldn't match it.
This is a must for drummers. If you don't know who Cozy Powell is . . . you need to wise up. And bow down to his glory. Dare I say it, but, he out does John Bonham's sound from Zeppelin IV's "When The Levee Breaks". There I said it.
Final word: Get this f*cking album! You'll be happier.
Also get one of the best live albums too. Rainbow On Stage.
Free Music Review: RONNIE DIO RISING.... BRILLIANT RECORD!
Hit: 5 Stars
Shortly after Ronnie James Dio's 300th birthday (troll years) him and Ritchie Blackmore decided to pick up some new musicians and record a follow up record to the legendary Rainbow record. The result was the brilliant Rainbow Rising.
While I am a fan of much of Dio's work (and honestly, I really like the first Rainbow record alot...Temple Of The King? Man On The SIlver Mountain...I mean C'mon Now!) This is the best album he ever stamped his name on. At least the album that most strongly represents who he is and what he's about as a vocalist. I don't want anyone to think I'm knocking his Sabbath albums or his Dio albums, cuz I'm not. I just think that what happened here, was that Ritchie Blackmore decided he wanted the music to be a backdrop for Ronnie James this time around, and he wanted much more focus on the vocals, without distorting his own signature sound and therefore he changed the rest of the bands line-up entirely to get just the right atmosphere, and it works out very well. The album is only about 35 minutes, but it is one of those albums where everything is just right, and there didn't need to be any more stuff on here just result in filler.
The album is prog and hard rock with lots of spacey and mystical type emotions in the background. Six Ronnie James titles, and they are all so very Ronnie James. TAROT WOMAN, RUN WITH THE WOLF. We get not only to be STARSTRUCK, but we also get to be STARGAZER[s], the latter an eight plus minute mega song. There are only six songs in total, but that is all there needs to be, the album is a triumph, and I'm suprised more of these Dio freaks have no idea.
Truly, if you dig yourself some Dio, then you should not be without this offering. Play it loud in the autumn nights, and wail at the moon!
Free Music Review: I see a rainbow 5 Stars
As I sit to write a few words about an album that means so much to me I start to shudder a little in anticipation and excitement. "Rising" is quite simply the greatest hard rock record ever! The combination of Powell, Bain, Carey, Dio and Blackmore however short lived produced absolute magic in 1976. Ronnie James Dio never sang or wrote better lyrics and next to "In Rock" this is Ritchie's undisputed masterpiece. "Stargazer",the mystical successor to "Stairway to Heaven", blows Zeppelin and Purple away in its power and ambition. "Light in the Black" helped invent speed metal with its lightning quick dueling leads of Tony Carey (keyboards) and Blackmore. Carey also shines on the intro to "Tarot Woman" as does Cozy Powell on "Stargazer" and "Light". I personally love "Do You Close Your Eyes" as a welcome mood swing contrasting with the evil magic on much of the album. Witches, wizards, slaves and masters all parade through the black night created by Blackmore and co. I believe this was the album Ritchie always wanted to make after "Deep Purple in Rock" but it took him six years to find the right conspirators. Rainbow followed up this monster with "On Stage" then "Long Live Rock n'Roll" (an album which is almost as breathtaking) which proved to be Dio's curtain call with the band. Rainbow could have been the greatest metal band ever but it was never the same after "Rising" and "LLRNR" as Blackmore chose to pursue commercial success over artistic genius. "Rising" is THE gothic metal classic, nothing else comes close.