Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
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Free Music Review: New throat for Blackmore
Hit: 4 Stars
It was pretty obvious that Deep Purple was getting tired and a little over ripe by '75, so Ritchie Blackmore decided he needed a new vechcle to showcase his soloing and riffing talents. What better vocalist to compliment him than one dimunitive Ronnie James Dio. Though Ronnie was little-known at the time, in fact only known as lead honky-tonker of rollicking band Elf, Ritchie could hear the startling talent that was sure to blossom into something mighty fine. Anyway, this album pretty much sounds like Elf's previous "Trying to Burn the Sun" with Ritchie on leads and a little mysticism. The sound here is considerably more down to earth than the grand sound they would acheive (with a new band) on "Rising." I really like this album for the old world warmth is displays. The tempos are often slow to mid, and the solos usually more delicate and restrained. Songs like "Man on the SIlver Mountain," "Temple of the KIng" and "Sixteenth Century Greensleves" are as good as Rainbow ever put out. Though "Snake Charmer" and "Black Sheep..." are a couple of missteps. Dig those cowbells on "Still I'm Sad."Free Music Review: Hard rock goes medieval..
Hit: 4 Stars
The cover picture gives quite an accurate representation of what this album is like: medieval imagery, castles and rainbows, shot through with some killer guitar from the one and only Ritchie Blackmore. Apart from the insanely out-of-place "If You Don't Like Rock N Roll," it's 37 minutes of magic and mayhem. This isn't to say it's all fairies and elves - "Catch the Rainbow" is a sad almost-love-song that shows off Blackmore and Dio's abilities extremely well, "Snake Charmer" is an all-out hard rock tune, and "Still I'm Sad" is a wonderfully upbeat group jam that ends the album on a high note. And yet, it's still missing a star... only because Rainbow Rising is, in my mind, the most perfect work they've done. Can't give out those 5-stars like candy mints, they're reserved for the truly special cases. Anyway - if you like rock, guitar, medieval music, or either Blackmore or Dio, this is an album worth a few hard-earned dollars. After Rising of course.Free Music Review: BLACKMORE'S NEW OUTFIT
Hit: 4 Stars
First of all, I must need to meake a statement: every one of the four "Rainbow with Dio" albuns are much better than anything RAINBOW released after that, mainyl the horrible "pop metal" albuns of the Joe Lynn Turner days. Saying that, I must say that this one, their first release, is astonishingly great, its great merit being the fact that each song is very different from the other, withou following the same old path or formula, but at the same time without sounding indulgent. This album is just fantastic !!! By the way, I'd like to congratulate all th reviewers below. THis album seems to have received an unproportional ammount of fantasticly written reviews, all of them are "killers" and well written !!Free Music Review: MAGIC AFTER MAGIC
Hit: 4 Stars
Playing alongside Ronnie Dio, Blçackmore's outfit Rainbow released masterpiece after masterpiece (four of them) until running out of steem and begiining to work with horrible commercial / pop singer Joe Lynn Turner. It was not Joe's fault, it was Blackmore who wanted to make some money. He deserved it, by the way. THe guy is a genius, a total master of the electric guitar, a master from a time when the masters really played with conviction, very different from today "masters" like Satriani, Vai and Malmsteen. THis Rainbow debut is very good, altough Blackmore fired all the band (except Dio) after this album. I like all the songs, even the cover of BLCK SHEEP OF THE FAMILY. RISING is better, but this debut is a proud effort.Free Music Review: 3.5 Stars
Hit: 4 Stars
An interesting moment in rock/metal history, when links back to Deep Purple and forward to the masters, Black Sabbath, converged with the presence of both Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio in Rainbow. A lot of talent, for certain, though this first effort isn't their finest. While they do some interesting things on "Catch the Rainbow" and the raucous "If You Don't Life Rock 'n' Roll," the album is a little more tame than would be expected, given its pedigree. Not bad, but the band doesn't seem to have challenged itself to write truly great songs.