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dropForge 
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 Posted: May 04 2005 at 12:23 |
 Certif1ed wrote:
Dio/Rainbow (Dio/almost anything!!!) are fantastic! |
Hey, those words are music to my ears!
I finally got all the Elf stuff on CD a while back!
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elp-progster
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 08:29 |
The oficcial live album "On Stage" does not reproduces the power of the band live.
The RAINBOW LIVE ALBUM is "Live iIn Germany" released years ago by Conaisseur (which released also a number of live Purple albuns). Here yes we have great musicianship from Blackmore, Bain, Carey and Powell, with extra solos of keyboards and drums and the track "Stargazer" unfaily absent at "On Stage". This is one of the best live albuns of all time!!!!!!! Get it if you can!
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JCProg
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 08:21 |
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Rising is almost a perfect album. "Do You Close Your Eyes" is the song that I don't care that much, but luckily it is also the shortest one.
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arcer
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 07:43 |
LOve the first three albums and the live album On Stage is awesome - Blackmore's playing on the side-long version of Catch the Rainbow is just brilliant
Likewise Tony Carey's leyboard playing on this album is brilliant and definitely it's his contribution that lends some proggishness to proceedings.
Stargazer, Gates of Babylon and A Light in the Black are definite contenders for prog hard rock - hell if Rush's By-Tor is prog then so is Stargazer!
I love the first few Rainbow albums much more than I do Purple - a little more classically influenced a lot less 12 bar boogie (though that has it's place - Live version of Lazy on Made in Japan for example)
Wouldn't include Rainbow on the archive but it's top stuff - definitely on a bands related to prog submenu
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PROGMAN
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 06:06 |
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Possibly Proggish I suppose. Yes RAINBOW is class.
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CYMRU AM BYTH
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russellk
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 03:40 |
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Stargazer/Light in the Black -- really one 16-minute suite. As proggy as
most things here ...
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Certif1ed
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Joined: April 08 2004
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 03:35 |
Dio/Rainbow (Dio/almost anything!!!) are fantastic!
There is some progginess in the early albums - especially the tracks mentioned, but early Deep Purple is easily as proggy (the entire In Rock album particularly).
On a scale of Pop to Prog : Prog metal.
Progginess factor 1 to 10 : 7.
After Dio left - Rainbow were definitely not prog and not even metal - just hard rock. But I still like the Joe Lynn Turner and Graham Bonnet stuff - even if the latter did have short hair, wear horrible Hawaii shirts and publicly stated that he hated metal  . What a great voice!
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Sean Trane
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Posted: May 04 2005 at 03:15 |
I'll stop at the DIO era-Rainbow ! With Rising as a peak! everysong is fantastic bar one real dud! The last track on the side A (do you close your eyes - if memory serves me well)!
But not close enough for inclusion IMHO!
I tried as hard as I could to still like them after those albums but it was gone!
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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dropForge
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 21:43 |
Dio-era Rainbow is AMAZING. Better than Purple, easily. Those three albums (and the live albums) are, simply, killer. Yeah, they did some tracks that veered from the well-beaten, familiar hard rock path. Mickey Lee Soule (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow), Tony Carey (Rising) and David Stone (Long Live Rock 'N' Roll) all laid down some solid-to-stellar keyboard work. Carey's organ solo in "A Light In The Black" is one of Rising' s best moments.
Post-Dio Rainbow has its share of moments and good songs, but cannot match the sheer quality of the material circa 1975-1978. I do like the last Turner-Rainbow album, Bent Out Of Shape, the best of post-Dio.
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Progger
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 18:25 |
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They kind of lost me after Dio left & Blackmore went in search of a 'hit' single. What happened to their ex keyboard player Tony Carey. Didn't he have some minor success as a solo artist in the States?
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richardh
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Posted: May 03 2005 at 18:17 |
Definetly some prog credentials with Don Airey on keyboards especially.They always seemed to me to be more pompous than Deep Purple and so tended to veer more towards prog than Purple ever did.Not everything they did could be called prog obviously but what about these:
Stargazer
Gates Of Babylon
Light In The Black
Lost In Hollywood
Man On The Silver Mountain
Anymore?
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