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Eetu Pellonpaa View Drop Down

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Posted: August 09 2005 at 12:41

"Rainbow Eyes" is a nice ballad also. Good band!

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Posted: August 09 2005 at 12:53

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Posted: August 10 2005 at 03:40

GoldenSpiral wrote:

DIO

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Posted: August 10 2005 at 03:57

I don't dig heavy music but Rainbow is a good example how heavy bands have great powerful ballads, e.g. Catch the Rainbow. Yes, I also like some Scorpions ballads (Yellow Raven, When the Smoke is Going Down, Holiday, Always Somewhere... Still Loving You is sadly overplayed.) Deep Purple's Soldier of Fortune, etc... Is it 'unmanly' to like them and dislike rockers by those bands?

Of course not, just kidding...

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Posted: August 10 2005 at 04:26

The Scorps were amazing - "Lady Starlight" on "Animal Magnetism" is a superb ballad, and a lot of their other music had a progressive approach. But I prefer Rainbow, on the whole...

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Posted: August 10 2005 at 04:35

I really love the two versions of Yardbirds cover of Still I'm Sad. The instrumental version with that crazy cowbell was daring enough (taking out the gregorian chants and make it instrumental) and the live version is spine-tingling , goose bumps and back chills......Too bad for a bad moog solos that flounders gravely, fades away .... it was going nowhere.

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Posted: August 10 2005 at 09:09

JCProg wrote:

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.

I like it. The rest of the album is good too. They sadly went downhill after RJD left.

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Posted: August 10 2005 at 17:19

Down to Earth is a really good album although it starts the transition of Rainbow from prog-metal to pop-metal.

Eyes of the World is definitely prog and Danger Zone is one of my all time favourite tracks - great drum sound, terrific guitar/keyboard work and Bonnet at full tilt (what a voice!)

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Posted: August 11 2005 at 19:38

Yes, I like 'em a good deal. Rainbow sits comfortably somewhere between Led Zeppelin and prog metal for me and I love their lush yet hard rocking textures. I own Rainbow On Sage and the brilliant Rainbow Anthology, which I believe contains nearly all the best Dio-era tracks, plus some of the best ones from the post-Dio era as well (and some of those songs were much loved by the 14-17 year old me in the middle eighties' so they tend to have a special place in my heart for that reason alone.)

Tarot Woman, 16th Century Greensleeves, Light in the Black, Catch the Rainbow...works for me!

Ritchie Blackmore is a guitar wizard, so much so that it made me check out his baroque-inspired band called Blackmore's Night. Very enjoyable music from the other end of the spectrum.

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Posted: August 12 2005 at 05:02

I really liked the first 2 Rainbow albums. Rising, side 2 is just about as perfect as rock music gets. I was dissapointed in LLRNR though. I found that album to be a bit of a plodder with only a couple of standout tracks. Once Dio left, I only went to seem them a couple of times and didn't bother at all once Joe Lynn Turnoff joined.

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Posted: August 12 2005 at 07:22

Progger wrote:

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?

His solo album "Some Though City" was in fact a minor hit. In the late Eighties, he played with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Saw him earning credits as "musical director" on a TV film - sorry, don't remember which one was - maybe he's working with soundtracks today.