This particular lineup was epic! Graham Bonnet is a great singer! I saw Rainbow after this album was released in Madison Wisconsin they were touring with Blue Oyster Cult! WOW! What a great show that was!

Epic singer, Epic guitarist, Epic lyrics, and Epic on stereo headphones...What more could you want...EPIC!

We saw The Graham Bonnet Band last year, and Graham still belts this out with ease. Brilliant, considering he's in his mid seventies

Mmm ! I have not heard this for yonks , I Always expected Count Dracula to leap out on stage , or Yoda ! Does remind me of "Spinal Tap " and the miniature Stone Henge Set !

You really can't go wrong with any vocal era in Rainbow. Other Graham Bonnet Rainbow songs that are great, "All Night Long" & "Since You've Been Gone". Also Check out the Joe Lynn Turner era - "Stone Cold", "Tear'n my Heart Out", and "Street of Dreams". Plus the Doogie White era, "Ariel" & "Hunt Humans" & Hall of the Mountain King".

This was early Rainbow 🌈 excellent vocalist Graham Bonnet, well Rainbow and Deep Purple always had great singers.

@Starburst_Candy

3 ай бұрын

I would say that they had four great singers, and they also had Joe Lynn Turner.

@larteonceagain

2 ай бұрын

​@@Starburst_Candy Even five, both Dougie White and Ronnie Romero can really sing also.

@Starburst_Candy

2 ай бұрын

@@larteonceagain I agree but I don't rate Joe Lynn Turner as a singer. He considers himself to be fantastic and better than Dio and Bonnet

@larteonceagain

2 ай бұрын

@@Starburst_Candy Yes, I know he always had high opinions about himself. But he's a very good singer even though he's in my opinion also number five on the Rainbow list. And also number five on the Purple list :-)

I think that Graham Bonnet is vastly underrated. He moved on to MSG and did one huge album called Assault Attack, but was fired after their first gig because he came on stage pissed and exposed himself. Although he maintained a career after that, he never really hit the big time again except in Japan, where he is still a big star after the Japanese took his band, Alcatraz to their hearts. As a live singer, he is still incredible but age is fast catching up and you can see that towards the end of the gig he is knackered

I loved the interruption by the kitty. 😅

Check out Tarot Woman. Has the most phenomenal Tony Carey keyboard intro. The late great Cozy Powell on drums on Eyes Of The World.

Thanks for the reaction. Love the song, the band are on top form Would have loved Graham Bonnet to have stayed with Rainbow, he has a great voice.

This was the first Rainbow 🌈 album without Ronnie James Dio & the only one with Graham Bonnet on vocals. Radio friendly & the track All Night Long topped the chart in England. Decent but not as good as their earlier stuff.

まるで、コロシアムⅡみたいなイントロ。この時のメンバーが一番好き。ドン・エイリーが入って音楽性が広がった感じがする。

For me the best track of that album.

Ritchie Blackmore loves cats, so he might not be too upset at being interrupted by a feline. This is probably the best and most epic track Rainbow recorded after Dio's departure. This might have been the best line-up of musicians Rainbow had, and it was a pity it didn't last more than one album. This was the point when Rainbow first achieved commercial success, so Dio leaving the band didn't seem like a big deal at the time. I think the departures of Graham Bonnet and Don Airey from the band were the only ones Blackmore expressed any regret about, and Cozy Powell was a huge loss.

Graham had a hit single called Night Games. It was a cover version, so it would fit nicely into Who did it better.

Don Airey who was on keyboards replaced Jon Lord after his retirement from Deep Purple. He was also with Ozzy for quite a while

Trodding horse ,it’s called the gallup

Three in a row, not for me, incidentally I once saw cosy Powell get out a silver gull-wing Merc in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 happy healthy peace ✌️

I've always enjoyed the DTE album and think Rainbow could have done more with GB had he stayed.

I was gonna launch right into this and realised I just didn’t have the energy to do it justice and I know it’s a fav of Col n Starburst so… sigh.. it’s not for me 🤦‍♂️ 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@colrhodes377

3 ай бұрын

Come on Sir Jay, do your worst! 😂😂😂🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@ghichens3418

3 ай бұрын

Nay Neither Me !!

@Starburst_Candy

3 ай бұрын

Bring it on, lovely Jay 😂

@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering

3 ай бұрын

@@colrhodes377 I seethe with hate for this track Col .. it’s too much mate .. I need an auld guy nap 😴 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering

3 ай бұрын

@@ghichens3418 verily Sir G 👏 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Rainbow was entirely Blackmore's band, because he financed it all he was losing money to the extent that he was in serious trouble and could have been bankrupted, he needed commercial success and asked Dio to consider this and come up with more commercial lyrics, this was not to Dio's taste and eventually this amongst other issues led to the split, I've always liked Down To Earth and it's a shame that Bonnet didn't do more with Rainbow.

@colrhodes377

3 ай бұрын

Not the tale Ritchie tells.. Ritchie just wanted a more commercial sound. Bob Daisley speaks of it in his autobiography. They were making money, but he wanted the income that he was achieving in Deep Purple

@delorangeade

3 ай бұрын

@@colrhodes377 Blackmore's Deep Purple royalties were financing the band over and above any money the record company put into the band, and they weren't selling enough records to cover the costs, so the rest of the band was literally on his payroll. So the band members were getting paid, but Blackmore personally was losing money and the band might have folded without the change of direction. Dio was virtually broke when he left the band, Wendy says he was fired, because his house and car belonged to the band and Rainbow royalties hadn't really started coming through.

@colrhodes377

3 ай бұрын

@@delorangeade Tis true that Dio never received a penny for donkeys years