The Contrarians "Reliving Old Reviews..." Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow w/Martin Popoff
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Almost sounds like the reviewer listened to a different album than the rest of the world did. Love the solo on "The Temple of the King". Ritchie's playing was superb as always on the album.
It's kind of funny see your reaction of theese old reviews were Ronnie James Dio is just a hard rock singer with little individual style... wow!
This album was so very good when it came out I still Love this album today
I love watching you react to these old reviews! Keep it up.
Some reviewers like to be snarky and I can imagine the reviewer having a good laugh with his colleagues that he’s ‘got one in’ on a member of Hard Rock Royalty! This practice would carry on with purpose during the Punk/New Wave reset of 1976 in the U.K at least. Craig Gruber plays with certain amount of dare I say Funk? It isn’t too far removed from Deep Purple’s ‘Stormbringer’ in places and inevitably in the Martin Birch’s production department.I will never forget the first time I heard ‘Man On Silver’ with its Phased introduction and Gary Driscoll and Graig Gruber falling in behind to great effect with Ronnie James Dio announcing his arrival into ‘the big league’. I like the tension that the slower tempo brings to the studio version. The Keyboards courtesy of Mickey Lee Soule are understated throughout which suits the vibe of the album. The Clavichord-Harpsichord patterns blending in seamlessly with Ritchie’s playing throughout the album. There is supposed to be Cello (from a ELO player) on 16 Century Greensleeves? If the multi tracks are found and a remix commissioned perhaps we can finally hear it! I have always loved Ritchie’s last guitar notes part as ‘Catch The Rainbow’ fades out. The medieval stylings of ‘Self Portrait’ and ‘Temple Of The King’ are the other high points on Rainbow’s debut album. ‘The Gypsy’ from Stormbringer could have slotted in on Rainbow’s debut and ‘Black Sheep Of The Family’ (whose wobbly tempo and ensemble playing, has always sounded a trifle forced to me) would have been sturdier if the rest of MK3 Deep Purple had agreed to cut the song.
10 out of 10 Album: Six Timeless Classics; Man on The Silver Mountain, Self Portrait, Catch The Rainbow, Snake Charmer, Temple of The King, Sixteenth Century Greensleeves. Two Excellent Covers; Black Sheep of The Family, Still I'm Sad. Even the filler track If You Don't Like Rock n Roll is a memorable tune. Don't pay any attention to those tone deaf meatheads at rolling stone magazine.
I get the reviewer's ontological experience with this record...the good thing about these old reviews is they set the bar really high...
If you don't like Rock and roll is a very standard mediocre song, but Catch The Rainbow and Temple of the King, Ronnie totally delivers with those tracks. On a side note, I just got home from seeing Glenn Hughes wrapping up his Deep Purple Burn tribute tour and my god, I witnessed absolute greatness tonight! How can anybody still be sooo good in there 70s???
I think that reviewer was comparing Ronnie to Roger Daltrey....
I just read the wiki entry for this album, and not only do they quote the rolling stone review, they also quote Mr Popoff, and it seems he hates this album.
I'd currently give it about a 6. It would rank above Stranger in Us All, but that is probably it.
@@MartinPopoff For me, I worked backwards through time from Holy Diver, through Heaven and Hell and then onto Rainbow, so by the time I got to the Rainbow debut, not only was my mind blown multiple times over but Dio was firmly in place as a vocal god and everything just gets a 10....And, It has Man on Silver Mountain on it, so its an 11.
I don't think Rolling Stone ever had much good to say about Ritchie, there may have been some animosity there. Even so, this is an understated album compared with what followed. Elf were a competent but going nowhere band, and I think it's fair to say there's nothing particularly special about Ronnie's performance on this album. With hindsight, we can listen and hear the things we love about his voice, but I don't think they would have been so evident to someone hearing him for the first time in 1975. What mattered more was that his personality and writing fit in with what Richie wanted to achieve.
It's a great Elf album with guest star Ritchie Blackmore.
No, it's not fair to say that there's nothing spectacular in Ronnie's performance. By this time, he already had his technique fully worked out. Everything is already showcased here, from the soft emotional nuances all the way to the heavy, powerful roar with a stamina few other hard/heavy rock singers possessed at the time. It would be fair to say that a song like "If You Don't Like Rock'n Roll" is pretty standard, though. And I do think that there's already plenty of stuff here giving a glimpse of what's ahead. The only thing holding back Blackmore's vision is the musicians who are not able to go full-on heavy. They're a bit too laid back and rootsy, kind of old-fashioned with their style. I think it's a very good transition album from Purple to the future glories, though.
I do agree with Billy's assessment of the rhythm section of the band being rather ho-hum, but man, oh man! Considering RJD subservient, calling Machine Head an accident and by default calling Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow one, and the passive put-down of Ritchie's guitar playing all amounts to a pretty outrageous view in my opinion. There is some datedness and ugliness to some of the songs but general charm and majesty to most of the album in my opinion, because of the songs and the songwriting and because of Ronnie and Ritchie. And personally, I'd probably take this debut over just about all of the Deep Purple albums up to this point, maybe except for In Rock and that's even debatable.