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In anticipation of the short 3 date Blackmore’s Night stint on US East coast, ProgSheet published an interview with m’lord and m’lady: PS: When you look for musicians to play in Blackmore’s Night, what are you looking for beyond a certain level of musical ability? RB: With most bands, with my history being with Purple […]
Read more »About a month ago Brian May appeared on UK’s Planet Rock radio with an interview. When they asked him to pick his favourite guitar track, his answer was Since You’ve Been Gone. He proceeded showering praise on both Cozy Powell and Ritchie Blackmore: I suppose you’d call it ‘pop rock’ in a sense, but it’s […]
Read more »Last summer Doogie White did this very interesting interview for MetalTalk.net. The bulk of it revolved around his work with two of the great guitar players, who have quite a reputation of being difficult: Ritchie Blackmore and Michael Schenker, and he didn’t have a single bad word to say about either of them. He also […]
Read more »Rainbow’s live album Black Masquerade, recorded in 1995 and released on CD and DVD last year will get the vinyl treatment. Independent label Back on Black has announced that it will release the 3LP album on April 19, 2014 on red vinyl (catalogue number RCV142LP). SIDE A 1. Introduction 2. Spotlight Kid 3. Too Late […]
Read more »A lengthy and rather entertaining interview with Don Airey appears in Metal Shrine: I just realized that you´ve spent a great deal of time in Deep Purple by now. How would you describe these years? Don Airey: Yes, I´m amazed myself. Well, very fruitful and I couldn´t have wished for anything nicer to happen to […]
Read more »A Fender Stratocaster guitar autographed by Blackmore’s Night in Dunfermline, Scotland, is being auctioned for British charity Rockin for Tots help to raise funds for Simpsons Special Care Babies, which is a registered charity (SC002013). These funds will help with the purchase of a travel incubator for the Neo Natal Unit in the New Royal […]
Read more »Another Rainbow video from 1979 Passaic show was uploaded. Man on the Silver Mountain: Thanks to Anastasis Kalymnos for the upload. [Update Jan 16] More footage from the show is available at vk.com.
Read more »Rainbow performing Eyes of the World at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ, on December 1, 1979. The sound is rough around the edges as the mix is still being “finalized”, but the performance is smokin’. (watch inside)
Read more »Cameron Crowe’s official site The Uncool has a reprint of his article in Rolling Stone #184 from 1975, based on an interview he did with Ritchie Blackmore just a couple of days after the first Rainbow single was penned in the studio. Jacksonville, Florida – Ritchie Blackmore’s face fell into a tortured grimace. “Fucking hell,” […]
Read more »Universal/Polydor is set to release a Rainbow Singles Box Set 1975-1986 that will include 19 CD singles spanning these years. CD 1 Man On The Silver Mountain (7″ Edit) 03:57 Snake Charmer 04:28 CD 2 Still I’m Sad 03:53 Temple Of The King 04:43 CD 3 Man On The Silver Mountain (7″ Edit) 03:57 Snake […]
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