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Rainbow’79 releases
We have received more information from Cleo Records regarding upcoming Rainbow live releases from the 1979 tour. As we’ve reported previously, the Denver show will come out on vinyl on May 12. This will be the first of the three releases, followed by the show from Long Island, November 30, 1979, and Chicago, October 12.
The Long Island vinyl release is pencilled in for September. A 3CD box containing all three shows should come out around the same time. Chicago vinyl will appear later on.
These soundboard recordings were widely bootlegged, but Cleo’s releases are the first ones properly licensed from Blackmore. Unfortunately, they could not obtain the master tapes, so the audio is “remastered from the best sources that we could find”.
Thanks to Matt Green for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
So if Blackmore has indeed given his approval, does that mean we might see more officially released Rainbow shows? Atlanta 1978? Boston 1981? Cardiff 1983?
May 1st, 2015 at 02:08I wonder why the focus on the Bonnet era? What about Atlanta 1978, Boston 1981, Cardiff 1983, Tokyo 1984?
May 1st, 2015 at 02:16Fantastic! Maybe this leads to more hopefully. London ’81 is another one.
May 1st, 2015 at 03:51Awesome, i’m glad they’re coming out on CD too, i’d prefer them rather than on Vinyl !
May 1st, 2015 at 09:26Awesome now I can get them on CD instead of Vinyl! yay
May 1st, 2015 at 09:35Great that some Bonnet era Rainbow shows will see the official light of day.
A pity that the masters are lost.
The 1979 bootlegs show how great they were between Dio and Turner. Great line up!
May 1st, 2015 at 10:07Don’t care much about the era as long as TMIB is on his game during solos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2015 at 13:06I Pre-Ordered the vinyl from Amazon but this “remastered from the best sources that we could find” statement leaves me a bit concerned since I have never heard any of these bootlegs. Does anyone know if a particular show stands out, either good or bad? Is Denver the best and so maybe that is the reason for it’s release first? I may want to now wait for the 3-CD pack because I will not be able to get them all on vinyl, especially if the “penciled in” and future release dates do not happen for some reason.
May 1st, 2015 at 14:28I’m glad I still have a record player!
May 4th, 2015 at 12:08yessss,at last.Does anybody knows about the list?
May 5th, 2015 at 01:10How’s Ritchie’s tone on this? I must say, I thought his live tone was really trebley at this time and it really put me off the live stuff from this era…
May 5th, 2015 at 09:33Looks like the Graham Bonnet era and why not, it will be interesting to see the eventual track listing when the time comes, a 3 disc box set does sound good, as suggested above i am sure they will get a good remaster/remix, with the
May 5th, 2015 at 14:04recent Rainbow box set i am sure there will be more on the horizon.
the boots have been around for ages and since internet came around you dont have an excuse anymore saying not knowing the stuff
May 7th, 2015 at 21:18http://vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.nl/2012/04/rainbow-down-to-frontier-chicago-denver.html
May 7th, 2015 at 21:24https://bdeeppurplefanforum.runboard.com/t16234
May 7th, 2015 at 21:25http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/rainbow-down-to-frontier-darker-than-blue-sbd-flac-151490.html
May 7th, 2015 at 21:28Its about time these recordings are now being officially released though I would much prefer them individually released rather than a ( expensive ) box set. Still sceptical about the actual sound quality and for some reason the band played a somewhat shorter set during this period
May 8th, 2015 at 09:13Hey Rock, as a reason and not an excuse, I don’t have the net at home (and I still have a flip phone so you know what era I still live in) and so I have to post at the library or at work when nobody is paying attention and so I can’t listen to everything on the net but it sounds like you could answer my question above:
“Does anyone know if a particular show stands out, either good or bad? Is Denver the best and so maybe that is the reason for it’s release first?”
Thank You for Your Support.
May 8th, 2015 at 16:24Looks like my post regarding exactly what Rock V. has said above has not been posted..?
May 8th, 2015 at 18:33Just out of interest were recordings made of the Stafford show in 1983? I was at the show and it was a great night. I wish there had been many more of them.
May 9th, 2015 at 18:04Nicola @20
I was at Stafford Sept 1983 as well as I did all 13 UK shows that year. It was indeed a great show but I doubt there are any recordings of it. Out of interest it was the first of only 3 nights that tour when Ritchie smashed his guitar. A great gig to be at as it was one of the highlights of the tour.
May 11th, 2015 at 15:44Btw, before someone jumps at me………..
These are boots which will give you an impression of what the band was like certain evenings .
I expect the official releases to be something else, beefed up, improved, and so on…
Long live rock and roll !
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May 22nd, 2015 at 02:48