Cheers

Good comment. You´re right, of course.

I too prefer Dio, but as you said, all the others had their moments.
Obviously in the studio, but also live. In JLT´s case, the live takes of All night long and Stranded on the Can´t let you go 12″ single is a very good example, i think.

Above, i was more thinking of the between song “talking”… That can be a bit much, i think…
And Airey and Rondinelli as soloists is, i guess, just not for me. But as backnig musicians to RB, they are just fine.
Having said that, i have a lot, hundreds, of bootlegs. And, the only reason i have those, is the presence of Ritchie Blackmore. He´s the only reason that i can think of, to make it worthwhile to listen to 10, 15, 20 concerts from the same tour.
For instance, i completely gave up on DP soon after he left. When he was in the band i usually followed them around for a bit during every tour, tried to see as many gigs as i could afford. That soon stopped, and since Jon left, i haven´t seen them at all.

Still, things like this still turn up, which is a good enough reason for me to hang around here from time to time.

All the best

Well after all is said and done……
There will be plenty old gems to discover and to enjoy and enjoy and enjoy…….

Although Dio is my favourite Rainbow singer, I can really appreciate the others as well

Good memories of those shows with JLT in the early 80 s

I have to say, tho´, Ctrainbow on this really is amazing, guitarwise! Really great for me to hear. I´ll come back to this one for sure!

Most of these versions are different to the “Electrified” 2LP album. (I once owned the original radio promo album of this as well, and that was identical to “Electrified”, incl Coke jingles!)

As far as i can tell, only Skid and Isurrender is the same as the original boot. All the rest is “new” versions. (I can´t bring myself to listen to llrnroll, if there is someone who is interrested in that one, sorry, but i refuse to hear Turner again on this one. Refuse!)

There are some parts here worth listening to, guitarwise, but the original boot versions are for the most part better i think. That version of Love´s no friend is still the best one i´ve heard!
Still, some new Blackmore solos to be happy about!

It was completely the other way around with the crwod actually thinning out after Rainbow! Pat Travers was an anti-climax.

Wait and the rest will follow

Ritchie could piss on his guitar strings and fry his wanker from the backfeed, and Priest would think it was divine creativity……hey, but as long as he’s happy……he he he

Cheers

“I tell them what we’re going to play, and the set list consists of that” RB-1987

@18

Can’t be so bad, listening to ‘ST’ from ‘IC’ is about as good as it gets, Ritchie’s use of sustain in his solo on that is masterful, it does not get better!

But I now what it’s like to hear something thats new to you, especially when it’s Ritchie… so thats why it’s obvious this makes you happy, which I have to say I’m glad to hear.

Cheers

I also felt the versions were different

Never a dull show with Ritchie!!!

I´ve had the “Electrified” boot for…godnows how many years, one of my favorites. And, this is not the same version of “Love´s no friend” as on that album. That must have been the first night´s take of it, this is probably second night I´ve never heard this verion before, must listen to it again, as well as the rest, to see if that´s different too. Great to hear a “new” version, i think!

All the best to you all!

Time to pop a top…I’m off. Downing an Arrogant Bastard Ale while listening to Down to Earth…..ahhhhh yessssss….Retirement is good.

Cheers

Maybe it had something to do they did a show in the States?
On my Rotterdam bootleg there is much less ADHD talk in between the songs.

Rondinelli also has great wit, I noticed during a drum clinic near Amsterdam a few years ago.
I could not stop laughing.
And that says a lot, hehehe
Met him there and after a Lizards show
Both times he was very friendly
Dunno why lots of people think he s an arrogant bastard.
Must be his Italian Maffia staring eyes….

So…..’SHUT UP and SING’!!!!!

Cheers

If Over The Rainbow are only a tenth as good as this, that would make them one of the very top bands in the world, regardless of whether they are a ‘tribute’ act or not.

@6
Jacko and Prince are straight guys. not stereotypically masculine but very much into their ‘thing’, they have that ‘energy’ and drive that distinguishes them.

Gays don’t have this kind of energy, their tastes and appearance tends to be generic, stereotypical, shallow, cynical - a rip off of the real thing (i.e. a straight guy). Many women unfortunately also share these traits.

We could probably could be like them, and still be a straight guy, but I don’t think it would be very much fun.

Woflgang’s Vault:
Recommended, but only to the non tech savvy, and I’m not sure where the copyright fee goes, they say to the artists, oh really? In Rainbow’s case, who would that be?

Just because I had to be critical
Critical towards sound issues and the financial side of my , ahem, ever extending enthusiasm for not only non DP relates music , DP and family stuff, subjects outside music.

I ve heard of certain titles but somehow I could not get myself to pay all those prices

Not living in a circle of great fans also did not help.
I started this zealotry in 1977 and around me it was not done to live in the past, hey does that not sound familiair, because fashions had to be followed
So when I wanted to borrow albums by the wanted classics I had to rely on people much older than me.

But even those people did not collect loads of bootlegs, so…..

Experience with very bad recorded stuff did not help either.

But I really should have focussed on RADIO SHOWS like this, I think.

Why is this King Biscuit Show never released?!

Wild speculations about the unwillingness of certain parties may follow now.

I often think people follow fashions out of fear being socially cast out.
Espescially women, here anyway, do follow fashions.

Men like women and dont want to get excluded or stay behind and follow as well.
I noticed lots of heavy rockers swith because of this.

One guy literally said…..I am not gay so I ll cut my hair and go to those disco s because the women are THERE!!!
Very funny because DISCO was first very popular in gay circles and still I think high pitched vocals like Michael Jackson and Prince posses, both very popular amongst women, do not sound very masculine to me.

Women are strange!!!

And we are fucked because we have to follow their madness in order to, I again borrow a style of someone ,get some püssy and love…..

People are strange!!!

Well, I chose not to follow fashion and never started smoking, refused to cut my hair and got surprised because it got back in fashion again…..

Ofcourse, it meant some level of isolation had to be endured.

Back to the thread.

For years I have this cd somewhere in my vaults with some tracks from BOSTON 1981 , I forgot the name of the bootkeg but it ended surprsingly with Space Trucking from IN CONCERT!!!!

On this thread there are MORE tracks and sounding very different to my ears.
Still, I wonder…..
Did Rainbow play shorter shows in the USA and skipped tracks like All Night long?
Was THIS the boot called Electrified?

I should have known by now ofcourse.

But held on to my own boot of Rotterdam 81,I still paid lots of Guilders way back to get that.
This boot, darn,….missed out on Love s No Friend deliberately, so I ve been told, recently, cause the man who recorded thought it resembled Mistreated too much
Also he used the SAME TAPE on which he had recorded the 1980 Rotterdam show so had a space problem!!!!