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If a tree falls in a forest…
A philosophical question: is it still a tribute album when you have six former members of the band on it?
The album in question is Ride The Rainbow, it is a tribute to you-know-what, and features Bob Daisley, Graham Bonnet, Don Airey, Joe Lynn Turner, Doogie White and Ronnie Romero, among other people. Those other people also include Candice Night, Steve Morse, both Appice brothers, Joel Hoekstra, Derek Sherinian, Simon Wright, etc, etc.
Track listing:
- Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll — Bob Daisley, Graham Bonnet, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, Carmine Appice, Don Airey
- Man On The Silver Mountain — Sebastian Bach, Doug Aldrich, Bob Daisley, Carmine Appice, Mick Box, Jonathan Cain
- Stargazer – Derek Sherinian, Marty Friedman, Vinny Appice, Jürgen Engler, Joe Bouchard, Ronnie Romero
- Lady Of The Lake — ANGEL
- Rainbow Eyes — Mike Tramp
- Since You Been Gone — Marty Friedman, Vinny Appice, Graham Bonnet, Jürgen Engler
- Kill The King — Rick Wakeman, Bob Daisley, Vinnie Moore, Marc Lopes, Chris Adler
- The Temple Of The King — Steve Morse, Phil Soussan, Ronnie Romero, Simon Wright, Jonathan Cain, Kevin James Morse
- Jealous Lover — George Lynch, Vinny Appice, Andrew Freeman, David Ellefson, Jonathan Cain
- I Surrender — Eric Gales, Tim “Ripper” Owens, Phil Soussan, Don Airey, Chris Adler
- Catch The Rainbow — Doogie White, Derek Sherinian, Chris Poland, Vinny Appice, Bob Daisley
- Street Of Dreams — Paul Shortino, Joel Hoekstra, Joe Bouchard, Fred Aching, Jonathan Cain
- Stone Cold — Vivian Campbell, Joe Lynn Turner
- I Surrender — Marcus Nand, Candice Night
The album is due out on June 19, 2026, and can be obtained via Bandcamp.
[Update 2026-04-23]: sample track from the album has been released, and Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll it is:
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Steve Morse with Ronnie Romero and Jonathan Cain on “Temple of the King” + Phil Soussan (Last in Line bassist) + Simon Wright (Dio’s longtime drummer and with AC/DC in the 80’s)
My Goodness, what a line up
My wish that I would hear someone else singing Stargazer for different experience, since we already have heard Ronnie Romero sang it before.
April 19th, 2026 at 01:36Which AI prompt was used to create this incredibly stupid and disgusting cover?
April 19th, 2026 at 06:45Add Candice and 7 ex RAINBOW members??? Will no doubt purchase it…Cheers PJ
April 19th, 2026 at 07:43Oh, this looks promising, the guitarists mentioned all seem to be less rusty than the guy Rainbow toured with on lead guitar in 2016!
“Uwe, your loose lip will one day get you into real trouble!” 🤐
April 19th, 2026 at 10:09My money is on some Spanish film student, Andreas! 😂
https://gfx.videobuster.de/archive/v/clvK5rh2Fh6TyfS18X29bOgcz0lMkawMDklMkYwNyUyRmltYZklMkZqcGVnJTJG_2Vl5c2L6DdhNmJhZGIwYeE1ZGRmMmE1ZGQuanBnJnI9aKYwMA/die-nacht-der-reitenden-leichen-szenenbild.jpg
April 19th, 2026 at 14:36I can’t believe they’re releasing this also as a cassette …
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ZZQdPdNlL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65_.jpg
Now where’s the 8-track? 🤣
https://i.discogs.com/IO2ZOjD8e56-6-S2V32G3FogqUk6-U9nnpLaoGEaOWI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzOTMw/NjUyLTE1NjQzMjA2/NDYtMTYzMS5qcGVn.jpeg
April 19th, 2026 at 16:55Is that Blackmore’s Knight on the cover?
April 19th, 2026 at 17:20Another idiotic comment by Uwe. Blackmore kicked arse in 2016.
April 19th, 2026 at 17:39@3
April 19th, 2026 at 22:35“Give me a skeleton for a Rainbow tribute album cover”
Thus delivered 🙂
All is released before i have not new material
April 20th, 2026 at 11:59James, devout faith is the opposite of clear vision!
I’m faithless, I’ll accept that.
April 20th, 2026 at 12:42@8 Blackmore kicked a….in 2016?
Must’ve been a secret show then. Sure not the one I attended.
So sad they didn’t tape that instead of the ones they released.
April 20th, 2026 at 15:21Will ve to await the results but……
Why on earth another SYBG version with dear Graham?!
Looking forward to hear Carmine, Bob Daisley, JLT, 3/4 of MOTHERS ARMY, GB doing a studioversion of LLRR.
Wow, Mick Box doing MPTSM, thought he was dead.
Will I SURRENDER become another lullaby?
Andrew Freeman maybe one of the not so many singers I can stand doing DIO songs.
Shortino, Liked his contribution for HEAR N AID, wow, such a long time ago.
Is the cover saying a fuck you to IRON MAIDENs giant fellow traveller or wtf?
Anything in these twilight hours is absorbed by us with great appetite but imho the choice of songs……Mmmmhhhhh
Did I already say I never got used to Romero?
ANGEL, THE ANGEL of Winter Song? Surprising.
Wtf is Bobby Rondinelli?
Whats Airey going to do in LLR?
April 20th, 2026 at 18:03IT’S CHRRRISSSMASSS !!!
https://youtu.be/fb94sdt7xVw
As I have no reputation to speak of that warrants being saved here, may I divulge that I really liked ANGEL, their music AND image, back in 1977? 😂
Like Prometheus’ prolonged mountaineering stay (basically for arson and general IP theft) at the behest of Zeus (we’re getting all Greek again), poor ole Graham will forever be chained to SYBG.
https://youtu.be/p0F9MjnrokQ
https://youtu.be/NV0W9GcFC3s
https://youtu.be/3Gwk6mb3VtA
It was actually Doogie White who said in a 90s interview that “Doing Graham’s stuff is really impossible, Joe (Lynn Turner) agrees on that too, it just kills your throat.”
The song has been presented with shapelier butts and nicer Farrah Fawcett hairdos, true,
https://youtu.be/JJ_1vRmvOrQ
(The guitar you’re hearing is Steve Lukather.)
but never with a better/more suitable voice than Graham’s. I wonder if the featured Marty Friedman version is actually this one here from a few years ago:
https://youtu.be/t1C2S9AVaMU
April 20th, 2026 at 20:42Sounds like there’s not much on here that’s unheard of. Mike Tramp might be interesting. Marty Friedmans work I’m looking forward to as well and somehow that Lynch Mob Jealous Lover I imagine quite entertaining. Maybe Sebastain Bach as well… The rest is too familiar.
April 21st, 2026 at 07:59@15
If Mike Tramp is the guy I am thinking of (born in Denmark… living elsewhere) then I will like for you to watch him as a very young man, winning the Danish edition of the European song contest – but I have to warn you ☺️
https://youtu.be/c1beyeUnM14?is=XFGerQyR9Ul3wA-4
Oh, it was a more innocent time. And yes it is Mike Tramp who is the primary vocalist 😊
April 21st, 2026 at 08:24They ended as number 16 out of 20 contestants!
Interesting, Steve is out of Purple but he plays one of Ritchie’s songs yet again!
April 21st, 2026 at 12:01OMG – that IS Mike Tramp crossdressing as a blond David Cassidy! 🤣 Great find, Karin!!
April 21st, 2026 at 23:08It’s funny that in the 90s tribute bands were played by 30-year-old musicians, while now the musicians are at least 60 years old, if not even over 70!
April 21st, 2026 at 23:08@18
Well Uwe, it was in 1978 they sang Boom Boom, and thankfully I had Purple as my go to tranquilliser 😃
All the girls in my school were in love with him! Go figure 🙄😄
Mike Tramp is more relevant these days!
April 22nd, 2026 at 13:01@20 – So you were into Deep Purple at 10/11 years of age Karin. Am I misunderstanding your comment? Come on, who was your ‘heart throb’ back then? We all need to know, he he he. Cheers.
April 23rd, 2026 at 22:24So far ‘found’ double coloured vinyl additions (RED/YELLOW & VIOLET) Long Live Rock!! – cheers PJ PS ?19th June release…
April 24th, 2026 at 08:31Right on, Herr MacGregor, my guess is that Karin was a Patridge Family girl! Let’s not be fooled …
https://youtu.be/spii-yh2v34
https://youtu.be/CZClBsDpp-4?is=ACSXbxHabAMyArN8
https://youtu.be/EW4E0jAeAf8
April 24th, 2026 at 10:31@21
MacGregor, it was a boy in school, who turned me down…
No stars like that 😊
April 24th, 2026 at 12:37@8 If Blackmore kicked arse he was wearing slippers so it didn’t hurt. The rest of the band (Ronnie excepted) couldn’t kick the skin off a rice pudding.
April 24th, 2026 at 13:16@24
Uwe, didn’t know about the Partridge family….
No I saw Soap 😄
https://youtu.be/7wXuWwFru_w?is=LX-ZZyCaIwzDL4XR
Had a little crush on Danny:
https://youtu.be/taMV2M3KYjw?is=SXVo_QOjjFau0T32
The humour, crazy and completely unexpected, right up my alley 😁
https://youtu.be/FitmxaxNr7c?is=Bl13eTPFYmj7m4jz
AND of course this duo:
https://youtu.be/uKhukE8XF1E?is=kRF3VVTNVcAAa0Lv
Und Sesamstraße, in German, because we lived where we could watch all the German channels, and Denmark had only 1 channel.
https://youtu.be/2wk2Q3emUq8?is=lPnJ-Wp1Ot-6oKAo
What did you watch as a kid Uwe? ☺️
April 24th, 2026 at 23:45What did I watch as a kid? Old horror films!
https://youtu.be/1i6xNScZRP4
https://youtu.be/BN8K-4osNb0
https://youtu.be/vJVXTKkjsxA
https://youtu.be/Wz719b9QUqY
My parents were both so down to earth and un-occult, they could not fathom that any of ”this silly nonsense” could have a harmful effect on me. Of course they were wrong. 😂
But I watched regular series too – with glee:
https://youtu.be/80Bp4N1PCcI
https://youtu.be/SU7bAEDJplI
https://youtu.be/SW6Lw2G17u4
https://youtu.be/MepSuji05dM
https://youtu.be/uOLGrXOtuwQ
https://youtu.be/mDowitqL1Rc
https://youtu.be/z5CHUxn9kCo (Indian elephants and tigers in Africa – yeah sure!)
During adolescence, my preferred series was this: 😂
https://youtu.be/Eri_0OgkaZM
And I must have seen this film about 20 times or likely more during my youth, I was obsessed with it:
https://youtu.be/T54uZPI4Z8A
April 25th, 2026 at 23:19Please stop bashing Ritchie B’s Rainbow (reformed (2016- 2019)) gigs! I for one got enormous pleasure seeing them: Birmingham Genting Arena June 2016, London 02 June 2017, Berlin Velodrom April 2018 & Munich Olympiahalle June 2019? Got 4 tour hoodies and countless tour t-shirts…Cheers PJ
April 26th, 2026 at 09:13Hello.
What´s the point in these? Do we really need another hastily compiled tribute cd..?
The list of the musicians involved is of course quite impressive this time (Wakeman, Daisley and Aldrich for example), but this first taste…
Am I the only one who is surprisingly disappointed in not only the drum part played, but the actual sounds of the drum set? I mean, it´s the elder Mr. Appice himself playing after all! The fills are so clumsy!
Same with Bonnet´s vocals. The energy doesn´t last long enough. Who is the producer responsible for this..?
I´m not putting down these gentlemen mentioned by any means. Have met both. And I really respect them. Maybe I´m just getting older (…and the songs I´ve sung..)
Of the title of the project…quoting the lyrics of “Stormbringer”. You knew that, I know. : )
Now I really need my coffee.
Kippis.
April 26th, 2026 at 09:57@27
Ohhh my 😂
The old ‘it was my parent’s fault’ routine doesn’t work with me!
13 links…..
well, thank you I guess!
I enjoyed a lot of those links, but I was forced to see ‘A Clockwork Orange’ in school, gymnasium, and no I did not like it.
To me it has the same effect as ‘the Wall’ has 🥺😞
So you never saw 007?
Or westerns?
Well, to quote Hiza @29 – now I really need my coffee 😃
April 26th, 2026 at 12:59Richard, I saw Reunionbow four times: Lorelei (awful), Bissingen (slightly better), Glasgow (approaching decent, but pedestrian) and the Berlin one you saw too (not as good as Glasgow). (I also had a ticket for the Munich gig you saw but gave it away to an IT employee of our firm whom I always liked and who was undergoing cancer treatment at the time and had been a Rainbow fan too.) But I also have the experience of two Dio era Rainbow gigs, one Bonnet era, two Turner era and two White era to compare – let‘s just say there is none, comparison I mean. Vintage Rainbow in the 70s, 80s and 90s were always tightly rehearsed and featured able players with an understanding/feel for hard rock, something Reunionbow never were and never did.
Reunionbow apologetics always bring up the argument how Ritchie was seventy years old etc – that might account for some loss of fluidity and speed with him (which wouldn’t have bothered me), but it’s no excuse for being underrehearsed, lackadaisical in intensity and surrounding oneself with musicians lacking hard rock experience and feel. I’ve been to countless Judas Priest gigs and could witness in the past how Glenn Tipton’s tragic Parkinson’s Disease debilitated his once amazing playing skills cruelly over time to a point where on the last full tour he did with them before retiring, new boy Richie Faulkner played many of Glenn’s more technical solos. But one thing Judas Priest were never: underrehearsed or lacking intensity (same applies to Status Quo over the decades by the way). And JP bassist Ian Hill (a Roger Glover fan) has more heavy metal authority in one stroke of his pick than all of Ritchie’s Reunionbow hired hands had put together over the course of a full set.
I’ve said it before: A young Ritchie Blackmore from the 70s would have been scathing in his judgement on the Reunionbow performances and dismembered every single aspect. His aging was never the issue for me, but pretty much everything else was. Ritchie had the money to assemble top notch players around him and enough time to rehearse with them properly. Where he met difficulty with his agility playing certain parts, he could have hired a young Blackmore clone to play these for him, I wouldn’t have said a word about that. No one has ever accused Eric Clapton of being a lesser guitarist by having people like Albert Lee, Mark Knopfler, Andy Fairweather Low or Derek Trucks play guitar with him on stage.
April 26th, 2026 at 15:22Hiza, the majority of those Cleopatra Records releases are of dodgy nature and of course the various participants never actually meet and record together in a studio but (electronic) mail-in their contributions. But with Purple fans being what they are (I’m counting myself in!), there is a commercial incentive for this stuff. It doesn’t write musical history though.
April 26th, 2026 at 15:37Agree with Hiza, this sounds terrible and I only clicked on it because I was bored to tears and then I became even more bored to tears and got the hell out of there after about 30 seconds. These so called ‘tributes’ are a dime a dozen gimmicks. Send a musician with a big name a sound file, they then rattle off something after hitting play and record and then they send it back. Then someone asks AI if it can do some sort of ‘production’ on it and bingo, there we have it. Oh, I almost forgot the ‘art work’, meaning the cover. AI again. I am so glad AI has rescued us all from the depths of despair. Such a wonderful thing. Cheers.
April 26th, 2026 at 22:45@ 31- all Richard said was that he enjoyed the Rainbow concerts and he asked certain people to stop bagging it. Nothing wrong with that, he is entitled to his comments, just like the rest of us are. Regarding your repeatedly totally over the top criticism Uwe, call me a Rainbow reunion apologist all you like. I am a realist, not trying to make excuses for Ritchie’s attitude and most fans are well aware of his attitude at times. Were you expecting after knowing who the other musicians were, a full on hard rock extravaganza? The other musicians were named before tickets went on sale I presume. Why did you buy tickets Uwe. If the other musicians were not named, I can understand you being disappointed when you attended the gigs, especially after the first one. Comparing a slapped together band with constantly touring and recording bands is ridiculous indeed. Judas Priest and Status Quo were just that. Sure Blackmore could or should have been more full on about it, but we all have a feeling that Ritchie wasn’t THAT into the whole thing at all. Regarding Eric Clapton, since the 1970’s Eric has always had a support or rhythm or additional guitarist in his touring band. Again, another out of touch statement from you. Thankfully with the Cream reunion he obviously didn’t have another guitarist and he never would. Now there is a slapped together band that was much more serious than Rainbow. But then again the three experienced and knowledgable musicians in Cream were all involved in that being a serious reunion. Not just one musician who couldn’t give two hoots and only felt like he was going through the motions for the heck of it. Plus Ritchie doesn’t perform live with another guitarist in a rock band setting. There you go, some reality for you. Cheers.
April 27th, 2026 at 09:55Herr MacGregor, can we at least agree that Ritchie‘s approach to the whole Reunionbo(w)nanza did not meet his own past criteria of professionalism? I‘ve been to a dozen or more BN gigs, not once did I see him as underrehearsed or equipped with musicians obviously not fit for the bill. I have doubts whether he would have ever seriously entertained the idea of asking Cozy Powell to play in BN, don‘t you?! But the other way around seemed to be ok.
Your argument, “Why did you even go, knowing you‘d be disappointed?“, I can counter with: Because I‘m not a fair weather DP Family enthusiast and never have been, I go where the band takes me. Also, given Ritchie‘s past track record in professionalism and intensity, I deemed an artistic nadir like the Reunionbow mess unthinkable prior to it having taken place. I saw my belief in Ritchie dismantled as I watched – maybe I‘ve been to too many good Rainbow gigs …
Lastly, if I had not gone, wouldn‘t I hear from you now that I complain about the quality of gigs I never even saw? 😤
April 27th, 2026 at 12:37Yup, just like The Wall, A Clockwork Orange is a cynical book/movie with a not so nice Menschenbild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThwrAUyBPN4
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“but we all have a feeling that Ritchie wasn’t THAT into the whole thing at all”
Do or do not, there is no try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rkdYSRoqRM
April 27th, 2026 at 15:34Not at all Uwe. It would not worry me if you went to the concert or not! How many concerts have I declined simply because of the line-up and who is in the band. I place a fair bit of importance on certain musicians being in a band and the spirit and feel of the band being up to par before I will purchase a ticket. Anyway it is water under the bridge as we have said many times. People grow older and we have discussed this before too, people change even if not older, personalities differ. Of course Ritchie is not the same with his musical attitude as he was in his younger days, in certain aspects. This is possibly where the issue with Ritchie seemed to take hold. He was sort of up for it initially, however as it unfolded more and more, he backed away from it, mentally speaking. Well that is my take on it but what would I know about Ritchie’s thoughts on such matters. Cheers.
April 28th, 2026 at 05:50@26:
April 28th, 2026 at 08:55Karin, spot on my favourite TV series in my childhood / youth as well!
I remember the hard fight with my parents that I was allowed to stay up until The Persuaders (in German named “Die Zwei”) were shown. My sister (8 years older than me) always helped me :-). We recorded some of the episodes on an old reel-to-reel audio, including the 100 Hz bruuummmm as background. Still, I was the star in my primary school class as my classmates then came to visit me so that we could listen to these episodes until we knew them by heart.
Soap was several years later; it aired on Monday night in the regional third programs (Germany was not so much better than Denmark; we had tow country-wide programs and a regional third program until early / mid 80s when cable TV started). Each Tuesday it was THE topic in school what was going on in the episode the night before. Benson was everybody’s star (“Do you think I’m your Benson?” each time somebody wanted you to do something) along with Burt and his “I’m invisible now” trick.
@38
Oh Christof nice to know you also enjoyed these fine series 😃
My mum and dad didn’t think twice about letting me see ‘Die Zwei’ – in Danish: De Uheldige Helte (the unfortunate heroes) and I might have been either pretty stupid or pretty hardcore, because I was never troubled by that.
But so nice for you that you could entertain your friends 😄
Yes Soap had many a nice character!
Corinne was the one I looked up to, she was sooooo pretty. And I remember I begged my mum letting my hair dye dark, because I was very blond, but she said no.
Benson was so wonderfully sarcastic 😄
One movie I remember scared the living daylight out of me, was a movie on one of the German channels.
It was about a man who had some guardian angels (white persons) and some demons (black people) and they fought to help him/hurt him.
Woah I couldn’t sleep for a long time after that.
Also at a German channel was this thriller where a man hang this beautiful woman on a meat hook 😱
Later on I worked at this butcher firm in the office, but every day I had to go to the slaughter chain, and every time I saw those hooks, I felt a little sick…
Well, I survived 😁
April 28th, 2026 at 11:39How could I have not mentioned this here:
https://youtu.be/3kbhixTO34Y
April 28th, 2026 at 12:17@39 – “Later on I worked at this butcher firm in the office, but every day I had to go to the slaughter chain, and every time I saw those hooks, I felt a little sick…” obviously you changed jobs then Karin. That experience would be enough to become a vegetarian. Although, you would still have to acquire meat for that other ravenous meat devourer in your house. Anton I mean, he he he, not your other half. Speaking of your other half, René, is he still around? All we ever hear about is yourself and Anton. Sounds like some of those ghastly horror movies doesn’t it. The hubby ‘disappears’, no on realises. Until it’s too late……………..Cheers.
April 29th, 2026 at 00:31@41
Ohhh 🤣
MacGregor, you make me laugh on a daily basis!
Yes, my darling husband is very much around and is alive and kicking.
But the reason I don’t mention him that often is that I noticed that no one in here mentions their significant other, and René asked me to stop mentioning him, since he is a very private person.
Ups, please then unread what I just wrote! 🤭
But I am still a very happily married woman.
And unless he bugs me big time, and I then let him sleep with the fishes, I will continue being married to him 🤣
Yeah, I am actually almost vegan. Not religiously practiced, if we’re invited to dinner I behave and eat what is served but at home I prefer vegetables and bread (rye) etc.
April 29th, 2026 at 11:14Anton however, he is eating meat and he is a very happy dog 😊
Poor René had to move out when that IGB box set moved in. 🤣
April 29th, 2026 at 13:17Speaking of your other half, René, is he still around? All we ever hear about is yourself and Anton. Sounds like some of those ghastly horror movies doesn’t it. The hubby ‘disappears’, no one realises. Until it’s too late …
Herr MacGregor, surely you are not insinuating something here? 😱😱😱😱
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/russian-woman-accused-of-feeding-her-husband-to-the-family-dog
Karin & the Meat Hooks sounds like a good indie band name, it also instills these wonderful images of the female Cenobite from the HELLRAISER franchise in me … we have such wondrous sights to show you …
https://i.gifer.com/AOVF.gif
Did I ever tell you how I watched – unsupervised – a lot of horror movies as a kid?! 😇
April 29th, 2026 at 15:56@ 43 – Ha ha ha, indeed Uwe. And here I was being worried about Anton’s reaction when the IGB box set turned up. I have to ask Karin if Anton is a stick chasing doggie. Fetch the stick and return it, you know the one. If so, be incredibly careful Uwe in sending that drumstick up there. Usually doggies end up chewing the stick to bits and pieces. Cheers.
April 29th, 2026 at 23:31@43 & 44
Uwe you’re completely right, he’s seeking shelter at other people’s houses if I listen to IGB without my earphones.
Please remember he likes Metallica, Thin Lizzy and the likes of that, and even though in my head it sounds pretty similar to IGB (I mean: bad!) it’s pretty far fetched for me to anticipate he will ever like IGB.
With me, however, IGB grows on me 😇 (have you bought the stamps ☺️)
You watching all those horror movies as a kid can explain a lot, a lot!
Uwe for me you’ll always be the guy who put the fun in funerals 😁
Tell me if you ever will need some trauma releasing light therapy 😃
Let’s end this very informative and not at all disturbing talk with some lovely music from our very well playing heroes:
April 30th, 2026 at 04:59https://youtu.be/jNSmzqq_vSU?is=wnN3hIdSQ5etNNzi
@45
MacGregor “funny”story:
When Anton was a puppy he loved more than anything else to bite in sticks.
One day I had a friend over and we were in the garden with Anton.
Anton excelled in biting a very big stick. My friend asked me: ‘isn’t that dangerous for your little dog?’
‘Oh no’, I answered him, because he always spits everything out, never swallowing it’ – and I tell you MacGregor it did not take more than 10 seconds after I said that before Anton threw all the splinters up 🫣
I was so afraid something had been stuck in his little stomach or throat, so I checked him thoroughly, but he was alright.
After that I taught him to chase balls instead, so now all sticks are relatively secured 😄
But I can assure you, and Uwe of course, that if I ever get the drumstick, I will keep it in my fireproof safe, and only exercise the Mick Tucker tricks when I’m alone 😁
April 30th, 2026 at 10:01That drum stick just edged its way forward to Ellund/Padborg, Nordländerin!
April 30th, 2026 at 11:03Karin have you heard IGB Live in Budokan? It’s rather good in comparing to the studio albums.
(I just gave it a listen recently)
janbl
April 30th, 2026 at 12:06@48
Dear Uwe ❣️
I’m happy to tell you that I now count three songs from Ian Gillan Band among my favourites!
This:
https://youtu.be/266BLUY1hjQ?is=WBpzjMLPLbQc0vsN
This:
https://youtu.be/_D0QCzhbMZs?is=WRFX__jazZhB7mtZ
And this:
https://youtu.be/eAFDLtDguPA?is=eigqfbcRT92m20VZ
His voice is really something else here!
April 30th, 2026 at 18:33I am not exaggerating at all, I really enjoy listening to these three songs.
Now I just have to find two more…..
(Piece of cake ☺️)
@49
Well Jan, I got the boxset and I’m working my way through it, slowly but steadily 😊
I haven’t reached the live album yet, but I am beginning to look forward to it 😊
April 30th, 2026 at 18:35Don’t overtax her, janbl!!! Seduction requires patience.
Live At The Budokan (Parts I and II) is musically and sonically a spectacular live album. IGB played their complex music with real panache. And the new remaster makes it sound even better. Ian’s vocal performance is ace too.
April 30th, 2026 at 19:12To the wife of the one who cannot be named here: You’re progressing nicely!
At this rate, the drum stick will soon be relinquished by the reigning evil forces …
https://preview.redd.it/if-you-were-voldemort-what-would-you-have-done-differently-v0-7z1dyq2ghgla1.jpg?auto=webp&s=52eeed0197a503145d10f4bcff8959ddd437edf1
May 2nd, 2026 at 15:18@53
Oh Uwe, he just don’t want me to babble about him in here, but I don’t think my hair will caught on fire should anyone mention his name 😁
“the reigning evil forces” – you?
May 3rd, 2026 at 05:29What is really interesting to listen to on the IGB box set are the backing tracks of the various Scarabus tracks BEFORE Ian recorded his vocals. One marvels at his creativity in coming up with those against the background of that already busy instrumental music. His vocal lines are really unexpected and avoiding the obvious.
May 3rd, 2026 at 11:52@55- I haven’t listened to those backing tracks as yet. I stepped back from ‘all things Gillan’ after listening to the three studio albums and one of the live performances. The song that John Gustafson sings I enjoyed in the aspect of a different vocal take. From the Hiroshima 1977 concert. It is rough, but ready, if you know what I mean. Ray Fenwick’s guitar on some of the live tracks is off the planet, wonderful to hear him going off. Cheers.
May 3rd, 2026 at 23:04Having a listen now to the rarities no vocal tracks. Good to hear no Ian Gillan. I hope Karin doesn’t read that comment! Yikes!
May 3rd, 2026 at 23:14@57
MacGregor !
“I hope Karin doesn’t read that comment! Yikes!”
– I did, always do….
May 4th, 2026 at 09:16But don’t think I need to say any further 😃
“because he always spits everything out, never swallowing it”
I feel honor-bound to comment on this, Russ wouldn’t want it any other way: That is indeed a most lamentable bad habit!
May 4th, 2026 at 18:00@59
Uwe I am not sure why, but I have the urge to yell this at you:
BEHAVE! ☝🏼
I have given up on Russ, but you are my geographical neighbour so I still feel an obligation to educate yourself a bit…..
May 5th, 2026 at 17:29@60
“I have given up on Russ…”
I gave up on me a long time ago. As a certain sailor famously said “I yam wot I yam”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgWC-_Ajx0M
May 6th, 2026 at 08:06@59
I agree, a lamentably bad habit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wuP5PgoMO8
May 6th, 2026 at 08:13Jawohl, Frau Verndal, ich werde mich bessern!
https://youtu.be/5oVBvxA0mm0
May 6th, 2026 at 11:55@62
Ok, must have been some video, since it isn’t available anymore 😁
May 7th, 2026 at 09:52@63
Schau mal hier, Uwe, gesunde Unterhaltung:
https://youtube.com/shorts/_6GyImYsfMw?is=u7m1_RnjDLgpyB2Q
Spring has finally arrived in Denmark 😊
May 7th, 2026 at 10:01Sorry for the weird noice. It my softshell jacket that has this annoying sound.
One day in the year of Steve Morse …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQrQp0RKDXA
May 8th, 2026 at 14:15You edited that sunlight into your vid, right Karin? 😎
Happy springtime!
May 8th, 2026 at 14:54@66 One day in the year of Steve Morse …
I could not really “hear” Steve in this one. I suppose he plays one of the acoustics, but still no archetypal Steve Morse passages, which is rare. Maybe he decided to give more space to his son ? Guitarwise it is OK, but the overall sound a bit on the “meh” side to my ears
May 9th, 2026 at 06:58@65
Probably blocked in Denmark… I have the same problem, sometimes certain YouTube content is only available in Europe, etc… Or maybe your device is blocking it because it doesn’t involve your beloved Ian.
Try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYJJmyBP6c0 …or don’t try it. It’s not as relative as it was a couple of days ago.
May 9th, 2026 at 07:41@67
No my dear neighbour! No editing at all…
The sun is shining, but the temperatures 🫣
The next week around 12 C – at daytime!
Seriously, I consider moving…
May 9th, 2026 at 12:11@69
🤣 Russ! I have one ‘beloved’ – Anton, and sadly there are not many videos with him on yt, so therefore I make some 😄
I like JH! He has a nice voice. Not as nice as you-know-who, but nice 😁
May 9th, 2026 at 12:21And I saw and commented on that video before, but a lot of times my comments disappears into thin air!
“The next week around 12 C – at daytime!”
Get the sun blocker cream out then, Karin, you know how you burn 🔥 easily!
And water Anton!
May 9th, 2026 at 15:08@72
Uwe I’m wearing sun protection factor 50+ every day all year round…
Not because I burn easily but because sun rays (A and B) destroys the skin.
And Anton is very well-hydrated 😄
Some people (read: men) have thicker skin and get just more and more good looking as they age, the rest of the population: maturing the worst way 😝
Well, I don’t think our dear admin people like for me to go on with this, so let me instead link to a video, to this guy who gets older the most charming way:
https://youtu.be/OptLnRRFqek?is=5LKJ6F1aQ5gNRbsd
Woah, he makes 80 looking very very good!
May 10th, 2026 at 06:05RAINBOW Limited Edition CD MONSTER PARTY 76-95 Collectors Edition Japan CD-R | eBay UK
Hello – does anyone know the tracklisting of this 7 CD live box set? I’m really interested in the DIO tracks Georgia 78 (hoping for an explanded set from the 2 tracks on Finyl Vinyl). Equally maybe more tracks from Calderone Hall 79? Perphaps Uwe might know? All tracks previously released but soundboard recordings? Cheers PJ Ps boxset not cheap circa £150
May 13th, 2026 at 06:29Not try but do.
Or something like that.
It ought not have struck a nerve here
I m as critical as Uwe regarding doing something.
But if Id have taken these seemingly great lines into practice I probably d called it a day a long time ago and left the building.
Cant guarantee I ll soldier on forever.
May 13th, 2026 at 18:41