Newsgroups: alt.music.deep-purple Subject: Rainbow-Stockholm, pt1 From: holmgren@basys.svt.se Date: 3 Oct 1995 01:46:34 -0500
At least it wasn't as bad as I had feared. Ritchie had a completely new band with "Bruce Dickinson", "Rick Wakeman", "Bobby Rondinelli" on bass and the drummachine was out of order so he had Chuck Burgi back on drums... The set list wsa almost identical to Helsinki two nights earlier:
Over the Rainbow - Spotlight Kid - Too Late for Tears - LLRR (incl. Starstruck and Black Night) - Hunting Humans - Wolf to the Moon - DTCure - Still I'm Sad - MOTSM - Temple of the King - Black Masquerade - Ariel - Blues - Since You Been Gone - Perfect Strangers - Mountain King //// Burn - SOTW
So Stand And Fight was out :-) and replaced by a very short SYBG (as short as with JLT) with a short Blues-intro (Since He's Been Gone, as DW announced it)
Ritchie was in quite good form - playing some very nice solos in Hunting Humans and Ariel. Standard playing in the faster songs but at least we didnt have to listen to as much NOICE as it was on some of the reuniontours AND Ritchie was ON stage probably 95% if the time - not bad for a Stockholm concert...
Dougie isn't at all my kind of singer BUT he is perfect in a band like this. Lots of charisma and he could do the RJDsongs as good as the new stuff. The other musicians were more mediocre (sp?) Keyboard and drumsolos quite boring and too long, SKIP 'em! Ritchie could have a short solo instead!
The definite highlight was Temple of the King - Worst? Well I dont like either TLFT or BM from the new album, Still I'm Sad was far too short and 3DPsongs?!? That's almost 3 too many to me! There are so nuch more classic Rainbow material - Stargazer, Kill the King to name a few....
A guy who was standing up front said the set list didnt end with Burn/SOTW as encores but Burn/Lazy(!). BTW by the way they did the encores, maybe Ritchie is dreaming of some sort of mk3 reunion?????
- Pär Holmgren-
Trond J. Strøm 13. October 1995.