From: stathis panagiotopoulos 
Subject: Rainbow review (positive-I think)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 07:06:40 GMT
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Having lived with the thing for over a month now, I feel a bit more qualified to try and review it. I think it's a good album, no way up to the classic standard of Rising, not even Down to Earth, but a respectable Rainbow album nevertheless. Certainly much better than SBTE. A couple of tracks on there I think are great, especially Ariel, Black Masquerade and Hall..., while Hunting Humans has grown on me very much. I like Ritchie's playing, he has a fine tone, and plays A LOT, which for us Blackmore-hungry fans is always a boon-I wish he'd do a fully instrumental LP one day. The rest of the band I think are pretty faceless, although Dougie White has a good voice, he does sound like JLT, though. Havin said that, Blackmore is bitterly mistaken if he thinkg SIUA is commercial or even popular music-couldn't be more out of touch. I spoke with a high ranking guy at BMG Greece who was totally disappointed with it, saying that it's so out of the current climate that they won't be bothered to push it at all. Now I know Greece is a very small market, but this opinion can only be the same in other places-one has to have in mind that DP and Rainbow have always been huge over here. The same guy said that "we'd be sitiing on a hit if it was 1984".

Soapbox mode off. 


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Stathis N. Panagiotopoulos
Deep Purple Appreciation Society, Greece
My dreams are soon forgotten...

Dave Hodgkinson 20 September 1995.

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