Hello faithful Rainbowfans
On the moment the last issue was printed we got the definitive confirmation that the Rainbow fairy tale was over and out. Ritchie & Roger finally fall for the large amount of money they got offered to re-start Deep Purple. On the last page of "Over the rainbow 23" we were just be able to add this latest news. This was also the answer on the article "Rainbow in the dark" in that issue.
Also we had a special scoop in that fanzine, a review of the final Rainbow concert (in the Budokan on 14 March 1984). This concert was opened with "Spotlight kid" and not with "Desperate heart", this song wasn't played at all.
More news about Deep Purple and the future of the Rainbow Fanclan on the next pages. We can expect quite some vinyl of Rainbow's last line-up. Firstly there will be released a live album of the Budokan concert.
We also can expect two albums, but by half Rainbow line-ups: Ritchie & Roger will record an album with Deep Purple, and the rest of Rainbow (Joe, Chuck & David) will also record an album.
This will be a solo-album of Joe Lynn Turner, that will be recorded in Jefferson, New York. Other musician who will play on the album are Al Greenwood and Stephen Dees. Jolene will produce himself this album.
What can expect in this issue? DIO (video, Pinkpop & bootlegreviews), The lyrics of "Still I'm sad" (the "On stage" version), a comprehensive Rainbowshop: the merchandise list of the English Rainbow Fanclub full of the official "Bent out of shape" tourmerchandising (only for our members!), the bootlegcorner and record talk.
Have a nice time...
RAINBOW FANCLAN IN THE DARK
A Fanclub of a group that no longer exist. Is that useful? What's our future now Rainbow has come to an end. We don't feel the same about Deep Purple as we did about Rainbow. So the end of Rainbow will also be the end of the Rainbow Fanclan.
The Fanclan is 5 years old on 1 October and that's a nice point to end it all. We'll do one more issue, the no 25 which actually be no 25 and 26 as a double-issue. This issue will come out on 1 October and will all about the history of Rainbow.
Keep a going....
YOU FOOL NO ONE
In september (1983) you could notice there was something goes on in the Rainbow-camp. Joe Lynn Turner was not really interested that much and even was thinking about leaving the band. Or maybe he already did and only was finishing his contract? Chuck Burgi told us he was thinking of going on tour in 1984 with his old schoolmate Joe Walsh. Roger was wearing at various shows a (terrible) purple outfit.
Also the songtitles of the last album were good for starting a discussion (Stranded, Can't let you go, Desperate heart, Make your move). In the UK many shows (without a good reason) were filmed. The biggest part of the US and the whole European Tour were postponed (and later they were cancelled completely). They
did a Japanese Tour, but a very short one. Enough feed to start the purple rumour machine again.
This time after 4367 times (or pick out a figure yourself) not a blown up press report, but the truth. Late April DEEP PURPLE was re-united. The contract was after long negotiations around 25 April signed by Blackmore, Glover, Paice, Gillan en Lord.
The big brain behind the scenes appeared to be no one else than (ex)Rainbow-manager Bruce Payne. He who put up Ritchie first into letting Rainbow turn to the American commercial corner had found a new way to earn even loads more money. Bruce did it all very professional, he phoned all the major record companies and offered them Deep Purple.
So far only the news came out that Polygram made an offer of £10.000.000, that's about 40 million guilders. Bruce is still waiting, he's not for nothing called a businessbrain. The following quotes say enough: "My old manager fucked me up, I thought he was my friend" (Ronnie James Dio) and "Bruce is happy, he gets all the money" (Ritchie Blackmore).
Via Bruce himself we heard the future plans for the new born Purple. The band is on the moment in a hall in Vermont, they hired it (Rainbow hired also a couple of times a place for rehearsals in this American city).
Deep Purple will also record with a mobile studio a new album overthere. The tourplans are for the time being: in November/December they'll start in Japan (where else.....), then it's Europe somewhere in January/February and after that the States will be under fire. Deep Purple also contracted right away a publicity agent, Alan Edwards of Modern Publicity. So far we only bumped into a pretty uninteresting press report, you all will have read by now in the music press.
It only confirm the get together again of Deep Purple Mark II and that there's a album, video and tour planned. No further news so far, the members of the band had to promise at the signing of the contract to do no interviews for a month. Deep Purple tried with their recordings of the new album to use the echo in Stowe Valley, the authority in the area refused to give permission. To be continued.........
DIO: (IN)VISIBLE
VIDEO: LIVE AT THE MUZIEKCENTRUM VREDENBURG
UTRECHT 4 December 1983
The video starts with the introtape (sound) and we get footage of the Muziekcentrum Vredenburg and the building of the stage. Then all breaks go loose with "Stand up and shout" followed by "Straight through the heart". The video looks very good, good shots, good sound and very colourful. "Shame on the night", "Children of the sea", "Holy diver (including drumsolo)", "Heaven and hell" and "Rainbow in the dark" are the other songs from the set. It rocks like a fast train.
Dio sings like a God (although his voice isn't not quite what it once was years ago). Appice drums like Powell and Rondinelli, powerful and impressing (but he misses the tightness of Burgi). Campbell shows he's a good choice for this band, although he can't in the shade of Blackmore. Bain is not that much to be seen, but if we see him he's energetic and wild playing his bass. And keyboards player Claude Schnell is kept out the picture completely. The Rainbowtracks are professional cut out, you don't notice it.
When you watch this whole video, it's a pity, you miss these songs as they were more or less the better songs of this concert. The monotonous drumsolo or the tedious "Heaven and hell" fascinate a lot less. Still Claude Schnell had a big part in the Rainbow songs and they keep him out of the picture. They also didn't included the first encore "Evil eyes" but the second "Don't talk to strangers" is to be seen.
Before the songs starts Ronnie is again very laudatory again to the crowd "You're all my friends". And I have to think back to the interview we did with Ronnie before this concert: "Ritchie's only playing for himself and don`t give a shit about his fans". But what about Ronnie........... the very young kids he pleases like hell with his (outdated) lyrics about devils and demons, he lives on old Rainbow and Sabbath successes, and if it's not convincing enough he thanks you a hundred times. Nice guy that Ronnie. We're the best audience of the world!!! But.... didn't he told that also yesterday to the audience???
VIDEO: LIVE IN CALIFORNIA 1983 (ROCKPALACE)
Rockpalace is a program on American tv, a bit like the German Rockpalast. Their broadcasts are only about 15 minutes each group though. Late 1983 DIO played on this show (this years also Alcatrazz was on the guestlist!). Three tracks were aired. It starts with "Stand up and shout", and the audience is gettin' thanked at great length by toady Ronnie James Dio before we get "Rainbow in the dark". Before we get the last song Ronnie introduce (a bit childish) the band.
And he forgets to mention keyboardsplayer Claude Schnell who's responsible for lifting up the last song, "Man on the silver mountain". Campbell's fat Gibson Les Paul sound doesn't fit in this song. In the improvisation we hear Dio only accompanied by the invisible keyboards of Schnell, he need to give him a spot on the stage. These three songs are fine, but the drive of the Vredenburg-concert is, just like the stage with rocks, missing.
CONCERT REVIEW: DIO AT PINKPOP 1984
Robert Meijer send us this review about the performance of Ronnie & Co on Pinkpop. After promoter Jan Smeets asked himself "Why not hardrock on Pinkpop? So why not DIO?" it was Vivian Campbell who already was standing on stage behind him and kicked off with "Stand up and shout" and a loud cheer came from the audience when Ronnie entered the stage.
Next song was "Straight through the heart". Ronnie James Dio already told before he was not sure how it would go on Pinkpop, with so many different "kind of visitors". Well, he didn't have to be dubious. There were many people come to Geleen only to see DIO. Ronnie again was thanking the making of the banners. The next song was a track of the new "The last in line" album, called "One night in the city". This is a very good song and promise a lot of good for the new album.
Then we got the new too "We rock", a fast but simple rocker. Not the kind of lyrics we're used of Holy Dio. "Holy diver" was the next song, without the intro (keyboardsman Claude Schnell was present though). It went over in "Stargazer" (luckily no drumsolo) which continued into "Heaven and hell". This time a bit shorter (no guitarsolo), but still too long. Especially on a festival we better hear two other songs than one "Heaven and hell". After Ronnie introduced the band (which is still the same) we got "Rainbow in the dark" and the Rainbowsong (again!) "Man on the silver mountain" including the "Starstruck" part. We want more! Alright, they were aloud to do one encore. It got "Don't talk to strangers" in which we heard once more Ronnie's great voice. We want more!
No way, the lousy DJ Peter van Dam already started one or the other shitrecord, which the crowd didn't like at all. Anyway, a good concert, fine sound and the weather was good as well. Only maybe they better played the new single, "The last in line", instead of "We rock", because the titletrack of the new album is a killer. Don't buy the single though because on the backside you get the same live-songs as you got on the back of "Rainbow in the dark" and even the cover is
exactly the same. That's a bit cheap!
HOT SHOTS
DIO released in the States another track on single, there it is "Mystery".
RITCHIE BLACKMORE not only put Rainbow aside, but also his wife Amy. She got "replaced" by one Deenie Darleen Hale, a part-time photomodel of only 21 years old. Maybe that "Trouble-picture" (see Over The Rainbow no 20) still gave some more trouble.......
In New York recently the (side project) group Thrasher was set up. In the band are among others guitarplayers Rock Feinstein (ex-Elf and now the Rods) and Andy McDonald (Bible Black) plus ex-Elf and ex-Rainbow drummer GARY DRISCOLL. Another ex-Elf and ex-Rainbow is CRAIG GRUBER, he was with McDonald together in the group Bible Black.
POLL
In the next (and also farewell) fanzine we'll print the final results of the popularity of Rainbow. So send your personal choice of a top 5 of your favorite Rainbowsongs, albums, covers, singles, members, line-ups, Rainbowconcerts and groups that originated out of Rainbow (so in which we met ex-Rainbowmembers again). Closingdate is 1 September 1984.
SONG TEXT
STILL I'M SAD
ON STAGE VERSION
See the stars come falling down from the sky
Get me passing, the kiss, your tears and the cry
See the wind come softly blow, your hair from your face
And the rain comes falling down in it's crazy way
Still I'm sad, still I'm sad
For myself, my tears just
fall into dust
They will dry, that the night
will find they're lost
See the wind come softly blow,
time into my heart
And the rain comes falling down,
while we're apart
Still I'm sad, still I'm sad.
See the stars come falling
down from the sky
Get me passing, the kiss,
See the wind come softly blow,
your hair from your face
And the rain comes falling down
in it's crazy way.
I'm so sad, I'm so sad.
But still I'm sad.
Feelin' so sad, feelin, so bad
You makin' me sad, bringin, me bad (oh yeah)
Ooooh I'm sad.
BOOTLEG CORNER
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
This is another bootleg of the San Antonio 1982 (video) concert. In fact this is a re-pressing of the bootleg "The cure for herpes". It's a single album, the cover shows a medieval female knight on a horse. On the back we see a livephoto of the band and the songtitles plus line-up. The soundquality is very good for a bootleg but not as good as the sound on the video. So this bootleg is only interesting for the collectors and people who don't have a videomachine.
The songs (side 1:) Spotlight kid, Miss Mistreated, Can't happen here, Tearin' out my heart. (side 2:) Power, Blues, Difficult to cure, Drumsolo, Long live rock'n'roll.
NIPPON EYES
This bootleg already was announced in the last issue (but under the title of "Nippon connections").
This double album is pretty lousy. It's a concert from Japan 1976 and the sound quality is very poor. The editing on this album is also awful, all the announcements before the songs are cut off, so we get single songs with a pause in between. Not a live show that goes on without a pause after each track. "Man on the silver mountain" is left, the song starts with "Blues" (not right mentioned on the cover as well). It comes in a yellow cover with a small photo of Ritchie with a smashed up guitar. On the background you can see David Stone and Bob Daisley. The line-up on this bootleg however is the one with Tony Carey and Jimmy Bain. On the backcover we get the songtitles. This one is only for hardcore fans.
Songs: Kill the king, Mistreated, Blues, Man on the silver mountain (reprise), Sixteenth Century Greensleeves, Catch the rainbow, Keyboards solo, Stargazer, Still I'm sad, Drumsolo/1812 Overture.
STARGAZER
Also this bootleg was announced in the last issue. The cover is very good. The font is taken from the "Can't let you go" single and the photo shows an exploding meteorite (or something like that). The tracks are even more interesting. Pity the soundquality is not that good.
Side 1 (and the first song on side 2) are recorded in St Austell on 19 September 1983 and gives us many "Bent out of shape" material: Fool for the night, Drinking with the devil, Stranded and Firedance. Also from this show we get Power, Blues, Stargazer and Death alley driver. Turner is again a bit disappointing in Stargazer and Death alley driver, but we already noticed that ourselves on the UK Tour. But on the other hand he's first-class on the 'Shape-stuff'.
Joe also pays attention to an unasked subject that's thrown on the stage: "I think some arsehole has lost this". Blackmore and Rosenthal have a superb duel in Blues. But it's Chuck Burgi who stand out most. In a positive way. When I saw him in England, I wasn't convinced completely. His drumwork sounded alright, but I missed the charisma of Powell and (especially) Rondinelli. But what Chuck let us hear now, with an adjustable volume you can set yourself, is just excellent. He plays very tight, almost unbelievable. And some fabulous breaks as well.
Ritchie proves he's got a nose for very talented musicians again. Burgi makes us forget Powell and Rondinelli. He's a killer! After Firedance we get an encore of the concert in Gothenburg 30 September 1983. It's Long live rock'n'roll with in the middle a rare version of Hey Joe. After this we get back in time a bit more and get to hear some very unique recordings of songs which were done live very rarely. First we get from a concert in New York on 19 June 1982 an average version of Stonecold, but after this we get a short Blues that goes over in Jealous lover. Not played that long but certainly a rare live recording.
Something more back in time to a concert in Fairfax on 22 February 1981 and one of the very first concerts with Joe Lynn Turner and Bobby Rondinelli. It starts with No release that, just like Jealous Lover, was played only a few times live. The song is kept short as well and the record ends with Can't happen here, that fades out in the end. This bootleg has a running time of not less than 60 minutes and is, despite the soundquality which is fair to good, very interesting.
DIO - EVIL EYES
After all the Rainbow bootleg-violence it's now time for DIO. This is a double bootleg album of the first UK concert in the Manchester Apollo on 30 October 1983. This record comes in a nice colourcover with a photo of Dio and Campbell. On the back we see Jimmy Bain plus songtitles and place and date. The vinyl let us hear a good rockin' show, the atmosphere and the playing are similar to the show in Utrecht.
It's the usual set: Stand up and shout/Straight through the heart/Shame on the night/Children of the sea/Holy diver/Drums solo/Stargazer/Heaven and hell/Guitar solo/Rainbow in the dark/Man on the silver mountain/Starstruck/Evil eyes/Don't talk to strangers.
It rocks like hell, but there are some minuses. The Rainbowsongs are very important for a large part of the show, the most applause is for these songs (and there are requests for other Rainbow songs from the audience!). We can compare "Stargazer" with the version of the Rainbow bootleg we just reviewed. DIO wins on the vocals, bass and drums are about the same level but Blackmore leaves Campbell far behind.
Vivian plays the riff and that's all. It's DIO's keyboardsman Claude Schnell who saves the song. And also notable DIO's version is even shorter than Rainbow's "hitversion". The reprise of "Man on the silver mountain" gives us a great duet between Ronnie and Vivian. But if I think about the what Alcatrazz' Yngwie Malmsteen let us hear on their live album (review also in this issue) maybe Ronnie should give it a consideration to get him in his band.
Not that Campbell is very bad, he is a good guitarist but that's all, if Ronnie wants to realize his idea for a new Rainbow this could be the right move. And Claude Schnell deserves a spot on the stage instead of hiding him behind the amps. This time he's even introduced! Well done Ronnie, who gives us again a lot of his toady stories. Still this is a must for Dio (and old Rainbow) fans. And.... also Manchester is the best audience in the whole world.
RECORD - TALK
ALCATRAZZ - LIVE SENTENCE
Under the title "(No parole from rock'n'roll) LIVE SENTENCE" initially only in Japan and some time later also in the States a live album of Alcatrazz is released. This album was recorded in the Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo on 28 January 1984.
This record starts with the usual concert-opener "Too young to die, too drunk to live", the track is very close to the studio-version. "Hiroshima mon amour is the second song and played very well. Bonnet reaches great heights and instrumental it sounds great. Brilliant! "Night games" is a rare song in this content. This lightweight top 40 song is played too heavy, that doesn't fit in this song. Malmsteen does good solos and Uvena bashes like hell, and the crowd goes wild. Last track on side one is the single "Island in the sun". Very good version.
The backside opens with the wonderful "Kree Nakoorie". This is Yngwie Malmsteen's song. He shines like we know Blackmore can do. Again the prove he's a great talent. The song ends with a short instrumental, "Coming Bach", a bit similar to "Für Elise". After another version of Russ Ballard's "Since you been gone" we get the written by Malmsteen "Evil eye". It's a good instrumental. It's not something like Blackmore's "Weiss Heim-style", but more of Michael Schenker's "Into the arena", also the guitarplay.
The last song is "All night long", Graham "shout-it-out-loud Bonnet is going crazy and the crowd as well. This is one of the favorites of the audience. When the song is over we hear the start of "Lost in Hollywood" that's getting fade out right away. On this album we get a great share of hardrock. Bonnet is in good shape, the backing of Shea and Uvena is very solid, the keyboards of Waldo are very good and Yngwie plays very well his guitar.
There are also some minuses unfortunately. The cover looks like a real "low-budget" edition, it shows a black & white photo (name of the band and album title in yellow) of the "Island in the sun" promovideo. The production by Alcatrazz manager Andrew Trueman and Lester Claypool falters at times, and especially the fade out at the start of "Lost in Hollywood" make you think you're listening to a bootleg. They better should have stopped right after "All night long". And for this you have to pay the expensive importprice of over thirty guilders. Despite the minuses and the fact the debut album (now finally also released in Europe) is a lot better, we still can recommend this "Live sentence".
ROGER GLOVER - MASK
Finally the solo-album of Roger Glover is released. It's still not clear in which countries it will be on the market. For sure in the States and the United Kingdom. For the rest of Europe it can depend on each country individual. First some info on the songtitles and the line-up. The songtitles are: Divided world/Getting stranger/The Mask/Fake it/Dancin' again/(You're so) Remote/Hip level/Don't look down.
Roger Glover wrote most part of this album on his own,
namely five songs. the other three Roger got the help of Jean Roussel (The Mask), Dave Gellis (Dancin' again) and Chuck Burgi & Dave Gellis (Hip level).
The line-up of "Mask" is: Roger Glover (bass, lead-vocals & percussion), Chuck Burgi (drums), David Rosenthal (keyboards), Joe Jammer (guitar), Dave Gellis (guitar), Craig Brooks (vocals), Charlie Dechant (saxophone), Jean Roussel (synthesizer), Mark Conese (Simmons drums) and Kate Mc Garrigle (vocals). In some musicpapers were stories that also Don Airey should be on this album, but that not the case.
Chuck Burgi plays on every songs of this album, we hear David Rosenthal on five songs. The audiotape of the album has an extra bonustrack called "Unnatural"
and is written by Roger on his own. This track might be used as well for the backside of a single.
Robert Meijer gave us some more info about the music after he listened to this album. Don't expect any hardrock, it's more modern music, reggae (Fake it, sounds like 1OCC) and a ballad "(You're so) Remote". Chuck's drums are very recognizable, very tight.
You can hear especially in the track "Divided world", that's introduced by David Rosenthal with a melody you remember quickly. Should be a good singlechoice. Highlights are the very strong "Divided world" and the song "Dancin' again". the album was released on the Polydor/21 Records Label. It looks like (what was expected anyway) that this album only is interesting for fans of our good ol' Gloverboy and ofcourse the diehard collectors.
DIO - THE LAST IN LINE
This new DIO album was due to be released on 3 July, but it was delayed a week because it should be out worldwide on the same date. So it came in too late for our deathline to do a review.
The songtitles are: Mystery/We rock/Breathless/One night in the city/Eat your heart out/I speed at night/Evil eyes/Last in line & Egypt.
The line-up is the same as on "Holy diver", and the production is again in the hands of Ronnie himself.
What we heard so far of this album was a bit disappointing. "We rock" sounds like an outtake of Rainbow's "Long live rock'n'roll-album". Also the production sounds flatten again.
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