Rainbow live 2016

Pretty good, who's the singer?

Singer is ronnie romero from a band called lords of black.

A very talented singer indeed.

I recommend you check lords of black's albums. Excellent stuff.

Here's the better Rainbow in 2016:

Joe Lynn Turner is one of the best singers period.

Joe Lynn Turner has ruined every band he has ever touched!

candlemass wrote:

Joe Lynn Turner has ruined every band he has ever touched!

Dude. That makes zero sense.

corplhicks wrote:

candlemass wrote:

Joe Lynn Turner has ruined every band he has ever touched!

Dude. That makes zero sense.

I agree!

Joe Lynn Turner is a great vocalist!

manny wrote:

Joe Lynn Turner is a great vocalist!

True. The deep purple album with him behind the mic is awesome

I liked Joe Lynn Turner a lot until I realized how much his voice sounds like Lou Gramm's. I still enjoy the Rainbow albums I've got that he sings on, but it still irks me just a little bit since I had that realization.

stormspell wrote:

Here's the better Rainbow in 2016:

It's not the better Rainbow, it's not Rainbow in the slightest. Rainbow is Ritchie Blackmore playing Rainbow songs.

Boris2008 wrote:

It's not the better Rainbow, it's not Rainbow in the slightest. Rainbow is Ritchie Blackmore playing Rainbow songs.

Unless when he does it with random musicians for whatever selfish reasons. Then it's not Rainbow, but a pure and simple GRABbow...

Great vocalist aside, he has turned every great hard rock band he has joined into pop rock drivel...

stormspell wrote:

Boris2008 wrote:

It's not the better Rainbow, it's not Rainbow in the slightest. Rainbow is Ritchie Blackmore playing Rainbow songs.

Unless when he does it with random musicians for whatever selfish reasons. Then it's not Rainbow, but a pure and simple GRABbow...

Dude! The entire history of Rainbow was Ritchie + whatever musicians he wants to work with for whatever reasons he wanted. Personally I felt let down when he hired JLT

How many of you were less then thrilled when Yngwie hired JLT?

Boris2008 wrote:

Dude! The entire history of Rainbow was Ritchie + whatever musicians he wants to work with for whatever reasons he wanted. Personally I felt let down when he hired JLT

Dude! This is a reunion show to play old songs for the die-hard fans. And while Dio is no longer with us, both JLT and Graham Bonnet are fully active musicians. I'm not even going to ask why no one else from the old line-ups is not involved...

Look, Ritchie is one of a kind, no one is going to take that away from him, but as huge as his ego is, even he should realize that those classic albums ARE classic also because of the other participants too. And if you are going to announce a RAINBOW concert, you better make it a reunion, for the fans that made you famous in first place. That, of course, is my own opinion.

candlemass wrote:

How many of you were less then thrilled when Yngwie hired JLT?

I for one like JLT - his albums with Rainbow, Purple, and Malmsteen are all great.

A friend went to see them at the Monsters of Rock and he said they were awesome!

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I for one like JLT - his albums with Rainbow, Purple, and Malmsteen are all great.

Me too..the albums he did with rainbow are my absolute favorites..escpecially the album "Right Between The Eyes"...also the DP album was awesome..even if it did sound like a rainbow album..I like that pop rock AOR drivil

are there plans for any new Rainbow albums ?

So these shows seemed to come and go without a whole lotta fanfare. Was Ritchie just going through the motions here so folks would stop asking him to play rock again?

From the clips I watched, he seems to be playing with all the excitement of warm tapioca pudding. And that stupid f**king pilgrim hat.

That's a possibility my friend.

Ritchie Blackmore said that was it, no albums, no tours, just him having fun playing his old songs again.

Curiously most of the set consisted of Deep Purple classics, he did say if they do anymore gigs in the future, he will drop most of Deep Purple tunes and include more Rainbow classics.

I just listened to the first Rainbow album today and so far am enjoying it. Never really gave the band a listen, but I honestly enjoy this stuff more than most other 70s HR/HM I've heard (such as the early Judas Priest albums, which weren't all that). I wanted to see where the power metal genre emerged, as I was in the mood for some slightly cheesy fantasy-fused rock and roll.