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I'm listening to Dio right now. I never listened to a lot of Rainbow. I have a couple of albums in a box somewhere, but I assume that most of my Rainbow listening is ahead of me. Two days ago I watched an interview youtube with Ronnie. It was called something like "Brutally Honest Tour Interview with Ronnie Dio". It is pretty raw footage, and the dude seems to be in an unusually frank state of mind. He was a strangely charismatic guy I think. He talks about a lot of stuff there including Rainbow. Has anyone seen that interview?

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Rainbow is one band that is not introduced to new metalheads enough. In my nearly 12 years of listening to metal (still a newbie), I seriously didn't listen to Rising until about 3-4 years ago. I can't believe it took me that long. But in all honesty, I very likely would have dismissed it when I was 17, so there's that.

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Their Munich gig with Dio in 77´ is one of the best live records of all time. Cozy Powell's drumming was a very important ingredient. Blackmore seem to have an eye for good drummers.. or good musicians in general.

Down to Earth with Graham Bonnet has some really good tunes as well, not just the radio hit.

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On 11/10/2014 at 9:47 AM, BlutAusNerd said:

Rainbow is killer, but I'm not sure how it couldn't be with Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio joining forces. One of the best vinyls that my dad passed down to me was Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, it may have had the most listens of any album on my record player.

That album spent all of this past winter in CD player in my mini-van just playing over and over again, especially after I severely compromised the antenna shoveling snow off the hood and was reduced to the local top 40 station and the lower quality classic rock station on the radio. "Catch the rainbow" is my favorite cut, also "Snake Charmer" really hold up to constant rotation. The one song about _If you don't like rock and roll, well it's too late now_ is not my favorite. It's a sort album by today's standards. "Self Portrait" also fantastic with constant listening. "Man on the Silver mountain" and "Temple of the Kind" were my favorites until about the hundredth listen. I can't say why I listen to an album over and over and over, but I've always been like that, even as a kid. I don't think it's actually healthy to ingrain the same recording in your head like that. It's better for the mind to hear new music all the time, and when I get the sensation where you start to hear the next song before it starts I feel like I'm doing a disservice to my mind.

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On 11/10/2014 at 2:04 AM, RelentlessOblivion said:

I can't remember if we have a thread dedicated to Rainbow or not. We certainly never seem to discuss them. Truth be told I enjoy Rainbow far more then I enjoy Deep Purple. I also think Rainbow is where Dio did his best work.

100 percent agree. I dig Rainbow far more than Dio era Black Sabbath

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