Comments on: Ritchie Blackmore’s new Rainbow

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:44:37 +0000

Good point. These gigs are going to be about whether Ritchie Blackmore has still got it, 20 years after his last rock shows. Never seen Blackmore’s Night live, but there are still occasional flashes of greatness on the records.

Apart from promising Deep Purple and Rainbow material, we don’t really know what to expect from the set. But I think a greatest hits show is more likely than the extended guitar wig-outs we saw in the 1970s.

We shall see.

By: David Meadows

David Meadows — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 12:24:49 +0000

Doogie White had (has) a great voice for hard rock, but the most important thing was that he could handle everything from Dio to Bonnett to Joe Lynne Turner, which is a pretty disparate range of singing styles. This new guy will need to do the same, and at the moment I haven’t heard enough to be sure. Impressive voice, but versatile enough…? At the moment I’m hearing someone who does a credible Coverdale but that’s all. I’m currently listening to his Rainbow in the Dark on youtube and he still sounds like a raspy Coverdale

But the key point is that the gigs sold out *before* any of the band was announced. Let’s not kid ourselves about who people are going to see.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:48:05 +0000

The way Doogie White hams it up between songs is embarassing bad, and his interpretation of older songs is quite ordinary. Though to be fair the biggest problem is Blackmore himself; there’s no fire in his playing most of the time, as if his heart wasn’t really in it.

By: Rasmus Heide

Rasmus Heide — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:38:44 +0000

I have heard Black Masquerade. What is wrong with it?