It's simply the band playing their asses off in October 1977. Both of these cuts were played faster and louder than anything the Sex Pistols did that year. "Catch the Rainbow" catches fire about seven-and-a-half minutes in, and Blackmore just takes off prodded on by Powell, and the cut doesn't end until ten minutes after that.
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Product Identifiers
Record LabelEglr, Eagle Records
UPC0826992031415
eBay Product ID (ePID)28046068082
Product Key Features
FormatRecord
Release Year2013
GenreRock
ArtistRainbow
Release TitleRainbow Live in Munich 1977
Dimensions
Item Height0.39 in
Item Weight1.19 lb
Item Length12.53 in
Item Width12.33 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks9
TracksIntroduction, Kill the King, Mistreated, Sixteenth Century Greensleeves, Catch the Rainbow, Long Live Rock 'N' Roll, Still I'm Sad, Man on the Silver Mountain, Do You Close Your Eyes
Number of Discs2
NotesDouble vinyl LP pressing. Live archive release from 1977 by the legendary British Hard Rock band. Rainbow was formed by Ritchie Blackmore in 1975 after he left Deep Purple at the height of their fame. They were instantly successful and released a string of hit albums, with an ever changing line-up, between 1975 and 1983 when Blackmore broke up the group to join the reformed Deep Purple. This concert from their European tour in 1977 features the line-up responsible for the Long Live Rock' n' Roll album released later that year, including vocalist Ronnie James Dio and drummer Cozy Powell. Blackmore had to be smuggled out of Austria after trouble with the police at a gig two nights earlier and was very late arriving in Munich, all of which seemed to inspire both the band and the audience to create a truly remarkable gig.