Label: Polydor Records (Japan), P33P 25019
Style: Hard Rock, Classic Rock
Country: England, U.S.
Time: 36:51
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 242 Mb
Charts: UK #11, AUS #55, CAN #83, JPN #26, NOR #10, SWE #24, US #30. UK: Silver.
During studio sessions in Tampa Bay, Florida on 12 December 1974, Blackmore originally planned to record the solo single "Black Sheep of the Family"- a cover of a track by the band Fat Mattress from 1970 – and the newly composed "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves", which was to be the B-side. Other musicians involved included singer/lyricist Ronnie James Dio and drummer Gary Driscoll of blues rock band Elf, and cellist Hugh McDowell of ELO. Satisfied with the two tracks, Blackmore decided to extend the sessions to a full album.
The other members of Elf, keyboardist Micky Lee Soule and bassist Craig Gruber, were used for the recording of the album in Musicland Studios in Munich, West Germany during February and March, 1975. Though it was originally planned to be a solo album, the record was billed as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, and later progressed as a new band project. Blackmore and Dio did promotional work for the album. While rehearsing for the tour, Blackmore decided to fire Gruber and replace him with Jimmy Bain on bass and after that he fired Driscoll, replacing him with drummer Cozy Powell. Because of that, Soule decided to quit the band, to play on a Roger Glover album and tour with the Ian Gillan Band. Soule was subsequently replaced by keyboardist Tony Carey. The first lineup never performed live, and the live photos used in the album art are of Blackmore while with Deep Purple and of Elf playing live.
The last track of the album, "Still I'm Sad", is an instrumental cover of a song by the Yardbirds from their 1965 album Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds. A version featuring vocals subsequently appeared on Rainbow's live album On Stage and their 1995 studio album Stranger in Us All.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Blackmore%27s_Rainbow)
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog. D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
01. Man On The Silver Mountain (04:36)
02. Self Portrait (03:13)
03. Black Sheep Of The Family (03:20)
04. Catch The Rainbow (06:27)
05. Snake Charmer (04:31)
06. The Temple Of The King (04:42)
07. If You Don't Like Rock 'n' Roll (02:36)
08. Sixteenth Century Greensleeves (03:31)
09. Still I'm Sad (03:51)
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