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DasRainbow Scottish Rainbow Tribute and Hard Rock Band 
DasRainbow, led by guitarist Jon Clark, deliver a classic set of Rainbow Tracks which embody the true spirit of Rainbow's music. No dull note for note renditions of the material but highly improvised interpretations of the music. Band aim to deliver a full-out 70's/80's style concert experience,
complete with tons of equipment/lights and everything you'd expect at such an event.To quote Jon Clark, "How could we do a valid note for note version ? Rainbow never played anything the same twice, so which version would be valid ? The lack-lustre studio copy, the Japan Version, the German version, the version from some bootleg or other ? If you want to hear Rainbow play Rainbow, buy a Rainbow CD, they will always be better than ANY tribute band. On the other hand if you want to see a performance that is unique on the night, sometimes magnificent sometimes less so, come and see DasRainbow. Great music, great performances but no, not a copy-cat show, that's all been done before! DasVocal duties are handled by R. Jamie Dee, DasBass Derek Grant, DasKeyboards Chew Bartlett and DasDrums Rich Davidson. Website: www.dasrainbow.com Stargazer plays Deep Purple - Rainbow - Whitesnake 
It all started in October 1997 as a "Sunday morning fun project" by three musicians who were Deep Purple and Rainbow fans, and after some personnel changes, the band developed into a highly professional and ambitious tribute band. STARGAZER now consists of five musicians and a technician.STARGAZER are the top address when it comes to Deep Purple/Rainbow tribute shows. The band offers that memorable sound and feel, just like the original performances. David´s, Ian´s and Ronnie James´ Rock `n´ Roll or Rhythm `n´ Blues reverberate from the speakers. The scream of the Hammond organ, roaring Marshalls and Ritchie´s "Black Magic" on the Stratocaster are all guaranteed part of the show. STARGAZER is: Ralf Bruns (Drums) Walter Heumann (Stratocaster) Delef Kornath (Vocals) Frank Nerger (Bass) Stefan Schrumpf (Keyboards) Website: www.stargazer-coverband.de
Murasaki-no-Niji Japanese Deep Purple & Rainbow Tribute Band 
"Murasaki-no-Niji" is the purpose which saves the traditional entertainment of Ritchie Blackmore, and was formed five years ago. We are doing band activity in "Kyoto" which is the starting point of Japanese culture. The guitarist "Yasuhiko Minamida" who respects Ritchie Blackmore from 1969 to present took the lead, and formed the band. We adhered to the vintage tone and old atmosphere of sound rather than the technique, and aim at synthetic reappearance entertainments including appearance.About the above, if I have mp-3 and movie heard by our homepage, you will understand. We consider what and not the full copy of 1 on 1 sound, such as a record and bootleg, but they of those days are performing them in pursuit of with what feeling each music was played. The guitar amplifier which our guitarist is using is Marshall Major200 & Old open reel tape deck recorder that converted. Even if it takes Old open reel tape deck recorder converted so that the same effect as Ritchie Blackmore might show up, it can be tasted, and it can make a spectator hear the deep echo effect. Our organ player "Yoshiko Atsumi" can use the same equipments and can make a spectator hear forcibly distorted Lesley 146 and the tone which used Vintage Moog synthesizer & Marshall Major200. We perform to a very loud sound also at the live hall also in practice studio in order to reproduce volume as much as possible. For foreign you, we are manufacture preparing the present homepage in an English version. Website: www.geocities.jp/ccpowell
Project Niji-Murasaki / Shadow of the Moon Ritchie Blackmore Tribute Project   Introduction sentence: Project niji-murasaki is a copy of DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW, BLACKMORE'S NIGHT which is active in a foothold in a place such as Japanese Sapporo, Hokkaido, a project of a tribute band. Moya-sama (Toru Takahashi) of a guitarist formed this band with a middle-aged member of Richie generation with young Richie enthusiast born in 1978. There are 2 of "Shadow of the moon" playing music of "Project niji-murasaki" that a band plays music of DEEP PURPLE & RAINBOW in band-style and BLACKMORE'S NIGHT in acoustic mainly. A homepage is Japanese, but is happy if I have you drop in by all means because you can hear a sound source. If a band of world Richie line can act in the same play sometime, I am wonderful. Website: ip.tosp.co.jp/i.asp?I=PROJECTNM
Rising Tributo A Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow  "RISING", it is a band formed by extremely fanatical musicians of Rainbow, they are born in Santiago (Chile)i during 1999 with the name of "Perfect Strangers", but existing in Chile "Stormbringer" as an official tribute band of Deep Purple (it does little they plays close to Glenn Hughes & Rata Blanca Concert in June 2004), they decide to pay to the legendary band of the rainbow, for it they manage to register the veteran singer - Rodrigo Angulo (fervent admirer of Graham Bonnet) and the teacher JC Faundez in Ritchie's role. They have offered great concerts called "Tributo A Los Grandes Del Rock", Website: www.risingtributo.tk
Stormbringer The Definitive Deep Purple Tribute Band  Paying homage to one of the finest hard rock bands of the classic rock era, Stormbringer presents the East Coast USA with a hard hitting tribute to the legendary Deep Purple. With faithful, energetic renditions of radio staples such as Highway Star, Woman From Tokyo, Burn, and of course Smoke On The Water, as well as many other well known Purple classics (and even including the occasional Rainbow song) the band accurately recreates the full out intensity of Deep Purple in their prime. Featuring the stunning virtuosity and incredible stage presence that were trademarks of Purple, both hardcore fans as well as fans of hard classic rock will be treated to an unbelievable show, which will have them coming back for more! Website: www.purpletribute.com
Brainbow Swedish Rainbow Tribute Band  This band started in 1995 by Conny Blomquist (guitar) and Mike Johansson (Drums). We played at places like Hard Rock Cafe in Stockholm and several similar places. The band will go on a Scandinavian Tour in 2006 but dates are still to come. Line-up: Conny - Guitar, Mike - Drums, Raine - Bass, Ebbe - Keyboards, Johan - Vocal. Some of the bandmembers also played in Highlander. This band has some mp3 audiofiles and mpg videofiles available of their Rainbow, Whitesnake, Deep Purple and Bon Jovi covered songs. Websites: www.brainbow.se
Crossbow Swedish Rainbow Tribute Band 
Late autumn 2002: The funky band called Groober has crashed due to several member dropouts. Three remaining guys, Anders the Drummer, Andreas the Bass Man and Marcus the Guitarist decided to return to the roots of their musical influences: hard rock music. We found out that our solid base and inspiration derived from the great rock bands of the 70s such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and (of course) Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. What the hell, we thought, why not start jammin' our absolute favourite tunes from these bands and have a real good time? Some time passed, and we felt that we wanted to take our "project" one step further: ads were posted for a singer and a keyboardist.2003: After several auditions Johan entered the band as singer: an experienced bloke with a total devotion for Rainbow and the style of Ronnie James Dio. Things started out rather well, we made two performances early in 2004. But. We were still in great need of a keyboard player to get the right sound and feeling, but it turned out to be hard finding one with the same devotion for the music we played as we felt* 2004: Something must be done: Andreas, who has a history playing the piano, decided to pick up the keyboarding again. New ads were made, this time for a bass player, and luckily enough a somewhat crazy and gifted man from Gothenburg responded to our need: Christofer was in! 2005: This year so far we have spent time widening and rehearsing our repertoire. It has become clearer and clearer to us that we are indeed a tribute act for our heroes and we take great pride in our humble efforts to play the immortal songs they once created. Crossbow is: Johan Carlsson - Lead vocal, Marcus Fordberg - Lead guitar and backing vocal, Andreas von Schéele - Organ, moog, rythmguitar and backing vocal, Anders Hedman - Drums, Christofer Rigdah - Bass Website: www.crossbow.nu
Expresso Valvulado Brazilian Rainbow Tribute and Classic Rock Band 
Born in January, 2005, this tribute band impressed everbody who came to see them on stage. With tipic clothes from 70´s the live performance and quality from their musicians, they're making new Rainbow´s lovers.Playing in Rock'n'Roll bars in São Paulo (Br), the Expresso Valvulado is a "Brazil's Tribute" to this amazing band called Rainbow. Dowload now the show and see for yourself! Expresso Valvulado is: Billy – Vocals Tony – Guitars Nick – Bass Eddie – Drum Yes we really are from Brazil!! Website: www.expressovalvulado.com.br
The Midnight Italian Blackmore's Night Cover Band 
This is our little tribute to the genius of R. Blackmore and some kind of medieval, renaissance and baroque music. Our band was created in October 2003 with the aim of enjoying ourselves while playing our favourite melodies with acoustic instruments. Even before the creation of the band, in summer 2003, we loved to play enchanting melodies with medieval and celtic origins under the moonlight, plunged into silence, surrounded by nature. So we decided to call ourselves "midnight", just because that was the time of our unplugged performances.With this brief introduction we would like to remark midnight's humility, which means music mostly played for ourselves, in hope of involving more and more people, as if it was a feast open to everyone. In late 2003 we have recorded a 4-track demo-tape, just to give you a sample of what midnight are about. This melodies have celtic and medieval origins, but we try to play them in a lightly modern way; this songs refer to past fantasies, for this reason they require the right setting: the best thing is to play them in past places with perfect acoustics in order to emphasize unplugged and acoustic instruments. At the same time to make our shows much more evocative, we love to dress like minstrels of past times. Now the next project for the Midnight band will be the song-writing sessions for some new original medieval-renaissance compositions. Midnight band are: Federico Vannucchi - acoustic and classic guitars / Silvia Benda Santi - vocals, flute / Massimo Paggi - acoustic bass / Serena Damiani - flute / Graziano Ridolfo - drums and percussions / Emanuele Di Fini - keyboards Website: www.the-midnight.com
Nobody's Fools Italian Rainbow-Deep Purple-Whitesnake Cover Band 
Nobody's Fools started playing in half 1999 under the direction of Ettore and Marco Palazzi (Father and Son) on Guitar and Voice/Keys. Since October 1999 they collect a good number of concerts with thousands of Drum and Bass players (and the great Marco Bordignon as second Guitar player in 3 Marks, a boy with the soul of Brian May that gave the band a fantastic sound across Purple and Queen), in the same way of the Marks of Deep Purple!Here is the last Mark: Marco Palazzi - Voice and Keyboards (inspir: J.Lord, G.Hughes, D.Coverdale, R.J.Dio, R.Blackmore) Ettore Palazzi - Guitar (inspir: R.Blackmore, G.Moore, V.Moore, E.Clapton, T.McAlpine, J.Satriani) Salvatore Renga - Drum and Background Vocals (an excellent drummer with influences from italian folk music of Napoli: it's great to hear him play Starstruck!!!!) Even if they are starting producing their own songs (inspired by Lord of the Rings and Greek Wars and Mithology), they still play a lot of Purple Family covers: Rainbow: Man on the Silver Mountain, Starstruck, Long Live Rock and Roll, Tarot Woman, Street of Dreams. Whitesnake: Here I Go Again, Walkin' in the Shadow of the Blues, Wine Women and Song. Deep Purple: Burn, Mistreated, Highway Star, Anyone's Daughter, Speed King, Stormbringer and many more! Website: www.nobodysfools.it (unfortunately, still only in Italian language)
Rainbow Rising U.K Rainbow Tribute Band 
Rainbow Rising were formed in 1996, the aim was to not only recreate the unique Rainbow sound but to also capture the visual spectacle that was Rainbow live on stage. The band is made-up of a group of musicians who possess not only immense musical talent, but also an almost fanatical interest in the phenomenon that was Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. The band perform live all the classic Rainbow tracks and more besides, drawing from the entire Rainbow back catalogue and featuring the material produced by every legendary line-up of the band.The sheer attention to detail given to the act of recreating the live Rainbow experience is evident in every aspect of the band's performances. From guitar smashing, to stunning vocals, thunderous percussion and bass to dazzling keyboards and of course unmistakable Blackmore guitar work. The band have headlined at major rock venues across the U.K. and performed on festival main stages alongside Thin Lizzy, Motorhead, the Stranglers, Hawkwind and many more. 
Rainbow Rising are:Barry Sharples - guitar Mark 'Raggie' Slack - vocals Tor Underseth - keyboards Steve Taylor - Bass Mick Rice - drums Website: www.rainbowrising.net  |