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DTE 82
Original releasedate: 15 October 1981
Original releasedate: 15 October 1981
This is a rough'n'ready translation of the magazine which was original in the Dutch language.
Besides this is only a summary as only the most interesting parts are translated.
Besides this is only a summary as only the most interesting parts are translated.
PART 2 (Double issue Over The Rainbow en zo 9 & 10)
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RAINBOW ROTTERDAM 13 JUNE 1981 In the weeks before the Dutch Rainbow-concert the phone kept ringing. There were many rumours that the show was cancelled. Muziekkrant OOR didn't helped at all by printing the wrong date for the show in their concert-agenda. Still the show was not cancelled so we got to see again Def Leppard, the same support act as in Essen, they did the same set but sounded a lot better. 
Shortly past half past nine we hear "Land of hope and glory" in the sportshall and 7000 Dutch fans give Rainbow a warm reception. I hear Rainbow do the same set as in Essen but it sounds a lot more convincing.Joe's voice sounds better and also Ritchie seems to be in a better mood. Don plays a different intro for "Lost in Hollywood"; we do get the piece of boogie though. Before Ritchie starts "Difficult to cure" we get a spontaneous sessions between Ritchie, Don, Bob and Roger. Ritchie leads with a kind of turkish tone and the rest follows. This sounds very nice. There's no breaking string this time in Beethoven's Ninth (I lost ten guilders as I bet Wim it was on purpose in Essen and part of the show). Ahoy is known as a hall with a poor acoustic sound. Still in front of the stage Rainbow sounds excellent, I don't know how it's in the back. The encores are in the same order as in Essen. In the Purple-medley Ritchie also plays the riff of "No Release". Then we get the demolishing act and Ritchie almost slips when he climbs the P.A. but it goes well. We don't get the extra encore with "Fire" tonight. After the concert we go to the Hilton-hotel, there are many fans waiting already at the entrance. In the bar it's busy, although none of the bandmember have arrived yet. We see the blokes from Aardschok magazine, old fanclubleader Veldhoen, Kees Baars and Michael of Polydor. Kees Baars is more satisfied than last year: 'That old men did it again!'. A few moments later Ritchie and Roger arrive in the bar, I'm talkin' with Kees and Ritchie joins us. He is very satisfied with the show tonight. The other Rainbow-members also show up. Bobby and Joe leave after a short while again. Someone does an extensive interview with Roger and Ritchie joined us. Still the conversation is very short. Ritchie, what inspired you for "Vielleicht das nächster Zeit"? RB: "The idea is already a bit old. It's inspired on a girl I couldn't get and which gave me hope to succeed the next time." Ritchie is married in the mean time on 12 May this year for the third time. After two German wives he picked now an American 'victim'. Why are you doing "Smoke on the water" again? You left Deep Purple because you didn't wanna do those old songs again and again! There's silence for a while. Ritchie watch at the floor and then he watch me with a penetrating look and says: "Can you tell me why the lights are on in this hotel?". It's clear, this question has blown it for Ritchie, however he doesn't say that. No, on a friendly tone he talks a bit more and asks for information about Rotterdam. Ritchie don't wanna talk about music anymore tonight. We've met a moody Ritchie. As this is useless we say goodbye and wish him the best of luck. We then have the opportunity to talk shortly with Roger. He tells about his plans for a new solo-album when this worldtour is finished. It all ends very funny in the Hilton as just before we're to leave a tipsy Colin Hart, walks in with a dustbin and asks everyone where he can get the ice. The hotel personnel makes him clear that he can't get any here, and Colin leaves grumblin' upstairs. No ice for him, but I'm sure that was flowing a lot of alcohol that night. At least, everyone of the Rainbow-crew was satisfied about the concert so they could forget about the problems they had with the French customs. They were then held up by the drugs squad. LOOKIN' BACK ON THE CONCERT The release of "Difficult to cure" gave many reactions. The old Rainbow-fans thought the album was too commercial and too American orientated. I think these people were positive surprised at this concert. Rainbow still is a hard-rock band. 
The group played tight and didn't look as tense as before. At the end of the Ahoy gig Joe en Ritchie even embraced each other during "All night long". The most criticism I have is "Smoke on the water". I can imagine everyone enjoyed that very much, but I don't go to a Rainbow-concert to hear old Deep Purple songs. I prefer half a "Stargazer" instead of a full "Smoke". It's useless to play this song. It's nothing else than a commercial concession. And on top of it is playing this song a new injection for all those Purple reunion stories (maybe that's all behind it).The whole repertoire-choice looked like a "Greatest Hits" collection. Was Ritchie thinking 'let's do it all over one more time'? The plans for the future are vague. Don and Roger are talking about some months off. We heard that before when Blackmore left Purple, then they all told also they'd a few months off. Is this the final tour of Rainbow? You never can tell with Blackmore. Gerrit RECORD TALK GILLAN "FUTURE SHOCK" VIRGIN VK 2196 THE FUTURE IS NOW !! Ten months after "Glory Road" we already get a new Gillan LP (and the next one is expected to get released in October!). "Future Shock" is the best Gillan product so far, including some great artcover work. 
With the album comes a 16 pages book with photos of the members on album format as well as photos from the past. We see Mick Underwood with Ritchie Blackmore in The Outlaws (1962). And there's a picture of Ritchie together with Ian when he joined GILLAN on stage. Ofcourse there are also vintage pics of Bernie Torme and John McCoy (with hair). Ian is to be seen with two photos of his first band The Javelins.The band sounds tight. Ian, John, Bernie, Colin and Mick play together now for two years. On this record there are ten songs, some rockers like the titletrack, "Sacre Bleu", the single "New Orleans" and "Don't need the truth". The ballad on this record, "If I sing softly", I think is better than "If you believe me" on the last one. "Bite the bullit" and "For your dreams" are two real Gillan songs. The best three songs however we get on side A with "Night ride out of Phoenix", "The ballad of the Lucitania Express" and "No laughing in heaven". Bernie plays his guitar great. His solos and those of Colin are never too long. John's bass is tight and Mick still drums fanatically. Ofcourse the band is based on the voice of Ian, but the band is also very good. It's all sounds very fresh. FANDANGO "ONE NIGHT STAND" The fact that Rainbow keep changing the line-up, means a lot of people keep lookin' for old records of new members. In the case of Bobby Rondinelli it's easy as he told us in Rotterdam he didn't on any other records so far. We found an album of Joe Lynn Turner's band Fandango (this is not the same Fandango ex-Purple bassplayer Nick Simper was in and they also released an album). 
This album is released in America and Canada on RCA AFL 1-3245 in 1979 and is called "One Night Stand". The band was Joe Lynn Turner (guitar, vocals), Rick Blakemore -no, not a typing fault- (leadguitar, vocals), Dennis LaRue (keyboards, vocals), Bob Danyls (bass, vocals), Larry Dawson (keyboards), Lou Mondelli (drums) and Santos (percussie).Ten tracks produced by Allan Blazek, with lyrics printed on the inside cover. The titletrack isn't much, but "Thief in the night" is a fine song with a good end, in which Joe sings well and we get a good guitar riff. "Hard man" sounds like Styx, it sung by Blakemore, and we get a fine small synthesizer-solo. "Hard headed woman" has a chorus that swings. Good guitarsolo too. In the ballad "I would never leave" Turner sings like Paul Rodgers. "Dancer" and "Little Cherrie" are mediocre tracks. Also "Late nights" isn't a highlight. Then there's a fine boogie song called "Two time loser". It reminds a bit to ELF. The record ends with "Ain't no way" where Danyls do the vocals. "One Night Stand" is not a record which make me go wild. It is an pure American sound and don't expect real hardrock either. It has it's moments but for the rest it's a moderate album. It's that Joe Lynn Turner now is the singer of Rainbow, otherwise we wouldn't have mentioned this album. Musically it's not interesting, only for collectors. HEINZ In the second issue of "Over The Rainbow En Zo" we published a story about The Outlaws, one of Ritchie's first groups (October '62 - April '64). Also drummer Mick Underwood, now in Gillan, was a member of that band. Their instrumental music was based on The Shadows, only a bit more heavier. Producer Joe Meek, the man behind The Outlaws, used them also often for studio sessions for other artists like Mike Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Leyton and also Heinz. Heinz Burt ever went to London as a bassplayer. When he did an audition for Joe Meek, Joe liked the white haired bloke and formed a new group around him called The Tornadoes, they got right away a huge hit with the wellknown "Telstar". 
April 1963 Heinz left the group and started under the leadership of Meek a solo-career as a singer. And not without success. "Just like Eddie" (dedicated to Eddie Cochran, who wrote "Summertime blues") gave Heinz a top 5 hit in England. Heinz did work with three backinggroups: The Saints, The Outlaws & The Wild Boys, the last two are the most interesting for us because Ritchie Blackmore was part of these.Heinz recorded many singles between '63 en '65. Off these singles there's now a bootlegalbum, without his biggest hit "Just like Eddie" by the way. The album is called "Heinz - The Singles" on the bootleg-label Triumph (catalogue no RGM 3267). You can recognize the songs on which The Saints were the backinggroup (so without Ritchie) clearly. That leaves eleven of the 16 tracks, with Ritchie playing the leadguitar. I can't make out where we hear The Outlaws or The Wild Boys. First the line-up of The Outlaws: Ritchie Blackmore (leadguitar), Chas Hodges (bass), Ken Lundgren (rhythmguitar) & Mick Underwood (drums). The line-up of The Wild Boys is: Ritchie Blackmore (leadguitar), Burt Bailey (keyboards), John Davies (bass) & Ian Broad (drums). This last name should sound familiar. Ian is still a very good friend of Ritchie (I even dare to say that nobody knows Ritchie better than Ian). He's for years now the personal roadmanager in Rainbow. After this long introduction it's about time to talk about the music on this bootleg album. The music sounds in the year 1981 very dated, but if you can project your mind back to the music in 1963-1965, you can't tell anything else than it sounds pretty loud and heavy for that time. It's rock and roll, nothing more but also nothing less. Ritchie's solos are splashing out of the speakers. His style is very recognizable. Even then he already had a typical guitarstyle. Not as perfect as these days, but Ritchie who was in those days about 17-18 years old had a very recognizable style which is pretty rare for such a young musician. The eleven songs on which we can hear Ritchie are: Country boy, Long tall Jack, Please little girl, I get up in the morning (in which Heinz announce Ritchie twice with his name), That lucky old sun, Questions I can't answer, The beating of my heart, Digging my potatoes, Don't worry baby, Movin' in & I'm not a bad guy. All these songs have a solo by Ritchie. These are very rare, unique recordings of Ritchie's young years in music. Interesting for every Blackmore-freak. WHITESNAKE "COME AN' GET IT" 
This new Snaker is the third album in twelve months. And I'm sad to say: it's a big disappointment! The cover is fine. Again a variant with a snake, very sexist this time, watch his beak and we see..... indeed!The subject of the ten songs is all about women. It starts to get a bit boring. David start to repeat himself in his lyrics. That's not the worst part. The musical part is also getting very predictable, there's nothing new to discover. Every song sounds like we heard it before. We get another piano boogie in "Wine women and song", just like "Black and blue" on the last album. Even producer Martin Birch didn't manage to give them a refreshing slap in the right direction. The role of Jon Lord is even questionable, not even a little solo. He has composed nothing on this album. Whitesnake is in England still extremely popular. This album went within two weeks to the highest spot in the Melody Maker charts. STARS ON 45 RAINBOW'S FIRST 12 INCH SINGLE Just before the Ahoy-concert a Rainbow 12 inch single was released. It was a real surprise because Michael of Polydor told us they were going to release an edited version of "Difficult to cure" on single with "Can't happen here" on the b-side. That didn't happened. 
We got this 30 cm single with on the a-side "Difficult to cure" and on the back "Can't happen here" and the new track "Jealous lover". We know the first two songs by now. "Jealous lover" is not a leftover of the "Difficult to cure" sessions, but was recorded during the American tour.It's a mid-tempo song with a fine solo of Ritchie. Music is written by Ritchie and the lyrics by Joe. However this record is unique (it's only released in Holland, we've got several letters of people abroad who want to buy this record), I still think Polydor Holland let the Dutch fans down again for the second time in one and a half year. Last year they released "All night long" without the new track "Weiss heim" and put instead a track of "Down to earth" on it and now the fans have to pay 13 guilders to get one new song. RAINBOW "CAN'T HAPPEN HERE"
Polydor POSP 251  In England, just like in the other countries around us "Can't happen here" was released on single with "Jealous lover" as b-side. The single has a nice cover. On the frontcover we see the band in front of a white wall, with a smiling Blackmore in jeans. "Can't happen here" is especially for this single remixed and edited. OLD RAINBOW SINGLES AND ALBUMS RE-RELEASED 
Because of the English tour all old Rainbow-singles (except for the very first two) were re-released in their original covers.First there's the live-EP "Kill the king" with edited versions of "Man on the silver mountain" and "Mistreated" (Polydor POSP 274), secondly "Long live rock and roll"/"Sensitive to light" (Polydor POSP 276), the third is "L.A. Connection"/"Lady of the lake" (Polydor POSP 275), fourth "Since you been gone"/"Bad girl" (Polydor POSP 70), fifth one is "All night long"/"Weiss heim" (Polydor POSP 104) and the last one "I surrender"/"Vielleicht das nachster Zeit" (Polydor POSP 221). Also the albums "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow", "Rising" and "Long live rock and roll" are re-released with a low-budget price of only £ 2.99 while they normally cost about £ 5.00. 
 MARBLES "ONLY ONE WOMAN"
 In Belgium came in the series of "Vieux Machines - Golden Oldies" by Polydor about forty singles out. Number 25 of this series is "Only one woman" with on the b-side "By the light of a burning candle". Like we all know Graham Bonnet was the leadsinger of this duo. The cataloguenumber is RSO 2090 416 (Polydor). JAPANESE RAINBOW AND DEEP PURPLE SINGLES  In England I picked up some expensive (£ 3,29 each) Japanese singles. The quality is these is superb and the covers are excellent. They all have lyrics for both the a- and b-side included (this is compulsory in Japan). Firstly two Purple singles. From 1972 we got "Highway star" (full studio-version) with "Strange kind of woman" on the back (Warner Bros P-104W). Then we got "Burn" (edited) with "Might just take your life" (Warner Bros P-127W). And then there are two Rainbow-singles. "All night long"/"Weiss heim" (Polydor DPQ 6182) & "I surrender"/"Vielleicht das nachster Zeit" (Polydor 7 DM 0013). The covers are very different and it might be nice to know that Rainbow is written in Japanese as:  GRAHAM BONNET "LIAR"  The follow-up for "Night games" (that made it to the English top ten) is called "Liar". This one didn't made it to the English top 30 and that's not a big shock. It's a poor cover of a Three Dog Night hit (written by, yes indeed, Russ Ballard). Despite the assistance of Cozy Powell, Jon Lord, Micky Moody and Gary Twigg (bas) this is far gone from the level to be expected. The Bob Young/Micky Moody-composition "Bad days are gone" is on the back. The single, on Vertigo VER 2, is not released in Holland. Remains the question: when do we get the LP? THE YOUNG & MOODY BAND "THESE EYES"  Bob Young (mouthorgan with Quo) and Micky Moody know each other for quite a while and did recorded together before. The last few months a LEVI'S commercial was frequently on English radio, sung by Graham Bonnet and written by Young & Moody. They now have done a full song on single of it titled "These eyes" (sounds like lie-vais). It's a fast 12-bar rocker with the commercial as chorus. On the back is "I won't let go" is a relaxed song that means nothing. It's released on BRONZE BRO 120. RAINBOW IT CAN HAPPEN HERE U.K. IN 1981 
"Most of the gaudy aspects of our future, shocked world the sexuality, the titillation of forbidden pleasures, the triumph of money over taste, the fascination with travel - are seen in their harshest light on a rock and roll tour by a giant band."-(Taken from the introduction to 'Billion Dollar Baby' by Bob Greene) "The crowd's going wild And you feel so alive You could stand up and take this all night." -from 'Spotlight Kid' - (Blackmore/Glover) "There are people out to get bands like us. We're a part of a tradition a lot of the media would like to see disappear. The stupid thing is that if we suddenly vanished off the face of the earth, there'd be no one for them to sloag off and then they'd still keep complaining." - Ritchie Blackmore, July 1981 THE 'BANDS like us'. Mr B is talking about are what some bozo smart ass critiques refer to as the 'dinosaurs of rock' - the big league. To me Rainbow are a part of a dying tradition, a five star HM group who are still flying the flag for faded spirits like Zeppelin and co. So what's the argument? Is it because Rainbow haven't got what is referred to as a street credibility, maaan? Is it because the they still go out of their way to instill a dash of glamour into their performances and they actually believe in entertaining their audience? Kids who are from The Streets and lead a less than inspiring lifestyle. Getting away from London and going to the most sombre grey surroundings of Leeds was quite a refreshing experience in as much as it was nice to get away from the jaded cynicism of the 'city scene' which can eventually affect you no matter how hard you try to fight it. It's a real treat to see a hall full of Heavy Metal Kids literally exuding genuine enthusiasm, pumping out buckets of energy. These people firmly believe in the motto 'Fuck Art, Let's Dance' which is normally seen splashed across the T-shirts worn by the tendier reptiles who can be seen regularly crawling up and down the more fashionable spots of London Town. These kids mean it.
WIE WANT MOOR this is the last page of this double issue.....if you not yet tired then just shout once more "we want more" or "zugabe" or "a-kachi".....that last one is Japanese.....in Japan is a double album of rainbow released....."the best of rainbow".....for sale in some import-shops....very expensive.....no new songs tho.....a couple of nice live pics tho....during a show of rainbow in barcelona in the "plaza de toros" were 20.000 fans.....it was on a hot spanish night..... and some fans were overheated and got in a fight.....17 people were arrested......in italy there were no problems.....the band didn't play there this tour......the new album by michael schenker is called msg.....the new gillan lp.....is called double trouble.....we get here for the first time the new guitarplayer janick gers.....he's from denmark.....was before a member of white spirit.....they recorded one album.....produced by gillan-bassplayer john mccoy.....recorded in the studios of ian gillan.....nice album....the new gillan-lp has a studio-side and a live-side.....gillan will tour this autumn extensively in england....early next year they'll do an European tour.....hopefully they'll then finally play holland....in July graham bonnet was supposed to release his solo-album....so far it remained quiet....well, till the next time...................  © Rainbow Fanclan 1979-1984
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