A new album of Rainbow is always an event as much as the group dissolved since 1997, creation date of syrupy Blackmore's Night, big masquerade medieval nickname. Ritchie Blackmore, we loved, we hated: he leaves no one indifferent. The concert officially released today has long been known fans: broadcast on German TV in the Rockpalast show, he was hacked widely. This is the only valid testimony of the tour "Stranger in us all" (1995), the album Rainbow back after the final departure of Blackmore of Deep Purple. The man in black was in imperial form in 1995 (the album won also be listened to today), despite the absence of a front man of the caliber of Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet or even Joe Lynn Turner. The screamer here this is called Doogie White. Without being a great singer, he is an honorable vocalist who, in his medium voice without great personality, is able to resume without shame songs from all eras. If the DVD shows a group of unknown accompanying the master (the keyboard Paul Morris has neither the stature of Tony Carey, nor that of Don Airey, Greg Smith is not Roger Glover nor Bob Daisley, while Chuck Bürgi does not have the aura of Cozy Powell), it did not feel listening to the double CD that highlights a group phase, consistent in the service of songs performed perfectly. Of course "Stranger in us all" is honored with 7 excerpts: fast "Too late for tears" and "Wolf to the moon," the reptilian "Hunting humans," the classic "Black Masquerade", the epic "Ariel", as well as the hard adaptation "Hall of the mountain king" by Edward Grieg and the resumption of Yardbirds "Still I'm Sad" (which was already on the first Rainbow and "On stage") . Finally a group that was not afraid of his new material !! The set list also gives pride to the directory with Deep Purple "Perfect Strangers", "Burn" and "Smoke on the water" representing three distinct periods of the legendary band. By cons, no part of "Rising" (the best album of Rainbow "), the" Straight entre les eyes "and" Bend out of shape, "one single" Down to earth "(an" Since you've been gone "truncated), 1 of" Long live rock'n'roll "(the title track). The only two albums that are better off are the first opus ("man on the silver mountain" and a version of Dante's "Temple of the king") and "Difficult to cure" (the title track and "Spotlight kid" ). Overall, the sound is not gégène (but not rotten, either, except in the middle of "Spotlight kid" or we hear a different music simultaneously). An album to reserve for the die-hard fan of Rainbow that already has all the studio albums. It's still one of the best live performances of Blackmore, who -from all façons- has always been more inspired in the studio, despite what one was willing to say or write.
