Rainbow On Stage - Just a stunner, but why so short?

Be able to experience live Rainbow, which was already a stunner (as you can now empathize with the Live in Munich DVD). Unfortunately, the pleasure is not completely transferred to this CD. The problem of the disc is in the near future. A mere six - though very ingenious - songs have managed to On Stage. This really is not a lot, even if you consider that medley Catch The Rainbow, Mistreated and Still I'm Sad are each about ten minutes.

In contrast to the three now published recordings of the 1976 and 1977 tour there not hear the whole concert but at On Stage. So lacking about the divine and Stargazer Do You Close Your Eyes. Although these are only two songs, but what for whom. In addition, hidden between songs, giving the live feeling is also detrimental.

On Stage was certainly in his time one of the best live albums, because the versions of Mistreated, Catch The Rainbow but also the medley with Man On The Silver Mountain, a great blues midsection, where Ritchie Blackmore and Tony Carey fight each other instrumental "are incredibly well. The band plays the pieces to the point but in the instrumental passages, but also very relaxed.

In this respect, the albums from nostalgic reasons deserves (finally I have the plate then heard, until they had no more grooves) already own five star. The music is excellent, the sound very good, the musicians are in excellent mood to play (which was not always a matter of course just when Ritchie Blackmore) and also contains On Stage the opener Kill The King, who was not yet published at that time and was composed especially for live concerts as an opener because Blackmore a song like Burn (from his ex-Deep Purple) wanted, with which you can enter right into a concert. In this he succeeded. But for fans and new supporters is recommended rather one of the aforementioned recordings, because they reflect a complete concert again and include some other songs.