First Rainbow album I listened to. Liked it well enough but it was my gateway to RISING. CLASSIC!
@hanswijgergangs6636
4 ай бұрын
One of the first hard rock albums I bought, back in the end of the 70s. Still like it, the beautiful multi layered voice, clear guitar tone and good compositions. The atmosphere is still enchanting, a bit of folk, blues, Hendrix, early hard rock.
@michaelhendricks6991
4 ай бұрын
All rainbow is good rainbow. 👊🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
@dwaynestjohn5324
4 ай бұрын
Love this album. Rising is my favorite.
@torarauland7145
4 ай бұрын
Man On The Silver Mountain what a song. The best Rainbow albums 3 first and yes on stage
@inmyhouse11
4 ай бұрын
Great debut with some classic Rainbow songs
@stevekosak8624
4 ай бұрын
Much love for this one ! Catch the rainbow is my favorite!Years ago i was luck enough 2 find a used copy a Japanese 1st at a flea market for a dollar!! My archive copy! Great video cheers!😮
@gitaneVYS491R
4 ай бұрын
I listen to this more than any other Rainbow album.
@jmagowan12
4 ай бұрын
I adore this album! I remember listening as the sun went down on mushrooms the other year!!! I probably love this album the most well of all the rainbow albums! Ach I adore Rising and L.L.R.N.R!
@Cornelius798
4 ай бұрын
Love this album, bought it at Grant's Department Store when I was 14.
@gregvickers3123
4 ай бұрын
The band on this album is simply all the guys from Ronnie's previous band, Elf. Catch The Rainbow makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, it's SO GOOD
@LairoftheAlchemist
4 ай бұрын
Yeah...and Ronnie is amazing on Catch the Rainbow.
@AfternoonsInStereo
4 ай бұрын
@@LairoftheAlchemist He is! When he vocally picks up the little guitar lick that Ritchie introduces in the last third of the song, my god ... one of RJD's finest moments. For me, this record is the equal of Rising. I know that is a minority opinion. LLRnR is their peak tho, for me.
@rimaxxamir1774
4 ай бұрын
Great album all the way through, nothing wrong with this album.
@Skycladatdusk78
4 ай бұрын
I think I'm the only one that really enjoys songs like If You Don't Like Rock And Roll and Sabbath's Rock 'N Roll Doctor. It's that whole light and shade thing with 70s hard rock that I love, mixing the doom and gloom with a fun boogie rocker now and then. Those first three Rainbow albums are all amazing.🤟
@papalaz4444244
4 ай бұрын
"Ritchie Blackmore's Elf" :)
@dwaynestjohn5324
4 ай бұрын
Dio is my favorite singer and blackmore is one of my favorite guitar players.
@rodcrispo5859
4 ай бұрын
My favorite singer and Guitarist,
@LairoftheAlchemist
4 ай бұрын
Same
@williamwalker146
4 ай бұрын
I love the debut to death, it doesn't match up to the next two with Ronnie, but is has a charm all its own that matches those. Those are majestic and bombastic and ambitious. The debut is stodgy but matches the folky medieval nature of the album. The production isn't incredible but sufficient. I definitely agree the two boogie tracks, "Black Sheep of the Family" and "If You Don't Like Rock n Roll" I could seriously do without. The album possesses 4 of my top 10 or 12 Rainbow tracks with "Man on the Silver Mountain", "Catch the Rainbow", "Temple of the King", and "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves". The other three tracks are good as well. Considering the lack of heaviness on Stormbringer (save for its muscular title track) and the dated boogie of Elf, Rainbow proved to be a worthwhile experiment right out of the gate.
@LairoftheAlchemist
4 ай бұрын
I agree with you about this album, it doesn’t stack up to the next two, but it does have a certain charm to it, and I find myself returning to it often, there’s a certain vibe to it that I like
@integrity101
4 ай бұрын
Love it. I'd argue it's the first of a 7 album run by Ronnie James Dio that could be considered the best in all of hard rock/metal history (This in 1975 through Last In Line in 1984). Man On The Silver Mountain & Catch The Rainbow are the standouts and I'd put them up there with any of Ronnie's best stuff (Theyd both make my top 20 RJD songs). If u dont like rock n roll is the only weak track. Rising & Long Live R & R are better albums but I'd still consider this a classic.
@SGED392
4 ай бұрын
Fav Rainbow Album just barely over Long Live R n R ..
@LairoftheAlchemist
4 ай бұрын
Cool!
@AndyMangele
4 ай бұрын
What I think about the album? My opinion basically equals yours. Some excellent stuff - but they weren't quite there yet. Haven't thought of "If you don't like Rock'n Roll" for ages. 😂
@LairoftheAlchemist
4 ай бұрын
Thanks
@richbillionair
4 ай бұрын
Apparently that line up on that first album only lasted 1 album. Blackmore replaced all but Ronnie on next album. Maybe Blackmore was an egomaniac, but the next album, Rising, surpassed the debut.
@LairoftheAlchemist
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, I think it was a connivence thing with that lineup.
@elliottwhalen6415
4 ай бұрын
They never played live, actually were out of the band before the album hit shelves.
@incarnate6779
4 ай бұрын
From my understanding he got rid of everyone else (from Elf) because Blackmore wanted stronger touring/live musicians. And man oh man, did he ever get that.
@SGED392
4 ай бұрын
I heard where Richie left Deep Purple because the rest of the band was listening to Stevie Wonder and he didn’t like the a funk rock direction .. but the Rainbow debut has some fairly groovy funky tracks
@LairoftheAlchemist
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, he wasn't happy with the more funky direction Purple was going in.
@jayjaytee9944
4 ай бұрын
Love all eras of Rainbow albums, but agreed ,this would be third of Dio for me too for same reason, the rest = very good though.
@LairoftheAlchemist
4 ай бұрын
Cool
@elliottwhalen6415
4 ай бұрын
Drummer Gary Driscoll and bassist Craig Gruber went on to form Bible Black
@Hecatecrossways
4 ай бұрын
The Rainbow debut definitely was less geared towards Black Sabbath - Judas Priest fans, and was also very dated sounding like Deep Purple - Stormbringer meets Ian Hunter. Catch the Rainbow sounds almost identical to Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water, and both sound like Civil War era ballads for the soldiers funeral entertainment.
@billmorgan4327
4 ай бұрын
Dio was really a God, not a mere mortal. Impossibly great.
@journeyintothebible
4 ай бұрын
If you don't like R&R and Black Sheep are closer to Elf's style than Rainbow Rising, but still a classic album. And I like a lot of Elf songs and Dio's earlier career as well.
@LairoftheAlchemist
4 ай бұрын
I agree about those two songs.
@TheRealMonsterD
4 ай бұрын
I rather enjoy Elf, so that "If You Don't Like Rock N' Roll" sounds more like it's from that band is a plus for me. But perhaps one of its problems is placement on the album. Maybe it should have been first on the album to create more of a transition from their old sound to their newer sound. Also, I think L. A. Connection, on the third Rainbow album with Ronnie on it, sounds the most like an Elf song, funny enough. There is part of me that wishes things would have gone differently and L.A. Connection would have been an Elf song and Never More would have been released as a Rainbow song, because it sounds way more ahead of its time than any other Elf song.
@bjornjagerlund3793
4 ай бұрын
When the album came out, there was some kind of competition between DP and Rainbow to who would be the band the DP fans would appreciate most. This was in the newspapers, I don’t think the band members was involved in this. To me, it was Rainbow that kept the spirit of DP, the Bolin DP was to me too different from the old DP. I liked the Rainbow album a lot more than Come taste the band, but I think all the Rainbow albums from the Dio era are uneven. There are five songs from each album that I really like, the rest I skip. On this album, it’s Snake Charmer and If you don’t like rocknroll I think is not very interesting. The cover Black Sheep of the family is good, the cover of Still i’m sad is rather uninteresting. The version you find on the On Stage album is so much better. The rest of the songs I like a lot. I think most Rainbow albums are very uneven, a combination af really good songs with totally uninteresting uninspired songs.
@Hecatecrossways
4 ай бұрын
If you don't like Rock and Roll should have remained with Elf. It sticks out like a sore thumb. I also could live without the instrumental version of the Yardbirds - Still I'm Sad.
@LarryFleetwood8675
4 ай бұрын
True enough, then again the classic bands back then always loved to spice up albums and live shows with some simple fun rock'n'roll to have variety i.e. not being one thing only that was really important and as it should be.
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