Live in Munich 1977

Performer: Rainbow
Distributor: Fontana Distribution

Notes: Rainbow: Dave Stone (keyboards); Bob Daisley (bass instrument); Cozy Powell, Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio. Personnel: Ronnie James Dio (vocals); Ritchie Blackmore (guitar); Cozy Powell (drums). Liner Note Author: Simon Robinson. Recording information: Munich Olympiahalle, Germany (10/20/1977). This two-CD live set captures the vintage Ronnie James Dio/Ritchie Blackmore Rainbow at its best, two years after its initial formation and just before it recorded 1977's LONG LIVE ROCK 'N' ROLL album. Blackmore, Dio, and the storied British drummer Cozy Powell are all on incendiary form on a set that includes the full-throttle boogie of "Long Live Rock 'N' Roll," Blackmore demonstrating his both guitar mastery and his interest in 16th-century classicism on "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves," and Dio displaying his ironclad rock & roll pipes on a thundering version of "Kill the King."

Ritchie Blackmore's combustible guitar riffs in the seminal band Deep Purple were the sparks that fed the conflagration of a whole new genre: heavy metal. Blackmore's musical ambition led him away from the band in 1975, after which he poached members of the band Elf--including vocalist Ronnie James Dio--to record the solo project that would evolve into the band Rainbow. Dio's lyrics were a castles-and-kings affair and Blackmore's classical-derived music suited them well. The pair--with an ever-rotating line-up behind them--recorded several popular albums, until Dio was lured away by Black Sabbath in '79. Blackmore reunited with Deep Purple in 1984, revisiting Rainbow briefly in the mid-'90s before finally pulling the plug on both bands and moving on to the medieval folk act Blackmore's Night.

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