Rainbow - Birmingham Rising (1976-09-11) FLAC

GENRE: Hard Rock 
FORMAT: Lossless (Flac) 
SIZE: 574 mb (3% Recovery) 

Recorded Live At Birmingham Odeon, Birmingham, Uk 11th September 1976.

Label: Rising Arrow - RISING ARROW-037

TRACKLIST:


CD 1
01-Intro
02-Over The Rainbow
03-Kill The King
04-Mistreated
05-Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
06-Catch The Rainbow

CD 2
01-MC
02-Lazy
03-Man On The Silver Mountain
04-Blues
05-Vocal Improvisation
06-Man On The Silver Mountain
07-Stargazer
08-Still I'm Sad
09-Tony Carey Keyboards Solo
10-Cozy Powell Drums Solo
11-Still I'm Sad
12-Do You Close Your Eyes

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NOTES:

Considering the spate of excellent Rainbow titles released by various labels over the past few years, which appears to be continuing into the foreseeable future, this attractive looking release by Rising Arrow is a real head-scratcher.  The audience recording is largely overloaded, tinny, distant, and dominated by Blackmore’s guitar. 

For all intents and purposes, Cozy Powell’s drumming literally can’t be heard, except for the slower, quieter passages, and Dio’s similarly buried in the recording.  And forget about discerning how Bain or Carey were playing. 

To make matters worse, the noisy audience members close to the recorder get more than their fare share of air time in the recording, which destroys what is already a demanding listening experience.  The poor audio plagues both discs, making this a release one should completely avoid, particularly because there are so many other worthy titles available, and forthcoming, of other great Rainbow shows.

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