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Episode 369 – Rainbow – Finyl Vinyl (Part 1)

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  • The original double vinyl release omitted “Street of Dreams”, although it was included on the cassette version before “Jealous Lover”. The first CD issue, a single disc, omitted both “Street of Dreams” and “Tearin’ Out My Heart”. These were restored on the 2CD remastered edition of 1999, which features different lengths for several tracks along with the original artwork.

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  1. Spotlight Kid
    • Vocals: Joe Lynn Turner
    • Bass: Roger Glover
    • Drums: Chuck Burgi
    • Keyboards: David Rosenthal
    • Backing vocals: Lynn Robinson
    • Live at the Nippon Budokan in March of 1984.
    • Rainbow played their final two gigs on March 13 and 14 of 1984 before reforming with a new lineup in 1994
    • Opening act was a Japanese band called Action.
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      • Tokyo, Japan 14.03.1984 [Fan Review]
      • On March 14, 3 cameras were set up right in front of the stage with the intention of capturing the whole thing on video. The Japanese group Action was the support act. During their performance in the Budokan, not everyone had the patience to wait. There was already a lot of shouting for Rainbow. At 7 p.m. the hall lights went out for the second time. Everyone immediately started shouting excitedly “RITCHIE, RITCHIE!!!”. Yeah, the party started.
      • The big eyes looked intently at the audience. They made big spots during “I Surrender”. I was very impressed by the fantastic “Catch the Rainbow”. I loved it!! The highlight was “Beethoven’s Ninth” with the orchestra. It was sublime! I was under the (wrong) impression that I was in the most holy place. The orchestra was visible above the drum kit and illuminated by rainbow-colored spots. The show lasted about two full hours and I have to admit: “Rainbow is the king of hard rock!”
      • Finally the tracklist: “Over The Rainbow intro tape”, “Desperate heart (although I’m not sure)”, “Miss Mistreated”, “I Surrender”, “Spotlight kid”, “Catch The Rainbow”, “Power” , “Keyboards solo”, “Street of Dreams”, “Fool for the Night”; “Guitar solo”, “Beethoven’s Ninth (with the orchestra)”, “Guitar solo”, “Drum solo”, “Blues”, “Stranded”, “Death Alley Driver”. Encores: “Firedance”, “All night long”, “Woman from Tokyo”, “Since You Been Gone”, “Smoke on the Water”, “Over The Rainbow outrotape”.
      • Marcy Funabashi
  2. I Surrender
  3. Miss Mistreated

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  1. Jealous Lover
    • Keyboards: Don Airey
    • Drums:Bobby Rondinelli
    • Backing vocals: Lynn Robinson
    • in studio, B-side of “Can’t Happen Here” single, 1981
  2. Can’t Happen Here
  3. Tearin’ Out My Heart
    • Drums:Bobby Rondinelli
    • live at The Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas, August 18, 1982
    • https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rainbow/1982/hemisfair-arena-san-antonio-tx-3d80973.html
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      • San Antonio TX, USA 18.08.1982 [Road Crew Review]
      • Hemisfair Arena Convention Center, San Antonio TX, USA – August 18, 1982
      • “Live Between The Eyes” recorded in San Antonio Texas in middle of 1982 American tour shows Rainbow at their peak with this lineup, in my opinion. While Joe Lynn Turner wasn’t as heavy metal a singer as Ronnie James Dio he did have an incredible voice and range and was always in great vocal shape. Bobby Rondinelli on drums was a powerhouse and also played better when people were watching. David Rosenthal was again in my opinion the best keyboardist to play in Rainbow and you could tell by the interaction with Ritchie. He loved playing back & forth with David as David was pitch-perfect and could mimic anything Ritchie came up with. Roger Glover was the catylist who held it all down and was a jack of all trades and producer of the album.
      • Spotlight Kid opened the show with a bang and we used some pyrotechnics at the intro controlled by Raymond d’Addario. the eyes themselves were run by a tech from See Factor by the name of Sal Lupo who loved pointing them at the soundman (Gordon Patterson) and lighting tech (Tony Mazzuchi) just for laughs. those eyes were stored while traveling in two cases the size of a Volkswagen Beetle and didn’t fit thru many a stage door especially in Europe. We also had two beautiful background singers in Lynn Robinson and Dee Beale who filled out the sound nicely. I was told they used to sing on the “Benny Hill” show on tv, not too sure on this but thats what i was told.
      • San Antonio was a great place to play and was known by the crew as the spandex capital of the world as the girls backstage were a great inspiration and came dressed to kill! Usually on shows like this where the band knew they were being filmed they would have been nervous, but everyone looks very relaxed here and the playing was very good. Before the show in the tuning room Ritchie would be loosening up by kicking soccer balls and excercizing his fingers playing his usual favorite things like the Brandenburg concerto and such. he also used to drink Johnny Walker Black and Coke to an imaginary line on the bottle where he knew he got a nice buzz going. Ritchie did suffer from stage fright in a way as he knew all eyes would be on him and this was alot of pressure for one person to handle. the new songs from Straight Between The Eyes came off beautifully especially “Tearing Out My Heart”.
      • When it came time for “Kill The King” you can see the smash-up guitar (a strat-imitation with the maple neck) was fitted with a black Fender pickup in the treble position and i had scalloped the neck so Ritchie enjoyed playing it before he went about smashing it to pieces. I got so good at keeping them in tune like his main guitars that he could play them for quite a while before laying them to waste… as I’ve said before his main guitars never went out of tune on stage and he only switched from #1 to #2 for a more deeper heavier sound and this was done at the break in Beethovens Ninth as he came back out on stage for his solo.
      • I also used to give him more preamp during solos by turning up the input on his Aiwa tape deck and you can see him motion to me with his hands in a circular motion on “Spotlight Kid” on this tape. I could tell he was enjoying himself here and his amps sounded hot this night. Since tube amps can be affected by temp and humidity their sound could change drastically.we were trying to change his tubes once a week on whatever head he was using most often and we would experiment with them when he’d show up for a sound check. He didn’t always come to soundcheck so he relied on me to make sure it was sounding good.
      • I usually stuck to whatever amp he was playing the night before. His amps always sounded best when they were about to blow their resistors, so i had keep my eyes on them and used to stand behind them watching their orange glow. When he played the intensity would show in the glow of these KT88’s. I used to keep a record of when the tubes were changed in each of his three marshall major heads he used. The tubes were hard to come by in these days and were very expensive. This video was done by Polydor and as far as I know there were no overdubs done on it. This was a very honest example of Rainbow at their best.
      • Cooky Crawford (Rainbow Roadcrew)
  4. Since You Been Gone
  5. Bad Girl
    • Keyboards: Don Airey
    • Drums: Cozy Powell 
    • Backing vocals: Lynn Robinson
    • in studio, B-side of “Since You Been Gone” single, 1979

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Episode 368 – Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon

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Originally released on the 15th of November 1983 by CBS Associated Records in the USA with red perigram on logo and title and original tracklist.

In Europe (specifically in UK) it was released on the 2nd of December by Epic Records with blue perigram on logo and title, often alongside with different tracklists like including “Spiders”

The album marks Ozzy’s change to a synth infused pop-metal sound, with both its “sonic production, and in Ozzy’s imaging.

This is Osbourne’s first album to feature guitarist Jake E. Lee and only studio album to feature drummer Tommy Aldridge.

Bark at the Moon is the only Ozzy Osbourne album on which the songwriting is credited entirely to Osbourne. However, guitarist Jake E. Lee maintains that he composed a significant amount of the album’s music but was cheated out of his writing and publishing claims by Osbourne’s wife and manager, Sharon. Lee claims that after he had composed the songs and completed recording his parts in the studio, he was presented with a contract which stated that he would have no claim to any writing or publishing relating to the album. The contract also stated that Lee could not mention this publicly. Lee claims he signed the contract because he had no legal representation and because Sharon threatened to fire him and have another guitarist re-record his parts if he refused.

Osbourne himself admitted several years later in the liner notes to The Ozzman Cometh that Lee had been involved in the album’s writing to at least some degree, stating that the album’s title track was in fact co-written by the guitarist. Osbourne’s bassist at the time, Bob Daisley, has mirrored Lee’s account of the album’s production, stating that he co-wrote most of the music with Lee and wrote the vast majority of the lyrics. Daisley has stated that he accepted a buyout from Osbourne in exchange for a writing credit. Osbourne’s former drummer Lee Kerslake, who also played with Daisley in Uriah Heep after leaving Osbourne’s band, stated that Daisley had been hired by Sharon Osbourne to write the Bark at the Moon album for “$50–60,000 or whatever it is. He was offered the chance to write with Ozzy. Words, music – write the album.

Shortly after Bark at the Moon’s 1983 release, a Canadian man named James Jollimore murdered a woman and her two children after allegedly listening to the album. The media and Christian groups began to infer that the music was Satanic and had influenced Jollimore to commit the act. The timing was particularly inopportune for Osbourne, who was, at the time, facing allegations that his song “Suicide Solution” had influenced a fan to commit suicide (despite the song not being about actual suicide, it is instead about AC/DC’s lead singer drinking himself to death).

In 2002 it was re-issued again, although this version was actually a new remix of the album. This 2002 remixed version of the album was met with mixed reaction; many elements found in the original mix are not present in the remix, namely several lead guitar parts. In addition, the song “You’re No Different” has an alternate ending (with the fade-out removed) and “Centre of Eternity” has an altered intro segment. This edition also included the bonus tracks “Spiders” and “One Up the ‘B’ Side”, originally the B-side of the “Bark at the Moon” single.

Some EU pressings identified the track “Centre of Eternity” as “Forever”, on tours for the album, Osbourne referred to it as “Forever”

“Spiders in the Night” was originally only included on the European, Australian, New Zealand and Greek releases, but was included on the 1995 CD reissue and the 2002 reissue, listed simply as “Spiders”

Within several weeks of its release it was certified gold for over 500,000 sales in the US, today it has sold over 3,000,000 copies in the US.

In the UK, it was the third of four Osbourne albums to attain silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in January 1984.

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  1. Bark at the Moon
  2. You’re No Different
  3. Now You See It (Now You Don’t)
  4. Rock ‘n’ Roll Rebel

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  1. Centre of Eternity
  2. So Tired
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYomVbcJKhI
  3. Slow Down
  4. Waiting For Darkness

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  • Released on November 14, 1983 in the US and December 2, 1983 in the UK.

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Episode #275 – Deep Purple – = 1 (Part 1)

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    • Good afternoon, well! That’s a long time and a lot of gigs ago…..but I do remember coming off stage somewhere missing a shoe…..went back for encores and there was a girl in the crush at the front waving my shoe! She’d obviously untied it while I was standing at the front   during last song.I tied the other one on my flight suit for the next few shows  in case she turned up with her weird souvenir. Bet it was smelly.
    • Cheers for now,John

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  • The title was Ian Gillan’s idea. He says in Classic Rock UK: “I found myself online, trying to fill in some blurry matrix of traffic lights or motorcycles, trying to prove to a robot that I’m a human.  I thought: ‘This has got to stop.’ We live in a society of compliance. You have to comply if you want to get anything done. You have to jump through hoops. It drives me nuts.” He says he started drawing in his notebook and: “I wrote this ridiculous equation, with the answer ‘=1.’ All that crap on the left hand side, that’s what you want to get rid of. That’s the whole point.”
  • Roger Glover says, “=1 is such a strong symbol. I think of it now as being the history of the band. We’ve been through multiplications, divisions, extractions, brackets, algebra . . . all that, and yet we’re still one band.”
Deep Purple’s =1 Teaser Equation

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  1. Show Me
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  4. Portable Door
  5. Old-Fangled Thing
    • Gillan says in Classic Rock UK that this song was inspired by the history of the pencil. Gillan: “For 2000 years, people were wandering around scratching their heads as to why their erasers had such long handles. Until they discovered the graphite inside it and civilisation was born.”
  6. If I Were You
  7. Pictures Of You
  8. I’m Saying Nothin’
  9. Lazy Sod
    • “Recently, a young journalist asked me how many songs I had written in my life. I replied that the last time my assistant counted, twenty years ago, it was over 500. I felt quite accomplished until she pointed out Dolly Parton’s 5,000 songs, calling me a lazy sod. I couldn’t help but agree and wrote down the exchange in my notebook.” Ian Gillan in a recent interview (ROCKS magazine, June 2024)
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Episode #229 – Remembering Bernie Marsden

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Deep Dive Memories:

  1. UFO [ OH MY ] DEMO AUDIO TRACK
    1. 1973
    2. DEMO AUDIO TRACK FROM UFO ‘ PHENOMENON ‘ BERNIE MARSDEN( GUITAR ) PHIL MOGG ( VOCALS) PETE WAY ( BASS) ANDY PARKER ( DRUMS )
  2. Cozy Powell’s Hammer – Little Woman
    1. Bernie Marsden, Clive Chamen, Don Airey and Frank Aiello
    2. Also COZY POWELL KEEP YOUR DISTANCE from the same show
  3. Babe Ruth – Sweet, Sweet Surrender (1976) (Bernie Marsden, Don Airey, Neil Murray)
  4. Paice Ashton Lord – Ghost Story ( 1977 ) Synched
  5. Whitesnake – Lie Down (I think I love you) – Revolver (ATV 1978)

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  1. Alaska – Secrets (Shockwave Festival Belgium 1985) (Bernie Marsden, Don Airey)
  2. M3 Marsden & Moody Unplugged 2005
    1. 19:54 lovehunter
  3. The Company Of Snakes – Back To The Blues (Berggren Marsden)
    1. Stefan Berggren Vocals Bernie Marsden Guitar Bvs Micky Moody Guitar Bvs Neil Murray Bass Don Airey Organ, Piano John Lingwood Drums
  4. WHITESNAKE w. special guest BERNIE MARSDEN – Fool For Your Loving & Here I Go Again
    1. MCR Arena, Manchester, UK – 23.5.2013
  5. Bernie Marsden & Jon Lord – Here I Go Again

https://www.rorygallagher.com/rip-bernie-marsden/

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steve-swift/episodes/RIP-Bernie-Marsden-e28h445

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Nate Guests on HaskinCast Episode #342 Album Review – The Beatles – Revolver (Part 2)

Listen here: https://haskincast.podbean.com/e/344-album-review-the-beatles-revolver-w-nathan-beaudry-pt-2/

Nate and Scott return to finish their review of this amazing Beatles album. We’re digging into the original version of Revolver! In this episode we talk about our thoughts on the band and history with this album and era of The Beatles and start to get into the music.

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John Guests on HaskinCast Episode #307 Album Review – Poison – Open Up and Say Ahh… w/ John Mottola Part 3

307 Album Review – Poison – Open Up and Say Ahh… w/ John Mottola Part 3

John Mottola, from the Deep Purple podcast, asked me to give this album a listen.  I did, for the first time.  Let’s see what I think and what John taught me about the band and their second studio album.  This is the first of a 4 part series because that’s just what happens when John comes to visit.

307 Album Review – Poison – Open Up and Say Ahh… w/ John Mottola Part 3

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Episode #181 – Deep Purple Bonus Material (1984-1990)

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  1. Not Responsible (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover)
    • Bonus track available on Cassette version of “Perfect Strangers”
  2. Son of Alerik (Blackmore)
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    • https://www.thehighwaystar.com/FAQ/trivia.html
      • Who is Alerik?
      • We haven’t found out. Roger said it was Blackmore’s song name, so that he didn’t know; he seemed to remember a king Alerik from English history, but was uncertain. Another possible source is the Michael Moorcook-books, as I seem to have read a suggestion about Elric (the one with the sword named Stormbringer, y’know)’s father being called Alerik, i.e. the Son of Alerik is Elric himself. But this is highly unverified.
      • From an email from Paul Mann
  3. Cosmic Jazz
  1. Lucille live with George Harrison
    • Sydney, Australia, December 13, 1984
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dmaI2sfw7k
This show was recorded in Portland, Maine, not Portland, Oregon.
  1. Mad Dog (live at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine — NOT OREGON!)
    • The only known time the band played the song live. April 16, 1987.

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  1. Hush
    • Single released in 1988 in advance of “Nobody’s Perfect” live album.
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  1. Fire, Ice & Dynamite (Blackmore, Glover, Turner)
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      • ‘Fire Ice and Dynamite was a movie project that was offered to us. Jon and Ian Paice were not in the States at the time and weren’t interested. Ritchie wanted to do it so we used a riff idea of his that the band didn’t want, Joe wrote some words and I constructed it in the studio, playing keyboards and drum machine. It was at a bad time in the band’s history and we were probably at our most dysfunctional. I haven’t heard it in decades but I don’t think it is any good.'”
      • Jon Lord was on tour in Europe with “Rock’n’Blues Olympic Circus” with Chris Farlowe, Roger Chapman, Tony Ashton, Pete York.
      • Roger allegedly programmed the drums, maybe using drum samples of Ian Paice playing.
  2. Whiter Shade of Pale
    • Live in London, March 16, 1990
  1. King of Dreams (Unplugged)
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  2. Yesterday
    • Edinburgh – March 11, 1991
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Episode #164 – Elf – Trying To Burn The Sun

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  • Frozen Bruise – USA – 5 Stars!
  • Love this Podcast!
  • Back in 1974 when I was 13 years old I was at a friend’s house shooting pool when he played the album Burn. I was hooked, and they became my favorite band. So I have been a fan for 48 years. My wife has told me she’s going to play Smoke on the Water at my funeral. I really enjoy the fact that Nathan and John are musicians and are able to explain things like how something is being played, how it is recorded, or how difficult it is to play a particular song or part, etc. For so many years I felt like I was the only person who liked Deep Purple. back in the stone age when I was in high school, I had friends who wanted to ride around in my car with me. They knew that there was price to pay if they did—they had to listen to Deep Purple! So glad that this podcast exists. I really enjoy listening to Nathan and John, they sound like two guys that I could really enjoy hanging out with. Great job, great conversation, lots of humor, all while listening to Deep Purple—5 stars!!!

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  • Is it a postcard . . . OR A RANSOM NOTE?

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Album Tracks:

All songs written by Ronnie James Dio and Mickey Lee Soule

Side One:

  1. Black Swampy Water
  2. Prentice Wood
  3. When She Smiles
  4. Good Time Music

Side Two:

  1. Liberty Road
  2. Shotgun Boogie
  3. Wonderworld
  4. Streetwalker

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  • Album was released just before the first Rainbow album.  Elf’s album came out in June, Rainbow in August.

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