The debut album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quintet with a line-up of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, piano, clavinet, organ, mellotron and vocals.
One guest added backing vocals.
Rainbow, the band set up by Ritchie Blackmore after he left Deep Purple (twice), released eight albums before they gave up the ghost. I will review these eight albums in the coming weeks.
This album clocks in at thirty-seven minutes.
The music is a blend of hard rock and mainstream rock.
Ritchie set up this band with Ronny James Dio. He was later replaced by some other vocalists as the band had an unstable line-up throughout their history.
The album, and indeed the Rainbow discography, starts with one of their best ever and most loved songs... The Man On The Silver Mountain. A true epic and worthy the whole album itself. Ronny James Dio delivers some brilliant vocals on this song.
The rest of the album has some rather bad rock'n'roll songs and some decent songs. This is a decent enough debut album but not their best album. It is well worth checking out.
2 points
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