Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

Artist:  Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Origin:  England
Genre:  Hard Rock, Heavy Metal

Original line-up: (1975)

Richie Blackmore:  Guitar
Ronnie James Dio:  Lead Vocals
Craig Gruber:  Bass
Micky Lee Soule:  Keyboards
Gary Driscoll:  Drums

Rainbow were an English Hard Rock Band formed in California in 1975 by Richie Blackmore (Guitar Ex Deep Purple), also known as Richie Blackmore's Rainbow, with Ronnie James Dio (Vocals Ex ELF), Gary Driscoll (Drums Ex ELF), Micky Lee Soule (Keyboards Ex ELF) and Craig Gruber (Bass Ex ELF), the project consisted of numerous backing musicians.  The band combined music with Neo-Classical Metal at the beginning and went to more mainstream commercial style with many classic tracks: "The Temple Of The King", "Man On The Silver Mountain", "Catch The Rainbow", "Since You Been Gone", "Long Live Rock 'N' Roll", "All Night Long", and "Stargazer" ETC.

Artist:   Black Masquerade  (2013)
Genre:  Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Label:  Eagle Rock
Rating:   ****

Tracks:

Disc 1:

 1.  Introduction  (2:19)
 2.  Spotlight Kid  (4:53)
 3.  Too Late For Tears  (5:10)
 4.  Long Live Rock 'N' Rocll/Black Night  (8:24)
 5.  Hunting Humans  (6:49)
 6.  Wolf To The Moon/Difficult To Cure  (6:24)
 7.  Keyboard Solo  (5:56)
 8.  Still I'm Sad  (6:11)
 9.  Man On The Silver Mountain  (5:12)


Disc 2:

 1.  Temple Of The King  (6:04)
 2.  Black Masquerade  (6:05)
 3.  Ariel  (8:23)
 4.  Since You've Been Gone  (1:11)
 5.  Perfect Strangers  (6:38)
 6.  Greensleeves  (1:56)
 7.  Hall Of The Mountain King  (6:29)
 8.  Burn  (4:40)
 9.  Smoke On The Water  (8:11)

Personnel:

Ritchie Blackmore:  Guitar
Doogie White:  Vocals
Candice Night:  Vocals
Paul Morris:  Keyboards
Greg Smith:  Bass
Chuck Burgi:  Drums

Black Masquerade is the 1995 concert filmed inDusseldorf for Germany's famous Rockpalast TV series by Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, was released on August 26, 2013 by Eagle Rock, includes the classic tracks and previously unreleased live CD for Rainbow fan's collection.