New Rainbow remasterings are awful

Overhang,

I think you could basically call the remasters crap..Not sure why they even bothered.. I would have to agree the originals sound better...

"Who is Rainbow"? "Rainbow, theres a market for that group"? You have got to be kidding, right?

Gslone,

IMHO I would have to put Rainbow up there with the forefathers of metal or at minimum hard rock in general. I gues if you dont know whow Rainbow, Deep Purple is just another crayon in the Crayola box!!!

Audiofeil,

"rainbow is not Deep Purple"

Totally agree. And also agree that Blackmore is a self indulgent self imposed guitar god, but by no means whatsoever a great guitarist. What he did do was put two very diverse and successfull projects together. If he didn't have such issues both bands would have gone much, much further. The original Rainbow line up with Dio was my favorite and probably the best that was put together.

My initial point was how someone could not know who Rainbow was. Gillan by the way could not hold a candle to Dio...Just my opinion.....

I've actually seen Ritchies latest project "Blackmores Night" with his wife Candice...Not bad...If your into minstrel music:)

Perhaps godlike in the terms that some remember him IN DP AND ofcourse his own mind. Technique, originality, I don't know...I like him as a guitarist. Is he one of the top 10 or top 20 guitar gods...No...I've played for many years and have seen numerous guitar players over the years. Blackmore was good but not great.

If anyone is interested...The Live in Munich DVD is pretty good both audio and video, especially considering when it was recorded...