![]() Man On The Silver Mountain – Rainbow: Live In Munich 1977 It’s off-the-hook, and while it is attacked with a similar aggression and precision (the aggression always making sure that Blackmore’s technicality is never too clinical) it is a million miles away from his style on the likes of Mistreated and Lazy.Ĥ. They were made for each other.Ĭheck out Blackmore’s solo work here. It’s funny, just after leaving Deep Purple, a band in which Jon Lord’s genius at the Hammond organ was an awesome foil, Blackmore’s guitar would be complemented by a different kind of genius in the form of Ronnie James Dio’s voice. ![]() Of course, it’s painful leaving Stargazer out it’s at least as good a track, and is from the perfect metal album, but Gates Of Babylon really foreground’s Blackmore’s guitar. ![]() Rainbow's Gates Of Babylon picks up where Stargazer left off on Rising, or at least it expands open the idea that rock and metal could assume the so-called exotic eastern scales and use the double harmonic scale (or Arabic or Gypsy major scale) to extricate itself from the blues-rock idiom, and make complete sense despite being in an alien environment tonally.
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