RAINBOW - Light In The Black 1975 - 1984 Box Set Coming In January; Details Revealed
December 11, 2014, 9 years ago
A new box set, Rainbow - Light In The Black 1975 - 1984, is due for release in January. Pre-orders will be available soon at this location.
According to Darker Than Blue: "The first ever history of Rainbow according to the label, and a set which can’t really make it’s mind up what it wants to be. It’s got far too many alternate tracks and rough mixes to be of much interest to casual fans, so seems to be aimed at the more committed Rainbow enthusiast. It’s a difficult balance to strike, as I found out when I put that Listen Learn Read On package together for EMI some years ago and got roundly dissed in some quarters for mixing so many rarities amongst a more off the wall album track choice!
As well as regular album tracks, we have a number of ‘rarities’, and on the first few discs these comprise rough mixes of a trio of Rising tracks, live recordings from Japan (which may be from the On Stage reissue), and rehearsal versions from 1977 of Long Live Rock and Roll tracks. Early lists suggested tracks from the Don Kirshner’s show and Osaka but these have been changed for more of the Munich 77 show since then. From the Down To Earth era there is an instrumental take of one track, some live numbers from November 1979 off the King Biscuit show and Stargazer audio from Castle Donington.
The Turner period is boosted by audio of the San Antonio set from 1982 and a couple of tracks from Hammersmith in 1981. The set finishes with latter day bits and bobs including a couple of out-takes from the last album, three live cuts from Cardiff in 1983 (great to have the applause back on Stranded!) and another three from the Tokyo show in 1984 on the band’s last tour.
It’s a little difficult to be exact about which of these are new to official CD (collectors will probably have sourced many on bootleg in the past), and which are recycled from the last set of Rainbow album double remasters, and the advance information doesn’t tell us.
The set is rounded off with a DVD from the Donington Monsters of Rock event, but it is just the BBCTV edit, with all the attendant issues (starting the show with the encore, etc.). As the gig was filmed by manager Bruce Payne’s own company, you might have thought the full show could be sourced. Apparently white label double vinyl test pressings of the set were sent out, and Graham Bonnet recalls them all being invited to a screening of the film."
Read more at Darker Than Blue.
Tracklisting:
Disc 1:
"Sixteenth Century Greensleeves"
"Snake Charmer"
"The Temple Of The King"
"Tarot Woman" (Rough Mix)
"Stargazer" (Rough Mix)
"Run With The Wolf" (Rough Mix)
"Mistreated" (Live in Osaka, Japan / 1976)
"Purple Haze" / "White Christmas" / "Lazy" / "Man On The Silver Mountain" / "Blues" / "Starstruck" (Live In Osaka, Japan / 1976)
Disc 2:
"Sensitive To Light" (Rough Mix)
"The Shed"
"Rainbow Eyes" (Rough Mix)
"Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring" (Bob Daisley Rehearsal Tape)
"Long Live Rock N Roll" (L.A. Rehearsal / 1977)
"Do You Close Your Eyes" (Bob Daisley Rehearsal Tape)
"Still I’m Sad" (With Organ Intro / Bob Daisley Rehearsal Tape)
"Gates Of Babylon"
"Catch The Rainbow" (Live/1976 / With Applause)
"Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll" (Live In Munich, Germany / 1977)
"L.A. Connection" (Live In Munich, Germany / 1977)
Disc 3:
"Eyes Of The World" (Instrumental Outtake)
"Ain’t A Lot Of Love In The Heart Of Me"
"Lost In Hollywood"
"Danger Zone"
"Since You Been Gone" (Album Version)
"Bad Girl"
"Over The Rainbow" / "Eyes Of The World" (King Biscuit Flower Hour Radio Broadcast / Live At Calderone, New York / 1979)
"Love’s No Friend" (King Biscuit Flower Hour Radio Broadcast / Live At Calderone, New York / 1979)
"Ode To Joy" (King Biscuit Flower Hour Radio Broadcast / Live At Calderone, New York / 1979)
"All Night Long" (Single Remix Version)
"Weiss Heim"
"Stargazer" (Live At Donnington/1980)
Disc 4:
"Midtown Tunnel Vision"
"I Surrender" (Album Version)
"Magic"
"Vielleicht Das Nachster Mal"
"Jealous Lover"
"Spotlight Kid" (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1981)
"Rule Britannia" / "Fire" (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1981)
"Death Alley Driver"
"Bring On The Night (Dream Chaser)"
"Stone Cold" (Album Version)
"Power" (Live In San Antonio, TX/1982)
"Miss Mistreated" (Live In San Antonio, TX/1982)
"Tearin’ Out My Heart" (Live In San Antonio, TX/1982)
Disc 5:
"Can’t Let You Go" (Album Version)
"Desperate Heart" (Album Version)
"Anybody There" (Outtake / Polar Mix)
"Drinking With The Devil" (Outtake / Different Guitar Solo)
"Make Your Move"
"Snowman"
"Street Of Dreams" (Album Version)
"Stranded" (Live At St. David’s Hall, Cardiff/1983 / With Applause)
"Power" (Live In Cardiff/1983)
"Fire Dance" (Live In Cardiff/1983)
"Fool For the Night" (Live At The Tokyo Budokan/1984)
"Difficult To Cure" (Live At The Tokyo Budokan)
"Smoke On The Water" (Live At The Tokyo Budokan/1984)
Disc 6 (DVD):
"All Night Long" (Live At Monsters Of Rock, Donington Park, UK / 1980)
"Catch The Rainbow" (Live At Monsters Of Rock, Donington Park, UK / 1980)
"Eyes Of The World" (Live At Monsters Of Rock, Donington Park, UK / 1980)
"Lost In Hollywood" (Guitar Solo / Live At Monsters Of Rock, Donington Park, UK / 1980)
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (Live At Monsters Of Rock, Donington Park, UK / 1980)
"Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll" (Live At Monsters Of Rock, Donington Park, UK / 1980 / Pt. 1)
"Kill The King" (Live At Monsters Of Rock, Donington Park, UK / 1980)
"Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll" (Live At Monsters Of Rock, Donington Park, UK / 1980 / Pt. 2)