His vocals were not only legendary, his song writing skillset were leagues above anyone who came before or after him! BTW Richie typically plays his solos using that Arabic scale. NOTE: The 2nd part of this song is entitled "A Light in the Black", check it out (Richie's solo in that session is mind blowing & of course Ronnie shines as always)…Thanks for the decades of memories Ronnie, and for you both for show-casing and appreciating the music we grew up on. Great Reaction
Welcome to Rainbow, one of my favorite bands. Stargazer is epic and in my opinion one of the best songs ever recorded. They have some great videos on RUclips from the 1977 Munich concert, I highly recommend checking out the performances of "Mistreated" and "Catch the Rainbow". Just magical performances. Not to mention all the other songs from the concert were outstanding.
The pairing of Dio with Blackmore was magical, no pun, Blackmore wanted to distance himself from Deep Purple, he achieved it with Dio. Cozy Powell was a beast. Jimmy Bain was a great bass player as well, he played with Dio when Dio went solo after Sabbath.
the greatest rock metal vocalist ever in history period no contest plus Ritchie blackmore , was lucky enough to meet both Ronnie n Lemmy n more 13+ times over 30 years+ Ronnie was the sweetest dude He loved his fans combine him with Geezer Cozy Iommi and you got the metal gods nobody could command a stage or tell a story like Ronnie he sounded just as badass 1st number as he did 3 hrs later live, even in his 60s with stomac cancer Ronnie James Dio was known for popularizing the sign of the horns in heavy metal. He claimed his Italian (siccilian ) grandmother used it to ward off the evil eye (which is known in Italy as malocchio). Dio began using the sign soon after joining the metal band Black Sabbath in 1979. still got my original albums signed .... Never Forgotten you little man with the voice of a roaring god Ronnie James Dio “He loved his fans, he never forgot where he came from, and he always wanted them. He said to [Halestorm frontwoman] Lzzy Hale as well, and she’s continuing on doing that. So he said, ‘When you meet someone you won’t remember that 10 years down the line, it was nothing, but to them it was everything, and they will never forget it for the rest of their life. So make it important when you speak to them.'” he was wrong becourse several times over the years he asked me how it was goin with this n that so some he remembered ... In November 2009, Dio was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died of the disease six months later. Dio is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal vocalists of all time. not fair to lose Dio n lemmy n more but keep Bieber n Co
Only 1 member of DP in this one, Ritchie Blackmore,later to be joined by Roger Glover in the 80's. The rest of Deep Purple can be seen in Whitesnake in the late 70's early 80's.
The real to real your commenting about was used as a pre-amp and a delay. This song has everything epic storytelling epic singing epic drumming epic guitar one of the best in the world. Ritchie Blackmore
Dio’s story is interesting, he was making records before the Beatles were. He was playing bass and was doing more ‘50s/crooner music. Theres a documentary on youtube.
I knew you would like this, it’s epic. I can’t wait until Tuesday for the Light in the Black reaction, it’s the continuation of this song’s story and it’s amazing as well. Great video as usual Justin!🤘🏻🔥
Epic song. One of the best songs in rock in my opinion. I have one of their albums that is an extended one that has a few versions of this song. This official one is the best. This is the second surprise of the day for me....I really would have assumed you had heard this before.
Justin, I know Blackmore personally. We lived in the same small town on Long Island. Always would meet him in local neighborhood bars. He is very demanding with band members. He tells you your spot on stage, if you move, out of the band!!! He is also a disgruntled gutarist and feels he never got the accolades as being one of the greatest. (and he is!!!) Here's a nugget. I asked him, how does it feel to have the most famous riff in rock history? (Smoke on the Water) He told me how he came up with it. He said "it's from Beethoven's 5th, and I just played it backwards, so I owe him a lot of money." true story! Aside from hating every other musician around him, he did like Deo a lot...
I was 17 in 1976 when I bought this album (actually 8-track : yikes!) and I played it often and LOUD!! The album is fire!! 🔥🔥 Originally, the band was named "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow." Other great songs by Rainbow: "The Man on the Silver Mountain," A Light in the Black," "Kill the King" and "Gates of Babylon." ✌🎸🎼😈
Such an epic song. RIP Cozy Powell & Ronnie James Dio. Yes Blackmore would switch out musicians like crazy. The first Rainbow album was basically Blackmore & Ronnie's band Elf. They were actually from my neck of the woods somewhat Corfu N.Y. & lol you're probably tired of me saying this but again another song I've played. This whole album is great. Check out Gates of Babylon from the Long Live RocknRoll. Blackmore I believe used the reel to reel as a tape echo. By the way Ronnie was one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Great video.
"Blackmore would switch out musicians like crazy" More like musicians quit like crazy because Blackmore, despite being a great musician, is a terrible human being.
Haven't heard Rainbow in ages. RJD had an amazing voice/range. He could make an average song amazing. My son would gargle "smoke on the water" after brushing his teeth when he was younger. 😀
ronnie james did some great album whit is solo career, holy diver and the last in line, are the 2 best,only 5 foot 2,whit a powerfull voice, a metal icon, great choice jim,🤘🤘🤘
Hah, the second _Stargazer_ reaction I've seen today! As I said elsewhere you can't really go wrong with Dio so long as you can put up with the fantasy lyrics, he's got an amazing voice. My personal preference is for his Black Sabbath work, but then I always preferred Sabbath to Purple anyway (in general) so I may be biased. RIP RJD.
This still stands up all these years later....Great band full of fantastic musicians.....Dio went on a fantastic solo career after Rainbow,but for me he was at his best with Black Sabbath,...."Lonely is the word" from Heaven and Hell by Sabbath really is one of his finest vocal performances....check it out ,you won't be disappointed....but maybe you'd be surprised that Sabbath could sound like that!!!!!
Just a bit of Rainbow trivia, the crowd photo inside the gatefold sleeve of the long live rock ‘n’ roll album is actually taken from a Rush concert, but you already new that.
I missed out on that part of the band’s history. I saw them about six years later when Joe Lynn Turner was the Frontman. I missed Ronnie even when he was in Sabbath back then. But Ritchie Blackmore was awesome as usual. Saw him again when Purple got back together. Bassist Roger Glover played with Ritchie in both bands too. 👍🏻
As a side note the live shots of the band was the Long Live RocknRoll album tour. Bob Daisley replaced Jimmy Bain on bass...Bob toured & recorded with Ozzy & Tony Carey was replaced by I think his name is Mike Stone on keyboards.
Daisley also wrote most of Ozzy’s good songs from blizzard of Oz through no rest for the wicked. I think if it wasn’t for him and kerslake, ozzy would have had zero material for his first two solo albums. And Randy of course…..
this is not deep purple plus dio- rainbow is a spin off, as in blackmore plus the band elf that opened for dp and was managed by dp. elf was rjds band from 67 to 75 a unique band. this album had ritchie blackmore replacing the elf members besides dio and this line up has jimmy bain the bassist in dio in it, cozy powell(black sabbath note -the martin era, white snake, MSG and many other groups. the deep purple connection is stong with them if u get the joe lynn turn era rainbow linup is half the late 80s deep purple line up, white snake had the other half of dps line up around that same time 1981-84ish.
Love Dio, deep, purple, and Black Sabbath. Hard to go wrong with most of their music! Funny enough, I never got into rainbow. Like you just never listened to them. No, I want to hear more!
That reel to reel was used by Ritchie as a means to gain more distortion with his guitar. Check out the video of the song "Mistreated" from the 1977 Munich concert. Right before his solo, he turns to the unit and turns it on.
O yes Rainbow rising and Graham Bonnet and since you've been gone. Seen this band so many times also involved in MSG I will leave you to investigate some amazing Rock colab from UK, USA, Germany!!
The reel-to-reel is an Aiwa that one of Ritchie's guitar techs modded for him, he used it as a boost and tape echo, he said he hated other delays and the delay it created didn't get in the way of the notes, pretty savvy idea actually
One of the most iconic and epic rock songs of all time performed by Blackmore, Dio and Cozy all regarded as in the very elite few at their instrument/vocals. Dio and Cozy sadly missed - they just don’t make them as talented anymore.
Always loved these guys, never saw them live, did see Dio with Black Sabbath, Ozzy is the original, but Dio, wow, Heaven and Hell tour I think, still have the concert shirt, it was too cool to wear😂
welcome to the greatest rock metal voice there ever will be Ronnie James Dio check out Die young Heaven And Hell Dio in Sabbath or anything he was involved in
Ritchie Blackmore was one of the best guitarists out there but he had an ego the same size as his talent and was very hard to work with. Gates of Babylon in my opinion is better than this.
His vocals were not only legendary, his song writing skillset were leagues above anyone who came before or after him! BTW Richie typically plays his solos using that Arabic scale. NOTE: The 2nd part of this song is entitled "A Light in the Black", check it out (Richie's solo in that session is mind blowing & of course Ronnie shines as always)…Thanks for the decades of memories Ronnie, and for you both for show-casing and appreciating the music we grew up on. Great Reaction
Best vocal ever by Dio ! Rising by Rainbow is one of the best hard rock album of the 70's and in history !
Ronnie James Dio. One of the best voices of Heavy/Rock. Very missed. His solo albums are amazing.
The best!
Not one of the best voice, He is the number one and I mean it literally. Ask any metal rock singer and he will say Ronnie is the best.
Welcome to Rainbow, one of my favorite bands. Stargazer is epic and in my opinion one of the best songs ever recorded. They have some great videos on RUclips from the 1977 Munich concert, I highly recommend checking out the performances of "Mistreated" and "Catch the Rainbow". Just magical performances. Not to mention all the other songs from the concert were outstanding.
The pairing of Dio with Blackmore was magical, no pun, Blackmore wanted to distance himself from Deep Purple, he achieved it with Dio. Cozy Powell was a beast. Jimmy Bain was a great bass player as well, he played with Dio when Dio went solo after Sabbath.
the greatest rock metal vocalist ever in history period no contest plus Ritchie blackmore , was lucky enough to meet both Ronnie n Lemmy n more 13+ times over 30 years+ Ronnie was the sweetest dude He loved his fans combine him with Geezer Cozy Iommi and you got the metal gods nobody could command a stage or tell a story like Ronnie he sounded just as badass 1st number as he did 3 hrs later live, even in his 60s with stomac cancer Ronnie James Dio was known for popularizing the sign of the horns in heavy metal. He claimed his Italian (siccilian ) grandmother used it to ward off the evil eye (which is known in Italy as malocchio). Dio began using the sign soon after joining the metal band Black Sabbath in 1979. still got my original albums signed .... Never Forgotten you little man with the voice of a roaring god Ronnie James Dio
“He loved his fans, he never forgot where he came from, and he always wanted them. He said to [Halestorm frontwoman] Lzzy Hale as well, and she’s continuing on doing that. So he said, ‘When you meet someone you won’t remember that 10 years down the line, it was nothing, but to them it was everything, and they will never forget it for the rest of their life. So make it important when you speak to them.'” he was wrong becourse several times over the years he asked me how it was goin with this n that so some he remembered ... In November 2009, Dio was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died of the disease six months later. Dio is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal vocalists of all time.
not fair to lose Dio n lemmy n more but keep Bieber n Co
The day Blackmore and Dio teamed up marked the birth of Power Metal.
A monumental track. Just out of this world. RIP Ronnie. RIP Cozy.
And Jimmy Bain
Rush's 2112, with Rainbow Rising a few weeks later. What a year was 1976! Happy days!
Absolutely: and add Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest.
Only 1 member of DP in this one, Ritchie Blackmore,later to be joined by Roger Glover in the 80's. The rest of Deep Purple can be seen in Whitesnake in the late 70's early 80's.
Every now and then a song comes along and you just have to sit back and say ' that was phenomenal '. End it there.
The real to real your commenting about was used as a pre-amp and a delay. This song has everything epic storytelling epic singing epic drumming epic guitar one of the best in the world. Ritchie Blackmore
So you never heard this song before this day?? .... Best Rock n Roll Song & band lineup of all time in my book.
The Little Man with the BIG voice.
I grew up with this song. The whole band are on top form. It came out in 1976, the year after Zeppelin's Kashmir. A bit of influence there, perhaps?
Yes, Ritchie even said so in an interview. Stargazer was the answer to Kashmir.
The BEST SONG OF ALL TIME!!!🤘💜
Dio’s story is interesting, he was making records before the Beatles were. He was playing bass and was doing more ‘50s/crooner music. Theres a documentary on youtube.
I knew you would like this, it’s epic. I can’t wait until Tuesday for the Light in the Black reaction, it’s the continuation of this song’s story and it’s amazing as well. Great video as usual Justin!🤘🏻🔥
One of my favorite songs, My eyes are bleeding!!!
Epic song. One of the best songs in rock in my opinion. I have one of their albums that is an extended one that has a few versions of this song. This official one is the best. This is the second surprise of the day for me....I really would have assumed you had heard this before.
Great song!... it kind of reminds me of "Kashmir" for some reason.
Justin, I know Blackmore personally. We lived in the same small town on Long Island. Always would meet him in local neighborhood bars. He is very demanding with band members. He tells you your spot on stage, if you move, out of the band!!! He is also a disgruntled gutarist and feels he never got the accolades as being one of the greatest. (and he is!!!) Here's a nugget. I asked him, how does it feel to have the most famous riff in rock history? (Smoke on the Water) He told me how he came up with it. He said "it's from Beethoven's 5th, and I just played it backwards, so I owe him a lot of money." true story! Aside from hating every other musician around him, he did like Deo a lot...
We should be lucky, that we live in this time of the world with a lot of very good music. I like it to live noooow.
Im very lucky, that you dont interrupt the song. Thank you.
“My eyes are bleeding!” 🤘🏼
I was 17 in 1976 when I bought this album (actually 8-track : yikes!) and I played it often and LOUD!! The album is fire!! 🔥🔥
Originally, the band was named "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow." Other great songs by Rainbow: "The Man on the Silver Mountain," A Light in the Black," "Kill the King" and "Gates of Babylon." ✌🎸🎼😈
Such an epic song. RIP Cozy Powell & Ronnie James Dio. Yes Blackmore would switch out musicians like crazy. The first Rainbow album was basically Blackmore & Ronnie's band Elf. They were actually from my neck of the woods somewhat Corfu N.Y. & lol you're probably tired of me saying this but again another song I've played. This whole album is great. Check out Gates of Babylon from the Long Live RocknRoll. Blackmore I believe used the reel to reel as a tape echo. By the way Ronnie was one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Great video.
"Blackmore would switch out musicians like crazy"
More like musicians quit like crazy because Blackmore, despite being a great musician, is a terrible human being.
Haven't heard Rainbow in ages. RJD had an amazing voice/range. He could make an average song amazing.
My son would gargle "smoke on the water" after brushing his teeth when he was younger. 😀
Gates of Babylon is another epic Rainbow track :) Subbed
I saw Rainbow many times and they were superb in all incarnations
Best rock song ever!
The 70s MUSIC, THE BEST ERA FOR PROGRESSIVE ROCK & GUITARING
The greatest vocalist EVAH!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
ronnie james did some great album whit is solo career, holy diver and the last in line, are the 2 best,only 5 foot 2,whit a powerfull voice, a metal icon, great choice jim,🤘🤘🤘
Hah, the second _Stargazer_ reaction I've seen today! As I said elsewhere you can't really go wrong with Dio so long as you can put up with the fantasy lyrics, he's got an amazing voice. My personal preference is for his Black Sabbath work, but then I always preferred Sabbath to Purple anyway (in general) so I may be biased. RIP RJD.
Great live band the. Voice of life time one of best all time singers
Amazing bassist!
This still stands up all these years later....Great band full of fantastic musicians.....Dio went on a fantastic solo career after Rainbow,but for me he was at his best with Black Sabbath,...."Lonely is the word" from Heaven and Hell by Sabbath really is one of his finest vocal performances....check it out ,you won't be disappointed....but maybe you'd be surprised that Sabbath could sound like that!!!!!
Just a bit of Rainbow trivia, the crowd photo inside the gatefold sleeve of the long live rock ‘n’ roll album is actually taken from a Rush concert, but you already new that.
Epic all round, love the line "I see a rainbow rising look there on the horizon" awesome.
I missed out on that part of the band’s history. I saw them about six years later when Joe Lynn Turner was the Frontman. I missed Ronnie even when he was in Sabbath back then. But Ritchie Blackmore was awesome as usual. Saw him again when Purple got back together. Bassist Roger Glover played with Ritchie in both bands too. 👍🏻
There is a four-part bus interview with Ronnie on RUclips. I think it's called "Brutally Honest Interview" or something. Really worth checking out.
One of my favorite rock albums of the late '70s, I believed "Rising" was vastly underrated.
Just curious when you will be getting back to Rush. What date/week etc. Did you OD?😂
actually recorded the next album yesterday! Editing now... will be live Feb 1
As a side note the live shots of the band was the Long Live RocknRoll album tour. Bob Daisley replaced Jimmy Bain on bass...Bob toured & recorded with Ozzy & Tony Carey was replaced by I think his name is Mike Stone on keyboards.
Daisley also wrote most of Ozzy’s good songs from blizzard of Oz through no rest for the wicked. I think if it wasn’t for him and kerslake, ozzy would have had zero material for his first two solo albums. And Randy of course…..
just a friendly note, it was David Stone
@@jalkabre5904 thanks always got his name wrong. Was never overly familiar with him.
this is not deep purple plus dio- rainbow is a spin off, as in blackmore plus the band elf that opened for dp and was managed by dp. elf was rjds band from 67 to 75 a unique band. this album had ritchie blackmore replacing the elf members besides dio and this line up has jimmy bain the bassist in dio in it, cozy powell(black sabbath note -the martin era, white snake, MSG and many other groups. the deep purple connection is stong with them if u get the joe lynn turn era rainbow linup is half the late 80s deep purple line up, white snake had the other half of dps line up around that same time 1981-84ish.
Love Dio, deep, purple, and Black Sabbath. Hard to go wrong with most of their music! Funny enough, I never got into rainbow. Like you just never listened to them. No, I want to hear more!
I think that reel to reel was that orchestra :). Please check out Heaven and He’ll album by Sabbath .it’s just GREAT ….
That reel to reel was used by Ritchie as a means to gain more distortion with his guitar. Check out the video of the song "Mistreated" from the 1977 Munich concert. Right before his solo, he turns to the unit and turns it on.
O yes Rainbow rising and Graham Bonnet and since you've been gone. Seen this band so many times also involved in MSG I will leave you to investigate some amazing Rock colab from UK, USA, Germany!!
The reel-to-reel is an Aiwa that one of Ritchie's guitar techs modded for him, he used it as a boost and tape echo, he said he hated other delays and the delay it created didn't get in the way of the notes, pretty savvy idea actually
Awesome song from an awesome album , Dio was an amazing singer and the best Rainbow albums are those with him on vocals .
Love the song but I wish they'd put out a high end version of the album. The original may be a tad flat.
One of the most iconic and epic rock songs of all time performed by Blackmore, Dio and Cozy all regarded as in the very elite few at their instrument/vocals. Dio and Cozy sadly missed - they just don’t make them as talented anymore.
Great song. I used to own every Rainbow album.
Total Classic! Outstanding and timeless!
Always loved these guys, never saw them live, did see Dio with Black Sabbath, Ozzy is the original, but Dio, wow, Heaven and Hell tour I think, still have the concert shirt, it was too cool to wear😂
Terrific song -- one of my favorites!
Black Sabbath - Dio era "Heaven & Hell" \m/
best rock track ever
welcome to the greatest rock metal voice there ever will be Ronnie James Dio check out Die young Heaven And Hell Dio in Sabbath or anything he was involved in
Wasn't a super group it was ritchie blackmore and elf they supported deep purple on tour Ronnie James Dio wasn't a well known singer at the time
Cozy Powell was an amazing drummer....gone too soon
Stone Cold all time classic
Bruce Dickinson's favourite singer.Actually, do Maiden. Up the Irons
Actually, while I'm at it.
Do Maiden....Up the Irons
Classic
Richie Blackmore went through musicians like they were underwear
This is a tune. Metal was better when it was "theatrical".
Dio the Heavy Metal Elf......
I always felt they ripped off the beginning from Montrose's song Rock Candy (which came out 3yrs earlier) for this track.
a reel to reel? yes its 1976
Living healthy requires a steady diet of Dio...just saying!
Ritchie Blackmore was one of the best guitarists out there but he had an ego the same size as his talent and was very hard to work with. Gates of Babylon in my opinion is better than this.
🤯 Your first listen? 🤯 You're lying, right? Tell us you're lying. At least tell me you listened to Man on the Silver Mountain.
Core of Rainbow was Richie Blackmore,Ronnie James Dio and amazing Cozy Powell.
Boomer Metal rules. Sturm and drang all day baby!!
If the next song is Tarot Woman or Light In The Black...Cool.....but won't be as liked as Stargazer ....I think !!