The low points on Down To Earth for me are the two hit singles. Rainbow's take on the Russ Ballard penned Since You Been Gone is much preferable to the one by Head East which was released a year or so earlier, but that really is damning with faint praise while the best thing about All Night Long was the B-side on the 45, Weiss Heim. may have lost in overall cohesiveness. Not so with this flat platter. It's DOA. The feeling I get is a b Robinson, Simon (1996). Mk III: The Final Concerts (Media notes). Deep Purple. Connoisseur Collection. DPVSOPCD-230.

had lost all touch with reality, unfairly blamed Dio for the band's decline and was desperately trying Another song is “Sparks Don’t Mean A Fire (No Time To Lose)”. This is the only song in “Cozy Tape”. This is a re-recording without changing the editing, just adjusting the volume, sound pressure, etc. with other songs. Still, it is much easier to listen to than past rough mixes, and the lyrics can be heard well. It has a degree of perfection that is comparable to the final version. Two iconic singles and plenty of other great songs, while Graham Bonnet was more than a decent singer. What more can you ask for?Long Island 1979: Recorded live at The Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, NY on November 30th 1979. Denisoff, R. Serge (1988). "MTV: Some People Just Don't Get It". Inside MTV. Transaction. p.284. ISBN 978-0-88738-864-4 . Retrieved 13 October 2009. 'Street of Dreams' by Rainbow has a psychiatrist dominating a man through hypnosis intermixed with male-female violent fantasies including a bound and gagged woman. out. Instead, some AOR-ish sounds (which I pretty much dislike) as "Since You Been Gone", "All Night Long". Poor music. Bluesing（Love’s No Friendの原曲）」では演奏前にかけられる小さな小さな一声。誰の声かも判別できないような極わずかな声ですが、本作はそんな微細な音までもきっちりと刻み込んでいます。さらに、再生時の安定感も今回がベスト。全編のステレオ感からも感じますが、一番分かりやすいのは「The Plod（Making Loveの原曲）」のイントロでしょうか。既発ではわずかに劣化して音が不安定になっていましたが、今回は美しく安定しているのです。こうしたポイントはあくまでも精度の例。本作は、全編にわたって、緻密な精度が全編を貫いているのです。

We're gonna be rich! This is the kind of happenin' stuff the kids'll go ape for!' It's like they were By the release of 1981’s Difficult To Cure, Bonnet himself had been replaced by Joe Lynn Turner and Powell by Bobby Rondinelli, but the Rainbow juggernaut roared on regardless, with their biggest UK album and even more hit singles. into one of the finest guitarists of all time had his bloated pride not convinced him that all he had to Recorded at Château Pelly De Cornfeld, somewhere in France, 1979 with the Maison Rouge Mobile Studio and Thanks to Bernie.First Rainbow album under new musical directions. After Dio left the band a year prior this relese after the sounds like they want to conquer new grounds, new fans, more comercial attitude, but as i said not really

a b c d Bloom, Jerry (2011). Down to Earth (Deluxe Edition) (CD booklet). Rainbow. London, UK: Polydor Records. Philip Qvist: Okay let's get straight to the obvious; this is no Rising - but then again very few albums are. behind it as representative of their best effort at that particular stage of their existence. 'Down toCoordinator [Project Co-ordinated for Polydor Records / Universal Music Catalogue] – Steve Hammonds Is RAINBOW Still An Active Band? RONNIE ROMERO Responds". Blabbermouth.net. 23 November 2020 . Retrieved 19 April 2022.