Dinosaur Rock Guitar Forum

spot on re Neil Murray,  the US producers i think will have insisted on a more generic,  root heavy approach as was in vogue at the time.   

even in Purple, Roger was amazingly inventive on tracks like No, No, No and Smoke on the water to name but 2 examples. By Rainbow time Ritchie had clearly instructed him to play a more chuggy, root note approach. 

won't comment on whether his best bass work but fully agree the LP is a total peak in rock/metal history,  

as you say Geezer is doing some amazing fills, particularly in COTS, underneath Tony's riffs. 
 

having had a chance to go through,  the WS demos are different to those on the 1987 30th anniversary release, Bad boys aside which i think is the same.  More complete, as in studio early takes, it would appear.    Of the BM tracks, Riot is quite different to the finalised version, much slower tempo....

 
 

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This sounds pretty damn good, and the guitar tone particularly awesome. A lengthy set list but many of the numbers cut back to one verse, and seque way quickly into the next. Not having heard any recent live Yngwie for some time I was pleasantly surprised soloing wise…..there’s the usual licks and r...

unsure if you mean Don or Ritchie,  but yes both fab!  the keys very prog/ELP ish rather than Jon ish.    indeed.  not over keen on Ritchie's guitar sound on Difficult to cure though to be honest.  very entertaining evening with Mick Wall and Don wednesday, lots of stories and anecdotes.  I also ma...

unsure if you mean Don or Ritchie,  but yes both fab!  the keys very prog/ELP ish rather than Jon ish. 

agreed re Spotlight kid, one of my favourite RB riffs, though my first Don listening would have been Down to earth.   one of the questions i was going to ask was re writing credits in Rainbow,  he had none on DTE, but several on DTC, though i believe did contribute to the writing on the former.