The best hard rock sound

[Aurel]

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[Mike Lobanovsky]

Rainbow was one of the greatest British hard-rock bands ever and a good successor to (hehe, fork of) the very specific sound of Deep Purple.

OMFG I went to see Deep Purple live three times in my life (the latest was earlier this year in Minsk) and I had seen Ian Gillan Band twice in Moscow well before that. I even heard Ian Gillan singing Jesus Christ in his one and only live Jesus Christ Superstar show in London's Palace Theatre as early as November 1976!

In the year of 1996, I went all the way to St Petersburg to see the farewell concert of David Coverdale (ex-Deep Purple and ex-Whitesnake lead singer) with his fantastic Soldier of Fortune and Is This Love ballads.

But I never saw Ritchie Blackmore live in my life.

[JRS]

Wow!

It is really interesting to hear how music is boarder-less and can be appreciated by everyone around the world no matter its origin.

[Mike Lobanovsky]

Hehe, I used to study at, and graduate from, the Minsk State Linguistic University back in 1973 .. 1978 and this was the only place in the city where Commies allowed unrestricted access to the fruits of "alien" cultures from the West.

We used to play literally hundreds of covers of British hard rock titles in those times, and there were a few dozen titles from Deep Purple, Whitesnake, and Rainbow among them that we used to play too. We even played 1-to-1 the entire "Who Do We Think We Are" album released by Deep Purple in 1973:



I was only a bass guitar player and not a lead vocals of course so there was only one song that I used to sing personally, and that was "Mistreated" by Ritchie Blackmore. It was first released in 1974 in Deep Purple's "Burn" and sung by David Coverdale, and later on, by Ronnie James Dio of Rainbow.

I regret to say but American hard rock was practically non-existent at those times; at any rate, what you had was too much folk-style to the ear of the demanding European audience. Aerosmith were yet nobodies at those times... although I did see them on their first European tour 38 years ago too...

Nonetheless, we did play some three or four tracks from the Grand Funk Railroad albums (no, not "The Loco-Motion" of course) such as "Heartbreaker" and "People Let's Stop the War". What a wonderful singing drummer they had and how perfect did his voice match Mark Farner's! "Mean Mistreater" is still my wife's favorite but as for me, I heard their best one in their best interpretation only many more years later, and that was the rocking and rolling "She's Some Kind of Wonderful".

It's a pity this forum doesn't allow us to embed video directly but please follow this link and enjoy that last one together with me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP-UNSv4DLs

[Aurel]

Cool song Mike 
If you ask me i never liked Deep Purple and Ian performance
BUT
Rainbow is the great hard-rock band  and Richie Blackmoore is a legend.
Of course with Joe Lynn Turner lead vocals.

[Aurel]

And now something completelly different...
be "careful" this is a trick question....
Who is author of this picture?
(help: it is one well known guy....) 

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[RobbeK]

Hi Aurel, Mike  ...

You know the Dr ?  ...    old wine in new bottles here   (seems he needed an extra string to play this )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuSaudKc68

 

best Rob

[Mike Lobanovsky]

@Aurel:

Hehe, judging by perfect color match of main window's palette and tab options with your current avatar, the author is .... you!


@Rob:

Not bad, not bad at all. But you know, the electric guitar can really mask many flaws of the performer behind the background of unavoidable concomitant square wave distortion. As far as Flight of the Bumblebee goes - that's an established virtuosity criterion for stringed instrument performers - 600 bpm (beats per minute) is the world record for electric guitar performers while it is only 320 bpm for the acoustic guitar where all the flaws are immediately noticeable to the audience.

You might have noticed that real virtuosos of hard rock lead guitar, such as Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow or Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, used very low square wave distortion while performing and still made their electric guitars sing. OTOH there are some cool hard rock guitarists who do exactly the opposite, for example Brian May of former Queen. But then he is a certified electronics engineer by profession and he has always built all his guitars and sound effects gear with his own hands. And he is always extremely careful when playing his virtuoso riffs not to touch the wrong strings in order to avoid all this pretty annoying fuzz that's really abundant in the video you pointed us to.

[Aurel]

Yes i agree with Mike...this performance is not right stuff-
and yes in a hands of JP ..RB and of course Brian May guitars simply singin...
without to much efects..
My favorite song from Rainbow is  "Stone Cold"...

Hehe, judging by perfect color match of main window's palette and tab options with your current avatar, the author is .... you!

no..wrong answer...
(little help : this guy create GL wrapper for one programming language...)
 

[RobbeK]

Hi,

Well, I know this piece form the piano, it's not an easy one to play - and I even did not expect such a result on guitar , 
(that's not a usual guitar , is it ? )

I always admired (as for guitar) the technique of both Steve How and Chris Squire (on the bass) - but maybe it's mainly a question of taste ... 

best Rob

[Charles Pegge]

Girl-With-Amazing-Voice-and-Looping-Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eci4nqyGUu0

[JRS]

Raw talent at its best!

[RobbeK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ElZelA2kOo   !!!!

[JRS]

Maybe that's what we need, a world concert that would last long enough that everyone forgets about wars, who owns what and realizes what's truly important.

[Mike Lobanovsky]

@Aurel:

I know only one good OpenGL wrapper for BASIC which is TBGL by Petr Schreiber of thinBasic. So if that's really his kindergarten autograph, then you may rightfully be proud possessing such a treasure in your personal collection.

Alternatively, if you're hinting at his German namesake - Peter the SWGL author who decided to un-friend with me a while ago, then I won't believe it. Peter's got a much better sense of beauty than that judging by his creative submissions to the BASIC forums that I'm in the habit of visiting.

However, I can hardly rely on my own judgement here because I'm personally rather poor at drawing, and this was about as good as I was ever able to get:





@Charles:

This is really impressive and very talented indeed, human-wise! OTOH the sound of this sort of music reminds me strongly of Diva Plavalaguna 10 thousand light years away from my own galaxy. Technically speaking, there's nothing exciting in it in the era when a kettle in your kitchen is stronger at sound processing than anything that I laid my hands on back in the seventies of the last century:





@Rob:

Hehe, so you're a Yes-man! I admire their creative work and I'm also very deeply impressed by their lifespan in the show biz industry but I was never their personal follower and I have never played their tunes. And yes, you're right in saying that our personal preferences are very basically instinctive and can't always be adecuately accounted for from a rational point of view.



@John:

I used to be very happy to live long enough to see Red Army Choir singing Stairway to Heaven to Western audiences with my own eyes. There were at least two generations before me in my country that were born in dung and dung was where they were doomed to go and went in the end. I was very excited to be seeing the Time Rift but I am no more.

It turned out a treacherous lullaby before the onset of mind-breaking midnight horrors.