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Ritchie Blackmore decided to pull the plug on Rainbow following the supporting tour for 1983's Bent Out of Shape. To commemorate the end of the band, he released the appropriately-titled, Finyl Vinyl. A double-record set of live recordings and a handful of studio outtakes, primarily culled from the Joe Lynn Turner era but also featuring selections with Ronnie James Dio and Graham Bonnet, Finyl Vinyl offers a haphazard alternate history designed for hardcore fans (by 1986, that's pretty much all Blackmore had left). For those fans, the album is actually quite a treat. Rainbow always sounded better on stage than they did on the studio -- rawer, harder, alive -- and songs that sounded half-baked in the studio, such as selections from Difficult to Cure, sound right here. That's not to say that it's a perfect album -- the outtakes are interesting, but not particularly remarkable, the sequencing doesn't make sense and Blackmore's classical pretentions become even harder to stomach when married with a full-fledged orchestra -- but it rocks harder and more convincingly than many latter-day Rainbow releases. That doesn't mean that it's preferable to the studio albums, but for the devoted, it's a welcome addition to the band's canon and it's a nice way to close a career.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Ritchie Blackmore, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Joe Lynn Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - David Rosenthal, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Rainbow, MainArtist - Chuck Burgi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Rainbow, MainArtist - Russ Ballard, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ritchie Blackmore, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer - Joe Lynn Turner, ComposerLyricist - Rainbow, MainArtist - David M. Rosenthal, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ritchie Blackmore, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Lynn Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Rosenthal, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Rainbow, MainArtist - Bruce Robbins, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Burgh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Lin robinson, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ritchie Blackmore, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer - Jimmy Bain, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Lynn Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Rainbow, MainArtist - Tony Carey, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Bobby Rondinelli, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1981 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ritchie Blackmore, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Rainbow, MainArtist
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ritchie Blackmore, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Joe Lynn Turner, ComposerLyricist - Rainbow, MainArtist
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gary Edwards, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ritchie Blackmore, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger Glover, Producer, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Lynn Turner, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - David Rosenthal, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Rainbow, MainArtist - Russ Ballard, ComposerLyricist - Leigh Mantle, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Burgh, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Doctor Michael Palmer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gary Edwards, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ritchie Blackmore, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Cozy Powell, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Rainbow, MainArtist - Don Airey, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Graham Bonnet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Leigh Mantle, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Doctor Michael Palmer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Ritchie Blackmore, Producer, Executive Producer, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Rainbow, MainArtist - Donald Smith Airey, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ritchie Blackmore, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Joe Lynn Turner, ComposerLyricist - Rainbow, MainArtist
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ritchie Blackmore, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer, Bass Guitar, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Joe Lynn Turner, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - David Rosenthal, Keyboards, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Rainbow, MainArtist - Bobby Rondinelli, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bob Daisley, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ritchie Blackmore, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer - Ronnie James Dio, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Cozy Powell, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Rainbow, MainArtist - David Stone, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ritchie Blackmore, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer - Ronnie James Dio, ComposerLyricist - Rainbow, MainArtist
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gary Edwards, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ritchie Blackmore, Producer, Guitar, Executive Producer, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Roger Glover, Producer, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cozy Powell, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Rainbow, MainArtist - Don Airey, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Graham Bonnet, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Leigh Mantle, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Doctor Michael Palmer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1986 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Ritchie Blackmore decided to pull the plug on Rainbow following the supporting tour for 1983's Bent Out of Shape. To commemorate the end of the band, he released the appropriately-titled, Finyl Vinyl. A double-record set of live recordings and a handful of studio outtakes, primarily culled from the Joe Lynn Turner era but also featuring selections with Ronnie James Dio and Graham Bonnet, Finyl Vinyl offers a haphazard alternate history designed for hardcore fans (by 1986, that's pretty much all Blackmore had left). For those fans, the album is actually quite a treat. Rainbow always sounded better on stage than they did on the studio -- rawer, harder, alive -- and songs that sounded half-baked in the studio, such as selections from Difficult to Cure, sound right here. That's not to say that it's a perfect album -- the outtakes are interesting, but not particularly remarkable, the sequencing doesn't make sense and Blackmore's classical pretentions become even harder to stomach when married with a full-fledged orchestra -- but it rocks harder and more convincingly than many latter-day Rainbow releases. That doesn't mean that it's preferable to the studio albums, but for the devoted, it's a welcome addition to the band's canon and it's a nice way to close a career.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:25:46
- Main artists: Rainbow
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1986 UMG Recordings Inc. ℗ 1986 UMG Recordings Inc.
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