First time hearing Rainbow “Stargazer” Reaction | Asia and BJ

Rainbow was formed by Deep Purple's guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. Ronnie James Dio is singing. Cozy Powell on drums. Rainbow was a truly remarkable band filled with extraordinary musicians.

"I've never heard of Rainbow before" - my heart weeps for a generation

Ronnie James Dio – lead vocals Ritchie Blackmore – guitar Tony Carey – keyboards Jimmy Bain – bass Cozy Powell – drums

Ritchie Blackmore is is without a shadow of a doubt one of the all-time rock guitar legends.

You have stumbled on to one of the greatest songs of all time. Singer Ronnie James Dio is widely considered the best metal vocalist of all time. LOVE!

Asia & BJ You can't go wrong with Ronnie James Dio....he is one of the greatest vocalists of the Rock Era!

Epic Song!!! Dio's vocals are on another level on this song!

"Stargazer" features the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra at the end. Good catch and you are correct. The sound was building to the finale at the end where the orchestra added so much more punch.

Far away one of Ronnie James Dio's most powerful vocal performances and this is years before he would go on to the recognition he was due as the singer for Black Sabbath and then his own band Dio. I love this era of Hard Rock that is bordering on Proto heavy metal... the imagery and the musicality is just through the roof and as you guys said it really paints a dramatic Epic story picture in your mind. Great stuff

One of my favorite songs of all time. Ritchie Blackmore on guitar Ronnie James Dio on vocals and Cozy Powell on drums. Doesn't get any better than that.

Top 5 albums I still listen to. 1. Rush: 2112 2. Rainbow: Long Live ROCK AND ROLL 3. Boston: Boston 4. Black Sabbath: Heaven and Hell 5. Dio: Holy Diver. These are probably my most listened to albums. I drop a needle into one or more of them almost weekly. Good music never gets old.

One of those occasions where the band went into the studio and got everything right. Martin Birch deserves huge credit for his production work on this.

My first concert was Rainbow opening for Jethro Tull in 1976... Simply, out of this world!! Check out Man on the Silver Mountain...

This was one of the first attempts at symphonic rock that actually worked. After the guitar solo, the Munich Philarmonic Orchestra picks up one of the main riffs and plays it over and over towards the end, you can hear some violins come across and play a counterpoint melody. When this was released, Punk was taking off and Rainbow were largely ignored by the music press and were left pretty much to the rusted-on Deep Purple fans who would follow Blackmore to the ends of the earth. Even so, this album was voted the best ever metal album in a poll run by Kerrang magazine almost a decade later. An incredible lineup of first-class musicians featuring Blackmore at the peak of his powers and a young hungry Ronnie Dio determined to make his mark. While the entire album is all killer no filler, I feel that the opening track, Tarot Woman and the closer a Light in the Black are equal to this

I think this could be Blackmore's greatest recorded solo, unless it's "Burn"...Or "Highway Star"...O.K., they're all good...

It seemed every Rainbow album had one song that was the dramatic centerpiece of the album. The song was usually longer, with high production values and intense. This song is a masterpiece of that phenomenon. Rainbow also featured several different vocalists, and most people would agree that Ronnie James Dio was the most awesome of the bunch (though the others deserve some credit also). The last album they recorded with Dio was called "Long Live Rock and Roll and the "intense" song from that album was called "Gates of Babylon" which is another worth reacting to. The next vocalist was Graham Bonnet and the album "Down to Earth" had the song "Eyes of the World" which was that song on that album and another great song to react to. The next vocalist was Joe Lynn Turner. Now I don't have every Rainbow Album, but I do have the "Straight Between the Eyes" album, featuring Joe Lynn Turner on Vocals, and the IT song on that album was "Tearin' out My Heart" As others have pointed out, the guitarist was Richie Blackmore on all the albume (that I'm aware of) as Rainbow was really Blackmore's baby. Richie Blackmore was the guitarist of the band Deep Purple, who brought is such masterpieces as "Smoke on the Water." THere are other reaction-worthy songs besides these, I just wanted to point out the big-production, intense songs on each album. Other great songs to react to: The Man on the Silver Mountain (Dio) Long Live Rock and Roll (Dio) Since You Been Gone (Bonnet) (probably Rainbow's most commercially successful song)

First Krokus, now Rainbow?!?!! Y’all outdid yourselves today!!!! You can’t go wrong with Tony Carey on Keyboards, Jimmy Bain on Bass, Cozy Powell(RIP) on drums, DIO on vox & Richie Blackmore on guitars…such an epic song with soaring Dio vocals, that awesome drum intro by Cozy, & that epic exotic Arabic sounding solo by Blackmore…such an exciting song 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

The amazing Cozy Powell on drums!

I have listened to this song so many times through the decades and still now that i listened to it in this reaction today it literally gave me goosebumps which this song tends to do. This is a "perfect storm" type of song and performance and also band lineup and the sound of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra is the icing on the cake.

Rainbow is one of my all time top groups with such great talent .... Ritchie Blackmore (guitarist - formally of Deep Purple), Ronnie James Dio (in the future Black Sabbath after Ozzy, and his own band Dio), Cozy Powell (such a great drummer with a ton of bands), Jimmy Bain (on bass) and Tony Carey ( on keyboard). They were something special, Stargazer being their epic classic. Suggest "Man on the Silver Mountain, Catch the Rainbow, Gates of Babylon, Temple of the King, Long Live Rock n Roll, Kill the King, The Shed, Light in the Black, 16th Century Greensleeves and a bunch more with other great singers. However the Ronnie years were something special.