I was amazed how small drum kit Bobby Rondinelli had, but after he played old thruth come to my mind, sound and skill of player is more important than large kit !!
Paul Morris was in keys and did professional job, he was playing like a brick in the wall. Also bassist Greg Smith was very good.
Joe Lynn was in "Good mood" and was chatting and telling stories between songs, unfortunately rented backline was giving feedback and house mixer was not up to task and could not handle feedback and was messing sound anyway overall during concert here and there. Joe started to lose his voice towards end of concert, no wonder cause songs by Dio and Bonnet are hard for voice. Many of the songs were performed in a little lower key than originals.
Jurgen was playing black Jackson (and white Stratocaster in "Gates" what really cut throught mix, pity he did play it only one song). There was 2 modern Marshall Stacks what were not on. My cousin who is skilled technician (he does my amp maintenance jobs) said that there were roadie behind stacks adjusting what maybe was amp and stacks lower cabined was miked so maybe it was used, Jurgen also went few times there. As I wrote before mixer was missing mix includung guitar sound here and there. For effects he had two knob floor unit what might be multi-effect, as we heard he used mild Delay or Chorus (or both) on solos and sometimes during songs. It was nice to see that he played with his own influencies and style.
Lenght of the concert was about 2 hours
Set list:
Tarot Woman
Kill the King
Cant Let You Go
All Night Long
Death Alley Driver
Keyboard Solo (Paul Morris)
Eyes Of The World-guitar Solo (Jurgen)-Eyes Of The World
Ariel
Wolf To The Moon
I Surrender
Man On The Silver Mountain
Vocal piece (Joe Lynn)
Jelous Lover
Drum Solo (Bobby)
Stargazer
Long Live Rock n´Roll
-Encore 1
Gates Of Babylon
-Encore 2
Since You Been Gone
Guitar/Keyboard Duel (Paul/ Jurgen)
Cant Happen Here
Kirjoittanut Kari Rastas
Kiitos Kari. Blackmore rules.
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