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Rainbow – 1982 – Live Between the Eyes – San Antonio, TX

Rainbow was formed as Ritchie Blackmore was heading into different musical directions that Deep Purple wasn’t too keen on.  So, he collaborated with Ronnie James Dio and his band in early 75, and ended up recording Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow Feb-Mar 75.  The band’s name was inspired by the Rainbow Bar and Grill in Hollywood.  Ritchie was quite happy with the result and formally left Deep Purple in June of that year. (His last concert with Deep Purple was April in Paris.)  Dio finally left the band in 77 or 78, and Blackmore tried to recruit Ian Gillan, but instead ended up with Marbles vocalist, Graham Bonnet.  This began their big commercial success and Joe Lynn Turner replaced Bonnet by 81.  This splinter band was certainly one of the reasons that Deep Purple broke up in 76.  Former Deep Purple members floated between the groups.  At one time, Jon Lord was in Rainbow, and for this lineup, Roger Glover was on bass guitar.  This concert is a soundboard recording and was filmed for MTV and happened right at the height of Rainbow’s popularity.

Led Zeppelin – 1973.01.22 – Southampton University, Southampton, UK

Led Zeppelin was formed in 1968 from the ashes of The Yardbirds.  Jimmy Page joined The Yardbirds in 1966, originally on bass guitar, but soon switched to, and shared lead guitar duties with Jeff Beck, until he left.  The Yardbirds’ final concert was July 68 and Page started work on putting together ‘The New Yardbirds’.  He recruited Robert Plant and John Bonham (both prior Band of Joy members), and John Paul Jones.   The New Yardbirds first took the stage on 7 Sep 68 in Denmark, and quickly released an album.  Page was served a cease and desist letter about using the name Yardbirds out of the Scandanavian arena.  In November of that year,  after they changed their name to Led Zeppelin they received a nice contract from Atlantic.  They started cranking out albums at a furious rate.  (Maybe this was part of their contract, I don’t know.)  Led Zeppelin and Led Zeppelin II (1969), Led Zeppelin III (1970), Untitled fourth album (1971), and Houses of the Holy ( 1973).  Zeppelin is the second best selling band in the US, with sales over 111.5 million units.  This concert is a soundboard recording, and was for the Houses of the Holy tour, and comes at a time when they had cemented their popularity with their fourth album.  According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Led Zeppelin was as influential in the 70’s as the Beatles were in the 60’s.

Next week’s broadcast, 21 Feb 2015 will air starting at 8 PM Eastern time, and will include:

Bad Company – Albuquerque, NM -1976

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young – Detroit – 1969

Pat Travers – Nassau, Long Island, NY – 1982