# Rainbow "Memories In Rock" gigs / new music **URL:** https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90 **Category:** Deep Purple and family **Tags:** rainbow, ritchie-blackmore **Created:** [July 27, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90 "2026-07-27T18:29:20Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 4
### Author: ![Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/stargazer/32/37_2.png) [@Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Stargazer) #### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/61 "2026-07-31T14:19:13Z")
šŸ¤£ That, lieber Daniel, is an understatement of no less than millenial proportions. ---
### Author: ![nick](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/nick/32/18_2.png) [@nick](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/nick) #### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/62 "2026-07-31T20:50:49Z")
Singers have been singing songs in alien languages literally for millennia. At what point did your righteous indignation over Romeroā€™s accent boil over? As your alter ego likes to say, free your mind, and the rest will follow =) ---
### Author: ![Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/stargazer/32/37_2.png) [@Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Stargazer) #### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/63 "2026-07-31T22:02:24Z")
I donā€™t mind a little ā€œcoloringā€, but Ronnie Romero made even Klaus Meine sound like an English professor from Yale. _Das heiƟt schon was!_šŸ˜‚ Iā€™d like to hear a full album of Ronnie singing in Spanish, I like Spanish music. [https://youtu.be/arZZw8NyPq8](https://youtu.be/arZZw8NyPq8) Apart from the accent, I had serious doubts he actually understood what he sang at Loreley - to be fair and open-minded: heā€™s improved a lot since then. Alter ego? Ok, is Stargazer then Mr Hyde or Dr Jeckyll? ![bipolar-two-faced](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/uploads/default/original/1X/2c7a10be1d0bc8b27237c8fbcf1d47d4b9adcaf2.gif) ---
### Author: ![THS\_Svante](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/ths_svante/32/19_2.png) [@THS\_Svante](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/THS_Svante) #### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/64 "2026-08-01T00:33:46Z")
> [@Stargazer](#): > > But if you ask me, I think the BN keyboard guy would have likely done a better job than Jens J, and if only because he was more familiar with Ritchieā€™s style. Are you talking about the guy working as a church organist who didnā€™t know who RB was before he was called upon to join the band? That he would be more familiar with RBā€™s rock style than Johansson, who has worshipped at the altar of DP and Rainbow for most of his life? ---
### Author: ![Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/stargazer/32/37_2.png) [@Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Stargazer) #### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/65 "2026-08-01T06:37:35Z")
I donā€™t know whether he played church organ or not, but he played with Ritchie for ages, had an alert ear and was - whether sober or drunk - relaxed on stage (I saw him often enough, he had musical feel and could hold his ground playing an organ solo in rockier parts). With all due respect to your good countryman Jens J, he was every time a deer, no a moose in the headlights when I saw him. I know heā€™s good, but his position with Los Rainbows was jinxed, poor guy. ---
### Author: ![nick](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/nick/32/18_2.png) [@nick](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/nick) #### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/66 "2026-08-01T21:05:16Z")
David Baranowski, a.k.a. Bard David [https://www.thehighwaystar.com/thsblog/2014/04/16/church-organist-by-day/](https://www.thehighwaystar.com/thsblog/2014/04/16/church-organist-by-day/) ---
### Author: ![Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/stargazer/32/37_2.png) [@Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Stargazer) #### Post date: [August 2, 2026, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/67 "2026-08-02T06:32:20Z")
Thanks, I honestly have no bones to pick with how this guy plays in BN. Heā€™s very in tune with Ritchie and we all know how Blackers can be a little erratic and veering off tangents live (even when heā€™s sober; when heā€™s not, itā€™s worse! šŸ˜‚). I think there have been more run-of-the-mill players in Rainbow and Iā€™m not just thinking of Jensā€™ failed stint. Knowing Blackmore, the reason he didnā€™t make it into the Reunionbow line-up was probably because heā€™s a little chubby. ---
### Author: ![janbl](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/janbl/32/42_2.png) [@janbl](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/janbl) #### Post date: [August 5, 2026, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/68 "2026-08-05T05:03:52Z")
I would definitely like to see these guys live (now weā€™re talking about non-English-speaking musicians). [https://youtu.be/h0NSWDd2geA?t=32](https://youtu.be/h0NSWDd2geA?t=32) ---
### Author: ![Hiberno](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Hiberno](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Hiberno) #### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 2:24am UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/69 "2026-08-06T02:24:32Z")
Ouch!! that is painful to watch. ---
### Author: ![Zenos\_toytus](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/f475e1/32.png) [@Zenos\_toytus](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Zenos_toytus) #### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/70 "2026-08-06T12:20:43Z")
To quote This is Spinal Tap ā€œWell, this is thoroughly depressing.ā€ ā€œIt really puts perspective on things, though, doesnā€™t it?ā€ ā€œToo much. Thereā€™s too much fucking perspective .ā€ ---
### Author: ![Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/stargazer/32/37_2.png) [@Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Stargazer) #### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/71 "2026-08-06T12:55:11Z")
As Dio era Rainbow tributes go, these guys from the Land of the Rainbow Rising Sun have always been unbeatable. They are uncanny in catching the vibe. ---
### Author: ![janbl](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/janbl/32/42_2.png) [@janbl](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/janbl) #### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/72 "2026-08-06T13:57:36Z")
```auto ``` If you squint, you can hardly tell the difference. šŸ˜„ šŸŒˆ ---
### Author: ![Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/stargazer/32/37_2.png) [@Stargazer](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Stargazer) #### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/73 "2026-08-06T14:12:04Z")
Only when they sing ā€œ_Long Live Lockā€™nā€™Lollā€_ or announce ā€œ_Oul next song is Talot Woman flom Lainbow Lising_ā€! (What an awful uncalled fol steleotype that was. Iā€™m tellible.) ---
### Author: ![MK44](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/mk44/32/281_2.png) [@MK44](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/MK44) #### Post date: [August 8, 2026, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/74 "2026-08-08T16:37:28Z")
I saw the gig in Birmingham 2016, and Sweden Rock 2019. I have to say to say that because of the atmosphere in Birmingham, everyone singing along to Stargazer, it gave me goosebumps. In hindsight it wasnā€™t that great a gig, but at the time I was satisfied and think it was a superior gig to the opening show in Germany. 2019, I didnā€™t have high expectations, but Iā€™ve got to hand it to Ronnie Romero, he was really on the money on that show. He made the show for me, the band (including Blackers) was so and so. 2016 was better in my humble opinion. ---
### Author: ![Jan](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/jan/32/319_2.png) [@Jan](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Jan) #### Post date: [August 22, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/75 "2026-08-22T14:46:33Z")
I was 2016 in Birmingham (I prefer concert halls to open air shows) and it was worth the price only because of Stargazer, maybe the best Stargazer live version I ever listened to. I was in the same airplane to Munich as the band (Ritchie and family in business class, the others economy) and had the opportunity to talk a bit with the drummer and the background singer. 2019 I was at the show in my hometown Munich. It was also good, but not such a magical moment as the Birmingham show. ---
### Author: ![Julio](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/julio/32/29_2.png) [@Julio](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Julio) #### Post date: [August 22, 2026, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/76 "2026-08-22T14:52:27Z")
> [@Jan](#): > > and had the opportunity to talk a bit with the drummer and the background singer. Did they know they were in ā€œRainbowā€ or what a ā€œRainbowā€ was? ---
### Author: ![eiricd](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@eiricd](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/eiricd) #### Post date: [August 22, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/77 "2026-08-22T15:30:34Z")
Out of the small run of gigs between 2016-2019, is there a consensus of what is the best one? ---
### Author: ![Daniel](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Daniel) #### Post date: [August 22, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/78 "2026-08-22T15:50:57Z")
Only one answer here: None. ---
### Author: ![MacBeath](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/macbeath/32/62_2.png) [@MacBeath](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/MacBeath) #### Post date: [August 22, 2026, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/79 "2026-08-22T16:25:59Z")
I think Glasgow is seen as the best, which is the one I could have gone to but didnā€™t. ---
### Author: ![Jan](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/user_avatar/forum.thehighwaystar.com/jan/32/319_2.png) [@Jan](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/u/Jan) #### Post date: [August 22, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90/80 "2026-08-22T18:10:23Z")
In the plane, the day after the Birmingham show, they were again ā€œBlackmoreā€™s Nightā€ heading for some shows in German castles. [Previous page](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90.md?page=3) [Next page](https://forum.thehighwaystar.com/t/rainbow-memories-in-rock-gigs-new-music/90.md?page=5)