Artist: RAINBOW
Album: ON STAGE REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1977/ 1999
EAN/UPS: 0731454736220
Media type: CD

On Stage is a live album originally released by Rainbow in 1977. The album features a cover of a song from Blackmore's previous band Deep Purple: "Mistreated".

The album was recorded live over several German and Japanese dates in late 1976 during the Rising world tour. Many of the tracks were spliced together from different dates by producer Martin Birch, and the running order was changed to more easily fit four sides of vinyl.

The recording features the customary introduction to a Rainbow show – the classic quote from The Wizard of Oz, "Toto: I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow!" with the last word repeated as an echo, then the actual band plays a musical phrase from the song "Somewhere over the Rainbow" before breaking into "Kill the King".

The song "Kill the King" appeared on this album before it was recorded for a studio album. A studio version appears on the follow-up release, 1977's Long Live Rock 'n' Roll.

TRACKLIST:

1."Kill the King" (Ronnie James Dio, Ritchie Blackmore, Cozy Powell) – 5:32
2."Medley: Man on the Silver Mountain/ Blues/ Starstruck" (Dio, Blackmore)/(Blackmore)/(Dio, Blackmore) – 11:12

3."Catch the Rainbow" (Dio, Blackmore) – 15:35

4."Mistreated" (David Coverdale, Blackmore) – 13:03

5."Sixteenth Century Greensleeves" (Dio, Blackmore) – 7:36
6."Still I'm Sad" (Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty) – 11:01

LINE-UP:

Ritchie Blackmore – Guitar
Ronnie James Dio – Vocals
Tony Carey – Keyboards, Orchestron
Jimmy Bain – Bass Guitar
Cozy Powell – Drums