Artist: RAINBOW
Album: MEMORIES IN ROCK: LIVE IN GERMANY (2CD)

Release date: 2016
EAN/UPS: 5034504165526
Media type: CD

In June, Blackmore performed three shows in Europe: two in Germany and one in England, his first rock concerts in nearly 20 years. The two German shows, at Loreley and Bietigheim, make up the Memories in Rock set. Songs include Deep Purple’s “Highway Star” and “Smoke on the Water,” and Rainbow’s “Since You Been Gone” and “Man on the Silver Mountain.” You can see the full track listing below.

Blackmore has spent the past couple of decades making Renaissance-style music with Blackmore’s Night. These three shows were supposed to be a one-time thing, but he’s since hinted that there may be more performances somewhere down the line.

“I noticed when they clapped, they weren’t clapping so hard for Deep Purple,” he said during an interview in July. “They said, ‘We hear that every year,’ because Purple goes around. So the next time, if we go out and we do anything, I would do probably 95 percent Rainbow songs. That’s what they seem to want to hear. And it didn’t occur to me. I just naturally assumed they wanted to hear everything.”

CD 1:

1     - Highway star     7:11    
2     - Spotlight kid     5:58    
3     - Mistreated     9:27    
4     - 16th century greensleeves     7:15    
5     - Since you been gone     2:51    
6     - Man on the silver mountain     5:18    
7     - Catch the rainbow     8:48    
8     - Difficult to cure (Beethoven's ninth)     12:45    
9     - Perfect strangers     6:50    
10     - Stargazer     10:13
   
CD 2:

1     - Long live rock n roll     6:50    
2     - Child in time / Woman from Tokyo (Medley)     11:03    
3     - Black night     6:41    
4     - Smoke on the water     6:59    
5     - Spotlight kid     5:34    
6     - Man on the silver mountain     5:55    
7     - Long live rock n roll     8:18    
8     - Stargazer     9:11

LINE-UP:

Ritchie Blackmore (guitar)
Ronnie Romero (vocals)
David Keith (drums)
Bob Nouveau (bass)
Jens Johansson (keyboards)

Candice Night (backing vocals)
Lady Lynn (backing vocals)