Rainbow-On Stage (1977)

Five long years had passed since Deep Purple's "Made In Japan" had been released, considered the greatest hard rock live show in history, and Ritchie Blackmore, the guitar ax of that mythical and great album, would leave us another fantastic double album, this time with his band Rainbow.
Excerpted from recordings pertaining to the "Rising World Tour" tour, the band performed live under a 12-meter-high rainbow that stretched grandly across the stage.
With a band that in addition to Blackmore, included Ronnie James Dio on vocals, Cozy Powell on drums, Jimmy Bain on bass and Tony Carey on keyboards, all together left memorable performances that are still remembered by fans today with longing.
From the outset, this fantastic album began with the intro extracted from "The Wizard of Oz" and in which Judy Garland herself is heard to say a few sentences to start the majestic "Kill the King" and from there they are happening master songs like "Man On The Silver Mountain", "Starstruck", the magical and sublime "Catch the Rainbow", the Purple "Mistreated", the wonderful "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves" or an elongated version of the Yardbirds theme "Still I ´m Said "sublime.
"On Stage" was the worthy testament of a band that sounded live anthological and that would soon become one of those essential records to understand rock.