Rainbow - Stargazer (pianist reacts to metalhead friend’s suggestion)

[@mournblade1066]

"I see a rainbow rising." That line has been giving me chills for nearly 35 years now.

[@wightangel]

I am really glad that I am not the only one, who has the same reaction.

[@chrisjenkins245]

As he climbs to the top of the woooorld !! does it for me ..

[@bluebird1109]

Me too.

[@CrazyhorseDK]

"I see a rainbow rising." im comming Home makes me Sad We Lost Both Ronnie Lem n so many way too early

[@LauraRodrigues]

I cry EVERYTIME.

[@filipezomignanialves4691]

I never get tired of this one. An absolute masterpiece. 🤘🔥🤘

[@stefanjones202]

One of the greatest songs ever. Great album and Ronnie at his very best.

[@GraceVlad]

And richi

[@jarkkokyntaja4073]

I´ve listened to this song a million times. Here´s for the another million ! You´ll never get tired of listening to a masterpiece. R.I.P. Ronnie.

[@Southbound63]

And The brilliant Cozy.

[@juansolis4796]

One of the best drums intro of all time.

[@Greatmeasures]

Absolutely! 🤘

[@tracy2762]

reminds me of surfer music beat than hard candy from montrose...cool tune

[@mrbill1390]

The drumming in this song is outstanding. Another great song where drumming stands out is 'Under the Ice' by Nazz. It was one of the first songs to feature the double bass drum.

[@The_Masked_1der]

RIP Dio.. hard to believe such a big voice came out of such a tiny guy! But his catalog is undeniable, whether it be solo, with Rainbow, or bringing Black Sabbath back from the brink of implosion after firing Ozzy with some of their greatest work.. The metal world lost a giant when he died.. a giant who was only 5'2" hahahaha

[@mrbill1390]

Dio and Eric Burdon have my vote for the singers with voices that are nothing like you would expect based on their appearances.

[@danvanhorne213]

You nailed it man.....RJD the greatest voice of heavy rock

[@wightangel]

Amen to that.

[@cicero.0209]

Great choice, one of the greatest metal songs of all time. Thanks, Boys

[@cicero.0209]

Ah, you guys haver a subscriber and a fan directly from Brazil 🤘🏻🇧🇷

[@lewhitey2544]

Absolute masterpiece of a song! May you forever rest peacefully Ronnie!!!

[@javierl9963]

One of the very greatest songs in rock's history. Absolute masterpiece by Blackmore & Dio.

[@urbangrefvennilsson8566]

Just awesome. Stargazer is a masterpeice. Song is from Rainbow Rising. 1976. The constellation of members in band here was just magic..

[@danvanhorne213]

The super group of super groups

[@urbangrefvennilsson8566]

@danvanhorne213 yes absolutely 💯 🙌

[@Elrond_Hubbard1]

Ronnie. Such a kind and gracious man to his fans. So glad I got to see him in concert. Rest in peace man, you were loved.

[@UnethicalLogic]

Honestly, you can't go wrong with anything Dio's done. He is non-pariel in metal/rock vocals.

[@ricardoleony]

This song is a true masterpiece

[@jalkabre5904]

Rainbow's name came from the Rainbow Bar and Grill in LA which was very popular with musicians during the day.

[@davidcoverdale722]

Don't forget that Dio sang on Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer as well. So three black Sabbath albums proper - and also on the "Heaven and Hell" supergroup thing which was Black Sabbath in everything but name.

[@edmonddp]

The most epic hard rock/metal song of all time.

[@lawrencefine5020]

Very good choice. lotsa classical elements to Stargazer and RJDs vocals brings a tear to my eye every time.

[@Iaminsaneone]

Edge Of Sanity,❤! Epic masterpiece Rainbow Stargazer!

[@richmuller4036]

How did you guys manage to make this song boring, its a masterpiece.

[@mournblade1066]

Ha!

[@alexaiken3779]

Exactly. ..and he calls himself a classical musician, he plays the piano like a high school student. 🤣

[@Krosshare]

It’s kinda boring tbh. Not much for a composer or musician to go crazy over unless the sound and vibe hit you, just didn’t this time. For a reaction, this song isn’t the best imo. Same riff the whole time.

[@Krosshare]

To compare, this could’ve been many a Led Zeppelin song and it would’ve been more entertaining to him. Or Boston, Beatles, sabbath, hell even heart is more entertaining. Not to knock the legend tho, dio will always be a rock god.

[@Tomekkplk]

@@Krossharezep is boring

[@sjorsvandongen3464]

I have to give it up to you guys: another great choice! Ritchie Blackmore must have been hard to work with, but he is one of the greatest guitar players of all time

[@brandoncoomer7867]

Before even watching, I'm giving this one a HELL YEAH!!

[@vikusen1857]

Black sabbath - children of the sea... Banger

[@Roddeau1]

Long Live Rock 'n Roll is a great Rainbow album with Ronnie. My fav. The song Long Live Rock 'n' Roll is a good one. Cool reaction fellas.

[@pekkakarppinen1608]

Haha, this is a true Classic. 😎👍

[@andystone6777]

without R. D. Dio, R. Blackmore and all the others, without Rainbow and RISING, our today's hard rock music wouldn't be the same. It wouldn't be worth the half of what's it now This album was and still is EPIC R.I.P. Ronnie

[@marknieuweboer8099]

Judson possibly will like Gates of Babylon better. It's more complicated with several interesting twists and turns. The band is named after the pub (in LA iIrc) where Blackmore and Dio discussed their plans to record the first album.

[@xnoiidb]

Im sure Heaven & Hell is the song he SHOULD hear... but Neon Knights is what WE want to hear lol Also: Edge of Sanity. Nice.

[@Greatmeasures]

I honestly want him to hear all the Dio era Sabbath

[@Westcoasttrendkill]

Die Young is my personal favorite from Dio's time in Black Sabbath

[@martinarscott3524]

@@Westcoasttrendkill I used to say I wanted Die Young played at my funeral, but I'm a bit too old now!

[@Westcoasttrendkill]

@@martinarscott3524 Ha! You're never too old to DIE YOUNG 🤘

[@AnakinSkybarker]

If he hasn't heard it already, you're going to have to play him "Last in Line" by Dio. :)

[@delorangeade]

Masterfully put together in the studio apart from anything else. Blackmore had a fairly individual approach to slide guitar that was less rooted in the blues than was usual at that time.

[@Stitsel]

I've never really ever heard anyone else play slide like him..... I could be wrong, but the majority of slide I've heard is of the blues variety, and it all sounds fairly similar to my ears. He seems to play exotic modes & melodies when he plays it and it's a very underrated aspect of his arsenal.

[@delorangeade]

@@Stitsel You are right. He cups the slide in the palm of his hand like a lap steel player, instead of placing it over one of his fingers like most slide players do, which means he mostly plays single note melodies and can add a very controlled and subtle vibrato to each note. He also plays in standard tuning instead of an open tuning like a lot of blues players would use, and it's his regular guitar with light strings and a lowish action on a scalloped fretboard, which means he can't be heavy handed with his playing.

[@Stitsel]

@@delorangeade Exactly.I've always intuitively known this, but you articulated it better. He's simply a master at it & it just shows what an overall master he is at the guitar.His intonation has always been impeccable, even when he was going apeshit on the bar. All the Neoclassical metal players that followed in his wake are certainly great, but they don't have that blues sense to their playing, again, just another facet of his bag of tricks. An almost jazzy level of improvisation, a firm grasp of classical melodies coupled with lots of other ethnic sounding scales/modes....he touched upon several different aspects of centuries of musical vocabulary in his playing.It's a shame the average listener can't see/hear beyond Smoke On The Water.

[@delorangeade]

@@Stitsel One of the things about Blackmore is that is playing has constantly changed and evolved, musically and technically, throughout his career. He's not the same in the seventies as he was in the sixties, or the eighties and nineties; he's not the same in Rainbow as he was in Deep Purple, or when Deep Purple reformed, and yet all through he is still recognisably the same player. A lot of players just find the thing that works for them and stick with it, Blackmore decided to give up rock music and fully devote himself to acoustic guitar.

[@manfredkronsteiner8083]

edge of sanity - great meas.... äh band! ;-)

[@Greatmeasures]

🤘

[@righteous247]

Rainbow in the dark is must at some point

[@Elanmorintedronai1]

oooooh, Edge of Sanity - Crimson would be a magnificent react :D

[@smithpm81]

best rock song ever made

[@vatleder]

Awesome song, and awesome Edge of Sanity t-shirt :)

[@nenadmomcilovic9133]

I first heard Dream Theater's cover of this and loved it since.

[@GraceVlad]

Richi and dio maestros!!! Eternos

[@BlackRoseImmortal]

Ronnie James Dio in Sabbath was freaking amazing. "Mob Rules" "Sign of the Southern Cross"

[@junkyardheaven]

Falling Slowly is a great song from a brilliant movie. Stargazer is good, too! 😊

[@rockerfella8122]

Not my typical kind of movie but I was fortunate to come across it many years ago. Heartfelt movie with an amazing soundtrack 🍻

[@junkyardheaven]

Totally agree. Also one of few "music movies" where the music actually take centre stage. I mean, one do follow the main characters a short period of their lives, but it's always about their music. I came into "Once", not really expecting anything, but was quite blown away 'bout how good and genuine it was. And also agree, brilliant soundtrack.

[@giwrgostsiotsios464]

Loved the reaction, also the Unorthodox shirt (one of my favourite albums)

[@Roylevis]

oh yes baby! the song of all songs! Creds to Munich Philharmonica orchestra aswell!

[@davebrowne8252]

We few privileged humans who got to hear and see Ronnie James Dio are the lucky ones. A legend in his own lifetime. A vocal giant. A lyrical genius. A genuinely nice guy. Gone but never forgotten. Oh, btw, "Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová

[@danvanhorne213]

Yeah, truly a legend

[@danvanhorne213]

Yeah, truly a legend

[@Claud19r1]

RONNIE james dio #1 🎤🎶🍷🤘🍺🎃🌈⚡️ Stargazer Rainbow Rising 1976 Heavy Metal Clasicc From CHILE 🇨🇱

[@andersgranstrom7128]

Masterpiece!! 😍

[@chriss.8582]

I was only familiar with Dio's solo work until I heard him perform Stargazer live, at Madison Square Garden in the early 2000's. Been a diehard Rainbow fan ever since.

[@medicineman79]

Entertaining as always

[@xtrbg]

For the next Rainbow reactions might i suggest Tarrot woman and A light in thr black. I think Judson will enjoy the extended synth solos . Good reaction as well.

[@PaulStevenage]

A Light in the Black is Part 2 of Stargazer.

[@jakkdaniels6840]

Great choice, thanks Richard and Judson!

[@지미베인]

Dio is such an amazing guy. The song ‘heaven and hell, don’t talk to strangers’ would be fun too.

[@BrianSherman-TheTVGod]

Dio sings on 4 Black Sabbath discs, Heaven & Hell, Mob Rules, Dehumanizer (the best Sabbath album of them all) and The Devil You Know (under the band name Heaven & Hell)

[@elinino5275]

And Live Evil

[@CrazyhorseDK]

welcome to the best singer ever in metal,hard rock one who never will be beaten Ronnie James Dio was lucky enough to meet him n lemmy n more several times over 30+ years Still have my original Rainbow LPs

[@thevision7634]

Did he actually say that “usually that guy’s voice would bother me a little bit”? 😲

[@apostolosbakopoulos5225]

i generally laugh and dont want to break my laptop everytime i got hit by stupidity, but this one was so close for me losing it!

[@alexandremaireno-ni4ec]

That could only earn a 👎

[@paz0r]

also dehumanizer is third dio album with sabbath 1991

[@mattp6953]

Let's not forget Live Evil which is an amazing live recording from Sabbath.

[@philh27]

Rising was released when I was 14 and Stargazer became my favourite song. All these years later I’m obviously no longer a teenage heavy rock fan and my tastes have changed immeasurably. However Stargazer remains right up there for me. Genius.

[@jenniferandrews1917]

Ronnie James Dio actually earned a scholarship at a New York music Academy for his outstanding trumpet playing. He decided to go into Rock music singing instead.

[@revylokesh1783]

Made the right choice, old Ronnie...

[@carolina_s_ins]

I really don't understand his reactions. He just sits there with a boring face and after the song is finished he sais a couple of things that really don't add much. Dude! you're listening to one of the most important heavy metal singers of history, a bit of enthusiasm would be nice!

[@wakingmycadaverful]

Low T

[@Fuxerz]

Ritchie Blackmore top guitarist in the world 🌎 👌

[@DouglasSnodgrass-bz6bb]

You are a pretty good pianist. I started playing piano at 5 years old

[@mbiernacki9]

That intro from "Once"!

[@jeremiahrose4681]

Absolutely love this song. And Dio is amazing.

[@j0hnn13K]

There is a song with Dio on vocals, Judson will absolutely love i think. (not saying he didnt like this song btw) "Roger Glover and friends - (The Butterfly Ball) Love is All" (you can check out the entire piece Butterfly ball live or studio album (a good 90 minutes) or simply the song "Love is All" (3:20 minutes), it's all on KZbin)

[@tylerreisinger734]

DIP Rio Man was a legend. Top 3 iconic and recognizable voices in history

[@user-bv6ot3hy1h]

Ronnie was on 4 Sabbath albums. Heaven and hell 80 Mob Rules 81 Live Evil 82, Dehumaniser 92. Plus tons of his great Solo albums

[@SacredMetalMichael]

The perfect song!

[@zingpulse4138]

Named after the Rainbow Bar & Grill in L.A.

[@Brooklyn_Ann]

I love this song so much that it inspired a whole novel.

[@billygrey5815]

R.I.P. DIO RIP POWELL THE GREAT

[@xandagaur]

Great measures!

[@boogerbreath1126]

Following track on the album is "a light in the black" Banger!!!

[@Westcoasttrendkill]

Yessssss.... 🤘

[@craigroaring]

I really like the keyboards that come in during the second verse.

[@colrhodes377]

Tony Carey is very underrated, and it's sad that he never achieved any real success post Rainbow

[@martinarscott3524]

@@colrhodes377 Totally agree, love his intro on Gates of Babylon

[@colrhodes377]

@martinarscott3524 I'm not sure if that was Tony or David Stone. I know that he did some work on the Long Live Rock n Roll album, but which song/songs is unclear. I asked him personally, but he declined to answer

[@bookhouseboy280]

Blackmore: "Melody is very important to me ... and if I don’t hear a melody, I can’t be inspired. I find that with a lot of hard rock bands today-not the death metal or whatever-the melody is certainly not there and I can’t relate to that ... I mean, I listened to Bach all the time, so I suppose subconsciously it was there. I love that minor, dramatic, majestic feel that he gets on a lot of his stuff. For instance, like "Toccata and Fugue", that's very intense, and I think that in a way reflects rock'n'roll - he was a rock'n'roller of his time."

[@davidhersrud5139]

Great song brings back memories... Gotta ask since you love piano have you ever heard of LOVEBITES? A song called SWAN SONG (live version) should really amaze you the talent this band has...

[@Greatmeasures]

We actually recorded it this past weekend. Hoping to have it uploaded in the coming days if it doesn’t get blocked. We’ve been experiencing issues with that this week. 🤞

[@wightangel]

Ever since I first heard Stargazer back in 1978, I have not been able to go a week without listening to it at least twice( playing it only once is an insult to this masterpiece)

[@TheBFN]

Baddest song 🌈 ever did... Awesome story.. Been wanting to incorporate it into a D&D game

[@victorsellberg5276]

that unorthodox shirt niceee!! swanö!

[@burntwelkin6570]

The ochestra you hear is the munich Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Eberhard Schoner.. The guitar solo is in B Phrygian.

[@mattp6953]

Gates of Babylon is amazing as well

[@hays9008]

My all time favourite song

[@yvesdehaen4158]

blackmore is uncomparable and genius , check out gates of Babylon, see what the classic pianist says about that...

[@ron-yo2fv]

The name I believe came from Ritchie’s fondness of the Rainbow which was used as a backdrop for all the bands including Deep Purple at the California Jam. It stuck with him apparently.

[@DPG-Guitar]

The story I heard was Ritchie and Ronnie were drinking at the Rainbow bar in LA discussing what to call the band and Ritchie just pointed to the sign out the front. But who knows.

[@JoshJohnson-yl7ll]

I think it would be fun to expose Jetson to Gentle Giant. Y’all should check out cogs in cogs

[@bookhouseboy280]

Absolutely. The Power and the Glory album is next level prog. Those boys didn't mess around.

[@andychisarick6879]

I keep telling folks...the song refers to the building of the pyramids in Egypt. An ancient Egyptian laborer (the song's narrator) didnt know what a pyramid was, he'd call it a tower of stone. Everything from the song's title to lyrics like "where is your star? Is it far...?" It all contains references to a journey to the stars, not a wizard jumping off a tower so he can fly. He could do that by jumping off a cliff, or a sand dune. Nearly identical yramids (according to some scientific tneories) were built all over the world not by wizards (as an Egyptian may have thought) but by aliens who used the strategically placed pyramids as a force-generating mechanism to power ships into space, or to create wormholes to the stars, whatever. Again the title "Stargazer", plus numerous references to journeys to the stars, make it clear that even this lowly laborer knew that more was at stake than a wizard going hang-gliding. Read the lyrics for crying out loud- plus the next song on the album, "A Light In The Black" which is the sequel to "Stargazer"- and this all becomes obvious. It is a tale of events that may have actually happened long ago, not a fairy tale made up out of whole cloth. To summarize: aliens recruited ancient humans to help build the equivalent of launching pads for spaceships, even promising the humans trips to outer space (the narrator sings "when do we leave?")- that's when do WE leave, not just "when do YOU leave- and then at liftoff an accident causes the spaceship to crash & the alien dies. Just like Roswell and Area 51, etc. The lyrics are full of clues that make this obvious, imo, if you keep an open mind about such things

[@jeffwarren4938]

I agree..the Arabic sounding solo too!

[@melrupinski88]

Or, Dio may have just seen the movie “The Silver Chalice” when he was young. In that movie, a wizard wants to prove that he’s greater than Jesus by actually flying, so he enslaves a bunch of people to build him a giant tower. Once it’s finished, he climbs to the top, jumps off and falls to the sand instead of flying, and dies 🤷‍♂️

[@Feilerthefox]

Mob Rules!

[@rdhudon7469]

Some of the craziest slide to watch is Jimmy page playing in my time of dying live. Crazy stuff .He plays on a 1963 Danelectro which is comparable to playing a fender squire or something . You can't find another pro using one at the time since it was basically a guitar you would have bought your kid when they were trying to learn .

[@2Times22]

If it wasnt for Ritchie,Dio would be an amazing unknown vocalist hidden in the shadows..But ...He got discovered...Also "falling of the edge of the world" is the best track from Mob rules album..!!!

[@Danimal77]

Ronnie sung on 4 Black Sabbath studio albums, not 2. Heaven and Hell (1980), Mob Rules (1981), Dehumanizer (1992) and The Devil You Know (2009), plus a greatest hits album from 2007 with 3 new songs recorded for that album, as well as several live albums with Sabbath.

[@gerardcote8391]

Highly recommend Versailles Aristocrats Symphony live Holy Grail

[@mihauostan2250]

Hey, Richard, what Mr. J did not mention (at least in this vid) is that the intro he played comes from a very, very unique and absolutely moving motion picture called "Once". You should dig it. In fact, any fan of music (any music) should. Up the Irons! :)))

[@vpr2528]

Great reaction. You should try Finnish band Wintersun - Sons of winter and stars (live studio session), it'll be a wild ride.

[@mournblade1066]

Dio recorded THREE studio albums with Black Sabbath: Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules, and Dehumanizer. There was also one released under the BAND name, Heaven & Hell (which was the same lineup, I think, but made to differentiate from the Ozzy version of Black Sabbath, which just got back with him around the same time).

[@jamieokane989]

Not aware of the H&H studio album, what is it called?

[@mournblade1066]

@@jamieokane989 It was called _The Devil You Know_. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_You_Know_(Heaven_%26_Hell_album)

[@DHARMN00]

A good follow up to this might be Rainbow's "Hall 9f the Mountain King ". Been thinking Iron Maiden has the sing "Empire of the Clouds". Actually has some piano included in the writing.

[@uoabigaillevey]

Actually, Dio did 3 albums with Sabbath, not including live albums. Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules, and Dehumanizer. You could technically count 'The Devil You Know' with the band 'Heaven and Hell' as a fourth album b/c it included the Black Sabbath lineup with Ronnie James Dio era Sabbath... just under a different name. Either way.. mad respect for Dio as his contributions to Metal are innumerable.. the music we have today would not be the same without him. Lookin forward to seeing him in the afterlife.. rockin both Heaven and Hell.

[@danvanhorne213]

With you man

[@PaulStevenage]

You should react to the all-female Japanese metal band Lovebites. Swan Song with the Chopin intro (live) is on KZbin.

[@253jacksonrhoads1]

Greeting fellas. Haven’t commented in a while. You picked a fantastic track. I hope the channel is gaining people by the miliions. Please react to The Gates Of Babylon. It’s by Rainbow. The groove will tickle Jutson’s musical sensibilities

[@Greatmeasures]

Hello! I’ll put it on the list. Thanks!

[@253jacksonrhoads1]

Please and thank you. 🙂🤘❤️

[@billpet4602]

Blackmore & Dio at their prime.

[@johnpolack9168]

So you guys what, took mushrooms and listened to Rainbow? Nice.

[@johnunderwood3132]

Gates of Babylon

[@kaekman1788]

Next, the reaction Blackmore / Rainbow's tribute to Beethoven together with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra? "Rainbow - Difficult to Cure 1984 Live"

[@yogsothoth7160]

Great video guys, cheers from Perú. Please, try with YNGWIE MALMSTEEN - SEVENTH SIGN

[@eduard6179]

I like to see Ben Affleck and this musician guy again Go on brothers

[@NM-dx6zw]

10 points for the edge of sanity t