Description

Ukrainian pressing with slipcase

Two long deleted Rainbow home video releases make their dvd debut on this double disc set. Live Between The Eyes is a concert that was filmed in San Antonio, Texas, in August 1982 during the Straight Between The Eyes Tour. The Final Cut, first issued in 1987, contains eight of the later Rainbow promo videos, plus two songs from the Japanese tour of 1984. The San Antonio show captures the Joe Lynn Turner era of the band which was the most commercial and pop-oriented era of the band. At the same time it was the most financially successful era of Rainbow. The band is cooking though and all the songs rock harder than the studio versions. They also allow Blackmore to do what he does best, which is to stretch out and turn songs into platforms for his improvisational magic. An extraordinary guitarist, the San Antonio show captures him at the top of his game. The Final Cut was originally released as a video companion to the Final Vinyl audio set. It is essentially a collection of videos from 1979-1984 and includes several live clips from the final Rainbow shows in Tokyo 1984. These were recorded right before Rainbow broke up and Deep Purple reformed. This is an essential and must have release for fans of Deep Purple, Rainbow and hard rock in general. The material on here is taken from the videos and cant be compared to the more mordern digital recordings

Track list:
Disc 1: Live Between The Eyes
1. Overture: Over The Rainbow
2. Spotlight Kid
3. Miss Mistreated
4. It Can’t Happen Here
5. Tearin’ Out My Heart
6. All Night Long
7. Stone Cold
8. Power
9. Blues Interlude
10. Beethoven’s Ninth: Ode To Joy
11. Long Live Rock And Roll
12. Smoke On The Water

Disc 2: The Final Cut
1. Spotlight Kid
2. Death Alley Driver
3. I Surrender
4. All Night Long
5. Can’t Happen Here
6. Difficult To Cure
7. Can’t Let You Go
8. Power
9. Since You’ve Been Gone
10. Stone Cold
11. Street Of Dreams