Rabin influenced Deep Purple's Perfect Stangers

[SuperTrooper]

Last week I picked up a new book on Deep Purple and in it there was a page about how Ritchie Blackmore was a big fan of Trevor Rabin and 90125, he made his band members listen to it and 90125 was to be a guideline on how they would make their classic reunion album.

I always thought the two albums sounded similar, now I know why.

[jimmygtr]

Interesting. I'll haveto listen to both albums and think about it. What was the name of the new book on Deep Purple?

[JaneEyre]

I know at least one fan of both Yes and DP who will not think this is good news.

[cinderella]

I knew Richie Blackmore was a big fan of Trevor's, but I didn't know about him making the band members listen to 90125. I'll have to dig out Perfect Strangers and give it another listen.

[Wakefan]

I love both bands! You gotta love the classic riff on the title track. I heard that Ritchie had made that riff up years ago & had been waiting for just the right occasion to use that riff.

[Jacaranda]

The song "Not Responsible" sounds similiar to "City of Love" to me, but other than that it sounds more like Trevor's pre-90125 stuff to me.

[Scooty]

Bah!
it sounds like an early 80's version of Deep Purple..
good or bad..
I like a lot of this album..
i dont hear a Rabin influence at all
there's a lot of great material here..and its total DP sound..

Scoot

[Orbert]

Bah!
it sounds like an early 80's version of Deep Purple..
good or bad..
I like a lot of this album..
i dont hear a Rabin influence at all
there's a lot of great material here..and its total DP sound..

Scoot
That pretty much sums it up for me, too. When I listen to Perfect Strangers, I hear "later Deep Purple", not "Rabin-influenced Deep Purple". Of course, that's probably because I formed that mindset 20 years ago, not the other day when I found out Rabin had anything to do with it. And "later" obviously is relative. Anything after the 70's is "later Deep Purple".

But even listening to it now, I'm not sure what a "Rabin influence" would sound like. I don't hear it in the guitar, which is where I'd expect to find it. I don't hear it in the keyboards or vocals, that's for sure. The production maybe? Seriously, what elements of the sound are people saying are influenced by Rabin?

Orbert

[SuperTrooper]

Interesting. I'll haveto listen to both albums and think about it. What was the name of the new book on Deep Purple?


The book is called "Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story" by Dave Thompson. Look up Yes in the index and there is a paragraph about it in the middle of the book.

[Full Tilt Boogie]

Last week I picked up a new book on Deep Purple and in it there was a page about how Ritchie Blackmore was a big fan of Trevor Rabin and 90125, he made his band members listen to it and 90125 was to be a guideline on how they would make their classic reunion album.

I always thought the two albums sounded similar, now I know why.

Rainbow did a reunion album?

Well I never...

And to think, all Blackmore does now is write about pixies, goblins, mystic castles, Arthurian Knights and...oh, hang on a minute, that's Jon Anderson I'm describing...

[luvyesmusic]

Rainbow did a reunion album?

Well I never...

And to think, all Blackmore does now is write about pixies, goblins, mystic castles, Arthurian Knights and...oh, hang on a minute, that's Jon Anderson I'm describing...
:lmao:

[SilverShoes]

Rainbow did a reunion album?

Well I never...

And to think, all Blackmore does now is write about pixies, goblins, mystic castles, Arthurian Knights and...oh, hang on a minute, that's Jon Anderson I'm describing...

Well, Blackmore did an album, credited to Blackmore's Rainbow, in the mid 90's called Stranger In Us All, but other than Ritchie, it was an all new band. It's actually a pretty decent record, but it didn't get much attention because, well, it was the mid 90's and Stranger In Us All wasn't a boring, whiney, amateurish record, which is what in vogue with the industry at the time.

Apparently, at one stage, there was talk of some kind of Rainbow reunion, involving Ritchie, Ronnie James Dio, and Cozy Powell, at the very least. Problem was, Cozy was basically the prime mover behind the idea, and when he died, well, the whole idea went with him. So Dio went back to his solo career and Ritchie did the Blackmore's Night thing with his girlfriend Candace Night.

[Full Tilt Boogie]

Well, Blackmore did an album, credited to Blackmore's Rainbow, in the mid 90's called Stranger In Us All, but other than Ritchie, it was an all new band. It's actually a pretty decent record, but it didn't get much attention because, well, it was the mid 90's and Stranger In Us All wasn't a boring, whiney, amateurish record, which is what in vogue with the industry at the time.

Apparently, at one stage, there was talk of some kind of Rainbow reunion, involving Ritchie, Ronnie James Dio, and Cozy Powell, at the very least. Problem was, Cozy was basically the prime mover behind the idea, and when he died, well, the whole idea went with him. So Dio went back to his solo career and Ritchie did the Blackmore's Night thing with his girlfriend Candace Night.


Cheers for the heads-up mate.

I was a died-in-the-wool Rainbow fan up until the Bonnet 'All Night Long' era, when they lost it completely and became merely a West Coast, FM, AOR band. The Joe Lyn Turner stuff is just puke-inducing.

Once I saw Blackmore dancing with pixies and that mad trout in the Goth-frock, I lost all patience and respect for the man...although not his Purple and early Rainbow stuff.

Dio's solo stuff is appalling as well. I bought it by accident and loaded it onto my iPod (and I mean all of it), and after a few listens it came right off again and the discs put right back on Amazon to be re-sold!

C'est la vie. We live, we learn.

[Full Tilt Boogie]

In terms of variation and quality, Perfect Strangers is the better album.

Blackmore may have been the guitarist with DP, but he didn't have the wholesale 'mindfcuk' aspect that Rabin had on Squire to command and conduct the entire band's song-list repertoire - and frankly, White will just do what he's told, no questions asked - as to its choice of songs (and how they are written, delivered and performed).

[Steve Mahoney]

Ritchie has good taste , Perfect Strangers is a great album to.

[Sergey Lenkov]

I didn't know about that. I think that for Ritchie it was a kind of the model of sound - idea of how to do more easy listening and in the same time more energetic version of Deep Purple.
But of course these albums by Yes and Deep Purple are quite different.
And now then epic "Son of Alerik" is published as bonus part of the album "Perfect Strangers" sounds even more different. And I became even bigger fan of Blackmore when I started to listen to Blackmore's Night.