Ritchie Blackmore decided to pull the plug on Rainbow following the supporting tour for 1983's Bent Out of Shape.
To commemorate the end of the band, he released the appropriately-titled, Finyl Vinyl.
A double-record set of live recordings and a handful of studio outtakes, primarily culled from the Joe Lynn Turner era but also featuring selections with Ronnie James Dio and Graham Bonnet, Finyl Vinyl offers a haphazard alternate history designed for hardcore fans (by 1986, that's pretty much all Blackmore had left).
For those fans, the album is actually quite a treat.
Rainbow always sounded better on stage than they did on the studio -- rawer, harder, alive -- and songs that sounded half-baked in the studio, such as selections from Difficult to Cure, sound right here.
That's not to say that it's a perfect album -- the outtakes are interesting, but not particularly remarkable, the sequencing doesn't make sense and Blackmore's classical pretentions become even harder to stomach when married with a full-fledged orchestra -- but it rocks harder and more convincingly than many latter-day Rainbow releases.
That doesn't mean that it's preferable to the studio albums, but for the devoted, it's a welcome addition to the band's canon and it's a nice way to close a career.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spotlight KidRitchie Blackmore, Roger Glover | Rainbow | Play | 06:02 | 13 MB | 38 MB |
| 2 | I SurrenderRuss Ballard | Rainbow | Play | 05:42 | 13 MB | 36 MB |
| 3 | Miss MistreatedRitchie Blackmore, David Rosenthal, Joe Lynn Turner | Rainbow | Play | 04:21 | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| 4 | Jealous LoverRitchie Blackmore, Joe Lynn Turner | Rainbow | Play | 03:12 | 7 MB | 20 MB |
| 5 | Can't Happen HereRitchie Blackmore, Roger Glover | Rainbow | Play | 04:15 | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| 6 | Since You Been GoneRuss Ballard | Rainbow | Play | 03:45 | 8 MB | 22 MB |
| 7 | Bad GirlRitchie Blackmore, Roger Glover | Rainbow | Play | 04:51 | 11 MB | 29 MB |
| 8 | Difficult to CureDon Airey, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover | Rainbow | Play | 11:16 | 25 MB | 60 MB |
| 9 | Stone ColdRitchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Joe Lynn Turner | Rainbow | Play | 04:27 | 10 MB | 25 MB |
| 10 | PowerRitchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Joe Lynn Turner | Rainbow | Play | 04:28 | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| 11 | Man on the Silver MountainRitchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio | Rainbow | Play | 08:18 | 19 MB | 46 MB |
| 12 | Long Live Rock 'N' RollRitchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio | Rainbow | Play | 07:08 | 16 MB | 42 MB |
| 13 | Weiss HeimRitchie Blackmore | Rainbow | Play | 05:13 | 11 MB | 27 MB |
| 73 mins | 167 MB | |||||
| 73 mins | 435 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don Airey | Composer, Keyboards |
| 2 | Russ Ballard | Composer |
| 3 | Dee Beale | Vocals, Vocals (Background) |
| 4 | Don Bernstine | Project Coordinator |
| 5 | Martin Birch | Producer |
| 6 | Ritchie Blackmore | Bass, Composer, Executive Producer, Guitar, Producer |
| 7 | Graham Bonnet | Vocals |
| 8 | Chuck Burgi | Drums |
| 9 | Greg Calbi | Mastering |
| 10 | Bob Daisley | Bass |
| 11 | Ronnie James Dio | Composer, Producer, Vocals |
| 12 | Roger Glover | Bass, Composer, Percussion, Producer |
| 13 | Ross Halfin | Photography |
| 14 | Izumi Inoue | Illustrations |
| 15 | Bill Levy | Artwork |
| 16 | Cozy Powell | Drums |
| 17 | Rainbow | Primary Artist |
| 18 | Bruce Robbins | Engineer, Mixing |
| 19 | Lin Robinson | Vocals, Vocals (Background) |
| 20 | Bob Rondinelli | Drums |
| 21 | David Rosenthal | Composer, Keyboards |
| 22 | David Stone | Keyboards |
| 23 | Joe Lynn Turner | Composer, Vocals |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |