I'VE BEEN MISTREATED
I'VE BEEN ABUSED
I'VE BEEN STRUCK DOWNHEARTED
BABY, I'VE BEEN CONFUSED
On Stage
is a double live album
originally released by
the British hard rock band
in 1977
It was recorded live
over several German
and
Japanese dates
in late 1976
during the
Rising
world tour.
The album was released
first in the US
on
July 7th 1977,
before being released
a week later on
July 15th in the UK.
Recording
The recording features
the customary introduction to
a Rainbow show
the classic quote from
The Wizard of Oz,
"Toto: I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
We must be over the rainbow!"
with the last word
repeated as an echo,
then the actual band plays
a musical phrase
from the song
"Over the Rainbow"
before breaking into
"Kill the King".
Release and Reception
Geoff Ginsberg
of AllMusic writes:
"On Stage
is full of great songs
and playing,
but somehow it lacks
some of the excitement
that existed at those early
Ritchie Blackmore concerts.
The production is just kind of flat.
That doesn't change the fact
that there is some
great stuff to be found here
and nowhere else,
such as
the side-long version of
"Mistreated,"
from
Deep Purple's Burn."
The song
"Kill the King"
appeared on this album
before it was recorded
for a studio album.
A studio version
appears on
the follow-up release,
1978's
Long Live Rock 'n' Roll.
The single
"Kill the King",
with
"Man on the Silver Mountain"
and
"Mistreated"
as double B-sides,
was released in the UK
in September 1977.
This was Rainbow's debut
in the UK Singles Chart,
peaking at No. 44.
After the commercial success of
"Since You Been Gone",
"All Night Long"
and
"I Surrender",
"Kill the King"
was re-released in 1981
this time climbing to No. 41.
Songwriter and lead singer
Ronnie James Dio
claimed that
the violent imagery
in the song is actually
about a chess game.
Another example of a
Rainbow concert of the time
was the 1991 release
Live in Germany 1976,
which featured unedited
concert performances
and includes both
tour staples
"Stargazer"
and the
usual encore
"Do You Close Your Eyes".
The deluxe edition
was released on
November 13th 2012
in Europe.
The second disc
was originally planned to
contain tracks from
the concert hall at the
"Orix Theater"
(formerly Osaka Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan)
in Osaka, Japan
Instead the second disc
contains tracks from
the final Rainbow gig in
Tokyo, Japan
at the
Nippon Budokan Hall
on
December 16th 1976.
TRACKLIST
CD 1
Kill The King
Man On The Silver Mountain
Blues
Starstruck
Catch The Rainbow
Mistreated
Sixteen Century Greensleeves
Still I'm Sad
BONUS
Stargazer [*]
CD 2
Tokyo, Japan
at the
Nippon Budokan Hall
on
December 16th 1976
Intro/Kill The King
Mistreated
Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
Catch The Rainbow
Medley : Man On The Silver Mountain /
Blues /Starstruck
Do You Close Your Eyes
BONUS
Starstruck
(Dio Solo) [*]
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