THE ORIGINAL IS USUALLY THE BEST...
07/14/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"...and I don't think this is any exception. With all due respect to some of the other reviewers, this album has more variety, and just out and out better compositons than "Rising" (which is a 5 star record itself). "Silver Mountain" has to be the trademark Rainbow riff/song. "Catch the Rainbow" is really Hendrix's "Little wing" reworked nicely. "Still I'm Sad" is Blackmores greatest instrumental track. "Black Sheep" is a track Ritchie always wanted to do with Purple (but they didn't). "Temple" and "Sixteenth..." are both proper examples of the hallmark dark, mystical imagery that best typifies the Blackmore/Dio collaboration. After this and "Rising", it was downhill, but who cares?"