Joe Lynn Turner Says He Should Front Reunited Rainbow!

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JOE LYNN TURNER Says He Should Front Reunited RAINBOW, Not RONNIE JAMES DIO
Jeb Wright of Classic Rock Revisited recently conducted an interview with legendary hard rock vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (ex-DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Classic Rock Revisited: Do you think [Ritchie] Blackmore will ever quit doing BLACKMORE'S NIGHT?

Joe: That is the question of the universe. There have been so many rumors about a reunion with different lineups. Ritchie always gets tired eventually. This one is waning. I have heard that he is now hit-and-miss with the band as some gigs are full and some gigs are not full. He is also picking up the electric more and people are always screaming for PURPLE and RAINBOW. I think it is possible that a reunion could happen — that is a political answer but he always gets tired of things and he always is looking for new blood so there is always the chance of something happening.

Classic Rock Revisited: If RAINBOW were to get back together who should be the singer? Ronnie James Dio or you?

Joe: I know it won't be Dio because I talk to Ronnie and he is doing quite well on his own. We were offered to do the three singers of RAINBOW but that would have been a nightmare. Actually, we all get along so that might have been cool but I know Ronnie would never do it. Graham [Bonnet] would do it. I will tell you something funny. One night I was in Madrid with my friend Doogie White and we were absolutely plastered. Doogie goes, "Fuck you, it should be me as the singer if RAINBOW reformed." I was like, "You're going to sing my songs?" I was really digging at him. I said, "What was the name of the RAINBOW album you were on?" I was taking the piss out of him and then three Jack Daniels later were hugging. He thinks he was the unsung hero of RAINBOW. He emails me all the time about the gigs he does with Yngwie Malmsteen. He once told me he had to sing seven shows in a row. I asked him, "How do you sing seven shows in row" and he said, "Nobody gives a shit about the singer in this band." Okay, now I will answer your question directly: It should be me. I will tell you why, Dio had the heavier sort of dungeons and dragons stuff — don't get me wrong, I love the stuff and I am even singing some of his stuff like "Last in Line" and "Rainbow in the Dark" in BIG NOIZE. I am a huge fan of Ronnie James Dio but we [RAINBOW with Joe Lynn Turner] did have the sales. We also had the worldwide notoriety and the commercial success. They had a poll one time about who should be the singer and overwhelmingly it was me — and I need the work [laughter].

Classic Rock Revisited: You are the one guy who had always got along with Ritchie Blackmore. How in hell have you pulled that one off?

Joe: Many, many psychology courses [laughter]. I have an un-reactive mind. I have learned the Buddhist way to respond and not react. If you react to Ritchie then that is what he expects. If you learn to not react to him but instead respond with something that challenges his psyche then he respects that. Ritchie is the kind of guy who likes to push and pull you so he can see what kind of person you really are. It is a power struggle with him. One night we were crawling around on the floor drunk and I told him, "We are not going to last very long because I am afraid of intimacy." Ritchie goes, "And we are getting way too friendly." I just said, "We better enjoy it while we have it." He still says great things about me in interviews and I am really proud that he does that. The only differences we ever had were when we were fighting over what we thought was best for the music. Ritchie wanted everything to be the best it could possibly be. He wanted you to dig into the lyrics and the music and make it the best. When it was not up to snuff, he would just call the guy out on it. When he would say that to me then I would go write another lyric and sing another song better than I did before and he would say, "Now that's it." On "Street of Dreams", Ritchie came in after I sang the vocal — I had a really great moment on that song, obviously. He said, "I can't play the lead. I'm intimidated." I said, "What?" He said, "Your vocal is spot-on." I said, "It is a good vocal and it is just what we believe in with others lives and reincarnation." I broke open two Heinekens and I said, "You go in there. This is our creation; this is our baby." He lit the candles and got in the mood but he rose to the occasion. He came out and said, "Cheers, mate. Thanks for the inspiration." We were in Copenhagen at the time and there was a huge storm. They are at a point of longitude and attitude where there is a lot of huge electrical storms. They had a huge electric rod on top of the building. We were discussing this and there was a loud snap and all the lights went out. We were sitting in the dark. All of the candles came out and then he looked at me and said, "This is a sign." It was pretty eerie. Eventually, the lights came back on and the machines pumped back on and we went back to work. He would say, "Now we are working with other powers — not the lower powers but the higher powers."

Read the entire interview at www.classicrockrevisited.com.

So here is a poll who would you like to see fronting a Rainbow Reunion.

I never saw Rainbow with Dio but saw Rainbow with Turner to be really honest if I put them in order of preference it would be to see them with
1.Ronnie James Dio of course would be number 1
2.Graham Bonnet.
3.Joe Lynn Turner
4.Doogie White

[panayiotis1984]

Bonnet and White participate in one album each i think. I believe that in a reunion case the singer should be either Ronnie or Turner. Of course i voted for Dio, because i like more the songs of his era in Rainbow.

As Turner says, it is very difficult to see Ronnie with Rainbow if we consider the fact that he works with two bands now, from the one side we read interviews saying that Heaven & Hell are writing new staff and on the other side we read about live show of the DIO band in UK...
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panayiotis1984
Bonnet may have done only 1 album but Joe Lynn Turner does not even come close to anything like ''Eyes of the World''
The greatest Rainbow song ever after the Dio era of course!

[alitivity]

Cant vote on this one, because I think it should be one Festival show with all the singers. Thats the only way it would happen. As much as JLT would like to think it should be him, I only hear one song from rainbow played on the radio, and that is Man on the silver mountain. They may have had sales, but he is not remembered by the masses the way Ronnie is.
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There are two intirely different Rainbow camps.

Camp one is the Metal rockers that listen to RJD. Or the hard rockers that listened to Deep Purple, Zeppelin, etc.

Camp two is the easy rock that listen to bands like Foreigner, Phil Collins etc. They do not listen to metal or even like it.

So that poll he's talking about is tainted to one side or the other depending on which camp U place that poll. Im talking about the poll that is mentioned in the interview, not HM's poll.

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Nick...I got into Rainbow via Deep Purple myself,even when Ronnie left Rainbow...I still kept on buying there music but some of the records at the time...left me wondering what the hell was going on...I remember ''Straight Between the Eyes'' being the hardest Rainbow cd for me to like...3 times...I bought it and gave it away..,I just could not get into it
You could be right about being 2 sorts of fans of Rainbow...I know there is 2 sort of fans of Whitesnake...I like everything from Whitesnake but when they get to North America...I stopped liking them as much.

Don't they call Blackmore's music now ''Renaissance-inspired folk rock''

I may laugh but I have a few cds and dvds


edit...oops it was ''Bent out of Shape'' and not Straight Between the Eyes...that I could not get into

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Devin..I have loads of non metal friends,who only listen to stuff in the charts and only buy a cd if its top 10 I think thats why I hang out in music forums so much becoz my friends are not really into the music I like,I have a couple of mates who just like the classic rock stuff,I get bored after a while listening to the old stuff,I can only take them in small doses,I am looked a upon as some sort of Anti-christ from these lovers of ''pop'' and chart music,the cds I do buy in the charts come from the ...Classical music charts,artists like Katherine Jenkins,Sarah Brightman and Natasha Marsh this gets a even worse reaction from some of my friends,its like they have just got toothache in their head from the words ''Opera''
I believe the music divide between the fans of non metal and metalheads is growing,the metalhead will always buy more cds,than the non metal fan,simply becoz we have a much bigger selection to choose from,they only have a top 40,what would it be like trying to buy Metal music from a small selection like the Top 40 .

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[t5RageForOrder]

totally agree with the magic man . being a metal fan , i tend to buy
alot of disc's unheard !! because i HATE what's played on the radio .
sure i like most of the classic rock stuff but I AM SO SICK OF HEARING THE SAME 20 OR 30 SONGS OVER AND OVER !!! plus magic's comment
of metal fan's buying stuff other than metal . i have bill withers to little river band to kc & the sunshine band to SAGA to ASIA . though i won't go near country or hip hop stuff !! don't know if it's a getting older thing or what . but i can't listen to ANYTHING on the radio anymore for more than 10 or 15 min. tops !! now i rather hear talk radio than top 40 or classic rock stuff !! they have COMPLETLY DESTROYED radio !!
i used to love hearing cuts off records that weren't singles !!
now we're force fed pure shit !! it's a damn shame !!

[DevinMacGregor]

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t5RageForOrder
I am huge fan of digital radio...and there is some good stations in the UK ,like...Arrow,Classic Rock and Kerrang but I get so bored..I am end up listening to Talksport on my radio.
I have noticed as well the playlists on these stations is not very good,they never play Iron Maiden,You may get a track like ''Highway to Hell''-AC/DC playing and straight after it you get Simple Minds''Alive and Kicking'' And I hate this genre they are creating on the radio called ''Country Rock'' which is the likes of The Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd...this has always been American Classic Rock when did it become country

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