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moodyxadi

I HATE YOU SO MUCH Mr. BONNET!

This album was far from good when compared to the ones that came before but I managed to like it a little through the years. Of course the main fault must be put on the back of the right man, that is Sir Blackmore. So why all this hatred to this secondary-player Graham Bonnet.

I was listening last night to a very good quality boot from this era, a show somewhere in Scandinavia. Almost the full DtE album is played (only Making Love and Danger Zone are missing from the set list) and the classic Dio era tunes are there too. The band was really on fire, even Don Airey did a great job. Everything was good and tender til Mr. Bonnet opened his mouth... JC, he can ruin even his own songs! With the exception of Since you been gone he mistreated my ears all the time he screamed and "sung".

The majority of the DtE tracks played that night showed that the album could grow alive (minus Love's no friend - a Mistreated rip-off). The problem was really the singer. As someone above said even the irritating JLTurner would fill better the post of singer. If he was at DtE at the time the poppier stuff he sang lately could be different. Or not.

The hard-rock classics All night long and Since you been gone are good compositions even if they don't match with the image we had for this band. Eyes of the world is the best composition but I must add that Lost in Hollywood grow a lot played live - with the solo from A light in the black inserted in the middle of the song. The rest is mediocre or just plain bad.

Shame on you, Ritchie. I hope you had earned your well-deserved multimillion dollars with this album and the rest but I know - and you know too - that you'd have to wait a lot of time until something really good could be out of your hands again. Money wins, art loses again.

two stars.

moodyxadi | 2/5 | 2012-6-6

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