Episodio 105: Rainbow the temple of the king. Year 1975. English Version.
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00:00:31 - Today the band of Blackmore and Gabe in the Temple of the King.
doing it. It's really a kind of a privilege to be, you know, 51 years old. I'm being able to go out just still to have a voice.00:01:13 - Let me.
00:01:14 - Well, it's felt differently than everything. It's called orgasmatron.
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00:01:19 - I think are useful just because of the fact that with what I try and do it's important to try and...
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00:01:32 - But piano was inconceivable, I mean, you can't, you can't just go and buy a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.
00:01:40 - I think I was very driven period.
00:01:42 - It was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.
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00:02:17 - Rainbow is a British hard rock and heavy metal band led by guitarist Richie Blackmore, who had left Deep Purple in 1974 and whose period of activity took place between 1975 and 1984, and between 1994 and 1997.
00:02:32 - The Temple of the King, with the late great singer Ronnie Dio on vocals, is a song from the band's first album, Richie Blackmore's Rainbow, released in 1975 by Polydor Records.
00:02:44 - This emblematic debut was recorded in the Musicland Studios in Munich, in what was then
00:02:49 - West Germany or Federal Germany.
00:02:52 - Blackmore and Dio teamed up to compose all the songs on this album.
00:02:56 - This working partnership proved fruitful enough for Blackmore to go ahead with Dio and a new roster of musicians as an official band under the name Rainbow, of which Dio was a member.
00:03:06 - From 1975 to 1979, on Richie Blackmore's Rainbow, the guitarist discovers a new energy and, along with his new contrast, unleashes a 70s rock and roll energy rarely seen in his old band.
00:03:23 - Temple of the King showed the true greatness of the band, it's an incredibly well written ballad, inspired by far eastern folklore, and featuring some beautiful acoustic melodies from Blackmore, which showcased his ability to play various styles of guitar.
00:03:38 - As for the musical part of the song, two classical guitars and an electric guitar guitar were used for its recording, although the electric guitar is heard very much in the background and is hardly perceived.
00:03:49 - For the melody they used a progression of medieval origin, in which Rani Du shines with his natural, simple, very engaging voice.
00:03:57 - The lyrics of the song in question, talk about a man who is looking for answers to different questions of life and undertakes a spiritual journey to the mysterious temple of the king, where he ends up finding these answers.
00:04:14 - Blackmore, who was into yoga long before it became fashionable, said he was watching a show called Yoga for Health when he came up with the idea for the song, which explains the vibe.
00:04:25 - A lot of people like that one, a lot of older people like it because it's softer, it's not a complete attack on the ears, he told John Tiven in 1975.
00:04:35 - I don't like to do more than one or two songs like that.
00:04:39 - Her album, we probably won't play that on stage, because the vocal harmonies are so weird in the middle part.
00:04:46 - I don't think that's a proper stage number.
00:04:50 - Rainbow performed the song live, but not until after they reunited in the mid 90s.
00:04:55 - Regarding its instrumentation, Blackmore said, there's two classical guitars on that and one electric, but the electric guitar on that isn't really audible.
00:05:04 - It has a medieval progression and a set of strings mellotron in the middle.
00:05:09 - Not knowing what the mellotron was, a definition I found on the web is, the mellotron is a keyboard musical instrument that falls into the category of the electrophones.
00:05:19 - It is electrophone because its sound can only reach us through an amplifier and speakers, and although we can hear some of them unamplified, they are generally not used like this since their volume is very small.
00:05:31 - Smaller almost all progressive rock bands of the 70s used it.
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00:06:01 - One day in the year of the fox came a time remembered well
00:06:22 - When the strong young man of the rising sun
00:06:25 - Her the tolling of the great black bell
00:06:28 - One day in the year of the fox when the bell began to ring
00:06:34 - He meant the time had come for one to go to the temple of the king
00:06:40 - There in the middle of the circle he stands searching, seeking
00:06:46 - With just one touch of his trembling hand the answer will be found
00:06:52 - Daylight waits while the old man sings
00:06:55 - Heaven, help me
00:06:58 - And then like the rush of a thousand wings
00:07:01 - It shines upon the one
00:07:03 - And the day has just begun
00:07:22 - One day in the year of the fox came a time, remember well When the strong young man of the rising sun, or the towing of the great black bell One day in the year of the fox when the bell began to sing It meant the time had come for the one to go to the temple of
00:07:52 - The king there in the middle of the people he stands seeing
00:07:58 - Feeling with just a wave of a strong right hand
00:08:02 - He's gone to the temple of the king
00:08:22 - I don't know, I don't know
00:08:26 - I don't know, I don't know
00:08:30 - I don't know
00:08:34 - I don't know
00:08:38 - I don't know
00:08:42 - I don't know
00:08:48 - I don't know
00:08:52 - I'm far from the circle at the edge of the world, it's cold, man
00:09:22 - One day, thinking background of stories is heard of what he's gonna see
00:09:29 - And there in the middle of the circle it lies,
00:09:32 - Heaven held me, then all could see by the shining in his eyes
00:09:37 - The answer had been found
00:09:40 - That with the people in the circle he stands
00:09:43 - Feeling, feeling, with just one touch of a strong right hand
00:09:48 - And they know of the temple and the king