Genre: Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Disc (release) country: UK
Year of publication of the original: 1972
Year of reissue: 1999
Publisher (label): Angel Air

Ritchie Blackmore decided to pull the plug on RAINBOW following the supporting tour for 1983’s Bent Out of Shape. To commemorate the band’s career, he released the appropriately-titled ”Finyl Vinyl”. A double-record set of live recordings and a handful of studio outtakes / B-sides, primarily culled from the Joe Lynn Turner era but also featuring selections with Ronnie James Dio and Graham Bonnet, ”Finyl Vinyl” is a must have collection.

Here’s another RAINBOW staple deserving to be here: “Straight Between The Eyes” in its remastered Japanese pressing on SHM-CD. This was the only, Limited Edition SHM-CD on Cardboard Sleeve replica (Mini-LP) format ever released reproducing the original LP artwork, now out of print.

“Bent Out Of Shape” is RAINBOW‘s last album from their first era, and one of their finest. This remastered Japanese Limited Edition was the only released on SHM-CD in a Cardboard Sleeve miniLP replica, now out of print and highly sought after by collectors.