T shirt and CD's

Gary and Ellie very kindly brought me an Amazon voucher for my Birthday which I'm only just spending. There are loads of CD's I want both back catalogues of bands I know and new stuff. I also like a T shirt and invested in  the T pictured here from the rock band Rainbow.
It's a particularly special T shirt for me as not only was Rainbow the first rock gig I ever went to but 'Down to Earth' is my favorite Rainbow album. The tour I saw them on was of the same name and knocked my socks off. It was at the Wembley Arena and was a sell out, even the music played inbetween the bands was good, we all sung along to 'Union Man' by the Strawbs and 'All you need is love' by the Beatles and many others.
The support band were good too, called Samson they had as their vocalist a then unknown Bruce Dickinson & a masked drummer called 'Thunder stick.'
More great songs in the interlude and I bought the Rainbow album 'Long live rock n roll' in those days vinyl of course. Then it turned into the last night of the proms as 'Land of Hope and Glory' belted out of the sound system and, Bang! Rainbow took to the stage!
In my humble opinion this was the best line up of the band  which to an extent turned into Ritchie Blackmore and some session musicians as nobody ever seemed to last long!
The legendary Cozy Powell was on drums , his drum solo was awesome with the whole drum it lifting off the stage if my memory serves, Don Airey on keys just made them sing. His solo was a real mix of classical, rock  you name it he played it! Roger Glover along with Blackmore another ex Deep Purple bod kept the foundations of the band solid with a great bass line and Graham Bonnet on vocals was brilliant! Blackmore of course is a great guitarist but also a complete plonker. He threw a moody about something or other and went off after only around an hour and ten and refused to do an encore. This did end the gig on a sour note but what I'd experienced was truly brilliant, I still have vivid memories of it some 38 years later.
I read in the paper next day that there was riot  because dickhead wouldn't do an encore............Well we saw one lonely copper on our walk back to the station and definitely no riot. We'd have noticed!   
Many years later I saw Graham Bonnet on stage again, he still has a great voice ,he just looks in pain whilst stretching for the higher notes.........and the lower notes, he sang alot of Rainbow classics which brought back many happy memories of a young herbert and a couple of his mates making their way to Wembley to enjoy some great times.


Rainbow t shirt featuring the album cover of  'Down to Earth.'