Joe Lynn Turner

Universe, and then Yannick Gers comes into the band on Trouble and Magic is that, not that much different.

Uh, Rainbow Straight Between the Eyes, I feel is like a r- uh, refinement of the Joe Lynn Turner, uh, situation.

They don't really make any changes.

They've kinda decided that this is a good direction, this, uh, heavy AOR foreigner direction.

He chose 10 tracks to cover, and to help him out, he invited back many of the artists who had collaborated with him over the years to produce those great albums of the past.

In particular, he had his first three lead vocalists, Jeff Scott Soto, Mark Boals, and Joe Lynn Turner, and they all perform the vocals on the tracks, Jeff with three, Joe with two, and Mark with four.

He had previous long-term drummers, Anders Johansen playing all of the drums, while David Rosenthal, Mats Olsson, and Jens Johansson shared keyboard duties.

Yngwie himself took care of all the guitars, while also providing lead vocals on one song.

It is also the one song on this album that Yngwie himself sings, mirroring Hendrix in this way.

It's a solid version of the original, and Yngwie's vocals almost channel Jimi himself along the way.

The Japanese bonus track is also a Hendrix song, Spanish Castle Magic, sung by Joe Lynn Turner, and one that they played live together on that Odyssey tour, so it was a good choice, though is not on my own version of this album.

There is a song by the band called UK, a short-lived outfit from the late 1970s, which was sort of a supergroup who played progressive rock.

Yeah, because of, um-

... what's his name? Graham Bonnet.

And Graham Bonnet, and also-

Graham Bonnet

... and Joe Lynn Turner too, right?

That's right.

That's right.

Yeah, and just, and thanks to you, Zeus, I've become a huge Rainbow fan, especially by your pity.

Yeah, oh, I mean, I liked Rainbow, like, the surface-level stuff that everybody knows, but after doing those ARCs with, obviously, we did a Dio, we did Graham, we did Joe Lynn Turner, and obviously, talking to Joe Lynn Turner and talking to Graham and all that, just, yeah, I'm a bigger fan than I ever was, so...

Yeah, and what's fantastic about all that, dude, is I have chat GPT.

Yeah.

Well, let me put up the episode, uh, or the, uh, album art 'cause it's not actually on the CD, but it's on, it's on this thing that I've got here, and we mentioned the featuring.

And this says, "Featuring Graham Bonnet, Joe Lynn Turner, Ronnie Romero, Bob Daisley, Vinnie Appice, Sebastian Bach, Rick Wakeman, George Lynch, Jonathan Cain, Candice Night, and more." Steve Morse is relegated to "and more"?

[laughs]

How does Jonathan Cain make the, the, the, the list here? Unless they, they just ...

... kissrelatedrecordings.nl people.

[laughs] Don't you wish you had this? Of course they could.

But it, it is, it is, so Joe Lynn Turner's The Sessions album has, uh, a lot of, it's a pretty wide range, but he does open with this song on the album, Stone Cold.

So he does, I think, just that one of all of his songs.

Lynn

Turner? Joe Lynn Turner.

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go.

It didn't have a lot of acclaim.

And then Gillen's not getting along with Blackmore.

So then Blackmore Gillen leaves and then they bring Joe Lynn Turner in.

So now of course he purples basically rainbow and they put out a slaves and masters.

It's just, uh, it's, just influenced so many bands like there's just literally hundreds if not thousands of bands that go back to especially this specific record and you know whether it's Slayer or Metallica or you know on and on and on it's pretty amazing how how they did it and again it was so even when you listen to it today and I've talked to a lot of people who are getting into this record now who are younger and you know younger bands and musicians and stuff it's still because a lot of times it's hard for people to go back and listen to this stuff because it sounds dated and it just like oh we've heard everything now like what are you doing that's unique and different but this record still has that uniqueness and difference differentness to it that it makes

sense oh absolutely and you know the the influence can't be overstated enough growing up where i did near detroit we got rainbow on the radio not a ton uh obviously man on the silver mountain was a very much a staple in detroit um and then of course some of the later stuff with like joe lynn turner and graham bonnet but uh tracks like this certainly were not radio songs so for me it was more you know vinyl and cassette uh discovery figuring out oh wait deep purple split in half oh okay interesting another band you know it was very much a discovery and then of course you know I went backwards from discovering Dio solo to going, oh wait, he was in another band besides Black Sabbath.

For me, it was just vinyl, essentially learning that these incredible songs existed and these great bands existed without radio.

Yeah, exactly.