Release and Reception
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Geoff Ginsberg of AllMusic writes: "On Stage is full of great songs and playing, but somehow it lacks some of the excitement that existed at those early Ritchie Blackmore concerts. The production is just kind of flat. That doesn't change the fact that there is some great stuff to be found here and nowhere else, such as the side-long version of "Mistreated," from Deep Purple's Burn."
The song "Kill the King" appeared on this album before it was recorded for a studio album. A studio version appears on the follow-up release, 1978's Long Live Rock 'n' Roll.
The single "Kill The King/Man On the Silver Mountain/Mistreated" was also re-released in the UK in July 1981.
A more representative example of a Rainbow concert of the time was the 1991 release Live in Germany, which featured unedited concert performances and includes both tour staple "Stargazer" and the usual encore "Do You Close Your Eyes".
The deluxe edition was released on November 13th, 2012 in Europe. The second disc is credited to contain most of the concert from Osaka, Japan (December 9th, 1976), without "Stargazer" and "Still I'm Sad", but with "Do You Close Your Eyes". However, it actually seems like the concert is from the evening show in Tokyo, December 16th, 1976. This fits with the fact that "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves" from the first disc is credited to be from that Tokyo show and is 100% the same as the version on the second disc. The "Blues" section of "Man on the Silver Mountain" is also identical to that on the first disc.
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