Rainbow starring Ritchie Blackmore, most legendary for his days playing lead guitar for Deep Purple, and the late great Ronnie James Dio were headlining a concert at The Paladium, a great theatre in New York City, with openers, up and comers, AC/DC with frontman, the late great Bon Scott. AC/DC performed their heavy metal thunder but the pumped up audience was clearly in attendance to see Rainbow. There was a giant electric rainbow that went the length of the stage and lit up as the band hit the stage. The band led off with the great “ Man on the Silver Mountain” with Ronnie James Dio in all his glory stalking the Paladium stage but halfway through the song the band stopped playing and ultimately left the stage. After a bit of a delay there was an announcement that the concert was being canceled. Apparently Mr. Blackmore heard a buzz coming from one of the speakers and, being the perfectionist that he is, refused to continue the show. A confused, disappointed crowd received full refunds from their place of purchase as the show was never rescheduled, and we basically got to see future legends AC/DC perform as openers in a small venue for free.

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