Dio-era Rainbow tour setlists

Hi guys

I've a query which I'm sure you lot on here can help me with. I'm becoming a huge fan of the Dio-era Rainbow, I already have Rising, LLRAR and the On Stage live album all on lovely vinyl.

But I've been doing some nerdy fact-finding, as I often do with new bands, and discovered that on the tours supporting both these albums, not many songs off them were actually played. Stargazer, Lady Starstruck, Kill the King and Long Live... all got played, but not many others, all, it seems, in favor of material from the first album, some blues jamming and even a Deep Purple oldie!

Not that I think that's the wrong way to go about it, Rainbow did indeed put on a killer show whatever the material, but I just think its a shame that Rising and LLRAR hardly got any live exposure, from the very band that made them!

Does anyone else agree with me? And can anyone offer an explanation as to why this was, or am I missing something here, and did they actually play plenty of those songs on the tours at all?

Ta muchly!

I was looking at their shows and I think the reason is cause they'd play about 8-9 songs, however the majority of the songs they played live were all over 10 minutes. Clearly Ritchie favored loooooong solos over more songs. If they could have cut down on the solos perhaps they could have fit more new stuff in the set. Which they did when they moved on to the more commercial sound after Dio left.

Ah I see. Yes, that does make sense, I suppose they had a time limit like any other band. Still a shame though, it would've been awesome to have a show equally made up from the first three albums. Thanks for the info.