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OVER THE RAINBOW's Russian Promoters Using Dubious Tricks To Lure Fans Into Buying Tickets

February 20, 2009

Sergey Chernov of The St. Petersburg Times reports: Russian promoters have used dubious tricks to lure fans into buying tickets for a newly formed band of Western hard-rock veterans, altering the band's official logo and printing misleading statements on the posters. The band's management company claims the logo it sent to the Russian promoter was correct and denies any involvement with the advertising campaign.

The act in question is OVER THE RAINBOW, a new band that features four former members of RAINBOW and Jürgen "J.R." Blackmore, the son of ex-DEEP PURPLE guitarist and RAINBOW founder Ritchie Blackmore. Ritchie Blackmore, who formed RAINBOW in 1975 as RITCHIE BLACKMORE'S RAINBOW, quit in 1984, returned in 1993 and finally left in 1997. Since then he has performed with BLACKMORE'S NIGHT and has nothing to do with OVER THE RAINBOW.

As the advertising campaign for the show began late last year, posters and smaller advertisements for the upcoming local concert had a different version of the band's logo. The word "Rainbow" was in the largest type, while the words "Over the" are inexplicably hidden in small type somewhere below.

Read the entire report from The St. Petersburg Times.

Photo below courtesy of Darkside

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