I'm 69 years old. Saw deep purple back in 1973 in Cleveland. I remember them being very professional very loud. And a great concert. Blackmore is still my favorite hard rock guitarist. And that's never gonna change.

@A.T.13

Жыл бұрын

Да . Хорошо вам.Видели и слышали их в живую. ДП приезжали к нам в Россию, но уже без мистера Блэкмора. А без него ДП уже не те.

@mikeevans2049

Жыл бұрын

I saw them at Richfield Coliseum in 1974 awesome show.

@A.T.13

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeevans2049 , ,,Гори! " отличный альбом .

@mohsinusman7263

Жыл бұрын

Same

@TheSteveSteele

10 ай бұрын

@@mikeevans2049I saw them in August 1974 on the Burn stadium tour. It was an incredible experience.

I'm obsessed with a legendary Deep Purple song "Lazy".

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

... me too 😄 and that for 51 years!! ... Sometimes I hear it endlessly 😆

I was a rock idiot 43 years ago and I could STILL understand that I was listening to a genius. What more can one say? My Blackmore favourite solos (actually so many. With his body of work, it's difficult to name a few) are from: Pictures Of Home, Eyes Of The World, Gates Of Babylon, Temple Of The King, Desperate Heart, Highway Star (I may be forgetting a few) These solos give me goose bumps and put me in a trance. He has nothing to prove. He's from another planet. He's having pure fun with Blackmore's Night. Long Live, Ritchie Blackmore. P.s. Every single musician that played with Ritchie was an Ace! Ritchie was and is a very demanding artist. Why would he not want the best? Being the best? So my salute to all those guys who were in different line-ups with different bands: Deep Purple & Rainbow. By the way, I loved Graham Bonnet's ballsy singing. Especially on, No Time To Loose and the entire Down To Earth album. Pity he didn't last long. Somewhere in the comments they say that Ian Paice was under appreciated. NOT TRUE! The Buddy Rich big band DO NOT invite average drummers. After all they are sitting in Buddy The Great's chair. Ian Paice played with them. THAT is a great recognition of top quality drum artistry. Period. Agree? Long live all these guys. My respects and deep gratitude 🙏🏻✊🏼

@larryfesta5960

5 ай бұрын

EXACTLY...NOTHING MORE NEEDS TO BE SAID...RITCHIE BLACKMORE IS THE WORLD'S GREATEST ALL AROUND EVERY STYLE PLAYER ...PERIOD!

@davidbecker2107

Ай бұрын

Agreed...and like Blackmore, Ian Paice is truly underappreciated!!

Blackmore rules forever!

The master of improvisation

@glennmccudden8574

Жыл бұрын

YES INDEED . TRUE ORIGINAL HE'S THAT GOOD HE CAN PLAY WITH HIS SHOES. ON CALF JAM.

Ritchie Blackmore is an unique diamond...... irrepetible, maded by mistic and personal by style!!!! Cheers from Argentina...... I send to John Lord a big love, where He are... in a paradise of music land!!!!

Blackmore always number 1. The absolute best.

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻!! ... We understand each other 🎸

@Fuxerz

5 ай бұрын

Amen, it goes Hendrix Beck Van Hallen and Ritchie Blackmore. Mount Rushmore of God's on guitar.

I LOVE Ritchie Blackmore FOREVER 🖤

I've only seen him live twice. Once with Rainbow and once with Deep Purple on the "Perfect Stranger' tour. Both were among my most memorable concerts out of over five hundred. Blackmore was jaw-droppingly amazing both times!!

He was my favorite rock and metal style guitarists back then. Al Dimeola was my favorite guitarist in the jazz fusion world. Both are way more deserving of awards then they receive.

Ritchie was the Guitar God of our youth in the 70s (when we had our own little band...). I love his music and his style still today!

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

... me too 👍🏻

@Fuxerz

5 ай бұрын

Blackmore is a Mount Rushmore guitarist.

@davidlangford5383

5 ай бұрын

..me to .....yep blackmore rocks ...

I saw the Perfect Strangers tour in Feb 1985. I was 8 rows away from Ritchie and was immediately blown away. I was a new comer to rock and roll being only 16 years old. I paid a kings ransom to be there the next night also. To this day that was my favorite concert ever.

When Blackmore plays, you instantly know it is him playing! We are so very lucky to have him...and he still plays, as well as fellow Deep Purple cohorts, to this very day...2024 A modern day Beethoven!

The absolute Best Guitarplayer ever

Iconic player ... WoW !!

Ritchie Blackmore is the best of the best and would have been the 4th Yardbird / Musketeer. Most dangerous live on any given night, you could just get your mind blown with his phenomenal fretwork!!!!

I saw Blackmore's Night in Chicago about 18 years ago. Incredible music from all the band members, not just Ritchie. But when Ritchie broke out into a few Purple tunes, the whole place went nuts! He cranked it up for his solo on Black Night and blew the roof off the place! I never had the chance to see him with Purple or Rainbow but at least I had the opportunity to see him live. And WOW is all I can say!

@dingushussey4100

Жыл бұрын

Blackmore is still my favourite guitarist from the day I heard 24 Carat Purple back when i was 12, I only saw him once playing with Rainbow for the Straight Between the Eyes tour, still one of the best gigs of my life and i have seen a lot since then haha.

@golfhound

Жыл бұрын

I saw Rainbow on the Long Live Rock n Roll tour. Rainbow performed in Fillmore West, the last week before they closed for good. Fillmore is like a large dance hall with a stage at one end - SRO. I knew most of their songs on guitar as well as DP. Ronnie James Dio on vocals. To say Blackmore was on that night was an understatement - really charged up for a good performance. Being SRO, I was about 15 feet away from him with everyone else crammed over on his side of the stage. What I saw/heard from his guitar is not humanly possible. I prided myself on being pretty good, until I saw him play. I had seen almost everyone in rock music worth listening to in the 70's. Nobody came even close to him in technical skill or energy. He just blew me away. It really opened my eyes to what was possible on a stratocaster. I haven't seen anything by him on youtube that compared to that night. Jeff Beck is one of my favorites, but even he would've put his guitar away that night.

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

@@golfhound … I totally agree with you!! … …Ritchie Blackmore was a role model for many people and wanted to play like him!! …Also many famous musicians!! Jimmy Page liked to copy other guitarists (that's what he's known for in the music scene!) and was very jealous of R. Blackmore... ! For me he is the BEST and has been for 54 years!!

@krzywylolek3057

Жыл бұрын

I was -33 years old when Ritchie played with rainbow, but I love him to this day!

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

@@krzywylolek3057 … 🎸👍🏻

GREAT MUSIC IS TIMELESS.

Ritchie Blackmoore ist für mich einer der Gitarren Götter🤟🤟🎸 , und es gibt auch nur einen Ritchie Blackmoore 🎸🖤😎. Unverkennbar und brilliant!!👋👋👋👋👋 Sorgt in Verbindung mit Deep Purple /Rainbow bei mir immer noch für Gänsehaut pur, bis heute!!!! 🖤🖤😎🎸🤟

Blackmore is a unique Genius!!!!!!

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Richie is a musical genius, a master who keeps any audience on his strings A timeless creator of masterpieces.❤

@dannygray-mi3xn

Жыл бұрын

Richie is criminally underrated. Well said.

@nathandodge665

Жыл бұрын

He's not a genius he's just a musician

@dannygray-mi3xn

Жыл бұрын

@@dreamtheaterpantera It's criminal to call me criminally wrong though.

@dannygray-mi3xn

Жыл бұрын

@@dreamtheaterpantera It's not criminal to call me crimanaly wrong, but it's criminal to underrate Richie Blackmoore

@mickeystanic4750

2 ай бұрын

​@@nathandodge665He's a brilliant rock guitar player, there's probably a few million musicians in the world that we will never hear about...Ritchie is well known and and revered around the Globe.

Blackmore will be appreciated after his death.. but he never cared what people think about him. If he didn't exist the music we hear today would be very different. I am grateful for the music he gave to the world! The only thing i want from him is to make a video and tell to all of us guitar junkies what amplifiers he used and what modes did on them....

@BlackmoreDavid

Жыл бұрын

I'm highly agree with your words!

@TheSteveSteele

10 ай бұрын

In the MKI and early MKII days he played through a Vox that was hidden in a Marshall cabinet. By the Fireball tour he was using a Marshall Major. By the Burn tour that Marshall had an extra gain stage added to it and he used a tape machine for compression. His Strat modifications were revolutionary. He installed a 1/4” tremolo arm, scalloped the fretboard, had a unique tone circuit installed that basically scooped the mids a bit. You can hear this on Rainbow’s On Stage. He used a treble booster pedal. That’s the highlights.

@meryuk

7 ай бұрын

"Blackmore will be appreciated after his death." Said the very same words the other day

Don Airy sums it up perfectly. Ritchie is about the feel the sound. It's not about "shredding" but geez when touched that fret..... I've been privileged to witness the magic live a few times

BLACKMORE = MASTER!

Robert Fripp recently said at a concert I attended in NYC that Blackmore’s performance at Isle of Wight was one of the greatest guitar performances he ever saw.

@greg-warsaw4708

9 ай бұрын

Now, this is the ultimate praise. Being highly regarded as a guitar player by Robert Fripp is so much more than dozens of biased rankings (and I think most guitarists' rankings are biased to privilege technical shredders over emotional artists-players).

@kinesjl

5 ай бұрын

If Robert Fripp likes your guitar playing you're definitely doing things...

Great to see Blackmore and Deep Purple's music having a bit of a rennaisance these days. Made in Japan always was and always will be my favourite ever album. Nothing could possibly beat it!

@tommylarsson2025

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree! His solo on Chile in time could wake up the dead! NEVER heard anything like it whatever how much more technical guitarists there are now. But Making love with only a technical partner gives an empty feeling.

@davidc.4972

Жыл бұрын

Except made in europe

@golfhound

Жыл бұрын

@@davidc.4972 I consider Made in Europe to be like the third record of a Made in Japan 3 record set.

@davidc.4972

Жыл бұрын

@@golfhound I can see that. You fool no one is my favourite live song ever recorded by any band.I think they were at their all time best!

@James-hk3zz

Жыл бұрын

I pick machine head as my favorite, made in Japan is very close to machine head live,both are there best Albums in my opinion

I've heard Don Airey talk about Ritchie before. Its true to say the average competent keyboardist (piano player) is way better than your average guitarist simply because there is a strict, well established formularized training to play piano. It is centuries old. If you are not playing classical guitar then your mainstream player is either self taught, has some basic training or experience in a band, or has lessons typically in jazz guitar. There is no "standard" curriculum for electric/rock guitar. So Dons comments are spot on. Thus for him to speak in raptures about Ritchie says a lot. You can spot Blackmore a mile away if you listen to guitar players. The average punter doesn't. They just hear the music as a muddled mix that just sounds pleasing in one way or another. Other musos are the yardstick for expressing accolades about talent. Blackmore is unique.

The man in Black, Ritchie Blackmore.

@marke2289

4 ай бұрын

....and The Man in Pink he points to at around 11.09 was possibly the most famous football player in the world at that time - George Best

1980/1981 Saw Rainbow Live in Memphis TN and saw Ritchie and was amazed at his Guitar playing. Which he would quit Blackmore's night and create New Rainbow with some of his old Rainbow mates. Bring back Graham Bonnet and Blackmore again.

Best ever guitarist... technically...Amaze Sound...❤RB....

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@gdmofo

5 ай бұрын

I'm an old-timer but I would disagree and that's okay Eddie Van Halen number one

Sat behind Cozy Winterland SF 78..Long Live Rock And Roll tour..I've been to a hundred shows..that one was a stand out..fantastique!!!

@Marcus_C51

Жыл бұрын

Wow wish I'd seen that! Winterland was such a cool arena to see bands...Cozy and Richie together were something, I can only imagine how incredible that show was!

@Fuxerz

5 ай бұрын

Love Cozy Powell too 3 drummer in the world. RIP Cozy Jon Lord and DIO😢

There can be no best… all the guitar heroes are awesome.. My favourite band is Black Sabbath, but my favourite guitarist is Ritchie Blackmore

@peteannells4218

9 ай бұрын

Most sensible comment I have seen. 'Best ever' translates as 'my favourite'. You can't compare: Hendrix. Gallagher, Rheinhardt, Blackmore and Segovia, they are/were all geniuses in their own styles. Of course Roy Buchanan must win the prize for being the ' most often called the most under-rated ' 😃.

@andrejz8954

8 ай бұрын

Same 100%

Ritchie Interviews are verrrry rare!!!!!!!

For me hes the best ever

@Fuxerz

5 ай бұрын

Agreed 👍

Blackmore is a a standalone unit. The best there has ever been. No one comes close. Absolute master.

@grobbler1

Жыл бұрын

Very much his own man.

@rockyeppars2076

Жыл бұрын

No such thing as best,you prefer him,many would say hendrix,van halen,clapton,beck are better,he is 1 of the guitar gods tho

@robertosborne7542

Жыл бұрын

​@@rockyeppars2076 Definely not in Becks league imo.

@rockyeppars2076

Жыл бұрын

Beck is a guitar god,imo tho blackmores ref smoke on the water,hendrix,iron man refs have inspired more kids to learn guitar,hell pages solo,go down to guitar center and listen,they aint playing beck. gilmore,randy rhodes,srv,prince,clapton,come on give credit

@chriskroll4166

Жыл бұрын

@@rockyeppars2076 if he wants to think Richie is the best and let him. And shut the hell up

What a phenomenal guitarrist.

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I think Ritchie's difficulty as a person is FAR overshadowed by his genius as a musician and an influential guitar god. Its no mistake that even Steve Vai didn't want to take his place in Deep Purple, due to his legacy. To this day I can still put on Made in Japan or On Stage and be mesmerized by the sheer artistry of the man.

@alexanderSydneyOz

2 ай бұрын

Blackmore's difficulties as a person deep purple and other is other bands were fractious and never really got on properly as a group. So the body of material is all over the place. And while Blackmore himself isn't an amazing guitarist he was never surrounded by equally amazing musicians. Ultimately his career and material lack the cohesive unrelenting brilliance from all parties that made led Zeppelin the greatest rock band.

Saw him twice. Been to his house once . ( Delivery ). Play Foosball with him once in a bar on Long Island.

@mickeystanic4750

2 ай бұрын

That's awesome. Can you put it to rest ones for all how tall is Ritchie, please? Cheers!

Mr. Blackmore is a complete musician. His music has inspired countless guitarists. I really enjoy his music and his sense of humor. Mr. Blackmore is a Guitar God. Hands down one of the greatest. His solos are sheer perfection.

His sound is so raw. I miss that, everything is so processed nowadays. One of the Gods that's for sure.

Blackmore is one of the best guitarist in the world, he was like Hendrix, he could make that guitar sing,🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

@derhandtrommler

Жыл бұрын

Ritchie is very, very good. One of the best. But there is no one "Like Hendrix" and never will be.

@James-hk3zz

Жыл бұрын

@derhandtrommler true as true can be mate, Hendrix is unbeatable 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

@mben-david2064

Жыл бұрын

@@James-hk3zz great minds think alike,James

@LupitaBarbosaHernandez-ou2em

Жыл бұрын

Yes I agree, I'm gonna say some risky words but I have to daré...Blackmore is/was better than Hendrix, he plays cleaner, faster and pretty melody Tunes too, only that Hendrix Is an overrated player while Blackmore Is an underrated player ...for sample just press a button, hear any "Chlld in time" versión and hear "You fool no one" versión from the "Live in London" album...that speed and rage printed in those albums leaves you wordless ...

@derhandtrommler

Жыл бұрын

@@LupitaBarbosaHernandez-ou2em You clearly were not around when Hendrix was alive and your knowledge of his catalog doesn't extend beyond his hits. Blackmore would probably clobber you with a Strat for saying he was the better guitarist. And I'd stand there and clap for him.Hendrix wrote and played in three dimensions. No one since has met that standard.

I think RB is a force of his own and one ot those musicians not possible to copy. And I think In Rock is still today an earth shattering rock album and totally in a class of it’s own. But first and foremost DP was and is a live band. DP is, much like LZ and BS unique.

Ritchie's Rainbow performance in Sweden in 2019 I watched recently was amazing.

Respect to Ritchie 🙏🏻

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

People always act like if they see a guitar player on KZread or in a video that they’re better than somebody else… but have they sold millions of records, and appealed to the masses to where everybody loved them? Like smoke on the water or space Truckin or perfect strangers

I haven’t watched it yet, but I know it will be epic. What he couldn’t play on guitar wasn’t worth listening to.

Saw them many times over the years since 69.........one of my favorite bands to play along with on guitar and keyboards...........

Pretty cool as a kid, growing up hearing about Ritchie through Journalist Steve Rosen's brother, or waiting for the Guitar Player Magazine story by Steve that I'd already heard about :O) I went to the California Jam @ 14 years old, cuz of the older guys I knew that hung with him. First time I met Steve in person, he introduced me to Tim Bogert!

@rogerkeime1925

Жыл бұрын

Smoke on the water and man on silver mountain two different bands 2 of the best riffs ever

Blackmore is criminally underappreciated. Some of this is his own doing, he simply doesn't like the limelight

@robsco1249

Жыл бұрын

...as much as Ian Paice

@francesco0185

Жыл бұрын

Underappreciated by who? Maybe you're very young cause he's always been appreciated. He is notoriously the king of 70s hard rock, the father of heavy metal guitar, a mentor for Malmsteen etc. But first he doesn't like to stay under lights, and second he doesn't have many friends in music business cause he has a complicated attitude, to say the less.

@bigdave1302

Жыл бұрын

How the hell is he underrated? He is considered one of the greats!

@Buddy_Banquet_Off

Жыл бұрын

🤭

@poliziagrammaticale9430

Жыл бұрын

Everybody is underrated nowadays.

Hi Coda Records, Thanks for this 👍 It's often said that the gap between being genius or crazy is paper thin. A whole generation, (including this ol' boomer), of Deep Purple/Rainbow a.o. fans, will tell you that they'll admire and cherish Ritchie, until the end of time. Some fellow musicians couldn't handle his personality or attention, some will say obsession, to loads of improvisations in the stage performances etc. But absolutely nobody can ignore the fact, that Ritchie Blackmore's creative mindset, made some of hard 'n' heavy rocks very best music/tunes, especially live. Ritchie Blackmore fan forever.☮️❤️🎸

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

...R.B. is a serious person and didn't get along well with fools! I can understand that artists who want to be particularly perfect are accused of a lot of negative things! … Not everyone just wants to party!! Fan for 54 years!!! 🎸🥁

RITCHIE IS THE REASON WE STARTED OUR BAND

Blackmore is one of the most talented and innovative rock guitar gods

Noticeable that RB is listening to Warchild by Jethro Tull in the US 1974 interview. It's on record that he is a big fan of Ian Anderson & Tull.

Blackmore was by far the best player of that era

The Rainbow lineup of Blackmore, Dio, Bain, Powell, Carey was fantastic. In Allentown (late 1970’s) Blackmore got his guitar stuck in the overhead light batten during his guitar smashing part of the show. I will never forget the power of that band when they did Man on a Silver Mountain.

I remember was back in nineteen seventy I was a junior in high school. I'm 70 right now.. I asked a friend of mine back then I am looking for a band with a organ player and a guitar player. He told me to check out deep purple in rock. The rest is history. I became a permanent follower. The kid's name was iggy. Such a great memory. I will never forget talking to him that Day in the hallway Of my high school in Toledo Ohio. Iggy. He also turned Me on to...... Cactus. Vanilla fudge.

@andyharman3022

11 ай бұрын

I miss the Hammond organ in modern rock.

Ritchie is my guitar heroe for my whole life!!!!!!!. I,m 62 years old swiss man, i have ok a Gibson les Paul standard iced tea. My accoustic guitar is a 40 years old washburn from 1983, that Costa me 800 Franken. Now you know, i'm from ibach-schwyz, where the original swiss army knives were manufactuard, victorinox. The name is from 1922, because the founder of the family, Herr elsener, who has produced 13 children, said, ok Victoria is ok, but the knives rosteten nie, wegen dem heisst the Brand since 1922 victorinox, because of inox that means rustfree. That' the little story about victorinox. Thats a great secret, that not a lot of the world know. Happy sunday and a nice christmas and a happy New year all in the world. I hope of a better 2024. Tschüüüüüss.

That man is an Icon

This man is a legend great guitarist 🎸 😅

D.P. is always been my preferred rock band...and every R.Blackmore solo it got tattooed in you the fiest time you heard it...and stay there for ever....I still listen to them today...at 70

I am with Doogie, he was the greatest guitarist of his generation and still today he is my number 1. His music is magic.

@thepedalkickers2701

Жыл бұрын

Blackmore surely is one of the greats, but I wouldn't say he is T H E B E S T. I also really like Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath and Tony Bourge of Budgie as well. Still absolutely awesome nevertheless.

@milosdunjic8718

9 ай бұрын

His playing in Blackmore’s Night is simply magical

Only a few have done what Blackmore has done! One of the Founding member of a massively iconic band called Deep Purple . The guitarist no less when the guitar dominated the radio. Quits … leaves purple… most would have faded, to become dated and thought of in a nostalgia way. Nope … He forms Rainbow … has a vision, keeps perfecting it till the band achieves massive air play on par with Deep Purple. Deep Purple dead in the water reunites with Blackmore and lighting strikes again w/ Perfect Strangers … proving once again what a talent/genius he was. Leaves Purple again… and Pursues another musical passion Renaissance Music !! Once again his talent comes to the fore in Blackmore’s Night! (Again achieves commercial success in the genre of Renaissance music!!!) Marries Candis Night, a hot blonde singer 20 plus years younger than him and rides off into the sunset ! Is that not a bad ass real life story? I don’t believed he was hard to work with, I agree with J Turner Blackmore was a perfectionist!

@georgeprice4212

Жыл бұрын

You forgot blew up the stage - figuratively and literally - in the 70’s!

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

… 👍🏻 true words!! ...R.B. is definitely one of the best!! Anyone who claims otherwise is jealous, lying or has no idea!!! … FOR ME THE BEST GUITARIST!! ... and that for 54 years!

I begun with music with deep purple in 82, than started playng guitar to play his solos in 87, then i saw DP 8 times with him, one with satriani and one with morse. I would say that I don't know how my life would have been without Blackmore. he is more good at guitar than ass hole in life which means he is with a stratocaster on the highest place on the olympus over a stair..

I saw Ritchie Blackmore with Rainbow twice featuring Joe Lynn Turner on vocals and the reformed Deep Purple with Ian Gillan and Joe Lynn Turner, respectively. Blackmore is forevermore.

Te amo, Blackmore. Vida longa para ti e, muito obrigado, por todos os grandiosos momentos que vivi ouvindo suas incríveis músicas...

it is like a dream - this wonderful - ROCK AND POP - musicien

Blackmore foreverrrrrrr

One off a kind, unique guitar player, no one else sounds like Richie and never will

Absolute legend, everything he does is amazing.

There is no guitarist, from 1975, till now, who can not say they were influenced by Ritchie Blackmore. Not one!

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

… It's right! … Almost everyone wanted to be like him!! … Some don't like to admit it!

I agree He was the Best of His generation. But if you listen to music of this Generation, He stands up to & surpasses what's being made today. It's as if there isn't a dedication to their craft anymore. He's been a Huge favorite of mine since my early teens & still is today , I'm 55 now. Seen him & Purple 3 times here in Detroit, Rocked my Face off every time.

My favorite rock gutarist forever. He played musically most unbeliveable solos of rock music history in 3 LPs from Deep Purple titled as IN ROCK, MACHINE HEAD and BURN. Contrary of many rock musicians i avoid comparing Ritchie to Hendrix. Because Hendrix is a SCIENCE FICTION BLUES guitarist use rock sound but he is not a real rock musician and even he said many times that he loves jazz more than rock and his music will be like the music of Wagner and Strauss. You can find these infos in the biography of Hendrix written by Mike Cramer. Same with Janis Joplin too. Ritchie is doing also very nice music today together with his wife.

@AAndromeda-lw7fh

Жыл бұрын

... and R.B. loves L. van Beethoven! He is often in Germany because he really likes the German castles and used to live and get married in Germany!

Great input from Malcolm Dome. Thanks for the vid. Really enjoyed it

I've been a guitarist for almost 46 years. In fact my brother first learned to play smoke on the water even before I picked up a guitar. But that's all he could ever do that one simple little lick. I guess I was just gifted or lucky. I played that song the first time I ever picked up a guitar. But I have to say that Blackmore could do something I could never do. A perfectly timed arpeggio. The first time I heard man on the silver mountain, I could instantly pick up the guitar and play exactly what he did. But when it came to that little archipeggio during the course, I still can't do it. So what I did, to make it unique to my own is to play that part in a Randy rhoads style. Now I know Randy rhoads inside and out, he would be the best guitarist on the planet if he was alive now. But it cannot do it at all! Blackmore's simple approach to playing that part is so difficult to reproduce in an effective and melodic way. I spent a few hours last night, as a matter of fact, trying to figure out how to do what Blackmore did with that simple apprecio. I'll probably spend a couple of hours trying to do it today. But I don't think I'll ever get it right.

Ritchie and his wife Candace live about 20 minutes from me here on Long Island. He has for a long time now. They always put on a great show with Blackmore's Night. We have quite a few medieval festivals around the area where they play. Still my favorite player, but if you happen to run into him..don't tell him that kind of shit cause he hates it.

@DrJ-hx7wv

9 ай бұрын

I had no idea he was on LI. I guess he has access to NYC there? So many British rockers become American citizens once they become successful.

RICHIE AND HENDRIX ARE GUITAR GODS

@DrJ-hx7wv

11 ай бұрын

Blackmore blows Jimi out of the water.

@MAHAMADAMAHAMADA-wb2ep

11 ай бұрын

@@DrJ-hx7wv JIMI BLOWS RICHIE OUT OF SKIES,,,WATER AND LAND

@Fuxerz

4 ай бұрын

​@MAHAMADAMAHAMADA-wb2ep wow fellas this is apples and oranges. Both are the best of that generation, and with Jeff Beck, the king. All 3 are Mount Rushmore guitarist

Only 2 guitar players from the 60's never stopped evolving. Jeff Beck and Ritchie Blackmore.

Bonus points for anyone who can guess which album is being played in the background during most of the interview segments with Richie. In any case, thanks for sharing this great documentary!

I saw Rainbow during the Rainbow Rising era. That is still one of my favorite albums. Dio was never better. The highlight was of course Stargazer. My friend started going psycho paranoid from smoking thai stick and thought he was dying. I forcibly held him down in his seat because there was no way I was going to walk out while Ritchie was onstage! A couple of years ago I wore my Rainbow Rising T-shirt to a King Diamond show. All these guys were stopping me and telling me "thats a f-ing great album man!"

@ztdaddy2319

Жыл бұрын

PS - Live In Japan is the best live album ever - which they should have mentioned.

blackmore fused blues with western classical and eastern melody giving birth of unpredictable emotional rebellious opulence solos.

Bum bum bum buuuuum man! Great musician and found some great jewels as well!!

Блэкмор-- это скала. Мощь и динамизм.

I saw Rainbow on the Long Live Rock n Roll tour. Rainbow performed in Fillmore West, the last week before they closed for good. Fillmore is like a large dance hall with a stage at one end - SRO. I knew most of their songs on guitar as well as DP. Ronnie James Dio on vocals. To say Blackmore was on that night was an understatement - really charged up for a good performance. Being SRO, I was about 15 feet away from him with everyone else crammed over on his side of the stage. What I saw/heard from his guitar is not humanly possible. I prided myself on being pretty good, until I saw him play. I had seen almost everyone in rock music worth listening to in the 70's. Nobody came even close to him in technical skill or energy. He just blew me away. It really opened my eyes to what was possible on a stratocaster. I haven't seen anything by him on youtube that compared to that night. Jeff Beck is one of my favorites, but even he would've put his guitar away that night.

@Fuxerz

5 ай бұрын

You saw a mount rushmore guitarist. One of the best in the world ever.

My top 3 guitars Hendrix Blackmore Van Helen In that order.

Grande genio creativo, il suo modo di suonare la stratocaster e unico ed inimitabile in poche parole il migliore nessuno come lui.

I Love this band

Cmon, let us not forget, could possibly have written the hardest, most effective,recognized, and baddass opening riff in rock history..besides being a genius player...

@broken927

11 ай бұрын

He copped that lick and poor Ludwig didn't even receive a fifth of a pound for his efforts.

At school in the 70's if you liked Heavy music it was either Page or Blackmore and for me then it was Blackers by a mile as he was technically more proficient. 40 years on nothing has changed and Ritchie to me is the link between Hendrix and the modern day shredders. It will be a very sad day when he is no longer with us as he is a living legend

@Fuxerz

4 ай бұрын

I don't know if you heard the interview with Pagie. He said Ritchie could wipe the floors with him as a lead guitarist and improvising live.

Page even said he couldn’t play live like Blackmore

@pjotts9793

7 ай бұрын

Maybe it was the era that i grew up and matured musically in, 1980's, that bred clean sounding solos, more technically proficient playing (Yngwie, for example) but tho i appreciate the genius in both Page and Blackmore and their contribution to Rock and Metal, i thought they both were very sloppy players. It was offputting to me comparing the playing both live and in studio of the 80's guitarist vs. Page and Blackmore. But playing something is half the battle. Actually creating these new directions in guitar riffs and soloing is unmatched. Page and Blackmore take the cake in influencing my generation of super shredders to play as they did. But you cant deny, genius aside, both Page and Blackmore were very sloppy.

Ritchie Blackmore is the greatest guitar player ever! Sound ,Tone, pitch, style ! Blackmore, Paige, Beck, Hendrix, Gilmore, SRV, Eddie , Clapton, Santana ! These Guitarist are the best!😊

The best i ever heard

I was in the audience at Wembley Arena when Ritchie refused to come out for the encore.

@lennyhamster7585

Жыл бұрын

me too...wembley got trashed...went next night and he played 2 encores...still love the guy

@barneytorr1

Жыл бұрын

@@lennyhamster7585 There's only one Ritchie, I'll take him as he comes anytime.

@fraserwood2600

Жыл бұрын

Saw him twice. Perfect Strangers and then House of Blue Light. Never came out for what should have been the Smoke encore. Arrogant prick but cracking guitarist.

@barneytorr1

Жыл бұрын

@@fraserwood2600 Saw Deep Purple at Knebworth 1985, Perfect Strangers album featured heavily, the weather was atrocious, rained all day Ritchie had wellies on 😂

@simonengland6448

Жыл бұрын

​@STUFFatRRC were you on the right side, facing the stage? Do you remember the drunk bloke passed out next to the pissing fence, floating in the ooze? After malt loaf being pissed off, it was the funniest thing I saw.

Great pity there is no footage of Blackmore when in Lord Sutch's Savages!!

Somebody knows if Blackmore have been played in an italian band named, The Trip, between 1967/1968?

@littlebritain64

11 ай бұрын

Yes. For a few months. Probably the band changed members a little later, becoming a very good prog-rock italian band.

@bonymagu1130

11 ай бұрын

@@littlebritain64 I don't remember where I read that Blackmore had belonged to The Trip and had to return to England due to a stomach illness, but I never knew if it had been true. What was true is that the first musician Blackmore looked for when he joined Rainbow was Joe Vescovi (Keyboardist of The Trip). Thank you very much for the information.

@littlebritain64

11 ай бұрын

@@bonymagu1130 😊👍

Not the most handsome man to ever walk the planet, but no one - and I mean no one - has ever fit the “guitar god” image better. And in his heyday literally no one else in hard rock was playing like that, with that level of precision and that uniqueness of phrasing and classical influence. Where Airey says Blackmore is not quite as lightning as Gary Moore or Randy Rhoads, it’s because Blackmore was playing in service to that stunning guitar sound. Unlike those guys, he was not relying on pedals; while the sound from his Marshalls roared with high aggression, it was a clean roar. Rhoads may have been great, but I couldn’t stand his fuzzy fizzy sound. Moore went that way too in the “Nuclear Attack” era, returning to a somewhat cleaner (but still pedal-distorted) sound as he moved back into the blues.

Personally, I greatly enjoy Blackmore's Night very much. I have been an admirer of Richie since I was a young boy in the early 70s, and he is one of the players that made me want to play guitar.

@HesTNTonPMS

10 ай бұрын

It is still Ritchie inventing on his guitars, still mind blowing work !

I don't even think I subscribed to this channel yet it popped up in my subscription feed 😂

@shopcodarecords

Жыл бұрын

Hi there, we recently rebranded! We used to be 'Music Legends' - thanks for sticking with us.

Maestro

I saw DP on the re-union 'perfect strangers' tour (how prophetic a title huh?) and I've seen Rainbow 3 or 4 times... Ritchie with RJD was an amazing experience... Especially Stargazer and Over the Rainbow... Just amazing vocal and guitar work... I'm glad Ritchie had such a difficult personality because we might be stuck with them just fading into the distance rather than still being relevant today....

Mr. Richard Hugh Blackmore 🎸⚡️🔥😎🤘