Ritchie Blackmore

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This guy just does not get enough credit for his contribution to heavy metal guitar. Just had to get this out, listening to some old Rainbow. I haven't listened to Rainbow forever, the stuff with DIO kicks ass!
 
heavy metal

I hate that term. The implication is so narrow - especially for guys as multi-faceted as RB.
 
Yeah. Especially since RB is able to play both books of "The Well Tempered Clavier" from memory on the piano.
 
Blackmore is great. He absolutely deserves more credit than he's gotten over the years. I think every single guitarist ever to pick up the instrument since the 70's has played "Smoke On the Water" as his first tune.
 
One of my fav's. Especially his guitar work on Machine Head. 'Lazy' is fantastic.
 
Yeah Lazy is so... lazy! Delicious.

But I think he's very good, but not outstanding.
Just like Jimi Hendrix and Jimi Page, I think people are exagerating about their playing because they're so famous.

Dream Theater is also quite famous, but their guitarplayer, John Petrucci is so much better. His solo's are not just very difficult, they're also very nice to hear.

And that's the error much people make. They think it's beautiful if it's difficult. That's bullshit. I think the best solo who ever will be done contains of 2 or 3 different notes. I'm sure.
 
Ritchie Blackmore is a great guitarist. Absolutely.

But you think that the single most egotistical guitarist this side of Yngwie needs MORE credit????? :confused:

:D :D

Bruce
 
I remember the first time I heard Fireball..........that was a real eye opener to a Strat sound.I had heard the great tones Hendrix had gotten,but Ritchie's was so fluid,pure,and buttery.Then Machine Head....well,that was Deep Purple's Abbey Road.Lazy,indeed!!!That album was probably played through a Vox AC30,or small Marshall combo because of the fact that it was in the mobile recording unit (someone with more knowledge here may elaborate...seems like I remember a small amp in the pics).His solo in Pictures Of Home is so aggressive with just a few notes----he really milks the note.
 
Pictures of Home. Best thing on the album - and that's saying something.
 
Ritchie Blackmore is God. But very few people know that he is also a virtuoso classical pianist.
 
BLACKMORE, one of my first influences...

and i'll tell you what recording does it for me......
it's off of "made in japan", and it's the opening cut, "highway star"....
i've said it before, to me, this recording and PERFORMANCE is the sonic equivalent of a mugging. The energy level of the band at this point in time was nothing short of explosive.

all young raging bands take note of this performance. It is a formula for all time....... but it takes the right components to make it work, and this line up just plain worked!:)
 
I didn't expect many replies to this thread. It was just a spontaneous drunken whim, I wasn't even sure I had actually sent this off. Aah, the joys of alcohol.

It was that Strat sound that got me going. I have been thinking lately about getting a Strat after I get me another SG to maybe replace my back breaking LP Studio.
 
:p Ritchie was the guy who desired and help design the short lived 200 watt Marshall Major heads....they kept blowing up,so Marshall said bye-bye to them.Blackmore had his customized,and although I don't think he still uses them,he did for quite awhile,even after Purple.........can you imagine a 200 watt Marshall head with NO master volume?
 
HEY TWEEDVILLE!
that's the sound i was talking about, on the made in japan album....
there's something about THAT sound, that is so unique, and part of it was that 200 watt marshall sound, and the intense volume....
i saw them in 1973........
the sound of his guitar was totally over the top....

i've seen many others since, including yngwie (up close and personal in a real small club) and michael shencker, and a few others that were into a similar style or sound, but no one has ever had that awesome power sound..... that i've heard.....
 
Guitard said:
This guy just does not get enough credit for his contribution to heavy metal guitar. Just had to get this out, listening to some old Rainbow. I haven't listened to Rainbow forever, the stuff with DIO kicks ass!
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Hi Guitard,

Ritchie Blackmore is the EMITOME of what I'm looking for in a guitarist. Of course, Rainbow IS one of my favorite bands.

My favorite song is probably either "16th Century Greensleeves" , "Temple of The King", or "Lady of The Lake"...sort of a tie, depending upon what mood I'm in.

Tim
 
Richie Blackmore update

It seems as though his new Irish wife has pussy whipped him because he has gave up the electric guitar and is now playing keltic music for his wife to sing to and record.

I got the chance to see him perform in a small club before he went ahmish. And he was saying to us that this was his last tour ever. there was less than 20 fans at the show so we all hung with them afterwards.

By the way Joe Lynn Turner was a way better singer than the leprecaun( I also saw DIO at a small club here as well but the house was packed).

Wasnt Joe Lynn Turner the vocalist on the Ynwvie Malmsteen records, It sure sounds like him?
 
Aaahhh......you know Blackmore.When he is about 75,he will want to do a Purple Reunion tour:D
 
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darrin_h2000 said:
By the way Joe Lynn Turner was a way better singer than the leprecaun( I also saw DIO at a small club here as well but the house was packed).

Wasnt Joe Lynn Turner the vocalist on the Ynwvie Malmsteen records, It sure sounds like him?
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Yeah, Joe Lynn Turner sang with Yngwie for awhile, and Blackmore and Dio are talking of getting Rainbow back together...Cozy Powell was supposed to be in it, but he died, and that sort set them back.

Tim
 
I heard he died driving with his cell phone and talking dirty to his old lady.

Anyway its a short life when you have played drums for Robert Plant. (spinal tap curse).

The news story was in Chuck Sheperds News of the Weird under the undignified deaths catagory.
 
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