Flares Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Not that enlightening, but some crumbs about the early days: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril46 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Actually very interesting hearing Blackmore compliment other guitarists. Iv'e read many Blackmore interviews from when he was still playing rock, and he complimented just about no one. Anyway people and aspiring guitarists should absolutely seek out Ritchie's live stuff in the 70's. He could play classical stuff, blues, combine the two, play really cranking rock as well. He was a forerunner shredder, but played with just as much fire and emotion as a great blues guitarist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juxtiphi Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 His best solo is on Child in Time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryder1978 Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Flares, Thanks for sharing! Blackmore was always my second favorite guitarist of all time! He is one of those rare technical guitarists who can also write and play melodically! He was my inspiration to pick up the guitar in the first place! juxtiphi, Of course, everyone has their own opinion. I prefer the riff and the two solo's in "Burn" myself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balthazor Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 It's getting to where I can't tell Ritchie Blackmore and Tony Iommi apart. I was never a big Deep Purple fan, though I don't know why, but I love the early Dio-era Rainbow stuff. He often doesn't seem to get the credit he deserves for being the great and influential guitarist that he was. Whenever I see one of those stupid greatest guitarist lists, Blackmore always seems to slip down far lower than he should be and ends up behind guitarists who couldn't hold a candle to him. I've always heard he was a rather unlikable fellow, so perhaps that factors into it somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnOsbourne Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Thanks for posting this, I'm a huge Blackmore fan. I've heard interviews from the 70's where he spoke highly of Page and Zep, so this isn't totally out of character. (He also spoke well of his replacement in DP, Tommy Bolin, and rightfully so). FWIW his work in DP with Coverdale is his best, as Zep Head said, check out his stuff from this period (and early Rainbow w/Dio), definitely an amazing guitarist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril46 Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 Interesting, never heard those interviews. I live on Long Island and my friend who was 18 at the time showed up at a jam where Blackmore played. My friend was a prodigy basically , got up and played and Blackmore shook his hand , he was blown away. My friend then hung out with him sometimes, he said Blackmore was cool, played a lot of soccer, drunk moderately. Ritchie was known to be moody and even belligerent at times. I saw a combo show in 88'-- Gun's n ' Rose's, Aerosmith, and Purple. Blackmore made mincemeat out of the other guitarists. Aerosmith was still rebuilding and Slash was pretty erratic that early on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambeau Leap Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 I saw a documentary on him recently, The Ritchie Blackmore story, really good. Somebody in the documentary commented on Blackmore saying "He was the white Hendricks." That's very accurate IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnOsbourne Posted February 13, 2016 Share Posted February 13, 2016 10 hours ago, Lambeau Leap said: I saw a documentary on him recently, The Ritchie Blackmore story, really good. Somebody in the documentary commented on Blackmore saying "He was the white Hendricks." That's very accurate IMO. I'd be more inclined to give that particular honor to Uli Roth, but yeah, Ritchie could get some crazy sounds out of his guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedZeppfan77 Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 On February 12, 2016 at 2:19 AM, Mithril46 said: Actually very interesting hearing Blackmore compliment other guitarists. Iv'e read many Blackmore interviews from when he was still playing rock, and he complimented just about no one. Anyway people and aspiring guitarists should absolutely seek out Ritchie's live stuff in the 70's. He could play classical stuff, blues, combine the two, play really cranking rock as well. He was a forerunner shredder, but played with just as much fire and emotion as a great blues guitarist. Are you referring to his work with Deep Purple on Purple Passages for instance? The pre Smoke on the Water/Machine Head days if you will? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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