R Blackmore. I cant get my head around this.

[War Admiral]

Now Ritchie playing acoustic is ripping good. Makes him lay back a little more. Doogie was an awesome singer too, forgot how good he was.

Hes so versatile...what a character.

 

[Badronald]

Now Ritchie playing acoustic is ripping good. Makes him lay back a little more. Doogie was an awesome singer too, forgot how good he was.

Never seen that vid. Great stuff!

 

[C1-ocaster]

So let me get this straight. Now Blackmore is a talentless incoherent hack?
The world is truly upside down.

Metal-head morons.

Interesting isn't it?
For me, DP is one of THE bands that laid the groundwork for what later evolved into "heavy metal".

Blackmore is not one of my favorite guitarists, but he's a skilled player and musician and deserving of respect.
He sure did create and give us "words" that many have since used in their modern rock sentences. He had a sort of free form jazz approach and to some ears that's too much to work through.

 

[JohnSykes]

You guys need the calm the fuck down.

Whatever playing just happened in that video was not tasteful to some people (myself included)

Blackmore has done some great guitar stuff for sure, but this solo just sounds like shit.

Maybe if we heard the man himself, loud in a concert setting, whatever.

He has played some good stuff, but he is NO fucking jimmy page, or Hendrix. So please stop comparing him to the greatest guitarists that came from the 60's.

He's pretty good, but he's not one of the top level guys.

2nd tier at best. He might be good enough to change Jimmy Pages strings, and tune up his mandocello.

Jimmy Page once came up to Ritchie and said...what are those lines your playing ? ..Ritchie responded with ...Don't you know? Ritchie is from the 60's and Nobody's comparing anybody either, thats just dumb. Page is brilliant at what he wrote and did. Who is comparing anyone to Hendrix or 60's cats?? Maybe you should listen to Ritchie's live guitar playing improv jamming with Jon Lord from 69-72 period and than think about the last naive statement you wrote. You havent a clue. Not a top level guy? According to you. Have fun growing up

In my book, Ritchie is up there with Page, Clapton, Beck and Hendrix.

 

[TrueTone500]

Ritchie Blackmore - The master!

RB may be using that reel-to-reel 2-track as a tape-echo... I did the same think for years! It sounded better than any other echo to my ears, so that's what I used. I eventually dropped it from a 10 story building, along with a television, several watermelons, and a gallon of milk!

 

[ctoddrun]

Did Ritchie do much in the way of customizing those Strats back then?

I'm guessing he scalloped before it was known, but the way he abuses the pickup selector switch makes me think he was probably tweaking other parts.

I guess I could Google it, but you guys probably know...

 

[paulyc]

You guys crack me up... still going on with this , "hey it's ok, i didn't get him either" superiority complex over a guy who just screws around way too much live and goes way too far past what he cut in the studio. Some creative liberties are fine (ahem, Randy's live stuff with Ozzy, where he changed it up night after night but kept the important bits more or less the same) but to completely just go off and have peoplemake excuses for your "genius" because you just didn't feel like playing? Hey I guess I am not "developed" enough as a musician or I haven't hit my level 10 guitar wizardry level because to me it sounds like HE thinks it sounds great when most other people will think it sounds terrible. If you are letting Ritchie off the hook for sloppy playing, then isn't Lynch a total maestro out there? He takes liberties in and out of key all the time! When he does it however, he is in the wrong. That's right, Lynch just doesn't "get it", he's still trying to get to Ritchie's level.... so is Wylde for that matter. What Ritchie consistently has though.. is killer tone!

Deep Purple is where it's at. Highway Star, Child In Time, Lazy.. killer killer stuff and awesome phrasing with those signature licks. I liked the Rainbow song writing and rythm playing, but the leads always left me wondering whether or not he put any effort into it. I'm gonna be honest with you, I LOVE Yngwie playing Rainbow or Purple songs. He kills it every time.

I was gonna say the same thing about Lynch...LOVED him in the 80s...now ? Meh.