Still looking at my doormat for your book
Cant wait…..

Will try to arrange my payment for your More Black Than Purple

Again, aswell for others, how does one pay when located in Europe?

You really should take that up with Amazon.
Good luck.

Still have to get my butt into becoming a member of the More Black than purple club, Jerry.
Me ashamed but in the beginning I felt that the contents would be a heavy input of BN material and THATS not the main reason I m interested in the man, ahem.

Cheers.

LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!

‘blackmore#s night mare’ is from me, by the way, and of course it’s a tasteless joke.

best, tc

If they’ve been around THAT long, they’ve gotta be good

Oh, and Jerry, none of my recent remarks were directed at you in any way…

If they’ve been around THAT long, they’ve gotta be good

Oh, and Jerry, none of my recent remarks were directed at you in any way…

I am very aware of that possibility, Gary.
ALL THE TIME!!!!!

But I cant stay off the stuff, man!!!!

Btw, ever heard of the Edgar Broughton Band?

I thought something must have happened during the tour, but I found a video clip on YouTube recently of Battle Rages On tour rehearsals. Blackmore sits on a stool looking completely disinterested in being there. Of course I may be unfairly maligning the man - it was only a rehearsal after all, and he played the music well enough. And of course he played a blinder on some nights on the tour (sadly not the night I went to, though). I wondered if the seeds of his discontent had been sown earlier and, at the end of the day, what it was really all about.

If the answer is “buy my book” - that’s fine

I just looked up on You Tube the band Spooky Tooth, because it not only featured Mick Jones, leadguitarplayer for Foreigner and as far as I know part of Nero and the Gladiators, but also singer Mike Harrison.
Mike Harrison was checked out by Lord and RB at the beginning.

Even more interesting, I read that only recently…..I think in Black Knight, That Ian Gillan refused the job before they found Rod Evans.

Also looked up a lot of The Searchers with Chris Curtis who fell out with Lord in the beginning after having started the process of starting up a band.
First time I ever saw and heard him sing and drum.
But I recognised Needles and Pins

Oh my God, so much to explore
I need 900 lives!!!

I’ll keep on plugging away though.

thanks, tc

I haven´t got around to ordering the Llrn´roll book yet, but i will. (Having spent the last months in and out of hospitals, i haven´t done much else of anything…)

An updated version of “Black Knight”? Go for it! I totally loved it the first time around, and i´d have no problem with buing it again! Really like your work!

All the best!

Soren

I could found no trace of Mick Jones in the clips on the Tube.
You might be right he was later than Colin Green and, so called axe hero Joe Moretti, another Italian!!!!

Usually I kind of get annoyed noticing updates of something I just bought but…..
Two ex wives?!
Might give us some great juicy stuff on our man?

Glad you liked Black Knight. I’d like to do a rewrite at some stage as I have loads of new info, especially as I have interviewed two of the ex-wives since it was published!

Read your Black Knight with great pleasure.

In the last few weeks I ve been indulging in lots of Foreigner music and Lou Gramm and Mick Jones and…….etc
I tried to find some more info on Mick Jones, the guitarplayer and mainman besides Lou.

In your book I read about Nero And The Gladiators who were big for a while in Britain during the arly 60s.
And that RB was very much inspired by this lot.
And now I found out that Mick Jones was in that outfit, which I did not know before ofcourse.

So, in a way, one could say, Mick was there first and not Ritchie?

I also wasn’t implying ‘ authorized ‘ is better than ‘ authorized ‘. I was merely addressing an incorrect assumption as to the proceeds of your work and not implying anything negative.

As for More Black than Purple, just to correct you, it isn’t an “inet fanzine” or indeed an Internet one but a full colour properly printed magazine.

As for the comments about appearing in Pirate videos, I had no idea when I was asked to do them that the material wasn’t being licensed and have since severed all connections with those responsible for producing them. However as for being “about as ill-advised as it gets”, I think many people the world over have done far more heinous things than that! It makes me sound as dodgy as a politicians expenses claims!

Keep on rocking.

PS. Lord and Hughes were superb at Childline gig last night.

However, BLACK KNIGHT is an unauthorized biography and I’m fairly certain that LONG LIVE ROCK AND ROLL STORY wasn’t authorized by
Ritchie or his management, and probably did not receive any money from either of Mr. Bloom’s projects on Ritchie’s career.

You couldn’t be more right, but at least he has tapped into some of the best and most important to me of photos from Ritchie’s early pre-Purple days. Somebody has to stay on top of that material and he seems to be in pocket enough for the job. Plus this is an interesting idea for sure, I hope it’s decent.

I’m not the biggest fan of MBTP but… also, appearing in PIRATE videos on the subject of Blackmore and Purple is about as ill advised as it gets.(ouch!)

He is just a guy who want´s to make money with Ritchie and Co…

Sorry, thats my view of this !

-kraatzy-