One way to get thrown out of a hotel
In this latest instalment of Tales from the Tavern Ritchie Blackmore discusses the genius of Django Reinhardt and how to get thrown out of a hotel.
Happy birthday, Ritchie!
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In this latest instalment of Tales from the Tavern Ritchie Blackmore discusses the genius of Django Reinhardt and how to get thrown out of a hotel.
Happy birthday, Ritchie!
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Ok…. So the way to be world known is to know how to start a fire!
I am halfway there…🔥🔥🔥🔥
April 14th, 2025 at 13:05Happy 80th Birthday Ritchie, many happy returns!
https://youtube.com/shorts/P3_g-waYi88?si=K94WARfmrpwIIIR7
April 14th, 2025 at 14:21Ah, that gypsy lore!
Reminds me of a story we read in primary school about a German boy who befriended a gypsy boy, initially fearsome of, yet fascinated by gypsy culture and invited by him to an open fire BBQ where the gypsy family bakes hedgehogs in a clay crust,
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with the clay crust being broken off the animal with all the spines/quills (they are not really quills) sticking in the clay crust so you can access the meat easily. And the writer surmising laconically: “At that point in my life I had nothing against hedgehogs, but they tasted delicious with the onion rings.” The story didn’t end well though as one day the gypsy caravan is surrounded by SA and SS and all its members shipped off to be murdered in concentration camps – that horrible fate always left an impact on me.
The “gypsies (or in pc-speak ‘Sinti & Roma’ until that went out of style too) eat hedgehogs” ingredient was long regarded as a mere stereotype to denigrate the group, but more recent ethnological studies and also statements by gypsy organisations have revealed that hedgehogs were indeed a part of the traditional gypsy diet – not just because of the (allegedly very good, I’ve never had the chance to try one) taste, but also for spiritual reasons (gypsies ascribed great survival capabilities to hedgehogs, something they hoped to gain for themselves by eating them) and out of sheer need (in most countries they travelled through, gypsies were not allowed to hunt game, but hedgehogs were ok).
Doesn’t Ritchie have a grandmother with gypsy or travellers roots? I seem to remember something like that. It would certainly explain his – never very British – looks (and his love for Eastern scales!). My own great-grandmother (I have no recollection of her, not even sure whether she was still alive when I was born) was rumored to have “fallen off the (gypsy) wagon” because she had unusually dark (and long) hair for the times in our little town plus a darkish complexion as well (runs in the family with us, we didn’t make good Aryans at all). Who knows what DNA traces were left by gypsies passing through? 😁
Time to slip in some Glenn then!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnDIclQS96Y
I really liked that Four On The Floor wildly gay disco stuff. It was played with aplomb.
April 14th, 2025 at 15:13Happy Birthday Ritchie … 100 Lat from Poland !!!
April 14th, 2025 at 15:54I remember reading somewhere that Blackmore’s mother or grandmother had some link to Gypsy blood. How true is anybody’s guess. Yes there could be a connection, they travelled far and wide and still do have an influence in certain areas. Purple as we know have a few songs with that vibe flowing through them. The Gypsy from Stormbringer being a classic. A Gypsy’s Kiss is another and let’s face it, Ian Gillan has that sort of ‘gypsy’ attitude at times. Some may also say Son of Alerik and even ‘Anya’. Better get that cauldron out and even the Ouija board. Cheers.
April 14th, 2025 at 22:00Yeah, she recommended that copper bracelet he wore around his wrist to supposedly help against arthritis (no doubt Karin will chip in with some of her witchcraft here).
Mildly related: A picture of the current octogenarian as a younger man citing a character from a 1939 musical fantasy film and his very much younger wife, errrm, cross-dressing:
https://parade.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_299/MTkwNTc4ODAzMDI1ODQ4MTg4/candice-and-ritchie-1.webp
Read it all here:
https://parade.com/519530/nancyberk/candice-night-and-deep-purples-ritchie-blackmore-rock-halloween/
April 15th, 2025 at 14:02Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 80 Geburtstag
Ritchie Blackmore hat mit den Alben Deep Purple made in Japan, Rainbow Rising und rainbow Live on Stage Jahrhundert Alben veröffentlicht. Er ist der größte Hardrock, Gitarrist aller Zeiten, dafür lieben wir ihn und werden ihn immer in Ehren halten. Er ist One and Million
April 15th, 2025 at 16:46@6
“copper bracelet” – well I hope I’m not insulting anyone, and if I am, so sorry, but exactly copper equipment do work a bit if you believe in it (hence the world famous placebo effect!)
Whereas homeopathy helps no matter what you think about it!
My garden, as an example, has some trees that have survived even though they were really poor and René had sharpened the axe and was ready to cut down the poor trees, but I got a couple of months to help them, and today those trees are as beautiful as ever 😍
And trees don’t know anything about the placebo effect, either they live and grow or they wither and die!
No copper thing, bracelet, necklace etc will ever do anything like homeopathy.
April 15th, 2025 at 16:56And if anyone is suffering from arthritis, there is a lot to do re homeopathy 😉
Thank you Uwe for giving me a chance to talk about my job ☺️
“My garden, as an example, has some trees that have survived even though they were really poor and René had sharpened the axe and was ready to cut down the poor trees …”
Are you then still into that longboats with dragon heads-building thing, Honorable Skjaldmær Karin?
https://media1.tenor.com/m/jVC9pGzqW98AAAAd/viking-boat.gif
April 15th, 2025 at 21:18Jörg, out of sheer Landsmann solidarity, I will refrain from questioning your choices of Rainbow’s Rising and Live On Stage too much. Rising is an object of cultish adulation, so I won’t say a thing, but don’t you think that Munich 1977 creams On Stage into the ground as regards both energy and sound?
April 15th, 2025 at 22:15Those Vikings on their longboats still are a worry. Even all the way out here I can imagine the fear and dread if one of those just happens to appear on the horizon. They would probably use an excuse like ‘it was the wind, it blew us totally off course’ or ‘the ocean currents these days are not what they used to be’. I suppose there is a chance they could be ‘modern day’ Vikings. Satellite navigation and a few other technological wizz bang apps and all that. Either way I would enact the Iron’s classic song ‘run to the hills, run for your life’. Cheers.
April 16th, 2025 at 01:03@9
Had I have any sea in my backyard I would definitely have some longboats!
Uwe, some times I lack the air to breathe when I have served you proof that in fact:
1) Homeopathy is brilliant all around
and
2) I am in all modesty a very good homeopath!
and you still keep throwing ignorant insults at me 😆
What would it take to convince you?
Can your private physician, the one that mended your knee, save plants, trees etc in your garden?
If you and your darling wife have any pets, can the same doctor cure them should they suffer from some or many of all the diseases pets indeed can suffer from?
You would actually benefit from knowing someone like me 😄😄
But never mind, I know homeopathy is amazing, in fact brilliant, and I don’t need to prove myself to anyone ☺️😉
April 16th, 2025 at 05:50“What would it take to convince you?”
Now that is a profound question. When asked by Christians about my agnosticism, I used to answer: “A half hour chat with God in person would do.”
Translated to homeopathy: A series of clinical electronic microscope shots over a given period showing HOW the ingredients of a homeopathic treatment go to work battling a bacteria or virus herd. WHAT DO THEY DO EXACTLY? But of course you will be quick to say: “The whole question is put wrongly, Uwe, it’s like asking for the weight or a photograph of a soul of a human being as evidence for its existence.”
But: Live and let live. I don’t doubt for a second that you are good at your job and that you help your patients.
As regards animal diseases: I’m only ever confronted with sick fish or reptiles. I’m unaware that homeopathy offers anything for these. Not even ‘Schulmedizin’ really does, it’s not perceived as a relevant market for much research to be going on. And the spiritual aspects of homeopathy don’t really work with a sick monitor lizard or catfish/wels [not that mine – by now about a proud 1,20 meters long (I got him or her as a 10 cm long baby several years ago) and still growing rapidly – ever had anything except for a few heron’s bill incisions which heal quickly with him/her].
Reptiles, however, can get all kinds of stuff, viral infections, kidney failure and cancer for example.
April 16th, 2025 at 12:15@13
Uwe, I had written an opus! A masterpiece (🤭) re my job, explaining how the remedies work, and also how I’ve found a cure for migraines (not ordinary headaches but Horton’s and regular throbbing migraines).
I don’t have the time to rewrite it, but I tell you it was good!
You would have send me friendly thoughts and admitting for once there is something in this world you have to accept, even though you don’t understand it!
Hopefully it will show up!
April 17th, 2025 at 04:22