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Neither in a tower
Candice Night was interviewed by The Rock ‘n’ Blues Experience about her latest solo album, her husband, their kids, her plans to sleep for three years straight, pennysaver piano ghosts, and life in general.
The tl;dr takeaway:
Weāre four songs into the new [Blackmore’s Night] album. Heās alive, folks, heās still there. I donāt have him locked in a cage, I promise you. Heās just enjoying, living his best life. Heās playing with the cat, heās playing his guitar, heās watching his TV. The weather is starting to change to springtime, heās going out for his walks here. Last night he came to me and said, āI just wrote a new song. Do you think we should get the producer in?ā I said, yes, letās get the producer. Iām waiting on you, letās do it, letās do it. So we will be heading into the studio again. Weāre all gonna go through health issues, health problems. Heās the youngest 80 years old that youāll ever see, I mean, honestly.
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up and the quote.
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Iām turning all schizoid with Candice, on record with BN and live I often find her ātoo much cherry pieā, but Iām becoming a fan of her interviews! I really listen all of them.
Some interesting stuff in here:
– A whoppinā eleven studio albums of BN, that means she has been Ritchieās musical foil considerably more often (and for a much longer time) than either Ian Gillan (seven studio albums), Ronnie or JoLT (three studio albums each) or DC (two studio albums).
– āRitchie comes up with the (vocal) melody lines in BN.ā I am beginning to wonder whether that isnāt really the core of the rift between Ritchie and Big Ian. Ritchie once said in an interview that he only began taking a more active interest in vocal melodies with Dio era Rainbow, leaving it before very much to the singers. And of course Ian doesnāt like to be told what to sing and his own approach to vocal melodies must be tasking for Ritchie who is a lot more conventional in that regard. Ritchieās responsibility for the vocal melodies in BN also points a painful finger to him being the culprit regarding some of those terribly banal Schlager melodies poor Candice has to deliver. So the girl from Long Island is innocent.
– āRitchie doesnāt have the patience to teach guitar to someone who doesnāt immediately get it and I just donāt with guitar.ā That echoes what Roger once said about Ritchie not ever really teaching him anything, but rather walking away scoffing if Roger didnāt pick something immediately up Ritchie showed to him (and how in contrast Steve Morse would take his time to explain and rehearse things). Also explains why Ritchie tends to speak well of Glennās bass playing because by all accounts Glenn is a quick learner and was never dumbstruck by anything Ritchie played to him.
– Some of the things Candice says on relationships are really thoughtful – if she ever loses her voice (which will hopefully not happen), sheāll do plenty fine as a marriage and relationship counselor.
May 24th, 2025 at 17:12And sheās nocturnal like me (and her hubby). I liked that quote that during the day all you see is the Earth atmosphere and the sun in the sky, but at night you see the universe.
āItās 2 pm, thatās Ritchieās morning!ā š¦š¦š§š¼āāļø My man! š
May 25th, 2025 at 13:50Please not another sappy album full of covers and X mas carols. I
May 26th, 2025 at 00:09God bless you Ritchie but make an album with only instrumentals
We will be listening
AI: so true! An album of unheard instrumental tracks by RB would be a dream come true!
Even if it wasn’t high end recordings. Just like I wish someone had recorded JL while he was playing as a bar pianist in Zermatt.
It’s often the little bits and pieces that were not meant to be released that I enjoy enormously.
May 26th, 2025 at 06:51You guys are aware that the āsappyā vocal melodies you bemoan are all written by the maestro himself to the extent that BN perform their own songs? And that thus you are of the opinion that Ritchie canāt write vocal melodies which is perhaps worthy of discussion, but I just wanted to make a note for posterity of it: āAl & Max say Ritchie canāt write vocal melodies.ā
BTW, there is an interesting, Tim Burton soundtrackish instrumental on Candiceās solo album which she wrote and played (the piano part) herself without any involvement of her hubby.
https://youtu.be/92kjWto-2eo
Itās the one track Rory likes best. Is the kid turning goth? š±
May 26th, 2025 at 12:52Ritchie need to lock her in a tower
May 28th, 2025 at 14:09Where and when did I say Ritchie can’t write a vocal melody?
I just agreed that a solo album of instrumental stuff from the man could be a dream come true.
I often dreamt of a collection of Ritchie’s solos – especially the long ones – from his shows with BN. Maybe AI – the artifical intelligence, not the fellow from HS – can help me get one now. And that is NOT to say I dislike Candice’s singing. But it’s getting a bit sweeter than sweet sometimes as some of you have stated before …
I always would have loved a JL intstrumental album too. One side the Hammond, one side the piano.
May 28th, 2025 at 14:51@7
āBut itās getting a bit sweeter than sweet sometimes as some of you have stated before ā¦ā
May 28th, 2025 at 15:56– itās not to but in on this really interesting talk here, but I guess I mentioned the āsugar upon sugar upon sugarā thing, with the threats on my health..
Oh maybe Iām in the group āsome of youā, ok carry on š
I will be Candyās knight in shining armor here! A lot of the blame for her sometimes syrupy performances on BN albums lies squarely and fairly with Ritchieās and Pat Reganās āZDF Fernsehgartenā prevailing production tastes.
Candice has a very beautiful and pure folk voice if you just let her be:
https://youtu.be/NWFv1IkRkuo
And Sea Glass is actually less syrupy than BNās work, Candice is not afraid to sound sparse and somber.
Ritchie is incredibly set in how he hears music, heās basically spent his musical career spanning 65 years now with only a handful of producers: Joe Meek, Derek Lawrence, Martin Birch, Roger Glover and Pat Regan. I think weād all be surprised if we heard BN with someone like T Bone Burnett at the production helm.
May 29th, 2025 at 17:44@9
āI will be Candyās knight in shining armor hereā
– awww so romantic!
But nevertheless, I am happy if we can agree to disagree!
May 29th, 2025 at 19:15Have I ever denied being romantic?! Iām an Air Supply fan!
https://youtu.be/JWdZEumNRmI
https://youtu.be/1bG_zk6FwU0
https://youtu.be/nY31ZH6hAFI
And like all good things, they come …
https://www.ardeaprints.com/p/172/western-grey-kangaroos-mating-1301396.jpg.webp
ā¦ from Australia.
May 29th, 2025 at 22:59Well Karin, I sort of quoted you to underline your point! Tststs …But we might not be the first to sense a little overthetopsweetness in those BN songs.
And Uwe ist perfectlly right too! Thanks for the link – this indeed as good a reason to become a full blown romantic as it gets.
May 30th, 2025 at 08:32@11
Ok, now I learned something new!
Iāve always thought the less taller vocalist in Air Supply, was a woman!
Whereas this guy:
https://youtu.be/UqCRB3ajw-U?si=09L1NXMzG_6g4kly
Noooo confusion here āŗļøš
May 31st, 2025 at 06:29@12
Tststs right back at ya š
Iāve been told lately, by people who actually dig the concept, that Blackmoreās Night is somehow poeticā¦.
Well, by all means then āŗļø
That does not take away the sugarcoating!
But this:
https://youtu.be/3IrGLvkqUDM?si=LxrH0hgtZo0erLyk
Nooooo sugarcoating anywhere!
And even this one, pretty romantic (see @11)
https://youtu.be/LotAru3vJIY?si=ydBj8T9hjwbRo4p1
But no sugarcoating anywhere, even though oneās heart feels like it has been ripped out, thrown at the ground and stomped on it until there is no heart left š„ŗš
But I submit myself to the common good and acknowledge that we do indeed have different tastes!
And we can be movedā¦
Someone who didnāt appreciate, well for arguments sake letās say David Coverdale, now had that exact vocalist on her playlist š
Live and learn āŗļø
May 31st, 2025 at 06:43DC paid me to pull you over, Karin – I knew it was only a matter of time until you would succumb, woman! š§š¼āāļø
Glenn Hughes is next, you just wait. (adopting Marvel villain tone of voice) YOU WILL SUBMIT, IT IS IN YOUR NATURE !!!
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Haunted was a lovely ballad, always a vastly underrated song in the Purple oeuvre.
I still think that Ianās most sugary song was Music In My Head with its mid 70s Phillysound/Tina Charles disco sonics. However, it is also a guilty pleasure of mine and I find it unbelievably hooky, dancy and good-mood-instilling.
https://youtu.be/9RjKJ9uA-H0
You could also call it āYacht Soulā I guess! š
May 31st, 2025 at 13:49Karin the Georgia Satellites live video is nice approaching this here in kinetic energy ā¦
https://youtu.be/2YB7qyn5MVs
But only approaching! āļøš§
What did poor Russell Hitchcock of Air Supply do for you to deny him his manhood? Menās perms were a popular thing in Australia as Herr MacGregor will no doubt confirm from own experience. š¤£
May 31st, 2025 at 21:26@14- just wondering Karin if any of those Coverdale songs you like are Deep Purple songs. This is just curiosity, not an attempt to load up any ammunition of any sort, or to give Uwe anything at all, heaven forbid. Cheers.
May 31st, 2025 at 22:53@ 16 -I had ‘au naturel’ curls Uwe, as a youngster and plenty of them too. And being a ‘ranga’ a lot of ladies back in the day really liked that, even hairdressers or I should say hair stylists. They all kept asking me whenever I ventured out, ‘where did you get that lovely red curly hair from’. It only worked out with a few ladies of course and once that red curly hair fad passed after a couple of years (circa 1982 ish), all those women then said they didn’t care about that anymore. There is no pleasing some ladies, there really isn’t. How do we keep up with all these fads, it was rather stressful at the time. Of course most of it has now fallen out as the years have taken their toll, (I simply refuse to wear a wig or shave my head) as I am still trying to keep some length to what is left. That old rocker look, or old has-been look, one of the two or both. Why I don’t know, old habits die hard I suppose. Karin, don’t go there, my sad ego is rather fragile when talking about these sort of things. Cheers.
June 1st, 2025 at 10:05@15
āDC paid me to pull you over, Karin ā I knew it was only a matter of time until you would succumb, woman! š§š¼āāļøā
– š
Ok then, what did he pay you! You ought to share! š
On the other hand, Iām pretty sure David is completely indifferent to this Danish Viking š
June 1st, 2025 at 11:14@16
Hmmm, to me it sounds like 10 years after!
A very very VERY nice band btw, but they are no Georgia Satellites š
āWhat did poor Russell Hitchcock of Air Supply do for you to deny him his manhood?ā
– š š
June 1st, 2025 at 11:18It wasnāt up to me to take anything away š
I had never seen them before you linked to them, just listened to them!
And in my unexperienced ears, he sounded like a female with an attitude š
@17
Well, MacGregor, I like very much their āLovesongsā.
His voice is so gentle and sweet when he isnāt straining it too much.
āSummer rainā, āYours for the askingā ohh and āMidnight Blueā are amongst those I listen very much to at the moment.
They make me mellow and sweeter š
Uwe is busy at the hairdresser to get a perm Iām told š¤£
June 1st, 2025 at 11:22@18
āI had āau naturelā curls Uwe, as a youngster and plenty of them too.ā
Take that Uwe!
June 1st, 2025 at 11:23You were a redhead, Herr MacGregor?! The freckled, light-skinned, green-eyed sort generally destined for whiskey commercials and Highlander bodice rippers?
https://i1.wp.com/www.campus.sg/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/scot5.jpg?fit=696%2C549&ssl=1
Couldnāt you with that complexion chosen a continent with less UV plight and heightened skin cancer risk? Well, Iām happy you stayed in the shadow(s) then. š
Drummer AND redhead, a Ginger Baker of sorts ā¦
June 1st, 2025 at 13:24@15
āGlenn Hughes is next, you just wait. (adopting Marvel villain tone of voice) YOU WILL SUBMIT, IT IS IN YOUR NATURE !!!ā
Naa-ahh!
The next you will propose is that I suddenly adore EP, and camp af Memphis Mantion in Randers!
But that will never happen either !
My next quest will be to convince each and everyone in here that Ronan Keating is a very good singer, even better than EP and Glenn Hughes!
June 1st, 2025 at 15:15@16
āKarin the Georgia Satellites live video is nice approaching this here in kinetic energy ā¦ā
Ok Uwe, the link is for 10 Years After!ā¦..
āWhat did poor Russell Hitchcock of Air Supply do for you to deny him his manhood?ā
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June 1st, 2025 at 17:28I did not deny him anything!
I had just not seen the band before so I didnāt know the very light voice actually belonged to a man š
@17
ājust wondering Karin if any of those Coverdale songs you like are Deep Purple songs.ā
Well, itās actually what Whitesnake call āLovesongsā, āSummer Rainā, āMidnight Blueā and āYours for the askingā!
June 1st, 2025 at 17:33(There are others too!)
Davidās voice is mighty fine in those songs.
David is certainly no Ian Gillan, but he sings very well in his own right š¤©
@18
āThere is no pleasing some ladies, there really isnāt. ā
– Aww MacGregor š
Let me tell you a secret, what really works:
Be yourself! Itās as easy as that.
When you are yourself then youāll meet that special someone who is looking for a guy like you!
If you pretend to be someone else, then youāll wear a mask, amd itās so tiresome āŗļø
And it has really not a lot to do with the hair, but everything to do with the heart š
And now to something completely different: coffee š
June 2nd, 2025 at 05:32…be who you are I tell myself …and myself tells me we cant’t be anybody else …
One of those lyrics that make IG stand out.
When it comes to “lovesongs” …DC has stated he only knows two kind of songs … the I’m-a-poor-little-boy-please-come-and-save-me ones and the I-got-a-big-willie-and-I’m-coming-to-get-you ones. So it’s all love songs more or less. “Whisper a Prayer for the Dying” off the Coverdale/Page album is an exotic exception to the rule. But I know what you mean, Karin. Especially in his later years the softer songs sounded much better voice wise. And there ae some gems on every album of his.
June 2nd, 2025 at 11:46@28
Ok Max, looks like we both adore Ian Gillan!
Re DC, AHEM! The songs I really like at the moment are neither āpoor little me, some and save meā or the other kind you mention āŗļø
June 2nd, 2025 at 12:16Maybe you know āMidnight Blueā? āŗļø
Itās a really beautiful lovesong, and if youāre not familiar with it, you really ought to listen to it!
Also āYours for the askingā – a genuine lovesong with no double entendre, at least as far as I can tell!
And with these songs Iām really impressed with his voice.
Uwe, what is the past reference to my hair that ‘used to be red’? It still is along with a little grey etc. Yes indeed Ginger Baker and that other drummer with unkept red hair were an influence of sorts. I have the red hair, freckled pale skin and have been badly sunburnt way too much in my youth and early adult years. Skin cancer is a problem for many European ‘heritage’ humans that live in this sunburnt country. At least when I arrive at hells gates they will recognise me and let me through, thinking that I have already been there and being burnt to a cinder. Cheers.
https://www.change.org/p/modern-drummer-magazine-get-animal-on-the-cover-of-modern-drummer-magazine-honor-ronnie-verrell
June 2nd, 2025 at 12:18@28
āWhisper a Prayer for the Dyingā off the Coverdale/Page album is an exotic exception to the rule.ā
Ok, WhiteZeppelin (or LedSnake) very very interesting song!
How āChild in Timeā would sound when itās used as a soundtrack for the next āMission Impossibleā number 43 (š) or maybe a 007-movie with anyone else than Daniel Craig as āBond, James Bondā (Well excuse me people, but James Bond is tall, dark and handsome!) (maybe Adam Sandler š) (noooo not himā¦š)
I really dig the song! Love DCās voice here, and of course Jimmy Pageās formidable banjo-playing š¤©
BTW: always very grateful to learn new things in here šš¼
June 2nd, 2025 at 13:26This, my brethren, is purely my crowning achievement, Karin advocating DC songs here – The Taming Of The Shrew in Shakespearean terms, no less! Wimmin are fickle beasts. My work is done here ā¦
The link to Ten Years After was on purpose, Karin, to impress upon you that there were bands even more energetic than the Georgia Sputniks or whatever theyāre called ā¦
June 2nd, 2025 at 22:43@32
āMy work is done here ā¦ā
– so what? You stop writing in here? š
They are called Georgia Satellites! As you very well know!
And I have some inside info:
Dan Baird lost his wife a couple of years ago (cancer šš„ŗ) but he has found happiness again, and on his fb page he is inviting everybody (he really is!) to come join the happy couple and party a bit with them at their wedding day in august this year!
I am so happy for them š
Ten Years After is a formidable band btw!
June 3rd, 2025 at 09:04@ 32- yes you achieved relative success Uwe in certain aspects and as I did congratulate you a few weeks ago, credit where credit is due. Although, it appears that there are no Deep Purple songs on Karins new desert island list of Coverdale heartbreakers. Something is still missing and doesn’t seem quite right, so in that essence old son, you still have plenty of work to do. Are you willing to hand the baton over to someone else. Is there another DP aficionado possessed enough to take on even the most difficult of challenges, with the prospect of still surviving that most arduous task. Good luck (that gets me off the hook). Cheers.
June 3rd, 2025 at 23:04@34
āGood luck (that gets me off the hook). Cheers.ā
Think again! šš
No one is of any hook, as far as Iām concerned!
June 4th, 2025 at 07:03Karin needs continually close supervision and guidance here,
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we cannot just yet cut her any slack. š
Really similar to Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind, one of literature’s great heroines, continuously irresponsible, but dogged in approach and infectiously positive in outlook on life! š
https://media.tenor.com/T_mrv7EfGAkAAAAM/gone-with-the-wind-fiddle-dee-dee.gif
June 4th, 2025 at 16:05@36
Huh?
Here I was, minding my own little mind, drinking a cup of coffee, and then suddenly Iām ambushed!
What have I done now? š„ŗšØ
āGone with the windā is an amazing movie.
The love affair between Scarlett and Rhett is stunning!
They misunderstand each other, and at the end: āwell frankly dear, I donāt give a damnā – spoken by Rhett when it finally dawns on Scarlett how much she loves him, is written to make all the romantic souls among us, cry!
Remember when I read the books (sequel of 4), I was heartbroken, so as a 12 yo I shrewdly re-wrote the end! To a happy end that is š
Later on, after Margaret Mitchell had died, another author, Alexandra Ripley, wrote a new book, āScarlettā, where everything ended perfectly between Rhett and Scarlett!
My heart was at ease, the sun was shining again, and even that novel by AR got filmed! Not as good as the original āGone with the windā from 1939, but ok for all us romantic at heart!
But Uwe, why mentioning this intriguing novel?
Iām all confused!šµāš«
And what has this to do with music Uweā¦..?
June 5th, 2025 at 05:51I think āGone With The Windā is a great American saga/novel (I read it as a teenager too, not even having seen the movie), Scarlett OāHara a feminist icon and one of the first popular female heroines in literature and film that dared ānot to be nice all the timeā and Clark Gable (never much of an actor, but simply āClark Gableā in all his films, similar to Clint Eastwood who is not really an actor as well, but simply āClint Eastwoodā in all his films) found the role of his life in that film classic.
Now youāre stunned, Karin, right?! š¤£
Gone With The Wind is up there in my favorite film romances top ten together with Christie/Sutherland in Donāt Look Now, Streisand/Redford in The Way We Were and Berry/Thornton in Monsterās Ball. Not to forget Bergman/Bogart in Casablanca, Christie/Sharif in Doctor Zhivago and Swinton/Hibbert in Only Lovers Left Alive.
Wie du mich immer unterschƤtzt. š So ungerecht ā¦
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June 5th, 2025 at 14:20@38
I never underestimate you!
Silly goose š
Another romantic gem: Ladyhawk, Michelle Pfeiffer/Rutger Hauer
June 6th, 2025 at 01:27Not a ābigā movie, but thrilling and with a happy ending!
Better ask my sweetheart to watch it with me!
Is ādumme GansāšŖæ a Danish insult too?! š
In Deutschland ādumme Gansā is something you would only describe a woman as (similar to ādie blƶde Kuhā šš®), a guy would be less animalistic simply a āBlƶdmannā (moron) and there is even in these gender-conscious times no āBlƶdfrauā. š Yeah, Iāve been called āBlƶdmannā a couple of hundred times in my life, more often than not deservedly too! š¤£
June 7th, 2025 at 15:39@40
Yes, āSilly gooseā is indeed an insult towards the more feminine part of the populationā¦..
June 8th, 2025 at 01:10Go figure Uwe š¤£š¤£