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Serendipitous Blackmore
Yahoo Entertainment has an interview with the original Wishbone Ash guitarist Ted Turner, where he explains the role Ritchie Blackmore gave the band its big break:
Ritchie Blackmore played a significant role in Wishbone Ash’s signing.
“He did! We were supporting Deep Purple at the Dunstable Civic in the real early days, waiting for him to finish his sound check so we could do ours. Ritchie was playing licks; and Andy, on the sidelines, started answering him.
“They had a brief conversation with their guitars, and it was enough to impress Ritchie to speak to his producer Derek Lawrence, who subsequently produced our next three albums. Serendipity.”
The rest of the interview is here, although there’s nothing else even remotely Purple-related.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Ritchie’s ears would have pricked up big time hearing Wishbone Ash. The live footage of certain concerts online of the Ash’ s early music is nice to see and also when they reformed in the late 80’s and into the 90’s, great stuff. Superb clean melodies and arrangements, something Blackmore excelled at with his Stratocaster. No surprises that Blackmore had a fancy for those sort of guitarists, right from his very early days with Hank Marvin and a few others to the axe grinders of the mighty 1970’s. Cheers.
October 19th, 2025 at 10:27