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An owl meeting a bumblebee in mid-flight
Guitar Player has an undated interview with Ritchie Blackmore, where he discusses searching for the perfect guitar tone back in the day.
“It’s interesting to note that Jim Marshall didn’t know much about amplifiers,” Ritchie Blackmore says. “And yet he knew how to design something that caught on like crazy. This is a similar situation with Leo Fender, who never played a guitar.”
Blackmore knows something about the gear created by Marshall and Fender. After all, he played Marshall amps throughout his tenures with Deep Purple and Rainbow, and he’s used Fender Stratocaster guitars for nearly his entire career, including today with Blackmore’s Night.
But he never thought either man built the perfect gear.
Continue reading in GuitarPlayer.com.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
A biological, yet non-sexist observation if I may (I did want to become a zoologist as a kid); Owls and bumblebees n’er do meet as one is nocturnal and the other diurnal (I know that sounds like something else, but it’s not related, I wanted to leak that info out of precaution!), midair collisions can thus be confidently ruled out.
Bees, bumblebees, wasps and hornets can all not navigate in the dark, they are lost.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/03/20/honey-and-bumble-bees-cant-fly-night-tiktok-has-shown-us-that/7042738001/
https://youtu.be/gY-E_no6vlw
https://youtu.be/3oksoSAxPIc
I wonder if Ritchie’s, i.e. the eternal practical joker’s insect knowledge did reach far enough for him to know that he was stating something that is quite impossible to ever occur, just as replication of his sound seems to be(e)! 🤣 He supposedly takes an interest in wildlife.
https://media.tenor.com/gAUyz11-mzwAAAAM/blinking-robert-e-fuller.gif
March 10th, 2026 at 03:54Unless you’re talking about the Northern Hawk-Owl and Northern Pygmy-Owl…
😉
March 10th, 2026 at 09:19