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Seventy two
Ritchie Blackmore’s Official channel has posted a couple of video clips of interest.
Read more »2 inches at the twelfth fret
Ultimate Guitar publishes if not a terribly original, but pretty well researched piece on Blackmore’s Stratocasters, both the ones to be smashed and the ones to be carefully kept under lock and key. Ritchie Blackmore had two moods: smashing Stratocasters onstage and obsessing over how a Strat neck feels. They might seem like total opposites, […]
Read more »The Safety Dance
And to round up our Blackmore news for today, here are a couple of clips posted by his YT channel.
Read more »It doesn’t matter if you like the song
Ritchie Blackmore Official channel posts this contemporary news report from around the time Slaves and Masters album was released.
Read more »Exhilarating sense of controlled chaos
Louder Sound publishes online a Classic Rock feature on Fireball that appeared in print in the Deep Purple special issue of the magazine that came out in August 2026. Fireball is often treated as the awkward middle child of the Deep Purple Mark II catalogue, sandwiched between the twin classics In Rock and Machine Head. […]
Read more »Medieval bossa nova
Ritchie Blackmore Official channel reposts this CNN short feature from 2007 where Blackmore pulls the interviewer’s leg with the straightest of his faces and tells that The Riff was nicked from Beethoven’s Fifth. This legend is still being repeated at face value to this day by some unscrupulous publications.
Read more »Deep down the rabbit hole
This well bearded gentleman has recently started a podcast dedicated to the more obscure corners of the Purple family jungle. Ladies and gentlemen, we present you the Deeper Down the Deep Purple Rabbit Hole
Read more »Thinking outside the box
Ritchie Blackmore’s official channel has recently posted a couple of videos of interest. Ritchie Blackmore & Candice Night discussing their 2013 album Dancer and the Moon in what appears to be a contemporary electronic press kit for the release. Caveat: it is incomplete and ends rather abruptly. Same, being interviewed a very picturesque setting circa […]
Read more »Thunder in my brain
Several video clips have been posted over the last few days on the Ritchie Blackmore Official youtube channel, some of those known better than the others.
Read more »Skills, talent, and plenty of bollocks
A new documentary focussing on Deep Purple Marks 2, 3, & 4. There are no groundbreaking revelations, no original footage, it looks like it was compiled from previously known sources. But it’s nicely put together. For whatever reason, the playback on other sites is disabled for this video, so if you have an hour to […]
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