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The importance of long nails
Blabbermouth has quotes from Blackmore’s interview to Dutch magazine Aardschok. We presume that the interview in question is the one that appeared in the January-February issue of the magazine, and that the quotes were translated back from Dutch.
Here’s what we can learn from the interview:
- He thought on and off about going electric for a while now, but got “the final push” after he heard the singer Ronnie Romero.
- The setlist will be comprised 70% from Rainbow and 30% Purple, with Dio era (including Stargazer) being central part of the show, plus a mix of JLT, Bonnet, Gillan and Coverdale.
- His acoustic style requires him to have long nails, which he has to cut short for the electric shows. This limits how often he can play electric in order to continue with Blackmore’s Night.
- He does not rule out a second round of electric shows, but not until 2017.
Read more in Blabbermouth.
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…. what should I say …
Mr.Blackmore, this is totaly logical … not only the story about the nail-problem … the hole storys how is began … Thaaaaaaaaaaaank you for this possibillity to see you live again in rock … :-))
LLRnR
LLRitchie
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February 24th, 2016 at 19:39Future dates not until 2017 and no mention of an album. I will have to figure these 3 “Tribute” is all that will take place. Better nothing I presume. Gonna have to wait for the DVD to witness it. Oh well…
February 24th, 2016 at 21:04I can give him a nail clipper in order to keep his nails short and avoid his returning to Blackmore’s Night …
February 25th, 2016 at 00:09I’m pickin’ up good vibrations, it’s giving me excitations…. La la la la laaa, la la la laaa…..!.
February 25th, 2016 at 01:13I hope for “Soldier of Fortune” and “Sail away” for the first time.
Have a nice Day!
February 25th, 2016 at 10:29It’s a real Bob Dylan @ Newport Folk Festival moment – Ritchie going electric 🙂
February 25th, 2016 at 10:47Love the comment about long nails….. a bit of a Ritchie wind up no doubt.
February 25th, 2016 at 12:23@ 2
February 25th, 2016 at 22:43it looks that way.but you never know,since the new kid,singer Ronnie Romero inspired him to go electric one more time,we might have a slight chance to see more than tree dates and dare i say an album.But then again,this is us dreaming,cause even a DVD Blue Ray concert of this come back will be good too and I will devour it.