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Ritchie Blackmore was in a talkative mood, allegedly, after partaking at his in-house pub.
See it on Instagram if the above doesn’t work for whatever reason.
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the heads-up.
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Ritchie Blackmore was in a talkative mood, allegedly, after partaking at his in-house pub.
See it on Instagram if the above doesn’t work for whatever reason.
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Nice to hear Ritchie’s tales and banter with Candice. I don’t know if I agree about playing fast not “saying anything,” as someone told him. I think fast playing can definitely say something; not all melody has to be slow. But I do respect that Ritchie has always stuck to his guns about the value of melody.
March 3rd, 2024 at 20:39Are there any people in Berlin over 30, ha ha ha. Good stories from the maestro & thanks for posting the Blackmore bar tales. ‘Pseudo Renaissance folk’ indeed, have to laugh, good on you Ritchie. Cheers.
March 3rd, 2024 at 20:45It makes me so happy to see our favorite guy giving us snippets.
March 3rd, 2024 at 23:41All my thanks to Ritchie and Candice.
Wonderful!
Yo,
Good to hear that there may be a new recording coming, as that means he’s been keeping busy, & hopefully one of his four Stratocaster’s gets to blow some cob-webs out of the Marshall’s LOL !
Look-out Long Island…And look-out Germany in November.
Peace !
March 4th, 2024 at 04:30That was great fun. Looking forward to more ‘tales from the tavern.’
March 4th, 2024 at 08:54I will selbstverständlich eagerly welcome the merry bard and his fair missus, already getting into the swing of things …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vPwal8_HsQ
March 4th, 2024 at 14:57Nice to hear from the man in black.. and i dont care what he talks about..if he really means what he says or not..I dont care..
March 4th, 2024 at 15:42you hear from Gillan, Glover and Paice all the time..and thats great.. but seldom from Ritchie.. He´s still with us., stil alive
even with a bad back and foot.. he´s still here.. cant ask for anything more. he does what he wants to do and thats fine with me.
Cheers!!!
That was actually a very good, insightful, even revelatory interview, not too much goofing off by him either (though his comment “first of all my wife” to the question “whom do you listen to” is of course hilarious).
Clears up a few things like the myth of Ritchie not appreciating Clapton (which I never believed for a second) and, yup, “I Feel Free” is my favorite Cream number too.
Interesting that he thought the other Mk II members “intellectual”, didn’t we discuss this here only recently that Purple had underlying brain and not just brawn?
I didn’t know about the six stents, but at his age it’s no surprise and likely a sensible precaution.
Some confusion in the time line: Listening to ABBA as a “kid”? When ABBA broke internationally via the ESC in Brighton in 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDF8hUjPy5k&t=3s
Ritchie was 29 and at the peak of Purple’s success! 😁
I’m still waiting for the Blackmore’s Night cover of Fernando though, that would fit like a glove.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQsjAbZDx-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4PdTWBi7rM
It’s also my favorite ABBA song among the many great songs they wrote and performed – yeah, I’m an ABBA fan too.
PS: Honestly, can there be anything more arousing + ultimately satisfying (for a stunted juvenile mind like mine at least) than Agnetha AND a Saab 35 Draken combined? At 02:17, never have a blond mane and camouflage painting … 💕💖 Alas!, I digress …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3i0eWqpSDQ
I now firmly imagine ALL the Flygvapnet pilots of our newly baked NATO member to look like her, what a contribution to the Alliance!
And the (lamentably long decommissioned) Draken was always my favorite modern age jet fighter.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/WKIAAOSwL0xjY~U-/s-l1600.png
😎
March 4th, 2024 at 16:44Such a nice comfortable interview, really enjoyed it!!
March 5th, 2024 at 00:04I would think the ‘kid’ reference is just that, when younger & looking back from now & some distance we were kids then, even at 30 years of age. Well it is one way of looking at life as it passes us by. The other saying we often hear, ‘their just like grown up children’ when someone is referring to older adults behaving in a certain way. It is very true as we all carry our inner youth with us, habits, rituals & certain aspects of our parents we picked up back then. Do we ever grow up, yes in some aspects but in others I am not sure. I have witnessed that in friends & family over time including myself on a daily basis. Those child like mannerisms etc. Older & wiser, hmmmmmm older indeed, wiser, the jury is still out on that one, ha ha ha. Cheers.
March 5th, 2024 at 10:21I did not listen much Abba but their guitarist (on several records), Janne Schaffer, I have seen many many times as he often toured in Denmark.
https://youtu.be/W5CM6E_8ugE?t=1802
He’s not in this clip though, but who cares?
https://youtu.be/8FdsREyRh4g?t=133
janbl
March 5th, 2024 at 11:27I’ll be on Long Island next week. Anyone have the address to this dump? 🙂
March 5th, 2024 at 12:04@8: I was curious about the clip of Agnetha and Draken but can you imagine, that clip was blocked here in Sweden? Nato restrictions, I’m sure. 🙂
March 5th, 2024 at 12:07Love to see Ian Gillan sharing a beer with Ritchie 😂
March 5th, 2024 at 13:45Peace ✌️
Are you serious? Min käre NÅTØ -brethren, jag ar distraught! In contrast, we in Germany have a habit of divulging our military secrets freely, especially to our Russian comrades. We invite them to our Luftwaffe telephone conferences so they can listen in.
Can you see these here perhaps?
https://hushkit.net/2021/11/23/the-most-swedish-thing-that-has-ever-happened-agnetha-faltskog-of-abba-fame-sings-around-an-active-saab-draken-fighter-base/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfLDDChIRtg&t=29s
You landsmaninna wears a fetching jumpsuit in the vid (with embedded Flygvapnet male pilot colleagues joining her) and is really distracting from the natural beauty of the Saab 35 Draken!
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-JdCQV9wKc9b2bdl8RXctw97yhVrUf_eSCGT_R5qpfR9SzGVLiCBXFJ6vBuUwa00zf1o&usqp=CAU
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQWc8FwF3PI1WcvtojtFh3pq9pxE2RFU2n-vaF2Mtvq7osfMKkfSO8_qM7UPmdsQ_O1-lM&usqp=CAU
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQS-41lYFJTjwmZrmeVckdv6S_ebOvyWZJYx73sZtszi-JXsXSUcqLPzwOjcW0s0ehew7Q&usqp=CAU
March 5th, 2024 at 14:11Two stray finds while I was looking for Jon’s Country Diary music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8DYqnu01v0
Jon with Hayley Westenra, a Kiwi lass no less, but here on German telefffishün in 2004:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlC3f6Issls
March 5th, 2024 at 16:14Oh my, apologies, I got messed up where I was posting today, this belongs here:
janbl wrote:
“He’s not in this clip though, but who cares?
https://youtu.be/8FdsREyRh4g?t=133 ”
True, he’d only distract me from Frida’s and Agnetha’s skirt lengths – or the absence thereof. Very sustainable these Swedes, saving on silk raw material exactly where it counts!
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Ritchie digging ABBA is an old hat, he came out with it as early as 1979/80 when he mentioned it in interviews while promoting Down To Earth and his (then newly discovered?) love for good pop + hummable melodies. He mentioned Blondie in that same interview too.
It doesn’t surprise me one bit: ABBA and Deep Purple share pronounced European song structures, a healthy does of neo-classical influences and an overarching penchant for neatly engineered, streamlined arrangements.
And I always found that Jon Lord, in his more pastoral English classical music moments (sometimes bordering on twee) wasn’t that far removed from Benny Andersson’s Nordic melodicism …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQNx5O6pxEM
Jon’s ‘The Country Diary Of An Edwardian Lady’ TV series soundtrack from 1984 sure sounded ABBA’esque to me:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/64iIFHo-KqQkplUMJnbDoLPAz59WxuOQvzjKb2KWJdubC3DhIfVIHLDlv1__8G3yDt9XmcVJnPDo3nugMwDEgO3B8bBI24AtR4mpR0XzvpgPG00g6honqi_ieMOj2LQfE8xsxfEX91Y=w2400
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wIs5-wR_dfvrZg8Qujya5PM_3zwEH0bCsvWFQjpgZqm9BYetpa6Kz-BuIjDllOH4OyAkG7zEwBXEHXI1rlidROko-NsCkM0m-m02ItyIhtGX_ffSiUe8CXm5zPAJENfFsOqfLlFLXAA=w2400
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTes80D3LcU
March 5th, 2024 at 19:48Travelling Swede @12:
Look out for something like this, Svante, you’ll find it no sweat:
https://c2.vgtstatic.com/thumbll/4/2/42705-v1/ritchie-blackmores-house.jpg
The inhabitants are a friendly young couple – he seems a little older than her though – with lovely children.
https://api.macaronikid.com/assets/uploads/width_1200,height_840,crop_true/4ab7a5a3-2ecc-464e-b673-234ca8bfe2f3.jpg
There is a diner close by, look for that first, start your search from there:
https://candicenight.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/candicenight_060816-400×300.jpg
https://candicenight.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/candice-night-interview-long-island-weekly/
March 5th, 2024 at 20:34Svante!
March 5th, 2024 at 20:57Maybe this one (Agneta + Draken):
https://youtu.be/jfLDDChIRtg?si=58fPCvJgRGuj3NKP
Yo,
Adel said…
qt.”Love to see Ian Gillan sharing a beer with Ritchie”…
Sharing or wearing ??? – That is the question lol… !
I’m sure they’re fine together now-days, & they would enjoy a beer or two for sure, as with any of the other members together…But the problem with that scenario is when the press finds-out, & all-of-a-sudden, some crazy, misled reunion bollox starts chasing its own tail again…Woof, woof !!!
Peace !
March 5th, 2024 at 22:01I can see that going just fine. Big Ian could always start the conversation with Ritchie light-handedly by saying: “So I hear from this one Australian guy that you’re pretty shit at improvising …” 😁
March 6th, 2024 at 00:40“Krister Adolfsson says:
Svante!
Maybe this one (Agnetha + Draken):
https://youtu.be/jfLDDChIRtg?si=58fPCvJgRGuj3NKP”
Holy Thor, I really seem to have struck a nerve here with our Norsemen! Women in uniform, normally more of an Australian obsession …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLZaxSpTUHg
For all our closet aviation fans, the legendary “Cobra Maneuver” largely identified with Russian fighter jets such as the Sukhoi SU-27 today was invented by Swedish Flygvapnet pilots with their Draken interceptors as the “kort parad” – out of necessity to combat unfortunate super stall tendencies of the Draken due to its tailless double delta wing configuration. It was part of their official training program.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/SAAB_35_Draken_performing_the_Cobra_maneuver.gif
Still one hell of a good-looking plane.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/J_35F_1972_%28cropped%2C_removal_of_damage_and_dirt_using_clone_tool%29.jpg
March 6th, 2024 at 01:19@21…
LOL !
That’s about it !!! I guess I’d be the one wearing the beer then lol !
Peace !
March 6th, 2024 at 07:49Is it me or is the image reversed? Ritchie is playing the guitar left handed at the beginning of the video. He does same some nice things about RJD.
March 8th, 2024 at 01:07@24: They are probably filming with the selfie camera on the phone. That reverses the picture on some models.
March 8th, 2024 at 14:50Svante can of course try to explain it away all he wants, but to me it’s compelling proof how that evil witch Candice – cross yourselves! –
https://candicenight.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/light-the-universe-2006-7.png?w=269&resize=269%2C269
has locked our Ritchie away (in a tower, for likely more than an hour …) and has been feeding us an avatar all these years …
Sign up for #freeRitchie !!!
March 8th, 2024 at 16:56