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Neither in a tower
Candice Night was interviewed by The Rock ‘n’ Blues Experience about her latest solo album, her husband, their kids, her plans to sleep for three years straight, pennysaver piano ghosts, and life in general.
The tl;dr takeaway:
We’re four songs into the new [Blackmore’s Night] album. He’s alive, folks, he’s still there. I don’t have him locked in a cage, I promise you. He’s just enjoying, living his best life. He’s playing with the cat, he’s playing his guitar, he’s watching his TV. The weather is starting to change to springtime, he’s going out for his walks here. Last night he came to me and said, ‘I just wrote a new song. Do you think we should get the producer in?’ I said, yes, let’s get the producer. I’m waiting on you, let’s do it, let’s do it. So we will be heading into the studio again. We’re all gonna go through health issues, health problems. He’s the youngest 80 years old that you’ll ever see, I mean, honestly.
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up and the quote.
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I’m turning all schizoid with Candice, on record with BN and live I often find her “too much cherry pie”, but I’m becoming a fan of her interviews! I really listen all of them.
Some interesting stuff in here:
– A whoppin’ eleven studio albums of BN, that means she has been Ritchie’s musical foil considerably more often (and for a much longer time) than either Ian Gillan (seven studio albums), Ronnie or JoLT (three studio albums each) or DC (two studio albums).
– “Ritchie comes up with the (vocal) melody lines in BN.” I am beginning to wonder whether that isn’t really the core of the rift between Ritchie and Big Ian. Ritchie once said in an interview that he only began taking a more active interest in vocal melodies with Dio era Rainbow, leaving it before very much to the singers. And of course Ian doesn’t like to be told what to sing and his own approach to vocal melodies must be tasking for Ritchie who is a lot more conventional in that regard. Ritchie’s responsibility for the vocal melodies in BN also points a painful finger to him being the culprit regarding some of those terribly banal Schlager melodies poor Candice has to deliver. So the girl from Long Island is innocent.
– “Ritchie doesn’t have the patience to teach guitar to someone who doesn’t immediately get it and I just don’t with guitar.” That echoes what Roger once said about Ritchie not ever really teaching him anything, but rather walking away scoffing if Roger didn’t pick something immediately up Ritchie showed to him (and how in contrast Steve Morse would take his time to explain and rehearse things). Also explains why Ritchie tends to speak well of Glenn’s bass playing because by all accounts Glenn is a quick learner and was never dumbstruck by anything Ritchie played to him.
– Some of the things Candice says on relationships are really thoughtful – if she ever loses her voice (which will hopefully not happen), she’ll do plenty fine as a marriage and relationship counselor.
May 24th, 2025 at 17:12