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People had high hopes for them, they were perceived as the next Beatles coming out of Liverpool, but somehow things didn’t work out though they had the reputation to be inmstrumentally a cut above their peers at the time (including the still formative Beatles).
Enjoyable like the previous ones! It is a pity that there is no material of these 10 performances with the Three Musketeers. It is hard to imagine an early Blackmore playing stuff like “flight of the bumblebee” or “tico tico”
Amazing!
I always thought a person really needed to gather information outside one’s own mind, to be able to keep on producing new stuff.
Of course it is important to practise, but also important to broaden one’s horizon !
“Dry your nose. 😄
“There are so many brilliant players now” – glad I sat down when I heard that from the mouth of RB! In a lot of the other interviews he is talking really bad about other guitarists..
He has a beautiful talking voice, so I wonder if he can’t sing? Have never heard him sing.
“Like ‘the Beatles’” – 🤣
“Nobody wants to hear it but he is really good” – yeah 😄
Maybe I have mentioned it before, but I would so much have liked him to continue being a part of Purple. He has a certain air about him, he forces people to look at him. And of course his playing is out of this world.
But the peace within the band was more important…
@ 3 – “There are so many brilliant players now”. You have taken that comment out of its context Karin. He continued on about many technical gifted players not knowing how to play rhythm among other things. Improvising would be another no doubt and playing for the song, ie melodically. I suppose another one could be ‘they all sound the same’. Anyway, we know what Blackmore is talking about and it is true to a certain extent in today’s ‘homogenised’ and sterilised world. The same applies to other instruments too. Cheers.
“What is it with Ritchie and mucus, it seems to be a recurring subject, dripping into every conversation? “
– my sentiments exactly Uwe! Guess he needs someone like me to keep his little nosie from dripping 😄
Ritchie is never banal in what he says or what he plays.
What he says about the new generations of guitarists is true, all super fast on scales and tapping, and then they don’t know how to make a decent rhythm, a decent arrangement, a nice and new riff, an improvisation outside the box.
not to mention the apprenticeship that the guitarists of the 70s, from Ritchie to all the other greats, have had to go through, while the guitarists who came out of the 90s onwards do not have a background of experiences even remotely comparable to the fathers of hard rock.
All this must be contextualized in Ritchie’s life, who when he left Purple felt that he had already said everything in hard rock, writing THE HISTORY of hard rock with his musical creations, that he wanted to play something new, more intimate and with the philosophy “less is more”
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What is it with Ritchie and mucus, it seems to be a recurring subject, dripping into every conversation?
The Big Three, with a young John Gustafson on bass and vocals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFgaP7LXCgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcu9XHcNxjE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7gWDMWC7Zc
People had high hopes for them, they were perceived as the next Beatles coming out of Liverpool, but somehow things didn’t work out though they had the reputation to be inmstrumentally a cut above their peers at the time (including the still formative Beatles).
December 4th, 2025 at 04:44Enjoyable like the previous ones! It is a pity that there is no material of these 10 performances with the Three Musketeers. It is hard to imagine an early Blackmore playing stuff like “flight of the bumblebee” or “tico tico”
December 4th, 2025 at 06:16Amazing!
I always thought a person really needed to gather information outside one’s own mind, to be able to keep on producing new stuff.
Of course it is important to practise, but also important to broaden one’s horizon !
“Dry your nose. 😄
“There are so many brilliant players now” – glad I sat down when I heard that from the mouth of RB! In a lot of the other interviews he is talking really bad about other guitarists..
He has a beautiful talking voice, so I wonder if he can’t sing? Have never heard him sing.
“Like ‘the Beatles’” – 🤣
“Nobody wants to hear it but he is really good” – yeah 😄
Maybe I have mentioned it before, but I would so much have liked him to continue being a part of Purple. He has a certain air about him, he forces people to look at him. And of course his playing is out of this world.
December 4th, 2025 at 06:49But the peace within the band was more important…
@ 3 – “There are so many brilliant players now”. You have taken that comment out of its context Karin. He continued on about many technical gifted players not knowing how to play rhythm among other things. Improvising would be another no doubt and playing for the song, ie melodically. I suppose another one could be ‘they all sound the same’. Anyway, we know what Blackmore is talking about and it is true to a certain extent in today’s ‘homogenised’ and sterilised world. The same applies to other instruments too. Cheers.
December 4th, 2025 at 08:22@4
Yeah, but still! It was a mild tongue-lashing, wasn’t it? 😃
I enjoy listening to him. He was brilliant when he was younger, playing the guitar.
December 4th, 2025 at 10:44@1
“What is it with Ritchie and mucus, it seems to be a recurring subject, dripping into every conversation? “
December 4th, 2025 at 10:51– my sentiments exactly Uwe! Guess he needs someone like me to keep his little nosie from dripping 😄
Ritchie is never banal in what he says or what he plays.
What he says about the new generations of guitarists is true, all super fast on scales and tapping, and then they don’t know how to make a decent rhythm, a decent arrangement, a nice and new riff, an improvisation outside the box.
not to mention the apprenticeship that the guitarists of the 70s, from Ritchie to all the other greats, have had to go through, while the guitarists who came out of the 90s onwards do not have a background of experiences even remotely comparable to the fathers of hard rock.
All this must be contextualized in Ritchie’s life, who when he left Purple felt that he had already said everything in hard rock, writing THE HISTORY of hard rock with his musical creations, that he wanted to play something new, more intimate and with the philosophy “less is more”
December 4th, 2025 at 21:48@ 7- good comments and well said indeed. Cheers
December 5th, 2025 at 21:32