In this collection of bite-sized memoirs, Ritchie Blackmore talks about the earliest days of Deep Purple: meeting Derek Lawrence, signing an unfavourable contract, covering Hush, and 16 telegrams from Chris Curtis.
Posted by Nick on Thursday, January 29th, 2026,
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‘A house in the country, it had to be haunted’…………Blackmore at his best………..Thanks for the reminder, always enjoy hearing him talk and play the guitar. Cheers.
Blackmore’s memory – when he’s being serious – is phenomenal. He’ll give the date of some relatively obscure historical event, and you look it up and he’s spot on every time. Ritchie’s got perfect timing with his sense of humor. Chris Curtis, obviously, had done one too many magic mushrooms at that point.
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‘A house in the country, it had to be haunted’…………Blackmore at his best………..Thanks for the reminder, always enjoy hearing him talk and play the guitar. Cheers.
January 30th, 2026 at 01:53Blackmore’s memory – when he’s being serious – is phenomenal. He’ll give the date of some relatively obscure historical event, and you look it up and he’s spot on every time. Ritchie’s got perfect timing with his sense of humor. Chris Curtis, obviously, had done one too many magic mushrooms at that point.
January 30th, 2026 at 04:56Awww he thinks EC was the best guitar player in the world 😁
RB is a poet, my favourite guitarist ☺️
January 30th, 2026 at 05:29I could listen to him all day long.