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Fires at Midnight in Chicago
Ten days ago I was in Chicago to see Blackmore’s Night with a couple of my friends. We drove 2,600 km (that’s 1,600 miles in medieval units) for that gig and to catch Steve Morse Band in Toronto on the way back next day. Was it worth it? Absolutely. On both counts.
You see, lots of people come to a Blackmore’s Night gig waiting for only one thing — those 15 minutes when he picks up his Strat. And then they expect to hear Rainbow or Deep Purple. And then they go home frustrated and disappointed. Because it ain’t Rainbow or Deep Purple. It ain’t rawk.
It’s something different. And it has been so for 12 years.
Thanks to wodnik35 for uploading the videos, to Daniel Bengtsson for bringing it up, and to James the Mechanic for his heroic driving.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
i live 15 miles from the boston gig and would not waste the gas money on that jerk…
October 28th, 2009 at 03:03Muppet’s Show is more amazing..
October 28th, 2009 at 13:27My guess is that you “had to be there”
October 28th, 2009 at 22:09Both Mike and AndreaA. Take a break both of you. WHY do you and other people have to be like that to Blackmore or Joe Lyn Turner.
October 29th, 2009 at 07:09I would love to see and hear Ritchie play rock again, but now this is his kind of music and he is – as always – VERY good playing. I have seen him 3 times with BN and I like most of it.
You are both a vaste of time reading. Grow up!!!
Well Mike, good for you to save some of gasoline, but it’d be nice also to spare us from comments such is this, “jerk” and stuf – save your time beside gas money, and do a favor for music lovers 🙂
Cheers!..
October 29th, 2009 at 09:27I wholeheartedly empathize with the growing discontempt of the proceedings of both DP and BN but I also feel WE should try to stay out of calling people names like JERK or POOF or something like that.
I admit I slipped here and there in the past……
Where to draw the line ?
And I m just a man fuming……..
NOBODYsPERFECT
I cant spare gasoline, I just own a bike…..
Does someone remember the several pics of Ritchie on a bike?
God and me both like to ride a bike, hehehe
October 29th, 2009 at 10:51BN music makes me very sleepy so no more sleeping tablets
RB rset in peace farewell
October 29th, 2009 at 20:52I agree with Priest….partially. Some terms are actually adjectives used to describe ones persona….”Poofy”. Jerk is just name calling and unnecessary…Unless of course in your presence, Blackmore or whoever acted like a Jerk, then that would fall under the category of an adjective. It’s all in how the word is used and why. If it’s just to make a derogatory remark toward someone then again..totally unnecessary. Now, if Blackmore were to Jerk you head off your shoulders due to calling him a Jerk, that would be a verb which the action term used due to using the same word as Name calling which then pissed off Blackers, causing him to use the word for a much more valuable reason beyond just being a jerk. That would be him Jerking a Jerks head of his shoulders….
So, let’s not be Jerks and namecall……unless of course it’s Funny…that’s all together different….he he he.
Cheers
October 29th, 2009 at 23:22I must admit that first Blackmore Night album was BRILLIANT but who would of thunk here we are virtual light years since that day and still Ritchie is still playing at the Renaissance Faire. I tells ya it must be some type of time warp from an Old STAR TREK episode. The sad part about all of this is Blackmore was the greatest hard rock guitarist of all times and now it has come to this. Kind of like when Larry Holmes beat the living daylights out of Muhammed Ali and there was nothing none of us could do about it. Candice must have one helluva upper cut. LOL.
October 30th, 2009 at 05:23Mike and Andrea were talking about Steve Morse Band for sure.
October 30th, 2009 at 10:05@1 and 2–cheapies saving gas. could of walked with your “pennie” loafers on to the show.
October 30th, 2009 at 13:56nov 3rd thats all i gotta say
October 30th, 2009 at 20:45I do understand the Muppets association.
Ofcourse things can be funny but…..using rabbits and so on on stage???!!!
It completely remembers me of Ritchies saying many moons ago that he could not understand why the great Paul Mc Cartney kept on playing music for children…….
October 31st, 2009 at 13:21