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Only quill pens and horseback messengers
This is straight from the desk of bizarre appearances in our trainspotting department. Some time over the past year, crooks posing as Ritchie Blackmore scammed an old lady in the UK out of £115,000. See the maestro himself appearing at around 12:40 expressing sympathy for the victim and vehemently denying his involvement because he doesn’t “personally use internet or social media”.
Thanks to Uwe Hornung for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
I have considerable forensic experience, this is a clear-cut case. At the heart of the crime lies Gregster as the chief culprit. I have this from confidential sources I can needless to say not divulge, but they are trustworthy and reliable: Gregster’s incessant burrowing work here undermining Ritchie’s hitherto flawless reputation and status as a guitarist and artist has seen the back catalog sales of our beloved Long Island Renaissance enthusiast plummet on an unforeseen scale. From there to Ritchie – in desperation – adopting (and conveniently adapting) an old Sherwood Forest motto “to take from the rich and give to the poor” was only a small, insignificant step, his quill pen hand was forced so to say by Gregster’s heinous libel as the root of evil.
The Star Chamber, as chaired by me, will now have to convene and see in its infinite wisdom that – after due confession of course – justice is dealt. We’ll start with some Glenn Hughes vocal acrobatics.
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September 21st, 2024 at 19:50This is an old story from isn’t it? Cheers
September 21st, 2024 at 21:49I remember thinking then & still do now that Blackmore has an excellent Wi Fi connection in the Black forest of Germany. Cheers.
September 21st, 2024 at 22:47The feature was from earlier this year, I found it on Ritchie’s and Candice’s homepage. I’m aware of all kinds of scams, using gift cards for them was new to me, I don’t even know whether the scheme would work in Germany without physical transfer of the actual card.
The nerve of these scammers is unbelievable: So they find out that 80-year-old Valerie was a schoolmate of Ritchie and then pose as him of all people? I never went to school with anyone famous, but a celebrity contacting me for money would make me immediately double-suspicious, you’d think they’d pick someone else’s less conspicious identity to steal. Unless of course, they had somehow found out that Ritchie is a digital hermit and could thus not be contacted by the fraud victim for verification, i.e. could serve as a convenient and safe fake identity.
So do give Candice a call first should Ritchie ever approach you for gift card support! ‘Something in the air tells me to beware …’
September 21st, 2024 at 23:28Yo,
LOL !!!
1. I do not slander anything RB has to say, or has said. I only remind people of the quotes he himself has said in the past, so as to allow RB himself, to paint his own picture.
2. If anyone needs to appear before the court, it appears that it will / may be RB himself, to prove his innocence.
3. I doubt very much that what I present here at times ( see #1 ) would affect his record sales.
Peace !
September 21st, 2024 at 23:57Poor old lady, she got scammed. This is very sad and makes me very angry about how dirty people uses old pensioners emotions to get money.
September 22nd, 2024 at 04:05Ritchie again guilty :)….
September 22nd, 2024 at 05:39That was the only thing Candice managed to tame…with the little help of her mother 🙂
franchement “macgregor ” vous êtes vraiment triste en lançant de telles affirmations….
September 22nd, 2024 at 07:21@ 8 – it was a ‘joke’ in regards to Ritchie never having anything to do with the internet etc. And if he did I bet the wifi is really good in the Black Forest of Germany. Didn’t he own property somewhere in Germany, a castle of sorts. Anyway it certainly wasn’t a joke at the scamming victim. I loathe & despise thieves with a vengeance. Cheers.
September 22nd, 2024 at 10:01What a mess on Ritchie’s Livingroom wall.
September 22nd, 2024 at 12:33Somebody should straighten out the pictures … ts, ts
Ritchie doesn’t need WiFi. He gets signal through his hat.
September 22nd, 2024 at 15:06Yes, that same hat with which he tuned in Bulgarian long wave radio to hear a jingle and then proceeded to write the Pictures of Home melody according to Jon Lord! 🤣
It’s attempted all the time. In Germany, the scammers go through telephone books and place calls to people whose first names sound somehow old-fashioned, hoping to I’ve received electronic messages from unknown parties professing to be my kids (who live in Belgium and California respectively), asking me for money because they are supposedly caught in some kind of a predicament. My test question is always “Which British rock star spoke to your dad from stage in 1977?”
https://youtu.be/82_jIzWHPUY
(Bouncy enough for you, Karin? And the bass you hear on that song is not played by mustached Alan Lancaster, but by bearded Roger Glover who produced the single and gave his best to play in the style of Alan Lancaster because Alan was unavailable to record having family business in Australia at the time.)
September 22nd, 2024 at 18:59That’s the amazing thing about Ritchie: in his younger days he could be extremely immature, petulant, angry, playing tricks on people or throwing a tantrum. But the other side of his personality is that of a high-character, caring individual almost to an extreme degree. Especially now that he’s aged and mellowed. I heard a while back Ian Gillan saying it would be no fun to have Ritchie back in the band because it would break the peace. But I’ve seen him walk over to the other side of the stage in recent years; watched him laugh as a fellow musician forgot a note, really not taking himself too seriously whatsoever. His personality has changed into a humor, mature, gentle old man, as far as I can tell.
September 22nd, 2024 at 19:17LOL….🤣……..🎩
September 23rd, 2024 at 11:57I agree with you James. He really does seem to be enjoying life.
September 25th, 2024 at 06:46