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Blackmore’s Night also took advantage of the latest technologies undistinguishable from magic (and undoubtedly enhanced with magic spells and fairy dust). Here is the around-the-table performance of Magical World, which originally appeared on the low profile VHS release Live In Germany 1997-1998.
Thanks to steve4422 for holding the fort on both fronts.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
This would have been great on Machine Head.
June 23rd, 2025 at 03:22Not really. Drag your GF to the studio and destroy your band. Just ask the Beatles.
June 23rd, 2025 at 08:12@1
Huh?!
Is your comment a brilliant example of the world famous German humour 😄
June 23rd, 2025 at 14:18One hears that Babs (Blackmore wife #2) wasn’t all that popular with the other DP members in the early 70s, possibly because her relationship with Ritchie was already strained and vice versa, they accused each other of adultery, likely both of them were right about that. 🤗
I’m reasonably confident that Candice would have charmed her way through, she’s very good with people. Never mind how she would have been only six months old during the recoding of Machine Head and therefore been somewhat distracting and attention-grabbing in getting things done in the cold and drafty Grand Hotel!
June 23rd, 2025 at 15:52Must admit, when I sent this to Nick for his approval …I honestly thought it was recent , not 20 odd years ago! So , apologies if I mislead anyone.
June 23rd, 2025 at 20:26I do hope Ritchie is alright and healthy though as there seems to be a lot of Blackmore esq stuff around at the moment…hope it’s not a sign of anything…
Steve, it seems to me like you’re not very good at guessing a woman’s age … 🫣 Hopefully that doesn’t happen too often or I might have to offer my services (at reduced rates). “She looked a lot older and sure was experienced and all that!” is NOT a good legal defense! ☝️😎
Candice was 26 at the time – and she both looked it and sounded like it.
You’re not by any chance in education are you?
https://youtu.be/KNIZofPB8ZM
June 23rd, 2025 at 23:00In case you missed what Nick has so cruelly denigrated as a “low profile VHS release” (I think he meant to say “overt commercialism eschewing cottage industry charm-artsy documentary”) first time around, here it is in all its glory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtAeZat2DFM&list=RDLtAeZat2DFM&start_radio=1
Some good Blackmore solos there. Young Candice was at that early point in her career (she had never sung professionally before, let’s be fair) not yet pitch-accurate and you can hear it too. So forgive the bum notes and the occasional sour pitching, this was all before AutoTune and pitch correction, she makes up for it with youthful charm. I think that fast forward a few years, Candice was using pitch correction live, but not a lot (more rock and pop singers do than they ever care to admit), likely not more than a quarter note or less. I once saw her do a soundcheck in Fulda and you could hear how she sounded with and without it. The difference wasn’t night and day (she has a nice and tuneful voice even without any treatment), but the full Candice sound you have grown used to live is a little processed.
This is quite a trip down memory lane: I had forgotten how rocky initial Blackmore’s Night (still) was and of course the later Schlager-ingredient wasn’t as prominent yet. And Candice was still so shy, she didn’t really say a word at interviews unless pressed, sehr goldig!
June 24th, 2025 at 02:47(in an accusing tone) That this was an early incarnation of BN was not just given away by Candice’s and Ritchie’s then youthfulness i.e. “relative youthfulness”, but also by ex-Rainbow drummer John O’Reilly’s (who only lasted about half a year in BN, but would do well later on with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra) and bassist Mick Cervino’s (who played too complex for Ritchie’s liking and was let go in 2000) presence.
(in a sterner, cutting voice)
https://media.tenor.com/hS9RVSv3O_8AAAAM/smack-that-snape.gif
Have you been letting up again in your dedicated studies of Blackmore’s Night line-ups, Steve, be truthful with us! 😂
June 24th, 2025 at 14:36@1… Maybe a good song for Sesame Street or childs show but Machine Head you must be joking
June 25th, 2025 at 12:06Sigh, I actually was, posting here doesn’t offer italics to make it easier to recognize!
See, that just proves my point, you darn foreigners never get our humor. 😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUkbex1f60
June 25th, 2025 at 16:50@10
“posting here doesn’t offer italics to make it easier to recognize”
test to see if it does
June 26th, 2025 at 22:44I‘m baffled, how did you do that?
[i]Like this?[/i]
[b]Does this then work too?[/b]
Not that I have [b]ever[/b] complained about how the format possibilities here at THS are in IT evolutionary terms a bit … well 🙄 … akin to still writing on papyrus rolls … 😈 ! But that kind of corresponds with the subject matter of commemorating living and breathing 70s dinosaurs 🦕 🦖 , doesn‘t it? 😂
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Jurassic_Park_%28franchise_logo%29.png
June 27th, 2025 at 14:48OBVIOUSLY NOT!!! 🤣
Russ has Herrschaftswissen he is shielding from us!
June 27th, 2025 at 17:12@13
I posted something yesterday to point you in the right direction but either it didn’t take or they censored it. I’ll try again in a separate reply below.
June 29th, 2025 at 06:48We don’t censor here, we moderate. Your attempt at HTML messed up your post and this page.
June 29th, 2025 at 11:07It’s
all
good
Russ,
Nick 😇
helped
me!
AND NOW THAT I HAVE GAINED THIS POWER, I WILL RULE THE WORLD WITH IT, YOU MORTALS!
https://www.sideshow.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Doctor-Doom.jpg
World rule is always high on German agendas.
https://media.tenor.com/BPRena1P8s0AAAAM/hogan-heroes.gif
June 29th, 2025 at 14:59@16
“AND NOW THAT I HAVE GAINED THIS POWER, I WILL RULE THE WORLD WITH IT, YOU MORTALS!“
– 😂 you hadn’t needed to learn these common party tricks Uwe, you already ruled the world!
June 29th, 2025 at 15:39Darth Vader was a direct rip-off from Doctor Doom, no one ever saw that really. I remember seeing the first Star Wars in the cinema and thinking at Lord Vader’s appearance: I can’t believe they have actually stuck Doctor Doom in there! I was a Marvel nut as a kid, so I was aware of the Marvel villains and Doctor Doom, The Lizard & Doc Octopus were among my favorites because there was something tragic about them.
Darth Vader and Yoda as characters were the only saving grace(s) of that movie, otherwise I found the plot extremely lame. I like good SciFi (Planet of the Apes, Dune, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Dark Star, Gattaca, Silent Running, Omega Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey or Soylent Green, even Star Trek has its charm because of the vivid characters), but Star Wars was just a dumb, lightweight fairy tale for kiddies.
What do I know. Just like the similarly inane AC/DC it became immensely popular. 🤣
June 29th, 2025 at 16:50@16
““World rule is always high on German agendas”
That didn’t work out very well the last time you guys tried that….
June 29th, 2025 at 19:32@18
Thank you and goodnight.
…and I have been wondering for years and years what on earth, no, make that: in space made all the world think this uninspired star wars saga was deep and meaningful.
I was really disappointed Don Airey played the tune to that kitsch during his solo spot.
June 29th, 2025 at 20:34Russ: Three’s the charm! 😂
June 29th, 2025 at 22:52So on one appreciate Star Wars!!
It’s an epic story about the constant battle between the evil and the good!
Ok, Chewbacca was probably a bit to the side… but Jar Jar was worse 😝🤓
But the story itself is amazing!
And when James Earl Jones talked as Darth Vader! Woah…. Chills down my spine 🤩
“Luke, I am your father…”
Find myself quoting SW when I need to emphasise words! Just like Jar Jar Binks 😄 noooo!
More like Yoda:
“On many long journeys have I gone. And waited, too, for others to return from journeys of their own. Some return; some are broken; some come back so different only their names remain.”- gotta love that ☺️
And by this I bid you all a good night 💤
July 2nd, 2025 at 23:24I hated Princess Leia‘s hair and her silly gowns.
When Jabba the Hut finally introduced her to BDSM wear that was alright and the man cannot be thanked enough, a successful personal stylist if there ever was one. Less is more.
It‘s weird that the Star Wars character everyone seems to hate – Jar Jar Binks – is one of my favorite ones. I think I hated the bloody Ewoks the most.
July 7th, 2025 at 19:43@23
“When Jabba the Hut finally introduced her to BDSM wear that was alright and the man cannot be thanked enough, a successful personal stylist if there ever was one. Less is more.”
– oh well!
“Jar Jar Binks – is one of my favorite ones.”
– he was annoying 😝
July 7th, 2025 at 21:11“He was annoying.”
We probably have that in common!
July 8th, 2025 at 03:54@25
Uwe!
It isn’t like you to be fishing for compliments 😄
But never the less, and since I’m in a good mood today:
Nooooo! You are not annoying at all 😊☺️
You are funny and very gut orientiert (hope that is the right word?) regarding everything in music and the events of the world!
And since you have seen Star Wars: which are the best? The first (that were the last) or the last (that then were the first?)
July 8th, 2025 at 10:59And who will be the voice of the death Darth Vader now The Original Voice sadly is dead?
Guess this is a moment in time where AI actually will fill a void! (Unless Darth Vader will not appear at all anymore. Sad, because his breathing reminds me so much of this singer David -‘something’ 😄) (I do like David C’s voice, just not when he sounds like a severe bronchitis infection 🥺)
I think the last one of the original six, where a young Darth Vader was chopped up by Ewan M, was the worst one. And the one with the Ewoks, the last one of the original first three. The second one where Luke hides in the guts of that alien kangaroo is my favorite of the old ones.
Of the complete franchise, Rogue One is the best one because it defies convention somewhat. If you liked that then the extended cuts of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Parts One & Two are a dream come true for you on NETFLIX.
Those Stormtroopers of the Empire in Star Wars always had the worst aim imaginable and their armor never protected them from anything! 😂 They should have taken some extra hours on the shooting range of Uncle Ted …
https://youtu.be/NHOFt0axxdk
Back when Ted Nugent was still a shit-hot band and not an asinine individual.
Thinking about it, what made Star Wars so lame and, uhum, flaccid was the nearly complete absence of hot women, my God even that pseudo-Christian rubbish “The Chronicles of Narnia” had more erotic appeal, anything with Tilda Swinton does, she’s the epitome of hot.
July 8th, 2025 at 20:10@27
“Thinking about it, what made Star Wars so lame and, uhum, flaccid was the nearly complete absence of hot women, my God even that pseudo-Christian rubbish “The Chronicles of Narnia” had more erotic appeal, anything with Tilda Swinton does, she’s the epitome of hot.”
– 🤣🤣🤣
So no one cares about the dialogue, the epic and never tedious excitement about the fight between good and bad, as long as there are eye candy galore!
July 9th, 2025 at 03:54😆😆😆