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Play nicely and burn the candles
A couple of trainspotting items of marginal interest, probably not warranting their separate posts.
In a recent interview, Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull talked about guitarists who played “nicely” – Hank Marvin, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Ritchie Blackmore — “Precise, accurate, they sang melodies.” This bit starts at 3’20” and wraps up at 5’40” into the conversation.
On other news, Japanese manufacturer of bathroom fixtures Kakudai has released their 2025-2026 catalogue with a cover art that is a remake of the Burn artwork.
It is not the first time this company uses a classic album cover as inspiration for their catalogues.
Thanks to Nigel Young on both counts.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Many thanks for the Ian Anderson interview. I keep it touch with the odd interview with Anderson and a few others, as these years quickly pass us by. Plenty of history there and the link to Ritchie, a sort of link anyway from the 1970’s. Hank Marvin indeed and the Shadows. Marvin has resided in Western Australia for many decades, still gets out for a few concerts here and there. He has been in a ‘gypsy’ acoustic trio band recently. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZUV46UlCU4&t=9s
July 3rd, 2025 at 09:51Great Ian Anderson.
July 3rd, 2025 at 16:34https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v–MXbvnIAs&t=1s
Stone me, but to me Ian Anderson sounds in all his interviews like a thoroughly unpleasant and horrendously difficult person. There is always this undercurrent with him that things are either his way or the highway. The type of guy who would have me thinking at an audition what excuse I could come up with to make a quick exit.
He also has the habit of being extremely dismissive of ex-JT-members, while not leaving the path of politesse. Guy gives me the creeps, there is no personal warmth to him.
July 5th, 2025 at 14:48Now I‘d like to have a Fireball toilet bowl from theses folks: The golden brown below me, shows me where you‘re from …
That was in very poor taste, I know. These Krauts and their anally fixated humo(u)r. 😧
July 5th, 2025 at 22:24Our German subscribers will however support me in my defense that with a name like KA(C)KUDAI the innuendo wasn‘t totally unprovoked … 😇😈
July 5th, 2025 at 22:32@ 3- it is the ‘grumpy old man’ syndrome Uwe, many end up that way. Back in the day Anderson appeared to be a lot more humorous and easier going. He and Martin Barre had a long standing professional musical relationship, then something changed after forty odd years. Martin has always come across as a very easy going individual, that would have helped with his long standing liaison with Anderson. Things do change, it happens, people become too serious, too aloof, too eccentric……..too deaf after decades of loud music……..too forgetful, as horrible as that is. But then again, is it any different with other musicians who seem to be the ones calling all the shots. Pete Townshend has been called as much over the decades, as has Paul Simon, Roger Waters, Ritchie and many others. Cheers.
July 5th, 2025 at 23:42The Hank Marvin/Ritchie connection seems fairly obvious to me – I always found that both Hank’s lyrical melodies and Strat tone left an eventually prominent mark on Ritchie.
https://youtu.be/7TwULx_wDiI
https://youtu.be/MdBRdkrAovA
Stuff like A 200 or the solo in Soldier Of Fortune are lessons in Hank Marvin style economy of playing.
July 6th, 2025 at 06:12Hank was a huge influence on Ritchie, that Stratocaster and the playing. It’ all there, especially in early Purple but always throughout DP and including Rainbow and beyond. Cheers
July 6th, 2025 at 22:25Ritchie owned up to the Hank Marvin influence as early as in 1975:
I think the first one was Hank Marvin of The Shadows. I used to play Apache, which he recorded as a single with The Shadows.
https://rockandrollgarage.com/8-guitarists-that-ritchie-blackmore-listed-as-influences/
Blackmore certainly isn‘t the only one: Mark Knopfler, Mick Ronson and David Gilmour were/are all Hank fans too.
https://youtu.be/qf1L-pnpBD4
https://youtu.be/nArVdyuQY5k
https://youtu.be/r77TyEhAQ6c
July 7th, 2025 at 20:24That Red Stratocaster was a huge influence indeed. The Rory Gallagher connection from 1963 and the guitarist Jim Conlon from Ireland, who earlier had ordered a red 1961 Strat and ended up with a sunburst one. That is the one Rory eventually purchased from a music store in 1963. The red guitar did eventually arrive for guitarist Jim Conlon from the Irish ‘Royal Showband’. Jim apparently just had to have one the same as Hank Marvin’s. Cheers.
July 7th, 2025 at 23:04Hello !
It´s raining cats and dogs here in Finland, so…. I thought it would be time for this little message.
Ritchie B. and Hank B.
It will be exactly 40 years tomorrow since the historical event from Paris.
They sended the DP concert from Palais Omnisports Paris, 9th July 1985 and simultaneously in national TV AND (!) radio by our national broadcasting company YLE here in Finland.
Only just a eight months earlier we had got the new LP (Perfect Strangers) from the band that really – had put things together again ! Unbelievable indeed !
I guess it was from the Rockpalast series, but anyway, what an event !
I put my cassette on and recorded the gig from the radio programme and a friend of mine
from TV to VHS. Unfortunately they had somekind of trouble with the sound while sending the event live.
…but since they have done something to improve the sound of the flick.
At approximately 01: 30 : 00 it starts happening….enjoy !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwdJvGcPXQI&list=RDpwdJvGcPXQI&start_radio=1
And this was of course the main reason for that :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVIOn-wc6RM
Cheers – or kippis – as we say here : )
Be safe and well !
July 8th, 2025 at 09:13Oh yeah, Hiza, that Shadows choreo routine by Ritchie, Roger & Ian was cute, a real highlight. Ian wasn’t in his best shape at that Paris gig and sounded rough – I think he was still suffering from a bad throat especially early on – but band spirits were high and it showed, it was a good vibes gig.
Thanks for reminding us!
July 8th, 2025 at 13:22