Plesant surprise in my Youtube.
I know Rob will disagree, but there are very few pieces of music that DLR can actually sing, lamentably Man On The Silver Mountain is not among them. Here is someone who needs real AI treatment bad, he's flat throughout and largely clueless re the melody. To his defense, it's apparently a difficult song to sing, greater vocalists have failed with it.
As (the often simplistic) Blackmore compositions go, MOTSM is actually quite intricate in chord changes. Maybe that is why it's rarely covered.
You didn't know they played this? Eddie adored Blackmore. They were quite eclectic in their cover choices as a young band, Scorpions too (Speedy's Coming and Catch Your Train, Eddie rated Uli Roth too). Michael Schenker (another guitarist Eddie liked), while in LA with UFO, was so flabbergasted when he saw that bar band everyone talked about play Scorpions songs that he rushed to the phone to tell his brother Rudolf about it and advised him to persevere re a first American tour, ze Scörps finally hit "
the gem of the land and the sea" in 1979.
Speaking of Ronnie, there are still some young people who know and cherish him!
