Edited:
Someone (not from this forum or any forum for that matter) has brought it to my attention that what I had posted here originally wasn't completely appropriate. It was very complimentary to Richie Blackmore and I personally liked it. But I'll reluctantly take it down.
Since when can Blackers not be ridiculed here? That is all the fun and inspires good discussion. My son - an avid Jimmy Page fan, what have I done???
- put him down all through our trip (I had a lot of DP CDs with me!): "no mojo, doesn't bare his soul, no sex and sweat in his playing, those Arabian-tinged minorish scales are way too classical for me, his style is all dynamics and refinement, more like a conductor hovering above the music than really playing in it".
And while I do applaud the sincerity of Blackmore's engagement in the medieval thing/minstrel phase with his missus (he really likes that type of music and, obviously, her too), it still reads all too often in the red on the embarrassometer with me whereas Robert Plant's solo stuff sounds mature and befitting his age to me.
In contrast, stuff like this makes me wince (not all of Blackmore's Night's material is like that, but still too much of it):
And really isn't too much different from this here, except that The Wombles were more fun, had better fur and rocked more:
