Happy Birthday Ritchie Blackmore

TBird1958 · April 14, 2015, 02:08:26 PM

Evidently today is the exalted one's Birthday.......So we'd better hear from Uwe!

Thanks for all the Deep Purple, pants splitting, Strat destroying memories

Dave W · April 14, 2015, 06:20:38 PM

Ritchie who?

Uwe's apparently still on vacation in the deep south. He's probably sitting in a rocking chair on some veranda, wearing a white linen suit and sipping a mint julep.

ilan · April 15, 2015, 01:10:38 AM

One of the greats for sure. If only he'd live up to his glorious past and former self and not embarrass himself and his fans as he does these days.

nofi · April 15, 2015, 07:39:31 AM

really? i doubt he is embarrassing anyone. this is what he does now, simple as that. hell, its been eighteen years now...

gearHed289 · April 15, 2015, 09:16:32 AM

Quote from: nofi on April 15, 2015, 07:39:31 AM
really? i doubt he is embarrassing anyone. this is what he does now, simple as that. hell, its been eighteen years now...

+1

Embarrassing would be trying to re-live the glory days. Not that I wouldn't want to see it. Hell, I'd even be interested in the rumored reunion with JLT, but I'm happy for the guy (just as I'm happy for Robert Plant). He is true "rock royalty" and has a hot, younger wife that he gets to make music with. Not a bad deal!

westen44 · April 15, 2015, 12:37:51 PM

Music like that can be very refreshing for a change of pace. Still, I can understand if not everyone likes it. I don't listen to it much, but sometimes I do find myself listening to stuff like Hoven Droven--a Swedish folk rock band. It all started when I bought some Nordic Roots CDs in a store in the early 2000s. Blackmore's Night is actually better, though--much more focused. My greatest flaw is allowing myself to be way too restricted to hard rock. So if I can find something else that I also want to listen to, that can only be a good thing.

westen44 · April 15, 2015, 03:31:39 PM

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.

Highlander · April 15, 2015, 06:13:33 PM

I believe the present guitarist of the band has been with them longer than RB, but happy birthday none-the-less...!

westen44 · April 15, 2015, 07:24:22 PM

lowend1 · April 19, 2015, 08:06:50 AM

Quote from: ilan on April 15, 2015, 01:10:38 AM
One of the greats for sure. If only he'd live up to his glorious past and former self and not embarrass himself and his fans as he does these days.

Are we talking about Blackmore or Uwe?

Highlander · April 19, 2015, 09:00:07 AM

Billy...!

uwe · April 20, 2015, 12:17:39 PM

Quote from: westen44 on April 15, 2015, 03:31:39 PM
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:

Highlander · April 20, 2015, 04:10:34 PM

But I wouldn't have wanted to co-habit with a Womble...

westen44 · April 20, 2015, 05:08:26 PM

My quote was from Billy Corgan in which he was saying positive things about Ritchie Blackmore and things not so positive about someone else. As much as I agreed with it, I felt it was in poor taste because of the language that was used.

uwe · April 20, 2015, 07:49:02 PM

Oh yeah, Corgan digs all those "uncool for indies and grungers"-guitarists like Blackmore, Uli Jon Roth and Michael Schenker. But then the Smashing Pumpkins always sounded rather European in their dynamics and song structures to me. I saw a documentary where he jammed with Uli Jon Roth on the Scorpions' Robot Man and you could see the overawed joy on his face while Roth was genuinely pleased that the Smashing Pumpkins frontman declared him relevant.