@@highestsettings Ritchie pretty much exclusively used a Stratocaster with single coil pickups, not something you'd associate with a heavy sound but he made it happen.
What you're hearing is probably a tube amp cranked up. Maybe a little fuzz...Bridge pickup with lighter strings, tone low. That's what it sounds like to me for the main riff.
@@J0HNJ0RDAN agreed! After following them for most of my life I only realised a few years back that Jon Lord beefs the Purple sound out so much with his distorted Hammond and couple that with thunderous Paicey drumming, you get a huge rock sound uniquely Purple 👍❤️🎶🎸🥁
I was a kid, in one week saw Rush then Rainbow. After Rush I was amazed how Alex Lifeson played, the PW record note for note, perfect. Then I saw Ritchie, opened my eyes to a different world, improvisation in a monster way. What a week for a young kid. Today Blackmore still my fav.
Among all guitar players, to me Blackmore is the best. His riffs are amazing; he rarely plays power chords. His sense of harmony is very high. Every song he created usually has 3 main parts: a very singable riff; the quiet part he plays with the vocals / keyboard, and the solo. Even if he plays quietly when vocals or Jon Lord plays, he still has beautiful lines that combine very well with the song. Regarding his tone, he has way less distortion than I thought. And that makes his style even better.
He and Jeff Beck were the 2 best of that generation on lead guitar. I'd go Beck 1 Blackmore 2. PAGE 3 and Oimmi 4. Best riffs PAGE 1 Blackmore 2 Oimmi 3 to me.
@@imacmadman22 I have only seen live videos but frankly. Ritche seemed to be mostly dicking around when he wasnt playing a solo. And when you really listen to made in japan you could cut the gutar out and not lose alot for most of the songs but if you cut the organ there would just be the drums (The bass is great butt complementary to the bass that jon plays).
@@einarabelc5 - Blackmore's guitar sound is what's vibrating that hi-hat. Blackmore wins again! In all seriousness, I worked in a studio for a while and we ended getting a great sound out of the guitar left on a stand near the kick drum. We ended up mixing that channel in so every hit on that kick drum had a guitar vibration as well.
I had an email conversation with the father of liliac, and he commented that strats, and all fenders could not play metal. Yeah this isn't death metal, but a strat can play metal with the best of them. Kind of ignorant coming from a music producer.
@@raycochrane3971 Up there, for sure. Then, it'll be a matter of taste. What's best a Ferrari, a Lamborghini or a Rolls Royce? It's all of them, innit?
Amazing precision and simplicity when in the background. Not filling the song with overwhelming power chords or nonsense noise just to show off. This is a master properly handling his tool.
Smoke on the Water is a classic riff that establishes what's to follow with the song.. Personally, as a guitarist and DP huge fan, Burn is my favorite intro of Blackmore's 1st era with DP . When I saw Mark 3 DP they opened with Burn..Took my head off..! Story is, when recording Machine Head, (they had approx 12 days studio time booked and had recorded 7 tunes with only one more day recording time left to finish album) management said you guys are one song short of an album. We need one more song.....The boyz pulled a rabbit out the hat. Ritchie had written and recorded the famous riff awhile back..The guys liked it...Roger and Gillan began writing lyrics , inspired by the entire fiasco of the hotel fire where they were to record, they wrote lyrics telling the story of the recording of Machine Head. They were going to call it "Fire in the Sky", but went with Smoke on the Water...look at the famous Machine Head's vinyl jacket interior for photos.. Lord and Paice then flavored it . It was recorded by the deadline! Gillan even told the story ....The more impressive part of this isn't Ritchie's riff, it's that he and the band wrote, cranked out and recorded this classic track in about 24 hrs..! What if they had not been able to deliver under pressure? Hard to imagine Highway Star, Lazy space truckin" etc not being heard or shelved because Smoke O T Water wasn't written, or went over allotted recording time?! Gillan told story much more eloquently , but still worth repeating...Back in the day, you were owned by your recording company..there was no internet or way to put out your songs without a recording contract from a major company...Studio Time cost big money..you were a slave to them..Back in 1983, a band I played with in Minneapolis recorded a 4 song Demo...cost 5 grand back then. 4 overnight 12 hr sessions. 6pm to 6am.. Overnight rates were all we could afford..but very typical story of the music industry back then..
@@paulkittinger4671 Your anecdote about recording overnight isn't that unusual. A lot of bands used to do that because they lacked the money to pay for daytime recording sessions. There are a lot of great songs on the Burn album.
He mastered those power chords 2 the point of "ownership" it became his sig sound... Same as ACDC "own" same kinda structures in a different key or keys... But completely agree brother... I'm 50 and made same opinion 30 yrs ago. Great observation man :))
First heard Burn as a 13-year old on Live in London, and was so impressed I decided the whole town (Stornoway) had to hear it so I put the hi-fi speakers on the windowsill and turned the volume to 11.
One of the best rock songs ever. Great composition, wonderful arrangement and instrumental features, fantastic vocals. And the only song I know with a constant drum solo inmidst the verses :). Burn was the first LP I owned many, many years ago. And I will love it until my last days.
This band had the best keyboard player, the 3rd best guitarist and a top 5 drummer of all time. Vocals not too shabby other, both Gilliam and Cloverdale.
@@saulevans1088 Zeppelin was better overall, Page a slightly better on guitar, Bonham definiely the best drummer and Plant outsung both Ian Gilliam and Cloverdale. But Deep Purple was much performing better live in concert. I saw them both, Deep Purple in 1974 and Zeppelin in 1975.
@@LogaBiga and that's what makes this art that that trensends, compared to Paul Gilbert's precision picking, it is sad because of the amount of work Paul put in it, but it is just an observation.
Ritchie Blackmore is a genius! The guitar parts he recorded are an essential for the tune, orchestrating melodies etc. in coordination with keyboardist Jon Lord and the rest of the band. Great stuff!
Liked this riff, first heard it on the live broadcast of California Jam in '74, another riff that was a fave at that time was Sabbath's Supernaut. Only found out recently and surprisingly that Supernaut was one of Frank Zappa's favourite tunes at the time too. Eddie VH apparently put the Burn riff on his favorite riff list too. Rock & RIP to both of them.
Back in the early 80's the BBC broadcast a series called Guitar Greats, featuring seven British and seven American guitarists. Among the Americans were Joe Walsh, Scotty Moore and BB King; among the Brits were Clapton, Beck, Page and Blackmore. He's a very able guitarist with an impeccable knowledge of music.
@@vladavasiljev Yes he is underrated. Rolling Stone's survey of the top 100 guitarists has him at #50! Ahead of Mr. Blackmore are: The Edge (38), Billy Gibbons (32), Johnny Ramone (!) (28), Neil Young (17?) and Keith Richards (4). This is a list of the voters; they know enough to have done a lot better with this list. Ritchie is known to be what you have said, but is also clearly underrated and underappreciated. Voters: Trey Anastasio, Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), Brian Bell (Weezer), Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple), Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket), James Burton, Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Gary Clark Jr., Billy Corgan, Steve Cropper, Dave Davies (The Kinks), Anthony DeCurtis (Contributing editor, Rolling Stone), Tom DeLonge (Blink-182), Rick Derringer, Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), Elliot Easton (The Cars), Melissa Etheridge, Don Felder (The Eagles), David Fricke (Senior writer, Rolling Stone), Peter Guralnick (Author), Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Albert Hammond Jr. (The Strokes), Warren Haynes (The Allman Brothers Band), Brian Hiatt (Senior writer, Rolling Stone), David Hidalgo (Los Lobos), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Lenny Kravitz, Robby Krieger (The Doors), Jon Landau (Manager), Alex Lifeson (Rush), Nils Lofgren (The E Street Band), Mick Mars (Mötley Crüe), Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Brian May, Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Scotty Moore, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Tom Morello, Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), Brendan O’Brien (Producer), Joe Perry, Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Robbie Robertson, Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes), Carlos Santana, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Marnie Stern, Stephen Stills, Andy Summers, Mick Taylor, Susan Tedeschi, Vieux Farka Touré, Derek Trucks, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Walsh, Nancy Wilson (Heart)
Если к пальцам прилагается голова, то не надо поливать на третьей космической скорости, чтобы хоть как то выделиться. Многие рокеры, прошедшие школу 60-70-х годов этим славятся.
He didnt play very much on a lot of songs during vocal parts. The keyboards filled the sound, which frees up the guitar. With a keyboard player in a band the guitarist plays differently than otherwise.
I may be wrong but i don`t think this is the actual recording we hear on the recording we all know and love,sounds like a different outtake from a studio session,practicing if you will..
If you're under a certain age, it's easy to believe that RB is underrated, because a lot of music writers have chosen to ignore him for committing the "sin" of reforming Deep Purple (in '84). It wasn't always like that. He started topping the Sounds Guitarist poll yearly from around '74 (and Jimmy Page at that time averaged #4). I believe he won that poll until '81, then did the same at Kerrang! (which started that year). Micky Schenker pipped him in '82, and Gary Moore in '86, but those two were easily the best of the newer talents (EVH in America, of course). Around the time of The House of Blue Light, the press started writing more about Purple's age than their music. (Coverdale and Dio, surprisingly, got bad press at that time too.) What's odd is that Zeppelin and Yes were the bands most derided during the punk era, but all that changed around '88, when the press suddenly decided Zep were hip. A complete about-turn. I like Zeppelin/Page almost as much as DP/Rainbow/Blackmore, by the way. Burn is one of the most exciting rock songs of the '70s and beyond. Perfect. Incidentally, Ian Gillan says that he makes deliberate small errors, as he dislikes total perfection! Maybe Blackmore's similar.
This is an overlong reply to several people below, who seem to think any 23 year old, bedroom “scale wizard” guitarist, can do in 6 months, what Ritchie could do with a guitar, when he formed Purple at that age. Much as I love Steve Vai and Joe Satriani all you are saying is that you didn’t hear what they said about Ritchie on camera. You can add Brian May, who thinks Ritchie is up there with the greatest. He influenced Eddie Van Halen and was playing like a maniac before anyone had heard of the great Jimi Hendrix ... who also loved Ritchie’s work. The point? Any kid with good ... hands/attention span/lockdown peace and quiet for a year or less .....could play any note Ritchie has ever played and in the right order. Would he sound like Ritchie? ... No way. Could he influence rock music, world wide, by being the linch pin a band like Deep Purple or Rainbow? Anything’s possible. Could he pull out breathtaking improvised solos while demonstrating that he was IMO, the best guitar wielding showman in rock (I saw him with Purple, 6 weeks after he recorded Made in Japan in 72 and on Rainbow’s first UK tour in 1976) That 23 year old guy, would now, in 2021, have to form a band like Purple, which, in 2026 would outsell every act in the world and then split up that same year. Then go on to form possibly the next best rock band on the planet (Rainbow) which would spawn a new phase of heavy/hard rock ... Neo classical metal/rock. This guy would then have to have several pop/rock single chart hits, for several years, all over the world, by the mid 2030’s Then he would have to fill a 15,000 seat arena in a few hours for his first indoor live rock show for 30 years, (Birmingham and 2068 in his time scale) before going back to a highly successful career, giving acoustic medieval music a new lease of life, all over the world (Blackmore’s Night) Then ... NOT turn up to be inducted as one of the rock greats in the (meaningless) Rock and Roll Hall of fame, around the same time. (Ritchie - “I’ve never seen myself as a star 🌟 I’m a musician” ) All of the above doesn’t come from playing scales night and day in ones bedroom. I’m sure however they too can make their dreams come true but Ritchie’s success didn’t come from guitar technique alone. How would I know, but it seems to come from an incredible and rare talent, a love of music, grabbing one’s guitar and diving into life/the real world, headfirst and making something magical. Oh! Forgot - Will have to come up with the *most famous guitar part in the world. *Ritchie did say, “that” riff, is “the theme from Beethoven’ s 5th ...backwards” That journalists believed him, tells you something about their gen’ musical savvy, why they weren’t qualified to rate his and Purple’s legacy when Purple first split (they didn’t)....and all you need to know about the sense of humour RB probably needed, to survive the music business, at the top ... for 60 years. Yes ... I’m a fan.
Haha great comment ! Ritchie's guitar talents are indeed legendary no matter what he played. He's basically impossible to copy/reproduce. And Rainbow Rising (Long Live Rock N Roll a close second) is imo possibly THE album which, along with Ronnie James Dio's fantasy-style lyrics, was the biggest influence in shaping power metal and classical metal (Yngwie).
Blackmore failed to evolve as a guitarist . He sat back and thought he was the best forever . In his day he only shined among a handful , people like vai and Satriani , malmsteen and many others shined when the guitar competition was fierce . As a kid in the late 80s we all wanted to play like vai ,malmsteen etc and nobody wanted to listen that much to Blackmore because the others had taken guitar to another level that was way more interesting . Blackmore was lost in the guitar world and never had the chops of lynch , vinnie moore , and so many others . In the grand scheme of guitarists Blackmore is average at best !
@@deanwitt7903 When you say "we all", speak for yourself and your "we all's". Most guitarists I know around my circle, know that Blackmore has a lot more to offer that self indulgent noodling of solos. Yes Blackmore did that too on stage, but the superb playing on the studio cuts says it all.
@@tomb8430 we all ,,,meaning all who I played with in my circle . So yes I am speaking for myself and my own circumstances. What is self indulgent noodling of solos ? Explain ?
@@rickleblanc8900 Agree. I love it because he keeps on one note (plucked many times) during this solo. Others have said almost that a 12 year old could play it but are missing the point .... It fits the dynamic of the song perfectly and sounds great ... what the song needed.
@@camilo1455 You are right about Stormbringer. So much originality from Ritchie. His mind for putting so much thought into every music piece is actually astonishing. Ian Anderson of Tull said much of his genius was his appreciation of the silence between the notes. Sometimes all the Shreedding that came along in the very late seventies and eighties became somewhat boring. 50% of the solos didn't go with the songs. Just a crash of notes. Blackmore's ability play every solo stayed within the song and music. Stormbringer Album did show another aspect to his playing. I really like Blackmore's Night because I can't think of another Rock Guitarist to have the balls to go back to a Acoustic Guitar and actually sell millions of albums doing it. When you watch him finger pick so fluently and play such beautiful arrangements is mind boggling.
Love his vibrato. Blackmore should be in the top 5 rock guitarist discussion. He’s really underrated historically. All the great riffmasters (Blackmore, Page etc.) wrote riffs that sound deceptively simple but yet can’t be copied perfectly - they’re so engrained with the personality of the player!
Not sure he is underrated by old heads like myself but I agree definitely top 5. Also how could you forget the riffmaster himself Iommi, the epitome of deceptively simple.
@@mrpositronia no way he's underrated. Everyone tripping on Machine Head and Made In Japan and rightly so but his guitar playing on Deep Purple In Rock is pretty unbeatable imho. A legend !
@@rickleblanc8900 I agree with you guys, because we all know guitar and who’s awesome and influential in history. However, Richie is rarely listed in that top 10 because he’s not a household name. In any given guitar list by some wanker publication I’d warrant that Jack White and the Edge end up rated higher than Blackmore. Because he’s not a household name outside of our universe. Maybe because Deep Purple music not as crossover as Zep and Black Sabbath to younger folks. Dunno
I opened for Deep Purple at the Providence Civic Center in RI on 4-27-87 when they were on out supporting a tour for The House of the Blue Light record. It was the best night of my life, I was still in High School and Joan Jett cancelled the week before the show so the Arnold Freeman group called ahead to local venues and looked for an opener and we got it, a 30 min set. Being the guitar player in the band I was of course terrified of this but managed a good night and will have that for the rest of my life! He had a few modified plexi Marshalls with 4x12 cabinets and they were LOUD...way over 100 watts each. I had a JCM800 model 2210 and a (2) 4x12's it was barely enough lol. He was very quiet and told me, "NO guitar solos", I was like uh, what about the ones in the songs? He said that was OK but no stand alone solos like where it was just me. Of course I was like, NO PROBLEM. On the Perfect Strangers tour the yr before, Guffria opened up for them and the guitar player Craig Goldy apparently did some stand alone solos early in the tour, (he is a monster player), and Ritchie got butt hurt and had them fired and replaced. From that point forward if you opened for DP, NO SOLOS. Anyway, long live Deep Purple, what a band! Joshua
@@themotocrossmodchannelWulfMX What a great story....Ritchie was my idol, I started playing electric guitar as soon as I heard Lazy. I had just been strumming along with CCR songs on acoustic and my brother bought Machine Head.....Ritchie just blew me away and I knew then I had to learn that. I never got to open for DP, but really enjoyed your story....that would for sure be with me all my life too. Very cool, thanks for sharing.
@@Azfun6 The tune that of course turned me on to them was Smoke on the water..first song every player learns lol,,then I heard highway star and I was like Oh Man,,,been a fan ever since. I was fortunate enough in my life to eventually turn to the professional audio career at the worlds largest casino in CT where I worked as one of the head Supervisors there for 23 years. I worked with every major act to come through there, including, Ritchie's "Black Knight" band and man o man did it bring back memories!!! Onto a different career now and that part of my life is kinda over but at least I got to do it. God bless buddy, I hope you still play a little!! Joshua
Marshall... and a treble booster.... he was and is the godfather of neoclassical metal guitar playing.... no one before did it, listen to the guitar solo, he was the first to play arpeggios...with a classical influence.... during the solo of lord he just picking on the strings. So unique... all that came after... the early metal guitar players like from the band slayer, metallica or judas priest, guns roses all had their said blackmore showed them a skill that is not available any more.... its practicing, rehearsal and self-confidence to produce a music like that. 👍
Been listening to this album since I was a kid. Absolutely harshly, mercilessly excellent. If you haven't seen the little Japanese girl nail the living s##t out of Ian Paice's part on this tune, I highly recommend it. There's also a video of the man himself reacting to her performance..
Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore used to Jam together . Just them . To work out who was gonna do what . They worked like Hand in Glove There is Ritchie's part . The Big Hammond did the Other part . Ritchie was picking out the Notes that needed Double Voicing . A Guitar realistically , can NEVER match a Big Keyboard .This was Deep Purple . And here is some of the reason they were unparalleled in their time .
They played so many hours together doing live improv- things popular bands dont do any longer. DP went out and showed their musicianship every concert.
В этом и есть его преимущество! Оригинальность и самобытность - его неповторимая "фишка" Бабушка слушает "ПЕПЛов" с 1969года. Они -неисчерпаемый океан!
Playing a guitar is one thing..... inventing riffs like he did is divine, he is not human and not from this universe ☝️ this solo and Highway star are my favorites ❤❤❤
By all means, try to prop up your "hero" by slamming other musicians that have nothing to do with the content of the video. I mean, WHY??? Just enjoy it and STFU.
What was the basis of Ritchie's guitar tone? I mean what did he play through? I never heard anyone else around that time with a sound anything like his so it can't just be a Strat into a 100w Marshall all the way up to 10? Or was it? Just curious.
200W Marshall Major modified with an extra gain stage or his Vox AC30. Blackers also used an Awia tape recorder ( Microphone input) as a preamp at this time to bludgeon the amp. On the Burn tour it was his Marshall Majors and the tape deck but with the tape deck providing echo as well as a preamp. Before Burn he had a modified Hornby Skewes treble booster and occasionally a Fuzz Face. Although he's stated he doesn't care for fuzz....
For someone who favored the loudest Marshalls ever made and always wanting more gain and distortion, his tone here is surprisingly cleaner. Imho from personal experience, a cranked 50 watt Marshall head is near unbeatable for pure tone and rawness
Isolated until the keyboards came in. Lol. My favorite period of his guitar sound was the early "Jimmi Hendrix" period, as Ritchie calls it. Nothing but pure bliss and no sound effects, just a STRAT through a Marshall 200 watt Bassman head. Today the pussies I play with get scared when it gets loud. You can't get that sound without cranking a Marshall head.
Would never make it today.....it's not sterile and "perfect" enough. Has to be time and tone corrected via computer to make it today. Not been douched up enough for modern music.
It’s likely that any similarity is coincidence as you will be aware of the video he made where he spoke about every riff he adapted from other artists work (Jimmy Page to Igor Stravinsky .... name any composer, it’s ubiquitous to adapt sections from other pieces) My favourite - Some people still believe that the Smoke OTW riff, is the main theme of Beethoven’s 5th ... played backwards. That went around for years because Ritchie told this to a gullible journalist with a straight face. 😀
@@grobbler1 I’m not implicating you here but the reason I challenge all the ignorance around Ritchie’s talent and influence is because he and his work in Purple and Rainbow have been snubbed by “journalists” since ... whenever. As Brian May said “I can’t understand why no one talks about Ritchie” ... Talk about him in the same breath as ... the U.K. “big 3” (the usual suspects) 😀 Any other guitarist would just be credited with coming up “on the spot in Switzerland” (as he stated) with the most famous guitar part in history. How many people with a vacant opinion of Ritchie’s output have heard only that song and can only remember the riff not the solo. Almost all, I would guess. How many have heard his 6 minute live improvised solo in the Concerto for Group and Orchestra 1969? How many would recognise how great that solo is. Practically none.
@@seabud6408 Blackmore never played the game with the press and never 'went to the right places.' The guy is very much his own man and his level of success is down to that, along with his stellar talent. Kanye West is wealthier, more famous and more feted than RB will ever be. Imagine playing some Bach to those 'fans.' That example says much about the taste of the general public.
@seabud6408 its because Ritchie is a brilliant…asshole. To be specific, people who work with him like him mostly but he does not like the industry bs at all, so mgmt and the press are not gushing over him publicly.
The greatest guitarist in my humble opinion. No one has his Resume or his volume of original work. You have to understand that Blackmore has sold millions of albums of Acoustic Guitar. His Neoclassical style was what took Rock away from only Blues influenced music. Although Ritchie is a great Blues guitarist. He is considered the most influential guitarist in History. He is the Master of the solo.
Agree. Of course Ritchie says almost in one breath “I don’t need someone to tell me, I know I’m a great guitarist” to “I just got lucky” / “ I’m still waiting to create something great” (I paraphrase) Live his recollection of the early 60’s - “ I’m thinking .... “ why am I in this band, that keep speeding up and slowing down and playing the wrong chords, while I’m coming out with these interesting solos”😀
@@scottwaszak698 Seriously think about it. What is the first riff everybody that picks up a Electric Guitar the first time and doesn't try Smoke on the Water. If that isn't influence I don't know what is. Also Ritchie was the original speed guitarist. Ritchie was hitting metal licks in 68 and 69 improving with Mark One. In Rock was where Blackmore played Proto Thraah and Metal. On Child in Time he put the S in solo. His solo on Highway Star ushered in Speed Metal. Ritchie was the Father of Neoclassical Rock with Jon Lord. The studio version of Kill the King has the First Thrash licks although it was only about 3 to four seconds and just really kick of Speed Metal. Many Artists give Ritchie a major influence. Eddie Van Halen for instance. Eddie's Eruption was completely inspired by Blackmores Entry into Speed King on most copies of In Rock. Metallica said there wouldn't be a Metallica if there wasn't a Deep Purple. There is a lot more but I think I made a good case. The solo on Burn is serious Neoclassical Guitar. Rock on man!
@@scottwaszak698 Ritchie didn’t put himself in the BBC radio series “guitar greats” in the late 70’s. However according to the book of the series, when he was left out of the original run of programmes the “only letters” they got were to complain that he hadn’t been included. Quote - “when he is undeniably a great guitarist”. Most people who scratch their heads when he is lauded are likely to have heard a 10th or less of his output in my experience. He is self deprecating “there are brilliant guitarists that no one has ever heard of” He would be the first to deny any hyperbole about him/his playing and has always name checked his contemporaries like Beck and the founders of electric guitar style plus *new kids on the block (*not the band) He does know he is a great guitarist however ... he said he doesn’t need anyone to tell him or to tell him when he did his “best work”. The point is his uniqueness in the way that the other greats are unique. Technique isn’t the point. His footprint on rock music is the point. You are probably comparing him to Vai. Have just watched a video clip from Steve on the Purple Facebook page lauding Purple’s achievements to the heavens. The point? Some people just don’t get what it is that is great about Ritchie. My other favourite is John McLaughlin. In his sphere he impresses in electric and acoustic too (Mahavishnu Orchestra/Shakti) Beck prostrated himself when they played together once. I know from interviews over the years that Ritchie cant relate to John’s playing. It’s not his bag though he knows that he is a great player. Possibly that’s where you are with Ritchie. As to why I bother writing any of this. I’m a life long Purple fan who is aware of just how ignorant the music press/critics are with regard to Purple’s/Ritchie’s legacy. Steve Vai ain’t. Metallica - “Purple were just better than everyone else” Deep Purple just put out one of their best albums. No 1 in Germany (as have the last 3 albums) and Austria and charted high, all around the world, more than 50 years after they formed. 5 star and 10/10 reviews ... and that is without Ritchie and Jon Lord! (Hail Steve Morse and Don Airey!) Still hear people spout forth in ignorance ... when all they know is “that riff” and part of the song it comes from.
@@kurtsherrick2066 add to that..with Stormbringer he began another entire genre, the sound of the 80s in so many lite-metal bands...give it another listen, let me know what you think.
Please tell me that the two-part-harmony / double-stop guitar stuff at the organ solo is double-tracked! Or I will have to burn my guitars and chop off my fingers..
The little things mean a lot. For example how he plays the G on the 6th string and slurs the diad from the 3rd to 2nd fret w one finger - it creates the feel of the riff and the G is like a taking a breath. Most people just play the G as a D & G 4th on the open strings but they ruin the feel of the riff.
Blackmore is a great guitarist, but this sounds on the sloppy side, almost like him and his guitar were wondering what to do next during the tune. Just my opinion.
That was funny! I wonder when he will actually get the recognition in America that he deserves. The rest of the World gets it. Although Deep Purple sold more albums in America in 73 than any other band.
