Ritchie Blackmore discussing his relationship with Ian Gillan when working together in Deep Purple 

He had the best scream and Morrison had the most insane scream.

Iggy Pop had one of the loudest screams.

and Ritchie was jealous.

Storm hawk. Ian Gillan is a legend. Blackmore could start an argument in an empty room you'd think. (Phenomenal guitarist though).

Gillan hasn't really sounded good since the 70's. He blew his voice pretty quick. Ever since the 80's he's been average at best vocally.

Yeah! Ian's voice was outstanding!

As Ritchie said, they are both alpha males.....

Indeed. There's something not quite accurate with what Ritchie is saying here, not to mention the contradiction of the alpha males statement immediately followed by the description of how Gillan told him he's a hero and asked him how to perform... Memories do change as we age though and it could be the way that Ritchie reflects on it without being insincere. Whatever the case, it's hard to fully buy into what he said here.

@@JacoWium I read it as Ian did make an effort to be nice and good and friendly and diplomatic and all by saying Ritchie's his hero and asking him how he'd like him to sing... but when Ritchie wanted bluesy etc. Ian wasn't going to bend after all! So they both made some effort to compromise, but it was ultimately against their natures

@@Losrandir That's a reasonable take on it, yes. If I had a superpower I wish I could travel back in time but just to be a fly on the wall, to know what really went down in history (in general). I've done enough reading on neurological studies to know that I shouldn't fully trust my own memories, so I hesitate to buy any one-sided version of an event, regardless of how sincere. Still, based on the available info, I think you may be on the right track there.

but he had Coverdale inbetween that. Got sick of the funk and soul and went "medieval". Ritchie has changed so many times through the years

Extremely possible that his excuse for parting was flimsy.

It's not a competition - Gillan also fell out with many people. the band themselves have said they were as bad as each other. Gillan working with someone as a middle aged man just isn't the same.

Where is Steve Morse now he's not in the Band anymore

@@chucky2569 taking care of his wife who's ill (is what I read)

Gillan had 2 great records and then his performances were as bad or worse as his lyrics. Blackmore was the common denominator for every great album they ever made.

Not only vocalists. He had issues with bass players and drummers.

He didn't understand power of songs and singing. Deep Purple are songs, not jamming. With infinite album it's clear who won.

And he went with Coverdale and Night . Many of them don't understand that people buy SONGS. He used to help arrange Glover and Gillan songs and was doing well. Will be remembered for accompanying Gillan, like Rod Evans still remembered. Did not write a single song people would enjoy in decades

They should’ve dumped RB after DPIR album IMO!

It's never "creative" differences; it's a clash of personalities. Definitely, two alpha males. Gillan was one of the greatest singers of his time.

Because arrogance and stupidity are a state of mental sickness. Blackmorelessarse is incurably sick. No humility, always looking sombre, his-face-would-crack-if-he-smiled persona, probably worshipping himself daily.

i hope you mean strictly DP because otherwise Dio would like to have a word with you ;)

Yes, and Gillan was the best of his generation. Dio second.

Std882. I agree mate, Burn was a fantastic album though and Coverdale is great.

Hard to believe that Blackmore had Dio and Gillan as frontmen and still wasn’t pleased. Although, Blackmore always speaks highly of Dio to this very day.

Mkii was a good as any band ever. Jon lord was my favorite musician of the band

Yes, that's right ! Nobody was more classical than Ritchie, and yet Gillan was Bluesy at his solo albums, so lack of speaking and Ritchies rudeness spoiled all !!!

yeah, what a dumb thing to say. Ian is Ian. Perfect as is.

Musically he is extremely blues-based, the classical part is more of a coloring during solos. Deep Purple and Rainbow riffs are very bluesy and very rarely have classical structures and progressions, if only during the instrumental parts. The most classical and anti-blues out of them old bands was Yes, especially during their early days.

@@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect ELP

Rod Hardfold (Judas Priest), Ian Gillan, Robert Plant, Freddie Mercury, Ronnie James Dio and some more (everyone gives the order they prefer).

@@centinela24542 Noddy holder

Uh.. The Battle Rages On in the 90s also happened as well. Some disliked it. I thought it was cool - the Mk II line up with an updated 90s sound.

@@rifaif7119 It only happened because their label pushed them into it. Unfortunate, it did turn into a good album.

the battle rages on is gold everything theyve done always has been in some form same with rainbow @@rifaif7119

Ok, to each his own. Just making a point….

"I was a young man when I died I was flash, I was full of pride" Famous last words

He did after he ruined his vocal cords in the early 80s

Burn is a classic album, but Stormbringer and CTTB are lesser efforts. Didn't hear Made In Europe. Hughes is still a really great singer (compared to Gillan), but I'm really turned off by his affection of soul and funk music. Also, Hughes still has that powerful voice because he didn't perform Chil In Time over and over again for so many decades and he didn't have throat surgery (like Gillan had before he joined Black Sabbath).

Hughes would have never needed surgery because he sings properly. Gillan sang properly most of the time, but I guess his band mates and fans expected him to scream, scream and scream some more but unfortunately he did it the wrong way. There is a safe way to scream. But Gillan's screaming sounded very nice for about 4 or 5 years and then he started loosing it. You're right, Child In Time, the end of Space Truckin, No No No, Fools, Into The Fire, etc.. In Sabbath, and here's the weird thing covering Ozzy is harder then it seems. It's not that Ozzy has some killer technique but his singing voice sits right were most male singer's bridges are. That's the place were most rock singers go from middle voice to high. But Ozzy just stayed in that bridge area and sloppily powered through it. Ozzy just went for it. I'm surprised e's lasted so long. Just about everyone that's tried to cover Ozzy has failed. Gillan failed. Hughes had an accident but I'm not sure what he would have done. Rob Halford STRUGGLED big time at that 1992 show. Man, I felt sorry for the Metal God. That must have been torture. Dio though, figured out how to re-inturpet Ozzy so it wouldn't hurt his voice. Replacing a signer with another singer in these big loud heavy bands is just flat out hard a lot of the time, especially if they have sing the original singer's material all night.

Yes, Gillan was expected to scream so much particularly from Blackmore. He wanted to have a band heavier than Led Zeppelin by the time Gillan and Glover joined. And it looks like it worked, because different sources say that by 1973, Purple was the best band in the world, but Gillan was exhausted and he badly wanted a break. Unfortunately the management and Blackmore didn't understand him, so he left. Gillan said "to walk out of a band at that peak seemed really stupid, but I didn't see no other way to put it". In Sabbath, I know Gillan's biggest problem was learning some of Ozzy's lyrics. Ozzy doesn't have indeed a great singing technique, but he's good; one of the few metal singers who is not a screamer by the way. Almost forgot that Hughes was also in Black Sabbath, but yeah, he didn't have enough time to perform the Ozzy songs because he got involved into a fist fight that affected his singing for a time. And it's not like Hughes needed surgery as well (thank God he didn't need it), it's just that I believe that if Hughes would have screamed (properly or not) as often as Gillan had, his voice wouldn't have remained so powerful to this day.

+PurpleIntoDeep Ozzy is actually difficult for other singers to cover. He stays in he "vocal bridge" range and powers through it. It's an uncomfortable place to sing from. Gillan, Hughes and Halford all had problems, especially Halford (whew, that was a rough gig). But Dio had the correct technique to handle Ozzy's belting in the bridge areas. Hughes could have figured it out probably.

***** Probably for you, Hughes could handle anything, but I can tell you for sure that he couldn't handle Child in Time at all. Purple didn't play it live during MK III and I guess we all know why.

Coverdale was much better for the blues. And in the 80s he became better in general

Gillan is the creme de la creme. Those others are in a very distant second and third.

@@geoycs but Hughes still has the voice Gillan lost in the 80s

Ritchie hold high standards and expectation to everyone including himself. He said once that his solos in In Rock are terrible, and i love those solos!!

Single-minded and on his own path. It seems to unnerve some people.

He didn't audition for DP in 69, he just gave Jon Lord his phone number in case things wouldn't work out with Gillan

@@BrianRAlex Didn't he send a bunch of tapes both times? OK I might recall wrong, might.

@David Topchiev Well, it didn't have to be R.

Haha.

Good points.

+olhole I'd take someone who usually keeps his mouth shut more seriously.

Robert Miller I so agree with you on Lake and McCartney

Yeah, whatever. Many of us disagree, however.

I think Morse is a great guitar player but with purple sounds weird. Tommy Bolin however was THE replacement purple needed when Blackmore left

Jose Rafael Teran Rory Gallagher would have been great with Deep Purple too. Come Taste The Band is an excellent album

The mistake Purple made with Tommy Bolin was trying to be hard rock. They should have continued the direction they had on most of Stormbringer, that's why Ritchie left. They couldn't embrace the change, so Glenn and Tommy got bored playing dungeon music at 120 decibals. Tommy must have been bored out of his skull playing Smoke On The Water after Cobham's Spectrum. Purple needed him more than he needed them, he should never have joined.

LOL when was this ?

Yep. He contradicts himself twice in this one answer. 1) Both 'alpha males' then followed by Gillan telling him "you're my hero, how do you want me to sing?", and 2) Wanting more of a Paul Rodgers but then hooking Dio. I'd have loved to hear how Gillan would have responded if he was present. Anyway, it's but a glimpse into why he rubbed so many other musicians the wrong way.

+Robert Orłowski And I thought I was the only one trying to recognize the beer in each clip!

Blackmore is way better than Hendrix

haha yeah, exactly

They were great with Rod Evens. You're missing out. Just listen to Mandrake Root. Incredible!

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you have weak imagination

Yes.If you think how he altered the sound of Rainbow after Dio left.Borderline pop music.Bonnet and Turners lineups were very popish at times.Purple with Coverdale and Hughs were more poppish anyway as it turned out.I guess pop music sells more records .

DP was---what it was---when it was....which was pretty great. It was meant to be THAT -- and that ONLY! At least we had THAT!!

Candice Night would have been in diapers at this time

+Dom Calder Yea, I think Rodgers had the kind of voice that was best suited for replacing Gillan and sounding good on a Deep Purple recording. But unfortunately, he was doing too well with Bad Company and wasn't gonna leave...until later, when Purple had already disbanded.

Gillan could only pay a tamberin and squll like!e a girl Blackmore is a musical genius all these want to bes I can play a tamberin he benifits from being asked to join do you fucking idiot

Lisa Piatt What? Write properly, learn to write English first, then adress me. On second thought, with that kind of childish language-rather don't!

They had somehow a kind of Blues singer in the past - David Coverdale.

Well than Jimmy was 10 times smarter than Ritchie , he had Paul Rodgers ! But he was cool, forever cool, that's Jimmy, everybody wanted to work with him !

yeah, what a douche

It was a clashing of the egos, nothing to do with Gillan's singing. At the beginning, he said they couldn't get along.... 2 alpha males. Imo Jon Lord was just as important in the band's sound as Ritchie. Wonder why he couldn't have convinced them to make peace and just keep on creating amazing music together. When Ritchie left, half the band's sound left as well. Nothing against Steve Morse, great guitarist but Ritchie was irreplaceable as far as DP goes.

Roger Glover wrote the lyrics to all the songs on Down to Earth except for Since You Been Gone. Eyes of the World is the best song on that Album.

Not sure about that line through those words...couldn't get rid of it!

I would ask what’s Blackmore been smoking to come out with his opinion of Gillan. Strange kind of man.

@@abrarahmed1888 strange kind of woman

SirLordHockey and I thought given the context I was being clever in my use of “man” ?

@@abrarahmed1888 of course you were-----kind of like saying my man from Tokyo ***

You have no Clue, he is still friends with Coverdale.

Let me guess: you never had a microphone in your hand - otherwise you would understand the reason