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A Plethora (A WHAT?!? ) of Reasonably Interesting Blackmore Quotes Through The Years
"Ian is better than the other singer (Rod Evans) and Roger has more ideas than the bass player (Nick Simper) we (Deep Purple) had before...and this new album ( "In Rock" ) is a lot better than the previous ones.
"I've always been disppointed with our albums. The first was a good attempt for a first one. But people have always said, 'It's not you'. We've always tried to be too 'flash' on our records but basically we're an exciting band. We're serious about the music but we do a lot of showmanship, and because of that people think it's suspect. They say, 'What's he {Blackmore} leaping around for?' - I like to leap around. The thing is, when you're making a record there's no point in leaping around for the benefit of the engineer, so the albums have lacked...something. I don't think we'd want to do a 'live' one, because they get messy - like The Who's 'Live At Leeds'.
"Our new one ( "In Rock" ) is certainly nearest to what we're like on stage...it's the first to represent the band the way it is now. It's much harder, raucous and exciting. This is what we are trying to get across, rather than musical ability. It's ( "In Rock" ) is hard and simple. I hate the last three lps.
"I didn't really enjoy the thing we did with the orchestra. I was happy for Jon (organist Lord). We don't write togeher like we used to, but we're not growing apart musically. We like each other's stuff. He's happy that he's now done his concerto, and happy just top play with the band." - Ritchie Blackmore in Disc + Music Echo, June 1970. (all italics in text by MrEd)
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"I wanted to play classical music but I was just kidding myself, really. I knew I'd never be able to play as well as I wanted to. But I felt it was a good thing to start out learning the right way and then develop your own style from that.
"I got about 300 telegrams from Chris Curtis saying he wanted me to join a group and I came back (to England from Germany). That's when I met Jon Lord. There were a few other people in the band,I was just going to be a second guitarist. But eventually there was just Jon and me left so we started Purple from that.
"I suppose I have got a 'style' because I find it hard to copy other people. When I was doing a lot of sessions people would say ,'Do a solo like so-and-so' - but I never could. Perhaps I'm tone deaf.
"I'm getting a bit tired of the things we're doing with classical orchestras. Even Jon's getting fed up with it now. We just want to be a rock band. Because of the limitations I find rock more of a challenge. Classical music is a challenge as well, but I don't find it exciting." -
Ritchie Blackmore in Disc + Music Echo,September, 1970. (all italics in text by MrEd)
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I was just going to be a second guitarist.
That's something I didn't know. I wonder if it's true or RB just being dramatic?
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"I've been playing a long time and I can play the ass off most guitarists around today. I know I can. I am pretty conceited about my playing...I know I'm much better than most people but I can't get it across." - Ritchie Blackmore in Melody Maker,1970.
"After Christmas may be a turning point for Purple. We're having a good time, but it's got to end sometime. Jon is doing his own things and Roger is into production. I just think there's room for more excitement in today's music and I want to do something about it.I think I can do something more exciting than Deep Purple. Although we're all good musicians in Purple, we're limited to certain things. It's hard to write 'hard' riffs all the time. I don't think we can get much bigger than we are at the moment and it's a nice position to be in - but it can't last forever." - Ritchie Blackmore in Melody Maker,May 27th, 1972.
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4/7/2005, 15:03
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Q: Purple's music hasn't changed a lot over the years - do you ever get fed up with the sound?
A: "I get fed up with everything sounding the same, fed up with just churning out riffs - but that's the way we've written so far; we don't seem to be able to do it any other way. I do most of the writing, and it's the only way I can write - that's to write guitar riffs and progressions and give a vague melody to the singer.
"I think Purple is a very good band instrumentally. There aren't many other bands that have so many good musicians - and that's being objective. I think Led Zeppelin have got it. I asmire Jimmy Page because he's shrewd, but he's not exactly my favorite guitarist. The Who, the Faces - they've got one guy and the rest of them are average. Yes aren't bad, they've got Steve Howe...the bass player (Chris Squire) and drummer (Alan White) are good...I don't like the singer (Jon Anderson) - he sounds like a choirboy to me. King Crimson? When I heard their first lp it just shattered me! I thought, 'Oh no! Who's this?' It really blew me apart. I played it to Jon Lord and he collapsed when he heard the mellotron effect. I loved Fripp's guitar part in 'Schizoid Man'. That was the first thing [I ever] heard on record that I knew I wouldn't be able to play. I'm not being big-headed, but whenever you hear something, you think 'I wish I'd done that first'. You never think you can't play it...but that was the first thing I thought that even if I sat down and tried to play it - I could not get that timing! Apparently there was a slight 'trick' in it - they'd taken out the drum beat that was in between to keep it all together so that you thought 'Christ, where are they egtting the timing?'. 'Schizoid Man' was such a good production, so out-and-out rock...like, 'We'll show everybody how to play rock.' "
Q: You mentioned Jimi Hendrix...how was it when you first heard him?
A: "At first I thought he was a load of rubbish. All my mates told me about him, you know, he plays with his teeth and all that; 'Oh, great...very musical!'. Then I heard hios first lp and thought it was distorted rubbish. I was into Les Paul and the rest of it. Then 8 months later I thought, 'I like his songwriting, - 'Manic Depression' - I like his progressions. Then he became my idol, up to 'Electric Ladyland' then he put out some bilge after that. Hendrix would play a lot of bad notes and 'guesswork', especially live. I don't know how a musician could be that bad after being so good on things like 'Electric Ladyland'...but he was very good at all those intros using fifths going into and around chords - very original."
Q: Do you agree that he (Hendrix) was the first electric guitarist to use the instrument as an electric guitar? I'm thinking of the sound as it is today (19740 in rock...
A: "No...quite honestly, I would say Hank Marvin. I think more people got turned on to Hank Marvin than Jimi Hendrix. There was also Eric Clapton, who I never really got off on. I thought some of his solos were good, but I mean - 2 out of a 100. " - Ritchie Blackmore in Guitar (USA),August, 1974.
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Re: A Plethora (A WHAT?!? ) of Reasonably Interesting Blackmore Quotes Through The Years
"Actually, Gillan was okay at the start. It was in 1992 he became a headache and reminded me of Sutch".
Record Collector 1998
What about 1988 then???
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Re: A Plethora (A WHAT?!? ) of Reasonably Interesting Blackmore Quotes Through The Years
Stomach pain?? 
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It's time to take a look over the fence!
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Stomach pain??
Yeah!
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6/7/2005, 13:00
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"I've written maybe four or five good tunes that I'm proud of. That's not very good since I've made 12 lp's." RB with Mary Turner "Off The Record"- 1981
"I wear Black and don't give a FU$CK" Rolling Stone - 1974
"The Who are incredibly average" - Rolling Stone - 1974
"I like your outfit" - to me - Rubys - August 2000
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"I like your outfit" - to me - Rubys - August 2000
What were you wearing, then?
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