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KillerBananas
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If we're going to quote Blackmore...
Ritchie Blackmore in guitar magazine 1998, "I don't have to listen to Deep Purple with Steve Morse, I already know they're good"
At least the man himself make som sence...
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14/2/2008, 23:06
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
My fave. When asked "Do you consider yourself a heavy metal guitarist?"
Ritchie replied "Oh yes definitely, it doesn't bother me, as long as no-one calls me a folk guitarist!"
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15/2/2008, 15:23
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
I'm sure you agree Rob, that the irony has come full circle concerning that quote. 
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15/2/2008, 15:46
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
Exactly! Thats why it's my fave 
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15/2/2008, 15:49
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
quote:
Gillans micstand wrote:
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Reborn Again wrote:
Interpretation: "Of course, I don't listen to my own tribute band. I know my songs are still great even if my tribute band isn't!"
What?
I don't understand such participation.
Join the club.
Noticed that MKMorse thread was closed. Is that how this board is run?...a couple of "spoilers" ruin it for everyone??
Why not just ban those who can't post in a civilized manner??...or is that too much to ask??
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15/2/2008, 15:50
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
"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.
"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
"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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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
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
Q: Do certain things set you off when you're performing?
A: "Definitely. When I'm on stage I play the first 2 numbers 'blind'. I'm out there with just my momentum driving me on and then halfway through the 2nd number I start to look up at the front row and then [by] maybe the 3rd number I start to look around. If anything is going to go wrong it's around the 3rd number that I start to notice it. It's exactly like you said, something triggers me off...I'm in a great mood, I'm trying hard, I'm all psyched up and then suddenly something will happen..."
Q: But it doesn't seem to be obvious things...
A: "No, it's never obvious things. I'll see just one little thing...maybe I'll see someone backstage who I don't like, or it could be someone in the band playing something I don't like - or if I hear myself playing badly, that will put me off, too. Or maybe incompetence with the lights and/or the sound, that could throw me, after which I'll sulk for the rest of the show. That's my worst problem, sulking because of incompetence."
Q: Do you ever forget what makes you react like that?
A: "Well, I know what it is when it happens, but very often when I get offstage after a 2 hour set I've forgotten what the hell it was that upset me and then I think it must be me, but then I think back and remember what it was.
"Like the other night, what upset me was that in the middle of 'Child In Time' I looked up at Jon Lord and he wasn't even playing during my solo - he had his arms folded! He was watching me and I thought, 'Why isn't he playing?' That puts me off. Or as I said before, a lighting cue can mess up and then Ian [Gillan] will say something that annoys me and after about 4 little things you've suddenly got this big cloud of doom above your head because everything's not perfect...then you start sliding, you start tripping over yourself, it's like 'I can do better than this' and you're trying so hard to please that you end up like a little schoolkid running offstage and stamping your feet going 'I'm not going to play! It's not right so I'm not going to play at all!' I should say, 'Okay, so it's not perfect, we'll overlook that - the audience probably didn't even notice, just get on with the show.', but I simply can't seem to do that. I start sulking & dwelling on stupid little ignorant things."
Q: The way you talk about it, it's as if there's something that annoys you about yourself. Is this something you've looked into before?
A: "I really wish I could overlook this ****. I wish I could just say, 'Hey, everyone makes mistakes' but I get so emotional about the act, so emotional on stage..."
Q: But can't that be an advantage as well?
A: "Yes, it's an advantage in that you can reach peaks of greatness but you can also reach depths of doom and that's why there are times when I refuse to do encores. It's not because I'm lazy or not into it, or because I want to go home - nothing as trivial as that. It's usually when something hasn't come off quite right and I feel embarassed, annoyed or bitter - it's a collection of a lot of negative thoughts - so I stomp off. I just can't go out there & play like a robot."
Q: Have you ever done that?
A: "Yeah sure, I've gone out there a few times & played like a robot, played an encore and thought, 'To hell with it, I'm going to be like the rest - I don't care...why should I take all the responsibility and care so much?' You can't care that much - you've got to limit yourself...you can't go through life caring too much or you'll end up in a hospital with ulcers."
Q: That leads me to the next question - do you ever think about letting your audience down just because something beyond their control has upset you? Or have you gone beyond that stage; do you just play for your own satisfaction these days?
A: "Yeah, I do play for myself but with the audience very heavily in mind. I have a great deal of respect for the audience; in fact I have a total dedication to the audience and myself, but I come first (italics by MrEd). The audience is close behind. If I get disgusted with something I play I start to lose faith in myself and then naturally, the audience suffers."
Q: How much of yourself do you give?
A: "I like to try and give 100% but at the same time if I feel rejected in the slightest I'll turn around and go '**** them!' I'm not all professional when it comes to 'keeping-you-chin-up-and-let's-see-it-through' attitude...I can't do that. I've never ever successfully done it in my life." - Ritchie Blackmore to Toots Daley in the article entitled "Ritchie Blackmore: Appetite For Destruction" in the October 17th, 1987 issue of Kerrang! magazine ( #158)
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15/2/2008, 16:12
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
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Noticed that MKMorse thread was closed. Is that how this board is run?...a couple of "spoilers" ruin it for everyone??
Why not just ban those who can't post in a civilized manner??...or is that too much to ask??
I closed the topic, as well as another one in the RB section. In both cases, some long time posters were taking over those topics by continuing their old personal arguments.
As for banning, obviously one poster thinks certain others should be banned, while someone else has a different take on the subject. Yet I see no actual trolls around here. All are fans of DP, or at least some line-up or line-ups. Saying, for example, 'Blackmore sucks' isn't very constructive, but I think it's clear a member posting that opinion here has a reason to say so. And there's a clear difference to saying 'poster X sucks'. As a genenral rule, I (and I am speaking here as 'I', rather than 'we') don't like using banning as a standard procedure.
If you wish to continue this discussion, let's do it in the feedback section, please.
Back to the topic:
"Why didn't he pick on someone more famous?"
(When asked about a man impersonating him in Britain some years back)
Captures the man's sense of humour better brilliantly.
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15/2/2008, 16:25
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
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Purple Avenger wrote:
Noticed that MKMorse thread was closed. Is that how this board is run?...a couple of "spoilers" ruin it for everyone??
Why not just ban those who can't post in a civilized manner??...or is that too much to ask??
I closed the topic, as well as another one in the RB section. In both cases, some long time posters were taking over those topics by continuing their old personal arguments.
As for banning, obviously one poster thinks certain others should be banned, while someone else has a different take on the subject. Yet I see no actual trolls around here. All are fans of DP, or at least some line-up or line-ups. Saying, for example, 'Blackmore sucks' isn't very constructive, but I think it's clear a member posting that opinion here has a reason to say so. And there's a clear difference to saying 'poster X sucks'. As a genenral rule, I (and I am speaking here as 'I', rather than 'we') don't like using banning as a standard procedure.
If you wish to continue this discussion, let's do it in the feedback section, please.
Back to the topic:
"Why didn't he pick on someone more famous?"
(When asked about a man impersonating him in Britain some years back)
Captures the man's sense of humour better brilliantly.
I have to agree, and hope this topic doesn't get too out of hand, good words from a free speach forum governer.
About the quote, thanks for contributing to the topic, and it is a "brilliant" quote, but his sense of humor is defintely up for debate as to whether it's healthy or not, having witnessed some of it myself, and all of us can judge a bit differently depending on how much we have read or listened to over the years from tons of sources.
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