Ritchie Blackmore

[mAx___]

Thank you so much for the nice comments, guys, I really appreciate it!

Just to clarify, the Soundcloud clip that's not me is called "Machine Head - Blackmore Lick". The one I recorded is called Pictures Test 2 and it has no drums unfortunately because they are on the same track of the original solo. I'd wish Soundcloud didn't show the other clips on the channel...

[yngwie308]

Maybe some are aware of the Ritchie Blackmore forum board, it is hosted by Bernd Meisner of BSM Treble Boosters:
http://www.rblackmoreforum.proboards.com/index.cgi" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;?
Please join, mine of RB info, ect.
Cheers
yngwie308

[NY Chief]

Thanks, Dave!!! Meet ya there!


Listened to Machine Head over the weekend a few times. Even more respect for RB. Much prefer his playing over the dutch boy. Much more refined, articulate, accurate and phrased. NO bullshit notes, every one counts.

[NY Chief]

Interesting tid bit mentioned on Rory Gallagher's wiki...."He was David Coverdale's second choice (after Jeff Beck) to replace Ritchie Blackmore in Deep Purple. Gallagher chose to perform in his own band."

[yngwie308]

Hey also went to Paris to audition for the Stone's prior to their hiring of Mick Taylor.
Rory waited for hours for either Mick or Keef to show up and finally left frustrated without playing a note...
yngwie308

[NY Chief]

I remember that as well, Dave!

[yngwie308]

Yes that story is in the excellent book we both have GALLAGHER MARRIOTT DERRINGER & TROWER Their Lives and Music by Dan Muise an excellent read with many inside stories of their careers!
Thanks to Rick Derringer who sells the book from his web site, NY Chief sort of got a Christmas early present!
yngwie308

[NY Chief]

Yes he did and another big THANK YOU to my brother, Yng!

[mAx___]

Another "Machine Head" test with the same setup, different EQ settings:

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[Did J]

"When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess." Ritchie Blackmore
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Magnifique sample mAx, you must love Ritchie so much to play and sound like him

[mAx___]

Thank you so much! I do love his MKII years. To my ears the best Ritchie ever. And Machine Head is to me the best guitar sound ever recorded.

[NY Chief]

Thank you so much! I do love his MKII years. To my ears the best Ritchie ever. And Machine Head is to me the best guitar sound ever recorded.

Agreed!!! But Burn is a close second !

[Tone Slinger]

I'll take 'Burn' ! Ritchie always said there was a good record followed by a bad (With 'In Rock' starting the good ) . The work and TONE of 'BURN' is the shit. And though I know the Chief and Yngwie Dave dont want to hear his name, the Dutch boy must have really wore out a copy or two of the 'Burn' album. I've picked off at least 3 licks that were obviously analyzed and 'stolen' by the dutch guy.Seems Iommi ('Wicked World') and Blackmore ('Lazy" & 'You Fool No One') are more influential than Cream/Clapton to him (Think 'I'M The One')

Loved the VH1 classic 'Deep Purple' "Behind the Scenes" documentary last night .

[yngwie308]

Billy, I have made peace with the Dutchboy a few years ago. Hating is such an unnecessary waste of energy and though I fought the war against EVH with Malmsteen when I first joined and a certain ex-mod deleted all my Malmsteen and Hendrix threads after locking them so I could not retrieve them, but he ended up getting what he deserved in the end..ie: Vintage Headbox say no more..
You are correct about Ritchie's influence, he has influenced many guitarists as Purple was such a seminal band.
The MK III and MK IV lineups really brought the DP tone full circle.
After my experiences with rockstars I found that they put their trousers on one leg at a time and may say things or promise things that they do not follow up on, but they're only human.
I think RB's anti-attitude came from his frustration with formulaic rock plus the bitter hatred developed between band members in various incarnations of DP, especially the MK II lineup, thing Ian Gillian and Roger Glover, ect.
Bernd Meisner of BSM Treble Boosters has every era of Ritchie covered with his magical pedals.
NY Chief told me recently he purchased the Rory Gallagher pedal and it is dead on!
Btw the spring issue of Guitar Techniques magazine from the UK available from Barnes and Noble has Lazy transcribed and on the accompanying CD with the magazine, full song with guitar and backing track without geetar.
Chief said he was learning this tune, so he should check it out. I know he has Lick Library with RB and sometimes it is helpful to see the written transcription as well.
I see Van Halen as a brilliant early rhythm guitarist who mixed his leads in with the rhythm playing, plus his attitude and tone were undeniably influential, but there is nothing new under the sun.
Steve Stevens has admitted that his ray gun effect in Rebel Yell was in tribute to Tommy Bolin's Echoplex use in Quadrant 4 on the Billy Cobham album Spectrum.
yngwie308

[mAx___]

Btw the spring issue of Guitar Techniques magazine from the UK available from Barnes and Noble has Lazy transcribed and on the accompanying CD with the magazine, full song with guitar and backing track without geetar.
Chief said he was learning this tune, so he should check it out. I know he has Lick Library with RB and sometimes it is helpful to see the written transcription as well.

I'll be checking the magazine out of curiosity as I have yet to see one video or transcription of "Lazy" that has no errors. Every video I've seen so far has the wrong fingerings and notes, Danny Gill's being one of the worst offenders.
One important key to this solo IMO is to figure out a note pattern that Blackmore uses as a "motif" several times through it but that nobody seems to play right. Like most great players he usually based his solos around a basic idea and then built up from that. I'll post my version of how I think this solo is to be played soon, just to add to the discussion.