Blackmore is and will always be my first guitar hero. When I was a little boy in the mid-70s, there were no Clapton or Beck records in my house and there were only two Zeppelin albums. But my older brother had practically everything from Deep Purple and Rainbow. So Ritchie was my first big guitar reference, along with Gilmour and Steve Howe. These were the guys I listened to and not the "big three". I discovered Clapton, Beck and even Hendrix much later.
S***, get to forgot to add Jeff Beck in my rant! There are just so many and you know I mean I'm from Boston so of course I love Aerosmith yeah Joe Perry's good of course so many good artists from that era . Also Boston was very good Van Halen when they came out I was 15 they were like something we never heard it was like crazy man you know? And these kids today I'm sorry I sound so old like you know they listen to all that rap stuff I'm not saying they're not talented on saying is it's way different kind of music then you know like like when I grow up on Funk and blues and rock cuz that's the kind of rock I like those that were influenced by Funk and blues you know and Jazz.
thanks, but that's why Robin Trower has only wanted an American drummer--because he's a blues freak, which comes from America not the English which is much more classical in sound and feel. i was the same as you then but my bro did also have some of the blues influenced guys like Page, and became a total blues freak just after he finished school. so, today Rainbow is still a fave of mine, however, i'm glad i had some real blues to here to then even though it was from some English guys. Yard Birds had three of the biggest evolve which were Clappy, Page and Beck--it was a kind of farm band.
I'm glad page has some positive comments about Ritchie,, for me it's not a competition. It's more guitarist to enjoy. And they each have unique abilities. Blackmore has always been a inspiration to me.
I've never heard Jimmy say anything bad about anyone. I'm sure he has, but I've never heard it. He seems like the type who, if he hasn't got something good to say, he says nothing.
Thanks for your comment 'it is no competition'. I love that. Both Bands are great. In the 70's and 80's there were other Rock and roll Bands like Rare Earth and Grand Funk which people were saying that they were competing with each other. But is not true although their musics sounds a little bit similar just like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin songs may sound a little bit similar. But it wasn't completion. Both Bands are great. I love that.
@jackyanderson9330 I love both LZ and DP, but I've never thought they sounded alike. That's just me, though, but aside from both being hard rock, they sound quite different from each other.
I saw both Blackmore and Page. Blackmore on the Burn tour and Page on the Physical Graffiti tour. There's no way to compare such monster guitar players, as well as their songwriting. The impact they made on rock guitar is equal in my humble opinion.
it's useless to rank anything when they're all great in their own way--it's like trying to pick a favorite meal and telling someone else that their fave meal is not as good...all just a waste of time. Let me enjoy it all.
I saw the Burn tour. Awesome...but no Highway Star or Hush.20 minutes of Space Truckin' which is sludge rock. But Blackmore burned down the Boston Garden that night in 1974.
Tony can write beautiful riffs. His fingers unfortunately limit his lead playing. Still a top 10 guitarist in the world. Blackmore is on another planet as far a leads. Experimentation live things off the cuff. With that man can do live I've never seen nothing like it. I've got to see the big three Page Blackmore Iommi. Page sloppy seemed hard to pull it off. He did but looked like he was in trouble at times. Blackmore you never know what he was going to do. Iommi always perfect in control cake walk for him. Geezer was the wild card.
@@barryrammer7906geezer really is the iommi counterpart. From the same cloth, super dark and heavy but often overlooked because of the stigma and image that still kind of exists today about the band image
Not by the Rock Musicians though, just by the Crowd. The Radio Stations didnt give them much air time as they gave to the Pop Rock bands. The Hard Rock bands, had to be heard on FM
Thats funny you mention that I was just gonna say, my friend I grew up with was a major Sabbath fan. I was more into the purp. But as I got older, started liking Sabbath more. They were just too dark at first for me. And their recordings seemed to get worse as they went. Iommi always had a bass overtone to his guitar I didn't like. I liked Never Say Die, but the real BS fans didnt. It didnt matter too much to me. I had alot of albums my friends couldn't stand. I even often wondered "wtf was I thinking when I bought this" like the cars and B52s.... again, wtf was I thinking? So, I went through the Zeppelin era, which totally screwed my grades at school. My Pop wanted to kill Jimmy Page. Then Motorhead, and harder metal Maiden, Saxon, Accept, Priest Lots of goodies there. Then my hearing started to take a dive. But I had been playing and working at a night club, so that didnt help. Now, I still play (still suck too) and older than dirt.
I love Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin both very much. Same goes for Ritchie and Jimmy. Also a huge fan of Black Sabbath and Tony Iommi. Amazing bands and guitar players! 🤘🤘🤘
Ritchie Blackmore is a Guitar God. The moment I listened to Deep Purple back in 1970 for the first time, I knew there was something special about this band and the lead guitarist. Ritchie is awesome.
This is quite interesting, though it takes a while to get to the point. Their assessments of each other are pretty realistic, though I'm not sure Blackmore was better live than Page. Certainly Page was far superior in songwriting and studio playing. I can understand why he, Beck and Clapton might not have felt that Blackmore was a serious musician on their level. They pursued authenticity, each in his own way, and he was much more of a 'whatever works' character. Bottom line, Zep were original, they took music somewhere: Purple were much more basic, meat 'n' taters, like AC/DC.
@@eccehomer8182Strangers In The Night is a great live album and for sure in my Top 5 Live Album's. But it isn't Made In Japan. Made In Japan is considered by millions as the Greatest Live Album ever recorded. Every year I travel and I have been known to listen to UFO Strangers In The Night and keep it in the CD Player for week's. Same with Made In Japan. It is subjective but the solos on Child In Time and Highway Star to me are the two greatest solos ever recorded live.
Indeed a real mystery why Ritchie's generation of guitarists say little if anything about him. I was blown away listening to Ritchie's solo on Child in Time on the Made in japan album. Jaw dropping
That's the best solo of rock ever. Never heard anything so wild, and snob too for the mixing of classical citations and cacophony in a way that stands as simply the best.
I set out to learn that and it just gets away from ya. How TF can anyone ramp up to play that fast and not get sloppy? I got the solo from Highway Star. I had that dialed in. Some of his stuff was just too diabolical. I had to nope out on some DP songs because I could never do them justice. I can admit to the same thing with a couple of Zep songs and a boatload of Jeff Beck stuff. To me, that is the mark of a genius guitar player. Not just speed, because Yngwie has that, and I couldn't care less, but playing something that is utterly beyond my capacity to even begin to duplicate the style. One of my favorite moment in the Perfect Strangers tour was when Blackmore is shredding on some Beethoven, with a laser generated image of B conducting him, and goes off script into some shredding and the cartoon B glared at him. It epitomized Ritchie. Just who DO you think you are mister?
Blackmore stands above all of them live as he never rehearsed solos, all his guitar solos have elements of improvisation in them, you can listen to however many versions there are of a live solo by Blackmore and none of them will be the same, this was at the heart of live Purple with Lord and Blackmore capable of making it up as they played and the other band members able to blend seamlessly into the improvisations.
It was the same for most guitarists at that time, all guitar solos had elements of improvisation in them. The versions were never the same, most of the time much longer thant the studio versions. But Blackmore himself said afterward that it was a wery bad idea for him to improvise most of his solos at that time, caus the result was very random depending on the concerts.
@RushfanUK - Bullshite! You state, "Blackmore stands above all of them?" *Frank Zappa* is way above all of them. He recorded over 60 albums before he died. Frank *NEVER* had the same solo and as far as *improv?* He *defined it!*
@@JamminClemmons You can’t compare mainstream music to Zappa’s experimental endeavors. Frank was a musical genius, no doubt. But his music was raunchy and not palatable. His guitar playing was almost completely pointless and definitely neurotic. Blackmore and Page are in a different category. Both could play circles around Frank. By the way, I own at least a dozen Zappa albums and appreciate his uniqueness.
Blackmore might be overlooked a lot because of what he does, he makes sound easy. Until you sit down with your guitar and try to figure out some of his work, (like Highway Star for example) you don´t realize that what he´s doing is very intricate and difficult to figure out and/or play.
It's Ritchie's picking technique, his hand doesn't touch the guitar, it's monstrous! There aren't many guitarists in rock, jazz or country with that ability, it gives you a lot of string-skipping freedom. Closest are the gypsy jazz guys, but they play sitting down!
@@ThinPicksthe gypsy guitar playing of Django Reinhardt is simply unbelievable. And both Blackmore & Iommi credit his influence. As they should. If we didn’t have the few bits of footage of Django playing we wouldn’t believe it. He started it all… with 2 fingers and a thumb.
I first saw DP in 1972. That show absolutely blew my mind - and changed my entire outlook on music. I had gone to some concerts before - but this was just unreal. I never imaged 5 musicians could play so good live - all on the top of their game. And RB put on the most awesome display of guitar playing I had ever seen in my life. To this day - that is the best concert I have ever seen in my life - and I’ve seen TONS of shows. It was basically the American leg of the Made In Japan tour.
Me too at Foret Nationnal beetwen 1980-1995 fifth time the show where always great snd the final in 1995 was the best ..... but he plays and go a way ... ey so keikly??❤
I talk about Ritchie Blackmore all the time. I learned how to play guitar in 1970 at age 15 because of Ritchie. I had all of the Deep Purple albums . Mark I and Mark II and Mark III and Mark VI with Tommy Bolin. Good stuff. Oh yeah.
Magic Carpet Ride: Ritchie Blackmore's solos start by lifting you up off your feet, they fly you around and then they tastefully set you back down. What a ride he takes you on listening to his solos on 'Machine Head'. Younger generations need to go out and buy this record. Nothing quite like them before or since. They are worthy of transcription note for note. Even though I've heard he likes to improvise, the solos laid down on that record are as worthy of remembering as the columns of a Greek Temple.
Exactly. In their Heydays. I loved Zeppelin and Sabbath studio work, Deep Purple were OK in that forum. However, on stage, everything was flipped 180 degrees. Like you said, Ritchie's live work was incomparable, and especially in the 1970s, you pretty much had to be at every show because, based on bootleg documentary evidence, you realize that from night to night, they didn't play anything the same way twice, even though the setlist hardly changed.
Tony Iommi's sound and style is better than Blackmore,Tony stays in the pocket, Blackmore is all over the place, Blackmore is a amazing guitar player but tends to do all kinds of insane stuff, where's Iommi just does Iommi.
My respect for Jimmy has just shot through the ceiling! That is a really humble and honest thing to say. I never expected him to regard Blackmore in such esteem.
But he’s also saying that Ritchie doesn’t come close to him in the rhythm/ baseline department. Machine head….that’s pretty much it, versus a 9 album conglomerate of unequalled studio production. Page is the rock n roll studio master. Period And in my humble opinion, I believe that Led Zeppelin ll is THE greatest traditional rock and roll album of all time
It is so amazing that so many guitar players came from the same area and in the same timeframe that revolutionized Rock and Roll, Blues and Hard Rock. What a great time to be alive!!!
@@castleanthrax1833 Are you sure? James Patrick Page born in Heston, Middlesex . Eric Patrick Clapton born in Ripley, Surrey. Geoffrey Arnold Beck born in Wallington, Surrey. So Clapton & Beck were from the same County but none of them came from the same town.
@@fezhat7096Sorry, maybe not the same town, but I read the following recently: Born within 15 months of each other in 1944 and 1945, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton are not only the best-known exponents of the British blues explosion - they also grew up within 20 miles of one another in Surrey.6 Apr 2023
@fezhat7096 Btw, it's fortunate you used their middle names. Otherwise, there may have been some confusion between all the other famous Jimmy Pages, Eric Claptons, and Jeff becks. 😉
In the 70's and 80's Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin were the two leading Bands in Rock and roll music. Jimmy Page is a great Artist and he made a good comment about another great artist Richie Blackmore. Great minds think alike. Thanks Jimmy. I love that. I wish you all the best of luck.
I believe that the late Big Jim Sullivan gave Ritchie Blackmore some guitar lessons way back in the day. Ritchie had a lot of respect for Big Jim. 🎸🎶🎵👍🏻🍻
he have a lot of respect for many guitarist but it,s never mentioned, lot of guitarist from the perioed when RB grow up, but even Beck and Hendrix he really like
Ritchie Blackmore is God guitar.All solos Ritchie Its komposice and logical saund after saund...not only technical, like other guitarists. Ritchie is the best guitarist in the world.
Page never mentioned Blackmore once in that Oxford 2016 (actually 2017) interview, never mind praising him. It's easily checkable as the complete text is readily available online. No reference to Blackmore whatsoever.
Ritchie was the second electric guitarist to use a Fender Stratocaster and Marshall amplifier onstage. Jimi Hendrix was the first, and went over to meet with Jim Marshall to get equipment built and delivered the way he wanted it. Ritchie was a guitar teacher at the Jim Marshall music store.
@@johnwattdotca Absolute crap. Ritchie was NEVER a guitar teacher. In his early days he used to get lessons from Big Jim Sullivan. Try reading a book sometime.
@@CB-xr1eg Try owing a 1964 Fender Stratocaster, sunburst, with a 50 watt Marshall stack and effects, in 1970, five months before Jimi passed away. I didn't see you there. I talked to Ritchie Blackmore.
Just might be my favorite album of all time!!! Asked my future wife to go steady with me listening to Made in Japan June 16 1982…I was 18…we just celebrated our 36 wedding anniversary and I still have and listen to that exact same album…as many times as I listened to it…(100’s) it’s still like brand new!!! I think I’ll go put it on right now!!!
I think that Blackmore attracted a lot of attention in the 70s, because in addition to being a brilliant guitarist, with his own unique style, he was very eccentric and had a difficult personality, in addition to the competition between "who was the best" after Hendrix (Clapton , Page, Beck...inner circle" mentioned in the video). It is worth mentioning that Clapton, Page, Beck had a common past in The Yardbirds, which undoubtedly brought them closer, even if with some competition... This perhaps distanced Blackmore of the other great guitarists of the time.
I cant think of a bad album they ever produced. If I had to choose, I would say In Rock. But even it had some great stuff on it. Alot of people didnt care for the Coverdale/Hughes era. Burn (especially the title track) its a killer. Lord went way out on that one. And Lady Double Dealer, Ritchie does a smokin solo on that.
Ronnie James Dio spoke about Blackmore saying he learned a lot from Ritchie about playing and touring. But more importantly, learned from Richie on what NOT to do. To not treat the fans and others like shit.
Феномен Блэкмора заключается в том, что синергетический эффект его составляющих как музыканта, шоумена, бизнесмена и человека (которые будучи взятыми в отдельности не кажутся многим людям чем-то гениальным - даже игра на гитаре) дал на выходе рок-звезду с харизмой, затмевающей очень и очень многих. Далеко не у всех великих так получилось. Его влияние на каждое следующее поколение рок-музыкантов очень велико, пусть даже кто-то из них из-за ложных амбиций данное влияние отрицает :) И не ослабевает с годами. Такие дела.
думаю, музыканты завидуют. Почему то я не услышал ни один нормальный кавер на простой Дым над водой, что бы звучал так же мощно и красиво. Говорят, что знаменитый риф даже просят не играть при покупке гитары настолько он простой. Но повторить не могут! Простейший риф. Потому что для Блэкмора звук это все. Он умеет сыграть красиво и идеально красиво. Сейчас много циркачей которые играют сто нот в секунду и еще больше, но они не понимают музыку. Они играют не музыку, они показывают фокусы. Они показывают гениальную технику и тренировку, но это не музыка. Она мертвая. Влияние Блэкмора огромно, он всех Пейджей и всех нас, особенно в СССР, научил играть на гитаре. Вот буквально. Это живая легенда. На один уровень с Блэкмором я поставлю только Ренди Роудза, и Дэвида Гилмора.
Like him or not, Page is without a doubt one of the most gracious and kind musicians one will ever meet. I have never heard him say a bad word about any player and always heaps praise on other players. Too bad the other players are rarely that gracious which is why Blackmore was not a good session player. Blackmore, though an amazing guitar player, is a real jackass of a human being and most people don't like him. Bonzo and Blackmore were actually very good friends and hung out quite a bit back in the 70's.
Generally speaking, history will look back more favorably on bands/artists that stayed together for the most part, versus bands with numerous lineup changes and infighting. Additionally, if a member of the band, or an artist should die early, that too helps to cement a legacy. Certainly Ritchie’s demanding approach and strong willed, aloof personality has not endeared him to the masses; however, I think it’s also worth noting that given the sonic differences between Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, the latter had broader appeal. As an example, when I was in school - 80s & 90s, no girls were listening to Deep Purple. The only people who were listening to Deep Purple were band people and metal heads, whereas just about everyone to some extent listened to Led Zeppelin. Objectively, love him or hate him, Ritchie Blackmore is one of the most talented and accomplished rock guitarists with few others at his level.
I was one of the few girls, in high school, in the eighties, that did Listen to Deep purple. My sister got me the very best of Deep Purple for my 15th birthday, and that was it....... I always had more Deep Purple than Led Zeppelin. In my opinion, Jimmy Page along with Zeppelin themselves are overrated
They're all great. Saying one is better than the other and dissing people is not what music is about. Its not sports. It's not a competition! I enjoy the music of all these artists and ultimately its not about virtuosity. Its about songs. Anyone can shred but writing a great song is a rare gift. Songwriters are what makes music and all these artists wrote great songs. Enjoy their legacy. Don't bicker who's better who's best. That's an empty quasi intellectual debate that goes nowhere.
This comment should be copy/pasted on every single rock music vid in the comments section on YT (that is, if any of them can properly READ.) The lower the IQ, the more insulting these dorks become of musicians they don’t know a single thing about. You can tell by their comments that they know nothing and can’t tell their own asses from holes in the ground. Rank stupidity.
Yeah, I mostly agree. Just would say that music is a bit like sport where there are many categories. For example, I agree with Blackmore. JP couldn't hold a candle with him as far as improvisation/solos go, but I'd say Page had many great talents RB didn't. Like making guitar arrangements/studio work.
@@andrejz8954 JP and Hendrix were the kings of improvisation. Blackmore was quite bitter in his put downs which like most ego driven statements are based on self deluded fantasy. He's matured a lot now and is quite complimentary of people. I don't subscribe to this 'couldn't hold a candle' nonsense. It's schoolboy talk which is essentially an empty statement once again based on self delusion, ego and pride. Music is not a sport or competition. It is art that is to be appreciated. You can dig all these artists equally without the negative put downs. I listen to hip hop, rap, metal, jazz, classical, Indian, folk, electronica, alternative, reggae, tribal, dance, country etc. I just love music. Zeppelin opened the doors for world music. Of course rock and metal are my passions but I don't feel the need to make negative statements about others. Music like food can be enjoyed by everyone. The more variety the better!
@@rushshukla4636 no they werent. Jp sucked as impro, while Hendrix was one of the best. Sure, you can enjoy all music, but you cant say jazz is better for dancing than pop. You cant say metal is as easy to play as pop. You also cant say that The beatles were a bad band. But you can say you don't like them for example. Lets also take Ozzy for example. Many say, he was a bad singer, tho I really don't know why. NOBODY can say he didnt have one of the most distinct/original voices of all time.
@andrejz8954 He didn't say, "Jazz is better for dancing than pop." He didn't say "metal is as easy to play as pop." He didn't say, "the Beatles are a bad band." Why are you saying those things when he didn't say them?
Blackmore's esoteric wizardry literally is as intriguing as his riffs and guitar wizardry which is to say I could listen to his commentary outside of music as much as the hours I spent listening to Deep Purple.
Made in Japan....for me, the best live "guitarist" album ever, bar none. Page has always been kind to all his peers for the most part, unless they were f heads. RB was amazing at his peak and it's okay that he wasn't Mr. Congeniality.
Back then in the late 60's & the 70's artists tended to be very candid when mentioning each other in the media. Some of it was a bit disarming, but it was all in the name of speaking your mind & being honest. Ritchie may well have made a qualifying statement about Jimmy's improvisational skills, but Jimmy knew this was coming from an impeccable craftsman who's standards were extremely high. Also, don't forget that Jimmy was also very critical of other artists during interviews. His reservations about the Beatles early recordings & comments to the effect that he was disappointed with many famous artists are well documented. He understood that everyone must be critical of others at some stage if they are to remain honest.
The only people who had a problem with Blackmore are the people who knew and worked with him. That doesn't mean a damned thing about the supreme quality of his playing.
He's just jealous that Gillian took the Jesus Christ Superstar gig. A lot of people say he wanted that. He's very jealous cause he's got more range than him.
Plant is well known for ripping off Steve Marriott of Small Faces and Humble Pie. What we have here is a case of the pot calling the kettle black when Plant refers to Coverdale. Also Gillan comes from a musical theatre background.
Хочу внести свою лепту: я профессиональный музыкант с 45-летним стажем, гитарист, игравший в различных группах СССР, с большим опытом студийной работы и т.д. Ни у одного гитариста планеты на сегоднящний день нет такого звука, как у Ричи Блэкмора - собранного, вкусного, сформированного потрясающим количеством собранных воедино гитарных приёмов: уникальным "мясным" вибрато, чистейшими бэндами, дабл-стопами... Всё играется руками - без уже набившего оскомину "двуручного петтинга", запредельная читаемость в скоростных пассажах... И самое главное - Маэстро Гитарно Мыслит: вы не встретите ни одного "дежурного" проигрыша! Каждая нота на своём месте и несёт абсолютно нужную музыкальную информацию! Ричи Блэкмор - Величайший из ныне живущих музыкант Вселенной! Дай ему, Господи, здоровья и сил!!!
Ну это детский сад, говорить, что Блэкмор величайших музыкант из ныне живущих, заметьте не гитарист. Ваша объективность не выдерживает никакой критики, ввиду явной предвзятости..
Увлёкся хардом в 1975-76, и что то подобное было в то время?Да и сейчас ,Ричи,это космос!❤ Хотя Led Zeppelin как коллектив в харде номер 1. Ну моё сугубо личное мнение.
~ВЫ ЭТО СЕРЬЁЗНО???? ДА ОНИ ЖИВЬЁМ НА КОНЦЕРТАХ (ПЕЙДЖ, РИЧИ) НИ ОДНОЙ КОМПОЗИЦИИ ЧИСТО НЕ СЫГРАЛИ! СПЛОШНАЯ ГРЯЗЬ! ВОТ ПОСМОТРИТЕ НА САЙМОНА МАКБРАЙТА, ВОТ ЭТО НАСТОЯЩИЙ БРИЛЛИАНТ! ДАЖЕ СТИВ МОРС ЛАЖАЛ! Я НЕДАВНО СЛУШАЛ ДЖОНА ПОЛА ДЖОНСА, ОН ИГРАЛ НА 6-ТИ СТРУННОЙ ГИТАРЕ, И КАК ИГРАЛ! У МЕНЯ ТАКОЕ ОЩУЩЕНИЕ, ЧТО ИМЕННО ВСЕ ПАРТИИ ГИТАРЫ ЦЕПЕЛИНОВ БАСИСТ И ПРОПИСЫВАЛ! ПОЭТОМУ Я И НЕ СЛУШАЮ ЖИВЫЕ ВЫСТУПЛЕНИЯ ПЁПЛОВ И ЦЕПЕЛИНОВ! А ПОТОМУ ЧТО НЕВОЗМОЖНО СЛУШАТЬ СТОЛЬКО СЕРЕВА!!! ТОЛЬКО СТУДИЙКИ!!!~
No one who heard Deep Purple’s live album “Made in Japan” when it was released in ‘72 could help but believe that Blackmore’s virtuosity and expression was anything other than mind blowing… I’ve also seen Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jan Ackerman, Dave Gilmour and other great guitarists perform in ways that were unique and unforgettable… But it was Richie Blackmore’s versatility and improvisational skills that affected me most….
There's a great concert in a sort of studio setting for an audience (I think recorded in England) in black and white, that is really, really good! Ritchie's playing on it is outstanding! It's somewhere here on TH-cam. I don't recall the title, but I think he is playing a Gibson ES335 in it, surprisingly.
Ritchie Blackmore was an amazingly good guitarist. I think he scared a lot of the other guitarists with how good he was. Deep Purple had a great organ player Jon Lord who complimented Blackmore wonderfully and visa versa. I remember when I heard the album The Book of Taliesyn in 1969 I was awestruck by Blackmore's playing. I'd never heard anything like it and come to think of it still haven't. He's one of the best of all time, no doubt about it.
Okay I've seen a lot of hilarious comments but yours is the funniest. You think he's scared a lot of other guitar players? Is that a joke? Or are you a playwright trying out some lines? I can guarantee you he did not scare Jimmy page, Alvin lee, Eric clapton, for for god sakes Jeff beck. They probably don't mention Ritchie Blackmore because even though he was a great guitar player, he was a piece of dirt as a human being. Now he's turned into something really weird and bizarre where he dresses up in Renaissance clothes. When I worked in the music industry I got to know at least three guys who used to be in bands with him, the stories they had to tell were ugly.
@@clarkmacgowan5114 "When I worked in the music industry " Yea ok mate Which record store did you work in? Or was it on a market stall selling second hand LPs?🙄😂
Page and Clapton and Beck and even Hendrix, to a certain extent, just all ran in different circles than Blackmore. They were like the "in crowd" and he was an outsider. And Ritchie did rub a lot of people the wrong way throughout his career, there's that. Phenomenal guitarist though. I actually prefer his work in Rainbow over DP. Especially early Rainbow.
All these old school players know Ritchie very well. Why nobody mentions him or why Jimmy does it casually? It's cause they know him. It's not the the world doesn't know he was a great guitar player but as a person, not so.
Remember when seats got on fire. Then the bathrooms. Purple was on the money that night they were incredible. Guns and Roses was great. Aerosmith was so so.
I WAS THERE AS WELL. I’m not saying Deep Purple were not a better band at the time. But don’t lie there was a completely different energy when that guy from Indiana lit a fire. Having seen them at the Ritz, I already knew everything had changed.
I remember Blackmore saying in an interview: There's only room for one big ego in a band. But in Deep purple we were 5 big egos. That's why DP split up. Strangely enough, Paice, Lord and Coverdale started up Whitesnake and got along just fine...
I remember Jon Lord telling Coverdale when he first joined Purple that there was only room for one moustache in the band, Cov promptly shaved his off.@@nissehult7376
The biggest problem with the bands of that Era the Managers destroyed them making them be together constantly traveling and performing back to back dates. Jon Lord said after Machine Head and Made In Japan that they did 320 in a year. That is to much togetherness. After traveling with my wife for two weeks I was ready to go back to work and needed some space. Can you imagine what the bands went through?
Being a Led Zeppelin fan I must say Deep Purple MK II albums are milestones of Hard Rock, love them so much, i can't say one is better than the other, they are different thanks God!
Blackmore was completely right about the most beloved guitarist by famous musicians (J. Beck of course) who could not writer great songs like Ritchie or Page, while Plant was completely wrong about Coverdale because Robert borrowed his style from Small Faces singer while David has an entirely different vocal timbre.
With the exception of "good times bad times"...Led Zeppelin 1...was all cover songs. So...a lot of backbiting and insecurity comes out from Plant because he knows he's no where near Gillan's vocal talent..in the 70's. Also...him calling David Coverdale... David coverversion. He's projecting himself onto David..
The one piece of Mr Blackmore’s work that for me epitomises his craft, his tone, his touch, his lyricism and his poetry is the track “When A Blind Man Cries”. That’s not a remastered version, not any live version, but the original as issued on vinyl as a single B-side to “Never Before” in 1972. And Mr Blackmore hates it.
Each to their own. I like Led Zep and Purple, but tend to lean more towards Purple. Both groups have their own style. From a singing point of view, I’d say Gillan has more in the drawer than Plant. As bands, I’d say Deep Purple are more fun, and Led Zep take themselves too seriously. Oh, and this may be controversial, but I think Ian Paice is better than Bonham.
I don't know about "greatest rock album's ever produced"....but it is a damn fine record & unfairly criticized.If I would've listened to the critics, I'd have never known about that killer album.And, who cares what Plant thinks, and I love Plant!
in an interview in Guitar Player magazine back at the time, i believe Jimmy said Coverdale was sick with the flu during the recording and had a high temperature, but kept working. Its a great album. Shame the tour could not materialize.
It is by far the best album Page did after the end of Led Zep, and better than any of the Plant's one, and I love them for the most part. What a killer album, not a weack track. Saddly, he never get the credit it deserved and management shenanigans prevented the duo to go further. They wanted Page and Plant to be reunited and were not interested in the Page/Coverdale thing.
@@robertthrockmorton3979, hi… It was actually Page who was very ill. He went to the studio to work on the C/P album and did the fiery solo on ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’ in a single take with a fever of 103 degrees.
As an Air Force brat and later in the AirForce myself, from the time i was 12 in '68 i got to Britain and Europe alot up until i went into the AirForce and then continued to get there until 1978 when i came home for good. Got to see the greatest of all these tremendous bands and i Germany, bands that i never heard of but i was at the live show in Tokyo when Purple recorded the stellar live album. Ritchie and Ian absolutely unbelievable! Seen them before that though in Belgium, Germany and of Course in England. Their work still holds up and as a musician myself i have seen alot of egos that outwieghed the talent so, when it came to Page or Blackmore being the better technician and improvisor?, Blackmore hands down. I love Jimmi but he is not even in my top 20 let alone top ten or better. But i am well aware that it is all about what moves you and your genre' taste that forms your opinion. Clapton is a great blues player. Page is a pretty good arrainger, but Blackmore like the best of the best did not play guitar. The guitar was just the mechanical expression of his soul. Like the way Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix, and Mahavishnu Jonh Macglauklin(?correct spelling) became one with their instrument just to name a few.
I had listened to the early Deep Purple records but they did not impress me much. And then, at the end of year 1970 it hit me without a warning. Deep Purple in Rock rolled over me and and left me speechless and in pieces. Ritchie Blackmore was then my new guitar god. His song writing potential makes him so outstanding. There are many technically great guitar players but Ritchie Blackmore has it all 🙂
He has the look, the stage presence. The speed, the sound you know, Blackmore lead guitar, it's like a laser. Incredibly talented. One thing people leave out this guy was 1 of the best slide guitars of all time. Perfect timing. He is a Mount Rushmore guitarist easily.
So glad somebody said this. Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore's solos on Highway Star, and then Blackmore and Lord on Burn, make those two songs permanent fixtures in my top 10 hard rock, prog rock and epic rock lists.
I think Burn is the first song I ever heard played live by the original band. The New Haven Coliseum was brand new at the time and now is long gone into the mists of time.
Deep Purple mk2 was the greatest Hard Rock Band Ever and Blackmore though a little eccentric was a Genius especially live as for Gillan his voice blew Plant of the stage and Coverdale was a master Rock Crooner
Ian Gillan has nothing but the highest praise for Robert Plant .. he said he was the best of his generation. However .. no one can sing like Ian Gillan, he’s one of a kind. Jon Lord on Gillan - “he’s No1 in a field of one” His performance on Whoosh! .. Purples last album was phenomenal.
Richie Blackmore and Jimmy Page were both amazing guitarists. Clapton, Beck, Hendricks all created some ground breaking music. But my top guitar man is David Gilmour.
Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Dave Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Richie Blackmore.......Britain has produced some of the true greats of all-time.
Guitar players are extremely competitive.Egoes get involved.l am a guitarist. Most guitarists are afraid to follow Blackmore.l have seen both zeppelin and purple. I agree with Mr. Blackmore assessment. Page is master producer maybe that why he sounds so good on records,but live he is sloppy,and hit or miss.Blackmore is almost the complete opposite..As good as Blackmore is live he is unbelievable live. His classical training makes every note clean and clear.Even his vibrato ls in time, so many vibrato to the timing.l am over seventy. I always dreaded Blackmore,while digging his playing. ALl Guitarists fear him.
@@frankdardano3182 No need to fear my friend. Just play because you love to play music. Put your heart and soul into your music and take your listener on a wonderful adventure. Keep rocken my friend!🤟🎸
@@frankdardano3182maybe you should hear Joe Bonamassa's opinion on Page as you misinterpret his style to be sloppy like most people. Mid 70's he was hit or miss you're right. But when Page was on and more so in his prime , he was untouchable
My favourite as well. As for the second part, I'll just copy paste my comment from above: Maybe I remember it right, but IIRC RB or EVH said that when they met before VH were really big/famous, EVH complimented him very nicely and RB just wrote him off as a nobody. Also, Satch said that RB is one of his greatest influences and RB commented, that Satch is good, but hasn't got any soul in his playing and thought it was more or less boring to him. For YM he said, great player, many notes, but I would like to see him play those things on one string (whatever that meant)...
@@andrejz8954 He blasted Page many times, Martin. Barre from Jethro, he said that Jeff Beck cannot create a song of his own. Because of all theses bad comments about all his peers, nobody is talking about him anymore.
You guys have Ritchie wrong. He is honest in his assessment of other guitarists. He's not saying it out of jealousy. He's saying it out of honesty. He is awkward socially. He doesn't know when to shut up. He even said many interviews he didn't want to be with the in crowd. He goes away from them. He wanted nothing to do with them.
I love all the musicians and bands mentioned and have lots of their albums. As for DP, I have everything (I hope). The thing which makes me admire Deep Purple most is the dexterity off its members, sheer talents, creativity and how prolific they are. All the albums sound different, and solo projects are so much fun as everyone experimented something different. For me, like many others, Made in Japan did the trick.
When I was in high school (68-72), it was during the Clapton, Beck and Page period where they were the Kings. However I always said it was Blackmore, Fripp and Gilmour who were the best. Just listen to DEEP PURPLE, In Concerto, when Blackmore catches fire during the guitar solo.
Page would have been aware of RB as they both at different times played for Screaming Lord Sutch. Als the band RB was in - the Outlaws - was a record label band contracted out to various singers etc he spent the early 60s touring and playing for the likes of rock n roll acts like Jerry Lee Lewis. Well known to Jim Marshall too. RB was an apprentice electrician in his youth and was always in Marshall's shop discussing amp modifications. A side to Ritchie that doesn't get mentioned much.
Можно обсуждать и говорить обо всем, корме того, что Ритчи из тех, кого принято называть - избранными. Эту категорию людей не обсуждают, её наличие только констатируют. Спасибо м. Блэкмор ❤
Page , é.limitado. tocou até 1975.depois desaprendeu. Ficou só na heroína. Não criou nada, de guitarra. Acomodou.exidtem milhões de guitarristas bem.melhores que.ele.Keith Richard's, ritchie Black more, tony iomm, ronnie wood , mick Taylor, Brian Jones, Steve vai, jpe , satriane, vinnie moore, Eric Clapton, jimi hendrix, Jeff Beck, yngwie malmsteen, micheal schenker, Eddie vh, randy , David gilmour, jonh.lee hooker .São muito melhores que , jimy page
These were guitarists who were there from ground up with two totally different bands and literally created the path with other great musicians and singers with them. I can't really compare that.
We did a 3-part Ritchie Blackmore "Style File" on my channel a few years back, with my guitarist buddy, Rob Sas, who runs the band Deeper Purple, currently touring Germany and frequent other European shows... Rob admitted he was a little under par at the time of filming due to some personal issues but most people seem to have enjoyed it! Blackmore influenced a whole generattion of players, it can't be denied, me included! Love and peace my friend! Mark
Beck and Blackmore recorded a song Page produced- prior to Feb 1965. Beck was in the Tridents. The song went unreleased. Blackmore confirmed they recorded this in The Ritchie Blackmore Story. Lol- he cant remember who the artist was.
No. Page j( and Beck) have joined on stage. Good point! It's unlikely they were on stage together. You reminded me of the live Lp with Moon, Redding and Blackmore(and others who can't be mentioned on LP due to contractual reasons )
Both Ritchie and Jimmy can compliment each other easily enough today. However, before all the success compliments were another matter. They were both very ambitious young men. Each were full of confidence. Rock music was becoming bigger and bigger. The competition was growing exponentially. There was money and fame to be achieved. Ritchie and Jimmy certainly made their marks.
First guitarist I've heard was Slash. But later on, when I've heard Blackmore, wow this dude is amazing. Then on and on, I've heard Jimmy Page, Brian May, Jimmi Hendrix, EVH... Man all those dudes are awesome.
blackmore n'a que faire de tout cela , sa carrière en dit long sur son niveau de guitare et de la contribution à la musique, le seul différence avec les autres c'est qu'il était moins dans le blues , son style est très particulier et forcément on aime ou pas mais par contre on ne peut pas dire qu'il est moins grand que page beck ou clapton d'ailleurs qu'on t'il fait depuis led zep beck ola et cream, blackmore à gérer sa carrière après deep purple avec rainbow et blackmore night et nombre de guitariste s'inspire encore de sa musicalité.
Jeff Beck did many things after Beck Ola, much more than he did before. He reinvented himself as a guitarist and continued to progress and explore new ways.
Blackmore est très talentueux mais il y a énormément de déchets dans ses solos notamment dans ses improvisations en live et il s’écoute trop jouer un peu de manière condescendante et y’a beaucoup de passages cacophoniques j’ai regardé pas mal de ses lives des années 70 , après ça reste un excellent guitariste mais il peut pas être meilleur que Page beaucoup plus inspiré et fluide selon moi. Certains diront que blackmore est plus technique que lui mais perso je n’aime pas trop sa technique bordélique pour moi un gars comme Eric Johnson est beaucoup plus technique.
@@philippecaron3562oui pas faux je devrais plutôt dire meilleur en improvisation et en mélodie avec Page on sait où il nous amène même si ça peut être saccadé tandis que blackmore ça peut être du grand n’importe quoi parfois.
Even before I played guitar when I was a little kid, the live version of Smoke on the Water was an FM radio staple. I thought the guy playing the guitar was a wizard. His note choice was always a little unpredictable and his bag of tricks was bottomless. He always “bent your ear” as my dad used to say.
I never heard Richie say bad words on Jeff Beck... And remember Blackmore praising Kashmere... Blackmore is grumpy (as much as Plant is) but sometimes I have the impression journalist exaggerate things. The guy who invented the solo of Child In Time from Made In Japan may obviously consider everybody else not as goos for the improvisation, ok. On the other hand, a guy who is unable of screaming may consider Getsemani from Ian Gillan "not music"... Ah ah ah
I've seen Page & Blackmore back in the day...I was more into Blackmore, actually, than any of my friends. They were, like, Zeppelin this, Zeppelin that, Led Zep Led Zep Led Zep! Then I'd say, Rainbow! Better guitar player AND better vocalist! Everyone just laughed at me. Tell the truth, I'm not a musician, was just a teenager partying & going to as many concerts as possible, and I think most of us here would admit that we all kinda took the whole music scene for granted in the early-mid 1970s. The music was so good, so intense, I couldn't imagine Rock N Roll ever being anything but the A #1 music genre in the world, it would always rule supreme...you know. Anyway Rainbow w/ Blackmore & Dio are still my favorite band ever, Alvin Lee and Ten Years After a close second, but even still, in my mind almost all those bands are even-steven, all an equal part of the greater good, and how could you pick one individual musician over another? They all drove each other to get better & better, and their likes, I fear, will never be seen upon this earth again. Too bad, but I'm glad I was there when I was...
Yes. Rock Will walways BE number One but it is not. Its still a hard Pull to take; Im not sure i ever did or Will. Double like for the Ten years after reference 👍
Same, loved Zeppelin. However, was really into Deep Purple and then Rainbow. Just think? The 60's and 70's produced probably the most iconic musicians of all time. Shit. So glad I was a teenager in the mid 70's. I've been influenced my whole life by my Dad with blues, funk, and Jazz. I was a lucky kid. What's out there today? Okay, really the only hard Rock band that comes to mind are those kids Greta Van Fleet. They have some talent and were definitely influenced by Zeppelin. I mean all the grunge bands are okay. However, they can not hold a candle to the very talented musicians before thrm❤😊😊
It's not always who is the really the best but who have better background. I grow up with Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin and both are great. But if I really wanted to enjoy full hard rock sound my choice go to Deep Purple as they had John Lord which with his organs playing gave the full enjoyment . Imagine The Doors without Ray Manzarek, they have some historical songs tanks to sound of Ray organs . Compared Deep Purple had Ian Paice, Zeppelin John Bonham, for me there were the same greatest drummer of time. Ritchie and Jimmy are in the same rank , just Ritchie was innovative virtuous on guitar . I think is the typical British behaviour in validation to always push up the one with better connection in high society or higher family background and it's the big shame that late Queen did not invite Ritchie when she invited Page , Clapton , May,.Anyhow Ritchie will always remain real legend in heart of all guys who grows up with Deep Purple and all bands of 70'.
Nobody can put up such uplifting, fiery and swinging guitar solos as Ritchie Blackmore's solos on Lazy!😎💙Page maybe is a better songwriter and if talking about riffs I can say both are equal.😎💙
@@user-dh5bnafe4b Think the OP is referring more to Led Zep being notorious for ripping off songs. I personally have no problem with using existing ideas in new songs if you can get away with it, but it is a bit rich to complain about people copying your style when your blatantly copying other people's music yourself.
Reinventing isn't the same as mere copying though. For instance, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You has no musical similarity whatsoever to Anne Bredon's original recording nor to Joan Baez's cover of it, where it was named as "Traditional" and Page just assumed that was the case, never having even heard of Bredon. His arrangement is a completely different piece of music apart from the words, even the vocal melody is different. Bring It On Home, apart from some words and the title is a standard 12-bar blues with a completely original fast section in the middle. Curiously, nobody seems to want to slam Deep Purple for blatantly ripping off and not crediting It's A Beautiful Day's song Bombay Calling for Child In Time or Rick Nelson's Summertime for Black Night. Black Sabbath's Paranoid riff is just the end-of-verse one from Dazed And Confused played at double speed, the Opening Riff to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is pretty much a copy of the intro to Hocus Pocus by the Dutch band, Focus. The verse music from Changes is just a version of Birth by The Peddlers. It's only Led Zeppelin that gets stuck with the plagiarism label though whether through jealousy, ignorance or plain old-fashioned double standards.
I have to agree with Blackmore on Clapton. Page had far more musical ideas, and live, Eric stays in one spot and stays within himself, where Page would often play way out on the edge of his technical ability to the point where there were mistakes, but damn it's exciting!
Actually, afaik he doesn't like flattering. Maybe I remember it right, but IIRC RB or EVH said that when they met before VH were really big/famous, EVH complimented him very nicely and RB just wrote him off as a nobody. Also, Satch said that RB is one of his greatest influences and RB commented, that Satch is good, but hasn't got any soul in his playing and thought it was more or less boring to him. For YM he said, great player, many notes, but I would like to see him play those things on one string (whatever that meant)...
Blackmore is and will always be my first guitar hero. When I was a little boy in the mid-70s, there were no Clapton or Beck records in my house and there were only two Zeppelin albums. But my older brother had practically everything from Deep Purple and Rainbow. So Ritchie was my first big guitar reference, along with Gilmour and Steve Howe. These were the guys I listened to and not the "big three". I discovered Clapton, Beck and even Hendrix much later.
Oh, YES!
Idem.
Man, Howe was so far out!
S***, get to forgot to add Jeff Beck in my rant! There are just so many and you know I mean I'm from Boston so of course I love Aerosmith yeah Joe Perry's good of course so many good artists from that era . Also Boston was very good Van Halen when they came out I was 15 they were like something we never heard it was like crazy man you know? And these kids today I'm sorry I sound so old like you know they listen to all that rap stuff I'm not saying they're not talented on saying is it's way different kind of music then you know like like when I grow up on Funk and blues and rock cuz that's the kind of rock I like those that were influenced by Funk and blues you know and Jazz.
thanks, but that's why Robin Trower has only wanted an American drummer--because he's a blues freak, which comes from America not the English which is much more classical in sound and feel. i was the same as you then but my bro did also have some of the blues influenced guys like Page, and became a total blues freak just after he finished school. so, today Rainbow is still a fave of mine, however, i'm glad i had some real blues to here to then even though it was from some English guys. Yard Birds had three of the biggest evolve which were Clappy, Page and Beck--it was a kind of farm band.
I'm glad page has some positive comments about Ritchie,, for me it's not a competition. It's more guitarist to enjoy. And they each have unique abilities. Blackmore has always been a inspiration to me.
Agreed. An inspiration* though...
I've never heard Jimmy say anything bad about anyone. I'm sure he has, but I've never heard it. He seems like the type who, if he hasn't got something good to say, he says nothing.
@@andrejz8954An* inspiration.
Thanks for your comment 'it is no competition'. I love that. Both Bands are great.
In the 70's and 80's there were other Rock and roll Bands like Rare Earth and Grand Funk which people were saying that they were competing with each other. But is not true although their musics sounds a little bit similar just like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin songs may sound a little bit similar. But it wasn't completion. Both Bands are great. I love that.
@jackyanderson9330 I love both LZ and DP, but I've never thought they sounded alike. That's just me, though, but aside from both being hard rock, they sound quite different from each other.
I saw both Blackmore and Page. Blackmore on the Burn tour and Page on the Physical Graffiti tour. There's no way to compare such monster guitar players, as well as their songwriting. The impact they made on rock guitar is equal in my humble opinion.
it's useless to rank anything when they're all great in their own way--it's like trying to pick a favorite meal and telling someone else that their fave meal is not as good...all just a waste of time. Let me enjoy it all.
I saw the Burn tour. Awesome...but no Highway Star or Hush.20 minutes of Space Truckin' which is sludge rock. But Blackmore burned down the Boston Garden that night in 1974.
@@gabevachon326I saw the Burn tour in Houston at the Astrodome, August 1974.
Adding one guitarist has free reign over a bass and drums, the other works with another lead instrument. Cant compare
I saw the burn tour and blachmower look like the idiot then Page DESTROY TO HE with No Quarter solo 1973 MSG
Back in the 70s, both Blackmore and Iommi were terribly under-appreciated in the music press but the fans loved them
Tony can write beautiful riffs. His fingers unfortunately limit his lead playing. Still a top 10 guitarist in the world. Blackmore is on another planet as far a leads. Experimentation live things off the cuff. With that man can do live I've never seen nothing like it. I've got to see the big three Page Blackmore Iommi. Page sloppy seemed hard to pull it off. He did but looked like he was in trouble at times. Blackmore you never know what he was going to do. Iommi always perfect in control cake walk for him. Geezer was the wild card.
@@barryrammer7906agree with... 3 monsters
@@barryrammer7906geezer really is the iommi counterpart. From the same cloth, super dark and heavy but often overlooked because of the stigma and image that still kind of exists today about the band image
Not by the Rock Musicians though, just by the Crowd. The Radio Stations didnt give them much air time
as they gave to the Pop Rock bands. The Hard Rock bands, had to be heard on FM
Thats funny you mention that
I was just gonna say, my friend I grew up with was a major Sabbath fan. I was more into the purp. But as I got older, started liking Sabbath more. They were just too dark at first for me. And their recordings seemed to get worse as they went. Iommi always had a bass overtone to his guitar I didn't like. I liked Never Say Die, but the real BS fans didnt. It didnt matter too much to me. I had alot of albums my friends couldn't stand. I even often wondered "wtf was I thinking when I bought this" like the cars and B52s.... again, wtf was I thinking? So, I went through the Zeppelin era, which totally screwed my grades at school. My Pop wanted to kill Jimmy Page. Then Motorhead, and harder metal Maiden, Saxon, Accept, Priest
Lots of goodies there. Then my hearing started to take a dive. But I had been playing and working at a night club, so that didnt help. Now, I still play (still suck too) and older than dirt.
Ritchie Blackmore number One 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍
But only in his own mind.
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I love Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin both very much. Same goes for Ritchie and Jimmy. Also a huge fan of Black Sabbath and Tony Iommi. Amazing bands and guitar players! 🤘🤘🤘
The iconic trio bands.
Deep purple & Black Sabbath. Are the best's. Led is very gay. 🦌
My thoughts precisely....
@@NightShooter87 Four... with Uriah Heep and Mick Box. Although you cannot compare these guys. All terrific bands
@mclarsj 2:09
Ritchie, is one of my very favourite guitarists .
I'm sorry for your loss.
@@axeman2638 i love the jealousy
Deep Purple In Rock was the first album I bought. Still knocks me out to this day.
Ritchie Blackmore is a Guitar God. The moment I listened to Deep Purple back in 1970 for the first time, I knew there was something special about this band and the lead guitarist. Ritchie is awesome.
Ritchie is the best whit the Jimi Hendrix rock guitarist for evri time.
we shouldnt forget richie on rainbow !!!! the middle eastern solos was amazing !!!!
This is quite interesting, though it takes a while to get to the point. Their assessments of each other are pretty realistic, though I'm not sure Blackmore was better live than Page. Certainly Page was far superior in songwriting and studio playing. I can understand why he, Beck and Clapton might not have felt that Blackmore was a serious musician on their level. They pursued authenticity, each in his own way, and he was much more of a 'whatever works' character.
Bottom line, Zep were original, they took music somewhere: Purple were much more basic, meat 'n' taters, like AC/DC.
@@TheZokibrada Do what?
I love the live version of "Stll I'm Sad".
Blackmore's playing on Made in Japan is the most exciting live guitar playing I heard
Totally agree! Child in time solo can wake up the dead. Such energy!!!
The best live performance I’ve heard is Michael Schenker on UFO’s Strangers in the Night.
Great album but the Live In Europe never got its due TBH
@@eccehomer8182Strangers In The Night is a great live album and for sure in my Top 5 Live Album's. But it isn't Made In Japan. Made In Japan is considered by millions as the Greatest Live Album ever recorded. Every year I travel and I have been known to listen to UFO Strangers In The Night and keep it in the CD Player for week's. Same with Made In Japan. It is subjective but the solos on Child In Time and Highway Star to me are the two greatest solos ever recorded live.
Made In Japan is the best live playing guitar ever recorded in the history of the mankind.
Indeed a real mystery why Ritchie's generation of guitarists say little if anything about him. I was blown away listening to Ritchie's solo on Child in Time on the Made in japan album. Jaw dropping
El solo de ritchie en child in time de made in JAPAN es INSANO!!’
Eco es seguro@@ricardoluistomasone4663
That's the best solo of rock ever. Never heard anything so wild, and snob too for the mixing of classical citations and cacophony in a way that stands as simply the best.
Couldn't have said it better myself@@alessandroveneziani6271
I set out to learn that and it just gets away from ya. How TF can anyone ramp up to play that fast and not get sloppy? I got the solo from Highway Star. I had that dialed in. Some of his stuff was just too diabolical. I had to nope out on some DP songs because I could never do them justice. I can admit to the same thing with a couple of Zep songs and a boatload of Jeff Beck stuff. To me, that is the mark of a genius guitar player. Not just speed, because Yngwie has that, and I couldn't care less, but playing something that is utterly beyond my capacity to even begin to duplicate the style. One of my favorite moment in the Perfect Strangers tour was when Blackmore is shredding on some Beethoven, with a laser generated image of B conducting him, and goes off script into some shredding and the cartoon B glared at him. It epitomized Ritchie. Just who DO you think you are mister?
Blackmore stands above all of them live as he never rehearsed solos, all his guitar solos have elements of improvisation in them, you can listen to however many versions there are of a live solo by Blackmore and none of them will be the same, this was at the heart of live Purple with Lord and Blackmore capable of making it up as they played and the other band members able to blend seamlessly into the improvisations.
It was the same for most guitarists at that time, all guitar solos had elements of improvisation in them. The versions were never the same, most of the time much longer thant the studio versions. But Blackmore himself said afterward that it was a wery bad idea for him to improvise most of his solos at that time, caus the result was very random depending on the concerts.
@RushfanUK - Bullshite!
You state, "Blackmore stands above all of them?"
*Frank Zappa* is way above all of them. He recorded over 60 albums before he died. Frank *NEVER* had the same solo and as far as *improv?* He *defined it!*
@@JamminClemmons
You can’t compare mainstream music to Zappa’s experimental endeavors.
Frank was a musical genius, no doubt. But his music was raunchy and not palatable. His guitar playing was almost completely pointless and definitely neurotic.
Blackmore and Page are in a different category.
Both could play circles around Frank.
By the way, I own at least a dozen Zappa albums and appreciate his uniqueness.
I guess you've never heard of Jack Pearson
@@da324 Who
Machinehead was and still is a fabulous album.. love it.
Machine Head = masterpiece 👍
Blackmore might be overlooked a lot because of what he does, he makes sound easy.
Until you sit down with your guitar and try to figure out some of his work, (like Highway Star for example) you don´t realize that what he´s doing is very intricate and difficult to figure out and/or play.
It's Ritchie's picking technique, his hand doesn't touch the guitar, it's monstrous! There aren't many guitarists in rock, jazz or country with that ability, it gives you a lot of string-skipping freedom. Closest are the gypsy jazz guys, but they play sitting down!
@@ThinPicksthe gypsy guitar playing of Django Reinhardt is simply unbelievable. And both Blackmore & Iommi credit his influence. As they should. If we didn’t have the few bits of footage of Django playing we wouldn’t believe it. He started it all… with 2 fingers and a thumb.
Blackmore Legend
I first saw DP in 1972. That show absolutely blew my mind - and changed my entire outlook on music. I had gone to some concerts before - but this was just unreal. I never imaged 5 musicians could play so good live - all on the top of their game. And RB put on the most awesome display of guitar playing I had ever seen in my life. To this day - that is the best concert I have ever seen in my life - and I’ve seen TONS of shows. It was basically the American leg of the Made In Japan tour.
I saw Blackmore 5 times and he never disappointed. He was (is) a master at combining great playing with great showmanship.
Me too at Foret Nationnal beetwen 1980-1995 fifth time the show where always great snd the final in 1995 was the best ..... but he plays and go a way ... ey so keikly??❤
Saw Deep Purple up close twice in early to near mid 70s Those 5 guys were TREMENDOUS! Blackmore off the charts Great!🎸🎸🎹🥁🎤🎼
I talk about Ritchie Blackmore all the time. I learned how to play guitar in 1970 at age 15 because of Ritchie. I had all of the Deep Purple albums . Mark I and Mark II and Mark III and Mark VI with Tommy Bolin. Good stuff. Oh yeah.
Loved Tommy Bolin music. Also, I think Ritchie Blackmore was a genius.
Magic Carpet Ride: Ritchie Blackmore's solos start by lifting you up off your feet, they fly you around and then they tastefully set you back down. What a ride he takes you on listening to his solos on 'Machine Head'. Younger generations need to go out and buy this record. Nothing quite like them before or since. They are worthy of transcription note for note. Even though I've heard he likes to improvise, the solos laid down on that record are as worthy of remembering as the columns of a Greek Temple.
Most definitely!
I love listening to Iommi and Page. They take me to places that only they can...and then I play Ritchie and I'm left speechless.
Exactly.
In their Heydays. I loved Zeppelin and Sabbath studio work, Deep Purple were OK in that forum.
However, on stage, everything was flipped 180 degrees.
Like you said, Ritchie's live work was incomparable, and especially in the 1970s, you pretty much had to be at every show because, based on bootleg documentary evidence, you realize that from night to night, they didn't play anything the same way twice, even though the setlist hardly changed.
A fantastic way to put it!
Tony Iommi's sound and style is better than Blackmore,Tony stays in the pocket, Blackmore is all over the place, Blackmore is a amazing guitar player but tends to do all kinds of insane stuff, where's Iommi just does Iommi.
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My respect for Jimmy has just shot through the ceiling! That is a really humble and honest thing to say. I never expected him to regard Blackmore in such esteem.
Jimmy was never boastful about his playing, and has always complimented other great guitarists. Ritchie hasn't really been that way.
He doesn't say a lot really. Great riff master!@@duanefromjustice316
But he’s also saying that Ritchie doesn’t come close to him in the rhythm/ baseline department. Machine head….that’s pretty much it, versus a 9 album conglomerate of unequalled studio production. Page is the rock n roll studio master. Period
And in my humble opinion, I believe that Led Zeppelin ll is THE greatest traditional rock and roll album of all time
@@duanefromjustice316 At least you can hear Ritchie saying top praise about Brian May - he really regards him very high.
Not true, he could not praise those who did not impress him.
It is so amazing that so many guitar players came from the same area and in the same timeframe that revolutionized Rock and Roll, Blues and Hard Rock. What a great time to be alive!!!
Three of them (Page, Clapton & Beck) came from the same town.
@@castleanthrax1833 Are you sure? James Patrick Page born in Heston, Middlesex . Eric Patrick Clapton born in Ripley, Surrey. Geoffrey Arnold Beck born in Wallington, Surrey. So Clapton & Beck were from the same County but none of them came from the same town.
@@fezhat7096Sorry, maybe not the same town, but I read the following recently:
Born within 15 months of each other in 1944 and 1945, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton are not only the best-known exponents of the British blues explosion - they also grew up within 20 miles of one another in Surrey.6 Apr 2023
@fezhat7096 Btw, it's fortunate you used their middle names. Otherwise, there may have been some confusion between all the other famous Jimmy Pages, Eric Claptons, and Jeff becks. 😉
@@castleanthrax1833 Sarcasm, the lowest form of wit. Ya gotta love it!
In the 70's and 80's Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin were the two leading Bands in Rock and roll music.
Jimmy Page is a great Artist and he made a good comment about another great artist Richie Blackmore. Great minds think alike. Thanks Jimmy. I love that. I wish you all the best of luck.
I saw Purple open for Cream in 1968, I was completely blown away by Blackmore!!!
Yes Balckmore's playing was fantastic, Deep Purple rocked!
Blackmore and Iommi are sort of God and Jesus in heavy rock music, others are just apostles@@karsguitarchannel6088
I believe that the late Big Jim Sullivan gave Ritchie Blackmore some guitar lessons way back in the day. Ritchie had a lot of respect for Big Jim. 🎸🎶🎵👍🏻🍻
True
You are correct. It's mentioned in the dvd by Blackmore
he have a lot of respect for many guitarist but it,s never mentioned, lot of guitarist from the perioed when RB grow up, but even Beck and Hendrix he really like
Yes he did. Blackmore confirms this in The Richie Blackmore Story dvd
Ritchie Blackmore is God guitar.All solos Ritchie Its komposice and logical saund after saund...not only technical, like other guitarists. Ritchie is the best guitarist in the world.
"RB is a guitar* god*.* All solos Ritchie has* composed* are logical, sound* after sound* ..." Is it that what you mean?
What language are you speaking?
People Richie Blackmore is the best ever the man always had different singers and his style is perfect for Rock n roll
Jimmy Page Knew he couldn't touch Blackmore, and I respect him for being truthful ❤
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@@john_scofield_big_fan_chan5430 : NO. It's just the pure truth. Page does not exist compared to Blackmore. Whether anyone likes it or not.
Page never mentioned Blackmore once in that Oxford 2016 (actually 2017) interview, never mind praising him. It's easily checkable as the complete text is readily available online. No reference to Blackmore whatsoever.
@@davidesquivel5194Whether you like it or not Blackmore is a rock music star, whereas Page is a rock music legend. Deal with it.
Richie Blackmore was best guitar player of his generation.Also one of the most creative and productive in business.
Ritchie was the second electric guitarist to use a Fender Stratocaster and Marshall amplifier onstage. Jimi Hendrix was the first, and went over to meet with Jim Marshall to get equipment built and delivered the way he wanted it.
Ritchie was a guitar teacher at the Jim Marshall music store.
you couldnt do what hes done so shut your trap@@anthonygstrandwiththebandt2656
@@anthonygstrandwiththebandt2656 … Yes, really!!
@@johnwattdotca Absolute crap. Ritchie was NEVER a guitar teacher. In his early days he used to get lessons from Big Jim Sullivan. Try reading a book sometime.
@@CB-xr1eg Try owing a 1964 Fender Stratocaster, sunburst, with a 50 watt Marshall stack and effects, in 1970, five months before Jimi passed away. I didn't see you there. I talked to Ritchie Blackmore.
As a teenager, we listened to Deep Purple's Made in Japan all the time. A great album. Great job on this video Kar.
You guys both Rock ,, Thx Shawn..
Made in Japan is the greatest live album of all time.
❤❤❤❤yessssss,thats true 👍👍👍.....
Just might be my favorite album of all time!!! Asked my future wife to go steady with me listening to Made in Japan June 16 1982…I was 18…we just celebrated our 36 wedding anniversary and I still have and listen to that exact same album…as many times as I listened to it…(100’s) it’s still like brand new!!! I think I’ll go put it on right now!!!
@@aceofspades9785 That is a really cool story.
I think that Blackmore attracted a lot of attention in the 70s, because in addition to being a brilliant guitarist, with his own unique style, he was very eccentric and had a difficult personality, in addition to the competition between "who was the best" after Hendrix (Clapton , Page, Beck...inner circle" mentioned in the video). It is worth mentioning that Clapton, Page, Beck had a common past in The Yardbirds, which undoubtedly brought them closer, even if with some competition... This perhaps distanced Blackmore of the other great guitarists of the time.
Great respect for all of these players. But IMHO, Blackmore was the guy. His technical prowess at the time was far ahead of the rest of the crowd.
Perfect Strangers is a badass album too.
It has three good songs on it, and a lot of material that does not work so well. Definitely no Machine Head.
I cant think of a bad album they ever produced. If I had to choose, I would say In Rock. But even it had some great stuff on it. Alot of people didnt care for the Coverdale/Hughes era. Burn (especially the title track) its a killer. Lord went way out on that one. And Lady Double Dealer, Ritchie does a smokin solo on that.
@@Red_Whitenblu Agreed. I went to see them on the Burn tour. Excellent show.
@@antithug7942 Nice. Was that at CalJam? I think that was the show where Ritchie actually made his shit burn 😂
Saw that tour
Ronnie James Dio spoke about Blackmore saying he learned a lot from Ritchie about playing and touring. But more importantly, learned from Richie on what NOT to do. To not treat the fans and others like shit.
Феномен Блэкмора заключается в том, что синергетический эффект его составляющих как музыканта, шоумена, бизнесмена и человека (которые будучи взятыми в отдельности не кажутся многим людям чем-то гениальным - даже игра на гитаре) дал на выходе рок-звезду с харизмой, затмевающей очень и очень многих. Далеко не у всех великих так получилось. Его влияние на каждое следующее поколение рок-музыкантов очень велико, пусть даже кто-то из них из-за ложных амбиций данное влияние отрицает :) И не ослабевает с годами. Такие дела.
думаю, музыканты завидуют.
Почему то я не услышал ни один нормальный кавер на простой Дым над водой, что бы звучал так же мощно и красиво.
Говорят, что знаменитый риф даже просят не играть при покупке гитары настолько он простой. Но повторить не могут! Простейший риф.
Потому что для Блэкмора звук это все. Он умеет сыграть красиво и идеально красиво.
Сейчас много циркачей которые играют сто нот в секунду и еще больше, но они не понимают музыку. Они играют не музыку, они показывают фокусы. Они показывают гениальную технику и тренировку, но это не музыка. Она мертвая.
Влияние Блэкмора огромно, он всех Пейджей и всех нас, особенно в СССР, научил играть на гитаре. Вот буквально. Это живая легенда.
На один уровень с Блэкмором я поставлю только Ренди Роудза, и Дэвида Гилмора.
Like him or not, Page is without a doubt one of the most gracious and kind musicians one will ever meet. I have never heard him say a bad word about any player and always heaps praise on other players. Too bad the other players are rarely that gracious which is why Blackmore was not a good session player. Blackmore, though an amazing guitar player, is a real jackass of a human being and most people don't like him. Bonzo and Blackmore were actually very good friends and hung out quite a bit back in the 70's.
I'd expect that.
In the mid 1960s Ritchie Blackmore relocated to Germany taking himself out of the British recording scene until 1968!
Generally speaking, history will look back more favorably on bands/artists that stayed together for the most part, versus bands with numerous lineup changes and infighting. Additionally, if a member of the band, or an artist should die early, that too helps to cement a legacy. Certainly Ritchie’s demanding approach and strong willed, aloof personality has not endeared him to the masses; however, I think it’s also worth noting that given the sonic differences between Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, the latter had broader appeal. As an example, when I was in school - 80s & 90s, no girls were listening to Deep Purple. The only people who were listening to Deep Purple were band people and metal heads, whereas just about everyone to some extent listened to Led Zeppelin. Objectively, love him or hate him, Ritchie Blackmore is one of the most talented and accomplished rock guitarists with few others at his level.
Maybe, maybe not (Bands staying together) but the bottom line will always be, HOW GREAT WAS THE MUSIC... despite lineup changes.
PEACE.
The fact that Blackmore is a notoriously unlikable person that did mistreat his fans and is known to be an a-hole all around doesn't help either.
If they hadn't reunited after the 'come taste the band' album, maybe it would have been different.
@@meryuk They reunited(sort of) 8 years after Come Taste The Band, but not with the same line-up. It was the MK2 line-up, not Mk4.
I was one of the few girls, in high school, in the eighties, that did Listen to Deep purple. My sister got me the very best of Deep Purple for my 15th birthday, and that was it....... I always had more Deep Purple than Led Zeppelin. In my opinion, Jimmy Page along with Zeppelin themselves are overrated
They're all great. Saying one is better than the other and dissing people is not what music is about. Its not sports. It's not a competition! I enjoy the music of all these artists and ultimately its not about virtuosity. Its about songs. Anyone can shred but writing a great song is a rare gift. Songwriters are what makes music and all these artists wrote great songs. Enjoy their legacy. Don't bicker who's better who's best. That's an empty quasi intellectual debate that goes nowhere.
This comment should be copy/pasted on every single rock music vid in the comments section on YT (that is, if any of them can properly READ.)
The lower the IQ, the more insulting these dorks become of musicians they don’t know a single thing about.
You can tell by their comments that they know nothing and can’t tell their own asses from holes in the ground. Rank stupidity.
Yeah, I mostly agree. Just would say that music is a bit like sport where there are many categories. For example, I agree with Blackmore. JP couldn't hold a candle with him as far as improvisation/solos go, but I'd say Page had many great talents RB didn't. Like making guitar arrangements/studio work.
@@andrejz8954 JP and Hendrix were the kings of improvisation. Blackmore was quite bitter in his put downs which like most ego driven statements are based on self deluded fantasy. He's matured a lot now and is quite complimentary of people. I don't subscribe to this 'couldn't hold a candle' nonsense. It's schoolboy talk which is essentially an empty statement once again based on self delusion, ego and pride. Music is not a sport or competition. It is art that is to be appreciated. You can dig all these artists equally without the negative put downs. I listen to hip hop, rap, metal, jazz, classical, Indian, folk, electronica, alternative, reggae, tribal, dance, country etc. I just love music. Zeppelin opened the doors for world music. Of course rock and metal are my passions but I don't feel the need to make negative statements about others. Music like food can be enjoyed by everyone. The more variety the better!
@@rushshukla4636 no they werent. Jp sucked as impro, while Hendrix was one of the best. Sure, you can enjoy all music, but you cant say jazz is better for dancing than pop. You cant say metal is as easy to play as pop. You also cant say that The beatles were a bad band. But you can say you don't like them for example. Lets also take Ozzy for example. Many say, he was a bad singer, tho I really don't know why. NOBODY can say he didnt have one of the most distinct/original voices of all time.
@andrejz8954 He didn't say, "Jazz is better for dancing than pop." He didn't say "metal is as easy to play as pop." He didn't say, "the Beatles are a bad band."
Why are you saying those things when he didn't say them?
Blackmore's esoteric wizardry literally is as intriguing as his riffs and guitar wizardry which is to say I could listen to his commentary outside of music as much as the hours I spent listening to Deep Purple.
Same goes for Jimmy Page ftm or dare say Jimmy Savile too lol
another unnecessary use of "literally".
Ritchie is a legend 🙌🏻🎸
and Jimmi Page a boot...
Blackmore is the finest Rock guitarist of all.
Made in Japan....for me, the best live "guitarist" album ever, bar none. Page has always been kind to all his peers for the most part, unless they were f heads. RB was amazing at his peak and it's okay that he wasn't Mr. Congeniality.
Totally agree, not only was the playing great, but Ritchie's guitar sound with the Marshalls was phenomenal.
Back then in the late 60's & the 70's artists tended to be very candid when mentioning each other in the media. Some of it was a bit disarming, but it was all in the name of speaking your mind & being honest. Ritchie may well have made a qualifying statement about Jimmy's improvisational skills, but Jimmy knew this was coming from an impeccable craftsman who's standards were extremely high. Also, don't forget that Jimmy was also very critical of other artists during interviews. His reservations about the Beatles early recordings & comments to the effect that he was disappointed with many famous artists are well documented. He understood that everyone must be critical of others at some stage if they are to remain honest.
@alienteknology5390 I agree with your comment. You are expressing extremely well the mood of the times
The only people who had a problem with Blackmore are the people who knew and worked with him. That doesn't mean a damned thing about the supreme quality of his playing.
Love Page. Love Zeppelin. But yeah, he is right. He really couldn't touch Blackmore, and honestly, during the 70's, I think no one could.
Out of 1000 I grantee you 999 would say Ian is a brilliant, good looking and humble vocalist.
He's just jealous that Gillian took the Jesus Christ Superstar gig. A lot of people say he wanted that. He's very jealous cause he's got more range than him.
I got a speeding ticket in 1983 listening to Lazy and Highway Star.
And I got a DUI
Plant is well known for ripping off Steve Marriott of Small Faces and Humble Pie. What we have here is a case of the pot calling the kettle black when Plant refers to Coverdale. Also Gillan comes from a musical theatre background.
Хочу внести свою лепту: я профессиональный музыкант с 45-летним стажем, гитарист, игравший в различных группах СССР, с большим опытом студийной работы и т.д. Ни у одного гитариста планеты на сегоднящний день нет такого звука, как у Ричи Блэкмора - собранного, вкусного, сформированного потрясающим количеством собранных воедино гитарных приёмов: уникальным "мясным" вибрато, чистейшими бэндами, дабл-стопами... Всё играется руками - без уже набившего оскомину "двуручного петтинга", запредельная читаемость в скоростных пассажах... И самое главное - Маэстро Гитарно Мыслит: вы не встретите ни одного "дежурного" проигрыша! Каждая нота на своём месте и несёт абсолютно нужную музыкальную информацию! Ричи Блэкмор - Величайший из ныне живущих музыкант Вселенной! Дай ему, Господи, здоровья и сил!!!
Ну это детский сад, говорить, что Блэкмор величайших музыкант из ныне живущих, заметьте не гитарист. Ваша объективность не выдерживает никакой критики, ввиду явной предвзятости..
Увлёкся хардом в 1975-76, и что то подобное было в то время?Да и сейчас ,Ричи,это космос!❤ Хотя Led Zeppelin как коллектив в харде номер 1. Ну моё сугубо личное мнение.
~ВЫ ЭТО СЕРЬЁЗНО???? ДА ОНИ ЖИВЬЁМ НА КОНЦЕРТАХ (ПЕЙДЖ, РИЧИ) НИ ОДНОЙ КОМПОЗИЦИИ ЧИСТО НЕ СЫГРАЛИ! СПЛОШНАЯ ГРЯЗЬ! ВОТ ПОСМОТРИТЕ НА САЙМОНА МАКБРАЙТА, ВОТ ЭТО НАСТОЯЩИЙ БРИЛЛИАНТ! ДАЖЕ СТИВ МОРС ЛАЖАЛ! Я НЕДАВНО СЛУШАЛ ДЖОНА ПОЛА ДЖОНСА, ОН ИГРАЛ НА 6-ТИ СТРУННОЙ ГИТАРЕ, И КАК ИГРАЛ! У МЕНЯ ТАКОЕ ОЩУЩЕНИЕ, ЧТО ИМЕННО ВСЕ ПАРТИИ ГИТАРЫ ЦЕПЕЛИНОВ БАСИСТ И ПРОПИСЫВАЛ! ПОЭТОМУ Я И НЕ СЛУШАЮ ЖИВЫЕ ВЫСТУПЛЕНИЯ ПЁПЛОВ И ЦЕПЕЛИНОВ! А ПОТОМУ ЧТО НЕВОЗМОЖНО СЛУШАТЬ СТОЛЬКО СЕРЕВА!!! ТОЛЬКО СТУДИЙКИ!!!~
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No one who heard Deep Purple’s live album “Made in Japan” when it was released in ‘72 could help but believe that Blackmore’s virtuosity and expression was anything other than mind blowing… I’ve also seen Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jan Ackerman, Dave Gilmour and other great guitarists perform in ways that were unique and unforgettable… But it was Richie Blackmore’s versatility and improvisational skills that affected me most….
There's a great concert in a sort of studio setting for an audience (I think recorded in England) in black and white, that is really, really good! Ritchie's playing on it is outstanding! It's somewhere here on TH-cam. I don't recall the title, but I think he is playing a Gibson ES335 in it, surprisingly.
@@JoeSzilagy I think the concert you mean may be called Doing Their Thing. George Best is in the audience.
Ritchie Blackmore was an amazingly good guitarist. I think he scared a lot of the other guitarists with how good he was. Deep Purple had a great organ player Jon Lord who complimented Blackmore wonderfully and visa versa. I remember when I heard the album The Book of Taliesyn in 1969 I was awestruck by Blackmore's playing. I'd never heard anything like it and come to think of it still haven't. He's one of the best of all time, no doubt about it.
Okay I've seen a lot of hilarious comments but yours is the funniest. You think he's scared a lot of other guitar players? Is that a joke? Or are you a playwright trying out some lines? I can guarantee you he did not scare Jimmy page, Alvin lee, Eric clapton, for for god sakes Jeff beck. They probably don't mention Ritchie Blackmore because even though he was a great guitar player, he was a piece of dirt as a human being. Now he's turned into something really weird and bizarre where he dresses up in Renaissance clothes. When I worked in the music industry I got to know at least three guys who used to be in bands with him, the stories they had to tell were ugly.
Jon Lord played far more than just the organ. He could play any type of keyboard.
@@clarkmacgowan5114 "When I worked in the music industry " Yea ok mate Which record store did you work in? Or was it on a market stall selling second hand LPs?🙄😂
Page and Clapton and Beck and even Hendrix, to a certain extent, just all ran in different circles than Blackmore. They were like the "in crowd" and he was an outsider. And Ritchie did rub a lot of people the wrong way throughout his career, there's that. Phenomenal guitarist though. I actually prefer his work in Rainbow over DP. Especially early Rainbow.
All these old school players know Ritchie very well. Why nobody mentions him or why Jimmy does it casually? It's cause they know him. It's not the the world doesn't know he was a great guitar player but as a person, not so.
I saw Deep Purple with Aerosmith and Guns n Roses in 1988 at Giants stadium and it was an awesome show. Deep Purple were phenomenal!
Remember when seats got on fire. Then the bathrooms. Purple was on the money that night they were incredible. Guns and Roses was great. Aerosmith was so so.
I WAS THERE AS WELL. I’m not saying Deep Purple were not a better band at the time. But don’t lie there was a completely different energy when that guy from Indiana lit a fire. Having seen them at the Ritz, I already knew everything had changed.
The only problem with Deep Purple was there were too many great musicians. in the band.
Yeah, but nobody was treading on anyone else's toes, so it works.
I remember Blackmore saying in an interview: There's only room for one big ego in a band. But in Deep purple we were 5 big egos. That's why DP split up. Strangely enough, Paice, Lord and Coverdale started up Whitesnake and got along just fine...
I remember Jon Lord telling Coverdale when he first joined Purple that there was only room for one moustache in the band, Cov promptly shaved his off.@@nissehult7376
Yeah, that's always a problem for bands.
The biggest problem with the bands of that Era the Managers destroyed them making them be together constantly traveling and performing back to back dates. Jon Lord said after Machine Head and Made In Japan that they did 320 in a year. That is to much togetherness. After traveling with my wife for two weeks I was ready to go back to work and needed some space. Can you imagine what the bands went through?
Being a Led Zeppelin fan I must say Deep Purple MK II albums are milestones of Hard Rock, love them so much, i can't say one is better than the other, they are different thanks God!
Blackmore, spoke the truth, as he saw it, about other guitarist.
AFAIK he didn't have a good word to say about anyone
Blackmore was completely right about the most beloved guitarist by famous musicians (J. Beck of course) who could not writer great songs like Ritchie or Page, while Plant was completely wrong about Coverdale because Robert borrowed his style from Small Faces singer while David has an entirely different vocal timbre.
With the exception of "good times bad times"...Led Zeppelin 1...was all cover songs. So...a lot of backbiting and insecurity comes out from Plant because he knows he's no where near Gillan's vocal talent..in the 70's. Also...him calling David Coverdale... David coverversion. He's projecting himself onto David..
and of course Gillan was not a screamer
Steve Marriott. The Small Faces and Humble Pie Guitarist and Singer.
@@kurtsherrick2066 if this isn't enough...th-cam.com/video/tp0jZ4BGuDw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UQloY-KUFey9VeQG
Plant also "borrowed" from Roger Daltrey (The Who). So to bitch about David Coverdale was pretty hypocritical.
The one piece of Mr Blackmore’s work that for me epitomises his craft, his tone, his touch, his lyricism and his poetry is the track “When A Blind Man Cries”. That’s not a remastered version, not any live version, but the original as issued on vinyl as a single B-side to “Never Before” in 1972.
And Mr Blackmore hates it.
Well he hates the song Hold On as well, but he plays a beautiful solo in it.
Each to their own. I like Led Zep and Purple, but tend to lean more towards Purple. Both groups have their own style. From a singing point of view, I’d say Gillan has more in the drawer than Plant. As bands, I’d say Deep Purple are more fun, and Led Zep take themselves too seriously.
Oh, and this may be controversial, but I think Ian Paice is better than Bonham.
The Coverdale Page Album is one Greatest Rock Album's Ever produced, Jimmy Page's Rifts & Coverdale's vocals are unbelievable !
I don't know about "greatest rock album's ever produced"....but it is a damn fine record & unfairly criticized.If I would've listened to the critics, I'd have never known about that killer album.And, who cares what Plant thinks, and I love Plant!
in an interview in Guitar Player magazine back at the time, i believe Jimmy said Coverdale was sick with the flu during the recording and had a high temperature, but kept working. Its a great album. Shame the tour could not materialize.
It is by far the best album Page did after the end of Led Zep, and better than any of the Plant's one, and I love them for the most part. What a killer album, not a weack track. Saddly, he never get the credit it deserved and management shenanigans prevented the duo to go further. They wanted Page and Plant to be reunited and were not interested in the Page/Coverdale thing.
@@robertthrockmorton3979, hi… It was actually Page who was very ill. He went to the studio to work on the C/P album and did the fiery solo on ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’ in a single take with a fever of 103 degrees.
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Ritchie Blackmore = the greatest guitarist in the history of rock!
I saw Ritchie live with Rainbow in the 80s.
Ha Ha... I saw Blackmore with Purple in 1974. They were supported by Elf, who Blackmore then hijacked, evicted the guitarist and renamed them Rainbow.
As an Air Force brat and later in the AirForce myself, from the time i was 12 in '68 i got to Britain and Europe alot up until i went into the AirForce and then continued to get there until 1978 when i came home for good. Got to see the greatest of all these tremendous bands and i Germany, bands that i never heard of but i was at the live show in Tokyo when Purple recorded the stellar live album. Ritchie and Ian absolutely unbelievable! Seen them before that though in Belgium, Germany and of Course in England. Their work still holds up and as a musician myself i have seen alot of egos that outwieghed the talent so, when it came to Page or Blackmore being the better technician and improvisor?, Blackmore hands down. I love Jimmi but he is not even in my top 20 let alone top ten or better. But i am well aware that it is all about what moves you and your genre' taste that forms your opinion. Clapton is a great blues player. Page is a pretty good arrainger, but Blackmore like the best of the best did not play guitar. The guitar was just the mechanical expression of his soul. Like the way Stevie Ray Vaughn, Hendrix, and Mahavishnu Jonh Macglauklin(?correct spelling) became one with their instrument just to name a few.
I had listened to the early Deep Purple records but they did not impress me much. And then, at the end of year 1970 it hit me without a warning. Deep Purple in Rock rolled over me and and left me speechless and in pieces. Ritchie Blackmore was then my new guitar god. His song writing potential makes him so outstanding. There are many technically great guitar players but Ritchie Blackmore has it all 🙂
He has the look, the stage presence. The speed, the sound you know, Blackmore lead guitar, it's like a laser. Incredibly talented. One thing people leave out this guy was 1 of the best slide guitars of all time. Perfect timing. He is a Mount Rushmore guitarist easily.
So glad somebody said this. Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore's solos on Highway Star, and then Blackmore and Lord on Burn, make those two songs permanent fixtures in my top 10 hard rock, prog rock and epic rock lists.
I think Burn is the first song I ever heard played live by the original band. The New Haven Coliseum was brand new at the time and now is long gone into the mists of time.
dont forget that middle eastern solo on stargazer !!!!! or the solos on death alley driven on rainbow !!!! richie was crazy on rainbow !!!
@@Chris.Thanopoulos gates of babylon, hall of mountain king not bad either
Blackmore was by far the best of them all.
Ian Gillan and Jon Lord were effortlessly on par with Rich.
@@dominysynclairJon Lord was on another level again.
@@rockzilla5150 We're comparing apple and oranges. Ian was just as good a singer as Rich was a guitarist, and so on.
Ritchie was/is one of the greats by far! The Neo-Classical material is I think his most inventive and exciting.
Deep Purple mk2 was the greatest Hard Rock Band Ever and Blackmore though a little eccentric was a Genius especially live as for Gillan his voice blew Plant of the stage and Coverdale was a master Rock Crooner
Ian Gillan has nothing but the highest praise for Robert Plant .. he said he was the best of his generation. However .. no one can sing like Ian Gillan, he’s one of a kind. Jon Lord on Gillan - “he’s No1 in a field of one”
His performance on Whoosh! .. Purples last album was phenomenal.
@@seabud6408 Purple's last album was the covers album Turning To Crime. And it was a crime they released it.
@@seabud6408 no one whocould sing like Gillan, long time since he lost his voice, same with Plant, rodgers and Hughes still sing good
Very interesting video. Your organization and presentation of the salient points demonstrates a high level of skill.
Many thanks, such a great pleasure!!
Richie Blackmore and Jimmy Page were both amazing guitarists. Clapton, Beck, Hendricks all created some ground breaking music. But my top guitar man is David Gilmour.
All great guitarists , but for phrasing and choice of notes, Gilmore for pure taste and tone, hands down.👍🏻
Blackmore and in rock set the standard
Yes he's got the right tones to my ears.
There is a reason no one wants to go on after purple
Agree
Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Dave Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Richie Blackmore.......Britain has produced some of the true greats of all-time.
Page, Blackmore, Beck, and Clapton are all legends to me. Enough said!🎸
Top 4! Amen!🎸🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍👍
Guitar players are extremely competitive.Egoes get involved.l am a guitarist. Most guitarists are afraid to follow Blackmore.l have seen both zeppelin and purple. I agree with Mr. Blackmore assessment. Page is master producer maybe that why he sounds so good on records,but live he is sloppy,and hit or miss.Blackmore is almost the complete opposite..As good as Blackmore is live he is unbelievable live. His classical training makes every note clean and clear.Even his vibrato ls in time, so many vibrato to the timing.l am over seventy. I always dreaded Blackmore,while digging his playing. ALl Guitarists fear him.
@@frankdardano3182 No need to fear my friend. Just play because you love to play music. Put your heart and soul into your music and take your listener on a wonderful adventure. Keep rocken my friend!🤟🎸
@@frankdardano3182maybe you should hear Joe Bonamassa's opinion on Page as you misinterpret his style to be sloppy like most people. Mid 70's he was hit or miss you're right. But when Page was on and more so in his prime , he was untouchable
I'm a huge Ritchie fan. He is my favorite. I just find it bad that he said so many bad things about his peers....it wasn't necessary.....
Worse yet this fanboi finds it necessary to perpetuate that shit to stick his nose up Ritchie's ass. Yeah, those other guys are just hacks.
My favourite as well. As for the second part, I'll just copy paste my comment from above: Maybe I remember it right, but IIRC RB or EVH said that when they met before VH were really big/famous, EVH complimented him very nicely and RB just wrote him off as a nobody. Also, Satch said that RB is one of his greatest influences and RB commented, that Satch is good, but hasn't got any soul in his playing and thought it was more or less boring to him. For YM he said, great player, many notes, but I would like to see him play those things on one string (whatever that meant)...
@@andrejz8954 He blasted Page many times, Martin. Barre from Jethro, he said that Jeff Beck cannot create a song of his own. Because of all theses bad comments about all his peers, nobody is talking about him anymore.
You guys have Ritchie wrong. He is honest in his assessment of other guitarists. He's not saying it out of jealousy. He's saying it out of honesty. He is awkward socially. He doesn't know when to shut up. He even said many interviews he didn't want to be with the in crowd. He goes away from them. He wanted nothing to do with them.
I love all the musicians and bands mentioned and have lots of their albums. As for DP, I have everything (I hope). The thing which makes me admire Deep Purple most is the dexterity off its members, sheer talents, creativity and how prolific they are. All the albums sound different, and solo projects are so much fun as everyone experimented something different. For me, like many others, Made in Japan did the trick.
When I was in high school (68-72), it was during the Clapton, Beck and Page period where they were the Kings. However I always said it was Blackmore, Fripp and Gilmour who were the best. Just listen to DEEP PURPLE, In Concerto, when Blackmore catches fire during the guitar solo.
Page would have been aware of RB as they both at different times played for Screaming Lord Sutch. Als the band RB was in - the Outlaws - was a record label band contracted out to various singers etc he spent the early 60s touring and playing for the likes of rock n roll acts like Jerry Lee Lewis. Well known to Jim Marshall too. RB was an apprentice electrician in his youth and was always in Marshall's shop discussing amp modifications. A side to Ritchie that doesn't get mentioned much.
Можно обсуждать и говорить обо всем, корме того, что Ритчи из тех, кого принято называть - избранными. Эту категорию людей не обсуждают, её наличие только констатируют. Спасибо м. Блэкмор ❤
They’re all great at what they do. Preference is the deciding factor to each individual.
Very cool for Paige to say about Black more it is a major compliment and it is deserving of Black more to be respected from paige
There's no I in Page.
Page , é.limitado. tocou até 1975.depois desaprendeu. Ficou só na heroína. Não criou nada, de guitarra. Acomodou.exidtem milhões de guitarristas bem.melhores que.ele.Keith Richard's, ritchie Black more, tony iomm, ronnie wood , mick Taylor, Brian Jones, Steve vai, jpe , satriane, vinnie moore, Eric Clapton, jimi hendrix, Jeff Beck, yngwie malmsteen, micheal schenker, Eddie vh, randy , David gilmour, jonh.lee hooker .São muito melhores que , jimy page
These were guitarists who were there from ground up with two totally different bands and literally created the path with other great musicians and singers with them. I can't really compare that.
I like Jimmy Pages honesty ,he's right on.
Ritchie is underrated. He’s the most versatile player.
We did a 3-part Ritchie Blackmore "Style File" on my channel a few years back, with my guitarist buddy, Rob Sas, who runs the band Deeper Purple, currently touring Germany and frequent other European shows... Rob admitted he was a little under par at the time of filming due to some personal issues but most people seem to have enjoyed it! Blackmore influenced a whole generattion of players, it can't be denied, me included! Love and peace my friend! Mark
Blackmore did some solid solo work because he had a strong sense of melody. He could write songs too. You need both.
Beck and Blackmore recorded a song Page produced- prior to Feb 1965. Beck was in the Tridents. The song went unreleased. Blackmore confirmed they recorded this in The Ritchie Blackmore Story. Lol- he cant remember who the artist was.
@familydogg1234 Screaming Lord Sutch?
No. Page j( and Beck) have joined on stage. Good point! It's unlikely they were on stage together. You reminded me of the live Lp with Moon, Redding and Blackmore(and others who can't be mentioned on LP due to contractual reasons )
Both Ritchie and Jimmy can compliment each other easily enough today. However, before all the success compliments were another matter.
They were both very ambitious young men. Each were full of confidence. Rock music was becoming bigger and bigger.
The competition was growing exponentially. There was money and fame to be achieved. Ritchie and Jimmy certainly made their marks.
M Schenker, another great guitar player
After hearing Highway Star (Live version) I converted immediately. Was blown away at his solo.
also one of my top favorite solos
First guitarist I've heard was Slash. But later on, when I've heard Blackmore, wow this dude is amazing. Then on and on, I've heard Jimmy Page, Brian May, Jimmi Hendrix, EVH... Man all those dudes are awesome.
Ritchie was always under appreciated. Always awesome blues guitarist
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blackmore n'a que faire de tout cela , sa carrière en dit long sur son niveau de guitare et de la contribution à la musique, le seul différence avec les autres c'est qu'il était moins dans le blues , son style est très particulier et forcément on aime ou pas mais par contre on ne peut pas dire qu'il est moins grand que page beck ou clapton d'ailleurs qu'on t'il fait depuis led zep beck ola et cream, blackmore à gérer sa carrière après deep purple avec rainbow et blackmore night et nombre de guitariste s'inspire encore de sa musicalité.
Jeff Beck did many things after Beck Ola, much more than he did before. He reinvented himself as a guitarist and continued to progress and explore new ways.
Blackmore est très talentueux mais il y a énormément de déchets dans ses solos notamment dans ses improvisations en live et il s’écoute trop jouer un peu de manière condescendante et y’a beaucoup de passages cacophoniques j’ai regardé pas mal de ses lives des années 70 , après ça reste un excellent guitariste mais il peut pas être meilleur que Page beaucoup plus inspiré et fluide selon moi. Certains diront que blackmore est plus technique que lui mais perso je n’aime pas trop sa technique bordélique pour moi un gars comme Eric Johnson est beaucoup plus technique.
@@TheCegema ok pour l'inspiration mais pas la fluidité j'ai des lives du ledzep la guitare est saccadé
@@philippecaron3562oui pas faux je devrais plutôt dire meilleur en improvisation et en mélodie avec Page on sait où il nous amène même si ça peut être saccadé tandis que blackmore ça peut être du grand n’importe quoi parfois.
Even before I played guitar when I was a little kid, the live version of Smoke on the Water was an FM radio staple. I thought the guy playing the guitar was a wizard. His note choice was always a little unpredictable and his bag of tricks was bottomless. He always “bent your ear” as my dad used to say.
I never heard Richie say bad words on Jeff Beck... And remember Blackmore praising Kashmere... Blackmore is grumpy (as much as Plant is) but sometimes I have the impression journalist exaggerate things. The guy who invented the solo of Child In Time from Made In Japan may obviously consider everybody else not as goos for the improvisation, ok. On the other hand, a guy who is unable of screaming may consider Getsemani from Ian Gillan "not music"... Ah ah ah
I've seen Page & Blackmore back in the day...I was more into Blackmore, actually, than any of my friends. They were, like, Zeppelin this, Zeppelin that, Led Zep Led Zep Led Zep! Then I'd say, Rainbow! Better guitar player AND better vocalist! Everyone just laughed at me. Tell the truth, I'm not a musician, was just a teenager partying & going to as many concerts as possible, and I think most of us here would admit that we all kinda took the whole music scene for granted in the early-mid 1970s. The music was so good, so intense, I couldn't imagine Rock N Roll ever being anything but the A #1 music genre in the world, it would always rule supreme...you know. Anyway Rainbow w/ Blackmore & Dio are still my favorite band ever, Alvin Lee and Ten Years After a close second, but even still, in my mind almost all those bands are even-steven, all an equal part of the greater good, and how could you pick one individual musician over another? They all drove each other to get better & better, and their likes, I fear, will never be seen upon this earth again. Too bad, but I'm glad I was there when I was...
Yes. Rock Will walways BE number One but it is not. Its still a hard Pull to take; Im not sure i ever did or Will. Double like for the Ten years after reference 👍
Same, loved Zeppelin. However, was really into Deep Purple and then Rainbow. Just think? The 60's and 70's produced probably the most iconic musicians of all time. Shit. So glad I was a teenager in the mid 70's. I've been influenced my whole life by my Dad with blues, funk, and Jazz. I was a lucky kid. What's out there today? Okay, really the only hard Rock band that comes to mind are those kids Greta Van Fleet. They have some talent and were definitely influenced by Zeppelin. I mean all the grunge bands are okay. However, they can not hold a candle to the very talented musicians before thrm❤😊😊
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It's not always who is the really the best but who have better background. I grow up with Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin and both are great. But if I really wanted to enjoy full hard rock sound my choice go to Deep Purple as they had John Lord which with his organs playing gave the full enjoyment . Imagine The Doors without Ray Manzarek, they have some historical songs tanks to sound of Ray organs . Compared Deep Purple had Ian Paice, Zeppelin John Bonham, for me there were the same greatest drummer of time. Ritchie and Jimmy are in the same rank , just Ritchie was innovative virtuous on guitar . I think is the typical British behaviour in validation to always push up the one with better connection in high society or higher family background and it's the big shame that late Queen did not invite Ritchie when she invited Page , Clapton , May,.Anyhow Ritchie will always remain real legend in heart of all guys who grows up with Deep Purple and all bands of 70'.
Nobody can put up such uplifting, fiery and swinging guitar solos as Ritchie Blackmore's solos on Lazy!😎💙Page maybe is a better songwriter and if talking about riffs I can say both are equal.😎💙
Plant had a hell of a cheek calling anyone else an imitator.
was thinking the same.
He didn't imitate anyone. Don't say Steve Marriot. He might have been an influence but they don't sound anything alike.
@@user-dh5bnafe4b Think the OP is referring more to Led Zep being notorious for ripping off songs. I personally have no problem with using existing ideas in new songs if you can get away with it, but it is a bit rich to complain about people copying your style when your blatantly copying other people's music yourself.
Reinventing isn't the same as mere copying though. For instance, Babe I'm Gonna Leave You has no musical similarity whatsoever to Anne Bredon's original recording nor to Joan Baez's cover of it, where it was named as "Traditional" and Page just assumed that was the case, never having even heard of Bredon. His arrangement is a completely different piece of music apart from the words, even the vocal melody is different. Bring It On Home, apart from some words and the title is a standard 12-bar blues with a completely original fast section in the middle. Curiously, nobody seems to want to slam Deep Purple for blatantly ripping off and not crediting It's A Beautiful Day's song Bombay Calling for Child In Time or Rick Nelson's Summertime for Black Night. Black Sabbath's Paranoid riff is just the end-of-verse one from Dazed And Confused played at double speed, the Opening Riff to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is pretty much a copy of the intro to Hocus Pocus by the Dutch band, Focus. The verse music from Changes is just a version of Birth by The Peddlers. It's only Led Zeppelin that gets stuck with the plagiarism label though whether through jealousy, ignorance or plain old-fashioned double standards.
I have to agree with Blackmore on Clapton. Page had far more musical ideas, and live, Eric stays in one spot and stays within himself, where Page would often play way out on the edge of his technical ability to the point where there were mistakes, but damn it's exciting!
I've never been a Purple fan but I do think Blackmore was (yes I know he's still going) an amazing electric guitar player.
Richie is a fantastic player. However as a person ,you'd best flatter him to get anywhere.
Actually, afaik he doesn't like flattering. Maybe I remember it right, but IIRC RB or EVH said that when they met before VH were really big/famous, EVH complimented him very nicely and RB just wrote him off as a nobody. Also, Satch said that RB is one of his greatest influences and RB commented, that Satch is good, but hasn't got any soul in his playing and thought it was more or less boring to him. For YM he said, great player, many notes, but I would like to see him play those things on one string (whatever that meant)...
Some would prefer FLATTEN