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From Mandrake Root to Mozart
In his 1997 interview for the Japanese TV RB explains origins of riffs for several Purple classics. Some are very well publicized, some are not. Some connections are pretty obvious, while others not so much.
Read more »Rainbow vinyl bonanza
On July 12 Universal’s specialty label Rock Classics/Back on Black is reissuing eight classic Rainbow albums on vinyl. This includes studio output from RB’s Rainbow to Straight Between The Eyes, plus On Stage and Finyl Vinyl. All records will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged in “deluxe gatefold sleeves”. The first 1,000 copies of […]
Read more »Purple instructional DVDs
To celebrate the 65th birthday of Ritchie Blackmore, Lick Library is promoting four instructional DVDs from its library of titles, all featuring Ritchie’s style of playing. All these lessons are taught by Danny Gill, who himself studied from Joe Satriani. All Lick Library guitar DVD lessons are filmed in high definition and include double screen […]
Read more »Blackmore’s Night in the studio
According to their official website, Blackmore’s Night are “diligently working in the studio and going into final mix stage on the new CD”. No word on the release date yet. In other news, Realms of Fantasy Magazine has published an interview with Ritchie and his better half: WL: Is there any question that you’ve always […]
Read more »Fender, Marshall, Aiwa, Lace Sensors and BSM
A small German company called BSM will present it’s new treble booster guitar pedal at the upcoming Musikmesse which will be held in Frankfurt at the end of March. The pedal aims at recreating the Mk2 Blackmore’s sound. BSM already has a line of booster pedals built to emulate the tone of various guitar players […]
Read more »Blackmore’s Night reissues
First four Blackmore’s Night albums are apparently being deleted by SPV and will be reissued by the in-house label Minstrel Hall Music. Differences from the previous pressings are summarized below. Shadow of the Moon (MHM001) Tracklist as per the 1998 UK re-issue/US release. Artwork at the rear loses the BMG logo and gains the MHM […]
Read more »Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow and other things
The Rainbow Fanclan has a new interview with Graham Bonnet where he delves into some historical anecdotage: – You recorded “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” before you were in Rainbow, so I assume it was your idea to do it live. No, not at all [laughs] – Did Ritchie hear you sang it before. […]
Read more »Where extremes meet
October this year saw both banjo players touring the Eastern part of the North American continent with their respective bands. Which gave some of us the opportunity to see Blackmore’s Night and Steve Morse Band within a matter of days.
Misty-eyed night with Blackmore
This was one of the best shows I’ve been to in a long time. It’s been years since I’ve seen Ritchie perform live as the opportunities are few and far between. I see DP whenever they come around but in a way, this was more fun. My impression of Ritchie as dark and moody has […]
Read more »Stormbringer coming
David ‘Rock’ Feinstein told Classic Rock magazine a story of Blackmore the weatherman causing a riot by refusing to go on stage: It happened when I was in Elf in the early 1970s. We supported Deep Purple at an outdoor show in the grounds of Cornell University, in Ithaca, Upstate New York. It was a […]
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