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Travelling on hold
Another interview with Candice Night, in which she reveals that Ritchie Blackmore’s touring career is, ahem, on hold. He was told by the doctors not to fly (at least for now), so any shows now can only be within the driving distance from their home in Long Island.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Candice seems very intelligent, kind and energetic, juggling family and career. I wonder just how bad Ritchie’s health is at this point: she’s doing a solo album, he has travel restrictions, etc.
April 3rd, 2025 at 19:32It’s not easy being older 😑
April 3rd, 2025 at 19:39I don’t watch these videos but I do sincerely wish Ritchie good health. Cheers.
April 3rd, 2025 at 22:19I don’t like to hear that. He’s the best there ever was.
April 3rd, 2025 at 23:11I’ve grown to like her. She has a beautiful voice and I agree that she is very intelligent. I still don’t care for BN music. However. Her new solo album sounds pretty good. Different.
Prayers for Ritchie. Hope he gets up and around soon.
As far as getting older, my departed mother used to say,”The golden years are not so golden.”
It‘s a bit like the old ‘A Star Is Born’ or “New York, New York” story, Ritchie’s career is coming to its logical biological end, but Candice, once his apprentice, still has a good many years before her, 26 years younger than Ritchie as she is.
Ritchie will be very lucky if he lives to see his kids finish college – that is the price you pay if you become a father (again) in your late 60s.
Even his first son Jürgen will be turning 61 this year, time flies.
April 4th, 2025 at 02:5380 in ten days! Very blessed age. Wish you aaaaaaall the best, RB. One can be mortal and someone´s legacy can be immortal…
April 4th, 2025 at 05:24I dont care much for their music but I do like Candice she´s very typical american who try to see all tgings from a positive side the glass is always half full..and I like that..even if I myself always see the glass as half empty…….
April 4th, 2025 at 09:08and #4 I agree.. Ritchie..”he´s the best there ever was!”
“I don’t watch these videos …”
You actually should, Herr MacGregor, overcome your BN allergy! I have a rightfully bad reputation for pouring derision on some of the aspects of BN’s music and image, but I have to say I enjoy her somewhat bubbling, over-detailed (you know how wimmin get to the point in the same way a bee approaches a flower
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236954809/figure/fig1/AS:393099697246214@1470733679715/An-example-flight-path-of-a-honeybee-after-being-displaced-and-then-released-The.png)
and very American-talkative interviews. She’s pleasantly unpretentious and unjaded, maybe that attracted someone as caustic as Ritchie to her. She has this very American, infectious “let’s do this” can do-attitude, a nuclear reactor of positivity, really an American frontiers woman.
https://lwlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/high-noon-gary-cooper-grace-kelly.jpg
April 4th, 2025 at 11:19I don’t watch it, me too, I’m not interested in this musical dullness 🤣
April 4th, 2025 at 15:55and I haven’t even seen the precedents for this complaint..
Can’t stand this massive flow of words. Talking, talking, talking. Don’t like the sugar on top of sugar on top of sugar on her very cheesy singing voice either.
April 4th, 2025 at 20:45cela me fait penser à certains Français qui déblatèrent sans avoir écouté ou vu BN….moi je n’aime pas du tout DP actuellement mais j’ai pourtant essayé de regarder plusieurs fois…. sans succès d’ailleurs….
April 5th, 2025 at 06:41@10
Karl! I agree completely!
April 5th, 2025 at 07:20Didn’t like to be the first to say that (women can sound so catty saying things like that about other women 😕)
But at least I can say I agree ☺️
I would love a little darkness with her so she wouldn’t give that impression of a Disney Princess.
Ignore what Karin writes, you know how wimmin don’t get along … 😈 😆
I will now don my shining armor and be Damsel Blackmore’s knight to defend her. In her so far released two lengthy interviews, she has spoken about subjects as diverse as:
– the cancer-related death of her father as well as the death of Ritchie’s brother,
– the impact of COVID social distancing on her and her family (no worries, she’s not a denier),
– the fact that her beloved kids are now “turning into teenagers that won’t even talk to their mother”,
– Ritchie’s health issues (cardio, a bad back, gout & and arthritis) and his changing life style, also how he grapples with increasing frailty (”he doesn’t want to be seen like that, but I look at it from the point of view of a fan, people wouldn’t care, they would want to see him play”),
– how Ritchie’s guitar playing is very lyrical and evokes pictures in her mind (Karin would approve!),
– the challenges of making a long term relationship work and how “life isn’t a fairy tale”, also how Ritchie took his time to commit (“we were engaged for the loooooongest time”),
– her frustration that by now she masters all these medieval and Renaissance instruments that no one knows or cares about (“when people ask me what I play and I mention them you can see the curtain go immediately down in their faces”),
– the specific role her mother, a former school teacher with zero experience in the music business, has played and continues to play in the management of BN and Ritchie’s DP past, how it is the first time that Ritchie can totally rely on someone for business matters and how the Spouses Blackmore use Candice’s mother to protect the family from the outside world and convey unpleasant messages if need be,
– oh, and she’s a fan of early Tull as Herr MacGregor will no doubt be delighted to hear.
Now here’s the thing as Joe Biden would say: She does all that with an upbeat, positive attitude and, yes, very detail-rich (but that is just how most women communicate as opposed to most men, Edith and I always jab each other about me recounting everything in such a reduced fashion she feels she “only gets thrown a bone” while I roll my eyes when she details her experiences “rather than getting to the point” to which she answers incredulously “BUT ALL THE DETAILS ARE IMPORTANT!” 😂). But given the standard of interviews on this site, lightweight her depictions and views aren’t. She’s also quite personal and frankly a more serious interview partner (yet still self-deprecating) than her hubby often cares to be who tends to hold his cards close to his chest and basically never gives anything personal away in an interview.
So here I am, after defending Taylor Swift, I’m now defending Candice!
April 5th, 2025 at 11:43@11
ok chérie, mais encore une fois, n’es-tu pas au mauvais endroit ?
April 5th, 2025 at 18:58😉
Ha. You’re great Uwe. I very much appreciate your eloquent writings here. And you too, Karin! Oh, French! Ouch. I studied only German language in school. I’m Swedish.
April 6th, 2025 at 05:12@13
“Ignore what Karin writes, you know how wimmin don’t get along … 😈”
What a load of….
Indeed we do!
Why do you think I didn’t want to be the first to give a mild criticism?
I know your Edith expresses appreciation of CN’s singing, and it’s not that I criticise!
What I don’t like is the – to use Karl’s expression:
“Don’t like the sugar on top of sugar on top of sugar”
Ok, come on! Life is lovely, but everything isn’t always pure bliss!
Sometimes you have to suck up the heartache and realise you can’t get everything you want or need, and that is how life is, most of the time actually!
The secret, as I see it, is to gracefully step over the worst puddles and find happiness in the small things.
And then, for all that is good and decent in the world, get some edge!
Drop the Disney Princess act, or as my brothers used to express it:
Grow a pair!
“how Ritchie’s guitar playing is very lyrical and evokes pictures in her mind (Karin would approve!),”
Ohh yeah!
April 6th, 2025 at 09:09I really don’t hope she has Synesthesia!
It’s lovely but can be draining. The other day I went for a walk with Anton, my dear doglet, and we live in this small village with a few streets, some houses, a church, a community center and a football field.
Really don’t know how many inhabitants we are, but I tell you, not that many.
Never the less, I lost my way 🫣 how embarrassing!
But I do have a very good time listening to music, reading and adding numbers 😄
@15
“Oh, French! Ouch.”
It’s really not that difficult Karl!
My brother was a professional soldier in France, and he had to learn French the hard way!
But as he told me:
A horse is called ‘le cheval’, and that’s how French is 😅
Ok maybe it’s a bit more complicated than that, but it’s a beautiful language!
Nice to know a fellow Scandinavian ☺️
April 6th, 2025 at 09:14“Nevertheless, I lost my way 🫣 how embarrassing!“
Tell René I recommend the purchase of an electronic dog trace collar for you to wear around your neck so he can retrieve you inconspicuously (i.e. without the aid of local law enforcement, you know how people talk in these small towns) should such incidents repeat more often.
No need to thank me, I always attempt to be helpful, it’s my natural state.
“The funny lady with the dog who thinks that Ian Gillan was popular in Denmark is lost on the beaches again …” 🤭
April 6th, 2025 at 12:43I’m trying to picture this: Karin’s brother in his fetching Danish uniform, tall, lean, blond and blue eyes breaks the hearts of countless mademoiselles who all gush over him in the little French garrison town he was stationed at. And she calls that “learning French the hard way”. I bet. 😂
https://images.app.goo.gl/UfadDu52qozhjNq38
April 6th, 2025 at 17:00“My brother was a professional soldier in France …”
Or did you wish to indicate, chère Karin, that your brother had, uhum, personal reasons to seek a new identity courtesy of France’s finest, the Légion étrangère?
https://images.app.goo.gl/ycahozPgpsuKVxJA8
They have a lot of Scandinavians and Balts in their ranks, just sayin’! 🤔 (It used to be a lot of Germans, especially those who had their blood group tattooed under their arm and preferred service in the Légion to a prolonged stay in French POW camps after 1945 …)
April 6th, 2025 at 20:18I never knew Ritchie had had a heart attack, that’s really shocking …I know he likes his beer but he never smoked and watched his weight …hope he’s OK…he’s a definite hero of mine and we owe him soooo much .
April 6th, 2025 at 21:06Candice better stop getting him so excited and hide his blue pills !
@ 18 – Uwe, Karin’s little doglet would most probably have one of those collars, so all Karin has to do is stay with her little friend, too easy. Cheers.
April 6th, 2025 at 22:42“@11
ok chérie, mais encore une fois, n’es-tu pas au mauvais endroit ?”
je pense que c’est toi qui est au mauvais endroit et aussi un problème “d’égo” en France on peux exprimer ses opinions en toute liberté ne te déplaise…..et respecter chacun, ce que tu ne fais manifestement pas !!!!
April 7th, 2025 at 05:55@23
Tu as raison, bien sûr ! excusez-moi!
April 7th, 2025 at 11:16@22
Well MacGregor, Anton is very good at figuring things out, more than me actually ☺️
April 7th, 2025 at 11:17But it was an example of how annoying Synesthesia can be!
Yeah, very good advice, Steve, leisurely trips to football games in Buffalo are ok, but careful with those Viagra Falls. 😎
April 7th, 2025 at 11:40MacGregor @22, you’re of course right and as long as all construction sites in East Jylland are properly secured – as I’m sure they must be – all will be well, won’t it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVGMsMws9Y
April 7th, 2025 at 15:20@ 27- Oops, missed by THAT much. A one eyed sniper, what could go wrong eh? Cheers.
April 7th, 2025 at 21:19@27
Well Uwe, if I do have to die like that, I certainly wouldn’t mind that it was the great, fantastic and wonderful Michael Palin who did the deed!
April 8th, 2025 at 05:38What a way to go: breathing my last breath to the sound of him giggling 😍
Don’t avoid the subject, Karin, was your brother now with the French Foreign Legion or wasn’t he? Stuff like that is interesting on a site populated by men largely stuck in their adolescent tastes and fantasies! 🤣
April 8th, 2025 at 11:12@30
My brother, the one true Viking, was indeed in the foreign legion!
He was an amazing man, I love him dearly and he was amazing through and through!
He didn’t run and hide, he was just brilliant 💜
April 8th, 2025 at 11:34From French Foreign Legion veterans back to Long Island, home of romance in music: As promised, Candice performs songs off her new album while Ritchie Bla(cka)dder is following nature’s call at BN gigs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1hX3CeA-QA
The song is actually preferable to a lot of stuff BN put us through.
And then there is always the absolutely devout Purplite Phil Aston of Now Spinning Magazine and his lovable childrens’ TV show presenter demeanor and brilliant Brit nasal accent, he let’s Candice have a word …
or two …
or three hundred … (ad lib):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoZmO5GKFuA
Plus Candice before the green screen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sYtBO1bASY
April 17th, 2025 at 21:31@32
Ritchie Bla(cka)dder 🤣🤣🤣
Uwe, do you really like her singing?
April 18th, 2025 at 11:05