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That Addams family at the end of the road
Candice Night was interviewed for the Folk N Rock podcast. She explains the title of her upcoming solo album, how exactly her hubby became involved in it, what it’s like to live in the house with a thousand guitars, and you get a peek at the medieval interior decor of the humble abode.
Thanks to Uwe for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
As rock star mansions go, the Blackmore home in Long Island is actually pretty low on the brag-o-meter. More cranky-eccentric (Addams Family alright!) than a demonstration of wealth. That actually fits in with Ritchie’s overall character: While he likes to earn a buck, he has never, even as a young man, squandered or shown off with money. Intact instincts insofar.
DC’s former Lake Tahoe home (bordering on … no definitely surpassing any recognized borders of the grotesque) still holds the undisputed crown among DP humble family dwellings.
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-coverdale-house-sells/
April 1st, 2025 at 09:50I had linked my comments on Candice’s interview already in a posting of mine in “The Last Good Bye” thread below (#19), but they make more sense here now (Svante/Nick, you’re free to erase them in the older thread):
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I listened to Candice’s interview (linked @16) all the way through (rhymes!) and I’m glad I did! It’s really deep, unaffected and pleasant:
– For the Ritchie acolytes: @20:45 she relates his involvement in The Last Goodbye, it was chiefly an arrangement thing and explaining to her producer what she wanted with her song idea. Ritchie immediately understood and acted as an interpreter.
– For those who worry about Candice & Ritchie as a couple because of the lyrics to the song The Last Goodbye: All is well. This year is their 35th year. But she says not everyone is that lucky and that they have many friends and acquaintances who have divorced/separated during that time. The Last Goodbye is, according to her, about realizing that moment in a relationship where you bury all hope and finally part. Her time with Ritchie has had ups and downs too and sometimes they need to get away from each other. Candice likes to travel and experience things, Ritchie hates it (likely done it too often and long in the past), so she does it by herself, often taking Autumn along for road trips and overnighters into other States.
– If you ever wondered why BN gigs have that lengthy instrumental middle part where the musicians solo and Ritchie leaves stage: He needs to pee, he can no longer spend 90 or more minutes on stage without following nature’s call. In future BN gigs that “bathroom break” will be used by Candice to present a couple of her own songs, Ritchie is ok with it, I guess he went with the flow.
– Size matters: Both Autumn (14) and Rory (13) are by now a head taller than their mother, she has become the family midget, her kids resting their chins on her head to taunt her.
– Autum’s and Rory’s voices will feature on a song on the album: Promise Me. Candice is happy to preserve Rory’s voice “before it breaks” which seems to be imminent.
– I KNEW IT, YET YOU DOUBTED ME: Autumn is a Swiftie! Candice surprised her and her two cousins (daughters of Candice’s brother, who lives in Charlotte with family, + also Swifties) by organizing tickets (no mean feat) to a Taylor Swift gig in Toronto last November. Candice loved every minute of it, not so much because of Taylor on stage, but because she was so moved by the three girls in front of her knowing every song and lyric and being totally immersed in the performance, lost in the very moment of it. Autumn said afterwards she would never need another present from he mother again, they “were good”. 😂
– Rory is not a Swiftie, but the day after the Buffalo Bills played (and won against!) the Kansas City Chiefs in the Highmark Stadium in Buffalo (close to the Canadian border), so he had something from the trip too.
It’s a charming interview, well worth your time.
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April 1st, 2025 at 15:29Is confirmed yesterday that Rainbow Rising album is based on the Wizard of Oz movie from 1920.
April 1st, 2025 at 16:54#1 Saw a discussion online about RB’s home a while back. It’s a large detached house at the end of a road, overlooking water. Seems it was purchased in his final days in Purple. It looks well-kept, but nothing that screams glittering wealth. I do get the impression from interviews he is not one for extravagance, or impressed with displays of it. A few drinks, a few parties, watching some German football, some music etc. is possibly quite enough. Having seen and experienced extreme wealth, such as limousines, first class air travel or private jets, 5 star hotels or castles, business meetings, and all the bowing and scraping that goes with those things, for most of his career, he clearly prefers the quiet life and simpler things.
April 1st, 2025 at 18:54What a great interview. Fantastic family values!. Candice, you are very special
April 1st, 2025 at 19:18The “humble abode” from the outside, ocean view (= Long Island Sound) not in the pic:
https://c2.vgtstatic.com/thumbll/4/2/42705-v1/ritchie-blackmores-house.jpg
What Candice has to say about it (in an interview 2007):
https://www.theaquarian.com/2007/10/24/blackmores-night-every-night-is-halloween/
“(Ritchie …) lives here in Long Island, he’s actually here right now sitting in the den. We have this house right on the water in a seaside town next to Port Jefferson. We are so close to nature here. Inside the house, he wanted this dungeon bar room. So we made this stone basement bar room. We invite people over and have amazing parties. Then we have another room that’s a studio here, but the house isn’t that big. When I first met him, he was living in this big Tudor house in Connecticut deep in the woods with Christmas lights on all year round inside. I used to walk in and hear this Renaissance music playing all the time. And now, I hear this music and it brings me back to those butterflies in my stomach. It’s so nostalgic.”
The “seaside town” near Port Jefferson is likely either Poquotte or Belle Terre.
Ritchie’s Tudor style dwelling in Connecticut from pre-Candice days is probably known to many of us from home stories of the late 70s and 80s (I certainly recognized it immediately), he gave it up in 1993 when he moved to Long Island (where Candice comes from) – you know how persistent wimmin can be!
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/64/11/d7/6411d7b14702b11d39bbb52c1e971abc.jpg
Frankly, even the Connecticut home doesn’t qualify for me to be in the Lake Tahoe league, certainly not price-wise, if you would have had 800.000 bucks spare change in 2018, it could have been yours, including the bar imported from England on behest of an unknown “British rock band member”.
“Another library area can be found in the lower-level of the house, which also features an “English pub” with a bar imported from England by one of the previous homeowners, who was in a British rock band.” 😂
https://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Habitat-English-Tudor-with-rock-n-roll-12995541.php
Ah yes, Ritchie is a man to not only leave musical marks wherever he’s been …
Interestingly (and like a lot of things in the US of A), it is anything but a historic building, having been built only as recently as 1983.
April 1st, 2025 at 19:30I have now learned from people who know better that the “seaside town” next to Port Jefferson is the one after Belle Terre: Mount Sinai.
So that song by RJD, what was it called again … Man On The Sinai Mountain was quite prophetic. 😁
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Timmi @3, you lil’ April jokester, you sure have an early copy of The Wizard of Oz! 1920 you say? Mine is from 1939. Yours must be the silent movie version. No “Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore, we must be over the rainbow-rainbow-rainbow …” 😂
April 2nd, 2025 at 14:28@3
😄😄 ok I almost fell for that one!
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April 2nd, 2025 at 18:15Thank you Uwe for not letting this dumb blond be completely laughed out (or maybe I shouldn’t write this in here then 🤭)