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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!
@7
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 🤭)
I wasn’t fooled: The Wizard Of Oz is way too cerebral and emotionally deep to have served as an inspiration for Rainbow Rising which was an album aimed at teenage boys with a taste for graphic novels.
April 2nd, 2025 at 21:09I saw this video some days ago, they show Ritchie’s “mansion”.
April 3rd, 2025 at 00:22It’s called “The Lifestyle of 2025”.
I don’t know if it is their actual property, but it seems very nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32MpPWRoAQ
@2: Bad pun alert: “Ritchie is ok with it, I guess he went with the flow.”
April 3rd, 2025 at 09:53Was that intentional?
(Actually it’s quite good!!)
Paulo, that feature with the horrible bot-voice is a piece of AI-generated – excuse my French – unmitigated garbage or in high German : ein Haufen Scheisse. The type of crap that seems to populate YouTube these days, brrrrrr …
None of the homes shown are even remotely like anything he has ever lived in (even Ritchie‘s mock-Renaissance interior design taste is better than the blandness shown in the vid), be it on the out- or inside. Ritchie and swimming pools 😆 – I don‘t even know whether he can (swim I mean), but neither his house in Connecticut nor the one in Long Island had/has one, not a relevant pastime for him (and in Mount Sinai you have in any case a beautiful beach and seashore within walking distance).
Beware of stuff like this and really anything with a bot-voice.
April 3rd, 2025 at 10:24I only hear it from Martin Popoff Uwe, true or not. Cheers !
April 3rd, 2025 at 11:19#7 …and later, RJD was prophetic too, when he sang “The Lady of the Lake (Tahoe)” over fellow singer DC.
Speaking of “Over the Rainbow,” it occurs to me that I saw this band live with Ritchie’s son Jürgen Blackmore, JLT, Bobby Rondinelli, Paul Morris, and Greg Smith. Except for Jürgen, all of them were former members of Rainbow. Jürgen, of course, didn’t have his father’s charisma, but he can definitely play the banjo. JLT also performed the songs of RJD and Graham Bonnet very convincingly. Unfortunately, Jürgen’s health isn’t so good.
April 3rd, 2025 at 13:08Just saw on Blabbermouth we almost lost Ritchie to a heart attack last year. Best wishes Ritchie to have many healthy years going forward.
April 3rd, 2025 at 16:23Matthew @11: I won‘t leak that info! 😎
Thanks for the health report,
https://blabbermouth.net/news/ritchie-blackmore-suffered-a-heart-attack-about-a-year-and-a-half-ago-hes-got-six-stents-his-wife-says ,
Timmi, I‘m somehow not surprised, he’s looked aged in the last two years, no trips to Europe since the pandemic was conspicuous and of course he was a hard drinker for much of his adult life. I can understand his hesitancy about international touring, he wants to see his teenage kids grow up. I‘d have no issue seeing Ritchie in a chair at a gig, but I‘m fine with however he decides. No more heart attacks please, don‘t be Rick Parfitt.
April 3rd, 2025 at 21:36@12 Uwe thanks for the warning. I was really suspicious, that pool outdoor at that latitude should freeze at the point of an ice skating arena or a hockey court 😀
April 4th, 2025 at 00:49No way is Blackers in that Rick Parfitt realm Uwe. All that Colombian powder that Rick inhaled was his downfall wasn’t it. Plus a few other factors, Ritchie’s latest health issue is age related we would think. Having said that I knew a chap years ago who had a quintuple bypass at 42 years of age. Bad luck perhaps although he admitted he hadn’t looked after himself in his younger days. To get to 80 years or thereabouts, Blackmore has done ok it seems. Cheers.
April 4th, 2025 at 10:13Parfitt liked to have a drink too, it wasn’t just the cocaine (though that is a real heart killer, no doubt). The thing with him was that he continued touring with his bad heart with Quo long after the doctors had told him not to anymore – until he fell clinically dead backstage after a gig in Turkey and Rossi had to watch him being reanimated for like a quarter of an hour until he came back, commenting: “It was horrible to watch as his body jerked again and again and at one point I just thought, please stop and just let him die.”
You can do perfectly fine with bypasses. The dad of a friend of mine received some at a comparatively young age some 30 or even more years ago and is now approaching 100. But regular transatlantic travel isn’t perhaps the greatest idea for Ritchie at this point.
Maybe if they dismantled one of the many redundant German castles and flew that over (with appropriate tariffs of course) to Long Island, he could have the best of both worlds?
Anyway, anything that is good for Ritchie’s health, is ok by me. If one day there is a final Blackmore’s Night gig in the Northeastern US, I wouldn’t even rule out flying over to be there. That’s how devoted a caustic bastard I am.
April 4th, 2025 at 14:34Yes I do remember the Rick Parfitt scenario. Some people just keep going on and rock till they drop, cue John Entwistle. Certain actors have been known to do that too. Regarding the dismantled castle, ha ha ha, indeed, tariff’s, what tariffs? That wouldn’t be in the list of imported goods would it, so me thinks Blackers could very well get away with that. Cheers.
April 4th, 2025 at 21:34Regarding a ‘final’ goodbye appearance I could not see Ritchie being that silly, unlike some. This charade for O$$y’s farewell, oh I almost forgot, Black Sabbaths’ farewell says it all. As we are hearing and this is unfortunately predictable for poor ole Ozzy, he will only be making the odd little appearance and he will be sitting down. I also notice very few British or European musicians on that list. Hmmmmmmmmmm, KK Downing is there on the list somewhere representing the most influential of Sabbath inspired bands. Judas Priest are playing in Germany on that day with the Scorpions celebration of their career. We would NEVER see the Iron’s at anything to do with the O$Bourne’s after what happened 20 years ago or thereabouts at that O$$fest charade. Good on you Bruce, well done, loved that indeed. They (Sabbath) should have done this a decade ago without all the others ‘look at me’ hanging around for no good reason, if you know what I mean. A missed opportunity gone by and so be it. Better to be a little classy in your final appearance and to be remembered for what you were. Not how you are in this present day situation. Apparently the ‘profits’ are going to worthy charities and we hope that will be a positive. Live Nation, yeah right. Cheers.
April 4th, 2025 at 22:31