Can totally relate to that. I always got the right answer using my way but because I couldn't show the working out I was penalised. No room for those that think outside the box. Thanks for that Richie. 👍
I remember some interview of him saying he used to look out the window a lot at school, and when he met Dylan and Dylan said 'who the hell are you?' Ritchie just walked away and then continued to look out the window lol. Love those dry humour down to earth stories.
I think Ritchie said Frank Sinatra once asked him - 'Who are You' ? ...& Ritchie said -''What' ?...lol....Then Ritchie said -'That's when I decided to take up the Medieval approach because FRANK WASN'T AROUND THEN'. .......lol
That's not the purpose of schools - never has been. Their purpose is 1, to teach you how to conform to your society and 2, to teach you how to pass exams.
Fantastic Ritchie, despite being 16 years younger, what Ritchie said happened to me too. I never loved school even though I graduated and practiced as a surveyor, the approach of the teachers of the past even in Italy was no different. On the other hand, he was a beacon in music for me and for me he is the greatest rock guitarist ever ...
No I haven't but I will. Besides Ritchie I love Page, Clapton, Howe, Iommi, Townshend, George Harrison. I met Ritchie , Page & Howe! Now I'm just bragging🤣🤣🤣
@@Morticia1313 I've noticed on Rory reminders that a lot of people and younger people are saying they have only just discovered Rory thanks to youtube he's always had a hard core following though
That's Richie. Listen closely. He's really funny." Started killing people. " He throws those out a lot. You need to listen since there's no inflection in the sentence. I think he's got a great sense of humor.
He's got a droll sense of humor. His parents helped shape his career. I longed for a guitar or piano as a child but never got one. I'm envious he was so well supported but that's what parents should do.
I have to agree many of the lyrics in the late 60's songs, especially from Britain, were used to create a mood. They were abstract and open to interpretation. The song meant anything you wanted it to mean.
Excellent interview!!! I love his dark humor.... I remember reading stories of practical jokes that Ritchie played on other band mates and crew members on the road....so funny!!!👍🎸
🌹I thank the Lord Ritchie Blackmore took the best path, not the expected one. 🤦🏻♀️I was forced to go to a Catholic Elementary School and when I told my Dad, in grade 2, that me and my 4 Sisters were hit on the hands with rulers when we made a mistake, he put us all in Public School the very next day. When my Father asked my older Sisters why they never told him, they said they were told not to. I had a big mouth in grade 2 and I have a "smartmouth" now,🤦🏻♀️when it comes to cruelty. I♥️love🇬🇧🎼🎓Ritchie Blackmore. 🇨🇦✌🏻🎶🎸✍🏻♥️✨🌎💫
Such great stories. Not to jump in and make me part of Ritchie's story, but I had a similar experience in grade school. I could do the math, but because I didn't do the steps taught in the class, I was given an F on the homework. Carry On Ritchie.
I got called out on that, too, but "fortunately", my math teacher just put me up in front of the classroom to show how to solve the problem the way she'd taught us. I wonder if Ritchie's teacher knew Leonard Skinner. 😊
At 2:30 I have a great deal of sympathy for Ritchie....Here he looks genuinely upset remembering his Father trying to invalidate Whiter Shade of Pale with that dismissive comment when it was obviously a piece of music which had clearly moved Ritchie as a young man in a way which to him was significant....I remember moments in my childhood when my elders were insensitive like that & I recall how it hurt me too so I can empathize.... I think I heard later that Ritchie's Father felt proud of him for the Concerto for Group & Orchestra. Ironically of course Ritchie felt it to be a diversion from him evolving hard rock.
I think Ritchie's Dad was a very 'logical' man. Possibly 'over logical'...The trouble with purely 'logical' people is that they they take everything so LITERALLY (like a science textbook) that in some ways they become limited in how they can see the world. They privilege the literal sense in ways that prevent them from seeing & appreciating ART which uses language to DEPICT things by ANALOGY. Which affect the emotions ontologically in ways science & mathematics CAN'T ....I think even as a young man Ritchie was a sensitive creative artist who could intuitively appreciate this in ways his Dad could not .
“..being a sergeant everything had to be correct..” he says, so as a military man it makes sense that his father was accustomed to and insisted on everything done by the book.
@@therealjustincase In interviews Ritchie is actually very candid about his history....He was born in an era where parents & their children didn't talk about their feelings much & it was part of culture at the time which prescribed this.Especially in Britain...In another interview Ritchie talks about being told to 'smile' for a photo which is rather like being told to fake your emotions on someone else's command....Complying with that could leave you feeling very inauthentic. With regard to the 'moodiness' which has been said by others about Ritchie he himself said it wasn't his parents he was blaming to be fair to him....Ritchie was right to see the phoneyness of the school system & how it was abused to wield unjust power like with that Maths teacher. I witnessed things in my childhood like that too. I think with Ritchie the 'mean, moody & magnificent aura might have been part of the showmanship he learned from the early days in his career like Joe Meek, & Gene Vincent . & the 'Hammer Horror' dark image of Christopher Lee's Dracula ..lol.....Remember, we are talking about a musician with a medieval sensibility with a love for castles who used to gig with Lord Sutch coming out of a coffin dressed as Dracula.....lol....Ritchie was a creative sensitive soul who expressed much more emotion through his INSTRUMENT than by word of mouth. That was his ultimate expression of himself ...Because notes, melodies & phrasings are just beyond words. I think Ritchie would tell you that. Because Ritchie needed to express himself through his instrument & music.... I can understand why an inauthentic manifestation of emotion like smiling on demand would feel totally alien to him. One doesn't fake ones emotions by contorting ones face on instruction.....One expresses one's emotions by picking up a guitar and spontaneously expressing ones emotions through it.
Ritchie I can see you as the type of student who psychologically tortured teachers. 😉. You're still my favorite guitarist & influence after all these years (decades). Ritchie Blackmore is also the coolest name in Rock. 🎸
The solo on smoke on the water was a gift by Blackmore to the world.He wrote it with an association to the lyrics.U could get a hundred guitarist to rewrite that, maybe even better. BUt it will never sound like it's place in the song.
Yeah I absolutely hated school!.. and everybody at school absolutely hated me too!.. and parents I didn't have any parents!.. my mother was absolutely Satan on Earth I'm serious!
I hate getting photographed. As a 70's child I had to smile like an idiot, every photograph became a stressful event. I'd be interested if Mr Blackmore had similar experiences, possibly explaining press events and meeting the public later on.
I had the same childhood experiences and parents. Aside from being English, I do think it has to do with the Scorpio Ascendant. It's the toughest (it's mine too). It makes the most important house in the horo(r)scope, the Imum Coeli, fall in the cold and detached sign of Aquarius. Mr.Blackmore found the best solution (and salvation), a warm Taurus partner (Taurus falls in the 7th house of marriage and relationships).
His childhood and upbringing explains a lot about the musical expression of the mystical man. Amazing player.
Can totally relate to that. I always got the right answer using my way but because I couldn't show the working out I was penalised. No room for those that think outside the box. Thanks for that Richie. 👍
I remember some interview of him saying he used to look out the window a lot at school, and when he met Dylan and Dylan said 'who the hell are you?' Ritchie just walked away and then continued to look out the window lol. Love those dry humour down to earth stories.
I think Ritchie said Frank Sinatra once asked him - 'Who are You' ? ...& Ritchie said -''What' ?...lol....Then Ritchie said -'That's when I decided to take up the Medieval approach because FRANK WASN'T AROUND THEN'. .......lol
My favorite guitarist of all time: Ritchie Blackmore! :)
Good to hear that schools haven’t changed over the decades in regards to stunting creativity and free thinking.
That's not the purpose of schools - never has been. Their purpose is 1, to teach you how to conform to your society and 2, to teach you how to pass exams.
Fantastic Ritchie, despite being 16 years younger, what Ritchie said happened to me too. I never loved school even though I graduated and practiced as a surveyor, the approach of the teachers of the past even in Italy was no different. On the other hand, he was a beacon in music for me and for me he is the greatest rock guitarist ever ...
You are an all time favorite guitarist of mine! Love DP💜 & 🌈
Have you checked out Steve Hillage ?
No I haven't but I will. Besides Ritchie I love Page, Clapton, Howe, Iommi, Townshend, George Harrison. I met Ritchie , Page & Howe! Now I'm just bragging🤣🤣🤣
@@Morticia1313 do you like Rory Gallagher
To be honest I really never listened to Rory until maybe 10 yrs ago. He is excellent!
@@Morticia1313 I've noticed on Rory reminders that a lot of people and younger people are saying they have only just discovered Rory thanks to youtube he's always had a hard core following though
The Master. Thanks for the stories and the powerful music Mr. Blackmore.
Richi KING
So THAT IS WHY 😂
Great channel Ritchie... One of the greatest ever.
This as always should be some good entertainment rock history
That's Richie. Listen closely. He's really funny." Started killing people. " He throws those out a lot. You need to listen since there's no inflection in the sentence. I think he's got a great sense of humor.
Totally agree 👍 he has a wonderfully dry sense of humor.
He's got a droll sense of humor. His parents helped shape his career. I longed for a guitar or piano as a child but never got one. I'm envious he was so well supported but that's what parents should do.
He’s a highly intelligent person.
That's brilliant Richard, seeing the human side. An upbringing just like ours!
I'm a 63 year old father of teenage daughters. Started late like ritchie did.
Naughty boy. Talking 😉💚
😂🤣😅😂
🇨🇦✌🏻🎶♥️
I'm a few years younger than Ritchie, but my English childhood story is very similar. Still bare the psychological scars to this day.
Ritchie as Iconic as Jimi love to have a chat a drink with Ritchie
So glad you created this channel
Fascinating insight- wonderful stories
Imagine the 70'sblackmore to meet his teacher in the road,i dont want to know the dialogue hahaha
Oh, not only British parents of that time were so closed, cold and distant, even though your aproximately another 10 years older than me.
🚀🏴☠️🎸
Thanks a lot for the music and the inspiration that you have given and you still give, to us all....
im sad for you ritchie :(((( no one should have gone through that story in their lives, that was not fair :(
I have to agree many of the lyrics in the late 60's songs, especially from Britain, were used to create a mood. They were abstract and open to interpretation. The song meant anything you wanted it to mean.
Excellent interview!!! I love his dark humor.... I remember reading stories of practical jokes that Ritchie played on other band mates and crew members on the road....so funny!!!👍🎸
🌹I thank the Lord Ritchie Blackmore took the best path, not the expected one.
🤦🏻♀️I was forced to go to a Catholic Elementary School and when I told my Dad, in grade 2, that me and my 4 Sisters were hit on the hands with rulers when we made a mistake, he put us all in Public School the very next day. When my Father asked my older Sisters why they never told him, they said they were told not to. I had a big mouth in grade 2 and I have a "smartmouth" now,🤦🏻♀️when it comes to cruelty.
I♥️love🇬🇧🎼🎓Ritchie Blackmore.
🇨🇦✌🏻🎶🎸✍🏻♥️✨🌎💫
keep them coming!!!!
Know what, I’ve heard this all before…yes,…Me!
Such great stories.
Not to jump in and make me part of Ritchie's story, but I had a similar experience in grade school. I could do the math, but because I didn't do the steps taught in the class, I was given an F on the homework.
Carry On Ritchie.
I got called out on that, too, but "fortunately", my math teacher just put me up in front of the classroom to show how to solve the problem the way she'd taught us.
I wonder if Ritchie's teacher knew Leonard Skinner. 😊
At 2:30 I have a great deal of sympathy for Ritchie....Here he looks genuinely upset remembering his Father trying to invalidate Whiter Shade of Pale with that dismissive comment when it was obviously a piece of music which had clearly moved Ritchie as a young man in a way which to him was significant....I remember moments in my childhood when my elders were insensitive like that & I recall how it hurt me too so I can empathize.... I think I heard later that Ritchie's Father felt proud of him for the Concerto for Group & Orchestra. Ironically of course Ritchie felt it to be a diversion from him evolving hard rock.
I think Ritchie's Dad was a very 'logical' man. Possibly 'over logical'...The trouble with purely 'logical' people is that they they take everything so LITERALLY (like a science textbook) that in some ways they become limited in how they can see the world. They privilege the literal sense in ways that prevent them from seeing & appreciating ART which uses language to DEPICT things by ANALOGY. Which affect the emotions ontologically in ways science & mathematics CAN'T ....I think even as a young man Ritchie was a sensitive creative artist who could intuitively appreciate this in ways his Dad could not .
“..being a sergeant everything had to be correct..” he says, so as a military man it makes sense that his father was accustomed to and insisted on everything done by the book.
@@therealjustincase yes
@@therealjustincase In interviews Ritchie is actually very candid about his history....He was born in an era where parents & their children didn't talk about their feelings much & it was part of culture at the time which prescribed this.Especially in Britain...In another interview Ritchie talks about being told to 'smile' for a photo which is rather like being told to fake your emotions on someone else's command....Complying with that could leave you feeling very inauthentic. With regard to the 'moodiness' which has been said by others about Ritchie he himself said it wasn't his parents he was blaming to be fair to him....Ritchie was right to see the phoneyness of the school system & how it was abused to wield unjust power like with that Maths teacher. I witnessed things in my childhood like that too. I think with Ritchie the 'mean, moody & magnificent aura might have been part of the showmanship he learned from the early days in his career like Joe Meek, & Gene Vincent . & the 'Hammer Horror' dark image of Christopher Lee's Dracula ..lol.....Remember, we are talking about a musician with a medieval sensibility with a love for castles who used to gig with Lord Sutch coming out of a coffin dressed as Dracula.....lol....Ritchie was a creative sensitive soul who expressed much more emotion through his INSTRUMENT than by word of mouth. That was his ultimate expression of himself ...Because notes, melodies & phrasings are just beyond words. I think Ritchie would tell you that. Because Ritchie needed to express himself through his instrument & music.... I can understand why an inauthentic manifestation of emotion like smiling on demand would feel totally alien to him. One doesn't fake ones emotions by contorting ones face on instruction.....One expresses one's emotions by picking up a guitar and spontaneously expressing ones emotions through it.
It would be interesting to hear what his parents thought when he became successful .
Ritchie I can see you as the type of student who psychologically tortured teachers. 😉. You're still my favorite guitarist & influence after all these years (decades). Ritchie Blackmore is also the coolest name in Rock. 🎸
It's not the name that makes a man, it's the🤍 spirit & soul. (;
🇨🇦✌🏻🎶♥️
@@rinalore 🤣
Привет ричи,ты лучший гитарист в мире.желаю тебе всех благ.
The solo on smoke on the water was a gift by Blackmore to the world.He wrote it with an association to the lyrics.U could get a hundred guitarist to rewrite that, maybe even better. BUt it will never sound like it's place in the song.
❤️🤟
My maths teacher told my mother i was a dreamer and would acheive nothing in life, he was wrong, I never became a teacher like him
Интересные воспоминания о детстве Ричи. Почему их не переведут на русский?
These teachers did not know about the potential danger to awake bare naked one day in an closed car on a ferry to Iceland :)
Until they did :)
What's the name of the song that was one of his favourites??? White by Shane Lapell(?)
“A whiter shade of pale” by Procol Harum.
@@therealjustincase thank you!!!!!!
@@therealjustincase funny thing that he was already 22 when this song came out, just few months prior of making a record with purple
Yeah I absolutely hated school!.. and everybody at school absolutely hated me too!.. and parents I didn't have any parents!.. my mother was absolutely Satan on Earth I'm serious!
Ritchie head back to purple perfect oppurtunity...
I hate getting photographed. As a 70's child I had to smile like an idiot, every photograph became a stressful event. I'd be interested if Mr Blackmore had similar experiences, possibly explaining press events and meeting the public later on.
Lol . I didn't want to excel and be like them ( teachers)
I'd like to know your regrets..Things you wish you could repair or change for the better or worse.
I had the same childhood experiences and parents. Aside from being English, I do think it has to do with the Scorpio Ascendant. It's the toughest (it's mine too). It makes the most important house in the horo(r)scope, the Imum Coeli, fall in the cold and detached sign of Aquarius.
Mr.Blackmore found the best solution (and salvation), a warm Taurus partner (Taurus falls in the 7th house of marriage and relationships).
"... I'm gonna be like them, and I don't wanna be like them..."
The idiosyncrasy of being a ritchie.
No, question he did "learn properly," it there?
Don't talk in class, Ritchie. What? Caning it is then. Repeat every day of the week. What school was it, St Mary's Catholic Inquisition Middle School?
Murder in my heart for the judge
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