I dare to say that Richie is the best and most versatile guitarist that ever lived and Rainbow and Deep Purple as a whole had the best shows ever..truly amazing
Tecnica, suono e tono mostruosi, versatilità, velocità , fantasia, improvvisazione, carisma... Fanno di Blackmore uno dei principali artefici, interpreti ed innovatori del chitarrismo . Ma molti se lo dimenticano e mettono sempre Hendrix, Clapton, Page avanti a lui .... mah misteri della vita ! Hail to Ritchie !
Here's a guitarist, playing some blues out of the moment, varying over the gigs and years, always showing the pleasure of playing guitar, expressing his mood, ain't that the blues?
The best of Ritchie's blues though, one from Saarbrucken show (5.april 1975.)is missing. You can hear that blues on You Fool No One from Made in Europe from around 10:40 to 11:40 time mark.
Blues could have been Richie's strong suit if he'd decided to go that route but lets face it the man in Black only dabbled here. Played around for fun pulling more inspiration from BB King on most of these licks rather than Hendrix. As to the guy who calls himself bluesgolfer....give it up man. Blackmore is responsible for bringing articulate classical style to Rock Guitar. He is without any argument among the best Rock ever saw........he has virtually no peer. Hendrix and Beck are really about all there is in this league 'till Van Halen came along. Great players are easy to find.....lots of 'em out there now and back in the day. I;m a GIANT FAN of SRV....but he's a blues player who while great at what he does brought nothing especially new. There are very few that CHANGED the direction of Rock Guitar. Hendrix and Van Halen are probably the most obvious but Beck and Blackmore are there too. I play ......been doing so for 40 plus years.....and you can trust me when I say that it was Blackmore who first popularized the style of classical arpeggio in rock guitar leads, You may not like that style....maybe you prefer the blues but none the less. It changed things and the direction for a lot of players that followed. Only Hendrix and Van Halen made bigger impressions. Listen to the solos in Burn and then cue up the very popular Hotel California from a few years later....... when you can influence the direction of Joe Walsh and the most commercially successful band of the late 70s......you know you'v made a mark on the business and the instrument. The 1980s brought along with it a bunch of players that followed up on Ritchie's incredible playing and style. When you try to discount him as "insignificant or second rate.......you're only showing your ignorance of the topic at hand.
could not agree more. Man Ritchie could play some of the best hair rasing blues I've ever heard. I like him when he combines his classical influence in a blues setting such as Lazy. Studying his playing these last few months really opened my eyes. I am not a fan of the super fast Yngwie type playing, but every shredder that got paid in the 80's owes a huge debt to blackmore. Even the way he uses chords, using 4ths a lot, and just the top 3 notes of a major chord. That was the basis for countless 80's metal riffs. The man is a master, and he could go to the extreme like Beck or Hendrix. The riffs he wrote as well are just perfect, I like how with Purple songs you never know whats coming. Being a musician a lot of popular music I can predict whats coming next not with Purple.
I read once he always wished to set up a so-called power trio a compose a blues album. Too bad for all of us, and for himself too, he did not! He's among the very few real blues guitarists that exceed the usual blues patterns, adding up with extra rehearsal and sensitivity, I would say with a delicate approach in dosing the matching number of notes and trying to find the fitting notes
The best guitar solo from Ritchie Blackmore is on the Live In London (May 22th -1974 at Gaumont State in Kilburn by the BBC for radio broadcast, but was unreleased on vinyl until 1982) ... and this is not in YTB ! Uploading !!!! Ritchie Rules !
SRV may be the most over rated guitarist ever. I agree 100%. SRV had great technique but all he did was regurgitate albert king licks at high volume. He was very one dimensional. I love the blues, I call myself a blues player. However listenting to Hendrix, Beck, and Blackmore added a whole new twist on those tired old blues patterns. SRV was great when I first started playing but now hes like diet blues or blues light. Bonomassa is another one that bores me to tears.
Simp Simpson He is the worst!!!! Nothing cool or dangerous about him and he just shreds the same old wankery. No dynamics, no cool riffs, just fast pentatonic runs that novice guitar people think is soooo cool. Please go listen to Ritchie Blackmore and then listen to Bonomassa.
Toni Paradise no...i personally wouldnt go that far-in fact i take it back a bit - stevie had great tone -but i was saying blackmore was more disatinctive -i wasnt slighting stevie at all ....joe bonamasa is less identifiable than pretty much all the great rock guys -but then...finding a new identifiable tone must be hard to do after all these decades .
If you compare the first version ( where John Lord was on toilet) with the others , you can realize how important the organ support is for those blues sequences...
i play blues, with my dad, he is the only musician i take advice from, interestingly he said 'that's not bllues' i was shocked and asked him why, he was saying it was too in time and phrasing was wrong, for it to be be blues, he also said it was 'too well played' but like i say, i take on board things he says.. i still love this but i think its got that rock style, of being on the beat and too in time to be blues, i guess that was my dads point, you don't have to agree or believe me or him but people have asked to go pro all my life.. and probably before even, i can only say this, because everyone else does but he's a great old school vocalist / blues singer, i play lead guitar for him, he has said 'feel' to me my whole life lol, i kinda get what he means now and hopefully have some!
he even kinda linked to some of these guys, in about 1990 he had cozy powells drum cases in his shed lol, steve winstons drums were in them at the time, he played briefly in uriah heap i believe, he played with us at some random pub blues gigs and gigs and is still on same circuit as us, great drummer.. current guy played with lionsheart anthony christmas.. he is amazing i don't like name dropping, but guess i just did :D lol we are just a small pub band though, my dad knows bernie marsden too, he played in our garden around same time, surreal when i think about it now but just things i saw growing up.. i care not if people believe this or not, i am not trying to say my life is anything but boring and normal, or claiming to be a rich or something lol, my small experiences of meeting famous people told me speak to them normally and they will be ok! i was awestruck when i spoke to bernie though lol.
@blackmoremaniac Sorry, I meant that (for me) the best Ritchie live solo is in YFNO (From Live in London) that ends and starts with your 'Ritchie Blues' - 1:34 Live in London 22.05.1974 here in this vid. Long Live To Ritchie...The Only One !
In the 1970 Melody Maker when Jimi had just died Ritchie himself said that apart from his wife he had two inspirations - one was Jeff Beck and the other was Jimi Hendrix who he said was above all others.
@ritchierod sorry gus but listen carefully from 00.00 to 01.34 it's CalJam, then it's Live In London .. what's after Live In London blues I don't know as I haven't listened to the clip yet .. who cares if it's MIEurope ( Blues is from Paris 75 ) or CalJam 74 or Kilburn 74, it's Ritchie THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kind of funny alot of these dudes british players like blackmore felt blues was beneath them in reality but it is what they deep down really long to play
GREAT COMP VIDEO, Lots of great comments too. BUT REALLY, to say that Richie, _or anybody_ played circles around any of the great guitar players is just stupid. Throw out these names: Blackmore, Beck, Page, Clapton, SRV, Hendrix, Eddie _U-know-who_, & etc, etc, etc. The only people competent to say who was the *BEST* would be these guys themselves, certainly not us, biased fans.
If you listen to those guys, they will tell you Jeff Beck is the best. That's what Ritchie and Jimmy said, at least.. I would absolutely include Tommy Bolin in this short list.. he was an enormously talented guy, and very much ahead of his times; his playing, particularly on Billy Cobham's Spectrum album influenced Jeff's playing a lot, and changed his style for good
@MysterioFan02 He may have said it but doesn't mean he is right. I don't hear about guitarists chasing Blackmore's tone like people still chase SRV's tone to this very day.
About the vibrato thing... Didn't he say he thought people were using a bar for vibrato? All players don't know about certain aspects of playing until they see/hear it.
malmsteenblackstar many guitar players don't like playing Blues in C, more of a piano key for early classic blues .... its not as natural as G, E ,A....
@ChakaMadRealMad Chaka Angry Real Angry: I don't smoke anything. Clapton and Beck thought they were going to have to retire after hearing Hendrix. Clapton called SRV a world beater, a channel that the music flowed through and unlike others, Clapton never saw SRV pause and regroup to know where he was going next. People still chase SRV's tone. None of the above can be said about Blacknore. Ritchie didn't even know how to use vibrato until later in his career after seeing others use it.
@Sokkefar You've gotta get over this Hendrix fanaticism, it's not doing you any good. Ask Blackmore if Hendrix was ever that good, and he'll tell you to your face: No.
I dare to say that Richie is the best and most versatile guitarist that ever lived and Rainbow and Deep Purple as a whole had the best shows ever..truly amazing
Frank I second that.
Ritchie is very amazing! I love him and I can hear that he feels his emotions. Amazing.
What else can we say about "Man in black"? Long live,Ritchie!
Is this BB KING ?....ops no !!...This is Mr Ritchie Bluesy Man in Blackmore...The King...even playing the Blues...AMAZING....!
But first step of this blues is BB King's tune.
Tecnica, suono e tono mostruosi, versatilità, velocità , fantasia, improvvisazione, carisma... Fanno di Blackmore uno dei principali artefici, interpreti ed innovatori del chitarrismo . Ma molti se lo dimenticano e mettono sempre Hendrix, Clapton, Page avanti a lui .... mah misteri della vita ! Hail to Ritchie !
Still listening in 2024!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Here's a guitarist, playing some blues out of the moment, varying over the gigs and years, always showing the pleasure of playing guitar, expressing his mood, ain't that the blues?
Sir Richard Blackmore... Music master.
Suchs multi diverse musician 👍👍
this is more than epic, more than awesome..it's god playing, period!
Awesome, thanks a lot for compiling these together
this is magical..
Thank you for posting. I really like it.
Merci Ritchie pour l'ensemble de ta carrière
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Oui
Every time a different Blues
For someone who "shreds" he plays the blues well
Mate have you heard the song "Lazy" ? he plays the blues better than 99.9% of the blues players.
+Lorde mate I have listen to the song, and I'm praising him. He even said himself he was in a music no man's land, whether to play blues or classical.
The best ever!
GREAT!!!! LOve You!!!!
The best of Ritchie's blues though, one from Saarbrucken show (5.april 1975.)is missing. You can hear that blues on You Fool No One from Made in Europe from around 10:40 to 11:40 time mark.
Blues could have been Richie's strong suit if he'd decided to go that route but lets face it the man in Black only dabbled here. Played around for fun pulling more inspiration from BB King on most of these licks rather than Hendrix. As to the guy who calls himself bluesgolfer....give it up man. Blackmore is responsible for bringing articulate classical style to Rock Guitar. He is without any argument among the best Rock ever saw........he has virtually no peer. Hendrix and Beck are really about all there is in this league 'till Van Halen came along. Great players are easy to find.....lots of 'em out there now and back in the day. I;m a GIANT FAN of SRV....but he's a blues player who while great at what he does brought nothing especially new. There are very few that CHANGED the direction of Rock Guitar. Hendrix and Van Halen are probably the most obvious but Beck and Blackmore are there too. I play ......been doing so for 40 plus years.....and you can trust me when I say that it was Blackmore who first popularized the style of classical arpeggio in rock guitar leads, You may not like that style....maybe you prefer the blues but none the less. It changed things and the direction for a lot of players that followed. Only Hendrix and Van Halen made bigger impressions. Listen to the solos in Burn and then cue up the very popular Hotel California from a few years later....... when you can influence the direction of Joe Walsh and the most commercially successful band of the late 70s......you know you'v made a mark on the business and the instrument. The 1980s brought along with it a bunch of players that followed up on Ritchie's incredible playing and style. When you try to discount him as "insignificant or second rate.......you're only showing your ignorance of the topic at hand.
Blackmore had licks but I wouldn't quite say he's in the same league as beck.
could not agree more. Man Ritchie could play some of the best hair rasing blues I've ever heard. I like him when he combines his classical influence in a blues setting such as Lazy. Studying his playing these last few months really opened my eyes. I am not a fan of the super fast Yngwie type playing, but every shredder that got paid in the 80's owes a huge debt to blackmore. Even the way he uses chords, using 4ths a lot, and just the top 3 notes of a major chord. That was the basis for countless 80's metal riffs. The man is a master, and he could go to the extreme like Beck or Hendrix. The riffs he wrote as well are just perfect, I like how with Purple songs you never know whats coming. Being a musician a lot of popular music I can predict whats coming next not with Purple.
Wise and informed comment from someone who not only listens to but also knows music. Agree 100%. Well said Dogboy 1960
You left out one thing....... in YOUR humble opinion.
Par mim é um dos melhores guitarristas que eu já conheci
PRICELESS.THANK U
Sublime :)
Oh, my goodness!!!
What a great blues guitarist he'd have made had he put his mind to it.
I read once he always wished to set up a so-called power trio a compose a blues album. Too bad for all of us, and for himself too, he did not! He's among the very few real blues guitarists that exceed the usual blues patterns, adding up with extra rehearsal and sensitivity, I would say with a delicate approach in dosing the matching number of notes and trying to find the fitting notes
@@jeanclaudejaycee3472 :-)
Check out the Green Bullfrog sessions 🙂 he surely shows what he's got on the blues on that album
@@yvobroekhoven972 Ok, thanks for that, Yvo. Will do! :-)
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AFTER MR. JIMY HENDRIX, RITCHY BLACKMORE DE BEST.
Oh my Lord...
The best guitar solo from Ritchie Blackmore is on the Live In London (May 22th -1974 at Gaumont State in Kilburn by the BBC for radio broadcast, but was unreleased on vinyl until 1982) ... and this is not in YTB ! Uploading !!!! Ritchie Rules !
DIDNT KNOW HE WAS THIS GOOD!
Guitar God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i will mirror the other comments.. holy shit, he can blues!
"monsters of rock" aint too shabby either.
blackmore had a much more distinctive tone than SRV imo .
yep agreed..hugely underrated guitarist..father of heavy metal.. you can really hear all of the notes directly from the fingers, no fx here etc
SRV may be the most over rated guitarist ever. I agree 100%. SRV had great technique but all he did was regurgitate albert king licks at high volume. He was very one dimensional. I love the blues, I call myself a blues player. However listenting to Hendrix, Beck, and Blackmore added a whole new twist on those tired old blues patterns. SRV was great when I first started playing but now hes like diet blues or blues light. Bonomassa is another one that bores me to tears.
Yeah Joe Bore-namassa - God what a douche -
Simp Simpson He is the worst!!!! Nothing cool or dangerous about him and he just shreds the same old wankery. No dynamics, no cool riffs, just fast pentatonic runs that novice guitar people think is soooo cool. Please go listen to Ritchie Blackmore and then listen to Bonomassa.
Toni Paradise no...i personally wouldnt go that far-in fact i take it back a bit - stevie had great tone -but i was saying blackmore was more disatinctive -i wasnt slighting stevie at all ....joe bonamasa is less identifiable than pretty much all the great rock guys -but then...finding a new identifiable tone must be hard to do after all these decades .
If you compare the first version ( where John Lord was on toilet) with the others , you can realize how important the organ support is for those blues sequences...
i play blues, with my dad, he is the only musician i take advice from, interestingly he said 'that's not bllues' i was shocked and asked him why, he was saying it was too in time and phrasing was wrong, for it to be be blues, he also said it was 'too well played' but like i say, i take on board things he says.. i still love this but i think its got that rock style, of being on the beat and too in time to be blues, i guess that was my dads point, you don't have to agree or believe me or him but people have asked to go pro all my life.. and probably before even, i can only say this, because everyone else does but he's a great old school vocalist / blues singer, i play lead guitar for him, he has said 'feel' to me my whole life lol, i kinda get what he means now and hopefully have some!
he even kinda linked to some of these guys, in about 1990 he had cozy powells drum cases in his shed lol, steve winstons drums were in them at the time, he played briefly in uriah heap i believe, he played with us at some random pub blues gigs and gigs and is still on same circuit as us, great drummer.. current guy played with lionsheart anthony christmas.. he is amazing i don't like name dropping, but guess i just did :D lol we are just a small pub band though, my dad knows bernie marsden too, he played in our garden around same time, surreal when i think about it now but just things i saw growing up.. i care not if people believe this or not, i am not trying to say my life is anything but boring and normal, or claiming to be a rich or something lol, my small experiences of meeting famous people told me speak to them normally and they will be ok! i was awestruck when i spoke to bernie though lol.
magic guitar
the best
Damn!
that's why it's hard to categorize his Blues playing 'cause it's his own way hahahaha........he call the shots!!!!
@blackmoremaniac Sorry, I meant that (for me) the best Ritchie live solo is in YFNO (From Live in London) that ends and starts with your 'Ritchie Blues' - 1:34 Live in London 22.05.1974 here in this vid. Long Live To Ritchie...The Only One !
Ritchie "fuck🎸"Blackmore😎👊
Everybody knows everything? But no one of you academics heard in this solo some fine licks tipical for late Roy Buchanan.
Both Ritchie and late Gary Moore loved Master of Telecaster, Great Roy!
In the 1970 Melody Maker when Jimi had just died Ritchie himself said that apart from his wife he had two inspirations - one was Jeff Beck and the other was Jimi Hendrix who he said was above all others.
@ritchierod sorry gus but listen carefully from 00.00 to 01.34 it's CalJam, then it's Live In London .. what's after Live In London blues I don't know as I haven't listened to the clip yet .. who cares if it's MIEurope ( Blues is from Paris 75 ) or CalJam 74 or Kilburn 74, it's Ritchie THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kind of funny alot of these dudes british players like blackmore felt blues was beneath them in reality but it is what they deep down really long to play
GREAT COMP VIDEO, Lots of great comments too. BUT REALLY, to say that Richie, _or anybody_ played circles around any of the great guitar players is just stupid. Throw out these names: Blackmore, Beck, Page, Clapton, SRV, Hendrix, Eddie _U-know-who_, & etc, etc, etc. The only people competent to say who was the *BEST* would be these guys themselves, certainly not us, biased fans.
If you listen to those guys, they will tell you Jeff Beck is the best. That's what Ritchie and Jimmy said, at least.. I would absolutely include Tommy Bolin in this short list.. he was an enormously talented guy, and very much ahead of his times; his playing, particularly on Billy Cobham's Spectrum album influenced Jeff's playing a lot, and changed his style for good
Darn you missed the best one. Made in Europe.
@MysterioFan02 He may have said it but doesn't mean he is right. I don't hear about guitarists chasing Blackmore's tone like people still chase SRV's tone to this very day.
About the vibrato thing... Didn't he say he thought people were using a bar for vibrato? All players don't know about certain aspects of playing until they see/hear it.
Why only the last one is in C? Did they deliberately play in C or is the music detuned?
malmsteenblackstar many guitar players don't like playing Blues in C, more of a piano key for early classic blues .... its not as natural as G, E ,A....
bu adamın blues cu olmasını çok isterdim
@ChakaMadRealMad Chaka Angry Real Angry: I don't smoke anything. Clapton and Beck thought they were going to have to retire after hearing Hendrix. Clapton called SRV a world beater, a channel that the music flowed through and unlike others, Clapton never saw SRV pause and regroup to know where he was going next. People still chase SRV's tone. None of the above can be said about Blacknore. Ritchie didn't even know how to use vibrato until later in his career after seeing others use it.
@Sokkefar You've gotta get over this Hendrix fanaticism, it's not doing you any good. Ask Blackmore if Hendrix was ever that good, and he'll tell you to your face: No.
Sounds like he could have used a few lessons from SRV or Hendrix.
He doesn't need any lessons from anyone he is Ritchie Blackmore