Ritchie Blackmore today

For those who don't seem to care for the direction Brian and Roger have taken these days... I just don't know how to react to this. Deep Purple meets Game of Thrones? It seems the only person who can put up with Blackmore these days is his wife. I hope the old schmuck is finding the peace that he clearly needs. I can only wonder what people here would be saying if Brian May started playing songs off the early Queen albums like this... !!?

If that is going to happen... there will be a guy with a copy of "Catcher in the Rhye" in his hands... ...."Are you Brian May ?"

Oh dear.

[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]

If that is going to happen... there will be a guy with a copy of "Catcher in the Rhye" in his hands... ...."Are you Brian May ?"[/QUOTE]

Ha ! Oh my, that seriously isn't funny.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]For those who don't seem to care for the direction Brian and Roger have taken these days...

I just don't know how to react to this. Deep Purple meets Game of Thrones?

It seems the only person who can put up with Blackmore these days is his wife. I hope the old schmuck is finding the peace that he clearly needs.

I can only wonder what people here would be saying if Brian May started playing songs off the early Queen albums like this... !!?[/QUOTE]
yeah i get what you're saying, but two :-
It's not as if this is some "fad" for him - he's been doing this since the late 1990s.
secondly, it's nice to see him relaxed and a little more at peace - he's not threatening Gillan these days is he?
thirdly, some of it works - and he does occasionally get the strat out during BK gigs.
lastly, part of me still holds out a small amount of hope (extremely naively optimistic hope) that there could be a MkIII Purple hybrid thing go ahead - after all Coverdale & Hughes are still about..

I keep waiting for some dwarves to dance around a 1:18 scale copy of Stonehenge.
And it needs more cowbell.

Why did I expect to see at the end a crazy naked fat guy in a wooden cage brought to the stage? Anyway it's sad to see one of the best hard rock/heavy metal guitar players to end like this, at least he looks like he's having fun

I think if you were as high as a kite on drugs it might make this style of music bearable.Ritchie still looks as misserable as he ever was.He does not need the money so i guess he just does what pleases him.Don't think he would rejoin Purple again but would be great if he did.

he is having fun.
think about it - this is the longest continuous project he's been involved in.
purple - 1968-74
rainbow - 1974-84
purple - 1984-93
rainbow - 1994-97
BK - 1997-2014 (initially 1995)

he'd have thrown his toys out of the pram by now.

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]

he is having fun.
think about it - this is the longest continuous project he's been involved in.
purple - 1968-74
rainbow - 1974-84
purple - 1984-93
rainbow - 1994-97
BK - 1997-2014 (initially 1995)

he'd have thrown his toys out of the pram by now.
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very true, but i must say im not a fan. i thought the first tour, and album was interesting, but not anymore. however i do sometimes wonder if this was an influence on BM's acoustic tours with Kerry Ellis.

As for the Coverdale fronted Purple re forming. im sure that there was something in Classic Rock magzine earlier this year about it being on the cards

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]

he is having fun.
think about it - this is the longest continuous project he's been involved in.
purple - 1968-74
rainbow - 1974-84
purple - 1984-93
rainbow - 1994-97
BK - 1997-2014 (initially 1995)

he'd have thrown his toys out of the pram by now.
[/QUOTE]


I dont even try to keep track of all the different lineups of Deep Purple and Rainbow............gives me a headache........

Another staggeringly talented old man caught firmly in the grip of The Hairy Lasso. That's all.

Yeah, I could envision Brighton Rock being given this 'new' 'Child In Time' presentation....ouch (then again, maybe this COULD end up on 'Game of Thrones';-))

However, it's not as bad as the Geoff Tate/Queensryche (now Operation:Mindcrime) circus try to stomach the intros and bits here and there....truly painful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpBlDz01YBo

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b] - he's not threatening Gillan these days is he? [/QUOTE] Nope. [QUOTE](extremely naively optimistic hope) that there could be a MkIII Purple hybrid thing go ahead - after all Coverdale & Hughes are still about..[/QUOTE] Fun fact about Wizard - my favourite Purple album is Burn, so I share that sentiment.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]
- he's not threatening Gillan these days is he?
[/QUOTE]Nope.
[QUOTE](extremely naively optimistic hope) that there could be a MkIII Purple hybrid thing go ahead - after all Coverdale & Hughes are still about..[/QUOTE]
Fun fact about Wizard - my favourite Purple album is Burn, so I share that sentiment.
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funny that sometimes it's my favourite too. alternates with MH. MH woulda been the perfect rock album if the original release had included WABMC
As for the interview - Gillan is a c*nt. 20 years after RB left purple he's still making his sarky little comments "we can talk about Ritchie if you want to, no one does these day"
and as for the band dying:-
Like he didn't contribute to that in any way? His current karoke purple have killed the band - that last album - with all the autotune on his vocals - shite.