Ritchie Blackmore

Ritchie Blackmore ( born April 14, 1945 in Weston -super- Mare, North Somerset ); actually Richard Hugh Blackmore, is a British guitarist and songwriter. Blackmore was primarily known as a founding member of the rock bands Deep Purple and Rainbow. In 1997 he founded together with Candice Night, the Renaissance rock band Blackmore 's Night.

3.1 Deep Purple
3.2 Rainbow
3.3 Blackmore 's Night

Life

As Blackmore was eleven years old, his father a year bought him his first guitar at the Blackmore first classical guitar lessons got what has to date heavily influenced his style: " If I was going to play this thing, hey what Either going to have someone teach it to me Properly, or hey what going to smash me across the head with it. So I actually Took The lessons for a year - classical lessons -. And it got me on to the right footing, using all the fingers and the right strokes of the plectrum and the nonsense did goes with it "

In the 1960s he played in some lesser-known bands, such as The Outlaws. Among the music producers, this skill had soon spread and he was often heard as an unnamed studio guitarist on countless singles as a sideman. In particular, with producer Joe Meek, he worked frequently together. In addition to many other bands and artists, he accompanied several times the British shock rocker Screaming Lord Sutch.

Deep Purple

In 1968, Blackmore co-founded with keyboardist Jon Lord the band Roundabout, which later became Deep Purple emerged. At first, he played a Gibson ES -335, but then switched to the Fender Stratocaster as the preferred instrument. With its unique, powerful virtuoso style, he influenced an entire generation of rock guitarists. He invented both very catchy riffs ( Smoke on the Water, Woman from Tokyo, Burn ), excelled the other hand, with melodious as well as fast solo passages, which often lasted for live concerts for many minutes. The spaces between the frets of his Stratocaster guitars are concave hollowed out ( scalloped ) in order to produce a clean vibrato with your fingers can. In order to achieve a better sound, altered Blackmore often the pickups of his guitar. He also used more frequently than many other guitarists at the game the thumb and little finger of the left hand.

While acknowledging his talent Blackmore was a long time as a difficult and contentious personality. His eccentric stage behavior can best be illustrated by Deep Purple gig in 1974 at the California Jam: After disputes with the ABC television Ritchie Blackmore lost at the end of the concert temper and hit his head on his guitar in the lens of a television camera. He then opened his place one of his three Marshall towers of his roadie on fire; However, by using too much gasoline as an accelerant, the situation got out of control and ended in a violent explosion that hurled the guitar almost from the stage; the demolished parts of the equipment threw Blackmore then into the audience. Overall Blackmore destroyed at this gig two of his guitars, however, these were to Stratocaster replicas. After he had gotten himself in 1975 ( successor as guitarist Tommy Bolin was ) and the band was finally dissolved in 1976, Blackmore was initiated in 1984, the reunion of Deep Purple.

When it came to conflicts between singer Ian Gillan and Ritchie Blackmore again, Ritchie Blackmore decided in 1993 to leave the band a second time, this time for good. His last concert with Deep Purple he gave on 17 November 1993 in Helsinki.

Exit and establishment of Rainbow

Ended early in 1975 Blackmore after disputes first his involvement with Deep Purple, among other things, because the rest of the band steadfastly refused, chose to cover the song Black Sheep of the Family. However, it came to musical differences between Blackmore and the rest of the band already during the recording sessions for the album " Stormbringer ". Then Blackmore formed the rock band Rainbow ( by he recruited musicians from the band " Eleven ", consisting of well-known rock musicians such as Ronnie James Dio ), which had especially to be booked on the German market, commercial success, and then - after tensions between band members - later to play with Deep Purple in a reunion together ( 1984-1993 ). From this period also Blackmore's habit, the final sentence Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony to speak at many concerts in conjunction with an extended guitar solo at Rainbow and Blackmore 's Night, or a guitar and organ solo on Deep Purple.

Rainbow - Reunion

1995 Rainbow was revived again under the name " Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow". From the time the album Stranger In Us All emerged. His later partner, life partner and now wife Candice Night can be heard on this album as a background singer. She has also worked as a songwriter for some pieces.

The last concert of this tour and era gave Ritchie Blackmore with his band at a festival in Esbjerg on 31 May 1997.

New music, old style

Since 1997, Ritchie Blackmore plays together with his wife and singer of the Renaissance rock band Blackmore 's Night, in the German medieval scene was especially popular. Old castles and palaces are often venues. Often he is accompanied by the German medieval music lineup Geyer as the opening act.

The song " Lorelei " from the album " Ghost of a Rose" (2003, SPV) was used as the theme music for ProSieben series Castle.

Private life

In May 1964 Blackmore Margit Volkmar married ( born January 3, 1945) from Germany. In the late 60s, they lived in Hamburg. From this marriage comes the son born in 1964, Jürgen R. Blackmore. After the divorce he married in September 1969 Bärbel Hardie, a former dancer. The marriage lasted until the early seventies.

Blackmore has been married since October 2008 fourth marriage to Candice Night and lives on the U.S. island Long Iceland (New York). Since mid-2010 Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night parents of a daughter ( Autumn Esmerelda ), which they dedicated their album Autumn Sky, which was created during Candice's pregnancy, and since February 7, 2012 a son Rory Dartanyan.

Quotes

"Many people ask me, ' What direction do you want? What is your message? ' I have, except much to drink no message. And I have no idea where I'm going, I just play - and has been for more than 50 years. "

Discography (excerpt)

Deep Purple

Shades of Deep Purple (1968 )
The Book of Taliesyn (1968 )
Deep Purple (1969 )
Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969 )
Deep Purple in Rock (1970 )
Fireball (1971 )
Machine Head (1972 )
Made in Japan (Live 1972)
Who Do We Think We Are (1973 )
Burn ( 1974)
Stormbringer (1974 )
Made In Europe (Live 1976)
Perfect Strangers (1984 )
The House of Blue Light ( 1987)
Nobody's Perfect (Live 1987)
Slaves and Masters (1990 )
The Battle Rages On (1993 )
Come Hell or High Water (Live 1994)
Perfect Strangers Live 1984 (CD / DVD 2013)

Rainbow

Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow ( 1975)
Rising ( 1976)
On Stage (1977 )
Long Live Rock'n'Roll (1978 )
Down to Earth (1979 )
Difficult to Cure (1981 )
Straight Between The Eyes ( 1982)
The Best of Rainbow ( 1981)
Bent Out of Shape ( 1983)
Finyl Vinyl ( 1986)
Live in Germany 1976 (1990)
Catch the Rainbow: The Anthology (2003)
Live - Cologne Sporthalle September 25, 1976 (2006)
Live - September 27, 1976 Dusseldorf Philips Hall (2006)
Live - Munich Olympiahalle October 20, 1977 (2006)
Live - Nuremberg Exhibition Centre September 28, 1976 (2007)
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Black Masquerade Live in Dusseldorf 1995 ( CD / DVD 2013)

Blackmore 's Night

Shadow of the Moon (1997)
Under a Violet Moon (1999)
Minstrels and Ballads (2001)
Past Time With Good Company ( 2002)
Ghost of a Rose ( 2003)
Best of Blackmore 's Night (2003)
Beyond the Sunset - The Romantic Collection ( 2004)
The Village Lanterne (2006)
Winter Carols (2006-2007)
Paris Moon (2 November 2007) DVD & CD
Secret Voyage (27 June 2008)
Autumn Sky (3 September 2010)
Dancer and the Moon (14 June 2013)

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