Talk:Ritchie Blackmore

Slight change

Ritchie is not married to Candice, I have this on good authority as I work for the band in the UK on their promotions and PR. Candice is in fact his girl friend.

--Paulw99 15:00, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Added link

Is this Screaming Lord Sutch Black-Outfit info factual?

I added a link to Neo-classical metal. Also two links to interviews. Modi

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Lord_Sutch for a reference to Ritchie playing guitar on the album 'Hands of Jack the Ripper' (1972). Paulw99 08:52, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Cleaning Up

This needs sorting out, i'll tidy it up but leave the facts to others.Cokehabit 09:35, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Ok, all done. I added a picture and made it look more professional. Someone had tried to sort parts of it out but it had been left with some passages in it twice and sentences cut off in the middle. Cokehabit 11:02, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Isn't his middle name Hugh, not Harold?

No, Harold is correct; I changed it again.

Please note: Hugh is Ritchie's middle name, I can confirm this as I work for Ritiche's current band on promotions in the UK and have confirmed this with my boss (Ritchie)... The supposed official biography which said it was Harold was full of mistakes that some people have now come to believe, no official Ritchie Blackmore biography has been released to date. Paulw99 11:29, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Second Deep Purple album missing

Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't "In Rock" supposed to be the THIRD DP album? What about "The book of Taliesyn"? 'Twas released after "Shades of...", wasn't it? How could we forget a classic like "Wring that neck", the second track of the album. I think it was released in 1969, but I'm not sure right now and don't feel like looking it up, but I'm pretty sure it was released before "In rock", so the latter is in fact the third album, as I said. - comment by 80.58.15.170, 10 Dec 2005

Um, no. It goes "Shades of DP", "Book of Taliesyn", "Deep Purple", "Concerto for Group and Orchestra", "In Rock", "Fireball", "Machine Head," and then the "Made in Japan" live album.

There are additional live albums that could be inserted into this list, but they weren't released until decades later. "Concerto", on the other hand, was released at the time and needs to be included since it was the first appearance of DP Mark II. See the full list at Deep Purple#Studio Albums.

I rephrased the sentence -- it had used the word "next" to mean the "next album after the lineup change", which was confusing More importantly, the article on Blackmore does not need to list every Deep Purple album. That's why there's a Deep Purple page. Lawrence King 08:32, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Removal of Trivia Items

I added a small trivia section to Ritchie Blackmore's article, yet despite all the statements made being true, they were removed by Angry22, I'd like to know why.

Trivia sections are slowly being removed from Wikipedia as most are uncited and unencylopedic. Feel free to add any encyclopdedic content that has proper citations. Anger22 (Talk 2 22) 17:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

California Jam

The section read wonderfully, very dramatic, very Man In Black. But it was a little exaggerated and not entirely accurate. The footage of that part of the gig can be seen here and I have made a slight alteration to the section which is more in keeping with facts of the actual incident. Devious Viper 10:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

 This section still ist not correct. First of 
 all he did not destroy just one guitar, but
 two, the first one by hitting the TV camera;
 second he didn't "threw several amplifiers", 
 but just the one which was set off to fire,
 plus one of the speaker cabinets. I will not
 correct the section because of my bad English,
 please would some native English speaking
 person do this ?

Plagiarism Claim

There is a complaint with a lot of plagiarisms in the tune that he made for a long time. The originality of his tune is doubted. → 219.104.29.179 19:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

This comment is a little confusing; what plagarism? which tune? Please supply references etc for inclusion in the article. Thanks Harryurz 12:24, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Ritchie Blackmore admitted that Child in Time was plagiarism by an interview of Japanese magazine. He recognized that he borrow music of another person a little if troubled with composition by blackmore's night by Japanese interview.--219.104.3.239 23:55, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Nick Simper, the bassist with DP Mk. I, claims that he showed Ritchie Blackmore the riff from Ricky Nelson's Summertime and that it was the basis for Black Night. Roger Glover agrees in an interview with Rumba Magazine, November 1993 (excerpt), and claims that he (Glover) insisted that they write new words and put it out as the single the record company wanted them to make. In mitigation he claims that they were all drunk. Nick Simper also identifies It's A Beautiful Day's Bombay Calling as a tune "which Mk2 borrowed, and turned it into Child in Time"; Ian Gillan confirms this. NickS 14:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the references; having listened to both mentioned tracks while I can hear a similarity in the riffs, in my opinion it is not blatant plagerism as normally defined. ie "take the ideas, writings, etc. from another and pass them off as one's own". Especially "Child in time"- which was played much faster and on violins. If we include such subjective accusations, then many of the rock group entries in Wikipedia should contian such references.What are other's views?? Thanks Harryurz 22:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Check this video on youtube, it has Richie Blackmore pretty much confirming these "claims". He doesn't seem to be very much reserved about it, though. :D B Lizzard 10:14, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Gear Setup

That whole final section in parts is offensive to the English language, not to mention lacking in citations. The whole "A likely reason for this is that the amps he was using were not equipped with master volume, and therefore needed to be at high volume to overdrive the power amp valves. Another reason is simply that valve amps are said to work best at higher volumes." bit just made me confused. Which one is it? A or B? Or do we simply not know and therefore thought to put in a nonsensical paragraph about the potential reasons for that particular set up? Gibberish.--Koncorde 17:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't make sense to me either. I thought the idea of Master Volume (between preamp and power amp stages) was to allow the PREamp section to be overdriven without having the power amp section at full blast. If you want to get power amp overdrive at low acoustic output you need an attenuator (e.g. HotPlate) on the output. Also, the stuff about Dawk modding Ritchie's Marshalls is repeated in this section. Needs revision. Anecdote: I met Ritchie once backstage after a concert (Trentham Gardens, 07-May-74) and asked him why he switched to using the Stratocaster. He said "I just felt like it". NickS 13:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah, the divine wisdom. Goes alongside those other pearls such as "I was given it for free" or "they offered me a wodge load of cash to use it".--Koncorde 01:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

behavior

Ritchie Blackmore has been known for his bad attitude and tempure according to people around him and especially Ian Gillan. There should be something about his beligerant behavior in his article. And also, there should be at least a picture of this man for christ sake! hes a legend.Jk31213 15:27, 18 May 2007 (UTC)