Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar Gods (Full Music Documentary)

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This is the ultimate review of the maverick legend that is Ritchie Blackmore. Told by those that knew Blackmore best, this show follows his career from the very beginning. Featuring such legends as Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Joe Lynn Turner and Bobby Rondinelli.
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[@garyharris6883]

I'm 69 years old. Saw deep purple back in 1973 in Cleveland. I remember them being very professional very loud. And a great concert. Blackmore is still my favorite hard rock guitarist. And that's never gonna change.

[@A.T.13]

Да . Хорошо вам.Видели и слышали их в живую. ДП приезжали к нам в Россию, но уже без мистера Блэкмора. А без него ДП уже не те.

[@mikeevans2049]

I saw them at Richfield Coliseum in 1974 awesome show.

[@A.T.13]

@@mikeevans2049 , ,,Гори! " отличный альбом .

[@mohsinusman7263]

Same

[@TheSteveSteele]

@@mikeevans2049I saw them in August 1974 on the Burn stadium tour. It was an incredible experience.

[@davidbecker2107]

When Blackmore plays, you instantly know it is him playing! We are so very lucky to have him...and he still plays, as well as fellow Deep Purple cohorts, to this very day...2024 A modern day Beethoven!

[@jalbhagwagar3353]

I was a rock idiot 43 years ago and I could STILL understand that I was listening to a genius. What more can one say? My Blackmore favourite solos (actually so many. With his body of work, it's difficult to name a few) are from: Pictures Of Home, Eyes Of The World, Gates Of Babylon, Temple Of The King, Desperate Heart, Highway Star (I may be forgetting a few) These solos give me goose bumps and put me in a trance. He has nothing to prove. He's from another planet. He's having pure fun with Blackmore's Night. Long Live, Ritchie Blackmore. P.s. Every single musician that played with Ritchie was an Ace! Ritchie was and is a very demanding artist. Why would he not want the best? Being the best? So my salute to all those guys who were in different line-ups with different bands: Deep Purple & Rainbow. By the way, I loved Graham Bonnet's ballsy singing. Especially on, No Time To Loose and the entire Down To Earth album. Pity he didn't last long. Somewhere in the comments they say that Ian Paice was under appreciated. NOT TRUE! The Buddy Rich big band DO NOT invite average drummers. After all they are sitting in Buddy The Great's chair. Ian Paice played with them. THAT is a great recognition of top quality drum artistry. Period. Agree? Long live all these guys. My respects and deep gratitude 🙏🏻✊🏼

[@larryfesta5960]

EXACTLY...NOTHING MORE NEEDS TO BE SAID...RITCHIE BLACKMORE IS THE WORLD'S GREATEST ALL AROUND EVERY STYLE PLAYER ...PERIOD!

[@davidbecker2107]

Agreed...and like Blackmore, Ian Paice is truly underappreciated!!

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

@@davidbecker2107 … True!! ... Behind the scenes and in expert circles they know exactly how brilliant R. Blackmore and I. Price are! … Sometimes it has to be explained exactly what you mean. R. B. is not a sonny boy, but a person with a serious character who doesn't like to be the center of attention and doesn't like to be filmed while playing! He was never as present as others who did one advertisement after another! He always only wanted to have the best musicians around him and no clows! ... Most young people of the last 20-30 years don't know him or barely know him! Unfortunately, you will quickly forget! ... BUT NOT MY GENERATION 🎸🎸🎸

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

@@davidbecker2107 ... Ian Paice is also underestimated, by fans who don't know him or really know him! He always stayed in the background and is a calm and collected person! He has never pushed himself into the spotlight like others, which can sometimes be a mistake! ... Because the louder someone is, with scandals, drugs, etc., the more they stay in your memory, because later no one asks why!! Sad but true!!!

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

@jalbhagwagar …Thanks for your great comment!!🎸🎸🎸🥁🥁🥁

[@Hector-yl1kh]

I've heard Don Airey talk about Ritchie before. Its true to say the average competent keyboardist (piano player) is way better than your average guitarist simply because there is a strict, well established formularized training to play piano. It is centuries old. If you are not playing classical guitar then your mainstream player is either self taught, has some basic training or experience in a band, or has lessons typically in jazz guitar. There is no "standard" curriculum for electric/rock guitar. So Dons comments are spot on. Thus for him to speak in raptures about Ritchie says a lot. You can spot Blackmore a mile away if you listen to guitar players. The average punter doesn't. They just hear the music as a muddled mix that just sounds pleasing in one way or another. Other musos are the yardstick for expressing accolades about talent. Blackmore is unique.

[@folker412]

I'm obsessed with a legendary Deep Purple song "Lazy".

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

... me too 😄 and that for 51 years!! ... Sometimes I hear it endlessly 😆

[@phillipk743]

There is something so unique about Lazy. I am a bit obsessed as well. The only song I can say this about.

[@Mai_Grundwürmer_geborene_Ling]

Me too. With this song DP unleashes an enormous merciless power. Paice, Lord, Gillian & Clover, all of them superb musicians. And Ritchie beyond all boundaries, his solo simply brilliant. One of my alltime favorites (along with Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East, Duanes solo in „You don‘t love me9

[@Purpledream.]

I LOVE Ritchie Blackmore FOREVER 🖤

[@JohnGalt539]

The master of improvisation

[@glennmccudden8574]

YES INDEED . TRUE ORIGINAL HE'S THAT GOOD HE CAN PLAY WITH HIS SHOES. ON CALF JAM.

[@fuchsiaswing8545]

Not really. Any competent Jazz player could out-improvise Ritchie on their worst day. What Ritchie does is nothing more than self-indulgence.

[@siniestrodrmortis5906]

Ritchie Blackmore is an unique diamond...... irrepetible, maded by mistic and personal by style!!!! Cheers from Argentina...... I send to John Lord a big love, where He are... in a paradise of music land!!!!

[@Toni62R]

Ritchie was the Guitar God of our youth in the 70s (when we had our own little band...). I love his music and his style still today!

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

... me too 👍🏻

[@Fuxerz]

Blackmore is a Mount Rushmore guitarist.

[@davidlangford5383]

..me to .....yep blackmore rocks ...

[@rogerbaron9514]

He was my favorite rock and metal style guitarists back then. Al Dimeola was my favorite guitarist in the jazz fusion world. Both are way more deserving of awards then they receive.

[@obbor4]

I've only seen him live twice. Once with Rainbow and once with Deep Purple on the "Perfect Stranger' tour. Both were among my most memorable concerts out of over five hundred. Blackmore was jaw-droppingly amazing both times!!

[@cjmesq]

Robert Fripp recently said at a concert I attended in NYC that Blackmore’s performance at Isle of Wight was one of the greatest guitar performances he ever saw.

[@greg-warsaw4708]

Now, this is the ultimate praise. Being highly regarded as a guitar player by Robert Fripp is so much more than dozens of biased rankings (and I think most guitarists' rankings are biased to privilege technical shredders over emotional artists-players).

[@kinesjl]

If Robert Fripp likes your guitar playing you're definitely doing things...

[@jamescerimele9933]

I saw the Perfect Strangers tour in Feb 1985. I was 8 rows away from Ritchie and was immediately blown away. I was a new comer to rock and roll being only 16 years old. I paid a kings ransom to be there the next night also. To this day that was my favorite concert ever.

[@slonik21]

Richie is a musical genius, a master who keeps any audience on his strings A timeless creator of masterpieces.❤

[@dannygray-mi3xn]

Richie is criminally underrated. Well said.

[@nathandodge665]

He's not a genius he's just a musician

[@dannygray-mi3xn]

@@progdrummer-nenad It's criminal to call me criminally wrong though.

[@dannygray-mi3xn]

@@progdrummer-nenad It's not criminal to call me crimanaly wrong, but it's criminal to underrate Richie Blackmoore

[@mickeystanic4750]

​@@nathandodge665He's a brilliant rock guitar player, there's probably a few million musicians in the world that we will never hear about...Ritchie is well known and and revered around the Globe.

[@batmaniac66]

Blackmore rules forever!

[@zdenkonouzovsky6947]

Blackmore is a a standalone unit. The best there has ever been. No one comes close. Absolute master.

[@grobbler1]

Very much his own man.

[@rockyeppars2076]

No such thing as best,you prefer him,many would say hendrix,van halen,clapton,beck are better,he is 1 of the guitar gods tho

[@robertosborne7542]

​@@rockyeppars2076 Definely not in Becks league imo.

[@rockyeppars2076]

Beck is a guitar god,imo tho blackmores ref smoke on the water,hendrix,iron man refs have inspired more kids to learn guitar,hell pages solo,go down to guitar center and listen,they aint playing beck. gilmore,randy rhodes,srv,prince,clapton,come on give credit

[@chriskroll4166]

@@rockyeppars2076 if he wants to think Richie is the best and let him. And shut the hell up

[@craigryan3069]

Noticeable that RB is listening to Warchild by Jethro Tull in the US 1974 interview. It's on record that he is a big fan of Ian Anderson & Tull.

[@jonw.3886]

I saw Blackmore's Night in Chicago about 18 years ago. Incredible music from all the band members, not just Ritchie. But when Ritchie broke out into a few Purple tunes, the whole place went nuts! He cranked it up for his solo on Black Night and blew the roof off the place! I never had the chance to see him with Purple or Rainbow but at least I had the opportunity to see him live. And WOW is all I can say!

[@dingushussey4100]

Blackmore is still my favourite guitarist from the day I heard 24 Carat Purple back when i was 12, I only saw him once playing with Rainbow for the Straight Between the Eyes tour, still one of the best gigs of my life and i have seen a lot since then haha.

[@golfhound]

I saw Rainbow on the Long Live Rock n Roll tour. Rainbow performed in Fillmore West, the last week before they closed for good. Fillmore is like a large dance hall with a stage at one end - SRO. I knew most of their songs on guitar as well as DP. Ronnie James Dio on vocals. To say Blackmore was on that night was an understatement - really charged up for a good performance. Being SRO, I was about 15 feet away from him with everyone else crammed over on his side of the stage. What I saw/heard from his guitar is not humanly possible. I prided myself on being pretty good, until I saw him play. I had seen almost everyone in rock music worth listening to in the 70's. Nobody came even close to him in technical skill or energy. He just blew me away. It really opened my eyes to what was possible on a stratocaster. I haven't seen anything by him on youtube that compared to that night. Jeff Beck is one of my favorites, but even he would've put his guitar away that night.

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

@@golfhound … I totally agree with you!! … …Ritchie Blackmore was a role model for many people and wanted to play like him!! …Also many famous musicians!! Jimmy Page liked to copy other guitarists (that's what he's known for in the music scene!) and was very jealous of R. Blackmore... ! For me he is the BEST and has been for 54 years!!

[@krzywylolek3057]

I was -33 years old when Ritchie played with rainbow, but I love him to this day!

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

@@krzywylolek3057 … 🎸👍🏻

[@alexx5954]

Blackmore will be appreciated after his death.. but he never cared what people think about him. If he didn't exist the music we hear today would be very different. I am grateful for the music he gave to the world! The only thing i want from him is to make a video and tell to all of us guitar junkies what amplifiers he used and what modes did on them....

[@BlackmoreDavid]

I'm highly agree with your words!

[@TheSteveSteele]

In the MKI and early MKII days he played through a Vox that was hidden in a Marshall cabinet. By the Fireball tour he was using a Marshall Major. By the Burn tour that Marshall had an extra gain stage added to it and he used a tape machine for compression. His Strat modifications were revolutionary. He installed a 1/4” tremolo arm, scalloped the fretboard, had a unique tone circuit installed that basically scooped the mids a bit. You can hear this on Rainbow’s On Stage. He used a treble booster pedal. That’s the highlights.

[@meryuk]

"Blackmore will be appreciated after his death." Said the very same words the other day

[@84homey]

Great to see Blackmore and Deep Purple's music having a bit of a rennaisance these days. Made in Japan always was and always will be my favourite ever album. Nothing could possibly beat it!

[@tommylarsson2025]

Totally agree! His solo on Chile in time could wake up the dead! NEVER heard anything like it whatever how much more technical guitarists there are now. But Making love with only a technical partner gives an empty feeling.

[@davidc.4972]

Except made in europe

[@golfhound]

@@davidc.4972 I consider Made in Europe to be like the third record of a Made in Japan 3 record set.

[@davidc.4972]

@@golfhound I can see that. You fool no one is my favourite live song ever recorded by any band.I think they were at their all time best!

[@James-hk3zz]

I pick machine head as my favorite, made in Japan is very close to machine head live,both are there best Albums in my opinion

[@James-hk3zz]

Blackmore is one of the best guitarist in the world, he was like Hendrix, he could make that guitar sing,🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@derhandtrommler]

Ritchie is very, very good. One of the best. But there is no one "Like Hendrix" and never will be.

[@James-hk3zz]

@derhandtrommler true as true can be mate, Hendrix is unbeatable 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@mben-david2064]

@@James-hk3zz great minds think alike,James

[@LupitaBarbosaHernandez-ou2em]

Yes I agree, I'm gonna say some risky words but I have to daré...Blackmore is/was better than Hendrix, he plays cleaner, faster and pretty melody Tunes too, only that Hendrix Is an overrated player while Blackmore Is an underrated player ...for sample just press a button, hear any "Chlld in time" versión and hear "You fool no one" versión from the "Live in London" album...that speed and rage printed in those albums leaves you wordless ...

[@derhandtrommler]

@@LupitaBarbosaHernandez-ou2em You clearly were not around when Hendrix was alive and your knowledge of his catalog doesn't extend beyond his hits. Blackmore would probably clobber you with a Strat for saying he was the better guitarist. And I'd stand there and clap for him.Hendrix wrote and played in three dimensions. No one since has met that standard.

[@88hh40]

Blackmore always number 1. The absolute best.

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻!! ... We understand each other 🎸

[@Fuxerz]

Amen, it goes Hendrix Beck Van Hallen and Ritchie Blackmore. Mount Rushmore of God's on guitar.

[@paulcalugar1438]

Only a few have done what Blackmore has done! One of the Founding member of a massively iconic band called Deep Purple . The guitarist no less when the guitar dominated the radio. Quits … leaves purple… most would have faded, to become dated and thought of in a nostalgia way. Nope … He forms Rainbow … has a vision, keeps perfecting it till the band achieves massive air play on par with Deep Purple. Deep Purple dead in the water reunites with Blackmore and lighting strikes again w/ Perfect Strangers … proving once again what a talent/genius he was. Leaves Purple again… and Pursues another musical passion Renaissance Music !! Once again his talent comes to the fore in Blackmore’s Night! (Again achieves commercial success in the genre of Renaissance music!!!) Marries Candis Night, a hot blonde singer 20 plus years younger than him and rides off into the sunset ! Is that not a bad ass real life story? I don’t believed he was hard to work with, I agree with J Turner Blackmore was a perfectionist!

[@georgeprice4212]

You forgot blew up the stage - figuratively and literally - in the 70’s!

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

… 👍🏻 true words!! ...R.B. is definitely one of the best!! Anyone who claims otherwise is jealous, lying or has no idea!!! … FOR ME THE BEST GUITARIST!! ... and that for 54 years!

[@jalkabre5904]

I am with Doogie, he was the greatest guitarist of his generation and still today he is my number 1. His music is magic.

[@thepedalkickers2701]

Blackmore surely is one of the greats, but I wouldn't say he is T H E B E S T. I also really like Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath and Tony Bourge of Budgie as well. Still absolutely awesome nevertheless.

[@milosdunjic8718]

His playing in Blackmore’s Night is simply magical

[@Ragnar-Viking]

Blackmore was by far the best player of that era

[@WillyAffentranger-jb1oi]

Ritchie Interviews are verrrry rare!!!!!!!

[@edwardmracek403]

Ritchie Blackmore is the best of the best and would have been the 4th Yardbird / Musketeer. Most dangerous live on any given night, you could just get your mind blown with his phenomenal fretwork!!!!

[@JamesMoore-un3cu]

I think Ritchie's difficulty as a person is FAR overshadowed by his genius as a musician and an influential guitar god. Its no mistake that even Steve Vai didn't want to take his place in Deep Purple, due to his legacy. To this day I can still put on Made in Japan or On Stage and be mesmerized by the sheer artistry of the man.

[@alexanderSydneyOz]

Blackmore's difficulties as a person deep purple and other is other bands were fractious and never really got on properly as a group. So the body of material is all over the place. And while Blackmore himself isn't an amazing guitarist he was never surrounded by equally amazing musicians. Ultimately his career and material lack the cohesive unrelenting brilliance from all parties that made led Zeppelin the greatest rock band.

[@geezberry8889]

Blackmore is criminally underappreciated. Some of this is his own doing, he simply doesn't like the limelight

[@robsco1249]

...as much as Ian Paice

[@francesco0185]

Underappreciated by who? Maybe you're very young cause he's always been appreciated. He is notoriously the king of 70s hard rock, the father of heavy metal guitar, a mentor for Malmsteen etc. But first he doesn't like to stay under lights, and second he doesn't have many friends in music business cause he has a complicated attitude, to say the less.

[@bigdave1302]

How the hell is he underrated? He is considered one of the greats!

[@Buddy_Banquet_Off]

🤭

[@poliziagrammaticale9430]

Everybody is underrated nowadays.

[@michaelorleans5396]

Sat behind Cozy Winterland SF 78..Long Live Rock And Roll tour..I've been to a hundred shows..that one was a stand out..fantastique!!!

[@Marcus_C51]

Wow wish I'd seen that! Winterland was such a cool arena to see bands...Cozy and Richie together were something, I can only imagine how incredible that show was!

[@Fuxerz]

Love Cozy Powell too 3 drummer in the world. RIP Cozy Jon Lord and DIO😢

[@janiterinadrum1627]

People always act like if they see a guitar player on KZbin or in a video that they’re better than somebody else… but have they sold millions of records, and appealed to the masses to where everybody loved them? Like smoke on the water or space Truckin or perfect strangers

[@wightangel]

I haven’t watched it yet, but I know it will be epic. What he couldn’t play on guitar wasn’t worth listening to.

[@tomikola1864]

Don Airy sums it up perfectly. Ritchie is about the feel the sound. It's not about "shredding" but geez when touched that fret..... I've been privileged to witness the magic live a few times

[@tonyg6158]

His sound is so raw. I miss that, everything is so processed nowadays. One of the Gods that's for sure.

[@petrawannowius6051]

Ritchie Blackmoore ist für mich einer der Gitarren Götter🤟🤟🎸 , und es gibt auch nur einen Ritchie Blackmoore 🎸🖤😎. Unverkennbar und brilliant!!👋👋👋👋👋 Sorgt in Verbindung mit Deep Purple /Rainbow bei mir immer noch für Gänsehaut pur, bis heute!!!! 🖤🖤😎🎸🤟

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

… Stimmt 😄! 🎸👍🏻🎸👍🏻🎸

[@ricknowak4582]

I remember was back in nineteen seventy I was a junior in high school. I'm 70 right now.. I asked a friend of mine back then I am looking for a band with a organ player and a guitar player. He told me to check out deep purple in rock. The rest is history. I became a permanent follower. The kid's name was iggy. Such a great memory. I will never forget talking to him that Day in the hallway Of my high school in Toledo Ohio. Iggy. He also turned Me on to...... Cactus. Vanilla fudge.

[@andyharman3022]

I miss the Hammond organ in modern rock.

[@rizzmanazman4319]

Best ever guitarist... technically...Amaze Sound...❤RB....

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@gdmofo]

I'm an old-timer but I would disagree and that's okay Eddie Van Halen number one

[@gretareinarsson7461]

I think RB is a force of his own and one ot those musicians not possible to copy. And I think In Rock is still today an earth shattering rock album and totally in a class of it’s own. But first and foremost DP was and is a live band. DP is, much like LZ and BS unique.

[@charlesdoyle7600]

1980/1981 Saw Rainbow Live in Memphis TN and saw Ritchie and was amazed at his Guitar playing. Which he would quit Blackmore's night and create New Rainbow with some of his old Rainbow mates. Bring back Graham Bonnet and Blackmore again.

[@mikewilkinson4588]

Saw them many times over the years since 69.........one of my favorite bands to play along with on guitar and keyboards...........

[@TheDogPa]

Pretty cool as a kid, growing up hearing about Ritchie through Journalist Steve Rosen's brother, or waiting for the Guitar Player Magazine story by Steve that I'd already heard about :O) I went to the California Jam @ 14 years old, cuz of the older guys I knew that hung with him. First time I met Steve in person, he introduced me to Tim Bogert!

[@rogerkeime1925]

Smoke on the water and man on silver mountain two different bands 2 of the best riffs ever

[@billwhitman4125]

Saw him twice. Been to his house once . ( Delivery ). Play Foosball with him once in a bar on Long Island.

[@mickeystanic4750]

That's awesome. Can you put it to rest ones for all how tall is Ritchie, please? Cheers!

[@isolateddemon9438]

GREAT MUSIC IS TIMELESS.

[@tedcabana]

There is no guitarist, from 1975, till now, who can not say they were influenced by Ritchie Blackmore. Not one!

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

… It's right! … Almost everyone wanted to be like him!! … Some don't like to admit it!

[@marcusvaliatti3606]

What a phenomenal guitarrist.

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Franklinguy759]

The Rainbow lineup of Blackmore, Dio, Bain, Powell, Carey was fantastic. In Allentown (late 1970’s) Blackmore got his guitar stuck in the overhead light batten during his guitar smashing part of the show. I will never forget the power of that band when they did Man on a Silver Mountain.

[@peterjansma8249]

The man in Black, Ritchie Blackmore.

[@marke2289]

....and The Man in Pink he points to at around 11.09 was possibly the most famous football player in the world at that time - George Best

[@funkyfeedbackband3035]

Ritchie's Rainbow performance in Sweden in 2019 I watched recently was amazing.

[@milosdunjic8718]

Blackmore is one of the most talented and innovative rock guitar gods

[@WillyAffentranger-jb1oi]

Ritchie is my guitar heroe for my whole life!!!!!!!. I,m 62 years old swiss man, i have ok a Gibson les Paul standard iced tea. My accoustic guitar is a 40 years old washburn from 1983, that Costa me 800 Franken. Now you know, i'm from ibach-schwyz, where the original swiss army knives were manufactuard, victorinox. The name is from 1922, because the founder of the family, Herr elsener, who has produced 13 children, said, ok Victoria is ok, but the knives rosteten nie, wegen dem heisst the Brand since 1922 victorinox, because of inox that means rustfree. That' the little story about victorinox. Thats a great secret, that not a lot of the world know. Happy sunday and a nice christmas and a happy New year all in the world. I hope of a better 2024. Tschüüüüüss.

[@rikirex2162]

D.P. is always been my preferred rock band...and every R.Blackmore solo it got tattooed in you the fiest time you heard it...and stay there for ever....I still listen to them today...at 70

[@charalamposantypas953]

Blackmore is a unique Genius!!!!!!

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@user-kf3vq4bn7y]

There can be no best… all the guitar heroes are awesome.. My favourite band is Black Sabbath, but my favourite guitarist is Ritchie Blackmore

[@peteannells4218]

Most sensible comment I have seen. 'Best ever' translates as 'my favourite'. You can't compare: Hendrix. Gallagher, Rheinhardt, Blackmore and Segovia, they are/were all geniuses in their own styles. Of course Roy Buchanan must win the prize for being the ' most often called the most under-rated ' 😃.

[@andrejz8954]

Same 100%

[@johnston.scott64]

I've been a guitarist for almost 46 years. In fact my brother first learned to play smoke on the water even before I picked up a guitar. But that's all he could ever do that one simple little lick. I guess I was just gifted or lucky. I played that song the first time I ever picked up a guitar. But I have to say that Blackmore could do something I could never do. A perfectly timed arpeggio. The first time I heard man on the silver mountain, I could instantly pick up the guitar and play exactly what he did. But when it came to that little archipeggio during the course, I still can't do it. So what I did, to make it unique to my own is to play that part in a Randy rhoads style. Now I know Randy rhoads inside and out, he would be the best guitarist on the planet if he was alive now. But it cannot do it at all! Blackmore's simple approach to playing that part is so difficult to reproduce in an effective and melodic way. I spent a few hours last night, as a matter of fact, trying to figure out how to do what Blackmore did with that simple apprecio. I'll probably spend a couple of hours trying to do it today. But I don't think I'll ever get it right.

[@michaelclark2458]

My major critique of this documentary is that it doesn't touch on his Blackmore's Night days. I think his guitar playing is better now than it was in Rainbow Days. It is much more polished. And he has almost spent more years in Blackmore's Night than he did in Deep Purple and Rainbow combined now. I think you don't get a full picture of what he can do until you really hear what he has done in Blackmore's Night.

[@zaedizolkafli7832]

I saw Ritchie Blackmore with Rainbow twice featuring Joe Lynn Turner on vocals and the reformed Deep Purple with Ian Gillan and Joe Lynn Turner, respectively. Blackmore is forevermore.

[@macdmacd7896]

blackmore fused blues with western classical and eastern melody giving birth of unpredictable emotional rebellious opulence solos.

[@ulugozkan9502]

My favorite rock gutarist forever. He played musically most unbeliveable solos of rock music history in 3 LPs from Deep Purple titled as IN ROCK, MACHINE HEAD and BURN. Contrary of many rock musicians i avoid comparing Ritchie to Hendrix. Because Hendrix is a SCIENCE FICTION BLUES guitarist use rock sound but he is not a real rock musician and even he said many times that he loves jazz more than rock and his music will be like the music of Wagner and Strauss. You can find these infos in the biography of Hendrix written by Mike Cramer. Same with Janis Joplin too. Ritchie is doing also very nice music today together with his wife.

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

... and R.B. loves L. van Beethoven! He is often in Germany because he really likes the German castles and used to live and get married in Germany!

[@mrmetalzeb4596]

I begun with music with deep purple in 82, than started playng guitar to play his solos in 87, then i saw DP 8 times with him, one with satriani and one with morse. I would say that I don't know how my life would have been without Blackmore. he is more good at guitar than ass hole in life which means he is with a stratocaster on the highest place on the olympus over a stair..

[@marcianojuniormaraschin5080]

Te amo, Blackmore. Vida longa para ti e, muito obrigado, por todos os grandiosos momentos que vivi ouvindo suas incríveis músicas...

[@sgt.grinch3299]

Mr. Blackmore is a complete musician. His music has inspired countless guitarists. I really enjoy his music and his sense of humor. Mr. Blackmore is a Guitar God. Hands down one of the greatest. His solos are sheer perfection.

[@philmanning2549]

One off a kind, unique guitar player, no one else sounds like Richie and never will

[@mr.timebombman2230]

Ritchie and his wife Candace live about 20 minutes from me here on Long Island. He has for a long time now. They always put on a great show with Blackmore's Night. We have quite a few medieval festivals around the area where they play. Still my favorite player, but if you happen to run into him..don't tell him that kind of shit cause he hates it.

[@DrJ-hx7wv]

I had no idea he was on LI. I guess he has access to NYC there? So many British rockers become American citizens once they become successful.

[@squiddad1528]

Absolute legend, everything he does is amazing.

[@andrewciko8313]

I agree He was the Best of His generation. But if you listen to music of this Generation, He stands up to & surpasses what's being made today. It's as if there isn't a dedication to their craft anymore. He's been a Huge favorite of mine since my early teens & still is today , I'm 55 now. Seen him & Purple 3 times here in Detroit, Rocked my Face off every time.

[@Kiyara_zukii]

Even before Ritchie Blackmore never get step to the one of the top ten world best guitarist, but no one can compare to his performance as a guitarist he is the best guitarist in the world that's the reason now a days he became the guitar GOD

[@TempleOfTheMartyrs]

RITCHIE IS THE REASON WE STARTED OUR BAND

[@chicochicoshukor7184]

For me hes the best ever

[@Fuxerz]

Agreed 👍

[@brunovallesmunoz4757]

BLACKMORE = MASTER!

[@russk1971]

Only 2 guitar players from the 60's never stopped evolving. Jeff Beck and Ritchie Blackmore.

[@smokingun397]

Ritchie was (and IS) one of the greatest guitar players that have ever lived. It's difficult for the younger generations to understand that back then this music (and way of playing) was literally brand new. It had never been done before. Ritchie took the rock guitar to levels that have never been equalled. He doesn't just mindlessly go up and down scales really fast but he adds melodies and pieces of various other styles in his solo's so that his solo's aren't boring.

[@ztdaddy2319]

I saw Rainbow during the Rainbow Rising era. That is still one of my favorite albums. Dio was never better. The highlight was of course Stargazer. My friend started going psycho paranoid from smoking thai stick and thought he was dying. I forcibly held him down in his seat because there was no way I was going to walk out while Ritchie was onstage! A couple of years ago I wore my Rainbow Rising T-shirt to a King Diamond show. All these guys were stopping me and telling me "thats a f-ing great album man!"

[@ztdaddy2319]

PS - Live In Japan is the best live album ever - which they should have mentioned.

[@leehambleton9919]

That man is an Icon

[@bobbykellar9428]

Cmon, let us not forget, could possibly have written the hardest, most effective,recognized, and baddass opening riff in rock history..besides being a genius player...

[@broken927]

He copped that lick and poor Ludwig didn't even receive a fifth of a pound for his efforts.

[@dieterbackes5862]

The absolute Best Guitarplayer ever

[@UncleBoko]

Great pity there is no footage of Blackmore when in Lord Sutch's Savages!!

[@ТимурШайгасумов-щ1щ]

Блэкмор-- это скала. Мощь и динамизм.

[@paulwiley7533]

At school in the 70's if you liked Heavy music it was either Page or Blackmore and for me then it was Blackers by a mile as he was technically more proficient. 40 years on nothing has changed and Ritchie to me is the link between Hendrix and the modern day shredders. It will be a very sad day when he is no longer with us as he is a living legend

[@Fuxerz]

I don't know if you heard the interview with Pagie. He said Ritchie could wipe the floors with him as a lead guitarist and improvising live.

[@cato451]

I saw Ritchie Blackmore with Deep Purple and Rainbow. Stunning performances.

[@golfhound]

I saw Rainbow on the Long Live Rock n Roll tour. Rainbow performed in Fillmore West, the last week before they closed for good. Fillmore is like a large dance hall with a stage at one end - SRO. I knew most of their songs on guitar as well as DP. Ronnie James Dio on vocals. To say Blackmore was on that night was an understatement - really charged up for a good performance. Being SRO, I was about 15 feet away from him with everyone else crammed over on his side of the stage. What I saw/heard from his guitar is not humanly possible. I prided myself on being pretty good, until I saw him play. I had seen almost everyone in rock music worth listening to in the 70's. Nobody came even close to him in technical skill or energy. He just blew me away. It really opened my eyes to what was possible on a stratocaster. I haven't seen anything by him on youtube that compared to that night. Jeff Beck is one of my favorites, but even he would've put his guitar away that night.

[@Fuxerz]

You saw a mount rushmore guitarist. One of the best in the world ever.

[@henryheinzjunker8807]

it is like a dream - this wonderful - ROCK AND POP - musicien

[@Gk2003m]

Not the most handsome man to ever walk the planet, but no one - and I mean no one - has ever fit the “guitar god” image better. And in his heyday literally no one else in hard rock was playing like that, with that level of precision and that uniqueness of phrasing and classical influence. Where Airey says Blackmore is not quite as lightning as Gary Moore or Randy Rhoads, it’s because Blackmore was playing in service to that stunning guitar sound. Unlike those guys, he was not relying on pedals; while the sound from his Marshalls roared with high aggression, it was a clean roar. Rhoads may have been great, but I couldn’t stand his fuzzy fizzy sound. Moore went that way too in the “Nuclear Attack” era, returning to a somewhat cleaner (but still pedal-distorted) sound as he moved back into the blues.

[@marcieforrest6658]

Bonus points for anyone who can guess which album is being played in the background during most of the interview segments with Richie. In any case, thanks for sharing this great documentary!

[@joer1678]

Page even said he couldn’t play live like Blackmore

[@pjotts9793]

Maybe it was the era that i grew up and matured musically in, 1980's, that bred clean sounding solos, more technically proficient playing (Yngwie, for example) but tho i appreciate the genius in both Page and Blackmore and their contribution to Rock and Metal, i thought they both were very sloppy players. It was offputting to me comparing the playing both live and in studio of the 80's guitarist vs. Page and Blackmore. But playing something is half the battle. Actually creating these new directions in guitar riffs and soloing is unmatched. Page and Blackmore take the cake in influencing my generation of super shredders to play as they did. But you cant deny, genius aside, both Page and Blackmore were very sloppy.

[@bruceharrison8160]

Ritchie Blackmore is the greatest guitar player ever! Sound ,Tone, pitch, style ! Blackmore, Paige, Beck, Hendrix, Gilmore, SRV, Eddie , Clapton, Santana ! These Guitarist are the best!😊

[@barryrammer7906]

My top 3 guitars Hendrix Blackmore Van Helen In that order.

[@planetmusic11]

Respect to Ritchie 🙏🏻

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@RobertKetteringham]

This man is a legend great guitarist 🎸 😅

[@chirantanbiswas9330]

Bum bum bum buuuuum man! Great musician and found some great jewels as well!!

[@santinumi5260]

Grande genio creativo, il suo modo di suonare la stratocaster e unico ed inimitabile in poche parole il migliore nessuno come lui.

[@ChrisRileyMusicUK]

Great input from Malcolm Dome. Thanks for the vid. Really enjoyed it

[@ericcampbell6370]

Glenn says that Ritchie can be incredibly crap some nights. The same could be said for Glenn who is too arrogant to realize when he's not good. Ritchie's worst is still better than hearing Glenn caterwauling like Edith Bunker.

[@Marcus_C51]

I know what you mean about Glenn, I saw some footage of him and David Coverdale with Purple and caterwauling is the word. Like Edith Bunker? ha ha-that is top notch hilarious! I do like Glenn's voice, but Jesus the histrionic over singing can be out and out horrible! I swear it's like ooh, check out how high I can sing for no rhyme or reason! It has no place being in the song. Probably too much blow and booze. The Hughes/Thrall album is really good, he was behaving on that one. Not oversinging most of the time. I bet he was really hard to deal with on tour.

[@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa]

Of all the musicians ever in Dee Purple, Glenn Hughes is my absolute least favorite. I saw MK3 (Burn) and MK4 (CTTB). God, he was awful, screeching away like a cat in heat. I saw MK 2 in 72, 73, again in 85, 87 (2x). MK2 is the best. I saw Rainbow a gazillion times. The Rising tour was fantastic (had backstage pass. Met all of them. All great guys, including Ritchie). (I saw Led Zep back in the day. Purple blows Zep away. Page...let's just say I was not impressed). Ritchie is simply the best ever. Sure, there are guys who can play fast. But speed isn't everything. You need to put space in the music, let the music breathe versus a flood of notes that don't really say anything. But, for Ritchie to do some of those things he plays requires excellent technique. As Jon Lord said, "Ritchie is 4 guitarists in one." Here's the difference. Just because one can play fast, play fast arpeggios, scales, whatnot... you know what that makes that person? A skilled player. It does not make them a musician. I am a keyboardist. If I simply rattle off fast scales and arpeggios for a solo, did I play a good solo? No. I play scales, arpeggios to warm up, as exercises. Yes, there are quite a few skilled players. Ritchie Blackmore is not only a very skilled player, he is a MUSICIAN. This is what separates him from everyone else.

[@AAndromeda-lw7fh]

@@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa … Very true words, thank you!! ... Glenn has been on drugs for a long time. The members of MK2 have always said that they don't do drugs, but they drink a lot of beer!

[@ricknowak4582]

​@@ScienceTalkwithJimMassaI disagree bro. I loved glenn hughes and david coverdale together. I liked glenn hughes cause he was such a screamer!

[@bonymagu1130]

Somebody knows if Blackmore have been played in an italian band named, The Trip, between 1967/1968?

[@littlebritain64]

Yes. For a few months. Probably the band changed members a little later, becoming a very good prog-rock italian band.

[@bonymagu1130]

@@littlebritain64 I don't remember where I read that Blackmore had belonged to The Trip and had to return to England due to a stomach illness, but I never knew if it had been true. What was true is that the first musician Blackmore looked for when he joined Rainbow was Joe Vescovi (Keyboardist of The Trip). Thank you very much for the information.

[@littlebritain64]

@@bonymagu1130 😊👍

[@billyblackmore4282]

Ritchie Blackmore is the greatest guitarist in the history of rock. Period!

[@barneytorr1]

I was in the audience at Wembley Arena when Ritchie refused to come out for the encore.

[@lennyhamster7585]

me too...wembley got trashed...went next night and he played 2 encores...still love the guy

[@barneytorr1]

@@lennyhamster7585 There's only one Ritchie, I'll take him as he comes anytime.

[@fraserwood2600]

Saw him twice. Perfect Strangers and then House of Blue Light. Never came out for what should have been the Smoke encore. Arrogant prick but cracking guitarist.

[@barneytorr1]

@@fraserwood2600 Saw Deep Purple at Knebworth 1985, Perfect Strangers album featured heavily, the weather was atrocious, rained all day Ritchie had wellies on 😂

[@barneytorr1]

@Simon England Pretty central, I remember fuckwits pissing in 2 litre plastic bottles and then throwing them forward on people, I remember the coach being unable to get up the mudslide that was the exit road. It was great

[@MAHAMADAMAHAMADA-wb2ep]

RICHIE AND HENDRIX ARE GUITAR GODS

[@DrJ-hx7wv]

Blackmore blows Jimi out of the water.

[@MAHAMADAMAHAMADA-wb2ep]

@@DrJ-hx7wv JIMI BLOWS RICHIE OUT OF SKIES,,,WATER AND LAND

[@Fuxerz]

​@MAHAMADAMAHAMADA-wb2ep wow fellas this is apples and oranges. Both are the best of that generation, and with Jeff Beck, the king. All 3 are Mount Rushmore guitarist

[@joekowalski182]

Richie is incredible!

[@linofancello4929]

Technically Jeff beck and page under the guitar players are Gods…but in reality Blackmore,Hendrix, iommi, gilmoure did far more than being gods…they were aliens…especially Blackmore, being not a guitar player I can notice Blackmores playing from 100000 guitar players …so unique…an artist…even playing at his age now…something phenomenal 👏I want to buy his concert ticket to watch this Alien. 🙏🏻malmsteen..vai…satriani..very fast in playing but they never made an album like in rock, dark side of the moon, …or songs like smoke on the water, child in time, iron man, stairway to..they will be great masters of the guitar…but never a Blackmore, gilmoure, iommi, Clapton, Hendrix..page..etc

[@Jeffrey.Blazer.4.20]

I've seen Richie and Tony Iomni live and to think Tony is in the same class as Richie is misguided. I was there when Sabbath made the mistake of letting Van Halen open for them. The merchandisers could not even sell a Sabbath T-Shirt after that show... Tony? Puh-lease man.

[@cosmicdebris42]

This is the only thing that being this age that was worth it. I got to worship a real guitar God. Ritchie Blackmore! Nobody came close. Purple and Rainbow. Two Bands who brought us the three of the greatest Singers in Rock History. All noticed by the Greatest Guitar inovator there ever was. I'm sure Ritchie was inspired by Hendrix. But Jimi sadly, never got the chance to shine like Ritchie did.

[@cosmicdebris42]

@@Jeffrey.Blazer.4.20 Me too! I was at the Aberdeen Gig. It was a disaster for Black Sabath. Ozzy was F up on the Booze and Dave lee Roth came on stage like Thor! To think Van Halen wern't hardly known at this time, but were about to go Super Nova is mind blowing.Usually the support band are naff and people don't even watch them. Not in this case though.

[@Jeffrey.Blazer.4.20]

@@cosmicdebris42 Eddie was the star of VH. After he (David Lee Roth) left, Eddie realized he and the band just got rid of (as Eddie put it) an 11 year long toothache. As for Roths presence, it was entirely bluster. He did not have the talent to be on the stage with the VH brothers or Mike Anthony. I remember when VH opened for Black Sabbath and exactly what I though at the end of the VH concert. That guitarist gets an A+ but the singer is a C- at best. Not sure how anyone could go to see the VH lineup and come away with the notion that DLR was a star in the making. That night when BS played, Ozzy was so high on Speed he started announcing the next song before the last note would decay in the long reverberation time of the Philadelphia Spectrum. & Bill Ward passed out. Not their best work for sure.

[@cosmicdebris42]

@@Jeffrey.Blazer.4.20 Funny Story, A mate and I wen't to see DLR at the Exibition centre in Glasgow and we had a deal with the Hilton hotel. we had these two real sexy girls with us. Anyway, after the Gig, when we got back to the Hotel, the girls had managed to slink their way to the front.Then they said to us that they could see Roths **** through his skintight pants, and it wasn't up to much. Ha Ha I suppose the moral of the Story is, If you are in a rock band and your not packing, dont wear spray on Tights at your Gig.

[@bookbm]

Yngwie owes Ritchie Blackmore his whole career

[@warthogA10]

Personally, I greatly enjoy Blackmore's Night very much. I have been an admirer of Richie since I was a young boy in the early 70s, and he is one of the players that made me want to play guitar.

[@HesTNTonPMS]

It is still Ritchie inventing on his guitars, still mind blowing work !