Ritchie Blackmore - About Queen And Brian May (The Ritchie Blackmore Story, 2015)

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[@dorianponcela9680]

I can imagine Brian May "the tall" watching this comment and laughing out loud... 😅

[@christianboddum8783]

Very Spinal Tap humor, he didn't flinch, but there was a small pause ;-)

[@thefairydustt]

"He's a bit too tall" lol love Richie's humor

[@imweakfordeaky]

“…but he can’t help that…” 😂

[@ThinPicks]

There's a very tiny ghost of a smile before he carries on talking, Ritchie's mellowing out a bit!🤭

[@Katsem]

I love deadpan humor. The way Richie drops a joke into a story or commentary without missing a beat is very artful, and damned funny.

[@Losrandir]

He's too tall. (...) He can't help it. (...) But of course I had to kill him. (...) Anyway...

[@Eli-zg3tj]

He's very skilled at bullshiting interviewers while keeping a straight face lol

[@Cl4rendon]

@@Eli-zg3tj Absolutely and alot bought the story of the Smoke On The Water - Bach reference off him. 😅

[@markoukanovic5075]

Amazing,such inteligent person,Ritchie is...

[@johnglynhughes4239]

"He's too tall but he can't help that" 🤣 comedy gold!

[@VincePalamarasecretservicejfk]

Ritchie is my favorite guitarist! 🌈😍🔥❤️

[@stege9979]

To have Ritchie talk about you like that you really have to be a nice person, and Brian May most certainly is. A true gentleman!

[@gitaneVYS491R]

For me, some of the stuff Queen did on their first 3 albums still sounds as alive and exciting today as it did back then. The stuff that they did a few years later, and they get lauded for, is a load of dross. To my ears, anyway.

[@fathertoson1974]

I agree apart from I'd also add A Night at the Opera also. The guitar work on Queen, Queen ll and Sheer Heart Attack is extraordinary. Brian May is a big admirer of Richie. We were certainly blessed with British guitarists and band's dyring the late 60's and 70's. Great times for rock music.

[@tplouffe9226]

Well its a different style, but never did they lack experimentation or musicality, they kept true to being profound musicians but found a way to mold that into different styles. I recommend listening to Innuendo, their last album non-posthumous, it goes back to the prog rock roots of the band but after years and years experimentation and upgraded sound quality

[@azzyflya2355]

Innuendo is a banger

[@thetruthhurts6652]

I like their first 4 albums. Not a fan of Freddie’s Queen.

[@MichaelWinter-ss6lx]

The first *four* albums. Four, OK!?! 🚀🏴‍☠️🎸

[@DukeEnlil]

Queen train song is Keep Yourself Alive 1973, they had 3 or more promo videos to that song! Brian and Ritchie are my best guitarists)))

[@PYbootlegs]

thanks for the help to Ritchies'memory, it's important to understand what he's speaking about!

[@koleberdinoch926]

Keep Yourself Alive has absolutely nothing to do with trains. There is a line about silver trays, I guess you misheard?

[@DukeEnlil]

@@koleberdinoch926 One of the promo videos for Keep Youself Alive was a video with a train! As I wrote above, they had 3 promo videos for this song!

[@leehambleton9919]

Ritchie as Iconic as Jimi

[@juanpablofdez4032]

Agree

[@jimmyjames9752]

LONG LIVE RITCHIE BLACKMORE ✌

[@kazunorealking]

hello, richie！ I hope you are doing well. I sincerely hope for a Japanese translation. There are many many fans in Japan❗️

[@jimmienonya8912]

Blackmore would probably be my favorite guitarist too, funny man too....

[@elenka.svaliva2]

Ritchie has very particular sense of humor😁

[@diegoproano4501]

Thank you for your music Ritchie!

[@w4mpx]

Ritchie é realmente uma figura, ele não expressa sentimentos no rosto ou na fala como os outros humanos mas, para tocar guitarra como ele toca, com certeza ele é extraterrestre!

[@fujiko_]

Talvez, por isso, a tez jovem, ele aparenta não ter mais do que 30 ou 40 na idade terrestre.

[@w4mpx]

@@fujiko_ Ainda mais com a bela mulher que ele tem!

[@leandroitapolis]

Deu uma zuada com o Brian may ...com a maior cara séria. É uma figuraça. Kkkkk Assisti um puta show em 91 com ele.

[@buckmurdock2025]

Song about a train? See What A Fool I've Been?

[@BoomerTV83]

Keep yourself alive had a video with a cartoonish train in it. Weird stuff.

[@guitarnickbluealgroovyrus]

The remark about Americans that like mostly a three chord stuff was very informative😀😎💙

[@sparkyguitar0058]

Ya I hate those 25 chord songs. I almost spit out food on that 1. Queen does have some extravagant song structure. But so does Rainbow later on , on albums.

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

​@@sparkyguitar0058Rainbow is a british band tho😅

[@thetruthhurts6652]

@@sparkyguitar0058that rainbow never made it big in America

[@KAZSANable]

Légende ⚡️

[@micheleteso9499]

He's a quite too tall :-)

[@tolistolis8277]

Hello from greece, queen my favourite band,and brian may favourite guitar player, No bad words for queen from nobody from other artists, Ritchie must not return to purple back 1984, stargazer build the power metal ,

[@eg8481]

Theres probably five of the greatest players of all time ritchie your one of them..

[@michaelstephen819]

3 chords - yeah, ZZ Top (good though they are) is the intellectual limit of most Americans. I suspect with Queen their US success was an element of curiousity on how British bands could be so original and creative. Remember - all the best bands are British.

[@michaelkarlsson5966]

Yes, it is surprising that they caught on to relatively complex music as Queen but not Status Quo... still blows my mind about a hundred years later... 🤣the business is strange, no doubt!

[@GabrielRFM]

What you think of Status Quo? Is it complex music or not?

[@michaelkarlsson5966]

@@GabrielRFM most of the time Status Quo do not play complex music. Sorry, if I'm unclear ;)

[@markhaus5441]

America also caught on to complex music from YES.

[@jjjddd231]

Status Quo were never prepared to put in the hard work and tour relentlessly in order to crack the USA. Best comparison is AC/DC - both Quo and AC/DC play straightforward rock, both had big success in the UK and Australia in the 1970s, both had a lot of hard-rock fans that liked both bands, only AC/DC put in the hard yards in the USA market and they made it huge whereas Quo are hardly known in the states.

[@michaelkarlsson5966]

@@jjjddd231 that is not the whole truth. If I remeber it correctly Francis Rossi explains in his book (I talk too much) that the main reason for Status Quo not breaking the Us is because radiostations refused to play their songs. It's more complex than that and I don't remember the details of his explaination but that is the main thing according to him. They have played the US but it wasn't worth to really work it because they already had Europe and other parts of the world and risked losing the momentum they had there.

[@tolistolis8277]

I believe ,to (win)blackmore to accept you,in my opinion you must be true and speek straight,no crule or arrogant,but aout of teeth words, i belive ritche accept more someone who may be tell him:i dont like blackmores stuuf,grom someone who tell him:ooooo you are god,guitar god,the greatest,the the the.

[@RexKramer-s7o]

I think he should have taken steps to stunt his growth when he was a child.

[@marcovicentini2999]

Ritchie Blackmore was my guitarist engime with whom i love the electric guitar butta also acoustic whithout his riffs and solos with Deep Purple and Rainbow i would not even have bought my studios guitar at 13 years old

[@rockandrollfan]

Brian May is a bit too tall but he can´t help that... LOL..Love it.

[@melvindoan3298]

Alot of people didn't like Richie because he was a rough ass guy from the UK I've always liked the guy I seen purple 🟣 6 times he had to protect himself that's why he acted that way and came out with a style of guitar playing that was hard to copy I copy the shit out of him he doesn't get the respect as a player people though his playing was weird it was different most could not understand it I did and loved the hell out of it 🎸👍😎

[@woodyjagla328]

,,,,,,, Ritchie - one cool dude - fact.

[@annechris2677]

Where's Ritchie in the top 100 guitarist

[@markgowans]

Well for me personally I'd have him in the top 5. I've always liked Ritchies playing even in Blackmore's Night and I know a lot of hardcore Ritchie fans hate that band.

[@elenka.svaliva2]

In American rankings he absent. Americans know only Hendrix Page or Clapton. The rest world put Ritchie always in top 10 easily.

[@SpiralDream]

near the top for people who actually know what they're talking about

[@吉田修一郎-d3f]

You-are-greatness-an-artist

[@Leo93087]

Does anybody know, what "song about the train" Richie means?

[@theonlyredspecial]

Pretty sure he just is making that up. The only song I know with a train was the video for break thru but that was much later.

[@Leo93087]

I think the same@@theonlyredspecial

[@ds02]

I guess he meant "see what a fool I've been" (bbc sessions) cuz it goes with "I caught a train"

[@Leo93087]

You could be right@@ds02

[@michelambrosino7414]

Un des meilleurs ❤❤❤❤+

[@atlasgunther8947]

How can anyone forgive queen for their later stuff, basically 2/3 of their career. Soo many bands dumped their loyal fans for elevator pop shyte.

[@michaelkarlsson5966]

no doubt in order to survive and still make a living...

[@atlasgunther8947]

@@michaelkarlsson5966 that's right queen classics like bohemian r didn't sell, my bad

[@michaelkarlsson5966]

​@@atlasgunther8947 ok. I agree with you of course Bohemian Rhapsody has sold a lot through the years, no doubt. So why did they change then? For me, the logic says, they either changed to survive in the 80s or they changed because they wanted to change. Possibly a mix of both 🙂 Just to be clear: I prefer the early Queen but I like the later too, especially the "Innuendo" album. I also think it's good for bands/artists to try new things/develop. May not always be to my liking but staying the same (or trying to stay the same) must be difficult.

[@jamesha175]

@@michaelkarlsson5966 i appreciate all of Queen's music. why should a band keep playing the same song over and over?

[@bjornborg056]

I'm glad Queen didn't have to apologise to you for 2/3 of their career. The way you put it would seem like you are speaking for the majority of the fans. It may have not been your taste but that's about all that can be said about it. Queen fans loved the band all the way through and still do. 'Dumped their fans?......' You have absolutely no idea!

[@RushfanUK]

Thinking back to the 70's and early 80's as rock fans none of us thought of Queen as a rock band where I was in the North East, you wouldn't be headbanging to a Queen song in the Mayfair on a Friday night, they were more of a pop/rock band really to us, in the 80's they'd lost traction and then Live Aid came along and the rest is history.

[@AlbertoJorgeSoares]

In the seventies they weren't pop/rock. More likely a progressive/hard rock band. They went to pop/rock in the eighties.

[@windsurfer49]

"Sounds "Reet Canny" "Lad ! Me To"", Now 63" where did all the time "Gan", "City Hall tickets used to cost"Nowt" back then,, My albums still have £5 prices on cover" " Rainbow rocked the City Hall

[@michaelkarlsson5966]

to me it doesn't matter, great band, great music (a lot of it anyway)

[@javierfermani3606]

You must hear first 4 Queen Albums. Theres a lot of heavy metal there. Oggre Battle, Son And Daughter, Liar, March of the black queen, Berighton Rock...

[@eduardobattaglia1113]

Subtitulos en Español, por favor!!!!

[@kevinmcc3147]

I'm American but I'm the opposite but again I'm mixed so I'm not ordinary.