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And then everything clicked with In Rock. In the beginning, I was a little bit lost as to what style I really had. Many would say your style became heavier and darker.īlackmore: Very true. : Your playing in the second incarnation of Purple was strikingly different from your work in the first version of the band. When we got around to playing it, he put in this brilliant organ solo. And when I got together with Jon Lord, I said I really liked it. : It’s interesting that the band became so popular with a cover of Joe South’s Hush.īlackmore: I used to live in Hamburg, Germany, and I’d heard an earlier version of that song on the radio. We’d be drinkers a bit, but the drug thing was not for us. : Was the hippie drug culture a factor during the early years of Purple?īlackmore: Nobody in the band took drugs. I did think our very first record, Shades of Deep Purple, was pretty good, but with the two that followed, we were kind of feeling our way, like the blind leading the blind. : Have you tried to perform at actual Renaissance festivals?īlackmore: Lame, I’d call it. And our fans know that if they come to our shows, they can dress up. We have a lot of people on stage all dressed up in medieval outfits.
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In fact, Blackmore’s Night is so quiet on stage that it’s very difficult to play certain things with people shouting. “On one hand I’ve gone from the loudest band in the world (Purple was named the world’s loudest band in the Guinness Book of World Records) to the most quiet band in the world,” Blackmore says. But these days, he’s leaving the heavy stuff on the backburner, concentrating, instead, on Renaissance music with his group Blackmores Night. In-between stints in Purple, Blackmore continued to charter new hard rock territory in Rainbow. While his playing on the bands first three albums Shades of Deep Purple, Deep Purple, and The Book of Taliesyn (which have just been re-released on Spitfire Records with bonus tracks) is groundbreaking, it pales in comparison to his efforts in Purples Mach 2 period, which began in 1971 with the explosive In Rock. With his blues-and quasi-classical-based approach, he cranked out some of the catchiest riffs and runs ever on songs like Hush, Smoke on the Water, Highway Star, Black Night, Woman From Tokyo, Burn, and many others. Then came Deep Purple, a band that painted a striking blueprint for hard rock and metal largely through Blackmore’s tastefully searing guitar work. Ritchie Blackmore’s contributions to guitar rock began in the mid-’60s, when he performed sessions for the likes of Screaming Lord Sutch and the Outlaws. In the middle of the song, it says “Funky Claude was getting people out of the building,” and actually when I meet a lot of rock musicians, they still say, “Oh here comes Funky Claude.This interview was originally published in 2010. They said, “Oh if you believe so we’ll put it on the album.” It’s actually the very precise description of the fire in the casino, of Frank Zappa getting the kids out of the casino, and every detail in the song is true. It’s going to be a huge thing.” Now there’s no guitar player in the world who doesn’t know. It’s a tune called ‘Smoke On The Water.’” So I listened to it. One day they were coming up for dinner at my house and they said, “Claude we did a little surprise for you, but it’s not going to be on the album. Finally I found a place in a little abandoned hotel next to my house and we made a temporary studio for them. Poor Claude and there’s no casino anymore!” They were supposed to do a live gig and record the new album there. How did the Deep Purple song evolve out of the ashes?ĭeep Purple were watching the whole fire from their hotel window, and they said, “Oh my God, look what happened. And the people were watching the fire thinking, “Oh, you know, Frank Zappa is just doing an incredible ending to his show.” The people went out through that exit, and within about five minutes, the 2,000 kids were out. Then a lot of people could go out through there. Frank Zappa took his guitar – a Gibson, a very strong one – and he smashed the big window down with his guitar.
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It was actually not that difficult because we had big bow windows in the concert hall overlooking the swimming pool. There’s even a lyric about it in “Smoke On The Water.” You helped get people out of the burning building.