This man is the reason I picked up the guitar at all. His classical background can be felt through the intensity that just rolls right off him and into your being with heavy riffs thrown right at ya outa nowhere. Thank you Ritchie for all of it
blackmore cites chet atkins as one of his influences and was a great admirer of his talent. chet atkins was himself a great admirer of the flamenco guitarist sabicas, and regarded him as having the greatest technique of any player.
ritchie never played his gibson 335 after 74. he went through a messy divorce from wife no.2 babs hardie that year and supposedly she had her family clear the house, whist he took her to court for alledged infidelity. the guitar disappeared around this time.
and blackmore is actually credited with being the creator of neoclassical rock
Atkins developed new flamenco and jazz stylings and is one of the few country guitarists for whom i hold respect, but blackmore inspired a line of virtuoso guitarists by being (one of, if not) the first to integrate classical elements into rock music ie using the linear triads and sweep scales but seriously, Chet is probably one of the best . just not THE best
chet was amazing but he wasnt the first to develop styles or play scales, i think its a little much to call him the master of all guitar players is a little extreme
@mindaflame7
Chet Atkins was the master of all guitar players because he developed some styles and could play anything. He played a lot of different scales years before blackmore was born. But of course, Blackmore is great and so is Page!!
My bad – just saw Jon Lord in that opening clip (oops), so apparently RB was playing that guitar in Deep Purple, too. I know he also played it during the early Rainbow years.
Love that natural-finish, maple-neck Strat in the opening clip – thinking of buying one. I think RB played his best stuff on that guitar. This was during the “Long Live Rock & Roll” era of Rainbow, I believe.
It’s a shame there are so few quality videos of Blackmore on stage. Jimmy Page has “The Song Remains the Same” movie with its Quadrophonic sound to immortalize his stage performances, but all we have of Blackmore is a few blurry clips shot from a distance, with relatively bad sound recording. This is one of the better videos, which is why I saved it as a favorite.
Sorry, but Page is not even in the same galaxy as Blackmore. Page wrote some great songs with R. Plant and that’s why i love zepp. But back in 1972 NOBODY was playing anything other than the same blues pentatonic scales over and over. Ritchie was the FIRST axeman to introduce sweeps and linnear triads in his solos, he still sounded “bluesy” at times, but this stuff was space age back in the early 70′s. Just buy “Fireball” or “In rock”, and then compare it to paige or hendrix.
pick slide using that stage??
XD
wtf he’s doing on 5:04 xD
Simply amazing!
No, how about your jaw just dropped at 3:45? Only ritchie can bust out into one of Bach’s violin partitias and pull it off!
3:21 my jaw just dropped
ricthie owns page
behind Ian Paice at 4.15 in the pink top. George Best !
Quite simply the best ever
This man is the reason I picked up the guitar at all. His classical background can be felt through the intensity that just rolls right off him and into your being with heavy riffs thrown right at ya outa nowhere. Thank you Ritchie for all of it
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blackmore cites chet atkins as one of his influences and was a great admirer of his talent. chet atkins was himself a great admirer of the flamenco guitarist sabicas, and regarded him as having the greatest technique of any player.
ritchie never played his gibson 335 after 74. he went through a messy divorce from wife no.2 babs hardie that year and supposedly she had her family clear the house, whist he took her to court for alledged infidelity. the guitar disappeared around this time.
and blackmore is actually credited with being the creator of neoclassical rock
Atkins developed new flamenco and jazz stylings and is one of the few country guitarists for whom i hold respect, but blackmore inspired a line of virtuoso guitarists by being (one of, if not) the first to integrate classical elements into rock music ie using the linear triads and sweep scales but seriously, Chet is probably one of the best . just not THE best
chet was amazing but he wasnt the first to develop styles or play scales, i think its a little much to call him the master of all guitar players is a little extreme
@mindaflame7
Chet Atkins was the master of all guitar players because he developed some styles and could play anything. He played a lot of different scales years before blackmore was born. But of course, Blackmore is great and so is Page!!
My bad – just saw Jon Lord in that opening clip (oops), so apparently RB was playing that guitar in Deep Purple, too. I know he also played it during the early Rainbow years.
Love that natural-finish, maple-neck Strat in the opening clip – thinking of buying one. I think RB played his best stuff on that guitar. This was during the “Long Live Rock & Roll” era of Rainbow, I believe.
It’s a shame there are so few quality videos of Blackmore on stage. Jimmy Page has “The Song Remains the Same” movie with its Quadrophonic sound to immortalize his stage performances, but all we have of Blackmore is a few blurry clips shot from a distance, with relatively bad sound recording. This is one of the better videos, which is why I saved it as a favorite.
while the other children were out wasting time playing ball Ritchie was stuck to his guitar
il piu’ grande di sempre
richie was the best man…streets ahead
genius what a demon
I agree
Ritchie Blackmore is a guitar god!
Sorry, but Page is not even in the same galaxy as Blackmore. Page wrote some great songs with R. Plant and that’s why i love zepp. But back in 1972 NOBODY was playing anything other than the same blues pentatonic scales over and over. Ritchie was the FIRST axeman to introduce sweeps and linnear triads in his solos, he still sounded “bluesy” at times, but this stuff was space age back in the early 70′s. Just buy “Fireball” or “In rock”, and then compare it to paige or hendrix.
well, i’ve adored him since i was 11 so i guess im something special