@@elgatofelix8917 it honestly makes me sad because he has played beautiful shreddy glorious leads but he just doesn't. He plays stuff that sounds worse because it's "his sound"
Oh and FYI Richie Blackmore is widely considered to be a trailblazer of heavy metal alongside Tony Iommi. Anybody who doesn't recognize his contribution to rock and metal simply doesn't know wtf they're talking about.
Sorry but I'm not gullible enough to believe this is Richie Blackmore's playing. It's obvious somebody superimposed this audio track over this footage of him playing. Anybody who doubts what a great guitar player he is - just listen to his solos on songs like Burn and Highway Star. Lest we forget that subsequent legends like Eddie Van Halen was influenced by Blackmore's playing and Metallica was also highly influenced by Deep Purple whose leader and main songwriter was Blackmore.
@elgatofelix8917 12 hours ago Sorry but I'm not gullible enough to believe this is Richie Blackmore's playing. It's obvious somebody superimposed this audio track over this footage of him playing. Anybody who doubts what a great guitar player he is - just listen to his solos on songs like Burn and Highway Star. Possible?
@@andrejz8954 You are wrong, i have played guitar for 40 years and am a huge fan of Blackmore and to me the video totally match the audio a 100% and that isnt even possible to fake and it also totally sounds like his signature bends and pull offs, i have heard him doing those for about 40 years so i know them well. Its not his best hour, but its totally him 100%.
@@Stefan- I doubt you read my whole message. I copied someone else's and asked with "possible?" at the end. But thanks for the very detailed answer nonetheless! :)
This is not a guitar solo. He's just taking noises and sounds from his guitar according to his mood and will, at that particular moment. Which is great, because is being very spontaneous, and entertaining.
That's all he's doing, thank you. Ritchie can play beautiful & melodic when he feels like it, no problem....but this guy just focuses on this, like this is all Blackmore is capable of. He takes chances & goes off in the heat of the moment, and doesn't really care.He has brilliantly composed solos, going back decades and across at least 2 legendary bands. Also, live he used to regularly pull hat tricks, this is just one small example of his wider palette......
@@Stitsel you can still take chances and go off your head without sounding like complete garbage like this, how you can attempt to justify this is ridiculous
@@nemesis8626 did you read my post? For every "solo" like this where he fell flat, there's probably 300 where he absolutely nailed it. This is just an off sounding segment that got caught on camera.I didn't say it sounded great, I said don't judge him on this one time. I've seen him live 3 times & nothing like this, in fact he played brilliantly every time. He's a true musician & he takes chances. So what if it doesn't always work.He's still one of the all time greats, but the naysayers are always looking for anything they can find to trash Ritchie.
@@timd729In 1970s probably the best strat players were Rory Gallagher, Jeff Beck, Robin Trower. Ritchie had way too limited guitar technique and it was so predictable. He used same playing technique all the time. Also his guitar sounded too quiet in some songs and rhythm parts were overshadowed by organ (especially Deep Purple era)
That solo was not made for us, it was meant to be sent out into the universe so that we would hear this 400 years from now. Obviously we heard it to early and it sounds like crap. This is why richie recentlly went back into the dark ages, so that he could play solos that we could now comprehend with our ears today.
@@andrejz8954 tbh I actually realised what I'd done after I wrote it! Lost In Hollywood is one of my favourite Blackmore solos though. Cozy Powell's drumming .. sadly missed.
Definitely one of those "You need to be this high to get it" jams. But eh, every 70s British guitar god did this. Something about controlling that much raw volume. Is it musical? Jesus fuck no. But if Ritchie wants to make ambient acid rock, he's earned the right to do so :)
@elgatofelix8917 12 hours ago Sorry but I'm not gullible enough to believe this is Richie Blackmore's playing. It's obvious somebody superimposed this audio track over this footage of him playing. Anybody who doubts what a great guitar player he is - just listen to his solos on songs like Burn and Highway Star. Possible?
@@andrejz8954 No, this is him....just going off & making noise.He's done it throughout his career, with in Purple & Rainbow. Listen to all those old live albums, this is nothing new. It's just him making noise ala Hendrix, for the fun of it..... but most people don't get it. YES he can & does play tastefully melodic composed solos. Very intricate & complex ones sometimes too..... but he's never been afraid to go all atonal, & most people don't realize that was a big part of 20th century avant grade composing. Whatever. Blackmore doesn't care who gets it or who doesn't, neither should we. The big takeaway here, is most that criticise this have never listened to what else he has in his arsenal. Oh well.
Those who have followed Blackmore through the years will recognize that he often does this as part of his spotlight solo, generally before, or right after he swaps out his main axe for a cheap guitar to broken and sacrificed to the Gods of the White Noise. The point is that this is not accidental or some example of Ritchie having an off-night-He reproduces it, virtually all of it, time and again, which itself is pretty scary! He plays all of the amazing things that we know and admire him for, then can do this, almost non-playing, or mimicry of someone who cannot play and is just running their hands over the strings as fast as they can, yet it is not completely random since he manages to play it pretty nearly the same whenever he chooses, migrating from whammy bar wankery to alien-sounding tapping in the upper-register to that ascending cacophony of low string notes that he is slapping with his hand over the fretboard to the drums entering with that up-tempo beat and Ritchie interspersing those crashing chords with the ambient noises, as if an organized sound, music, is being birthed from the chaos of noise…Crazy as that sounds, it strikes me as what he is going for, and you can hear and watch him doing in previous videos with Rainbow (“Live Between The Eyes” (in San Antonio), and the Bent Out of Shape tour concert video in Tokyo), this display with Deep Purple is not an accident, and is not some sort of Richard Benson moment, rather it is something Ritchie has chosen to do throughout his career, and probably owes to a period of his musical life that he was fascinated with ideas like Chance Music and Experimental Sounds. That said, I do not necessarily agree with it, but I also will not sit here and act like it is “the worst solo ever” when it is just a part of what he features during his spotlight, and is also something he seems to be capable of intentionally reproducing, or at least approximating over and over again, which, for better or worse, does qualify it as a “composition” of a sort.
@elgatofelix8917 12 hours ago Sorry but I'm not gullible enough to believe this is Richie Blackmore's playing. It's obvious somebody superimposed this audio track over this footage of him playing. Anybody who doubts what a great guitar player he is - just listen to his solos on songs like Burn and Highway Star. Possible?
@@andrejz8954 I appreciate your reply, but as I cited above, there are other examples of him doing this "routine" when he was in Rainbow. The video shown here was during his return to Deep Purple in the 1980s-1990s. I understand if many people do not get what he is doing when he plays this bit, but I sincerely believe that you have to watch at least the full solo, which this is merely a segment of, to get a better context to grade it against. It is definitely Ritchie, and it is very intentional.
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Yes this is funny. Anyway he is one of the greatest and most underrated guitar players ever. Neoclassical guitar simply would not exist without his incredible work, and not only that. Every Hard Rock and Heavy Metal player deserve more than some credit to Mr. Ritchie Blackmore
Ritchie Blackmore is the greatest Soloist ever in the Business. This is Ritchie having fun and probably trying to find a note he has never played. When your Blackmore you can do what ever you want. I have seen the man twice. I have been to over 100 Concerts just in the Seventies and have seen them all. Ritchie was the best. And I have seen all of the greats except Hendrix and Santana.
This is not about music, this is about art. Art of the highest level is about creating something no one has done before. This is what Blackmore does. Art of the highest level. I really feel that he throws pearl before swine. No one seems to understand what he is doing here.
Same as Jimmy Page always bad live but great in the studio , weird thing is have you seen the 1993 child in time solo on youtube ? Blackmore actually learned how to play again LOL
@@jerrywoods4066 Maybe lucky as his shows in the 1980s with DP were not great , I think it was more deliberate on Blackmores part as he did not want Gillan in the band , JLT did replace him in the late 80s but Slaves and Disasters as i call it was awful nothing like the Rainbow albums they did in the early 80s
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@elgatofelix8917 12 hours ago Sorry but I'm not gullible enough to believe this is Richie Blackmore's playing. It's obvious somebody superimposed this audio track over this footage of him playing. Anybody who doubts what a great guitar player he is - just listen to his solos on songs like Burn and Highway Star. Possible?
Not everything is about melting faces and showing off knowledge of modes. Extreme volume inspires a more guttural and visceral expression. When you play arenas in front of your multiple Marshall stacks what do you usually play? Does it hold up on youtube 50 years later? Certainly that was never the point. It falls under the "you had to be there to appreciate it" column. It's great simply because it happened.
My man made some of the greatest solos of all time, and he's the best neoclassical guitarist in my heart, along with Randy. Why did he need to do that? Why don't just play the guitar dude? You definitely know how to
I mean he was always screwing around with the tremolo bar and the feedback. It was a 70's thing, Jeff Beck used to do this a lot as well, and Ritchie always though Jeff to be the best around. People have this notion of the "solo" as being solely fast played scales, arpeggios, triplets or what have you, but they forget it can also be about the ambience. Anyways Ritchie has crafted some of the most tasteful solos ever, and when he was on live, he was ON, so come on, let him have fun
We all know Ritchie can really play well, fluid, neoclassical runs etc, but this isn't it. He's my favourite guitarist but during this period in the 80s he just loved to make feedbrck noise for his solo section, very odd indeed. Still love him though, written some terrific songs.
@LfunkeyA Ingwie is good but he in no way surpassed Blackmore. Playing fast just to be fast got boring. Ian Anderson said it perfectly about Blackmore. Ritchie understood the importance of knowing the silence in between notes. Blackmore was creative. Not saying Ingwie wasn't but nothing like Ritchie. It is subjective and every one hears and sees things differently. Keep on rocking.
Yngwie got most of his act from Ritchie and then took it further IMO, he even played together with a few of Blackmores former singers like Graham bonnet, Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White. Blackmore has used similar parts in live solos before but as much smaller parts so this kind of thing is (or were) not uncommon for him.
Most of the over the top stuff Yngwie does was inspired by Hendrix, who he said was responsible for turning him into guitar. He was a kid playing violin at that time I think.
@@CynHicks He could certainly have been turned on to guitar by Hendrix like he says, but i wouldnt say that i find any real likeness in his playing and his stage presence, on the other hand his stage antics is as close as a copy of Blackmore that anyone would dare to get and he also took the neoclassical route in guitarplaying and made it a big thing with a lot of others that followed him. I have played guitar for 40 years myself and been a huge fan of Blackmore since the mid 80´s and listened a lot to Malmsteen then as well and like his early stuff, im also from Stockholm Sweden like he is. If i would rate the level of influence i see in Malmsteen between just Hendrix and Blackmore it would be 90% Blackmore and 10% Hendrix, im sure there are other influences as well though but the Blackmore influence is crazy obvious and dominant for sure.
@@Stefan- I started playing in 1990, I was never really big into Blackmore or Hendrix but I was a huge Yngwie fan. So, I definitely could be wrong. I've just never seen Blackmore play with his teeth, behind his back ect... Like Yngwie does in his act. Musically he's obviously much more like Blackmore but again, I've just never seen Blackmore do the flashy tricks that Yngwie is known for, same as Hendrix.
@@CynHicks The teeth and behind back is Hendrix i would say so that would be correct, i dont think i have seen Blackmore do any of those, but Blackmore could be a bit wild on stage in the 70´s, i think you should watch some clips of 70´s Blackmore for example at the epic California Jam gig in 1974 with Deep purple and Rainbow in Munich 1977, you can see both here on RUclips. If you see Blackmore live in the 70´s then it will be clearer. I highly recommend these videos regardless if you as me like that kind of music, im also a huge fan of Ronnie James Dio, so the Dio fronted Rainbow is probably my all time favourite band.
Who cares if he pulls a "moody", that's part of RB's persona. In the world of perfect scale shredding, it's cool to see a veteran say, "fuck it". And that's exactly what this talented legend/maestro is saying, "fuck it" tonight. I understand the sentiment. I find this chaotic improv more entertaining than watching EVH's Eruption played note for note by everybody and his brother for the umpteenth time. To me that's more irritatingly boring than watching a "fuck it" Blackmore solo. Blackmore is awesome.
I just posted all my guitars and gear for sale, and cut off my fingers. I'll never be this great, and I now know I've wasted 17 years of my life trying to be this great.
3:20- mating call of the yellow necked grouse... spot on! 4:05- snow seal being beaten to death with pick axe.... im certain of it... Yoko Ono on guitar...? he hasnt played a note yet... oh, theres kinda a chord... hes so transcendent... searcing for some kind of music, its just not working... come back Shane... oh, hes playing some chords now... oh no... make it stop... junk... hes not done... oh wow, they stopped at the same time, was this planned...? light candles... oh... i heard a noise, again... this was recorded... SMH
This is 1 of the most hilarious videos that I've ever seen. Wish I had some flippers for a bigger applause. A group of seals clapping away would be a perfect video fit for the audio Ritchie Blackmore provided
Saw him years ago. He has been known to play some ultra pretentious solos that are pure noise. Then again, he's given us some amazing licks as well. Oy vey.
Most of this solo is like ur bud saying he's great at guitar, then he just tries to move his fingers as fast as he can as everyone realizes he's never touched a guitar... Then charging for it
Come at me, my skin is thick. Ritchie Blackmore is very overrated. (Looks toward the sky in defiance, as I’m about to be bludgeoned into oblivion…) People who paid to see this concert got robbed!
It could be argued that every popular guitar hero is overrated, since that means that they are held in a higher esteem by their fans than is reasonable relative to their musical abilities. Saying someone is overrated is not the same thing as saying they such, as the former is a comment on how they are perceived by others, and the latter regards their abilities. Blackmore is great, but overrated; Guthrie Govan, by comparison is also great, but shamefully underrated--Not enough listeners know of him or his music.
@@vincentgarzoli3197 On that note I'll agree.... I had a chance to meet Guthrie in Colorado during a guitar clinic about 8 years ago & his talent makes me think he was touched directly by God! (If you're an atheist I hope my overall point isn't lost. People seem to love arguing about religion on here. Not my intention.)
I completely disagree. Have you ever heard of Stryker or listened to CC DeVille? The Master was just in the moment playing with feelings, lol. Mr. Blackmore is one of my favorite guitarists. You can tell this was not planned as many of his live solos were at the time. No two are the same.
This is not a guitar solo, it is Ritchie Blackmore improvising live, just playing with the whammy bar effect, some tapping tech, some rhythm lines and a few guitar leads, Ritchie Blackmore was at his best between the years 1984-1985, just ask mr. Craig Goldie who was with his band the opening act for Deep Purple's Perfects Strangers tour, i played guitar for only one year in my life, i wish i could play as worse as Ritchie Blackmore played on this live improvising, i remember when i got the cassette of Perfect Strangers, i listened to it for two months, and then my younger brother took control of that cassette and listened to it also for two months, in 1991 i was lucky to see Deep Purple live with Ritchie Blackmore, he didn't play any improvisation, just his guitar solos in the songs, thanks mr. Shred for sharing.
Yeah…that was rough. Had to fast forward Shred. Couldn’t stand it. I saw them on the Perfect Strangers tour at the Texxas Jam ‘85 and I’m glad he didn’t pull that stunt. 😩
It is not a real solo, It is a noisy fx universe. I would not rate him because of this...more because of the best guitar solo ever played by anyone: child in time (and Highway star) from made in Japan. Now let's listen to Black Masquerade and Temple of the king solo from Rainbow 1995 dvd.
"Scalloped frets" no..." Scalloped fretBOARD" yes. Malmsteen pointed this out in an interview the other day making us all sound stupid because we all say that. Blackmore is fascinating though, sometimes he was on, a lot of times he was completely off lol. His tone here is pretty mean though. Imagine some good playing with that tone.
After swabbing the last of the blood from my ears from listening to this "solo," I now am seriously contemplating whether the shooting of John Lennon was actually in error due to a case of mistaken identity? 🤔
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If Yoko Ono could play a guitar solo.
Way underrated comment.
Lmafo yesss
As horrible as that would be, it still wouldn't be as bad as Tom Morello's "guitar solos" or as I prefer to call it: the MorelloWhammyWankfest
@@elgatofelix8917 it honestly makes me sad because he has played beautiful shreddy glorious leads but he just doesn't. He plays stuff that sounds worse because it's "his sound"
Yes, terrible. Lol
They say this is what inspired kerry king to start playing guitar
At least this solo is better than Kerry Kings solos....
@@Stefan- lol as if
@@Stefan- By a couple of millimeters, maybe. 😂
Why does Kerry King get so much hate when Tom Morello even with his over 100 whammy pedals can't even play half the stuff King plays?
Oh and FYI Richie Blackmore is widely considered to be a trailblazer of heavy metal alongside Tony Iommi.
Anybody who doesn't recognize his contribution to rock and metal simply doesn't know wtf they're talking about.
It sounds like he is using Morse code to communicate to some long lost departed love one!
The legend says Ritchie took guitar lessons from Yoko ono before this solo.
Sorry but I'm not gullible enough to believe this is Richie Blackmore's playing. It's obvious somebody superimposed this audio track over this footage of him playing. Anybody who doubts what a great guitar player he is - just listen to his solos on songs like Burn and Highway Star. Lest we forget that subsequent legends like Eddie Van Halen was influenced by Blackmore's playing and Metallica was also highly influenced by Deep Purple whose leader and main songwriter was Blackmore.
@@elgatofelix8917 Really?
Point to us the segment where the audio blatantly mismatched the video.
We'll wait...
Ah the 70’s rock jam. If you’re not on something this won’t make any sense 🤣
That wasn't a solo it was his audition for rage against the machine
Lol good one
This is perhaps a bad part of a longer solo. But Ritchie is one of the most outstanding guitarplayers in hard and heavy rock history
At that time 1970s it was great sound...
No he wasn't he's not close to buckethead or Satriani he's an average player
@@patrickshannon4516in terms of listening experience Ritchie blows buckethead out of the water.
@@kappy3382 not even close
@@patrickshannon4516different eras. Playing evolved with Satriani and Buckethead
It seems like Ritchie was headed into the future towards Planet Tommy Morello. But missed the target and instead raged against his guitar. LOL
Both funny and a thought to perhaps take seriously even.👍
Richie Blackmore > Tom Morello
Anyday
@elgatofelix8917
12 hours ago
Sorry but I'm not gullible enough to believe this is Richie Blackmore's playing. It's obvious somebody superimposed this audio track over this footage of him playing. Anybody who doubts what a great guitar player he is - just listen to his solos on songs like Burn and Highway Star.
Possible?
@@andrejz8954 You are wrong, i have played guitar for 40 years and am a huge fan of Blackmore and to me the video totally match the audio a 100% and that isnt even possible to fake and it also totally sounds like his signature bends and pull offs, i have heard him doing those for about 40 years so i know them well. Its not his best hour, but its totally him 100%.
@@Stefan- I doubt you read my whole message. I copied someone else's and asked with "possible?" at the end. But thanks for the very detailed answer nonetheless! :)
I'm surprised that guitar was still in tune after that.
Yeah no shit lol
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prob oiled the nut
This is not a guitar solo. He's just taking noises and sounds from his guitar according to his mood and will, at that particular moment. Which is great, because is being very spontaneous, and entertaining.
That's all he's doing, thank you. Ritchie can play beautiful & melodic when he feels like it, no problem....but this guy just focuses on this, like this is all Blackmore is capable of. He takes chances & goes off in the heat of the moment, and doesn't really care.He has brilliantly composed solos, going back decades and across at least 2 legendary bands. Also, live he used to regularly pull hat tricks, this is just one small example of his wider palette......
@@Stitsel you can still take chances and go off your head without sounding like complete garbage like this, how you can attempt to justify this is ridiculous
@@nemesis8626 did you read my post? For every "solo" like this where he fell flat, there's probably 300 where he absolutely nailed it. This is just an off sounding segment that got caught on camera.I didn't say it sounded great, I said don't judge him on this one time. I've seen him live 3 times & nothing like this, in fact he played brilliantly every time. He's a true musician & he takes chances. So what if it doesn't always work.He's still one of the all time greats, but the naysayers are always looking for anything they can find to trash Ritchie.
You know who could go off the rails and still sound good? Rory Gallagher
@@timd729In 1970s probably the best strat players were Rory Gallagher, Jeff Beck, Robin Trower. Ritchie had way too limited guitar technique and it was so predictable. He used same playing technique all the time. Also his guitar sounded too quiet in some songs and rhythm parts were overshadowed by organ (especially Deep Purple era)
That solo was not made for us, it was meant to be sent out into the universe so that we would hear this 400 years from now. Obviously we heard it to early and it sounds like crap. This is why richie recentlly went back into the dark ages, so that he could play solos that we could now comprehend with our ears today.
You self centered asshole, you don't deserve to wear a Sabbath hat.
Ian Gillan is hitting those bongo's rather than hitting Blackmore over his head.... Perhaps if he had if done he would have come back down to earth!
@@andrewmorse4324 I c what u did there m8 :)
@@andrejz8954 tbh I actually realised what I'd done after I wrote it! Lost In Hollywood is one of my favourite Blackmore solos though. Cozy Powell's drumming .. sadly missed.
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That wasn't a solo. It was a sonic ritual to summon eldritch shred demons.
Definitely one of those "You need to be this high to get it" jams. But eh, every 70s British guitar god did this. Something about controlling that much raw volume. Is it musical? Jesus fuck no. But if Ritchie wants to make ambient acid rock, he's earned the right to do so :)
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@elgatofelix8917
12 hours ago
Sorry but I'm not gullible enough to believe this is Richie Blackmore's playing. It's obvious somebody superimposed this audio track over this footage of him playing. Anybody who doubts what a great guitar player he is - just listen to his solos on songs like Burn and Highway Star.
Possible?
@@andrejz8954 No, this is him....just going off & making noise.He's done it throughout his career, with in Purple & Rainbow. Listen to all those old live albums, this is nothing new. It's just him making noise ala Hendrix, for the fun of it..... but most people don't get it. YES he can & does play tastefully melodic composed solos. Very intricate & complex ones sometimes too..... but he's never been afraid to go all atonal, & most people don't realize that was a big part of 20th century avant grade composing. Whatever. Blackmore doesn't care who gets it or who doesn't, neither should we.
The big takeaway here, is most that criticise this have never listened to what else he has in his arsenal. Oh well.
Those who have followed Blackmore through the years will recognize that he often does this as part of his spotlight solo, generally before, or right after he swaps out his main axe for a cheap guitar to broken and sacrificed to the Gods of the White Noise.
The point is that this is not accidental or some example of Ritchie having an off-night-He reproduces it, virtually all of it, time and again, which itself is pretty scary! He plays all of the amazing things that we know and admire him for, then can do this, almost non-playing, or mimicry of someone who cannot play and is just running their hands over the strings as fast as they can, yet it is not completely random since he manages to play it pretty nearly the same whenever he chooses, migrating from whammy bar wankery to alien-sounding tapping in the upper-register to that ascending cacophony of low string notes that he is slapping with his hand over the fretboard to the drums entering with that up-tempo beat and Ritchie interspersing those crashing chords with the ambient noises, as if an organized sound, music, is being birthed from the chaos of noise…Crazy as that sounds, it strikes me as what he is going for, and you can hear and watch him doing in previous videos with Rainbow (“Live Between The Eyes” (in San Antonio), and the Bent Out of Shape tour concert video in Tokyo), this display with Deep Purple is not an accident, and is not some sort of Richard Benson moment, rather it is something Ritchie has chosen to do throughout his career, and probably owes to a period of his musical life that he was fascinated with ideas like Chance Music and Experimental Sounds.
That said, I do not necessarily agree with it, but I also will not sit here and act like it is “the worst solo ever” when it is just a part of what he features during his spotlight, and is also something he seems to be capable of intentionally reproducing, or at least approximating over and over again, which, for better or worse, does qualify it as a “composition” of a sort.
@elgatofelix8917
12 hours ago
Sorry but I'm not gullible enough to believe this is Richie Blackmore's playing. It's obvious somebody superimposed this audio track over this footage of him playing. Anybody who doubts what a great guitar player he is - just listen to his solos on songs like Burn and Highway Star.
Possible?
@@andrejz8954 I appreciate your reply, but as I cited above, there are other examples of him doing this "routine" when he was in Rainbow.
The video shown here was during his return to Deep Purple in the 1980s-1990s. I understand if many people do not get what he is doing when he plays this bit, but I sincerely believe that you have to watch at least the full solo, which this is merely a segment of, to get a better context to grade it against. It is definitely Ritchie, and it is very intentional.
@@vincentgarzoli3197 andrej has been copy/pasting the same reply on every other comment, here. 🤦
I'm with you, though!
Never realized how much Ritchie Blackmore looked like Clapton back in the day. They could have been brothers.
Well theyre both Aries for starters ♈️♈️
There was a bust up backstage or so the story goes so he just messed about to piss everyone off…….a la Blackmore.
The GOAT is taking the piss 😂
This is one solo if transcribed by the guitar magazines that no one would care if it was wrong …..
Have you ever been to a meth heads house and they start showing you all the different projects they're working on, but, you don't actually see any projects, you only see a chaotic mess, but, according to them, they're kicking ass and ready to take over the world! This is that!!
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" hey listen to this dude, I've been practicing "
Sounds like a dial up modem from back in the day
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3:22 "He's on Planet Ritchie..." That pretty much sums up his entire career. I'd have it no other way.
Ritchie looks like Mister Bean in this photo.
Sounds like when people thought they knew how to be DJs and ended up ruining a record by scratching it
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Still better than Lil' Wayne's abomination.
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Last time I listened to this solo, my Commodore 64 loaded a game.
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Yes this is funny.
Anyway he is one of the greatest and most underrated guitar players ever.
Neoclassical guitar simply would not exist without his incredible work, and not only that.
Every Hard Rock and Heavy Metal player deserve more than some credit to Mr. Ritchie Blackmore
Truth!!
I didn’t know he could play like Jimmy Page.
For me it is a perfect ambient noise. Good stuff
Ritchie Blackmore is the greatest Soloist ever in the Business. This is Ritchie having fun and probably trying to find a note he has never played. When your Blackmore you can do what ever you want. I have seen the man twice. I have been to over 100 Concerts just in the Seventies and have seen them all. Ritchie was the best. And I have seen all of the greats except Hendrix and Santana.
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This is not about music, this is about art. Art of the highest level is about creating something no one has done before. This is what Blackmore does. Art of the highest level. I really feel that he throws pearl before swine. No one seems to understand what he is doing here.
Of course I’m joking. As much I love Rithie, I have to admit this is just unbearable.
I saw Blackmore twice. Once with Deep Purple, once with Rainbow, he was f*cking terrible on both occasions.
Great everytime I seen him
Same as Jimmy Page always bad live but great in the studio , weird thing is have you seen the 1993 child in time solo on youtube ? Blackmore actually learned how to play again LOL
@@christineayres7199 he was always great when I seen him live . And I seen him like 8 times easy
@@jerrywoods4066 Maybe lucky as his shows in the 1980s with DP were not great , I think it was more deliberate on Blackmores part as he did not want Gillan in the band , JLT did replace him in the late 80s but Slaves and Disasters as i call it was awful nothing like the Rainbow albums they did in the early 80s
@@christineayres7199 seen all those tours he was great. Sat in fourth in front of Ritchie for slaves and masters. Joe was great
This was his side band called "The Ritchie Crackwhore Experience" it was wild maaan
"Cocaine is a hell of a drug"
Well Mr. RB dont do drugs never even smoked sigarettes howewer Hes a huge Whisky & Beer lover.
Hes choice: Johnnie Walker Black Label & German Lagers & Ales.
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I actually have always loved this solo, he was clearly super drunk and just enjoying the noise… Pure Dionysian chaos
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Sorry but I'm not gullible enough to believe this is Richie Blackmore's playing. It's obvious somebody superimposed this audio track over this footage of him playing. Anybody who doubts what a great guitar player he is - just listen to his solos on songs like Burn and Highway Star.
Possible?
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Between your commentary and his solo, I haven't laughed that hard in years. Thank you.
I sincerely expected him to play a ravaging of 0-3-5
But, this, is plain slaughter...
Not everything is about melting faces and showing off knowledge of modes. Extreme volume inspires a more guttural and visceral expression. When you play arenas in front of your multiple Marshall stacks what do you usually play? Does it hold up on youtube 50 years later? Certainly that was never the point. It falls under the "you had to be there to appreciate it" column. It's great simply because it happened.
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Yeah, that’s a pretty rough break for all of us.
I'm about 100% sure Cristopher Guest saw this performance and remembered it.
Yep I had a stroll down before I did a spinal tap reference and you did it first good job man that's funny,,,
This reminds me of the part in Spinal Tap when Nigel tries to play the guitar with a violin while playing another guitar with his foot..
Dude he's my favorite player and the best soloist in that style I've seen. This is just him being flashy and doing show
Imagine playing this at your local guitar shop🤣
My man made some of the greatest solos of all time, and he's the best neoclassical guitarist in my heart, along with Randy. Why did he need to do that? Why don't just play the guitar dude? You definitely know how to
This part of the solo was just showmanship that's all .
I mean he was always screwing around with the tremolo bar and the feedback. It was a 70's thing, Jeff Beck used to do this a lot as well, and Ritchie always though Jeff to be the best around. People have this notion of the "solo" as being solely fast played scales, arpeggios, triplets or what have you, but they forget it can also be about the ambience. Anyways Ritchie has crafted some of the most tasteful solos ever, and when he was on live, he was ON, so come on, let him have fun
If my pal foot foot had a guitar solo this would be it! Sounds like a power drill with a wood drill bit trying to drill into concrete! Lol!
My pal foot foot don’t live here no more.
We all know Ritchie can really play well, fluid, neoclassical runs etc, but this isn't it. He's my favourite guitarist but during this period in the 80s he just loved to make feedbrck noise for his solo section, very odd indeed. Still love him though, written some terrific songs.
It’s funny because if you ever read an interview with Ritchie back in the day, he made Malmsteen sound absolutely modest by comparison.
"he made Malmsteen sound absolutely modest by comparison."
LMFAO- LoL, you hit that right on the head.
Ingwie tried to be a Blackmore Clone. Down to Ritchie's Attitude.
@@kurtsherrick2066 yngwie surpassed him by lightyears.
@LfunkeyA Ingwie is good but he in no way surpassed Blackmore. Playing fast just to be fast got boring. Ian Anderson said it perfectly about Blackmore. Ritchie understood the importance of knowing the silence in between notes. Blackmore was creative. Not saying Ingwie wasn't but nothing like Ritchie. It is subjective and every one hears and sees things differently. Keep on rocking.
When I saw Yngwie play with Steeler at the Roxy it was evident he ripped everything off from Ritchie.
Yngwie got most of his act from Ritchie and then took it further IMO, he even played together with a few of Blackmores former singers like Graham bonnet, Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White. Blackmore has used similar parts in live solos before but as much smaller parts so this kind of thing is (or were) not uncommon for him.
Most of the over the top stuff Yngwie does was inspired by Hendrix, who he said was responsible for turning him into guitar. He was a kid playing violin at that time I think.
Now, I'm pretty sure he was partly inspired by Blackmore, as was basically all neo-classical guitarists from the era.
@@CynHicks He could certainly have been turned on to guitar by Hendrix like he says, but i wouldnt say that i find any real likeness in his playing and his stage presence, on the other hand his stage antics is as close as a copy of Blackmore that anyone would dare to get and he also took the neoclassical route in guitarplaying and made it a big thing with a lot of others that followed him. I have played guitar for 40 years myself and been a huge fan of Blackmore since the mid 80´s and listened a lot to Malmsteen then as well and like his early stuff, im also from Stockholm Sweden like he is. If i would rate the level of influence i see in Malmsteen between just Hendrix and Blackmore it would be 90% Blackmore and 10% Hendrix, im sure there are other influences as well though but the Blackmore influence is crazy obvious and dominant for sure.
@@Stefan- I started playing in 1990, I was never really big into Blackmore or Hendrix but I was a huge Yngwie fan. So, I definitely could be wrong. I've just never seen Blackmore play with his teeth, behind his back ect... Like Yngwie does in his act. Musically he's obviously much more like Blackmore but again, I've just never seen Blackmore do the flashy tricks that Yngwie is known for, same as Hendrix.
@@CynHicks The teeth and behind back is Hendrix i would say so that would be correct, i dont think i have seen Blackmore do any of those, but Blackmore could be a bit wild on stage in the 70´s, i think you should watch some clips of 70´s Blackmore for example at the epic California Jam gig in 1974 with Deep purple and Rainbow in Munich 1977, you can see both here on RUclips. If you see Blackmore live in the 70´s then it will be clearer. I highly recommend these videos regardless if you as me like that kind of music, im also a huge fan of Ronnie James Dio, so the Dio fronted Rainbow is probably my all time favourite band.
Who cares if he pulls a "moody", that's part of RB's persona. In the world of perfect scale shredding, it's cool to see a veteran say, "fuck it". And that's exactly what this talented legend/maestro is saying, "fuck it" tonight. I understand the sentiment. I find this chaotic improv more entertaining than watching EVH's Eruption played note for note by everybody and his brother for the umpteenth time. To me that's more irritatingly boring than watching a "fuck it" Blackmore solo. Blackmore is awesome.
He took a time portal and stole some of your ancient mushroom root beer..
I just posted all my guitars and gear for sale, and cut off my fingers. I'll never be this great, and I now know I've wasted 17 years of my life trying to be this great.
Get over it man. RITCHIE BLACKMORE is the epitome of guitar wizardry. Without him there will be no evh, yngwie, satch etc.
When you tell the drummer to lay it down like your not there
Keith Richards Sympathy for the devil is worst, Billy Squire everybody wants you #2 worst.
"I can play anything and they'll love it. Watch this....."
He doesn't care what we think! We should ALL have that much confidence in whatever we do. 🤣💯
RItchie basicaly sounds like a whole Guitar Shop on sales day.
I used this solo to call Sasquatch in the woods in California and I actually seen one. Bringing his family to me
Beautiful noise for the senses. John Zorn would be proud.
Words cannot explain this extraordinary imagery of Ritchie pretending he’s Hendrix in a horribly unorthodox way😳😳😳
3:20- mating call of the yellow necked grouse... spot on!
4:05- snow seal being beaten to death with pick axe.... im certain of it...
Yoko Ono on guitar...?
he hasnt played a note yet... oh, theres kinda a chord... hes so transcendent... searcing for some kind of music, its just not working...
come back Shane... oh, hes playing some chords now... oh no... make it stop... junk... hes not done... oh wow, they stopped at the same time, was this planned...? light candles... oh... i heard a noise, again... this was recorded... SMH
This is 1 of the most hilarious videos that I've ever seen. Wish I had some flippers for a bigger applause. A group of seals clapping away would be a perfect video fit for the audio Ritchie Blackmore provided
When I do this with the Marshalls cranked my cat pukes on the rug and the neighbors call the cops.
Probably To much Whisky this night
That's kinda what I sound like when I'm to shit faced to play
Saw him years ago. He has been known to play some ultra pretentious solos that are pure noise. Then again, he's given us some amazing licks as well. Oy vey.
Most of this solo is like ur bud saying he's great at guitar, then he just tries to move his fingers as fast as he can as everyone realizes he's never touched a guitar... Then charging for it
That was rough I think they had called that guitar abuse
Guitar neck violation.
There should be some kind of law against this.
He's in the zone you say? He looks like he's going to puke!
Blackmore is a great guitarist, but this is awful…
“Ritchie on guitar! HE WROTE THIS!”
If Daft Punk played their turntables with a hammer lol.
Three Nights by Black Flag is awful too.
They literally took this recording and used it for the sound effect in the toy laser gun every 80s or 90s kids used to have.
Sounds like a distorted yoko ono
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Come at me, my skin is thick.
Ritchie Blackmore is very overrated.
(Looks toward the sky in defiance, as I’m about to be bludgeoned into oblivion…)
People who paid to see this concert got robbed!
It could be argued that every popular guitar hero is overrated, since that means that they are held in a higher esteem by their fans than is reasonable relative to their musical abilities.
Saying someone is overrated is not the same thing as saying they such, as the former is a comment on how they are perceived by others, and the latter regards their abilities.
Blackmore is great, but overrated; Guthrie Govan, by comparison is also great, but shamefully underrated--Not enough listeners know of him or his music.
@@vincentgarzoli3197 On that note I'll agree....
I had a chance to meet Guthrie in Colorado during a guitar clinic about 8 years ago & his talent makes me think he was touched directly by God!
(If you're an atheist I hope my overall point isn't lost. People seem to love arguing about religion on here. Not my intention.)
I completely disagree. Have you ever heard of Stryker or listened to CC DeVille? The Master was just in the moment playing with feelings, lol. Mr. Blackmore is one of my favorite guitarists. You can tell this was not planned as many of his live solos were at the time. No two are the same.
I saw the tour, what can’t be heard is the sound bouncing off the walls. Music in 3D . It was actually a trip.
That's Ritchie's worst solo by far...he just makes sounds....but he is one of the best guitarists ever
Sounds better than my first solo at 13.
Sounds like he was going for a Syd Barrett kind of thing
When Ritchie do live I just shut down the TV
honestly sounds like a RATM solo
Sounds like a cat stuck in a radiator fan.
i love to see this fustrated dude behind his laptop and never stand on a big stage.bravo
I love that dissonance Sh*t
Maybe to understand his musicality, we should be on that "Shitty Thing" he is taking that night.
If you talk to richie he was actually mocking someone at that time,can you think of who it may be.lol
This is not a guitar solo, it is Ritchie Blackmore improvising live, just playing with the whammy bar effect, some tapping tech, some rhythm lines and a few guitar leads, Ritchie Blackmore was at his best between the years 1984-1985, just ask mr. Craig Goldie who was with his band the opening act for Deep Purple's Perfects Strangers tour, i played guitar for only one year in my life, i wish i could play as worse as Ritchie Blackmore played on this live improvising, i remember when i got the cassette of Perfect Strangers, i listened to it for two months, and then my younger brother took control of that cassette and listened to it also for two months, in 1991 i was lucky to see Deep Purple live with Ritchie Blackmore, he didn't play any improvisation, just his guitar solos in the songs, thanks mr. Shred for sharing.
Ritchie had too much Wap juice.
Yeah…that was rough. Had to fast forward Shred. Couldn’t stand it. I saw them on the Perfect Strangers tour at the Texxas Jam ‘85 and I’m glad he didn’t pull that stunt. 😩
At first it reminds me off that EXP/"Flying Saucer" monolog that kicks off Axis: Bold as Love /Jimi Hendrix Exp.
Not Ritchie's best solo. When he's inspired he plays well, but when he's not inspired he can't help it.
It is not a real solo, It is a noisy fx universe.
I would not rate him because of this...more because of the best guitar solo ever played by anyone: child in time (and Highway star) from made in Japan.
Now let's listen to Black Masquerade and Temple of the king solo from Rainbow 1995 dvd.
That Black Masquerade live solo is one of my favorites from Rainbow. He was on fire that night 🤩
Also the 1997 live solo in Japan on Shadows of the moon is one of his best ones imo.
"Scalloped frets" no..." Scalloped fretBOARD" yes. Malmsteen pointed this out in an interview the other day making us all sound stupid because we all say that. Blackmore is fascinating though, sometimes he was on, a lot of times he was completely off lol. His tone here is pretty mean though. Imagine some good playing with that tone.
After swabbing the last of the blood from my ears from listening to this "solo," I now am seriously contemplating whether the shooting of John Lennon was actually in error due to a case of mistaken identity? 🤔
I died @ I wish I had some big flippers, like a sea lion