Ritchie Blackmore improvisation 1974

[88ueshiba88]

2 people don't have ears

[diagreen]

thanx

[kristolaos]

500.000 people????? every report of that festival says that were there about 200,000 people, max 250!!

however rocknroll

[s22ad]

@kristolaos I dont know about you but after THAT solo im seeing double.

[nennass1]

God of Guitar is Ritchie Blackmore !

[fraterlucifer888]

the music from this period of purple was top notch and some of blackmores best playing,just awesome, but david coverdale sucks

[Vailover4ever]

Blackmore and Jimmy Page were my first rock idols.

[TheMichaelseymour]

Ritchie is such a tasty blues player .

[bachinblack94]

improvisation? Blackmore always improvises!

[DreamHealer87]

@bachinblack94 yea, it's just a little extract ;)

[oberfour]

Jimi Hendrix was no match for Ritchie Blackmore. I don`t care what anyone says. Ritchie Blackmore as long as he lives is second to none now and always has been.

[bahysaad74]

In my book there is only Blackmore and Rory Gallagher

[pinto4646]

that sweep at the beginning....so tasty

[Feedom101010]

TI AMO BLACKMORE SEI IL MIO DIO

[thierry1026]

OMG I want this guy back in DEEP Purple!

[17024786]

improwisation ????? no ritchi not improvisations

[castawaypaul]

jimmy hendrix

[NisseEricsson]

Ritchie is the best guitarist ever.

[z603dauren]

I love that clean sound by Ritchie, no any effects and low gain that is all what need Blackmorel Marshall and Fender + R.Blackmore = magic!

[nindustri]

Bravo Ritchie....Kakanj BiH

[dallexandro]

here blackmore is enormous, the best blackmore ever, 1973-1975.

[lightintheblack]

I defy anyone to name a better rock guitarist than Ritchie Blackmore in the 70s no one and i mean no one has ever played guitar like Blackers did during those years he was awful at times during the 80s but recovered brilliantly in the 90s and at times got close to his level in the 70s he is still playing brilliantly even now at 64 in Blackmores Night

[DreamHealer87]

i think he was brillant in the 80s, like "Live between the eyes", for example, shows

[bobika366]

@lightintheblack awful? Ritchie Blackmore is never awful and especially not during the 80s

[lightintheblack]

@bobika366

I have always been dissapointed with Blackers live playing in the 80s OK maybe awful is a bit strong but compared to his level in the 70s and then again in the 90s his live playing during the 80s was nowhere even close to that standard he had a dreadful live tone and played very sloppily at times during the 80s though there were still of course some signs of the mans genius and he was still brilliant in the studio

[bobika366]

@lightintheblack well the time was crazy,a lot of alcohol,drugs,bitches...xD

[lightintheblack]

@bobika366

Blackers was never into drugs he likes a drink though but to be honest i would have thought the late 60s early 70s would have been a more wild time for Blackers as he was in his 40s by the middle of the 80s none of which excuses his level playing in the 80s for me he had simply lost interest he admitted himself the Deep Purple reunion was for the money and he couldnt really be bothered how or what he was playing at that point Ian Gillans voice problems didnt help things either

[bobika366]

@lightintheblack yeah got your point,I know he never did drugs I wrote it just for fun :)

[lightintheblack]

@bobika366 fair enough mate :)

[RobertVanHalen]

@lightintheblack Jason Becker!

[61denmark]

Still the best ;0)

[MrSonomac]

Long live the maestro!!!

[GregERobertson]

yeah that was a sweet show purple sabbath elp . . etc.

[TheRanger28]

Ah, the California Jams festivals, now those were concerts. Not these Oz fests,Bonneroo or Lallopalooza stuff.

[mudylafeet]

Amazing wicked tone, Fender Strat and old Marshalls - no need to reinvent the "wheel " - Blackmore 4 ever!

[bachnagy]

This is AWESOME!!! The best and I have seen them all!! RAW in front of 500,000 people...AMAZING!!!!!!

[elbiballo]

esta t oguapo!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BlackPurpleFish]

Richie is a genius,number one for me , but rarely is mentioned in top guitar players in the world rateings I dont understand this Why?

[nobileogami]

'cause he's not a "big mouth".

He's JUST a guitar player (one of the best, of course) :)

lol

[brantass1]

because the rating associated with the popular and he was not popular but he was the best of all popular. he is the king of kings, master of the masters. lovin' Blackmore past and present .......forever

[PoorguyNick]

Precisely. That is exactly the case. The ratings were all influenced by the popular North American knowledge on the issue. The ratings more than definitely do not represent the World, nor they do represent the reality. People know that, Ritchie knows it. Myself, for instance, will never understand as to how exactly so many guitar players ended up way in front of # 55 (Ritchie that is) and how many others ended up way behind # 55 ?

[PoorguyNick]

and again .... Don't tell me Kurt Cobain knew guitar more than what Steve Howe knows, or Ritchie Blackmore knows ? And that Ritchie Blackmore knows less guitar and left less legacy behind than what Pete Townsend is all about ? Don't tell me John Fogerty knows guitar more than Ritchie ?.......no offence, but ratings are not fair at all.

[Lincoln2000]

@PoorguyNick

Nirvana is my favourite band, and of course Kurt Cobain as a musician too, but no one who has any idea of playing guitar would ever say that he was a guitarist like Ritchie Blackmore. Even Kurt Cobain himself had known that he's not the best guitar player..

John Fogerty is a good guitar player, better than Kurt Cobain was of course, and a great musician too, one of my favourites from this time, but not as good as Blackmore too.. I think there's no doubt about it.

[sabinulik]

Ritchie u r a genius!

[BlackmoreRules]

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[maghole]

HOW COME THIS MAN IS NOT IN THE ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME? it pisses me off

[jk31213]

one word...asshole. ritchie has always been known to be one and thats y im assuming.

[maghole]

well...he isn't an asshole..it's just ian gillans opinion..most of the people he has worked with says he can be very moody, but he can also be the nicest guy in the world..he is a man of many characters

[blackmoreforever91]

ritchie is most definitely not an asshole,he only knows what he want's and goes for it.people should try to be like that,not making fun of it....:S

and r'n'r hall of fame sucks,they accepted run DMC in,soo...

[PhpRu]

james hetfield, lars ulrich and metallica at all are int the hall till this year! don't u think that james or lars aren't such assholes as Ritchie ?)))

[maghole]

I don't know so much about metallica but I have seen Some kind of monster and I think James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich are kind of assholes :P

[glezzery62]

This is great, if great is an improvised string of stock riffs played sloppily one after another forming a concerto of poorly played nonsense.

[blackmoreforever91]

i want to hear you improvising on a high pitched strat,so i could make some fun of you...let me know when youre ready...xD

[hasseNicknames]

The one and only God of guitar.

Long live Richie Blackmore.

[jk31213]

when it comes to performance and his ability on the guitar on the guitar, ritchie is defintely number one in my opinion. i often compare him to uli jon roth when it comes to how relaxed he looks while goen at it.l rock on ritchie!

[blackmoreforever91]

rocknrollman,be that as it may,balckmore outplayed hendrix in any possible way...hendrix is a legend,true,but blackmore is the heart of rock and roll...everyone wanted and still want to be like him and to do what he did...

[brunthroath6912]

yes thats right!! prime time 70-73.. all the live child in time solos were amazing!!

[valerikam]

There are many guitar geniuses; Ritchie is GOD!

[maghole]

This man must have played over 1000000000000000000000000000 different guitar solos in his life...best improviser on earth in my opinion! Also the best guitarist ever!

[brunthroath6912]

oh man i almost feel the same way!! what a groove he has in his solos... between Page and Blackmore i dunno who to choose.. i like em both equal.. but Ritchie's groove!! awesomesauce !!

[Stefan0539]

Oh my God; he is simply the best; the man in black

[sedirumpa]

Richie 1st place in world best guitarist :D<33 3333333333333333333333333 <3333333 goooooo richi!!!!!!!!!! never been a better guitarist than you!!!! THANKS VERY MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!!!!

[Truhsta]

I first thought that he WAS WEARING WHITE o.Ö

[DreamHealer87]

ahahah no no! I think Ritchie has never dressed in white!

[drgroove]

rick james used this tune for the live version of love gun

[ianpaiceisthebest]

The master of masters Ritchie shows everzone what does it mean to "play" guitar. Long live the Man in black

[12stringsman]

This is much better than Hendrix's Improv at woodstock.

[originalname33]

no way

to state such a thing as opinion, to me, is almost tasteless.

but to state that shit as a fact should be grounds for insanity.

don't get me wrong, this has it's moments of brilliance, but it lacks the easy transition of tempos and sometimes even genre's, that you saw in the Woodstock Improv. it also has like, half the chord changes.

plus, at one point, Jimi was playing with 3 simultaneous melodies, by using his thumb to fret the bass, which freed his fingers for the rhythm and lead

[12stringsman]

Well, surely you have to admit that Blackmore is less sloppy, uses a greater variety of scales and is technically better. Blackmore's stuff is also harder to play than Hendrix's.

[originalname33]

ill-informed. Blackmore is fairly traditional, albeit complex...Hendrix is simply unorthodox. he can give you the hardest time playing things that were simple for him, i.e. Little Wing. he can fret the root chords with his huge thumb, while the player has to figure it out themselves.

the scales part, it really just proves the insignificance of scales in the long run, because the greatest didn't even need them. a lot of Hendrix phrases are composed of not one, but mutltiple, even foreign scales

[originalname33]

look up the song "Valleys of Neptune (guitar)", by Hendrix. its just a guitar part for an unfinished Hendrix song. listen to it. listen to it again...and THEN tell me Blackmore is harder to play than Hendrix. if you get the right one, you may shit yourself.

if I hadn't seen Jimi play in video, I would say the guitar is overdubbed, because it sounds like theres 3 guys playing.

[TheBoondockSaints]

Ritchie Blackmore single-handedly brought metal from being fucking lame chugging ala Sabbath to inspiring some of the greatest technical geniuses to ever walk the planet.

Tell me this: Why is it that theres 100000 Hendrix impersonators, yet theres still only one Blackmore?

[originalname33]

because Hendrix inspires more than Blackmore? how is that relevant?

impersonate doesn't mean mimic as well as the original. I've seen legends like Uli Jon Roth not even be able to swiftly switch between rhythm/lead when they cover Jimi (Voodoo Child), as well guys like Gary Moore get stuck repeating phrases when soloing over a single Hendrix song....Hendrix didn't repeat a phrase in his career, let alone single cut

[hungerinamerica]

originalname33, you are totally obtuse and simply don't understand music.

Blackmore has it all over Hendrix in every department.

[rocknrollman1234]

Um, Hendrix was Blackmore's biggest influence. He wouldn't be happy if he read your comments trashing his hero.

[zanatural]

On "Rainbow" a critical review a spokesman speaks of hearing Blackmore playing with Lord Such, early sixties, playing feedback... he goes on to state that this was long before Hendrix came onto the scene.

[hasseNicknames]

From an interview (Guitar World, 1991):

Richie Blackmore:

"I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing. His guitar playing, though, was always a little bit weird.

Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums."

[specter1001]

his slow blues improvising sounds really good

[finalnexus]

is Blackmore channeling Bugs Bunny or what??

[BombayRepertoire]

when Gillian left because of "lack of progression," Blackmore obviously was not quite finished with DP.... as the caljam clearly illustrates....

[s22ad]

the thing with blackmore is, he takes the most difficult things to play, and makes them look easy..

[HELIMODELISMO]

the king, king

[blackout2240]

by far the best improvision ive ever seen!

[deeppurple1981]

MASTER MASTER MASTER

EL PUTO AMO !!!

but 500.000 people, no, 300.000

[scarfacedan09]

Blackmore Definetely goes in my top 10 greatest and most influencial guitarists ever

[ripa171]

I like him a lot as Rory Gallagher in a more bluesy style.

[deeppurple1981]

Gallagher and Blackmore , the masters

But the authenticate master of blues is ...

Rory "sub-machine gun" Gallagher

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[DeepSevenfold]

best rock/metal guitarist ever?

i think so

[SPAZZOBOXER]

His influence transcends generations,musical styles,& the ignorance of guitar mag.& rock journalists who should know better. Certainly he deserves consideration as the greatest hard rock/heavy metal talent of all time! An outstanding virtuoso, whose creative expansion and technical chops have not deteriorated over the years like many other overrated media faves. Blackmore plays with a signature passion beyond words, a commitment to excellence & perfection that often colours him "Difficult."

[prokfot]

Ok I know that Hendrix has influenced Blackmore but there was no way Hendrix could play like Rithcie..No one could..that's why he was is and will ever be the best!!!

[zapatodeperro]

fuuuucking great!!!!!

[matoya]

at the peak of his solo , the guitar shines for him at 1:15...

[hungerinamerica]

Matoya, you're right, at 1:15, he does some ineffably, inexplicably awesome.  If one believes in such things, it's the product of divine inspiration/intervention.

[elletsco]

man he is good. that's all. i hear a big deal made of so many. for instance, i'd take blackmore over moore and page any day of the week. not to mention that putz malmsteen. then again, i don't make my living playing my 7 guitars.

[strav12]

OK - so I get it now about Ritchie - but this level of playing of his is so hard to find - there aren't many Purple tracks where he is ever allowed this amount of FEEL and even with Rainbow I'm searching hard for more that a few mins of this level of sheer brilliance. Any suggestions where to look?

[Troughmaster]

The 'Rainbow Live in Munich 77' CD. His playing on 'Catch the Rainbow' and 'Man on the Silver Mountain' is phenomenal.

[strav12]

Hey! Thanks! Ordered! There were a lot of Live albums and so I got Rainbow Rising first - which was ok - but yeah, not at this level, or only in bursts. I'm also getting that his earlier period is the one where feel was more important than speed... Thanks.

[Supernaut222]

the solo from gates of babylon is a very very good solo to check out, also check out the sheer melody in kill the king arpeggios

[strav12]

Sorry - which album is this one on? Thxs for the recommendation tho. Honestly, the way he is playing up there on this vid is really fucking amazing. Shame Purple wouldn't really let his light shine... :(

[Supernaut222]

long live rock and roll

[strav12]

Thxs muchly. Investigations under way!!

[matoya]

if u got the money , try investing on Rainbow's 1976 Germany world tour live recorded CDs. Ritchie is on fire in this tour !

[strav12]

OK - gonna start the Ritchie Blackmore Fund - anyone wanna make a donation???? Wasn't too sure what I'd get with the Germany tour - but ok, if you say, will check it out. When you say 'on fire', what do you mean?

[matoya]

means he is really in the mood to play out his true "power"

[strav12]

Cool. Good enuff for me. I'll go get!

[ElwoodBlackmore]

long live ritchie blackmore

[robbie3051]

Ritchie fucking blackmore, nuff said.

[ritchie63]

what a sound !

[steviep33]

Quite simply The Master in action

[mudylafeet]

tone, dinamics,use of the volume control-amp saturation, telepathy, technique,improvisation, on the spot creativity, unmistakably Blackmore

awesome

[metal70]

Odio a Coverdale!!!!

Blackmore, simplemente el mejor.

[CristyS89]

just can`t get any faster...

[Troughmaster]

Simply tremendous.

[rascalfareye]

As free as Hendrix. Maybe freer.

Where is Clifornia, anyway?

Oh, the Jm in Clif. We call it Cali.

[maghole]

omg...he is so fuckin good

[ritchierod]

Yeah! Ritchie Rules!

"The Master Of Masters".

[blackmoreonstage]

Ritchie Rules!!!!!!!!

Greatest guitarist ever!!!!