DEEP PURPLE , RITCHIE BLACKMORES stole BEETHOVEN 5 Th symphony , SMOKE ON THE WATER

[Blaubeerwald1]

Creativity doesn't necessarily mean you create something totally new out of nothing. Maybe God can do that. But imho creativity also means, you take something that's already there and develop it further. Shakespeare did this for example. And even Beethoven would have composed differently without Mozart or Bach.

[Drag4401]

1st my jaw hits floor, then i'm told that makes me look idiotik, whatta trip !

[zofo666]

he,s taking the piss again,and everyone takes him seriously,this i so funny,Ritchie loves winding ppl up,you HAVE to read his biography!

[SG710]

If you play both riffs on the guitar, piano or any other instrument it will not make any difference. Blackmore is just kidding about it. Those two riffs are not the same no matter how you shuffle the notes. Any musician can tell you that.

[Ariel62073]

Who gives a fuck. You humans are all self-important morons, shaved apes strutting around pretending that it's totally natural and appropriate to have hairy cocks and vaginas.

CRETINS!

[madbutcher66673]

Ritcie is GOD !!!

[ginnthemaster]

Ritchie also took a classical number to do Burn's intro in a speed-up version. Blackmore's the one with incredible ideas. Horns up Ritchie!!

[95DarkKiller]

Blackmore！！！！

[thumbofel]

Send this riff in SPACE!!!

[ras3cue]

Ha ha ha ha I just love that man. Ritchie Blackmore is a genius.

[SmileyGarrish]

8 notes - how many way can they go together?

[sunpadh]

Can you reverse a riff from Bach and make a universal hit? Do you know why? because you're not Ritchie Blackmore!

[iv3shf]

@sunpadh And that's a good 1!!!

[andrewpogor]

Where I can find a text version of that interview, cause I can't hear what they talking about, english is not my 1st language. Anyone? Thanx :)

[MrJDP1981]

He's hilarious.

[ZolleriuxX]

I heard that Roger Glover came up with the riff.

[BarryDennen12]

He's fucking with the interviewer's head. It actually comes from a jazz tune.

[kilroy1963]

He wasn't the first and he will not be the last to steal from beethoven as indeed Beethoven might have done .

[Baryonyxwalker]

"I go to sleep with it, at night thinking, I'm so happy I wrote, Baam baam baamm"



[miyavizim]

Bullshit, I don't even hear how the 2 are similar

[mouloudo]

@miyavizim yeah that's not put right, like he said at a moment in the video " it's an interpretation of it played backwards", so it's not the same just played in reverse, it's BASED on the Fith played in reverse

[ArpeggioBear]

no.1 of Ritchie Pranks, no.2 the one that he sends some dude naked on a ferry boat lol

[robaxx]

he's just making fun of that clown.. hah!

If anything, the riff could be a variation of Betthoven's Ode to Joy.

[5targazer]

come on guys! take your guitars and play beethoven in reverse order, this is nothing similar to smoke on the water. I guess either his interpretation is so incredibly distant that doesn't make any sense or it's just a 100% joke which is not unusual

[unorthodoxtrotsky]

This is not stealing. This is called inspiration. Some people seem to have this notion that truly unique artistic creativity is creativity that wasn't influenced or inspired by anything. This is not true at all. All great artistic creativity comes from somewhere. Even Mozart borrowed some of folk melodies and use them as basis of his composition. And this is also true with Ritchie Blackmore.

[unorthodoxtrotsky]

Considering it as "stolen" is not proper characterization. The fact that Ritchie Blackmore was/is influenced by classical music(Beethoven for particular) isn't anything new. What Ritchie is saying here is he was inspired by main theme of Symphony No. 5 that he took it as reference in relation to coming up with basis of "Smoke On The Water"'s theme. But we have to also understand that Ritchie have took that reference and stretched it more into "Smoke On The Water" as it is known today.

[57250tr]

I'm never quite sure if he's being sarcastic about being happy with the riff at the end

[beannie60]

The world should be happy we still have one of the BEST GUITARIST around today,

I am!!!

[TheSonOfAlerik]

so what? if the circumstances was in reverse order, I think probably Beethoven steal Smoke on the water from Richie

[iv3shf]

@TheSonOfAlerik anyway I think this is one of his famous jokes.. he' s even laughing at the chap. SOTW comes from a rythm in fourths, and he said that in quite a few interviews... But Mr Blackmore as I said is famous for his jokes on people, and this one looks just like one of them :-)

[TheSonOfAlerik]

@iv3shf I quite agree ;-)

[WhatSayestThou]

I just checked it out for myself and Beethoven's 5th in ther key of g is a# a# a# g aaa f as compared to g a# c g a# c# c. If anything I'd say he probably based it on the 5th rather than "stole it".

[WhatSayestThou]

Oop, he did say it was an "inversion" but it still wasn't an outright steal, it was just being creative if anything I wouldn't beat yourself for it Sir Ritchie in the relm of music theory and modes anything is really fair game =)

[marcusmalmros]

he didnt steal it,,, he compared it to it,,,

the 5th is simple but yet so diffirent

and so is smoke on the water.

its simple but its completely different compared to other songs in the world.

[shredmaster100]

so what everyone in music ripps off something all the time look at yngwie malmsteen he basically stole blackmores style and speeded it up to make it his own another example is jimmy page he stole a lot of riffsfrom blues legends and coldplay stole joe satrianis riff for viva la vida its very rare someone invents an original composition of their own unless they r bach mozart or beethoven