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Hi Babe,

I like Deep Purple a lot. I always thought Ritchie Blackmore was a genius. Eccentric, but a genius nonetheless.

I really enjoy his playing on the Dio era Rainbow albums especially Rising and Long Live Rock 'N' Roll. Amazing guitar work on those two records.

**Guest** · 02-07-2014, 10:15 PM

Three versions of Child In Time

Originally posted by Babe View Post

Hi Mike,

Every stage of Deep Purple was awesome.
I couldn't keep track of all the Purple line-up changes after the Perfect Strangers era, though.
I own many 70s records that were handed down to me.

Isn't Blackmore's much younger wife, Candace Night, very dishy?

Babe,
xoxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OorZcOzNcgE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts8oj7LJsyU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihPO43ASxJk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvZMre78Ono

**BIG MIKE** · 02-08-2014, 03:46 PM

Yes Babe, Candace is quite pretty.

I don't really like the direction Ritchie Blackmore has gone in concerning his music these days, it's all a little too midieval sounding to me.

Here's a great Deep Purple song that was never originally released on an album. It was recorded during the Machine Head sessions. It was a b-side of a single and then released on special anniversary editions of the Machine Head CD. You've probably heard it, Metallica covered it a year or so ago...When A Blind Man Cries. Apparently it didn't make the Machine Head album because Blackmore didn't like it. I think it's one of their best songs.

**Guest** · 02-08-2014, 04:36 PM

Originally posted by Babe View Post

Hi Mike,

Yea, great song that is. I've heard it before, yes.
But i never knew it was from the same time as the Machine Head album.

What i, also, didn't know was that Randy California took Blackmore's place in a Quebec Deep Purple concert.
I sure would like to see a video of that concert. I'll have to search for that, later.

Check this out:
"Because guitarist Ritchie Blackmore disliked "When a Blind Man Cries", the band never played the song live during his stay with the band, with the exception of one occasion, on 6 April 1972 in Quebec, Canada, when Blackmore was ill, and Randy California from Spirit stood in for him.
Ian Gillan performed the song live with Ian Gillan Band during the 70's and 80's." ~ Wikipedia

Check this out:
http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/rs137-deep-purple/
“We got diverted to a local theater,” said Jon Lord, “but that started shaking to pieces with the volume. The people who lived in the neighborhood kept calling the cops. Finally we found a hotel that had been shut for the season. We soundproofed all the windows, sealed off one hall and made Machine Head in the corridor.”

Machine Head was the one that broke open the US market, and back came Deep Purple again for another try at an American tour. This time they lasted four days until Blackmore came down with hepatitis and flew home. Attempting to complete the tour with Al Kooper as a temporary stand-in, things went well during a hasty pre-show rehearsal. Shortly before show-time, however, Kooper had a nervous breakdown and canceled out. Randy California was the next to step in and fill the vacant guitar spot in time for a Quebec show. Just prior to the group’s boarding the plane to deliver them to the show, Air Canada went on strike.

Jon Lord squints into the dressing room lights as he remembers. “Randy was brilliant, God bless ‘em, but everything had gotten to be such a bitch that we had to go home. We just couldn’t take it any longer.”

Randy California, by the way, was the guy from whom Jimmy Page ripped off (in 1968-1969) the opening arpeggio chord sequence for Stairway to Heaven and was never credited.

Randy was named Randy California by none other than Jimi Hendrix when Randy played with Jimi in New York in Jimi's band, The Blue Flames. In that band, there was another guy named "Randy" who Hendrix named Randy Texas.
Actually, Hendrix wanted Randy California to fly to London to join his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, but Randy was too young and his parents didn't allow it to happen.
If you listen to some of Randy's solos, you can hear Hendrix' influence.

Here is Stairway To Heaven's origins:
Taurus, as it was called, from Spirit, Randy's band.
Led Zeppelin used to open for Spirit when the Zep first started in 1968-69, long before Zep's 4th album came out.
Page was rumored to have sat and listened when he heard Taurus being played night after night.
Page eventually 'borrowed' that opening bit from Randy, and 4 years later later he and Plant wrote Stairway To Heaven, never once mentioning Randy's influence in the credits.

Back to Purple:
You know, when i was in Europe, someone showed me a copy of the Fireball album. I was quite surprised to see that Strange Kind Of Woman was not on the album - there was a song called, the Devil's Eye, in place of where Strange Kind Of Woman was supposed to be.

Blackmore's Night has been jokingly called Blackmore's ABBA because of the girly voices and pop-like songs.
I do like Candace's look, though. She really is a poser for the camera, eh?
She's got it and SHE knows it.
She and Ritchie had a baby.

Babe,
xoxo

Listen to the guitar solo of Nature's Way at 0:10:47 of this concert to hear some Hendrix.
Also, the solo for Hey Joe at 0:40:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_jYkwWjgh8

Stairway To Heaven's origins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG3sQ8VPWuk

**Guest** · 02-09-2014, 10:45 AM

Tom Waits - Hell Broke Luce

Originally posted by Babe View Post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju9o8BVJ8

I had a good home but I left
I had a good home but I left
right - left
that big fuckin' bomb made me deaf, deaf
A Humvee mechanic put his Kevlar on wrong
I guarantee you meet him with a suicide bomb
and hell broke luce
hell broke luce

Big fuckin' ditches in the middle of the road
you'd pay a hundred dollars just for filling in the hole
listen to the general every goddamn word
how many ways can you polish up a turd
and left - right
left - left - right
hell broke luce, hell broke luce
hell broke luce

How is that the only ones responsible for making this mess
Got their sorry asses stapled to a goddamn desk
and hell broke luce, hell broke luce
left - right - left

What did you do before the war, I was a chef, I was a chef
What was your name it was Jeff, Jeff
I lost my buddy and I wept, wept
I come down from the meth so I slept, slept
I had a good home but I left, left

Pantsed at the wind for a joke
i pranced right in with the dope
glanced at her shins she said nope
left - right - left

Nimrod Bodfish, have you any any wool?
get me another body bag, the body bag's full
my face was scorched, scorched
i miss my home i miss my porch, porch
left - right - left
Can I go home in March, march
My stance was a chin full of soap
Had rancid dinner with the Pope
and left - right - left
Kelly Persona got his thumbs blown off,
Sergio's developing a real bad cough
Sergio's developing a real bad cough
and hell broke luce, hell broke luce
hell broke luce

Boom went his head away
and boom went Bowery
what the hell was it that the president said?
give them all a beautiful parade instead
and left - right - left

While I was over here i never got to vote
I left my arm in my coat
my mom she died and never wrote
We sat by the fire and ate a goat
Just before he died he had a toke
Now I'm home and I'm blind and I'm broke
what is next?

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**Guest** · 02-09-2014, 01:01 PM

For Mike

The actual interview is in English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMnzKmGum3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEI_o1ANpPA

Another interview from Greece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rClZHiC0BA

I hope you enjoy it. Mike.

Babe,
xoxo

**Guest** · 02-10-2014, 12:22 AM

Fleetwood Mac. Carole King.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1kcgvfqnTk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTeAlytAi3U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcjpags7JT8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlBC7zEu2Jk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7kmw31nRDU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvVznAb9-Ss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apL8eVFUBE8

**BIG MIKE** · 02-10-2014, 04:16 PM

I saw Fleetwood Mac 5 years ago and they were great. I was surprised at how good they still were live. Christie McVie didn't do the tour but I always liked the Stevie Nicks songs better anyway, I find McVie's stuff a little too pop for my liking, Nicks had more of an edge to her songs which I liked.

I noticed Blondie listed in the original post here. I had a thing for Debbie Harry when I was a teenager LOL. Here's one of my favourite Blondie songs:

Back to Ritchie Blackmore, he has a reputation that he's difficult to work with, very eccentric and has a bad temper. None of which surprises me. I saw a recent interview of his where he said he talks to people that aren't really there LOL. I loved the Rainbow albums he did with Ronnie James Dio on vocals, really great stuff. Stargazer (released in 1976) is an amazing song. I love the way Blackmore weaves eastern influences into his music, especially the guitar solo, awesome stuff. The song is a little long and drags a bit at the end but still...it's so good:

And here is Deep Purple at the infamous California Jam with David Coverdale (of Whitesnake fame) on vocals. I heard stories that Blackmore freaked out backstage and they had to talk into coming out for the encore, so he trashed his guitar LOL because he was still pissed...about what? who knows. Great blues number from that show...Mistreated:

**Guest** · 02-12-2014, 07:16 PM

Must have been because of Glenn Hughs

Originally posted by Babe View Post

Hi Mike,

I always thought Debbie was a super-babe.
She had the looks and the poses. Still does, too.
Did you know she was a heroine addict when Blondie was big?
She and the guitarist both were.

Back in the day before they made it, Patti Smith (especially), and everyone else, in the punk scene, really hated them.

My fav album was Parallel Lines and was the only one i owned. I never cared for Heart of Glass and most of their disco-like songs.
I liked Fade Away And Radiate, One Way or Another, Don't Leave Me Hanging on the Telephone, and most of the tunes on THAT album.

Ronnie Jame Dio ( RI.P. ) was a great singer and had a great imagination and all, but really, he was too stuck in the fantasy land of wizards, dragons, hobbits and whatever else like that.
I liked him on Rainbow's first album, a lot. I think everything after that was sort of the same ole mystical crap, lyrically. Vocally, he was awesome, too bad his sang about unreal odd topics. He was good in Black Sabbath.
Solo-wise it was all the same stuff, i think.

I liked Glenn Hughs on, Come Taste The Band, but live on stage, he stank, especially during Burn with that high pitched screaming screech. Sounded to me, when on stage, Hughs tried to prove that he could reach the higher notes than Coverdale - like he wanted to be the lead singer or something.
I never understood why Ritchie threw all of his gear off the California Jam stage lol, i was troubled by seeing him do that. I always thought that was just part of Purple's act, until you said he was pissed-off that night.
Putting THAT comment together with what i've read about how he truly hated what Purple had become with Glenn Hughs in the one of the heaviest bands in the world (Deep Purple) singing like Stevie Wonder, i finally understood Ritchie's great frustration and anger. Now i think i know WHY he destroyed his gear at The California Jam - he probably didn't want to hear Hughs sing again.

Babe,
xoxo

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