Biography of Ritchie Blackmore

Lord of the strings

April 14, 1945 To just hear nominate the guitar-hero of "Deep Purple" to many fans even got butterflies veins. Aside from the fact that he came up with the riff perhaps most famous in the history of rock (along with "Satisfaction"), namely the incisor "Smoke on the water", how can we forget the crystalline solos generously bestowed in the masterpiece "Made in Japan" or even the riffs, rhythm incursions and the Cascades of notes which resulted in numerous recordings of the historical group and other bands who made and unmade with awesome quickness? Ritchie Blackmore: guitar technique and tireless filer of dissatisfied researcher of new avenues of music. It could not be otherwise for one that instead of bottles, from an early age has always held a six-string. Born in Weston Super Mare that fateful April 14, 1945 (but when he was two years old his family moved to Heston, on the outskirts of London), Ritchie has embraced for her first "real" acoustic guitar (a "Framus") at the tender age of ten, after years of carefree fun exercises with a toy guitar. The approach with this tool, not yet electrified, has thus enabled the development of the "classic" setting, that technique luciferin who delivered to the Pantheon of the virtuous. As a teenager, then soon becomes the favorite pupil of the great session man "Big" Jim Sullivan (the same teacher of Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin), which is first neighbor, then a faithful companion. His first official band are the "Savages" of Lord Davis, that joins in May 1962 after waiting that the predecessor, Roger Mingway, left the place. After several other experiences in the turbulent music world English that lead him from one band to another, two years after entering the "Wild Boys" and "Crusaders" returning from old friends. Undergoes a colossal fiasco when attempting to form a trio, the "Three Mosketteers", remembered for going on stage with swords and hats with feathers. The poor played in a single date at Hamburg's Star Club ', but was kicked out unceremoniously. Professional opportunities realistically at that point seemed seriously compromised. Saves the corner Joe Bishops, who signed up for a brief period in the "Trip", but the real anchor of salvation is a telegram from Jon Lord, furious rock keyboard player wanted to form a group of virtuous and that, after hearing it, you decided to enlist him. The story, the one with a capital S, does her course, and behold, after a series of "live" as "Roundabout" that awesome musical body which will take the name of "Deep Purple". The supergroup formed in 1967 and remains alive driven firmly by Ritchie Blackmore until 1975, churning out a series of masterpieces but also album little arms. Blackmore, still admired by all of his colleagues, he managed to get a bit "guitarists guitarist". Then will begin the solo adventure of eccentric guitarist, supported by the swirl of elements that will follow each other in the tormented history, due to the character not always accommodating to Ritchie, the project "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow". The magician of six strings is always looking for musicians who fit and is increasingly struggling with such projects as much as unnerving pharaonic tire components. Suffice it to say that towards the end of the adventure with Rainbow, had made up his mind to be accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra on a tour giant, then partly realized. Despite the familiar heavy sound Blackmore preferences, but always clean and crystalline, like the one immortalized in "Rising", the Rainbow have written memorable pages of melodic strength, especially during the third cycle. A series of British show will be the culmination of the group dissolved in favor of the meeting by Deep Purple. In 1993 after ten years of new-found harmony, Blackmore finally leaves the Deep and refounded, even for once, the Rainbow: the published album in 1995 called "Stranger in us all" and lays the groundwork for his next venture: the revival of "old" sounds. Next to him, in the recording studio, among the various States there is the sweet Candice Night, blonde singer and flute player with which you will merge (in real life) in the subsequent ongoing experience of "Blackmore's Night". A visionary experiment of Medieval Renaissance music and gives us, for the new millennium, a Ritchie Blackmore unrecognizable, totally renewed and forever away, he says, from the regions of rock.

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