Wither Ritchie?
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johnny9fingersPoor Mad Jeremy is coming around for tea.
Correction: I finished writing that sentence just before 2pm and the doorbell rang.
Gods PMJ is looking his age and then some. He's lost many of his teeth, and years of institutionalisation have left him hugely overweight and unfit.
He hasn't been playing much guitar, but I think I managed to re-enthuse him with the joys of shredding. We had a long discussion on the merits and defects of Ritchie Blackmore and both came to the conclusion that he is the most overlooked player of the 'Golden Age'.
Poor Ritchie: he went mad, then invented a rock music that did not have enough Africa in it. But when he was good ('70-'73) he was obviously the tallest poppy in the field. In fact we were debating whether or not, during that period, he could have slotted into Miles' band line-up. Because the Blackmore of that period was a wittier guitarist than McLaughlin, and with a similar level of blinding technique.
Bit of a shame he became po-faced about it all.
There's no point in basing your life on a sense of humour failure.
Ritchie, where are you now?
Drove Poor Mad Jeremy back to his sheltered accommodation. Will see him later during the week, and put more tea in front of him, and try to stop him dribbling too much on my number two Strat.
Correction: I finished writing that sentence just before 2pm and the doorbell rang.
Gods PMJ is looking his age and then some. He's lost many of his teeth, and years of institutionalisation have left him hugely overweight and unfit.
He hasn't been playing much guitar, but I think I managed to re-enthuse him with the joys of shredding. We had a long discussion on the merits and defects of Ritchie Blackmore and both came to the conclusion that he is the most overlooked player of the 'Golden Age'.
Poor Ritchie: he went mad, then invented a rock music that did not have enough Africa in it. But when he was good ('70-'73) he was obviously the tallest poppy in the field. In fact we were debating whether or not, during that period, he could have slotted into Miles' band line-up. Because the Blackmore of that period was a wittier guitarist than McLaughlin, and with a similar level of blinding technique.
Bit of a shame he became po-faced about it all.
There's no point in basing your life on a sense of humour failure.
Ritchie, where are you now?
Drove Poor Mad Jeremy back to his sheltered accommodation. Will see him later during the week, and put more tea in front of him, and try to stop him dribbling too much on my number two Strat.
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Date: 2008-02-25 05:07 pm (UTC)*I* think his current stuff is lovely.
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Date: 2008-02-25 05:56 pm (UTC)I like my mediæval influenced music to have some pretense to authenticity, though I did listen to a band called Gryphon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryphon)*in my youth. The stuff I heard from Blackmore about two or three years ago seemed a bit of a halfway house. I shall have to search out his new stuff.
*Richard Harvey is a bit of a genius.
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Date: 2008-02-25 06:05 pm (UTC)I need it on CD
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Date: 2008-02-25 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-25 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-26 02:02 am (UTC)Modern 90's era world beat has jaded me on authenticity, it all feels so phony. Especially when the backbeat kicks in, in Ye Olde Elvis Styele.
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Date: 2008-02-26 09:39 am (UTC)Check out the early music show. No sawdust.
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Date: 2008-02-25 05:54 pm (UTC)Interesting thought, that. But beyond wit and technique, there was a certain outsideness of melodic/harmonic relation that I think the King of Bitches sought for the denizens of his personal Watts. Mahavishnu seemed to have grokked this rather well.
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Date: 2008-02-25 06:07 pm (UTC)It's what the debate was about. We didn't reach any firm conclusions.
Wither, Ritchie - general reactions
Date: 2008-02-25 07:56 pm (UTC)Re: Wither, Ritchie - general reactions
Date: 2008-02-25 08:11 pm (UTC)Check 'Made in Japan' m'dear....his solos show a greater rhythmic sophistication than McLaughlin of the period. I still defy anyone to say DP didn't swing after hearing 'Lazy' from the 'Made in Japan' album. (But not the studio version.)
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Date: 2008-02-25 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-26 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-26 09:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-26 09:30 pm (UTC)I 'friended you on facebook. How does one play scrabble on it?
You know I'll lose and be grumpy for ever, don't you?
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Date: 2008-02-27 08:02 am (UTC)then we play again.
i started a game, so you should have been invited to it. grr. i will start another one. this sometimes happens.