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Ritchie Blackmore - Final throw of the dice.....


I guess like with most his age RB is in the home strait, realising time is running out.. he’s done the dvd/autobiography, the Rainbow shows, permitted the release of various Rainbow archive items....

What else dyou think he might want to do before it’s too late?

The only thing I can think of his is this possible re recording of old material, Stargazer etc. I can see this being done with Ronnie Romero, Jens Johannson, though possibly not the current rhythm section of RBR. I don’t suppose its beyond the bounds of possinbilty that if they have some good ideas, there might be a couple of new tracks to bulk out the release.
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I think he will just take the whole thing on the road for a few more dates next year. His priority will always be Blackmore's Night until the end, I'm very sure of that.

I don't think another rock album is in Ritchie to be honest.
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As for the future of RB, what I think lies ahead is...

...no more rock excursions apart from few more, one-off dates with Rainbow next year...

...a couple of more BSN studio LPs and a whole lot of live dates, primarily in Germany and the US.

I'm sure RB has got few more years of playing BSN in him. Maybe 5, maybe even a bit more. It's a good way of saying goodbye to the stage for him. The shows might be getting softer each year.

Is he going to surprise us with anything. I don't think so. He's happy with where he is at the moment.
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Why does everyone keep implying or saying that the Bass and drums for these Rainbow gigs was sub standard ? Compared to what ? Drummers from a bygone era in 1975 ?

Seems the guys did a perfectly professional job and did exactly what was required for the music. Blackmore was hardly playing them out of the park this time himself. They were all under rehearsed, as has been said many times.

Why keep slagging off Blackmore's choice for his bass and drums. He was happy they were up to the job, so why not simply respect that and enjoy it. Allegedly you only really went to see Blackmore anyway so does it make any difference who played the drums and bass? At least they weren't holograms of Cozy and Bain, though no doubt once Blackmore leaves us that will be the next thing to arrive. Rainbow as you've never seen them.... the hologram show special! I bet JLT will be hoping for a reunion with that as well, the complete egotistical drip that he is.

Sure the Bass outfits were a bit weird and a punk haircut isn't the usual standard for a drummer on this sort of stuff, but Blackmore's jogging pants, to cover his growing beer belly didn't exactly suffer from being what might be called stylish either. Apart from Blackmore the others had their own hair and weren't wearing wigs.

Overall the band sounded as you might have expected as evidenced by the YT clips, where in part they sounded fine and in others they didn't sound so good, though it was mostly Blackmore who didn't sound so great more than his fellow players, to be fair. They all did a workman like job.


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The better the musicians surrounding you, the better you will play. That's a fact. First thing I thought when I heard the youtube videos coming through from Germany was 'weak drums'.

There must be many better rhythm sections out there that could've played it all a lot 'harder', but as the man himself can't play that 'hard' anymore, he might have been drowned out and made to look old (which he is!).

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quote:

BagShotBullets wrote:

Why does everyone keep implying or saying that the Bass and drums for these Rainbow gigs was sub standard ? Compared to what ? Drummers from a bygone era in 1975 ?

Seems the guys did a perfectly professional job and did exactly what was required for the music. Blackmore was hardly playing them out of the park this time himself. They were all under rehearsed, as has been said many times.

Why keep slagging off Blackmore's choice for his bass and drums. He was happy they were up to the job, so why not simply respect that and enjoy it. Allegedly you only really went to see Blackmore anyway so does it make any difference who played the drums and bass? At least they weren't holograms of Cozy and Bain, though no doubt once Blackmore leaves us that will be the next thing to arrive. Rainbow as you've never seen them.... the hologram show special! I bet JLT will be hoping for a reunion with that as well, the complete egotistical drip that he is.

Sure the Bass outfits were a bit weird and a punk haircut isn't the usual standard for a drummer on this sort of stuff, but Blackmore's jogging pants, to cover his growing beer belly didn't exactly suffer from being what might be called stylish either. Apart from Blackmore the others had their own hair and weren't wearing wigs.

Overall the band sounded as you might have expected as evidenced by the YT clips, where in part they sounded fine and in others they didn't sound so good, though it was mostly Blackmore who didn't sound so great more than his fellow players, to be fair. They all did a workman like job.



I'm not sure I understand this post really. There really weren't any complaints that I saw on the choice of the bass player and why should there be? Bob is a great bass player and did his job well, even if some complained he was too ''funky'' or whatever on the first two shows. I liked it but maybe he heard about it since he was more toned down in Birmingham. I also don't see what the ''dress code'' has anything to do with anything. I don't care if they're all bald, with wigs, parrots on their heads in clown costumes or their undies (ok, that I wouldn't wanna see emoticon ) as long as they deliver good music.

As for the drummer, I find this curious ''Compared to what ? Drummers from a bygone era in 1975 ?'' - Well, since I doubt good drummers existed only in 1975 ( emoticon
  emoticon ) I would say compared to any good to great rock/hard rock drummer from any decade until today. Want a list? It would be huge. emoticon

Why the drummer was by far the weakest part and how his really thin and tiny sound (as demonstrated even more on the recent video) really drags the whole thing down was explained too many times here already to be repeated. But like danielb said, a better drummer is probably not something RB wants - at all. Hence he gave his ''hello kitty'' (I call it that because it pretty much looks like that, minus the color and kitty of course emoticon and contributes a lot to the thin sound and restricts a drummer as limited as Keith even more in terms of what he can do) drumkit to the drummer and told him to take it easy...

As for this ''He was happy they were up to the job'' - I think it was probably the other way around. Keith and Bob (as good as he may be) are not exactly the most sought after musicians and they all have to pay the bills like the rest of us (no matter how cheap RB pays) and this is good publicity (not that it will help Keith any...) plus being a part of ''history'', no matter how it turned out. So yeah. Because you see, RB could call pretty much anyone else and they would be up for the job. Of course, he might have had to pay them more. emoticon

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As for what RB will do now, keep on releasing substandard BN albums with the same material over and over, keep on going to Germany for his vacation every year and make a few shows there, maybe do a few more Rainbow shows for the $$$ which won't be much better than what we got now and then retire once he can't do even that anymore. Once he does that I imagine we will be getting a steady flow of previously unreleased material, like the rest of the performances of these two shows, BN gigs filmed but never released, etc.

A new rock album? No thanks, he can't cut it. It wouldn't come close to reaching even SIUA that I am sure of. A blues album? No thanks, he is too limited a blues player to do a whole album worth of it.
Re-recording old material? What for? If he wants to improve the sound of it, hire someone competent to REMIX (not remaster REMIX) the old albums from the master tapes. Why make new recordings that wont live up to the original ones, certanly not in Ritchie's performance.

Ritchie is going to be 72 next year. There is no big final throw of the dice I'm afraid, no big going out with the bang. He will slowly fade into obscurity doing what he has been all this time. And on his terms. And well I have to respect at least that. Plus he left us so much musical material, there is little room to complain.
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Now, that's what a call a decadent kind of post emoticon
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