Witchy Nightmare
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Re: The Battle Rages On Tour
For ages I have asked myself the question: Why did Blackmore play so much better on the 1993 tour than he did in the 1980's? We concluded a thousand times that he did, but afaik we never focussed on the question why he did.
We know that he didn't want to perform with Gillan again. Though he delivered great performances. Perhaps he knew from the beginning that he wouldn't stand with the band too long, just fulfilling the contract and then leave. Perhaps he simply was in the mood to play. He already performed much better during the 1991 tour with JLT than he had done before.
It reminds me of 1975 a bit. During the last Mk III shows he did great performances although he had long finished with the band in his mind.
And yes, after having left DP in 1993 he maintained his high standard of playing with Rainbow. So there might be some "historical continuity": playing well from 1991 to 1997. (I can't judge about his playing in Blackmore's Night because that doesn't interest me.)
Anyway, for me the question why Ritchie played so great in 1993 is one of the most interesting questions of DP's history.
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quote: Witchy Nightmare wrote:
For ages I have asked myself the question: Why did Blackmore play so much better on the 1993 tour than he did in the 1980's? We concluded a thousand times that he did, but afaik we never focussed on the question why he did.
We know that he didn't want to perform with Gillan again. Though he delivered great performances. Perhaps he knew from the beginning that he wouldn't stand with the band too long, just fulfilling the contract and then leave. Perhaps he simply was in the mood to play. He already performed much better during the 1991 tour with JLT than he had done before.
It reminds me of 1975 a bit. During the last Mk III shows he did great performances although he had long finished with the band in his mind.
And yes, after having left DP in 1993 he maintained his high standard of playing with Rainbow. So there might be some "historical continuity": playing well from 1991 to 1997. (I can't judge about his playing in Blackmore's Night because that doesn't interest me.)
Anyway, for me the question why Ritchie played so great in 1993 is one of the most interesting questions of DP's history.
He never fulfilled the contract. Skipping the country that loved him so much, Japan. 85000 tix sold, most went to see Purple anyway. Also, as I understand it skipping historical first concert in Moscow, another country that have always been loyal to Blackmore and Purple.
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6/10/2020, 14:42
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That's right, but that doesn't answer my question. I guess he intended to fulfill the contract, but things worked out so bad that he decided to leave early. We discussed that countless times, I'd like to know some opinions about a question we - afaik - never discussed: why he played so great on the 1993 tour despite working with a singer he didn't want to work with.
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7/10/2020, 9:58
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My opinion is since he is the only who didn't want Gillan back, to play really great and, once he gave notice he was going to leave, he may have thought the band would decide that, since he was playing great again, they would beg him to stay on and ask Gillan to leave. If that was the case, it certainly didn't work out that way.
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7/10/2020, 10:54
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All the talk of UJR & MS akes me very thankful that we have SM.
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7/10/2020, 17:27
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I pretty much agree.
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7/10/2020, 17:33
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quote: leelyt wrote:
All the talk of UJR & MS akes me very thankful that we have SM.
Why? Schenker is a bloody brilliant hard rock guitarist to this very day and is perfectly suited to what DP used to be.Hes not at Blackers level but then who is ??
SM is also a brilliant guitarist but completely different and actually quite boring in a hard rock band and not suited to what DP used to be.
It would probably have been short lived with Schenker but it could/would have been exciting.
Personally I wouldn't have wanted UJR in DP, i enjoyed his work in The Scorpions many moons ago but not really a fan of his work outside the band.
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7/10/2020, 19:43
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quote: Witchy Nightmare wrote:
That's right, but that doesn't answer my question. I guess he intended to fulfill the contract, but things worked out so bad that he decided to leave early. We discussed that countless times, I'd like to know some opinions about a question we - afaik - never discussed: why he played so great on the 1993 tour despite working with a singer he didn't want to work with.
Thats the big question isn't it, what made Blackers find his mojo again after basically playing sloppy sh1t for most of the 80s??Maybe it was his relationship with Candice that inspired him again??
I always had the impression that he was never particularly interested in being in DP again and really just did it for the easy money, he basically dialled in his live performances and played any old sh1t that he could get away with(he has pretty much admitted to that when speaking about the contrast of playing rock in arenas and acoustically in small halls with BN)Things improved hugely with his live work when JLT replaced Gillan, and he remained inspired for most of the 90s.
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Another possible reason could have been that the venues had considerably downsized following the reunion craze. Playing in stadiums wasn't particularly enjoyable by his own admission.
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quote: Viciious wrote:
Another possible reason could have been that the venues had considerably downsized following the reunion craze. Playing in stadiums wasn't particularly enjoyable by his own admission.
But then his playing was still poor throughout the 80s even when not playing stadiums ?In fact his playing started to go downhill during the later Rainbow days ,the DTE tour saw a definite downwards step in his playing from Dio era Rainbow.There were still sublime moments but also definite signs of the sloppiness to come
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