Trollprincess
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When A Blind Man Cries
Does anybody know the reason why Ritchie avoided to play that song live? He won't do it on stage.
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20/12/2003, 19:35
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boogaloo
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Re: When A Blind Man Cries
on Machine Head Docu, Gillan ses "ritchie no like it". so i guess he just dint like it
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20/12/2003, 19:39
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Re: When A Blind Man Cries
My question is why the heck they didnt play Pictures of Home...what a great song that is....
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20/12/2003, 19:45
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Gillans micstand
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Re: When A Blind Man Cries
Who knows about POH pure stupid if you ask me,
one thing about the way they play it live is that
the riff is helped along by the organ.
This is not the way Ritchie and Jon worked onstage
and that riff is a hard one on it's own.
As for WABMC I think Ritchie found it boring,
his solo part is exciting but I don't think the song
on a whole,got him off.
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20/12/2003, 20:49
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Re: When A Blind Man Cries
I've never heard a very good (to me) explanation for the omission of such obviously (again, to me)great tracks from the setlists. Might've just come down to the power struggle between Blackmore and Gillan. If one wanted to do a new addition to the set list, the other probably nixed the idea merely because it was suggested his "rival".
I do seem to remember criticism of Blackmore's "blues" playing on "When A Blind Man Cries" - from Blackmore himself... and Gillan saying that he thought that Randy California did a better version during the one-off gig he played with Purple in Quebec City. Who knows? Maybe Blackmore caught wind of the comment and simply decided out of spite to never allow it to be included in the setlist. I think that set lists were (again) something that was decided by unanimous vote in those days. We've all heard (I think) from both camps - Blackmore's and Gillan's - blaming one another for the rather rigid set list MkII stayed with for too long...
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20/12/2003, 21:48
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Re: When A Blind Man Cries
I have an interview with Ritchie saying that he
and only he,picked out the setlist.
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21/12/2003, 1:15
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Atle
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Re: When A Blind Man Cries
I have an interview with Ritchie admitting he better not do too many interviews because he tend to say a lot of bullshit.
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21/12/2003, 1:53
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Re: When A Blind Man Cries
Believe that!
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21/12/2003, 6:45
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Re: When A Blind Man Cries
Quote from Ritchie himself;
‘We tried ‘Pictures of Home’ -which I liked a lot on the record- but it never seemed to work out on stage. It was that six-eight fill.....but we did it and I was watching the audience. They were like: “Yawn”.’
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22/12/2003, 0:33
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Atle
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Re: When A Blind Man Cries
It's hard head banging to 6/8.
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22/12/2003, 1:01
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