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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
"Our biggest problem is bass player Roger Glover, who is really in a bad way at the moment as every time he goes on stage he is in some considerable pain.
He has tuberculosis of the liver and after each performance we have to stretch him out in the dressing room for an hour to recover.
It looks almost certain we will have to get a temporary replacement for him on live gigs for a while."
"Of course we consider our market and the people who come to listen to us", said Ritchie. "In that sense we make concessions and I just don't believe in all this crap about 'doing your own thing'.
I did my own thing for a while some two years ago and I starved. All the musicians and heads came in and said 'great guitar, man' and I still starved.
It is more satisfying to me and most other musicians to have people listen and I get a personal kick out of creating music which generates an exciting atmosphere. Pete Townshend made the point that it is no use progressing unless you take the people with you!
There is a whole lot of hypocrisy and snobbery connected with certain groups in some minds who have given us stick for being overtly commercial.
We enjoy what we do and we would never release anything with which we did not want to be associated with. If we release records which appeal to several million instead of a few hundred, I'm not about to apologise for it.
We release singles and hope they are hits because we think it is important to try and reach as many people as possible – those who might not ordinarily buy the album.
We do 'Top of the Pops' because if you are going to release a single it is the one show which really counts. Not to do it is to cut your own throat.
We present a stage act because we think it is an attraction, not a distraction, with the music. People put us down for leaping about – I happen to like leaping about.
We contrive to get an audience going – strive for a reaction and I think that is a great deal more honest than walking on stage with the idea that you have to do nothing else but stand there and play because you're the world's greatest musician.
Too many musicians have the idea that they are so good the audience are stupid if they don't clap and some of the audiences have been conned into believing that if they don't understand it – it must be good.
I could name half a dozen groups who work on that basis and get away with playing rubbish.
The only people I might be prepared to go and listen to play without any form of presentation – just sitting and playing – are musicians like Segovia!" - Ritchie Blackmore to Keith Altham in Record Mirror, May 1st, 1971
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
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Too many musicians have the idea that they are so good the audience are stupid if they don't clap
You mean, no encore´s and such things? 
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
"The problem is that musicians want to get paid, and when I don't give them money, they quit!"
RB on ever changing line-ups in his bands, Afterposten (Norway) JUly 1997.
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
"I don't envy Tommy Bolin for trying to take my place in Purple," says Blackmore today. "He was a uniquely talented player and it's unfortunate that he never had the chance to develop with the band the way that I did. His death was an incredible loss, not only for Deep Purple but for guitar fans as well." - Ritchie Blackmore in the article "Purple Reign" by Chris Gill in Guitar World, May 1999
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
"'Kashmir' and 'When The Levee Breaks' were probably my favorite Led Zeppelin songs. 'Kshmir' inspired me to write 'Stargazer' for Rainbow - incorporating the 'Turkish element'" - Ritchie Blackmore in Special Collector's Edition:High Voltage Rock 'n' Roll of Classic Rock magazine, December 2007
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
Q: Are you annoyed about the new Deep Purple?
A: "No, I think it did annoy me for about a day, I was just reading the interview with Rod Evans in 'Sounds' and he hasn't changed, he's really a nice guy, there's no malice intended. He probably wanted to make some money out of it, which he felt he might not have done in the beginning. But that's all over and now the lawyers are in and that's been stopped." - Ritchie Blackmore to Pete Makowski for "Sounds" magazine, October 11th, 1980.
Q: Oddly, Rod Evans, Purple's original singer, formed a bogus reincarnation of the band in 1980 for west coast bar gigs.
A: "I heard about that. I think it quickly fizzled when they were threatened with legal action. It was an unusual move for Rod, because I like Rod as a person - but I suppose it was worth trying [laughs]." - Ritchie Blackmore to H.P. Newquist + Jeffrey L. Perlah in Guitar magazine 1999.
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
I remember a discussion that took place either here or perhaps on one of the other DP discussion boards I frequent (that I can't seem to find now) that had to do with why Ian Paice wasn't asked by Blackmore to accompany Blackmore when Rainbow was formed; it seemed somewhat logical that when DPMkII was in danger of totally disintegrating in '73 & the 'Babyface' project was still kinda in the cards that Blackmore would - logically - continue to still want to work with Paice as his drummer outside a 'DP context'...well, here's Blackmore's answer when questioned about that decision in 1975:
SR: I was surprised that Ian didn’t come with you.
RB: "Ian Paice?"
SR: You worked so well together.
RB: "I had to get away from Ian for a time because Ian was partly going in a different direction. Ian is not into my Medieval influences, pretty songs, sometimes songs with no rhythm to them. There must be rhythm as far as Ian’s concerned. And he is the best drummer as far as rhythm goes. But, when you don’t want rhythm, he’s not prepared to put the song first. If there’s no proper rhythm there, then there’s nothing for him to do so he’s not interested, not looking as it like, 'Well, this is a valid song whether I’m playing or not.' That is why Ian is not with me." - Ritchie Blackmore to Steve Rosen in 1975.
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
"Goodbye, Deep Purple. It wasn't fun, but at least it lasted long!"
RB, in Finnish rock paper Soundi, Autumn 1975
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Re: If we're going to quote Blackmore...
The perfect thread.
Lots of Blackmore quotes, band infighting gossip and even a good forum row in the middle.
Perfect. 
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