Which would it be and why?
Stormbringer for me because of its immediate swagger and the start/stop groove quality Glenn brings, which works so well with Paicey’s light swing. Then there’s DC and the guitar solo…
My Top 3:
- Burn
- Burn
- Burn
Of his trademark “snaky” ones, “Sensitive to Light”.
Exotic one, “Gates of Babylon”.
Sail Away, MOTSM, Burn, WFT, SOTW and KAYBD.
They are all majestic, which is what I look for in a Blackmore riff.
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I just felt his technique and tone peaked in 75, illustrated on both Stormbringer and the Rainbow debut. His second phase on PS equally good but for different reasons.
Impossible to choose just one!
My heart says “Perfect Strangers,” but perhaps it’s “Mandrake Root”, the first one to truly become a mammoth song.
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One Riff : Knocking at your back door
Though…Burn
Uhhhhh…Perfect Strangers
Ehaa…Lazy
I would say Living Wreck, but I’m not even sure, if that’s his riff, or one of those that Roger brought in.
Bratkartoffeln!!!
Are you telling me that I don’t know how to choose?
and as for the above, it doesn’t appear to me that you’ve made a choice:
Sail Away, MOTSM, Burn, WFT, SOTW and KAYBD.
They are all majestic, which is what I look for in a Blackmore riff.
Sauerkraut und Würstchen!!!
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Impossible to pick one riff, song or album from any of my favourite musicians. As soon as I think of one, another one, then another one, then another one and so on. Anyway all good fun. Cheers.
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To me, Flight of the Rat is the one that blew everything out of the water.
KAYBD
It’s the one I love to play the most on guitar and keep coming back to
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From the intro, to the riff, to the lyrics and melody, Ritchie’s slide version of the riff and his solos, if DP had just recorded this song and nothing else in the 80s, it would have still made the reunion worthwhile.
I’ve always preferred it to even Perfect Strangers, which is a great song, but for Purple standards kind of static live, you can’t do much with it except play it like it is. Now that is of course what most bands do with ALL their songs (–> Eagles), but for Purple it’s unusual.
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Can I submit one last Blackmore riff to rule them all?
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Light In The Black - sooo much drive.
Nice steel guitar!
Seeing Ritchie dance like that feels unnatural and disturbing to me…
Now don’t get too excited, Mike! He was paid to wiggle his shapely bum. And he was young and needed the money.
Given Joe Meek’s sufficiently documented inclinations, I’m sure he had a general appreciation of Ritchie’s derrière!
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I personally prefer him in that open leather jacket while bearing his chest when he was a full grown man - I don’t care if Meek was a member of my community - Ritchie is bit too young for anyone within a few years of his age to ogle him in that video.
I never really thought Ritchie particularly handsome, he had expressive, slightly sinister facial features in a Peter Cushing sort of way.
I had a girlfriend who would always say “he looks like a mean and nasty bird” (“das böse Vögelchen”), I thought that pretty apt!
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Joe Meek
was openly gay when you could still go to prison for it in the UK.
And his 1966 production Do You Come Here Often? is probably among the first releases of a then major band (–> The Tornados) on a major label waving the flag for gay clubs, listen at 02:18 …
Gay clubs that even in the 70s (when homosexuality had on paper long been decriminalized in the UK) didn’t have it easy.
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