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Ritchie Blackmore is known for switching between different keys and modes in the same solo. YouTuber and musician Rick Beato pointed out that, on "Smoke on the Water"'s solo section, Blackmore suddenly switches from a G minor blues scale to a C Dorian on a rapid descending scale run.
Blackmore's solo, after the second verse, is in B Phrygian dominant scale, and is cited as "one of his best". [7] The song has been called a "morality tale", [8] from – according to lyricist Ronnie James Dio – the standpoint of a "slave in Egyptian times". They relate the story of the Wizard, an astronomer who becomes "obsessed with the ...
Beyond the Sunset is a Blackmore's Night compilation album released in 2004 through Steamhammer. It is named after the song "Beyond the Sunset" by Blackmore’s Night from their 1999 album Under a Violet Moon. This compilation was derived from their four studio albums released at that point except for one previously unreleased track; "Once In A ...
The Very Best of Rainbow is a greatest hits compilation album by the British hard rock band Rainbow. It was released in 1997 and features material ranging from 1975's Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow to 1983's Bent Out of Shape .
The album was praised in British contemporary reviews for its fantasy/heroic-like lyrical content and the innovative rock style. [14] However, the reviewer for the American magazine Rolling Stone disparaged the album, describing Blackmore's playing "listless and bored in relation to past performances" and the band "a completely anonymous group."
Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) were a British rock band formed in Hertford in 1975 by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.Established in the aftermath of Blackmore's first departure from Deep Purple, they originally featured four members of the American rock band Elf, including their singer Ronnie James Dio, but after their self-titled debut album, Blackmore ...
The inlay story was written by Jerry Bloom, author of Black Knight, a Ritchie Blackmore's biography. On 12 April 2012 a picture disc album version of Long Live Rock 'n' Roll was released in the US as part of Record Store Day 2012.
In 1980, Blackmore's Rainbow headlined the inaugural Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington in England. [10]Songs from Down to Earth have been performed by Graham Bonnet at his solo shows, as well as at concerts performed with Don Airey (2001) and Joe Lynn Turner (2007).