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Deep Purple: Greatest
Hits
Signature Licks
Analysis and lessons for ten classics, complete with CD demo tracks:
Black Night · Burn · Highway Star · Hush ·
Knocking at Your Back Door · Lazy · Smoke on the Water
· Space Truckin' · Strange Kind of Woman · Woman
from Tokyo.
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Inventory #HL 695625. Book/CD pack $19.95 (US).
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Ritchie Blackmore
As founder, lead guitarist, and co-songwriter for Deep Purple
and later Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore's guitar playing helped define
the metal sound in rock music, going back to the late 60s and
early 70s and continuing to the present day. With a penchant for
thundering riffs that veer sometimes bluesy, sometimes classical,
Blackmore and his solos have cast a long shadow over legions of
rock guitarists in the last thirty years.
Influenced in his youth by early rockers like Hank Marvin and
Cliff Gallup, and later, country pickers like Chet Atkins, Blackmore
began as a studio guitarist in England at a young age. By 1968
he had assembled Deep Purple - or at least the first of many Deep
Purple lineups to come - and recorded their first hit, "Hush."
After several albums he took Deep Purple into a decidedly heavier
vein in 1970, replacing their original singer with Ian Gillan
and releasing the classic LP Deep Purple In Rock.
The early '70s were the heyday of the classic Deep Purple sound,
as they cranked out hits like "Space Truckin'," "Woman
From Tokyo," "Highway Star," and the immortal "Smoke
on the Water" from 1972's Machine Head. But Blackmore
left the band in 1974 (they continued without him for a year or
two) and formed Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow with Ronnie James
Dio and the band Elf.
Despite numerous personnel changes, Rainbow achieved a measure
of success in the rock world in its initial 1974-1983 incarnation.
In '83 Deep Purple got back together and lasted for several albums
with Blackmore until he quit again in 1992 to regroup Rainbow.
In the late '90s Rainbow morphed into a new project heavily based
on Renaissance music, called Blackmore's Night and featuring singer
and songwriter Candice Night. Blackmore continues to record and
do "castle tours" with this outfit, playing an electrified
Renaissance-based musical style.
Read Ritchie Blackmore's full biography:
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