Blackmore was ranked #55 in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
One of Blackmore's best-known guitar riffs is from the song "Smoke on the Water". Contrary to the way most guitar players perform it, he plays the riff without a pick, using his fingers instead. He has two guitar solos ranked on Guitar World magazine's "Top 100 Greatest Guitar Solos" ("Highway Star" at #19 and "Lazy" at #74, both from the album Machine Head).
Child in Time, Live from 1970.
Blackmore was in a lot of different bands and did studio session work before Deep Purple. With organist Jon Lord, he co-founded Deep Purple in 1968, and continued to be a member of Deep Purple from 1968-1975 and again from 1984-1993. Blackmore came up with the name of the group, named after his grandmother's favorite song. He left the group in 1993 due to conflicts with the other band members.
In 1997, Blackmore and his wife,Candice Night, formed a folk music group, Blackmores Knights. They have toured and released new music every few years.
I can tell you that in approx. 1973 or 74, I was lucky enough to see this group in concert. On the stage that night was also a group called, " Blue Oyster Cult", and "Savoy Brown". What a night it was. My best friend and I, rode along with a fellow, that neither of us knew real well, and at the end of the night, his car broke down, remember it to be a flat tire and he had no spare, so we ended up hitch hiking back home to Salina.
One of Blackmore's best-known guitar riffs is from the song "Smoke on the Water". Contrary to the way most guitar players perform it, he plays the riff without a pick, using his fingers instead. He has two guitar solos ranked on Guitar World magazine's "Top 100 Greatest Guitar Solos" ("Highway Star" at #19 and "Lazy" at #74, both from the album Machine Head).
Child in Time, Live from 1970.
Blackmore was in a lot of different bands and did studio session work before Deep Purple. With organist Jon Lord, he co-founded Deep Purple in 1968, and continued to be a member of Deep Purple from 1968-1975 and again from 1984-1993. Blackmore came up with the name of the group, named after his grandmother's favorite song. He left the group in 1993 due to conflicts with the other band members.
In 1997, Blackmore and his wife,Candice Night, formed a folk music group, Blackmores Knights. They have toured and released new music every few years.
I can tell you that in approx. 1973 or 74, I was lucky enough to see this group in concert. On the stage that night was also a group called, " Blue Oyster Cult", and "Savoy Brown". What a night it was. My best friend and I, rode along with a fellow, that neither of us knew real well, and at the end of the night, his car broke down, remember it to be a flat tire and he had no spare, so we ended up hitch hiking back home to Salina.
