![]() ![]() We’re both there, weeing away, and he says: ‘Rich, did you mean all that?’ I said: ‘No, not really. But he started it.” Ritchie Blackmore continued: ‘And ‘Immigrant Song’ was ‘Little Miss Lover.’ ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘Bom-bobba-didom ba-bom bobbadidom…’ He was not a happy man. You got it from ‘Hey Joe’, you just put it to a rhythm.’ And he’s thinking. “I know exactly where you got “duh-der duh-der dum” from. At least we don’t copy anybody!’ He goes: ‘What are you talking about? That’s bullshit!” He used to say to me: ‘It must be really hard to stand there and go: ’der-der-derr, der-der, de-derr’ (Smoke on The Water guitar riff)”.īlackmore the replied, saying: “‘Yeah, it’s nearly as difficult as going: ‘duh-der duh-der dum’ (‘Whole Lotta Love’ guitar riff). He’d be really up and drunk or really depressed. “I used to be very friendly with Bonzo from Led Zeppelin. They were both drunk and Bonham decided to make a joke about Blackmore’s guitar playing, so the guitar player did the same, telling the drummer that Zeppelin “stole” many of their songs. As the guitarist recalled in an interview with Neil Jeffries back in 1995, he once confronted Bonham when they were drinking at the Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles. Ritchie Blackmore once criticized Led Zeppelin to the late drummer John Bonhamĭuring his career, Ritchie Blackmore had the chance to meet the Led Zeppelin members, especially the late drummer John Bonham, who was a dear friend. They got it from Jeff Beck, who got it from the Small Faces,” Ritchie Blackmore said. I immediately tuned in with that type of style because before when we were fiddling around with orchestras, I thought: something’s wrong I’m not giving all that I can. I liked their hard approach when they came out and did ‘Whole Lotta Love’. But he also stated that that style from Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and John Bonham came from Jeff Beck and The Small Faces. In 1978, when Blackmore had already left Deep Purple for the first time and was with his own band Rainbow, he had recognized in an interview with Trouser Press the influence of Led Zeppelin. I was very pleased with it because I never wanted to work with an orchestra again,” Ritchie Blackmore said. We’d purposely made it so it hammered along every song, there was no lull. So we did it, and it was ‘Deep Purple In Rock’, which, luckily, took off. I wanted to do that kind of stuff, and if it doesn’t take off we’ll go and play with orchestras the rest of our lives. As Ritchie Blackmore revealed in an interview with Classic Rock magazine in 1995, Led Zeppelin was the inspiration for that change. The first three Deep Purple albums were much more focused on the Psychedelic Rock sound, that was often built around Jon Lord’s keyboards but that changed on their fourth album “Deep Purple In Rock” released in 1970, that had embraced the Hard Rock. It was Led Zeppelin that inspired Ritchie Blackmore to change the sound of Deep Purple I’m just following your chords’, Ritchie Blackmore said. I’m like ‘why you are looking at my hands?’ and he responded ‘I don’t know where we are. “I noticed I was playing and he was looking at my hands. Jeff took the solo and everybody was raving about the solo, that was a really good solo.” Then 64 or 65, I met up with him, we did a couple of sessions actually with him. (Also), he wasn’t arrogant but he was very comfortable within himself. He was really good, he knew he was good too. He knows what he is doing.” Ritchie Blackmore continued: So I thought ‘he’s gonna go somewhere’ that guy, you know. There was something about him, he was very poised and confident. Not only he was a good guitar player, he had that star quality there. “I knew that he was going to be somebody then. Clapton was a few more warm miles out and course (Jeff) Beck was in another area, but course, the same age.” Like I said, with Jimmy Page, he was in the same village, it’s like a village. “It is strange how we all come from the same area. ![]() Years later, Blackmore would recognize that Led Zeppelin was the reason why Deep Purple changed their sound in the early 70s. The two guitar players were coincidentally from the same area in England. It was in 1962, when Blackmore saw Page for the first time when he was part of a band called Neil Christian and The Crusaders. What is Ritchie Blackmore’s opinion on Led ZeppelinĪs Ritchie Blackmore recalled in an interview for the documentary “ Ritchie Blackmore Story” from 2015 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage), he met the guitarist Jimmy Page years before Led Zeppelin was founded and when both of them were still teenagers. He talked about many of his contemporaries during his career and one those bands is Led Zeppelin. Blackmore is also known for being a sincere person that always gave his real opinion on other artists. ![]()
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