Ritchie Blackmore About His Inspiration & Thievery

that's very interesting because that I first had that idea back in 68 with a friend of mine who wrote a lot of what he writes in fourths if you have on b3 then you've got your interval harmony now the melody of that was in fourths which went like this [Music] in those days I'd never heard of that kind of harmony and it's interesting because about five years later that's how I wrote the smoke on water which was in force it's the same type of thing and Mandrake root was the very first song that the purple put together it was my instrumental idea along with John Lord and that was basically our first song Black Knight was um it's a very simple riff [Music] [Applause] [Music] that was part of a song that I heard from Ricky Nelson who did it in 1962 I think as summertime and that's where I got the idea for the riff [Music] [Music] he's saying summertime over there so it was not entirely original I stole it speaking was [Music] bounce based on stone free Jimi Hendrix [Music] I really liked his stuff at the time so and there's a little bit of fire do you remember fire by Jimi Hendrix [Music] water was again it's backed up fourths [Music] p of gene we had a whiff I played the riff and I said well maybe we should go to that was it he wrote the tune drama you don't believe me that was actually um nazy was inspired by Eric Clapton because ways he went something like them [Music] there was a thing called on by Eric Clapton called them I don't know what it is but it went something like [Music] we wrote that in Switzerland and the middle part was like arpeggios [Applause] [Music] it's like a Mozart piece I was impressed by Mozart in those days I knew him quite well he wasn't at all well when I knew him he didn't look like he was full of life in fact I think he was dead but he nobody could tell him that because he got upset but that's where the middle part came from the rest of it was just a straightforward rock song Ian Gillan did an excellent job on vocals screaming using losing good stayed then he could sing

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Id: l22yOjWthGI

Length: 5min 35sec (335 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 06 2017