Ritchie Blackmore About Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck

when I was 11 it was about Elvis Presley Buddy Holly and the same thing for them and they have brilliant guitar players Scotty Moore Buddy Holly played and the guitar and you had Cliff Gallup playing for Jean Benson you had all these brilliant players and we will idolize them and it was a very exciting time I think at the age of 11 or 12 we will have our acoustic instruments and then later on we got the electrics not like today where you know I've spoken to people and they've said well I I must buy my son a guitar what do you recommend should I get him a Fender and if I get him a fiendish I get my Marshall amp so best of luck with that you have someone plugging in a Fender who's never played it before in a Marshall it's not going to be a happy household you know whereas in our day it was we plug into the back of the radio of a 2 watt radio but it is strange how we all come from the similar area and like I said with Jimmy Page he was in the same village it's like a village really not even the town and Clapton was a few more warm miles out and course Beck was in another area but course the same age I met Jimmy Page in 62 he was playing I was playing with a bank or screaming or such and the savages and we used to dress up as cavemen and I was thin as a rail at the time so I was totally embarrassed to have this loincloth on with all my bones showing I was 17 16 and all the rest of the guys in band were all like Charles Atlas and we played with a band called Neil Christian and Crusaders who I played with later and Jimmy Page was playing his Gretsch guitar with no question and I knew he was going to be somebody then not only was he a good guitar player he had that star quality there was something about him he was very poised and confident he was confident but not arrogant so I thought he's going to go somewhere that guy you know he knows what he's doing but he was way ahead of most guitar players he was really good he knew he was good to a lot of he he was type of guy that he wasn't arrogant but he was very comfortable within himself and then sixty four or five I kind of met up with him did a few did a couple of sessions actually with him one was with Jeff Beck Jeff took the solo and everybody was raving about the solo yeah that was a really good solo I noticed I was playing and he was looking at my hands and I'm like why in my office I don't know where we are just following your courts

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Length: 2min 59sec (179 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 13 2016

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[u/deputyshitbat]

It's bizarre to me that Ritchie never shows up in r/guitar. It seems like Page, Hendrix, Clapton are the only guys the get respect in those subs, but goddamnit Ritchie is my fucking guitar hero.