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4 unusual facts about Ritchie Blackmore


Mk III: The Final Concerts

During the intro jam for "You Fool No One" Blackmore played riffs from the songs "Still I'm Sad" and "Man On The Silver Mountain" from Rainbow's first LP Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, which had already been recorded only weeks before these shows.

Sings Man on the Silver Mountain and 8 Other Songs

The title track, "Man on the Silver Mountain," is a cover of a Rainbow song from their first album, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow.

The Very Best of Rainbow

#"Man on the Silver Mountain" (Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio) - 4:37 (from Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, 1975)

Tina Chancey

Chancey has been a member of the Renaissance-Rock group Blackmore's Night (featuring Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow with his partner, Candice Night).


4 Out of 5 Doctors

According to band member Jeff Severson, the Doctors toured with Hall & Oates, Ritchie Blackmore, and Pat Travers, and opened for The Clash, The Cars, Cyndi Lauper, Steppenwolf, Jim Carroll, and others.

Geoff Everett

At the Twickenham venue, Everett's new band supported and occasionally jammed with musicians such as Keef Hartley, Art Wood (Ronnie Wood's brother) and Ritchie Blackmore, amongst others.

Mark Clarke

He also played in Mountain, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, and in 1980 started working with Billy Squier and recorded Don't Say No, The Stroke, In the Dark and many other albums with him.

Michael Bormann

Through the years, Bormann has worked with noted musicians such as J.R. Blackmore (son of Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow), Jochen 'Zeno' Roth (brother of Uli John Roth of Scorpions fame), Jos Zoomer (from Vandenberg) and Anette Blyckert of Alyson Avenue and Nightwish.

Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages

Of the many musicians that would play with the Savages over the years, some would go onto major stardom in their own right, most notably Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Jeff Beck, Noel Redding, Jon Lord, Matthew Fisher, Ian Hunter, Adrian Gurvitz, actor Paul Nicholas, and Nicky Hopkins.

Tokyo Encore

# "Smoke on the Water" (Ritchie Blackmore/Ian Gillan/Roger Glover/Jon Lord/Ian Paice)

Tuomas Seppälä

Tuomas started playing piano at the age of five, and in his teen years he got interested in 1980's rock, pop and heavy metal, including Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen and ABBA.


see also

Live in Munich

Live in Munich 1977, a live album and DVD released by Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow in 2006

Olve Eikemo

Abbath uses an ENGL Ritchie Blackmore Signature E650 amp through either direct line in or a Marshall cabinet.