Ritchie Blackmore and John Bonham story
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Published 2021-12-27
All Comments (21)
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We are actually talking about Jon Lord's Gemini Suite album (Lord's 2nd album with orchestra after 'Concerto') which he wanted to record with Deep Purple after 'In Rock' but Ritchie Blackmore didn't like 'Gemini Suite' and they recorded Fireball instead.
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John Bonham and Ritchie Blackmore: two good friends, two "pain in the ass" guys and, without any shadow of a doubt, two of the most talented musicians ever !!!! Go on, Ritchie!!!! R.I.P. Bonzo!!!!
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Saw Purple open for Cream in L.A. a lifetime ago at the Forum. They blew the roof off. After Cream’s second disastrous number, people were screaming for Purple to come back out.
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Brilliant time to be alive. This music defines my life.
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Stargazer is one of the best rock songs in history. Epic.
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I thought I have seen every photo of Bonzo ever shot but in this story I saw 3 photo of John that I have never seen before !! Very impressive.
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My favourite guitarist and my favourite drummer. Awesome.
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All the links between these bands are amazing. Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, and Whitesnake all traded some key players back and forth throughout the 70s and 80s. Zeppelin was the only one that kept the same lineup throughout. I recently found The Butterfly Ball and The Grasshopper's Feast album that Roger Glover and Ronnie James Dio did together. What an amazing group of musicians.
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Robert Pland and Cozy Powell were high school friends, if I recall correctly. And remained close friends all their life. Cozy played on Plant's 80's solo albums. RIP Cozy.
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Another point to come out of this story. At the end of 1973 Blackmore and ian Paice jammed with Phil Lynott with the idea of starting a new band to be called Baby Face. Unfortunately after that jam the idea was scrapped because they felt Phil's bass playing couldn't keep up with theirs. So for those who say that Roger Glover is just an "average" bass player remember that Blackmore requested him in both of his bands, Purple and Rainbow.
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Man this is great, I got older but my heart is in these stories and still teach my beloved music due too it.thankyou for this inspirational story, as always
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Fascinating... not only are Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple my two favorite bands... Blackmore & Page are my favorite guitarists and Bonham & Paice are my two favorite drummers, as well as Plant & Gillan are my two favorite singers. You couldn't plan that, some things just have to fall into place.
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In a interview with Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore said Jimmy Page was a genius guitarist and Jimmy got it! That's when Blackmore decided to take deep purple into the heavy Rock route! Blackmore's words!
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Zeppelin, Purple, Elf, Trapeze, Rainbow, TLizzy...Give me a break....So many legendary bands stories in one video!!!
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These videos are OUTSTANDING. Full of info I've never known.
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Still Bonzo will always be my favorite drummer ever. Even after so many years, and going through so many genres of music. 40 years since I first heard him, he still remains my favorite.
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I watch all your videos about Blackmore, this is your best one.
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What amazing stories about all those great musicians, Bonham my favorite forever drummer, Page and Blackmore those two magnificent guitarists, I got to see RJ Dio live they played Rainbows "man on the silver mountain"1985, Jimmy Page band with Jason Bonham on drums1988, Deep Purple 1987 with that awesome line up, Jethro Tull 1987, The Who 1988, all those great musicians!!🙏
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I used to hang out a little at the Rainbow. Lots of rockers hung out there. The odd thing is, no bands played there at least when I was out in LA 1988-2001. Bands played the Whiskey and Roxy, but not the Rainbow. That was one of Lemmy's favorites in 90's. He would roll in most days around 5-6 pm for a long time.
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Was fortunate enough to see the Perfect Stranger Tour in 1984 & at least saw Plant/Page 3X, The Firm, & Solo Plant 8X
