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credited to the Ritchie Blackmore Orchestra, this 1965 instrumental single finds the Man In Black playing0:00
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ome aggressive licks over a driving beat. Definitely borderline heavy metal for its time.0:00
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the b-side of #1 above is of course Ritchie's campy but heavy take on the Glenn Miller classic.0:00
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masterful bends, ostinato, and trills--are already integrated in his guitar style0:00
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t the age of 20.0:00
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a single cut with Lord Sutch in the '60s, this tune was later done by Foghat.0:00
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later covered by Aerosmith, another great '60s Lord Sutch track.0:00
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cut in 1970 with an orchestra during Deep Purple's Gemini Suite (Jon Lord'sNaN:NaN
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finds an orchestra struggling to keep up with Ritchie0:00
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lassical school of shredding. Touching, subtle ending.0:00
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from the 1970 Green Bullfrog sessions with a number of other famous players of the day. Here, Big Jim0:00
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ock virtuosos ever) lay down vicious solos--and then RitchieNaN:NaN
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ah tempered soloing.0:00
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a fun live cut with Lord Sutch from one night in 1971, some of Ritchie's fastest soloing ever0:00
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aught on tape.0:00
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more live Sutch.0:00
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cut in 1973 with an obscure German band known as Randy Pie & Family. The tune sounds like the0:00
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weet meets Foghat, and Blackmore's guest guitar solo sounds a lot like something off of Deep Purple's Burn album, cut0:00
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ater that fall with David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes.0:00
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from Rainbow's 1975 debut album. Blackmore's melodic take on the Yardbirds classic.0:00
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the Ronnie James Dio/Ritchie Blackmore onstage spotlight is played here veryNaN:NaN
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empo. When Blackmore takes an unaccompanied solo, he reaches for the stratosphere on his Stratocaster--he is truly0:00
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ne with the instrument, a true artist who mixes beauty with violence.0:00
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from Long Live Rock and Roll. Read my review of that album to see how highly I hold it in0:00
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egard.0:00
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another live Rainbow track finds a great mellow intro contrasted with pure metal0:00
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ower chords and a ripping solo with lots of personality.0:00
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this curio from Jack Green's solo album sounds like a Tom Petty song(!) until Ritchie comes inNaN:NaN
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nd plays a tasteful, in the pocket solo. It is unfortunate that he did not lend his talents to more guest shots in the0:00
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too many solos of the era sound like Steve Lukather clones (not that I don't like Steve'sNaN:NaN
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the disc closes out with this rare Deep Purple b-side from the 1984 reunion sessions. Blackmore's0:00
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laying goes through several moods and timbres here.0:00
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pon reflection, I find that I enjoy Volume 2 of Connoisseur Collection's 2 part series on Ritchie Blackmore's overall0:00
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areer. Where Volume 1 focused largely on Blackmore's '60s sessions and his Purple work from 1968 to 1974, Volume 2 is0:00
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ore of a grab bag which has a lot of variety. Originally intended mostly to cover the period from 1975 (Rainbow'sNaN:NaN
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tops in between.0:00
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