Members GCDEF Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 Is there a correct way to play it? What kind of a question is that? This guy gets it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yngtchie Blacksteen Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 This guy gets it right.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7jy5xF2IYMAlmost, gotta pluck the strings with your fingers to be 100% authentic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 wow I thought everyone in Britain loved Deep Purple? Crazy... I always laugh when people say everyone plays Smoke, yet very few can/do play the whole song, not like the solo is hard but its great. Talk about tone in the fingers-Page and Blackmore are great examples of that...(more technique/style though really) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GCDEF Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 Almost, gotta pluck the strings with your fingers to be 100% authentic. Blackmore is using a pick in the video I posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GCDEF Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 not like the solo is hard but its great. I've never tried to learn it exactly, but I would think it would take a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 But yes MiJ is never far from my players, although on that album Lazy just blows me away I have been mesmerized by Lazy since I'm fifteen years old. This has long been the electric guitar solo that, when I'll finally get to be able to play it, I will have reached a milestone. I'm almost there. Still having trouble with the super speedy part in the first main solo. Hoping to be able to record a cover of it before year's end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Minnie The Moocher Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 Blackmore is using a pick in the video I posted. Most of the time, it's hybrid picking (the top string played with the pick and the bottom string with the finger) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaveAronow Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 We played smoke on the water as a joke at a recent gig because we will take on any request anyone throws at us. It started as a joke and went over so well, it has become a part of our regular rotation. Same thing happened about a year ago with Freebird. It seems there is a whole new generation out there that is unaware that it is very uncool to play Freebird. And even the older generation that was once aware, was so successful in turning a proposed live performance of Freebird into the greatest musical joke of all time, that because noone would dare play it for decades, either the joke has lost its meaning or crowds are so nostalgically craving the song because it has been so long, that bands are starting to play it again. It has become one of our most popular cover tunes. Makes me wonder how long it is going to take before playing Nickelback will actually be cool. We are probably still safely a few decades away from that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vikingrat Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 I have been mesmerized by Lazy since I'm fifteen years old. This has long been the electric guitar solo that, when I'll finally get to be able to play it, I will have reached a milestone. I'm almost there. Still having trouble with the super speedy part in the first main solo. Hoping to be able to record a cover of it before year's end. Plus one. It's almost chicken pickin' in parts and then in the solo he halls ass. Souch a great touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 The solo is good but his wife is better. God bless him for marrying someone 25 years younger and smoking hot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vikingrat Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 The solo is good but his wife is better. God bless him for marrying someone 25 years younger and smoking hot. She's the yoko ono of hard rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mav64 Posted August 31, 2011 Members Share Posted August 31, 2011 Here's what I think is a very interesting interpretation WITHOUT THE RIFF from Vains of Jenna. Any of you heard this? Whaddya think? [video=youtube;NKHk60pXu6k] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted September 1, 2011 Members Share Posted September 1, 2011 We used to call Blackmore "Ritchie Riff" and the grandfather of heavy metal but, even though he is the master of the simple guitar riff I think his playing is more melodic and soulful than anything else. The entire "Machine Head" album is an example of electric guitar at it's finest (IMO). Check out the intro to "Never Before". I studied Blackmore by recording the albums on an open reel machine and playing the songs back at half speed (in the same key but an octave lower) and that was the only way I could get "Lazy". One thing I did not know until DVDs and YouTube was just how much of his playing was done by using a slide. I think that's one of the reasons his stuff is so smooth and it affected my non slide playing in a very profound way. I've recently started listening to Blackmore's Night and I like it a lot. Some of the songs are a bit cheesy but I still get the spine tingle from the solos. He's definitely tapped into something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted September 1, 2011 Members Share Posted September 1, 2011 I still like to listen to the first Rainbow album during the day if I have a rock gig that night. [video=youtube;hRpsA-UvJDg] It seems to fill up the tank, so to speak, and gets me ready for the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted September 1, 2011 Members Share Posted September 1, 2011 Back on topic [video=youtube;iWl0YJN5Xf4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWl0YJN5Xf4&feature=player_embedded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mister Crow Posted September 1, 2011 Members Share Posted September 1, 2011 I've loved RB since the 70's, but I've always thought he looked kind of creepy with that mustache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Ratae Corieltauvorum Posted September 1, 2011 Author Moderators Share Posted September 1, 2011 I've loved RB since the 70's, but I've always thought he looked kind of creepy with that mustache. From what I know of Mr Blackmore he'd find that a compliment:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian May Posted September 1, 2011 Members Share Posted September 1, 2011 The solo is good but his wife is better. God bless him for marrying someone 25 years younger and smoking hot. She's one pretty lady indeed!! Lucky Richie..and when he pops his clogs n Candice gets all his money then its lucky Candice! A version of Smoke On The Water that did make me laugh (in a good way) was Black Swedens version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RogerF Posted September 1, 2011 Members Share Posted September 1, 2011 Ritchie demonstrates his riffs from DP days, on an acoustic 12 string, starting with Mandrake Root. Ritchie is nothing if not honest when he admits to nicking (or deriving) a riff or two from the likes of Ricky Nelson, Hendrix and Clapton. Ritchie Blackmore - Rare Interview (1997) VERY RARE FOOTAGE! [video=youtube;z7r_4CijBWk] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members El Glom-o Posted September 1, 2011 Members Share Posted September 1, 2011 Never could stand "Smoke On The Water" from the very first time I heard it. There are other Deep Purple tunes that I like, but I really can't take "Smoke On The Water". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yngtchie Blacksteen Posted September 1, 2011 Members Share Posted September 1, 2011 Blackmore is using a pick in the video I posted.Hendrix plays the "Hey Joe" solo with his teeth in this video: [video=youtube;y_n_P40sEaM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_n_P40sEaM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Funkwire Posted September 1, 2011 Members Share Posted September 1, 2011 Ritchie demonstrates his riffs from DP days, on an acoustic 12 string, starting with Mandrake Root. Ritchie is nothing if not honest when he admits to nicking (or deriving) a riff or two from the likes of Ricky Nelson, Hendrix and Clapton. Ritchie Blackmore - Rare Interview (1997) VERY RARE FOOTAGE!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7r_4CijBWk Or, in the case of 'Smoke On the Water'...Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz: The Five Most Famous Musicians Who Are Thieving Bastards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted September 1, 2011 Members Share Posted September 1, 2011 ^^^ Pity they seem to have confused Bill Evans and Gil Evans ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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