(Ritchie) Blackmore's Night: Classic or Dud

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This thread is devoted to Ritchie Blackmore and (wife?) Candice Night's Medieval venture "Blackmore's Night", which has released several albums. Now-moustachio'd Blackmore as minstrel merryman, looking like a cross between Will Scarlet and Zorro, mug of ale in hand, serenading the village folk along with fair wench Night (she performs with ivy leaves entwined around her microphone, fer Chrissake) down moonlit paths of song...

Does the shameless transparency of Blackmore and Night's retro schtick (e.g., mandolin, Renaissance drums, recorders, faux-pub atmosphere) make this one an unfailing, total Classic? Or is it depressing, Spinal Tap-verite makeover from a once respectable metal God, that can only make us run screaming in terror back into the arms of Joe Lynn Turner?

Keep the Deep Purple and Rainbow tangents to a minimum...this is a serious matter here!

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

Photos, please?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.ritchieblackmore.com/photos/live/a.html

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

And group shot:

http://www.ritchieblackmore.com/band_bios.html

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

I would say "dud," but it's just so fantastically bizarre that I might just have to say "classic". I suppose it's a better thing for him to be doing that endlessly depressing Deep Purple/Rainbow reunion/nostalgia tours.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago) link

I mean, just LOOK at them....that's the man on the far right! He wrote fuckin' "Smoke on the Water" for pete's sakes!!

http://www.ritchieblackmore.com/images/bandbios2.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago) link

It's like Gong except they're HIGH ON LIFE!!

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

Hmm .. I wasn't even aware of this. He's had the stache for awhile though, hasn't he? I kinda want to hear this...

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

Every interview I have ever read with Blackmore even back to the 70s, he discusses liking this kind of music, so he probably has made enough cash and is just getting around to trying this kind of music. The guy co-wrote "Man on the Misty Mountain" with a guy whose stage name is god, so it isn't that big of a leap.

― earlnash, Sunday, 2 May 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link

wasn't it "Man on the Silver Mountain"? The one song of his I remember.

― lovebug starski, Monday, 3 May 2004 22:09 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

Holy shit! I saw a Blackmore's Night concert on PBS tonight. Granted, there's a bit of a tongue-in-cheek element to it, but still 'twas more than a bit disturbing, seeing Ritchie (and with that damn moustache!) tappin' his leather boots along to the music all minstrel-like. All the people in the front row were dressed in Renaissance garb. Yikes. It's enough to make you scream for Joe Lynn Turner (but not enough for Graham Bonnett).

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

And yes, the PBS people were interviewing Blackmore and Candice Night in the studio during the intermission (in costume, I think).

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link

awesome, altho mostly for kitsch reasons (otoh, what else would one listen to whilst drinking mead in a meadow, huh?)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

On the PBS special, they performed this really hilariously cheezy song. Here's a different live performance of the same song...which unfortunately doesn't quite capture the same magnitude of badness lip-synched as it does when actually played live, the audience stomping about like mirthful hobbitfolk, etc. But, anyway, see and believe!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjc2jQqQAqE

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

seriously thinking about going to see this in a couple months. it HAS to be awesome.

― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 16 August 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa37/RobOZ_2007/BLACKMORESNIGHTANDJESTER.jpg

― velko, Sunday, 16 August 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

http://www.blackmoresnight.com/images/somerset.jpg

― buzza, Friday, 3 February 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/blackmore_hat.jpg

― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Friday, 3 February 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN5XORoWCMU

― buzza, Friday, 3 February 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link

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