My wife had to listen to me practice this solo over the backing track one entire summer. She heard me play a version that was somewhat close and said: "You finally got it eh?' Not quite honey, but thanks for making me feel inept.
5:36 Never noticed this blip before, but wisely they decided to go with it because of the brilliant overall feel. Those were the days. Now it's all drop-ins and antiseptic, artificial perfection.
He was plugged into a tape recorder modified for an echo effect. The preamp on the tape recorder would give him a “fatter” tone when running it back to the front of the 200w Marshall. It’s in the description if you’re interested.
kinda but not really. yes, he didnt really have many fx pedals such as wahs or phasers or flangers or anything like that, but he definitely had his tricks. his Marshall Majors were heavily modified, he had a modded Hornby-Skewes treble booster and an Aiwa reel-to-reel tape recorder, which he would plug his guitar onto the mic input and then the amp on the phone output, having the signal run through the tape recorder's preamp, thus boosting the signal and giving him a fatter sound. that, together with his treble booster and his modded, fire-breathing Marshall Majors were the secret to his sound.
yep. you can't beat the analog amplifiers. The digital people talk about A/D analog to digital resolution, etc. But studies have shown the human ear can still pick out the difference. The transients do not come out the same through digital as analog. An exactly pure tone might come out the same, but as soon as you change anything it doesn t. Bring back Marshall and Fender Amps full of Tubes
In today’s conditions this would be considered a sloppy demo. Yet so many of the modern click track recordings can’t but aspire to be as epic as this song.
Of course, these are very different times, with very different and better technologies available for musicians, and with much more cases of study. There are many perfect unoriginal demos nowadays.
i like this comment, because in some ways its true. i think if you heard more iso tracks from any number of truly special records, there would be little timing mistakes that simply dont matter in context.
"sloppy" is what middle class millenial people, who paid for special lessons and have the certificates to prove it!, call natural guitar players who have talent and don't play like an autistic robot. They got their certificates right? They MUST be geniuses compared to silly Blackmore and Hendrix...... Yeah right :)
There's more to it than that. It's a VOX AC30 with a Hornby-Skewes Treble Booster (desk top version). The guitar solo itself is multi-tracked to provide the harmony. Either way, a brilliant set of tracks.
@@hugedoof cant forget about the Aiwa reel-to-reel tape recorder, that was a crucial part of his tone! I think its so interesting to see how "archaic" the stuff guitarists had to use back then to have a good guitar tone when compared to today and yet they always managed to find their way and be legendary even with all the complexity that took back then
@@hugedoof I have it on very good authority (a friend of Ritchie Blackmore's, Stuart Smith, who has a yoiutube channel - see Heaven & Earth) that Blackmore used a Mike Matthews Freedom amp on Machine Head (battery operated) but no idea if he's just being mischievous (like his good friend, Mr B). No doubt the amp mentioned in my previous post
What a guitarist - What a sound. Just naturally brilliant, to create a solo in this song like he did. It is still my favourite solo from the whole Classic Rock era. I have seen Purple with Steve Morse, I have played this solo and taught it to students. He was brave playing single notes under the organ solo, he played outlandish chords on the intro, he had style, stage presence and incredible musicality. The vinyl LP of 'Made in Japan' has a grunt and menace completely lacking in the CD version. Wow!
Recorded in the late 1971 in the grand hotel in montreux it was the turningpoint for deep purple.... after touring, giging, recording the band needed a break and produced one of their best album you can imagine. So much energy in songs and music. Blackmore wrote a good solo... mozart vs arpeggios. A milestone in rock history... no one did before, so he was a superb guitarplayer away ahead of his time... fast fingers and a good moody feeling, compaired vs phsychal finess and creation. Thank you
It's an almost clean sound, not played with technical perfection. In the sum it's perfect. Better than any overgained metal sound.Some may think that this playing is old fashioned and out of time but it will touch every Rock loving audience immidiately. It's pure and it's true.
When you isolate a track from the others, they often sound out of time. There's more to it than that. It's a VOX AC30 with a Hornby-Skewes Treble Booster (desk top version). The guitar solo itself is multi-tracked to provide the harmony. Either way, a brilliant set of tracks.
Had the absolute pleasure of seeing Blackmore and Deep Purple in 1974. Even with the horrible sardine can accoustics from that Philly Spectrum metal roof ceiling it was a bucket list item at age 15. Even though I still like Led Zeppelin just a little more than Deep Purple, trust me, Deep Purple was better live than Zeppelin.
Mate this is absolutely genius masterpiece , there was nothing like this before it , Ritchie Blackmore is one of the greatest indeed , way ahead of his time and visionary ! Stunning experience to hear his guitar like this ! Thank you so much for posting it , blew my brains out !
@recordjnky The songwriting ability is also a major part of being one of the greatest. Mechanical skill means nothing if you can’t use it to sound musical.
amazing!! love hearing these blackmore isolated solo's ..Pure genius..and ROCK N ROLL with that classical influence. Highway Star..always one of my favorites!
That solo part is so amazing, Ritchie was inventive and masterful and Mach 2 Purple had a magic all their own, it's a shame he and Ian fell off the way they did, they played a very vital role in the magic of the music of the times, it's great to hear this like this, what a tone, a treat for us guitar players and an even more exciting way to hear this masterpiece. What a time for music, with the devastation I felt as a young lad at the demise of the Beatles, came my instant connection with Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Humble Pie to start took music somewheres else many of us didn't know we were till we got there, what an impact these bands to name a few had on so many young soon to be musicians. The best time ever musically to have grown up!!! ✌🏼️
That is precisely why it works.The combo of distorted hammond,slightly distorted bass and this tone of Blackmore worked together perfectly. If Purple was only Blackmore and bass ,without the Hammond of Lord,it would sound too thin.Sounds perfect all together.
@@brucefranklin6295 There's more to it than that. It's a VOX AC30 with a Hornby-Skewes Treble Booster (desk top version). The guitar solo itself is multi-tracked to provide the harmony. Either way, a brilliant set of tracks.
Hack To Scratch Golf sorry but i don’t see the point. If you are a good guitarist this solo isn’t difficult at all and you can play it well. What’s next than? ‘Yes but you can’t play as Ritchie’? This solo isn’t hard to learn and to play, period.
I knew it! he did downpick the riff. I've seen a lot of players doing alternate picking on it and never sounds right. I down pick when I play it. Thank you for isolating it.
Interesting that in all these comments, there's not one mention of an individual who deserves an enormous amount of credit for getting this down on tape - Martin Birch. Much of the album was recorded in a hallway - or a stairway, depending on the instrument - and he sitting outside in the Stones Mobile getting these great sounds on tape. Great production and engineering - and one THE best drum sounds ever....
Listening to such an icon song as we have all these years, to listen to Ritchie’s playing all by itself is shocking. No effects, no high gain growl or sustain. Just a man, a guitar, an amp and his imagination and skill. It’s raw. It’s unadulterated. It’s Blackmore. A guitar player who has launched a thousand careers in music and millions of imaginations in fans. There may be better guitar players than he, but not many who have accomplished what he has.
Amazing guitar God! He combined blues and classical music. More over, in this isolated track you can spot that he is a brilliant guitarist in both rythm and lead!
Ritchie is my number one Guitarist and the riff King. Listening to this it makes you realize just how great Lord was playing rythum organ and Rick Wakeman was his biggest fan saying Jon Lord is the King of the Hammond. I guess those two were the very best in my opinion.
Kurt Sherrick God Bless for that comment , as Yngwie said in his "Inpirations " album CD # 2 " Between 1970 to 1974 NOBODY PAYED LIKE RITCHIE NOBODY, Im Sorry Page , Hendix etc But Ritchie was the Best by any standard , to me is not comparisons" and that was Ynwie . ( is on the interview to Yngwie at his house talking about his Inspiration album , CD 2 Bonus ).
Kurt Sherrick : Greatest guitarist, ok, to each his own, but "King of the Riff"?! May I just say "Day Tripper", Ticket To Ride", "I Feel Fine", "Paperback Writer", "And Your Bird Can Sing", If I Needed Someone", "Hey Bulldog", etc. etc. etc? I'll readily admit "Black Night" and "Smoke on the Water" are classics, but let's be fair here...
ArkyMalarkey reading your comment just make me wanna laugh so hard.... don't compare beatles with hard rock bands. beatles was a 60s pop band and deep purple is a 70s HARD ROCK band. day tripprer?? that song is really easy for people nowadays, but people nowadays maybe still strugle to play deep purple speed king intro. you just dont compare easy and simple music with more complicated and fast playing music. you just can't. unless you really wanted to get mocked.
Lazaro Millares Page, Hendrix, Iommi don't need you and Yngwie to be sorry... They all are great as much as Blackmore. Besides everyone has preferences... Ygwie is good, but his word is not "God's word".
Sexy Ritchie. Also love the cool boots. Thanks for making this video. Have wanted to hear only his playing for years without the rest of the band. Such a great video. The greatest guitarist of all time.
Brillant👌You see this is why Ritchie is such a fine and master guitarplayer. This is just his guitar and nothingelse and you can hear the power and passion of his musical touch.Now imagine how inspired the other members of the band must have been to make the song complete.The Great John Lord,Roger,Ian,and Gillan. However it is rockin like hellfire. Majestic👌
Trust me when I say its not the amp its the tubes in the amp. Even a cheap 4w amp can be made to sound this awesome with an 8ohm speaker and some, now sadly insanely expensive, NOS tubes.
So this is you contribution to the discussion of this posting? So being "socially isolated" is a clinical observation you have made? Weird criterion for music appreciation.
Excellent! My favourite driving song. In all these years I've never heard it with just the isolated guitar track. Brilliant playing as usual for Ritchie. You don't always hear his rhythm playing because it's mixed together with Jon's keyboards and Roger's bass. I'd love to hear some other DP songs like that, or some Rainbow songs.
As a guy who lightly studies Blackmore's work, that would be amazing! I'm having a bit of trouble defining the notes cause they're so fast and distortion makes it even harder so...
It´s the attitude, the attack. He never needed much of pre-amp distortion, just the natural sound of cooking power section.. so great, from the Master of Stratocaster 🤩
One of my greatest moments is meeting Blackmore at age 17 ... my hero ... he was a little weird, stand-offish, but answered my questions anyway, even tho he looked like he was gonna punch me! I was so star struck. I was the only guy in my high school that could play Highway Star note for note, that's how much I worshiped him. Roger Glover was such a cool dude, talked to me for almost 2 hours ignoring the girl at his side. Rock on, Ritch.
I love how you hear John and Ian cut through at quiet parts. John was at the opposite end of a long hallway with the Hammond and Ian had his drum set up at a T-junction about midway between Richie and John. You can find tons of pics showing the hallway inside the original vinyl gatefold; especially shots where you see the drums jutting a bit into the main hallway.
Marcos Rainier de Ritchie Blackmore influenced more guitarist than anyone. First feedback Guitarist. Brian May said before he was in Purple he was Hendrix before Hendrix and no one was playing stuff like Ritchie and was amazed by Blackmore' in the early sixties say where did he get that from. Ritchie the first true Metal Guitarist and Speed Guitarist. also on Kill the King on Rainbow Rising he really with Powell did the first Trash licks. And no one out so much original music and he never played the same licks on any songs. It's like Eddie Van Halen did the same box licks over and over. I was at Monsters of Rock in Memphis and the first song was Southern Night's and Half way through the song Eddie's guitar went out. If I remember correctly it was a cordless and while Eddie was having a temper tantrum at his roadie's and Sammy picked up his red guitar and actually was better than Eddie and Eddie was technically great but had no feel. When Blackmore hit the first lick you knew it was him only Santana Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughn had that original feel for it. And I have always said Guitarist should play like Janis Joplin sang.
Scorpions were NEVER NEAR Speed Metal, sure they are Heavy Metal at most but they were never even close to Speed Metal, in fact the first two albums weren't even Heavy Metal/Hard Rock, they were Progressive Hard Rock, but with little hints of Metal.
KW KELLY Really ? Deep Purple " In Rock" , " Machine Head" and " Burn" cleans the floor with ALL Scorpuons discography. In Trance is just a good album but 100 Lightyears to the albums that I just mentioned. Dig and Learn a little more.
KW KELLY, There are a few examples of Proto Speed Metal in Deep Purple like Fireball for example(mainly the double bass drumming), or even Highway Star could be considered Proto Speed Metal if you think about it
I can not normally listen to isolated guitar tracks, but I actually cranked this right up, can never get enough of Blackmore. He's not as precise as it sounds in context, but THAT is what makes it so brilliant, the tension, you can almost feel the lactic acid build up in the picking hand as it becomes more and more "stiff" during the song, I love it!! Like I've always known, its a genius bit of guitar playing!! The SOUND!! Holy Moly!! Thank you for posting!! And oh yeah, HA!! That aint no AC30!! I always thought it was but oh no definitely not!! Just my opinion.
Keyboard played a huge part in this song as well as many other DP songs. But it would sound different isolated also. They sound superb when all blended together !
Wow! He harmonized the solo with another solo! Kind of like Tony Iommi! That's pretty f. cool! There are like two solos at the same time, counterpoint mastery!
Mick fkucn Mars???? It's insulting to Richie to mention Mick Mars in any context alongside Richie's name. The big difference between them is that Richie could actually play!
He plugged his guitar into a reel to reel tape recorder....using it as a boost/ preamp....there are pics from the 70s showing that he kept it in full view of the audience.....
Stunning! Mesmerising!! EXCITING!!!we're there,. Picking up speed, round those bends, mercilessly, overtaking, on this fantastic, sounds ape biting, fiery, AWESOME!!!!
Wow, this is amazing. Even the part where he is playing backing guitar to the start of Jon Lord's solo is amazing. His right hand plectrum action is spotless as usual. Thank you for posting this. If I could be 10% as good as Blackmore ... I would be a great guitarist.
You are f*cking joking right? :o) I've known this track for decades and finally getting to hear it uncovered is a shock, man his playing is awful, just listen to the timing! Sure, it was at the infancy of rock but check out the ending, its abysmal especially for a session player. I know children who'd blow him away completely these days. I love Blackmore but you really can hear that Pace sets the pace.
@ Prince Westerburg. Comments like this are why so little good music is being made these days. This idea that perfection is required is the "big lie. " Good luck to those "children" you know who are so impressive to you. Could they have written this song? So many guitarists are playing what amounts to "run-on sentences" with no space, no breathing, no feel. It's a compromise here sir. He was clearly happy with the" entire band take" verses just his own guitar track. These backing tracks were recorded live as a band. Music is not a competition. Having an "Identity" is the Holy Grail and Blackmore has that.
Thanks again for amusing me. Who are these children that you say you know and who you claim can blow Blackmore away? Perhaps you could give us the links to their web sites? Moreover, perhaps you might be good enough to record yourself playing these guitar parts for Highway Star and then upload them and send us the link ... so that we can listen to your playing and judge for ourselves whether or not you are qualified to judge Blackmore's outstanding playing.. Though I won't be holding my breath eh? Chortle.
kangooroo1 I agree The solo on Highway Star and Child in Time from Made in Japan stands out as the two greatest solos ever recorded live. But am sure people will disagree with us. It's really subjective but I think anyone would be hard pressed to find one better.
Blackmore's style always stood out for his sheer physicality; he's always really digging hard into the strings. That combined with his picking precision defined his unique style and sound to me.The fact that there is very little distortion here adds to the punch, which adds to to DP's patented driving rhythm. The sound here is also very compressed, and has the sound of the speakers occasionally bottoming out. And Strats I've heard thru a Marshall Major have a snarl on the bridge pickup that gives me shivers.The solo is a great example of the singing quality of the Strat neck pickup also demonstrated by Hendrix & SRV. The guitar sound on Machine Head always struck me as "polite" compared to the live Made in Japan, which was more distorted and balls-out. The grinding B3 organ added necessary thickness and drove the entire sound right out the door.
I was about 14 just starting to play guitar when this came out. Was my go to inspiration because of course it totally rocks. But oh, how I labored to duplicate what I thought was him playing in harmony all at once. I had no concept of multi tracking in 1972.
I like that you can hear the mistake at the 5:37 mark. Never even knew that it was there before. Now I'll never unhear it, but its the beauty of a human playing an instrument.
Deep Purple was the best band I have ever seen live in concert. And I saw dozens of top bands including Zepplyn, Stones, Kansas, Foreigner, Cars, James Gang, Foghat, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Sabbath, Bad Company and many others during the glorious 1970s rock era. No gimmicks, no added sound effects, just raw bluesy hard rock! Who had better hand speed playing those solos than Richie? No one! I think Page was slightly more talented but nobody had Richie's quickness.
Someone wrote: Ritchies guitar tech held a small dark amp with him and said that this is the amp that Ritchie recorded all of Machine Head with. the brand - I do not know... It might have been a joke. Ritchie used a Vox AC30 back then. When he played live he played through a Vox hidden in the empty box of a Marshall.
holy crap! just today I started working on an arrangement for solo classical guitar of this song. this is gonna help me soooo much! thank you so much for posting!
Good Lord man!! Sense of rhythm from Hell!! The man is a fucking machine!!! Usually these isolated tracks make me see that my guitar hero's are at least a little human....not this one. It really makes me want to burn my guitar.
For me, Ritchie Blackmore along with Toni Iommi are the inventors of metal guitar riffs.
Blackmore’s precision and commitment to the riff are the origins of heavy / speed metal. Thank you sir Richie.
Pretty good. He should find some other guys and start a band.
joynthis Ehm....he did actually and not one. After Deep Purple he started Rainbow and now he's playing in Blackmore's Night.
its called humor.try developing your own sometime,you may occasionally burst
into bouts of laughter like i just did,lol.have a good night.
🤣🤣🤣
I agree 😀😀. He could make it. 😊
Mike Derogee he's playing rock n roll now.. ritchie blackmore rainbow
I turned this way up to fool my wife into thinking it was me playing guitar. But she asked who was playing guitar
BWAHAA! That's a good one bro!
If she thinks you were playing the guitar you may have married a groupie. LOL.
My wife had to listen to me practice this solo over the backing track one entire summer. She heard me play a version that was somewhat close and said: "You finally got it eh?' Not quite honey, but thanks for making me feel inept.
Nice try 😂
You made my day! Too funny! Keep practicing my friend. you and me both! ss
5:36 Never noticed this blip before, but wisely they decided to go with it because of the brilliant overall feel. Those were the days. Now it's all drop-ins and antiseptic, artificial perfection.
Agreed
Spot on mate. You have to have one slip to show how difficult the rest is !
Just Ritchie and his strat, plugged into an amp. No effects or tricks. Fucking brilliant
He was plugged into a tape recorder modified for an echo effect. The preamp on the tape recorder would give him a “fatter” tone when running it back to the front of the 200w Marshall. It’s in the description if you’re interested.
Hornby Skewes treble boost into an AC/30
He still sounded pretty amazing for a single coil. The dude knows how to play.
kinda but not really. yes, he didnt really have many fx pedals such as wahs or phasers or flangers or anything like that, but he definitely had his tricks. his Marshall Majors were heavily modified, he had a modded Hornby-Skewes treble booster and an Aiwa reel-to-reel tape recorder, which he would plug his guitar onto the mic input and then the amp on the phone output, having the signal run through the tape recorder's preamp, thus boosting the signal and giving him a fatter sound. that, together with his treble booster and his modded, fire-breathing Marshall Majors were the secret to his sound.
There are not too many isolated guitar tracks I would sit through. This is amazing.
Seriously, Ritchie is total genius .. no words can describe you!
Geez, nobody else sounds like this. Killer tone, not overly distorted, and such a snarl!
This simply gives me chills. As a guitarist, I'm blown away by this.
I couldn't even air guitar this one.
That's the easy part
rrguitar1 yes it’s sweet ! Timing is natural and pretty tight,.
It's both simplistic and complex at the same time, and he makes it sound like any schmo should be able to pick up a guitar and do it.
These guys had something in their sound. A kind of rawness, a crude power that is lost today in the digital world of mixing and editing.
Rico Jazz this is so true and so sad at the sad time
Amen.
Amen
yep. you can't beat the analog amplifiers. The digital people talk about A/D analog to digital resolution, etc. But studies have shown the human ear can still pick out the difference. The transients do not come out the same through digital as analog. An exactly pure tone might come out the same, but as soon as you change anything it doesn
t. Bring back Marshall and Fender Amps full of Tubes
Rico Jazz I totally agree 👍🏻
In today’s conditions this would be considered a sloppy demo. Yet so many of the modern click track recordings can’t but aspire to be as epic as this song.
It’s Rick and Roll. Who ever thinks this song isn’t perfect should go listen to some computer generated music.
Of course, these are very different times, with very different and better technologies available for musicians, and with much more cases of study. There are many perfect unoriginal demos nowadays.
i like this comment, because in some ways its true. i think if you heard more iso tracks from any number of truly special records, there would be little timing mistakes that simply dont matter in context.
Its his effects interoperability on the guitar, the guitar setup and any signature left or right hand wizardry.
"sloppy" is what middle class millenial people, who paid for special lessons and have the certificates to prove it!, call natural guitar players who have talent and don't play like an autistic robot. They got their certificates right? They MUST be geniuses compared to silly Blackmore and Hendrix...... Yeah right :)
Basically and amp and a guitar combined with high playing skills, no technology just pure talent.
There's more to it than that. It's a VOX AC30 with a Hornby-Skewes Treble Booster (desk top version). The guitar solo itself is multi-tracked to provide the harmony. Either way, a brilliant set of tracks.
@@hugedoof cant forget about the Aiwa reel-to-reel tape recorder, that was a crucial part of his tone!
I think its so interesting to see how "archaic" the stuff guitarists had to use back then to have a good guitar tone when compared to today and yet they always managed to find their way and be legendary even with all the complexity that took back then
ive never heard him using a vox ac-30 ive heard marshall major modded and a few others dont remember the fine details
@@hugedoof I have it on very good authority (a friend of Ritchie Blackmore's, Stuart Smith, who has a yoiutube channel - see Heaven & Earth) that Blackmore used a Mike Matthews Freedom amp on Machine Head (battery operated) but no idea if he's just being mischievous (like his good friend, Mr B). No doubt the amp mentioned in my previous post
Big fat tires and everything.
Sounds like my girlfriend...
I would like but 420
Eight cylinders all mine
Even this extracted guitar part sounds excellent.
Kodiak and Grizzly Bears are a hoot
rick robbins: Y'gotta be scatty.
What a guitarist - What a sound. Just naturally brilliant, to create a solo in this song like he did. It is still my favourite solo from the whole Classic Rock era. I have seen Purple with Steve Morse, I have played this solo and taught it to students. He was brave playing single notes under the organ solo, he played outlandish chords on the intro, he had style, stage presence and incredible musicality. The vinyl LP of 'Made in Japan' has a grunt and menace completely lacking in the CD version. Wow!
I grew up on this song. But it now has a whole new dimension. Thank you Kenneth!
Recorded in the late 1971 in the grand hotel in montreux it was the turningpoint for deep purple.... after touring, giging, recording the band needed a break and produced one of their best album you can imagine. So much energy in songs and music. Blackmore wrote a good solo... mozart vs arpeggios. A milestone in rock history... no one did before, so he was a superb guitarplayer away ahead of his time... fast fingers and a good moody feeling, compaired vs phsychal finess and creation. Thank you
His tone in the rhythm parts is excellent.
It's an almost clean sound, not played with technical perfection. In the sum it's perfect. Better than any overgained metal sound.Some may think that this playing is old fashioned and out of time but it will touch every Rock loving audience immidiately. It's pure and it's true.
When you isolate a track from the others, they often sound out of time. There's more to it than that. It's a VOX AC30 with a Hornby-Skewes Treble Booster (desk top version). The guitar solo itself is multi-tracked to provide the harmony. Either way, a brilliant set of tracks.
Amen brother. Very well said.
Love it!
Had the absolute pleasure of seeing Blackmore and Deep Purple in 1974. Even with the horrible sardine can accoustics from that Philly Spectrum metal roof ceiling it was a bucket list item at age 15. Even though I still like Led Zeppelin just a little more than Deep Purple, trust me, Deep Purple was better live than Zeppelin.
Mate this is absolutely genius masterpiece , there was nothing like this before it , Ritchie Blackmore is one of the greatest indeed , way ahead of his time and visionary ! Stunning experience to hear his guitar like this !
Thank you so much for posting it , blew my brains out !
So happy that you thinks so, You're Welcome!
WAS one of the greatest
@recordjnky The songwriting ability is also a major part of being one of the greatest. Mechanical skill means nothing if you can’t use it to sound musical.
Crazy Amazing! Have been listening to DP since I was 16 and I still get blown away by their musical brilliance.
And he was able to play this magnificent piece with his legs crossed the whole time!
Without moving!
@@BigJackGameplays pure talent! :)
Its like he never fricking moved man what control
@@BigJackGameplays Even his shadow didnt move now THAT'S respect!
@@ronnysterling7694 body control and everything.
Love how the tone and his playing dynamically fit the song. Some parts chorded and complex. Others simple single notes. Really cool track.
Iconic. Genius. So cool to hear the iso. Analog. 100 years from now someone will stumble on this video and still be blown away.
This is gold! Could listen to just his guitar playing alone for hours.
amazing!! love hearing these blackmore isolated solo's ..Pure genius..and ROCK N ROLL with that classical influence. Highway Star..always one of my favorites!
That solo part is so amazing, Ritchie was inventive and masterful and Mach 2 Purple had a magic all their own, it's a shame he and Ian fell off the way they did, they played a very vital role in the magic of the music of the times, it's great to hear this like this, what a tone, a treat for us guitar players and an even more exciting way to hear this masterpiece. What a time for music, with the devastation I felt as a young lad at the demise of the Beatles, came my instant connection with Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Humble Pie to start took music somewheres else many of us didn't know we were till we got there, what an impact these bands to name a few had on so many young soon to be musicians. The best time ever musically to have grown up!!! ✌🏼️
This really makes me see his tone so differently. I guess he really knew how to compliment jon's tone without taking up too much space
That is precisely why it works.The combo of distorted hammond,slightly distorted bass and this tone of Blackmore worked together perfectly. If Purple was only Blackmore and bass ,without the Hammond of Lord,it would sound too thin.Sounds perfect all together.
@@brucefranklin6295 There's more to it than that. It's a VOX AC30 with a Hornby-Skewes Treble Booster (desk top version). The guitar solo itself is multi-tracked to provide the harmony. Either way, a brilliant set of tracks.
Not too difficult until he gets to the solo. Then he just goes apeshit....
Noel Majers I saw a Joe Satriani interview where he says ‘if you think you’re a good guitarist, try playing the solo from Highway Star’.
@@EvilEyeGypsy indeed. My point was simply that he (Blackmore) goes from straightforward to impossible in the space of about a bar....
Solo it’s not difficult at all, you can play in a day if you’re a decent guitarist
Vi there’s a big difference between being able to play something and play something well
Hack To Scratch Golf sorry but i don’t see the point. If you are a good guitarist this solo isn’t difficult at all and you can play it well. What’s next than? ‘Yes but you can’t play as Ritchie’? This solo isn’t hard to learn and to play, period.
I knew it! he did downpick the riff. I've seen a lot of players doing alternate picking on it and never sounds right. I down pick when I play it. Thank you for isolating it.
JAEZ it doesnt sound like downpicking
Idrol It does actually. This is the kind of consistency that you simply cannot achieve with alternate picking
HimTortons i mean, you CAN but it’s harder
@@MetalMarauder - No, you can't. It's never the same, ever.
Especially with two or more strings engaged. No way!
Yeah, it’s down picking. Same as all (almost) Ac/Dc songs.
Machine Head and Made in Japan are DP's timeless masterpieces!
That fat sound is great. So powerfull.
václav hanusekv it sounds like something steve albini would love!
Vox AC30
One guy got to the conclusion that Ritchie used his marshall major to record Machine Head. Take a look to mgalbu's channel and you'll see
I read somewhere that Ritchie used this sort of bass pedal to give some boost into his sound. Hence why this has that sort of bass guitar sound to it.
The song is from 70s and i'm born 2000. I have never been gettin goose bumbs from music, expect 70-80s rock...
Damn, the raw power... He could make the guitar sound huge, respect!
Interesting that in all these comments, there's not one mention of an individual who deserves an enormous amount of credit for getting this down on tape - Martin Birch. Much of the album was recorded in a hallway - or a stairway, depending on the instrument - and he sitting outside in the Stones Mobile getting these great sounds on tape. Great production and engineering - and one THE best drum sounds ever....
Absolutely!
And his stunning work on Made in Japan
Good reminder pal
The greatest guitar solo of hard rock!!!
Listening to such an icon song as we have all these years, to listen to Ritchie’s playing all by itself is shocking. No effects, no high gain growl or sustain. Just a man, a guitar, an amp and his imagination and skill. It’s raw. It’s unadulterated. It’s Blackmore. A guitar player who has launched a thousand careers in music and millions of imaginations in fans. There may be better guitar players than he, but not many who have accomplished what he has.
Wow !! What a naked cut I had to get up and go get a beer ! You go Ritchie , how can you not like this tune .
I bet you where singin' to it.
Absolute pure genius!
Blackmore is amazing great tone and style😎
Amazing guitar God! He combined blues and classical music. More over, in this isolated track you can spot that he is a brilliant guitarist in both rythm and lead!
What marvelous tone, hearing this isolated adds multiple levels of appreciation ontop of what was already a respect beyond most. GENIUS.
Genius! Perfect tone! The right hand is magic! Long live master Blackmore!
Ritchie is my number one Guitarist and the riff King. Listening to this it makes you realize just how great Lord was playing rythum organ and Rick Wakeman was his biggest fan saying Jon Lord is the King of the Hammond. I guess those two were the very best in my opinion.
Kurt Sherrick God Bless for that comment , as Yngwie said in his "Inpirations " album CD # 2 " Between 1970 to 1974 NOBODY PAYED LIKE RITCHIE NOBODY, Im Sorry Page , Hendix etc But Ritchie was the Best by any standard , to me is not comparisons" and that was Ynwie . ( is on the interview to Yngwie at his house talking about his Inspiration album , CD 2 Bonus ).
Kurt Sherrick : Greatest guitarist, ok, to each his own, but "King of the Riff"?! May I just say "Day Tripper", Ticket To Ride", "I Feel Fine", "Paperback Writer", "And Your Bird Can Sing", If I Needed Someone", "Hey Bulldog", etc. etc. etc? I'll readily admit "Black Night" and "Smoke on the Water" are classics, but let's be fair here...
Король риффов - Тони Айомми. Король клавиш - Эмерсон, или Уэйкман.
ArkyMalarkey reading your comment just make me wanna laugh so hard.... don't compare beatles with hard rock bands. beatles was a 60s pop band and deep purple is a 70s HARD ROCK band. day tripprer?? that song is really easy for people nowadays, but people nowadays maybe still strugle to play deep purple speed king intro. you just dont compare easy and simple music with more complicated and fast playing music. you just can't. unless you really wanted to get mocked.
Lazaro Millares Page, Hendrix, Iommi don't need you and Yngwie to be sorry... They all are great as much as Blackmore. Besides everyone has preferences... Ygwie is good, but his word is not "God's word".
Ritchie is a Genius Guitarist and he will always be. His way of playing and sound are just incredible. God bless!
Sexy Ritchie. Also love the cool boots. Thanks for making this video. Have wanted to hear only his playing for years without the rest of the band. Such a great video. The greatest guitarist of all time.
The term is thrown around, loosely, but Ritchie is a true madman. That's what it takes.
the precision, no loops
That LEAD BREAK always floors me. The way recordings were done back in my day. Classic! 😎
"I'M A HIGHWAY STAR!"
man l loved yelling this back in the 70's when i was a teen driving around....8track
Now all music is digital. For the better too. But don't forget those memories just because time passes on and technology advances.
Brillant👌You see this is why Ritchie is such a fine and master guitarplayer.
This is just his guitar and nothingelse and you can hear the power and passion of his musical touch.Now imagine how inspired the other members of the band must have been to make the song complete.The Great John Lord,Roger,Ian,and Gillan.
However it is rockin like hellfire. Majestic👌
that amp sounds awesome
jo smith Vox AC30 and a treble booster.
Trust me when I say its not the amp its the tubes in the amp. Even a cheap 4w amp can be made to sound this awesome with an 8ohm speaker and some, now sadly insanely expensive, NOS tubes.
wozzlepop do they even make a tube amp that small?
Marshall Minor
Factory modded Marshall Major. The AC30 in the pictures was in Roger's corner for writing, rehearsing, etc.
Brings back memories. So solid. No punching in solo. Awesome!
Sonically isolated track from a socially isolated band member.
So this is you contribution to the discussion of this posting? So being "socially isolated" is a clinical observation you have made? Weird criterion for music appreciation.
Yes, this is my contribution. By it, I have saved humanity.
Oh, in that case it's brilliant!
Brad K I love Blackmore but the joke was fucking good !
That's often the price of being a genius.
Excellent! My favourite driving song. In all these years I've never heard it with just the isolated guitar track. Brilliant playing as usual for Ritchie. You don't always hear his rhythm playing because it's mixed together with Jon's keyboards and Roger's bass. I'd love to hear some other DP songs like that, or some Rainbow songs.
I would love to hear the isolated guitar track from rainbow's stargazer
No shit. Fucking great tune.
Or Starstruck.
As a guy who lightly studies Blackmore's work, that would be amazing! I'm having a bit of trouble defining the notes cause they're so fast and distortion makes it even harder so...
Me too
+ tarot woman
It´s the attitude, the attack. He never needed much of pre-amp distortion, just the natural sound of cooking power section.. so great, from the Master of Stratocaster 🤩
You always hear about the British wave of hard rock/heavy metal. Page, Iommi, Blackmore, etc. I think Blackmore is the best out of all of them.
One of my greatest moments is meeting Blackmore at age 17 ... my hero ... he was a little weird, stand-offish, but answered my questions anyway, even tho he looked like he was gonna punch me! I was so star struck. I was the only guy in my high school that could play Highway Star note for note, that's how much I worshiped him. Roger Glover was such a cool dude, talked to me for almost 2 hours ignoring the girl at his side. Rock on, Ritch.
Cool story but I was their roadie for 10 years.
@@recordjnkycool story, but i was Ritchie Blackmore for 20 years.
@@JunkCCCP cool story sis, I'm still Ritchie Blackmore.....
I love how you hear John and Ian cut through at quiet parts. John was at the opposite end of a long hallway with the Hammond and Ian had his drum set up at a T-junction about midway between Richie and John. You can find tons of pics showing the hallway inside the original vinyl gatefold; especially shots where you see the drums jutting a bit into the main hallway.
For all of us who came from the garage band sound of that era - this guitar track sounds EXACTLY as it should - perfect...
So, the speed metal was born.
Marcos Rainier de Ritchie Blackmore influenced more guitarist than anyone. First feedback Guitarist. Brian May said before he was in Purple he was Hendrix before Hendrix and no one was playing stuff like Ritchie and was amazed by Blackmore' in the early sixties say where did he get that from. Ritchie the first true Metal Guitarist and Speed Guitarist. also on Kill the King on Rainbow Rising he really with Powell did the first Trash licks. And no one out so much original music and he never played the same licks on any songs. It's like Eddie Van Halen did the same box licks over and over. I was at Monsters of Rock in Memphis and the first song was Southern Night's and Half way through the song Eddie's guitar went out. If I remember correctly it was a cordless and while Eddie was having a temper tantrum at his roadie's and Sammy picked up his red guitar and actually was better than Eddie and Eddie was technically great but had no feel. When Blackmore hit the first lick you knew it was him only Santana Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughn had that original feel for it. And I have always said Guitarist should play like Janis Joplin sang.
@Marcos Rainier de Sa I think that the Scorpions are the first self described speed rock/metal group. Their 1st album was Lonesome Crow - '69.
Scorpions were NEVER NEAR Speed Metal, sure they are Heavy Metal at most but they were never even close to Speed Metal, in fact the first two albums weren't even Heavy Metal/Hard Rock, they were Progressive Hard Rock, but with little hints of Metal.
KW KELLY Really ? Deep Purple " In Rock" , " Machine Head" and " Burn" cleans the floor with ALL Scorpuons discography. In Trance is just a good album but 100 Lightyears to the albums that I just mentioned. Dig and Learn a little more.
KW KELLY, There are a few examples of Proto Speed Metal in Deep Purple like Fireball for example(mainly the double bass drumming), or even Highway Star could be considered Proto Speed Metal if you think about it
I can not normally listen to isolated guitar tracks, but I actually cranked this right up, can never get enough of Blackmore. He's not as precise as it sounds in context, but THAT is what makes it so brilliant, the tension, you can almost feel the lactic acid build up in the picking hand as it becomes more and more "stiff" during the song, I love it!! Like I've always known, its a genius bit of guitar playing!! The SOUND!! Holy Moly!! Thank you for posting!!
And oh yeah, HA!! That aint no AC30!! I always thought it was but oh no definitely not!! Just my opinion.
Probably a Marshall, sounsd more like one.
Marshall major 200w
I agree, and I’m going to turn the gain way down on my amp from now on
Keyboard played a huge part in this song as well as many other DP songs. But it would sound different isolated also. They sound superb when all blended together !
Best keyboard player ever was John Lord/Deep Purple followed by Steve Walsh/Kansas then Rick Wakeman/Yes.
@@anthonyiannozzi6777 Keith Emerson?
@@recordjnky Emerson good too, but still like the 3 above as best..
Wow! He harmonized the solo with another solo! Kind of like Tony Iommi! That's pretty f. cool! There are like two solos at the same time, counterpoint mastery!
No one can beat Lord Blackmore’s tone and precision.
When i hear this, i hear where Mick Mars got his inspiration for livewire!! Richie is a rifflord and criminally underrated.
Mick fkucn Mars???? It's insulting to Richie to mention Mick Mars in any context alongside Richie's name. The big difference between them is that Richie could actually play!
He plugged his guitar into a reel to reel tape recorder....using it as a boost/ preamp....there are pics from the 70s showing that he kept it in full view of the audience.....
Ritchie started using the Aiwa reel to reel in 1974, three years after this was recorded.
Stunning! Mesmerising!! EXCITING!!!we're there,. Picking up speed, round those bends, mercilessly, overtaking, on this fantastic, sounds ape biting, fiery, AWESOME!!!!
Wow, this is amazing. Even the part where he is playing backing guitar to the start of Jon Lord's solo is amazing. His right hand plectrum action is spotless as usual. Thank you for posting this. If I could be 10% as good as Blackmore ... I would be a great guitarist.
You are f*cking joking right? :o) I've known this track for decades and finally getting to hear it uncovered is a shock, man his playing is awful, just listen to the timing! Sure, it was at the infancy of rock but check out the ending, its abysmal especially for a session player. I know children who'd blow him away completely these days.
I love Blackmore but you really can hear that Pace sets the pace.
No, I'm not joking and I don't agree with your view ... Although I must admit, it is highly amusing.
Seriously, he's a shit guitarist - stop putting yourself down for your sake!
@ Prince Westerburg. Comments like this are why so little good music is being made these days. This idea that perfection is required is the "big lie. " Good luck to those "children" you know who are so impressive to you. Could they have written this song? So many guitarists are playing what amounts to "run-on sentences" with no space, no breathing, no feel. It's a compromise here sir. He was clearly happy with the" entire band take" verses just his own guitar track. These backing tracks were recorded live as a band. Music is not a competition. Having an "Identity" is the Holy Grail and Blackmore has that.
Thanks again for amusing me. Who are these children that you say you know and who you claim can blow Blackmore away? Perhaps you could give us the links to their web sites? Moreover, perhaps you might be good enough to record yourself playing these guitar parts for Highway Star and then upload them and send us the link ... so that we can listen to your playing and judge for ourselves whether or not you are qualified to judge Blackmore's outstanding playing.. Though I won't be holding my breath eh? Chortle.
5:38 - he is still a man
That was intentional for us to think that he makes mistakes and not give him away as a god.
Richie and Jimmy Page. Riff masters. Richie easily one of the 5 best rock guitarists of all time.
* ahem * Tony Iommi too
what is Jimmy Page doing there, we are talking about Ritchie
Page is an amateur next to virtuoso Blackmore
4:32 So satisfying...
Vamos Leo
THANKS MAN... AND THAT'S OF COURSE THE GREATEST GUITAR SOLO OF ALL TIMES..
kangooroo1 I agree The solo on Highway Star and Child in Time from Made in Japan stands out as the two greatest solos ever recorded live. But am sure people will disagree with us. It's really subjective but I think anyone would be hard pressed to find one better.
That's a mighty fine opinion, but I personally can't get over the solo from Tornado of Souls by Megadeth. Marty Friedman is quite the talented fellow.
Any of y'all know of John Frusciante??
Max Imum John Frusciante? FUCK OFF
Max Imum sure what about him he's great but he's not in the discussion for greatest guitar players of all time cmon now
Blackmore's style always stood out for his sheer physicality; he's always really digging hard into the strings. That combined with his picking precision defined his unique style and sound to me.The fact that there is very little distortion here adds to the punch, which adds to to DP's patented driving rhythm. The sound here is also very compressed, and has the sound of the speakers occasionally bottoming out. And Strats I've heard thru a Marshall Major have a snarl on the bridge pickup that gives me shivers.The solo is a great example of the singing quality of the Strat neck pickup also demonstrated by Hendrix & SRV.
The guitar sound on Machine Head always struck me as "polite" compared to the live Made in Japan, which was more distorted and balls-out. The grinding B3 organ added necessary thickness and drove the entire sound right out the door.
I was about 14 just starting to play guitar when this came out. Was my go to inspiration because of course it totally rocks. But oh, how I labored to duplicate what I thought was him playing in harmony all at once. I had no concept of multi tracking in 1972.
Thanks for posting. This is absolutely the best example of heavy guitar virtuoso riffing
Thank you. I find it absolutely inspirtional. Sounds natural, full of life and feeling.
The attack on those notes - stunning
Machine Head forever!
Great solo in the latter part of the track "Highway Star" by the one and only Ritchie Blackmore!
I like that you can hear the mistake at the 5:37 mark. Never even knew that it was there before. Now I'll never unhear it, but its the beauty of a human playing an instrument.
It's moments like this you realize how over distorted most rock guitarists are nowadays.
Absolutely!
Yep, they rely on overdrive because they dont have the nuts to play like men
@@cliffords2315 haha
you are pathethic.
@@cliffords2315 *Coughs in petrucci 😂😂😂
It’s all a matter of personal taste fellas
What a tone! Just loud with not so much distorsion
What does that even mean
This is a real gem. What i wouldn't do to get hold of the isolated guitar for the MIJ version!
Listening to the crispy buzz is like heaven.
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it's spelled "doom" duh
Marc bracci But it sounds like doum!!
ok
Thanks for lyrics !
Luc Bietry Can you send me the tab for that?
Amazing that chances are a take like this would be thrown out today. Back then re-recordings and punch-ins discouraged retakes.
Priceless man.
Thank you ❤️
Deep Purple..The Hard Rock Dream Team..Best Band ever!!
Deep Purple was the best band I have ever seen live in concert. And I saw dozens of top bands including Zepplyn, Stones, Kansas, Foreigner, Cars, James Gang, Foghat, Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Sabbath, Bad Company and many others during the glorious 1970s rock era. No gimmicks, no added sound effects, just raw bluesy hard rock! Who had better hand speed playing those solos than Richie? No one! I think Page was slightly more talented but nobody had Richie's quickness.
Il piu' grande chitarrista di tutti i tempi.
Sì, che però da 5:37 fa cilecca due volte.
Someone wrote: Ritchies guitar tech held a small dark amp with him and said that this is the amp that Ritchie recorded all of Machine Head with. the brand - I do not know...
It might have been a joke. Ritchie used a Vox AC30 back then. When he played live he played through a Vox hidden in the empty box of a Marshall.
Andy Henderson bassically just the AC30 circuitry rehoused in a Marshall
Are you serious? If it's true it explains a lot of questions I've often asked.
Brilliant! Blackmore is a genius
holy crap! just today I started working on an arrangement for solo classical guitar of this song. this is gonna help me soooo much! thank you so much for posting!
Much better than what he gets cerdit for
Or even credit also
Good Lord man!! Sense of rhythm from Hell!! The man is a fucking machine!!! Usually these isolated tracks make me see that my guitar hero's are at least a little human....not this one. It really makes me want to burn my guitar.
univibe23 Pure genius. Machine Head is one of the greatest hard rock classics of all time.
wow..that palm muted section under John's organ solo is mind blowing.( 02:00 ).
Thank you for the music and the text in the description! Very interesting!