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Edited Feb 18, 2008, 21:19

Blackmore seconded

Feb 18, 2008, 21:13

Oh yeah Richie "Hackmore" -- massively overrated in my opinion.

Several of his "original" tunes are borrowed from other folks (I forget the title, but one early Purple tune lifts the riffs from "Little Wing", and there's another obvious one that I am also forgetting!)

In general, his style is sloppy and mindless. His fingers go very fast, but as Lester Bangs said of Keith Emerson "his trained fingers might as well be trained seals."

Those epic workouts on "Mandrake Root" and "Wring That Neck" et al are excercises in extreme tedium!!! It's so maximal that it's almost minimalist art music (thinking specifically of a live in Scandanavia tape where Blackmore & Paice play as fast as they can on one dull riff for 20 minutes -- that's not music, it's calithenics!)

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