Monday, December 21, 2020

Blackmore's Night
We Three Kings

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Back in the day, one of the great guitar player controversies was the use (or not) of the "whammy bar". Purists took them off and looked down on those (of us) who used it. The following is Richie Blackmore on the WB:

"I went crazy with it. I used to have quarter-inch bars made for me because I’d keep snapping the normal kind. My repairman would look at me strangely and say, “What are you doing to these tremolo bars?” Finally, he gave me this gigantic tremolo arm made of half-an-inch of solid iron and said, “Here. If you break this thing, I don’t wanna know about it!”

About three weeks later I went back to the shop. He looked at me and said, “No, you haven’t.” And I said, “Yes I have.”

Dude could play!