Ritchie Blackmore Biography

Ritchie Blackmore was known as the deep purple and rainbow guitarist, but now ritchie was on the band with her wife Candice Night on Blackmore's Night a Renaissance-themed folk rock band. Ritchie blackmore was one of the greatest fender stratocaster user in the world.

Ritchie Blackmore uses Fendre Stratocaster as his primary guitar, he is also the first rock guitarist who use a scalloped neck fender stratocaster which is also used by Yngwie Malmsteen. Personally I Love Ritchie Blackmores Improvised Solo when he do a live performance.

Here's more information about blackmore that we got from the Wikipedia

Birth name : Richard Hugh Blackmore
Born : 14 April 1945 (age 65)
Weston-super-Mare, England
Genres : Hard rock, heavy metal, blues-rock, progressive rock, medieval folk rock
Occupations : Musician, songwriter
Instruments : Guitar, mandolin, mandola
Associated acts : The Outlaws, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore’s Night

Ritchie Blackmore’s Soloing Style, In his soloing, Blackmore combines blues scales and phrasing with dominant minor scales and ideas from European classical music. While playing he would often put the pick in his mouth to play with his fingers.

He has two guitar solos ranked on Guitar World magazine’s “Top 100 Greatest Guitar Solos” (“Highway Star” at #19 and “Lazy” at #74, both from the album Machine Head).