Hub · 1945

Ritchie Blackmore

Weston-super-Mare, England · Guitar

Deep Purple Mark II guitar; exits 1975 to Rainbow with neoclassical leads.

Why this hub

Purple → Rainbow personnel bridge; riff classroom to fantasy-lyric hard rock.

Born 1945. Blues-classical figures on In Rock and Machine Head; Smoke on the Water open-fifth riff. Leaves Purple 1975; forms Rainbow with Dio-era fantasy lyric hard rock. Hub: same right hand, new logo and lyric mode.

Tenures

  1. Deep Purple

    1968–1975

    Guitar

    Open band →

  2. Rainbow

    1975–1984

    Guitar

    Dio years and later commercial chapters.

    Open band →

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