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Telephant wrote:You guys want to hear a story about Richie Blackmore that a friend once told me? Well you're getting it anyways...
So my friend was in the studio with Richie and his assistant. All three were sitting in front of the mixing desk. Friend, then the assistant, then Blackmore. The assistant told my buddy that he was not allowed to speak or make eye contact with Blackmore.
So my friend would tweak something at the desk, turn to the assistant and say "What does Richie think?" The assistant would turn, repeat the same shit to Blackmore. Blackmore would respond by whispering in his assistants ear , then the assistant would turn to Anton and repeat whatever Richie said.
Egomaniacs. How do they work?!?
This is so absurd, I can't even think of a witty remark. Other than....
What an asshole.
I've got a few of these kinds of stories.. Though Dave (Ron Burgundy) has already heard them all.
But I'll tell one more anyways.
This same friend worked on one of the songs for Santana's Supernatural album. So if you remember this album, its the one where Santana had other famous artists write songs and sing on them, while he basically just wanked over the whole song (pretty sure he is in incapable of playing rhythm ) .
He never once met Santana, though he did talk to him on the phone once. Santana said he was sending over 50 takes of the song, with him just mindlessly wanking over them, and that he wanted my friend to build a complete solo that had a beginning, middle and end to it. At the end of every day, my friend didn't report (send mixes) to Santana, but rather the head of the label, Clive Davis.
Telephant wrote:You guys want to hear a story about Richie Blackmore that a friend once told me? ...
<looks out window> How very precious.
this reason I'm not name dropping is because this same friend has told a few of these stories, particularly one about Axel Rose on HCAF, and Axel actually saw it, and had his management contact him.
Believe it or don't believe it. Zero fucks are given by me.
Oh please, do tell.
I'll surmise it has something to do with either Cocaine or Fried Food.
Edit: If Santanas' playing actually was masturbation, he would have been more blind than Ray Charles.
Is that the album he did that absolutely shit song with Rob Thomas? The moment I hear the intro, rage boils instantly.
Telephant wrote:You guys want to hear a story about Richie Blackmore that a friend once told me? ...
<looks out window> How very precious.
this reason I'm not name dropping is because this same friend has told a few of these stories, particularly one about Axel Rose on HCAF, and Axel actually saw it, and had his management contact him.
Believe it or don't believe it. Zero fucks are given by me.
Oh please, do tell.
I'll surmise it has something to do with either Cocaine or Fried Food.
Edit: If Santanas' playing actually was masturbation, he would have been more blind than Ray Charles.
Is that the album he did that absolutely shit song with Rob Thomas? The moment I hear the intro, rage boils instantly.
Thats the album. That wasn't the song he worked on though. As for the Axel thing, this was before Chinese Democracy came out and there was a thread about it, and my buddy said he didn't think it was ever going to come out. Who knew Axel browsed Harmony Central.
i will say for every horror story he has, he's got 5 more that show people in a much more positive light.
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If Richie would put on a pair of glasses he would look like Weird Al. 
