Search results for 'ritchie blackmore'

Filter by

Sort by


News

STYGMA IV: In Pre-Production Mode

Austrian power metallers STYGMA IV have laid down eight new songs during the pre-production stage for their sixth album, tentatively due later in the year. "The new songs turned out very heavy during the working process," the group write on their web site. "Once again Ritchie Krenmaier created unbel...
February 16, 2005
News

KID ROCK Slams Former Publishing Company

KID ROCK announced that he is parting ways with his publishing company on Wednesday (Jan. 26). The singer issued a press release stating that he completed his obligations to Warner Chappell's BMI affiliated publishing company, Warner Tamerlane and preferred to partner with a company "more interested...
January 27, 2005
News

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT Track To Be Used As Theme Song In German TV Show

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT's track "Loreley" is the theme song of a new German "reality" series "Die Burg", which is scheduled to premiere Sunday, January 23. The program is said to be a reality-based show that will follow families as they try to live they way it was back in the Renaissance times. Click here...
January 23, 2005
News

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT to Guest On KCSN's 'Galactic Voyager' Radio Show

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT members Ritchie Blackmore (guitar, ex-DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW) and fiancée Candice Night (vocals) will be interviewed on the "Galactic Voyager" radio show on KCSN 88.5 FM in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, January 25 beginning at 9:00 p.m. BLACKMORE'S NIGHT recently released a compil...
January 16, 2005
News

RITCHIE BLACKMORE Impostor Fools Hospital Officials In England

According to a posting on the BLACKMORE'S NIGHT web site, a man that was admitted to the Cardiac Care Unit of Southampton General Hospital in Southampton, England last week gave his name as Ritchie Blackmore and proceeded to sell his autograph and tell folks that he was the "original" Ritchie Blackm...
January 13, 2005
News

Appeals Court Agrees That Lawsuit Against KID ROCK Should Be Dismissed

The Associated Press is reporting that a federal appeals court agreed Tuesday that trademark and copyright infringement claims brought against singer KID ROCK should be dismissed. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a lower court ruling that KID ROCK's former business associates wa...
January 11, 2005
News

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT Confirm San Francisco Show

According to a posting on the web site of the Blackmore's Night Official Scandinavian Fan Club, BLACKMORE'S NIGHT have confirmed a San Francisco date that went on sale Sunday and is expected to sell out very fast. An additional treat will be that the first 40 people in the door wearing Renaissance c...
January 3, 2005
News

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT To Release Double DVD Set

According to a posting on the web site of the Blackmore's Night Official Scandinavian Fan Club, SPV will be releasing a BLACKMORE'S NIGHT double DVD set in the near future. Disc 1 is a full concert recorded live from a recent show in Germany. Disc 2 is chock-full of more concert footage, videos, ...
December 22, 2004
News

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT: West Coast Dates Announced

According to a posting on the web site of the Blackmore's Night Official Scandinavian Fan Club, BLACKMORE'S NIGHT have confirmed the following West Coast dates during January/February: Jan. 27 - House Of Blues - Las Vegas, NV Jan. 29 - 4th and B Theatre - San Deigo, CA Feb. 01 - TBA - ...
December 7, 2004
News

RITCHIE BLACKMORE: Report From First-Ever Convention Posted Online

The first-ever Ritchie Blackmore Convention, celebrating the forty-year career of the former DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW guitar legend, took place in England in October. Two reports from the convention have been posted online at the web site of the Blackmore's Night Official Scandinavian Fan Club, Blackmore...
November 29, 2004
News

New WAYSTED Guitarist Says Band Is Much Happier After PAUL CHAPMAN's Tracks Were Replaced

New WAYSTED guitarist Chris George has spoken out against his predecessor Paul Chapman's claim that the group's fans "have had the piss taken out of them" when WAYSTED frontman Fin hired George to replace Chapman's already recorded guitar tracks on the band's brand new CD, "Back From the Dead". In a...
November 18, 2004
News

BLACKMORE'S NIGHT: The Story Behind 'Once In A Million Years'

In a recent online posting, BLACKMORE'S NIGHT frontwoman Candice Night explained how she and her fiancé, BLACKMORE'S NIGHT guitarist Ritchie Blackmore (ex-DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW),came to record a reworked version of an old German composition for the group's recently released compilation CD, "Beyond t...
November 12, 2004
News

RITCHIE BLACKMORE's Son Issues New EP

Jürgen R. Blackmore, son of former DEEP PURPLE/RAINBOW guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, has just released an EP of instrumental rock. The EP contains four tracks which will be part of a CD which is being worked on at full blast and will be finished by spring 2005. Here is what Jürgen had to say about hi...
October 13, 2004
News

Former RAINBOW Singer Comments On URIAH HEEP Tour

Former RAINBOW and current YNGWIE MALMSTEEN singer Doogie White has commented on his upcoming U.K. tour supporting URIAH HEEP with a band called WHITE NOISE. While Doogie is in America, WHITE NOISE — who consist of members of MOSTLY AUTUMN — are rehearsing up a set of RAINBOW songs from Doogie's tim...
October 10, 2004
News

36 CRAZYFISTS: A Tale Of Misplaced Sewage

Pam Robinson, owner of several Houston-area clubs, recently spoke to HoustonPress.com about the time the singer from 36 CRAZYFISTS took a crap in one of their men's urinals. "My husband was going to kill him," she said. [Robinson's husband is about six-foot-four, 250 pounds, all muscle, and resemble...
October 9, 2004