{"id":1919,"date":"2012-08-18T09:15:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2012-08-18T09:15:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:15:20","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-232-roach-days-revisited-perfect-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/08\/18\/my-musical-evolution-part-232-roach-days-revisited-perfect-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 232 Roach Days Revisited Perfect Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Deep<\/a>Every guy that has picked up a guitar in the 1970’s or 1980’s has played the riff from Smoke On The Water.\u00a0 <\/em>It always happened.<\/p>\n

Deep Purple <\/em>is one of those bands that I’m often tempted to include with The Metal Years.<\/em> All of my metal friends liked them.\u00a0 They had a heavy sound. They were often included with other metal bands like Black Sabbath <\/em> in conversation. Ritchie Blackmore was the guitarist that certainly had a heavy rock background.\u00a0 Even considering all this, I can’t bring myself to call them Metal.<\/p>\n

This is especially true with the album Perfect Strangers<\/em>. I’m listening to it right now and yes it has some screaming guitar bits and pounding percussion but when you compare it to something like W*A*S*P<\/em> that we just talked about in the last post, this is not metal. It is good Rock & Roll though.\u00a0 During the Roach Days<\/em>\u00a0I used to tell girls that I was the perfect stranger. <\/em><\/p>\n

To my knowledge, this is the first album that I owned that included Ritchie Blackmore. I has to preface it with the to my knowledge because Ritchie Blackmore has been in 143,826 bands and appears on over 8 million records. Well maybe not that much but he really was involved in a lot of musical projects over the decades.<\/p>\n

We went down to Indy to see Deep Purple<\/em> at Market Square Arena.\u00a0 <\/em>I’m certain that I didn’t appreciate Ritchie Blackmore then like\u00a0I should have.\u00a0 20 something years later I’d cross paths with Ritchie Blackmore again and then I’d be much more appreciative. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Knocking At Your Back Door<\/em>
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