another blow to the prestige ROBERTO FONTANOT
The Verona maker in recent days in two acoustic guitars of its production to Ritchie Blackmore, the former guitarist Deep Purple.
One thing is not easy, let us now. Ritchie Blackmore has lived for over ten years in a kind of medieval mysticism and only his most devoted fan, and in Italy there are many, they can bring. Also under certain conditions.
A Fontanot was asked by the President of the Italian Blackmore fan club if he wanted to take advantage of the recent Italian tour group Blackmore's Night to meet the composer of "Smoke on the water ' One of the most famous riff in the entire history of rock music. Said than done. The meeting was organized at the Teatro Sociale in Mantova, in one of the stops on the band's recent Italian tour.
"At first I was very uncertain," confides Roberto Fontanot . "There is a legend for the phobias of what it means Blackmore human contact and relationships with people.
After the concert of Mantua made me wait over an hour with guitars in hand. Then came the safety officer and wanted to see the guitars. For me this was more than enough. Then, suddenly, here I was accompanied Blackmore's dressing room along with a member of the Italian fan club. "
Fontanot at the end of the meeting, which lasted approximately 30 minutes, received an order for a third guitar. "To see the musician who wrote perhaps the most famous riff in the history of rock music playing one of my guitars was fantastic and exciting at the same time," continues Roberts.
"But the beauty is that Blackmore's attitude changed immediately after the first note complimenting the care with which they were built instruments, balancing e soprattutto il suono. E detto da lui…».
Ritchie Blackmore, 61 anni, dopo aver lasciato nel 1993 i Deep Purple, gruppo fondamentale del rock e ancora in attività, si è dedicato a una sorta di reminescenza musicale medievale che ha lasciato senza parole molti fan della band.
Un genio della sei corde che vive praticamente in un’altra dimensione, con un solido e agguerrito zoccolo duro di fan che lo segue in questa bizzarra avventura. Non è strano, infatti, vedere ai concerti del Blackmore’s Night ragazzi in costume medievale.
«Devo dire the truth, "concludes Fontanot :" I did see some effect Blackmore in an outfit like that. But he has done so. And I was struck by the availability, in the end, which has shown in me. To be honest I did not would never have expected. "
far away the evening of September 7, 1987 when Deep Purple played in the Arena ...
Source: srs Luca Sguazzardo from L'Arena di Verona 06.06.2007
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