GRAHAM BONNET - "RITCHIE BLACKMORE "

GRAHAM BONNET - "RITCHIE BLACKMORE Is A Shy Person Who Chooses His Friends Carefully"






In an exclusive interview that Rockpages.gr did with Graham Bonnet (RAINBOW, MSG, ALCATRAZZ, etc.), he covered a wide variety of subjects including his years with Rainbow.

Here's an excerpt:

Rockpages.gr: How difficult it was to work with Ritchie Blackmore? I mean Ritchie is famous for his dark mood and in addition you had to record – at least initially - your vocals in a castle!

Graham Bonnet: "Let me tell you about Ritchie... He is a very shy person who chooses his friends very carefully. He doesn’t want many people to know his sensitive side. He is very private and quiet and most importantly he is not the guy you see on stage! So, we started laying down the vocals in this castle but I really couldn’t nail them down... this place was like haunted! So, I said to Roger that I couldn’t do it and we decided to record them at a studio (ed.note: Kingdom Sound) in Long Island."

Rockpages.gr: Why you weren’t credited as songwriter on Down To Earth?

Graham Bonnet: (laughs) Because I didn’t really know the business aspect of the whole thing! I was just happy to be there and record an album. I suggested a lot of ideas to Roger and Ritchie that ended up in certain songs but I didn’t ask for a songwriting credit... maybe, I should have done so. The whole “band thing” was kinda new to me."

For the full interview head over to Rockpages.gr.