Academy Of Tone 256: Ritchie Blackmore turns 80 & strat maintenance special!

Special guest: Vitek Spacek

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:08 - Thomas and Vitek play us some Rat Bat Blue (Deep Purple)
00:08:02 - Welcome to AOT 256
00:08:23 - Vitek's Deep Purple cover band
00:10:43 - Clip of Thomas playing some Purple for Ritchie's birthday
00:13:02 - Happy Birthday Ritchie
00:13:27 - A bit more about Ritchie's particulary style
00:15:04 - Treble Boosters
00:17:57 - Ritchie's original phaser, previously owned by Bernd Meiser
00:18:59 - Tribute to Bernd concert
00:19:27 - Let's go more in depth about the Ritchie sound
00:23:18 - Ritchie's playstyle
00:28:27 - John Sykes
00:30:07 - Ritchie's playing techniques
00:34:38 - Thomas meeting some Rainbow members
00:36:05 - Clip from Thomas meeting with Tony Carey
00:44:49 - A couple more Rainbow albums
00:50:17 - Clip of Thomas playing with Ronnie Romero
00:53:31 - Ritchie Before Deep Purple
00:55:16 - Jazz influences in Child in time
00:57:53 - Picking style and pick choice
01:01:22 - Playing with groove, Thomas and Vitek groove out a bit
01:07:14 - Clip of Thomas playing with Ian Payce and Don Airey
01:15:25 - Talking about groove, listen to this B-side
01:21:10 - A couple more Deep Purple live albums
01:24:22 - Reminiscing about past festivals
01:27:13 - And a couple more albums
01:31:03 - Thomas and Vitek play us some more Deep Purple inspired music
01:38:29 - What about the guitar maintenance on the strat?
01:40:59 - Reacting to some comments in chat
01:45:00 - What pedals is Vitek using on his pedalboard?
01:46:59 - Thomas's choice of treble boosters
01:49:27 - Thomas and Vitek jam some more
01:54:11 - Thank you for joining us, see you all next week
01:55:23 - Outro