^ Well, I guess I can be characterized as a RB "nerd"
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. The first LP i bought from my own money, back in ´77, was Ritchie Blackmore´s Rainbow, that had been released two years earlier. I already had Who do we think we are (gift) and I loved it. Soon after that I had collected enough money to by Made In Japan.
Now have all the official released LP´s and CD´s of DP and Rainbow (+ some not official recordings). BN I only have Nature´s Light on vinyl (the others on CD), but March can´t come soon enough, when Shadow of the moon will be released on vinyl
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Of course I also have several DVD´s.
During the later years I have tried to dig a bit deeper into the subject.
I have- and have read several books (14 different ones) about RB, Rainbow and DP - and of course also read a lot of different published articles and watched most (I guess) of the different intervjues available on YT, but I have not been very active discussing on different web.forums.
Though I have read a lot of topics and comments on different forums, and I see that a lot of what´s written, expecially when it comes to RB, is wrong, or not fully correct. The same with different web-sites listing he’s gear.
Not that I know everything - not at all (learning new things "each" day), but I try to gather as much fact´s as possible.
Some years ago I bought the MiM RB Signature Strat. Nice guitar with a nice scalloped neck, but I found out that I wanted to take it a bit further, as the Signaure model deviates a bit from any guitar RB has ever played. So, instead I bought a 70s Classic and started to modify that one towards a copy of RB´s ´74 OLW, that he used as his Master Strat from the end of the 70s, into the 80s (pictured in my avatar). It turned out to be a better guitar than the Signature, so I sold that one.