RIP Ronnie James Dio!

[tedmich]

He's comparing her to the act "Celtic Woman." Huge pop music production hit. Sorta similar except far more mainstream / old-folk friendly. Oh, and a lot more Irish and traditional Celtic rather than gained out Strats. Unless you're going tongue in cheek and I missed.

By the way, I'm am very much agreeing with your tastes here. A couple years ago found myself listening to a bunch of Night and thinking I must be old and white and came to grips with it.

And just for the haters, Richie and Candace have been together for decades.

I hate her and I think RJD was several orders of magnitude superior to her. She is only 26 years younger than RB; he has a kid 7 years older than her.

You likely are old and white but their music still sucks donkey balls IMHO.

[chevalij]

Well I guess Ritchie doesn't agree either. And after all, Deep Purple was more of a prog rock band than a metal band (well it wasn't "metal" back then anyway).

Also how is she Celtic? She was born in Long island NY! Her last name is Isralow. I think that's a Jewish name. So I'm more Celtic than she is! What's wrong, you don't like the Irish?

And like Yes or not, Steve Howe is a great guitarist.

She's good looking and has a great voice, but she looks like she should be displaying cars on Let's Make A Deal

[David Schwab]

She's good looking and has a great voice, but she looks like she should be displaying cars on Let's Make A Deal

Apparently she did do some commercials.

Hey, I'm old and white and my Italian mother was a Jazz singer in the big band era, so I grew up listening to Swing and Motown, so what do I know. My father listened to a lot of Irish crooners, which I never liked. My wife is 19 years younger than me. Nothing wrong with that!

Getting back to this band... I know nothing of their music, but music isn't better or worst, it's different. Thinking otherwise is very closed minded. There's a lot of stuff I don't care for, but someone likes it.

This was Ritchie's project, not hers. She was a backup singer in Deep Purple for a while. Ritchie also plays 'cello, so he has had an interest in different kinds of music for a long time. He actually stopped playing guitar for a while.

And of course Ritchie is also old and white, and people's taste often change as they get older (and whiter).

I did see the original Deep Purple several times, as well as the version with Coverdale/Hughes.