After 33 years, Blackmore comes home to Purple

For one shimmering encore on Wednesday night, 33 years of silence simply dissolved. Ritchie Blackmore, the founding guitarist who defined Deep Purple’s golden era, walked out from the wings of the Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York, yellow Fender Stratocaster in hand, and played “Smoke on the Water” with his old band for the […] The post After 33 years, Blackmore comes home to Purple…