With any band that partakes in intensive touring, they’re sure to have the odd on-stage mishap or two. It’s surprisingly not unusual for musicians to actually take a tumble onstage – with heavyweights like Gene Simmons, Bruce Dickinson, and Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates not immune.

And when precisely that occurred to Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, keyboardist Don Airey took it as a chance to dabble in a solo of his personal whereas his bandmate recovered from the autumn.

The incident passed off throughout Rainbow’s 1980 present at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff on their Right down to Earth tour. Blackmore had a routine of leaning again towards his guitar stack whereas soloing, however whereas it was normally supported by some roadies on the opposite facet, they have been absent on this event…

“Ritchie sort of gave me a wave as he was falling backwards and pointed,” Airey remembers in a brand new interview with Louder. “That was my cue to do a ten-minute keyboard solo!”

Whereas we couldn’t find any footage of the incident on-line, phases are comparatively hazardous environments, with something from wiring to a moist floor brought on by rain doubtlessly answerable for an onstage fall.

Elsewhere within the interview, Airey talks about his new solo album, Pushed to the Edge, which packs a cornucopia of riffs and solos into its 56-minute, 11-track runtime.

He explains how he insisted on the old-school strategy of recording a full band collectively, however whereas having the “bass amp in a single room and the guitar stack in one other room”.

“It actually labored,” he says. “It was a bit cramped, however I feel that added to the environment.”

On his favorite observe on the album, Airey says that goes to the sixth music Out of Focus. “[That was] impressed by Focus, who’re one in all my all-time favorite bands,” he says. “Thijs van Leer, what a beautiful musician and organ participant. He has been an inspiration to me for years. That’s my little tribute to him, actually. There’s an organ solo the place I play a little bit of Bach, as a result of Thijs was all the time taking part in Bach – [1972 Focus song] Sylvia, for instance.”

Earlier this 12 months, Don Airey defined why, in his opinion, guitarists are “very insecure folks”. “They don’t actually know the way they do what they do,” he stated.