Aerosmith's Tom Hamilton Disses Ritchie Blackmore: Ritchie Blackmore News

On Thursday Aerosmith's Tom Hamilton Disses Ritchie Blackmore was a top story. Here is the recap: (Radio.com) Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer started a three-day takeover for Karlson & McKenzie's morning show program on Boston's WZLX Wednesday morning, and his partner in crime, bassist Tom Hamilton called in.

Hamilton just came back from playing a handful of reunion shows with Thin Lizzy, who opened up for Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, and before going on stage, the band did something that Tom had never witnessed before.

"Right before they went on, they booted everyone off the stage. They had to watch from the side. And then they put up this tape across the walkway, like 'do not cross' red-and-white striped tape," Tom recalled in disbelief.

"Everybody's just kind of standing there staring at them, like 'oh my God, who's ever seen a band do that?', but he really did not want anybody on the stage while he was playing."

Although Tom thinks that Rainbow sounded good, he says that Ritchie didn't seem too passionate about playing. 'He was playing lead sort of just like right off the record and not in a real passionate way. A little flat," Read more - here.

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