# Pictures of Home guitar solo > Ritchie Blackmore's guitar solo on Pictures of Home by Deep Purple (1972) starts at about 1:44. From the album Machine Head. Canonical URL: Deep Purple, 1972, from *Machine Head*. Solo by *Ritchie Blackmore*. A driving track with an exotic, modal-tinged solo that shows Blackmore's growing interest in scales outside standard blues rock. Pictures of Home by Deep Purple is #11 in our ranking of the best Deep Purple guitar solos. The solo is played by Ritchie Blackmore and the song was released in 1972. ## In our lists - [The Best Deep Purple Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/deep-purple-guitar-solos/) — #11 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Pictures of Home? Ritchie Blackmore played the solo on Deep Purple's Pictures of Home (1972). ### What guitar was used on the Pictures of Home solo? A fender stratocaster through a Marshall Major amp, according to widely reported accounts. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)