Six Degrees of Ritchie Blackmore

Let's try a new game. I'll name two musicians, and you try to figure out the links between the musicians and the associated bands that form a continuous chain that connect the two musicians.

Rules:
1. Musician to musician links must be through band membership or a recorded studio performance. Band membership must also have yielded a recorded studio performance for the link to be legal. The recorded studio performance stipulation is to eliminate the use of tribute concert performances that may bring together many different artists and make this too easy. Also, there is no link between two musicians simply because one musician covers a song by another musician.

2. For the purposes of this game, a "band" can be a solo artist and his/her collection of back-up musicians. For example, "Ozzy Osbourne" can be used as both a band and a musician.

3. Links should be outlined in this form of:
<Musician 1> - <Musician 2> (<Band/Performance>)

For example:
Ian Gillan - Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
Lita Ford - Ozzy Osbourne ("Close My Eyes Forever")

4. Adjacent links must end and start with the same musician.
For example:
Ian Gillan - Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
Ritchie Blackmore - Graham Bonnet (Rainbow)

5. A corrollary to Rule 1 is that musicians must be contempories in the same band since they wouldn't have been able to record together otherwise.
For example, Ronnie James Dio - Graham Bonnet (Rainbow) is illegal since they were not contemporaries.

6. The same band cannot be used in two consecutive links although they may be used multiple times in the same chain. This prevents the use of a long-time member of a band to serve as a common bond between two musicians that were not contemporaries. For example, this would be illegal:

Ronnie James Dio - Ritchie Blackmore (Rainbow)
Ritchie Blackmore - Graham Bonnet (Rainbow)

7. Links do not have to be chronological order (which could make some chains impossible otherwise).

8. There could be multiple correct answers, but you only need to find one. However, shorter chains trump longer chains.

9. You do not have to use Ritchie Blackmore.

10. Use of Wikipedia is allowed and encouraged.

11. If you answer correctly, you're responsible for coming up with the next challenge.

OK. Got it?

Here's a fairly easy one to start with:

Tony Iommi -> Joe Lynn Turner

   ditto.


I'm not sure I get it completely,( )  but I'll give it a shot.


Tony Iommi -> Joe Lynn Turner (Black Sabbath via Ian Gillan)  ?

[Edit:  *feces*, I know that's not right.  ]

Ok this would be way too much work for me. I'll leave it to the experts.

Tony Iommi - Ian Gillan (Black Sabbath)
Ian Gillan - Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
Ritchie Blackmore - Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow)

I thought this would be easy.

I'm with you gleek.  Just being annoyingly glib.  It's the hangover speaking.   

I'll give it a try.

David Bowie <--> Jimmy Page.

My hrair limit is five.

Is that "Cousin It"?