DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #1

In this issue:

Welcome.
Press Release
Album Reviews
Links
Other Stuff

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Welcome to the list.

OK, you deserve a little more than just that. Let me just say that we
already have 10 (count 'em) subscribers and more are arriving by the
hour(s). Yay!

The main purpose of the DPD is, of course, to discuss Deep Purple. Behave
yourselves and your posts will be accepted. Rules can be found at the
website (see link at bottom of digest) at the "List Info" page. Please do
take some time to visit the site and let me know what you think. I want YOUR
contributions to the site, for the betterment and benefit of DP fans all
around the www! (More on that down below.)

A word of caution- I tend to go for comic effects. All in good fun, but do
bear it in mind when you read my handiwork.


Yours in Purpleness,
Dean Webb
Moderator and Grand Muckety-Muck of Deep Purple Digest
dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
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DEEP PURPLE EMAIL LIST NOW AVAILABLE
For those who had been wanting an email list for the discussion of the
rock band Deep Purple, the wait is over. DEEP PURPLE DIGEST
(mailto:dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com) officially came into being at 5:00 PM,
Thursday, August 27, 1998. List owner Dean Webb issued a statement
indicating his desire to "take good care of his subscribers," and other
high-minded intentions.
The list will be available only in digest mode, to allow for careful,
painstaking moderation and to limit overall mailbox clutter to just a
few messages per week. List members will be encouraged to offer up their
contributions, many of which will find their way to the list's website,
at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Balcony/8910. The website
already has an area prepared to recieve reviews and ratings of Deep
Purple's albums, in order to better serve the Deep Purple online fanbase
at large.
Although the list is not sponsored or endorsed by any band member, past
or current, and although the list is not formally affiliated with any
other web sites, list owner Webb is undaunted. "Internet users don't
really care too much about that," he offered. He further indicated that,
although he doesn't seek official endorsement, he would like the best
endorsement of all: a good-sized number of list members, many active in
contributing, and the satisfaction of as many subscribers as possible.
Webb's final statement was, "It won't be anything without the fans! Come
on and let's make this a success!"
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Album Reviews

In the Critic's Corner part of the DPD home page (link at bottom), there are
a lot of empty spaces. I would like to solicit your reviews to fill in those
spots. I took some of the jucier albums, I admit, but there are plenty more
for you to get "first review" rights on. I figure on putting down blurbs
from the first five reviews submitted per album on the page itself, then all
other blurbs on a separate, linked web page.

Not every album is everyone's absolute favorite, so I know ones we know and
love will get panned by someone else who can't stand the thing. In fairness
to the positive side of life, I'd like to have a good (8-10 point) review be
the first one on each album. Let me give an example: I don't consider "Come
Taste the Band" to be worth anything more than a 5 or 6 (bear in mind that's
comparing it to other DP albums- the record is a fine body of work and
infinitely preferable to atonal opera, for example). I think Bolin's work is
great on it and that each band member does a fine, professional job, but
that the mix just doesn't gel. I know from at least one email address that
we have a self-proclaimed Bolin-head out there. If that person really loves
CTTB, and considers it worthy of an 8-10 point review, that person should be
the first review mentioned in the HTML code. My 5-6 pointer may come right
after it, but each album deserves a good word from its apologists to get
things started off right.

Dean Webb
DPD High Vizier and Moderator
dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
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Links

If you got a homepage, even if it don't got no DP on it, I'd be happy to
link to it from my "Links" page. I will have a section there for list
members. Just being a DPD subscriber is DP content enough to justify a link
from the site. Feel free to link your page to the DPD site, as well. Just
don't pull art/text/whatever else I stick there to your sites in absolute
links. Copy what you need and have it hosted on your own web server.

One word about copying: don't do anything dumb, jerky, stupid, or mean with
the graphics I have there. The cover art from the albums is freely
accessible and the band photos I used as backgrounds on some of the pics
there were ones already in my posession that I scanned in from album covers
or DP books. I didn't make a nickel off of them, didn't rip anybody off, so
don't you do that, either. (I trust you all, but there's always going to be
somebody out there... this is just to make him feel guilty and give those of
us who behave the higher moral ground.)

Dean Webb
DPD Grand Poobah and Moderator
dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
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Other Stuff

If you generate *original* art (that rips-off no one, see above comments),
prose, poetry, MIDI files, whatever else that can fit on a web page, lemme
know. Submissions can be sent to the list, but non-textual stuff will be
posted to the site, rather than the list.

Stuff I can't accept includes gross stuff, nekkid people (that's nudity for
those that did not grow up in the Southern USA), MP3's (unathorized ones are
RIGHT OUT and autohorized ones are available elsewhere -- why be
redundant?), and unauthorized stuff that could wind up getting me sued if DP
or other interested parties found out and got mad enough.

Back on the positive note, DP were/are/will be a wonderful catalyst for
artistic expressions for themselves and for their fans who, although they
may not necessarily have a gold or platinum record to their credits, can
still compose art of all kinds around the muse that spoke through the band
Deep Purple.

Be silly, be serious, be sarcastic, be altruistic. Whatever floats your
DP-related boat, just put it down on email and send it on in!

Dean Webb
DPD Top Banana and Moderator
dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
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For subscription, unsubscription, and contributions, send mail to:
dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com and I'll get around to it...

Official Deep Purple website at http://www.deep-purple.com

DP list web site at
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Balcony/8910/default.html