DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #11
In this issue:
Ask the Road Crew!
Release date for Lord LP
Glenn's Child in David's Grand Hotel
Roger Glover production credits
17 more reviews, this time from Ilija
Elf album titles clarification
Birgitt defends Slaves and Masters
David Wilson liked it, too.
Tony Carey is getting along fine...
Not to be outdone by anyone else, Jesper reviews 14+ live albums
The word on Mickey Lee Soule from Svante
DP in Concert review from Jim Collins
Coverdale and JLT
Angel Air from John LaRocque
Comments on Jesper's Reviews
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>From Dean Webb, your loving and caring editor:
So I'm talking with people who know people who know the band about trying to
get an interview or something with them and one guy says, good luck, pal,
because you're going to need it. You'ld probably get a better response out
of their road crew...
And then it hit me! Interview the road crew! They know plenty about the
band, especially their equipment and stuff! They got lots to say! (Well, at
least a few things here and there...)
So, send in your questions for the road crew! This guy I know can hook up
with them in Scandinavia on or about October 1-4 and this guy may or may not
be esteemed list member Svante Petterssen. (I can neither confirm nor deny,
sort of like that incident with Gillan's microphone that never happened and
of which we must never speak.) Send the questions to the list, NO WHERE
ELSE!!!, and I'll get them over to the guy who can touch base with the road
crew.
Answers and such will be posted with questions in a special issue of the
digest for all to cherish and enjoy.
Must we let them fool us? No, no, no, :-)
Dean Webb
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rutz
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #9
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Poustie
>Does anybody have any information on the new Jon Lord solo album "Pictured
>Within" ?
The last I heard was that it has been pushed back to end of September.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Christian Rutz
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rutz
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #9
>-----Original Message-----
>From: STONE967(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
>To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
>Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 11:36 PM
>Subject: Smoke on the Water with Coverdale/Hughes
>
>
>Why is it that in Mk III Coverdale never sang the last verse of Smoke on
the
>Water? (We ended up at the grand hotel...) Coverdale would sing verse one
>and Hughes verse two and they would repeat verse one together after the
>solo.
>This continued with Mk IV. Anybody know the reasons behind that?
Afaik it was the "we" which bothered Mr. Coverdale and Mr. Hughes, since
there were at the time being not in the band, so they didn't end up in the
Grand Hotel.
> Also did
>Glen Hughes ever sing Child in Time live? Just wondering.
Afaik CiT hasn't been played by MkIII or by MkIV
It has been played on the "Perfect Strangers"-Tour, though.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Christian Rutz
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-----Original Message-----
From: John A. Robinson
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 12:51 AM
Subject: Roger Glover Production
Weighing in for my first post on the subject of other Glover production
work. I can vouch that Sin after Sin is the only Priest work he was
involved in-contains the great session drummer Simon Phillips. He also
of course did Rainbow and was the producer on the first Michael Schenker
album. Regards John
[Ed- did I mention the Rory Gallagher LP?... I did?... Well, I still say
check it out. If you like DP, I think you'll really like Rory Gallagher a
lot. It's in the "G" section of finer record stores everywhere. I know they
have his stuff in Germany. Guy used to support DP, too. Salt of the earth.
Even has the same initials as Roger Glover. Fancy that. OK, I'll go back to
the DP stuff...]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ilija Gospodinov
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 7:56 AM
Subject: Complete studio review.
Ok then, since some people think this kind of thing is a good idea,
here's mine full DP studio review.
1. Shades of... - 7 ( I just played these three cd's one after another,
just to find out their rating when compared to the whole collection. I
got the conclusion that they are some very good albums, particularly
Book of Taliesyn which has some excellent psicho-heavy rock energy, I
enjoy that album a whole lot, the ratings are lower for obvious reasons,
they are compared with the best albums of heavy rock history...)
2. Book of taliesyn - 7.5 (see above)
3. Deep Purple - 7 (see above)
4. Concerto for Group & Orchestra - 10 (What a masterpiece!!! I had to
place it among the studio albums since every classical work has to be
played live to be put on a record. I enjoy classical music very much,
and when I got this album at 13 years of age I was astonished! So was my
father (he's a professor of music!). I haven't heard anything similar
since, maybe with the exception of "Apocalipse" by Mahavishnu orchestra,
but that's a whole different thing.)
5. In rock - 10 (Nothing can be expressed in words. The best DP has ever
done, a path of light for everyone trying to play heavy rock in the last
near three decades. Pure energy, great creativity, this kinda thing
comes only once in a lifetime!)
6. Fireball - 9 (One of my big favourites. As I see it, it is one big
experiment, having all these different ideas and making them sound good
all together on one album, excellent!!! The mark is 9 because it's not
as compact compared to "In rock" & "Machine head")
7. Machine head - 10 (The album that made DP big worldwide. Compact,
strong, creative, inovative, giving enough space for live jams, with
great openers and great encores on it, the album was the great reson for
the big success of the tour afterwards (Made in Japan is a reason enough
to rate the album as a clean 10!)
8. Who do we think... - 8.5 (Also a big favourite of mine. The end of
Mark 2, but what an excellent finish! Also some strange ideas like on
"Fireball", very much differing one from the other, but sound great
being put all together. Just a thought here, I think that DP ought to
play some more WDWTWA songs live, while they are still alive and well.
What do you think about that. Songs like Rat Bat Blue, Mary Long, Super
Trouper etc. would sound great on the current tour, with good guitar
work, I think Morse would fit very nicely...)
9. Burn - 9 (For me a definition of a clean heavy rock sound, full of
energy, no psichodelic stuff, Hughes still not involved in the song
writing - no funky things etc. Also a great album for the upcomming tour
of 1974 which was in my opinion a great highlight of DP live! I think
that Montreoux gives the band some nice working atmosphere, no matter
who the band members are, ha?!)
10. Stormbringer - 8 (A bit too funky, but still an excellent album, a
very good follow up to "Burn" with several songs done very nicely to fit
into the live set, but the songs written partly by Hughes were a
dissapointment for Ritchie...)
11. Come taste the band - 8.5 (The beginning of the Whitesnake sound,
some say, but still what a fulfillment!!!!!! With a lot of rock energy,
and some different guitar work, a revelation! Too bad they could not
keep it up, maybe just for one more studio album, I like that sound a
lot and you can't go a long way listening to it since only CTTB came out
of that production)
12. Perfect strangers - 8 (An excellent reunion album, I'm listening to
it right now, don't like the Rainbow guitar effect Ritchie's using, but
Lord's back and all in all the same Mark 2, but all grown up at that
time, shame, no experiments, not one...)
13. The house of blue light - 7 (I've always wondered about this one.
But anyway, I still get the feeling that the sessions had sounded very
badly, and the producers just did what they could with it...)
14. Slaves & masters - 6.5 (The rating is low just because it carries
the DP label. It's totally not a DP album, in any way. But, I cannot say
that it's bad as a studio effort, it's got some songs I like, and the
production work is not bad, but maybe not on a DP album. Still, maybe
the best of Joe Lyn Turner in studio I've ever heard...)(This hasn't
been such a bad review of the album after all??!!)
15. The battle rages on - 8 (You can feel the problems within the band,
it's so perfect in playing and production that you start thinking they
were working all the time just not to have the time to go anywhere for a
cup of coffee and chat a bit...still two excellent songs (TBRO & Anya)
and several more with some very good ideas & sound)
16. Purpendicular - 8.5 (I reviewed this one big time, just some two DPD
ago. I admire the album! It has the creativity of a band that finally
got it together, whatever it was what they had been missing. A lot of
excellent songs, all vary a lot within the strong rock & roll that
splashes you from the album...)
17. Abandon - 8 (A very good follow up to "Purpendicular", but in my
opinion not as good. It has some very good work, heavy songs, IG sounds
great on the album, and all in all the rating would have been slightly
better if the music themes on few songs had more variations (Seventh
Heaven, 69) and also the arrangments could have been better. But anyway,
I enjoy the album and it's getting to me more and more.)
So, that's it from me, I would surely like to read more such complete
reviews, but don't forget to include some explanation apart from the
ratings, OK? OK.
--
Ilija Gospodinov
Rotaract Club Skopje International Officer
e-mail: starter(at-a-domain-named)mpt.com.mk
phone: ++38991 451508
ICQ #14346225
address: Jane Sandanski No.86 5/6
91000 Skopje, MACEDONIA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dana
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: Elf LP's
The US title for Carolina County Ball was L.A.59. Musically, the album
is identical, ie., songs, track order, etc. Cover is different though.
Same label as Trying To Burn The Sun was,
MGM. Jim C.
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-----Original Message-----
From: BSchwanke(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 11:54 AM
Subject: Slaves and Masters
Hello again!
I have to admit that the first ever Purple album I listened to was "Slaves &
Masters". My brother bought it and played it a lot at home and I loved it
death and played it on and on, too.
Later, I discovered all the other Purple stuff which even is a lot better
but
I still like "Slaves...". It did something to me. It brought me into Deep
Purple's music. And I still love it. I recently was asked to name my
favourite
albums of the 90's and "Slaves..." was amongst them. I would rate it 9/10.
To me "Slaves..." is as far away from the origins of Deep Purple as the
stuff
they are doing now with Steve. It's another direction but it's somehow
Purple.
By the way I also like Joe Lynn as a singer. What did he sound like when he
was with Purple? I missed the tour and bootlegs are hard to get nowadays...
Birgitt
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-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Wilson
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 12:01 PM
Subject: Slaves and Masters
Howdy,
I have got about two seconds free here and I just wanted to say
that I love Slaves and Masters! Far superior to anything in the eighties
IMO. I don't have time to do a full review but I thought that I would
let those who care know that somebody actually liked the thing. I
mentioned to Paice that I liked it a great deal and he just smiled
politely. It wouldn't seem that it wasn't his favorite either. Oh yeah,
whomever had the negative opinion of Angel Air Records, Why? I am just
curious.
Take care all.
David
p.s. Anybody out there have any contact information whatsoever for Rod
Evans?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jesper Almén
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 3:18 PM
Subject: Rainbow keyboardist Tony Carey
"On the other hand, other former Rainbow keyboardists, David Rosenthal
and Don Airey, followed musical trends known by most of us. But what
happend to Tony Carey? And David Stone? Hey, I guess many people aren´t
even familiar with the name of David Stone."
Well, Tony Carey has kept himself pretty busy since Rainbow, with a few
projects (Planet P Project..) and a bunch of solo albums that would ( or
maybe would'nt) be appreciated by Purple Fans. Most of the Solo albums are
made in Germany with german sessionplayers. Good albums are "Storyville",
"Der Joker" and "Blue Highway". He even has a websight of his own called
Tranquility Base on www.tonycarey.com
Check it out!
Jesper.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jesper Almén
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 4:32 PM
Subject: Live Records reviewed under 90 seconds as well....
Ok... "Second sight".. A 90 second run through of the Purple Live
offerings..
Start at the top and "Going Down"...
1. Made in Japan (score 10) What else could I put here? Maybe it's very much
nostalgy, but I feel that this album really puts down in 1 1/2 hours what
Purple is/was all about. Truly a classic!
2. Scandinavian Nights( score 9) They hadn't written "Smoke", "Highway
Star", "Space Truckin" or "Lazy" yet, but this show from Stockholm 1970 just
sparkles with energy, virtuosity and as Big Ian puts it " rock'n roll back
to front, inside out". At times even more energetic than Made in Japan, but
not as good tunes.
3. Live at the Olympia 96 (score 8). Wow! Theyr'e back! Happy, rockin'. A
lot of unexpected songs ( like Fireball, When a Blind Man Cries, No One
Came) and the guys are tighter than ever..Don't miss this one. It's a
rebirth!
4. Live in London (score 8). One of the first Mark 3 shows. Hughes and
Coverdale are doing a great job. Specially DC on "Mistreated". Still waiting
for a decent CD version of this one..
5. In Concert (score 7) Great shows from MK 2 in '70 and '72. Better
versions of most songs on "Made in Japan" and Scandinavian Nights"
though..Great "Lucille".
6. On the Wings of a Russian Foxbat (score 7) . Same record as "King Bisquit
Flower Hour. So this is what mk 4 sounded like?! Funky, rockin'. Paice is
great, Coverdale is lousy. Hughes is high as a kite. Bolin in good form for
once..
7. Final Concerts (score 7). Blackmore is absentminded, on his way to
Rainbow. Coverdale and Hughes are doing a great job still. Great live
versions of "Gypsy" and "You fool no one".
8. Come Hell or High water (score 6). Why not a double CD??? Last tour with
Ritchie. Surprisingly good. Good statement of the reunion records/tours..
9. Nobody's Perfect (score 5) Indeed! Heavy editing draws this one down.
Good moments here and there. The new versions of the old song doesn't
contribute much. And what's with the re-recording of Hush??? What's the
point?
10. In the Absence of Pink (score 5) Knebworth 1985. So it was raining, So
what? Not a really tight band. Sloppy. Good feelings at times, but mostly
lousy playing...The Magic pops up... and gets drained...
11. Made in Europe (score 5). Also suffers from being a single lp and being
edited. Go for "Final concerts" instead..
12. California Jamming (Score 4). Classic concert. Lousy sound. REALLY
losusy sound. Try to get the video instead! Not a bad show at all.
13. Last Concert in Japan (score 4). Interesting to hear Purple without
guitar. Bolin had injured his arm. Lord plays everything.. Still nice to
hear "Wild Dogs" from Bolin's solo album "Teaser".
14. On Stage- Black Night, Child in Time & Highway Star (score 4)
The Black Night and Highway Star cd:s are the same as "In the absence of
Pink"(see above). The Child in Time cd is 4 songs from "Scandinavian
Nights".
Go for the originals. They have more and better pictures and text.
Pheeew! This was even harder than reviewing the studio albums! Purple is
meant to be hear live. Even the lousiest live concert with Purple is still
GREAT music compared to most crap that is out there today...
Jesper.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Svante Pettersson
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 5:55 PM
Subject: Mickey Lee Soule
>But what happened to Mickey Lee Soule in between the recording of
>Rainbow's first album and Deep Purple's Abandon Tour?
I don't know what he has been up to all that time but he has been Jon's
tech at least through both the Purpendicular tour and the current tour.
Mickey had an heart attack during the House of Blues tour late last year
and had to go through bypass surgery. He is fine now though and is back on
the road taking care of Jon's equipment.
Take care,
/Svante Pettersson,
Editor, The Highway Star - http://www.deep-purple.com/
Deep Purple Family Tree Website - http://deep-purple.family-tree.org/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Collins
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 9:19 PM
Subject: Review: Deep Purple In Concert 1970-1972
Deep Purple In Concert 1970-1972 was originally released in 1980 as
a double LP, with loads of great pictures and good liner notes by Simon
Robinson. It was re-released on CD in 1992, with the songs in a
different running order, the original DJ chat between songs, plus two
tracks left off the original 1972 LP due to time restrictions, and new
photos & liner notes.Each CD features the entire show as recorded, the
first on Feb. 19, 1970 and the second March 9, 1972. Both shows were
recorded for the BBC and subsequently broadcast all over the world over
the next decade. These are the shows:
CD1: 1970
1. Speed King
2. Child In Time (1st song on side 2 of the LP)
3. Wring That Neck (2nd song on side1 of the LP)
4. Mandrake Root
This is the earliest officially released MkII performance
(besides the short 3 song set that preceded the Concerto For Group &
Orchestra) and shows the band live was just amazing, even in the early
days. Speed King kicks off the set with a roar, and features some great
Lord/Blackmore trade-offs, Gillan's irrepressible vocals and the rock
solid Paice/Glover bottom end. A somewhat shaky Child In Time follows,
with Gillans voice giving out early in the song, but he recovers for a
great finish. Blackmore as usual, shreds on this one. My favorite
version of Wring That Neck is next, and what a performance! I don't care
as much for the 30-45 minute versions of this song, and at an economical
18:26, this one is perfect. It also features some of the most aggressive
Blackmore playing I've ever heard. He is just relentless on this one,
and attacks the frets with a fire and passion unmatched. Lord fires
back with some of his most adventuresome playing, and literally ignites
the keyboards with his fingerwork. An amazing performance by all. A
rock-solid performance of Mandrake Root closes the set, again, much
shorter than other versions. With the time constraints of the radio, the
band gets to the point much quicker than on other occassions, and just
cooks here. A solid set, this CD is indispensable to any Purple fan.
CD 2 : 1972
1. Highway Star
2. Strange Kind Of Woman
3. Maybe I'm A Leo (not on the LP)
4. Never Before (4th track on LP)
5. Lazy (3rd track on LP)
6. Space Truckin'
7. Smoke On The Water (not on the LP)
8. Lucille
The 1972 set is one of the most exciting performances this band
ever put on tape. The material is brand new, their energy level is very
high,and they just flat-out rock here. The sound is very clean, unlike
the bludgeoning Made In Japan set 4 months later. They are more relaxed
sounding, and their ensemble playing just shines through. Highway Star
kicks off the set with all the power and grace of a nitro burning hot
rod. Over the top solo's by Lord and Blackmore, Gillan sounding
fantastic and again Paice/Glover holding it all together. Ritchie ends
the song with the most vicious guitar sounds ever recorded. Strange Kind
Of Woman blasts out of the starting gate next, and never lets up for a
minute. Again Blackmore just shreds on the solo's, backed by
particularly tasty bass work by Roger here. The only live version (until
the Morse era) of Maybe I'm A Leo is next, with Gillan forgetting the
lyrics, but salvaged by great playing from the others. A somewhat sloppy
(under-rehearsed?) Never Before follows, but with the band hitting on
all cylinders, who could notice? One of the all-time great versions of
Lazy, with great Lord keyboard work, keeps the energy going. More laid
back then later versions, it maintains the cool feel of the studio
version, with the frantic, live Purple, fire power. The massive, 20:55
Space Truckin' may be my favorite version of this song. Certainly one of
the nights Blackmore decided to show the world what he could do, he just
rips the frets off the guitar here. Amazing! What is generally
considered to be the world debut of the most famous riff in history
comes next. (At least on the CD. I have my doubts about the running
order.) Smoke On The Water is a little weak, with Blackmore and Lord
both messing up the riff in different places. Ritchie sounds as if he's
not sure of what he wants to do with the guitar solo, he just kind of
meanders around the neck. The rest of the band plays well enough, it's
just not an energetic version. The set ends with a frantic version, (and
the best official version) of Lucille. A long build up, as Ritchie
re-tunes his guitar ( I think it's because they just finished Space
Truckin', not Smoke), the song kicks into high gear and they just rip it
up. Overall, one of the primo MkII, hell any Mk live releases, if you
don't have this, you don't know what you're missing. I'd give the
1970-1972 set a solid 10. Jim C.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marcelo Soares
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, September 14, 1998 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #10
Occasional songs:
David also sings some other lyrics in the end of "Mistreated" in Live
in London. It's not "Rock me Baby" as in Made in Europe. What is that
song? By the way, it's funny the sound of David's voice in live
recordings. Sounds like Scooby-Doo, doesn't it? At least it sounds
like Scooby's voice in Brazil.
Joe Lynn Turner:
I heard him murdering Black Night and losing his voice trying to duel
with the Man in Black in 1991, here in Porto Alegre.
Bizz magazine, that was specialized in rock'n'roll at the time, had a
writer named André Forastieri. He always had and has polemical
opinions, but in 1991 he got it right when he wrote something like
"Xuxa (a famous entertainer in Brazil) sings better than Joe Lynn
Turner".
"Top 20":
Fireball was doomed to be an unanimity. Any record with songs like
Anyone's Daughter, The Mule and Strange Kind of Woman deserves a 10
score. Gillan himself said in an interview to a radio station in my
city, in 1992, that it's his favourite record. But Stormbringer is a
GREAT record too -- The Gypsy and Hold On are fantastic tunes. IMHO,
of course.
Well, that's it for now.
See ya,
Marcelo Soares.
==
Marcelo Soares
Porto Alegre/RS - Bras(z)il
mssilva(at-a-domain-named)yahoo.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: John LaRocque
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 8:05 AM
Subject: List of new DP-related CD releases
This is a fairly long list. Hope you can wade your way through all this
detail.
I. ANGEL AIR RECORDS
Angel Air records has been around since 1997, and is noted mostly for
releases by artists who at one time or another have associated themselves
musically with Deep Purple members. There are two new releases of interest
to Deep Purple fans.
HARDIN, EDDIE - Wind in the Willows: Rock Concert
(EU 1998 Angel Air Records SJPCD019)
-The source for this recording is the same as the Inakustik pressing,
recorded live at the Zeitfestival Freiburg, Germany on June 1991. The
recording was remastered in 1997, with new introduction by Hardin. Angel Air
Tracks #1-#12 are identical to Inakustik Tracks #2-13. The Angel Air
pressing lacks the Introduction, and the Wind in the Willows reprise
(Inakustik #14). The two bonus tracks are from the 1982 studio sessions. If
you own the original Inakustik release, save your money.
1. Wind in the willows - main theme (Hardin)
2. Good morning to you (Hardin)
3. I'd forgotten how to smile (Hardin)
4. Fairground fantasy (Hardin)
5. The wild wood (Hardin/Starkey)
6. The badger (Hardin)
7. I'm looking forward to tomorrow (Hardin)
8. The life we left behind (Hardin)
9. Maggie's song (Hardin)
10. The piper at the gates of dawn (Hardin)
11. Why can't we go home (Hardin)
12. Wayfarers all (Hardin)
BONUS TRACKS
13. The Life We Left Behind (Hardin) - Sung by Denny Laine
14. Looking Forward To Tomorrow (Hardin) - Sung by Billy Ocean
IAN GILLAN BAND Live at the Rainbow
(EU 1998 Angel Air Records SJPCD017)
-The source for the first five tracks on this recording is the same as the
IGB home video, a concert at the Rainbow theater on 14 May 1977. Here is
what Ray Fenwick says about the sixth track - "Twin Exhausted was recorded
at a later date, but the sound was so compatible with the rest of the
material we decided to include it on this CD." Mastered for CD in 1998.
Tracks:
1. Clear Air Turbulence (Gillan/Gustafson/Fenwick/Towns/Nauseef)
2. Money Lender (Gillan/Gustafson/Fenwick/Towns/Nauseef)
3. Child in Time (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
4. Smoke on the Water (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
5. Woman from Tokyo (Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)
6. Twin Exhausted (Gillan/Gustafson/Fenwick/Towns/Nauseef)
Here is a list of the Eddie Hardin or Ray Fenwick Angel Air releases
(including the above).
SJPCD002 GUITAR ORCHESTRA s/t (w. Fenwick)
SJPCD007 GILLAN BAND, IAN "The Rockfield Mixes" (w. Fenwick)
SJPCD009 HARDIN, EDDIE "Wizard's Convention 2" (w. Fenwick)
SJPCD010 VARIOUS Musician Unions Band (w. Fenwick)
SJPCD013 FENWICK, RAY "Keep America Beautiful, Get A Haircut" (w. Hardin)
SJPCD014 TEE SET "24 Carat" (w. Fenwick)
SJPCD016 HARDIN & YORK "Live In The 70's"
SJPCD017 GLLAN BAND, IAN "Live At The Rainbow" (w. Fenwick)
SJPCD019 HARDIN, EDDIE et. al. "Wind In The Willows Rock Concert" (J Lord)
SJPCD024 HARDIN, EDDIE "Circumstantial Evidence"
Please note, there are no DP members on "Wizards Convention 2". However
there are plenty of special guests on this 1995 recording (issued 1997)
including the following:
John Lawton (Lucifer's Friend/Uriah Heep), Tony Ashton, Mo Foster, Chris
Farlowe (Colosseum), Snowy White (Thin Lizzy), John Entwhistle (The Who),
Debbie Bonham (sister of John "Bonzo" Bonham), Emma Hardin (daughter of
Eddie), Ray Fenwick, Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music), Peter Jameson, Gary
Falcon, and several Manfred Mann members (Paul Jones, Mike D'Abo, Chris
Thompson) plus of course Eddie Hardin and Zak Starkey.
Ex-Gillan member John McCoy is responsible for three Angel Air releases:
SJPCD001 MCCOY "Think Hard Again"
SJPCD004 GILLAN "The Gillan Tapes - Vol. 1"
SJPCD006 MAMMOTH "XXXL"
Other releases include:
SJPCD003 PIRATES "Home & Away"
SJPCD005 ROUTE 66 s/t
SJPCD008 GUSTAFSON, JOHN "Goose Grease"
SJPCD012 GRABHAM, MICK "Mick The Lad" (Procul-Harem guitarist)
SJPCD018 SUN RED SUN s/t
SJPCD020 DOC THOMAS GROUP "Italian Job / Shotgun Eyes"
SJPCD021 SPENCER DAVIS GROUP "Funky"
SJPCD022 RATS "Rise And Fall Of Bernie G"
SJPCD024 HARRISON, BOBBY "Solid Silver" (Procul-Harem drummer)
SJPCD030 SNAFU "Snafu + Situation Normal + 2"
SJPCD0?? HAYMS, STEVE "Mistaken Identities"
SJPCD??? VARIIOUS ARTISTS "Air Sample / The Story So Far"
As noted before, I have a fairly low opionion of this label, although I did
part with some cash to own seven of the above releases, including all the
IGB or GILLAN titles, the McCoy-related stuff, and Eddie Hardin's "Wind in
the Willows", and "Wizards Convention II".
Finally, I'm pretty sure Gillan guitarist Bernie Torme has a CD of outtakes
on Angel Air (unknown part #). Bernie Torme has also released CD's on his
own label, Retrowrek records, including a brand new release, "Wild Irish",
with a special bonus disc. His other two releaes include expanded versions
of "Turn Out The Lights" (w/ 3 bonus tracks), and "Electric Gypsies" (w/ 3
bonus tracks). View the Bernie Torme link at the DP Family tree web page for
more information..
II. EAGLE RECORDS GILLAN REISSUES
In 1998, Eagle Records (based in the EU) rereleased several out of print
Virgin IAN GILLAN BAND titles, and GILLAN/GLOVER. The solitications loudly
proclaimed each reissues as "remastered", though I strongly suspect there is
little or no difference with the original 1988 CD reissues from Virgin
records, or the more recent RPM title from 1992. Two other releases, "Naked
Thunder" (GILVP101CD) and "Toolbox" (GILVP102CD) were both rereleased in
1997 in special digipack editions from Resurgence US (a US-based label,
although the CD's were manufactured in Europe).
EAMCD047 GILLAN BAND, IAN "Clean Air Turbulence" (idem, Virgin CDVM4)
EAMCD048 GILLAN / GLOVER "Accidently On Purpose" (idem, Virgin CDV2498)
EAMCD049 GILLAN BAND, IAN "Scarabus" (idem, Virgin CDVM3)
EAMCD050 GILLAN, IAN "Naked Thunder"
EAMCD051 GILLAN "Toolbox"
EAMCD052 GILLAN, IAN "Cherkazoo & Other Stories" (idem, RPM 104)
I do not know if Eagle plans to reissue "Live at the Budokan" (Virgin
CDVM3507), or "Child In Time" (Virgin CDVM 4). Nor am I aware of any plans
for other DP-related releases.
III. MORE INTERSTING GILLAN RELEASES
This may be old news to DP veterans, but I highly recommend "GILLAN: The BBC
Tapes - Vol. I: 1979", and "GILLAN: The BBC Tapes Vol. 2: 1980". Both CD's,
featuring unreleased material, are from the RPM Records label, and were
released in 1997. They truly feature the Gillan band at their prime. Visit
the "Purple People" page at www.rpmrecords.co.uk for more information.
Finally, there's that ultimate modern quinteseential Gillan collector's
piece, "Smoke On The Water Rock 'n' Rap Extravaganza, featuring Ian Gillan
and Ray Slijngaard", and produced by the Bolland brothers, and recorded in
Holland some time in 1997. Now, Ian Gillan also provided narration and some
vocals for the Bolland Brothers back in 1991, on their 1991 release "Darwin
The Evolution". Anyway, on to Rock 'n' Rap...
Now when I first ordered this from my US supplier, it was sollicited as a
single, and priced accordingly. Imagine my surprise when I found it was a
40-minute CD, with Gillan on most tracks! It was released off of Victor
Entertainment (VICP 60192), on January 1, 1998. The cover, featuring Gillan
(in sunglasses) and Slijngaard, is done in the lettering of Machine Head.
The tracks are the following:
1. Smoke On The Water (Original Mix) (Lord/Paice/Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
featuring Ian Gillan and Ray Slijngaard
2. Smoke On The Water (Deception Mix) (Lord/Paice/Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
featuring Ian Gillan and Ray Slijngaard
3. Black Night (Glover/Paice/Lord/Blackmore/Gillan)
featuring Ian Gillan and Ray Slijngaard
4. Here Comes The Pain (Bolland/Bolland/Slijngaard)
featuring Onix & Ray Slijngaard
5. Everybody Is A Star (Bolland/Bolland)
featuring Short Object
6. Nighttripper (Bolland/Bolland)
featuring Onix & Rap Mob
7. Smoke On The Water (Groove Mix) (Lord/Paice/Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
featuring Ian Gillan and Ray Slijngaard
8. Smoke On The Water (Groove & Guitar Mix)
(Lord/Paice/Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
featuring Ian Gillan and Ray Slijngaard
9. Smoke On The Water (Urban Mix) (Lord/Paice/Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
featuring Ian Gillan and Ray Slijngaard
10. Smoke On The Water (Club Version) (Lord/Paice/Blackmore/Gillan/Glover)
featuring Ian Gillan and Ray Slijngaard
"Smoke on the Water" gets butchered no fewer than six times on this release,
along with "Black Night". The whole thing is worth a laugh of two (it's hard
to take any of this seriously). Ian sings 'em the way he's always sung em,
replete with some strange howls. He is accompanied by upbeat discotheque
versions of SOTW and "Black Night", electronic drumming, and the "rap"
vocals of Ray Slijngaard.
I don't mind recommending this release, just out of sheer loyalty to the
Main Man. However, others may be more reluctant to part with their money. I
will forever kick myself for not having brought this item to Toronto during
the backstage signings.
IV. JOE LYNN TURNER / GERMAN METAL
Joe Lynn Turner (yes, pretty boy) is credited as writer on one of the songs
on the album "Fireworks", by the melodic German metal act BONFIRE. Unlike
other metal acts from mighty Deutchland (Helloween, Gamma Ray, Blind
Guardian, Rage, Heavens Gate etc..) BONFIRE has a decidedly American AOR
sound layered on top of its Teutonic metal roots. The formula served them
well for the first few albums, but in the 1990s they have gone into
considerably softer directions.
BONFIRE was formed 1986, around the ashes of Scorpions-clone CACUMEN, which
released "Bad Widow", off of Boom records, in 1983. While the band has
clearly seen better days, BONFIRE's best (and heaviest) material was done
for BMG, with the albums "Don't Touch The Light" (1986), "Fire Works"
(1987), "Point Blank" (1989), and the posthumous release "Live... The Best"
(1993, from 1989 concert).
"Fireworks" was released by BMG Germany in 1987 (WD 57117). There was one
video clip for the album, for the track "Sweet Obsession". This song was
written by Jack Ponti, Joe Lynn-Turner, and Bonfire members Claus Lessmann,
Hans Ziller, Horst Maier-Thorn, and Joerg Deisinger. The album was produced
by Michael Wagener for Double Trouble productions, which guaranteed its
German-engineered heaviness. (Wagener also produced Dokken and a zillion
other metal albums). Ah... I miss the 1980's metal scene so much.
No, JLT doesn't do any singing here...
On an unrelated note, cult German band ANGEL DUST has a killer RAINBOW cover
on their second CD, "Spotlight Kid", one of the finer moments on "Difficult
To Cure".
John LaRocque
"And if you hear me talking on the wind
You've got to understand
We must remain perfect strangers."
--Perfect Strangers (Blackmore/Glover/Gillan)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Reichberg
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: A short run-through of the DP studio albums
Wow! I couldn't have said it better myself! On almost every point I
agree with you. I would only have put "Come Taste The Band" and "Shades
Of Deep Purple" a bit higher. Those two albums are classics in my head!
"Slaves And Masters", though is on its right spot!
Daniel
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