DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #14
In this issue:
Deep Purple not nominated for RnR HoF
Trond starts a rumour about DP touring Australia...
Vreemde Tipe Vrou translations...
What did Rainbow play before it took the stage?
Lyrics to Rainbow's Down to Earth
Rabble-rousing for Elevens
DP phrases for their next trip to Brasil
Black Night question
DP cartoon music and Finnish song titles
Critical look at Abandon
Blackmore's artistic periods
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>From Dean "Ed" Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
I saw a news release about the latest round of *nominations* for induction
to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Although the ever-thunderous Black
Sabbath was nominated, Deep Purple, musical cousin and band extraordinaire,
was not included in this year's honors list. (sigh. I'll try to be big about
this.)
The Deep Purple Digest salutes all of this year's nominees for the RnR HoF
and commends them for a job well done.
The Deep Purple Digest also will be waiting for the nominating committee in
a dark alley, with sufficient length of strong cord, several chairs, a
couple of Marshall amps, a stereo hooked up to the Marshalls, a portable
generator, plenty of fuel, and a brace of DP CDs to pump through the
Marshall stack... Resistance will be futile and those who like DP will have
a good time.
In a related note, anyone who cares to donate strong cord, Marshall amps, a
portable generator, folding chairs, travel plans for members of the
nominating committee, or generator fuel should get in touch with me ASAP.
I've already got the CDs, so I'm part-way there. :-)
(Seriously, let's try this again next year!)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Trond
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: australia
>>>>
From: Paul Sommer
Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 6:35 AM
Subject: australia
hi!!
Is anyone else from Australia??? Why wont Purple, or any other good band
tour down here????
<<<<
Set off March 1999 and save some cash for the tickets, Paul... ;-) The tour
is being negotiated now. We have this from a guy who's in touch with the
Australian promotors.
Cheers,
--
Trond
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Wieschke
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #13
> Snelweg Ster
> Vreemde Tipe Vrou
> Rook op die Water
> Vuurbal
>
> Tot Later
>
> Richard
>
> [Ed- I can figure out 1, 3, and 4. What the heck is "Vreemde Tipe Vrou?"
Let
> me know...]
>
My guess: "Strange Kind Of Woman".
Cheers
Thomas
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Brooks
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 10:29 AM
Subject: Translation
Vreemde tipe vrou ...... Strange Kinda Woman
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: Fedor de Lange
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 4:42 PM
Subject: Translations
Richard Brooks wrote:
>Are there other Suid Afrikaners on the list, amazing! Being a native
>Afrikaans speaker I have translated these myself, it looses something!
>Had a freind who complied a database of all his cd's etc completely in
>Afrikaans, translated it all so we could all enjoy listening to the
>classics:
>Snelweg Ster
>Vreemde Tipe Vrou
>Rook op die Water
>Vuurbal
>Tot Later
Wow! This is kewl! Snelweg Ster and Vuurbal are the same in Dutch, except
Rook op die Water would give "Rook op het Water" in Dutch, and Strange
Kinda Woman would make "Vreemde Vrouw" or "Vreemde soort/type vrouw" as you
wish.
Tot later
Fedor
PS Why this translationthing by the way? Is there someone compiliing a
website of this stuff? Could be usefull for vacations, make some friends
and all. :-)
[Dean: We're an international list, so this is to broaden our horizons. If I
ever get confronted with a DP bootleg in Afrikaans, I know I'll be better
prepared to deal with it. I can also sound wierd walking down the hall,
singing the familiar tune but unfamiliar words of "Roo-ook op die
Wa-ter..."] [I'll try to restrain myself from including air guitar
tablatures]
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-----Original Message-----
From: NEIL JONES
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 4:50 PM
Subject: ......introduction set-list...
...Can anyone from the list help put together the full track listing that
used to be heard before any Rainbow concert......I presume they were all
favourites of Ritchie`s.......each time I saw Rainbow, the same introduction
tape was always played......Aurther Browns "Fire", was one of the songs, and
something by Focus, as well.........."Hey Joe" was another........does
anyone know the full list?
Neil Jones, England.
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-----Original Message-----
From: AlexandroTalamini
To: 'Deep Purple Digest'
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 6:53 PM
Subject: Rainbow's DOWN TO EARTH lyrics
Hello!
I just wanted to know if anyone can help me to find the lyrics
for the Rainbow's album DOWN TO EARTH. I've been looking for those
lyrics quite a while and have been not successful. Thanks in advance.
Alexandro
Curitiba, Brazil
[Dean: I went to http://www.lyrics.ch and got stuff for all the other
Rainbow albums, but not DTE. We need some help on this one. If I have time,
I suppose I could try to get some transcripts, but you know how accurate
*those* can be... I don't even know the exact words to the chorus of "Since
You've Been Gone."]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Yvette Webb [mailto:webbster(at-a-domain-named)ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 5:04 PM
To: Dean Webb
Subject: Eleven.
Sean wrote :
>Add my 10 rating to the Fireball count. I wish I had the time and energy
>to review the DP catalog...I just don't! However, I want to say I finally
>got around to purchasing the Made In Japan Remastered 2CD set, man is it
>worth it...Still a 10, but an even higher 10 than before. Is that
>possible?
>From Spinal Tap... [This amp goes up to an 11. That's 1 louder than 10]. So
I guess it IS possible to have a higher 10 than before. Too bad the list
owner is such a stick in the mud that he won't allow for this custom,
cherried out rating system that goes up to 11 [but it's one higher] :P
List Owner's wife who subscribes to lurk and see what he's doing spending
all that time on the computer.
[Muddy Stick: If I let someone turn in an 11 rating, who's to stop all the
floods of requests for 12's and 13's? I draw the line at 10. If you want
ratings that go to eleven, society as we know it will collapse well in
advance of the Y2K bug.
Speaking of Y2K, play through all of your DP records to make sure they'll
still sound good in 2000! Make sure your musical tastes are Y2K-compliant!]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marcelo Soares
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #13
IAN GILLAN: Can we have everything louder than everything else?
"Dá pra deixar tudo por aqui mais alto que todo o resto?"
May I please have some more hard liquor?
"Não tem nada mais forte aí?"
Have you any throat spray I can borrow?
"Tem um spray pra garganta pra me emprestar?"
What are the words to the song I am singing?
"Pô, comé que era mesmo?"
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
"UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"
ROGER GLOVER: I am a producer. Show me to the mixing board.
"Eu é que sou o produtor. Cadê a mesa de som?"
Where did the rest of the band go? I want to join them.
"Cadê o resto da banda? Tô perdido!"
RITCHIE BLACKMORE:
I just fired my singer. Please get Joe Lynn Turner on the telephone.
"Acabei de demitir meu cantor. Liga aí pro Joe Lynn Turner."
Get that camera away from me or I will ram my guitar up the lens.
"Tira essa merda de câmera da minha frente ou eu não me responsabilizo
pelo que minha guitarra pode fazer com tua lente!"
I told you to get that camera away from me.
"Eu avisei."
If you can glue my passport back together, I'll continue the tour.
"Dá pra revalidar meu passaporte? Acho que vou continuar a turnê."
DAVID COVERDALE: Ooooo-whoa-ohhh!
"Ou-uou-uou gata... " (You guys forgot the "babe")
'ere's a song for ya!
"Escuta essa aqui!"
JON LORD: Anyone want to hear "Fur Elise" one more time?
"Os cavalheiros e madames querem ouvir mais uma vez minha versão de
Pour Elise? "
How does my solo end? I seem to have forgotten.
"Onde é que termina este solo mesmo? Ah, deixa pra lá."
IAN PAICE: I want to play the drums.
"A bateria é comigo."
Please show me to the drums.
"Cadê a bateria?"
OK, one more beer, then I play the drums.
"Tá, tá... só mais esta ceva e eu encaro a batera!"
STEVE MORSE: (He seems to be the big, funny guy that doesn't say much.
He probably could get by with simple gestures and the occasional solo.)
(Ele parece ser aquele grande cara legal que quase não abre a boca.
Ele provavelmente poderia se virar com meia dúzia de gestos e um
solinho de vez em quando.)
So what phrases does DP need to know in your part of the world?
Welll... over here they would need to know:
Epa! Roubaram minha guitarra!!!
"Hey! Somebody stole my guitar!!!" (couldn't resist, guys...)
Cadê o banheiro?
"Where's the bathroom?"
Este muquifo não tem banheiro?
"This damn bar has NO bathroom?"
Me levem ao Gruta Azul.
"Take me to Gruta Azul" - if Gillan remembers Porto Alegre he will
surely remember where is Gruta Azul.
Vai firme!
"Go ahead!"
Well, enough for now. Let me work.
Marcelo.
==
Marcelo Soares
Porto Alegre/RS - Bras(z)il
mssilva(at-a-domain-named)yahoo.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Timo Reijola
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 2:30 AM
Subject: Black night?
I have been looking at many DP records and wonder about the
name of the tune called "Black Night." I do not get it. How can
a black night be a long way from home? Should it be "Knight?"
Timo
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[Heikki and I had been carrying on an offline conversation about cartoon
music and he sent this along. I felt like posting it because I always did
wonder what the 'toons would sound like with DP music. Bear in mind, folks,
that cartoons were the original music videos: they would feature one song in
the 'toon, so people would hear it and go buy the sheet music. They played
tunes that were popular for the day, so if DP had happened along in the
golden age of animation... That middle part to "Fireball" would be perfect
for a chase.]
-----Original Message-----
From: Heikki Heino
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 4:18 AM
Subject: Love cartoons/ Translations
Here's another letter in which there are parts that I guess are not for DPD.
*Love cartoons. I even did research into the music used in the Warner Bros.
*cartoons, which are my favorites. Lots of interesting stuff there.
Yes, there really is lots of interesting stuff in the WB cartoons. I've got
the "Carl Stalling Project" cd, which is great. The WB, MGM, Disney etc.
cartoons are the main reason why I got interested in swing and big band
music from the 1940's. There was no special music aimed for teenagers then,
so that was "pop". Can't help thinking what songs they had used if they'd
still made cartoons in the 1970's. Maybe Daffy or Bugs would light a stick
of dynamite in rowing boat while they play "Smoke on the Water". Or Wile E.
chasing Roadrunner while they play "Speed King" or "Highway Star".
[that was the cartoon part... now for the Finnish part]
The translations of DP titles to afrikaans were funny. Since Finnish doesn't
have even slightest resemblance to any other human language, it would be S&M
to translate anything to my dear mother tongue. Or would you like to know
what "Rotan lento", "Outo nainen", "Onnensoturi", "Mustalaisen suudelma",
"Ennustaja", or "Verenimijä" would be? I bet you do, so here you are:
"Flight of the Rat", "Strange Kind Of Woman", "Soldier of Fortune", "Gypsy's
Kiss", "Fortuneteller", and "Bloodsucker".
Pärjäile (that's "Take care" in Finnish)
Heikki
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Älä epäröi heittää tätä viestiä roskiin!
Heikki Heino
Jarrumiehenkatu 9-13 F 79
11100 RIIHIMÄKI, FINLAND
tel. (019) 730 075
E-mail: heikki.heino(at-a-domain-named)riihimaki.fi
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>From Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Critical Abandon
>From the reviews it's gotten so far, Abandon seems to be a highly
controversial DP release. While Purpendicular got raves all 'round, its
follow-up seems to have disappointed some, fallen short for many, and stayed
the course for few. I am among the few that felt it to be equal to
Purpendicular and gave it a "9."
I've been listening to the CD almost non-stop for the last day and a half
because I started on it at work, left the CD player on "repeat", and never
got tired of it. During my marathon listen, I noticed quite a few things.
1) There's a riff in the tail-end of the chorus to "Any Fule Kno That" that
is directly from "Bloodsucker." See if you can spot it. I found it ironic
that DP sort of credited themselves on the album by including the
re-recording of that track.
2) Gillan and Lord are definitely allowed to explore and experiment
musically with Morse at the guitar spot. It seems like the "reunion" stuff
was primarily a vehicle for Blackmore, with commercialism lurking at every
turn, while this incarnation of the band is a bunch of guys having fun and
expressing themselves freely. Let me develop this point further.
Lord's playing is outstanding as I expect it to be, but not as it was always
allowed to be. Many times through the album, I was reminded of how lovely
and free he sounded on the first three DP albums. That got me to wondering
who really made the hiring and firing decisions in the band. What if Morse
had been in the original line-up? Would Evans and Simper have been kept on?
Perhaps not. I think Paice and Lord wanted to move in a different musical
direction. I do know that Gillan and Blackmore did have a falling-out in '73
(and several times thereafter) and a different guy in the guitar slot would
have definitely had a different chemistry with the rest of the band.
Anyway, the band really went out into areas that they never touched on when
RB was in the band, or that hadn't been visited since 1969. This continues a
trend that started on Purpendicular. Gillan delivers non-rhyming-couplet
lyrics, Lord really gets to shine again, especially on "Fingers to the
Bone", and Paicey, well, he gets his own number.
3) PAICE IS BACK! One thing that really disappointed me on "Perfect
Strangers" was how straight-jacketed Paice's drumming was! He was playing
like he was just calling it in on a bunch of tracks there. 4/4, by the book,
no fire. It was even worse on Slaves & Masters. Purpendicular saw some
shining, like he was waking up from a bad dream, and Abandon sees his
greatness returned.
His playing is dead-on accurate, but now brings back the fills and filigrees
that made songs like "Pictures of Home" or "Burn" such pleasures to listen
to the drum track. This album is one he should definitely keep on his
resume. Again, I have to feel that he's realized a new lease on his musical
life and is going for the gusto.
4) Glover does an excellent job of production. Just wish he'd turn his own
bass up a little louder. I love hearing it, but he mixed it low on this one.
Maybe Gillan had a list drawn up of "Things the Bass Player Needs to Keep in
Mind When Mixing the Album" after he did Born Again with Black Sabbath.
Glover's gentleman enough to probably read and follow the list, too.
But c'mon, Roger! You can play real good, too, so do it! Cut loose on at
least one track and let it SLAM!
5) Morse again puts in a great turn on guitar. I hadn't bought a DP record
since Nobody's Perfect, because JLT just didn't do it for me. I almost
bought TBRO, but was kinda broke at the time. When Blackmore left, I
thought, there goes the band... they'll be broke up and crying before you
can say "Bolin."
Seeing http://www.deep-purple.com and the reviews for Purpendicular there,
though, got me going again. I bought P and it blew my mind. It was a whole
different experience and lovely throughout. These were not old men milking a
cash cow: these were seasoned veterans blowing away the rookie kids again.
And Morse's guitar was the biggest surprise for me of all.
I was totally unfamiliar with his playing, but became an instant fan. I knew
I was really hooked and he was really good and the chemistry in the band was
really strong when his playing made me forget that Blackmore had ever been
in the band. These guys played like they had been together forever and were
smokin' hot.
Morse made me say "Ritchie who?" again on this release. Don't get me wrong:
The Man in Black can still wipe the floor with 99.99% of all other
guitarists out there, but Morse is not one of them. Steve Morse's playing
makes me want to pick up my air guitar and jam out with him all day.
6) They recorded "69". I guess you either love the riff or you get tired of
it. Me, I loved it and they played it plenty good so that when the song's
over, I feel like I heard the riff enough times. I hate songs that have 20
seconds of pure WOW! in the middle and never go back to that awesome part,
and "69" was WOW! all the way through for me. I'll even set it up to play
just that song on constant repeat for an hour or so... I recorded two
60-second clips to be my Windows 95 opening and closing sounds... I love
that riff!
So others didn't seem so enamoured of it. Too bad. I like it, so it's pure
genius.
Overall, the album was a whole lot of fun. This one and Purpendicular both
reminded me strongly of Fireball. Excellent songs that I could play all day
long (and have done so on several occasions) (hang on, I'm listening to "69"
again: it just came up... bear with me... almost over... almost over...
almost over... almost over... OK, done.), but the albums lack the "oneness"
that Machine Head had and the sheer live power from "Made in Japan." Those
were the only albums I gave a "10" to, and it was because of the totality of
those recordings. P and A do not have either in totality, but are still the
two best albums DP has done since the original Mk2 lineup.
If I had to choose between Purpendicular or Abandon regarding which one was
better, I'd have to pick Abandon. It's more free and more open.
Purpendicular was very therapeutic for the band and Abandon is the resultant
celebration.
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>From Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Artistic periods of Blackmore
It should be obvious to even the novice Deeppurpleophile that Ritchie
Blackmore does -not- have the same sound on Shades of Deep Purple and Slaves
& Masters. And he has different sounds in between. So what defines his
artistic periods? What trademarks does he give us in each phase? I'll think
about this question some myself, but I thought it would make for a good
discussion, so I tossed it out to the list.
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