DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #45
In this issue:
Quiz answers
Kids and DP
Smoke on Today's Youth
Gov't Mule and Tea Party
Neal Schon
If Only...
Combo subscription and first post
I Miss LPs...
SOTW at school
There's a fire down below...
Kids and Steve Morse Info Request
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Fallas
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 7:36 AM
Subject: Quiz
Hi All
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>From: SUBRAMANIANCV
>
>Who are these guitarists?
>1) His work with Marty Friedman in the band Cacophony is one of the
>best
>duets in rock guitar history(others may be Racer X, MVP, and Greg
>Howe & Richie Kotzen). He was diagnosed with ALS when he was 20,and since
>then has released an album,"Perspective".
Jason Becker
>
>2) This guitarist is supposed to have had surgery performed on the
>skin
>between his fingers so he could cover more frets.Also a teacher to
>other
>guitar greats.
Joe Satriani
>
>3) He caught his right hand in a machine press and cut off the ends
>of his
>middle and ring fingers..Never stopped him,and nearly 30 years
>later,he
>continues to make new music,and is on tour currently.
Yony Iommi
>
>4) He was put in jail for breaking fire laws in Cincinnati when he
>lit an
>arrow,and shot it at a Saddam Hussein dummy during one of his
>concerts.He will be retiring in the near future,according to sources at
The
>Bear, the rock station he works at while he isn't touring.
Ted Nugent
>
>5)On October 17th 1993 at around 3:30am while driving north on
>highway 301 on his way to the Fourth Annual Livestock Festival held in
>Zepherhills, Fl. just north of Tampa,an oncoming car crossed the median
and
>struck his 1982 Mazda RX7 head-on killing him instantly.
Allen Collins?
Cheers
Eric
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Jory
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 8:02 PM
Subject: kids...
Dean,
Kids have great taste in music! In the spring of '96 my daughter was 2
years old and fell in love with The Aviator. She's 5 now and if I play it
she still drops whatever she's doing and dances around the room. The
louder the better!
Tom
{Dean "Pops" Webb: My kids all love hard rock. You should see the riot when
we put Blue Oyster Cult's "Godzilla" on. That song is *huge* fun with a
pre-teen crowd that's actually seen the original monster movies. I find
playing loud stuff helps everyone clean the house better when we're doing
chores. Machine Head is ideal for this.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Swoboda
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 11:24 PM
Subject: Smoke on Today's Youth
Dean wrote:
>> And then I started thinking some more as I wrote this bit... what would
be
some other DP songs that would, uh, *broaden* the musical horizons of
today's preteen youth? <<
There was a guy; Sam Naugler; who used to post to the Black Sabbath
list on a regular basis, back when Mike Sulivan ran it and for at least a
year after Joe took
it over. He had an idea once--make a compilation of classic HM/HR songs,
dub it to cheap tapes, and carry one with you at all times. Then give 'em
away to these damn kids with the NSync and Backstreet Boys, who haven't
even heard of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, or Iron Maiden.
I still haven't done it, but I keep saying I'm going to. "These damn
kids..." did I say that? No, I'm not getting THAT old, please no. I can
still pass for as young as, hell, 14, maybe I'll go back to high school
like that guy in Oregon, and teach 'em to rock out and headbang like it's
1985...
--T.J.
{Dean "Corrupter of the Nation's Youth" Webb: see below for more on this
topic... read on...}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Reichberg
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 3:49 AM
Subject: Gov't Mule and Tea Party...recommendations, please!
Around a year ago, I asked the Purple people on the 'Net to tell me what
groups they listened to when they decided not to listen to DP.
I got MANY answers. Some were quite predictable (Sabbath, Zeppelin),
some less predictable (ABBA, Byrds) and it was astonishing that both
Pink Floyd, Sabbath and Zeppelin got more "points" than Rainbow,
Whitesnke or Gillan!
But some Purple fans also named two bands which I had never heard of:
Gov't Mule and The Tea Party. I decided to check them out, but forgot
all about it. Now, yesterday I went to my record store and had a look at
their records, but I didn't have a clue which one I should buy. So....
...Can someone please tell me which Tea Party and Gov't Mule records are
most worth the money! I'd be very thankful!
Daniel
{Dean Webb: No idea on those bands, but I do recall reading a 1985
interview with Blackmore where he talked about touring Mexico listening to
nothing but ABBA. Go figure.
As far as the bigger bands getting more points than the DP spinoff bands,
that may have more to do with the bands being bigger sellers, and hence
having more listeners per capita than the DP spinoff bands.
As far as what *I* listen to when I don't have DP on, well, that list is
LOOOONG. Not only does it include a bunch of classic rock and heavy metal,
but great *REAL* oldies like The Coasters, Hank Ballard, Little Richard,
and them guys, old bluesmen, The O'Jays, Todd Rundgren, Simon Shaheen
(Middle-Eastern Music), Gyorgy Ligeti (really really really really
avant-garde composer), Los Lobos (... AY AY AY AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEE
hahahahaha...), Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, John McLaughlin's Shakti
(Indian-influenced virtuousity), Squirrel Nut Zippers, and a little Ivan
Cuesta every now and then (Mr. Cuesta does Colombian music. Lots of fun.).
Let us say that I have some diverse tastes, then, and move on.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hatheway-SSI
To: 'dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com'
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 11:50 AM
Subject: Neal Schon
>{Dean Webb: I just thought of another guitarist that could have stepped
in:
>Neal Schon. No vocal aspirations and a really good guy. Did some great
>stuff in Santana and Journey. Journey's later mushiness wasn't his doing,
>if I'm not mistaken. If I'm mistaken, then good thing he didn't sign on.}
Yeah, he might work, if they can get past his ego.
But you're right Dean, Neal preferred harder rock over the stuff he did in
the later days of Journey. His
band with Sammy Hagar, HSAS, was more edgier.
TomH
SunnyvaleCA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Tiplady
To: DP List
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 5:35 PM
Subject: If only .............
Great thoughts Dean ! If only I were in Deep Purple ......... Which moment
and which person would we all like to have been ? Maybe all you DP people
out there would like to share your dreams with all of us ?! Personally I
would have loved to have been the MIB at the California Jam , smashing my
Strat into that poor guys camera ! And feeling the blast from the exploding
Marshall stacks ! What a great man . I wish he was still with the band
Cheers, Paul.
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Brudenell
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 7:48 PM
Subject: Subscription
Greetings.
My name is David Brudenell and I am a severe follower of Deep Purple.
Athough I can't dany that this has only started within the last five
years, I still consider myself as a full time fan of the band.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could add me to the mailing list.
Just for no reason at all I'd like to inform you that I have my ticket
for the Deep Purple A.Band.On tour for April 20 at Melbourne Park. I
couldn't believe my luck when I found out that they were coming to
Melbourne, so I got in quick. A reserve was sold out ofter one day but
I managed a B placing. It'll still be good.
Thanks a lot, and I hope to hear from you soon.
David.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Heikki Heino
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 6:01 AM
Subject: Miss LPs
Hi everybody!
Yesterday I realized how much I miss the good old vinyl LP. My sentiment
has
nothing to do with LP's sound - I hate to hear all those scratches. It's
just that in the good old days everybody was happy with a 40-minute LP, and
nobody felt cheated if an LP was only 35 minutes long. Today CDs are
expected to be over 60 or even 70 minutes long.
These days only few recording artists have the guts to make albums that are
shorter than 50 minutes, which IMO would be the ideal album duration. That
way artists could make new albums more often - is that something record
companies would find unwelcome?
So: How I wish things could be like in the 1970s when one could expect a
new
Purple studio album hit the shops every year...
Heikki
{Dean "Vinyl Junkie" Webb: Best not to get me started on this line. I'm a
recovering vinylaholic and I actually *like* hearing the scratches and pops
at the beginning of a record as I breathe in the delicate mustiness of the
inner jacket sleeve as... as... I better stop now before I lose control. If
only CDs played like vinyl records (12" across, slap 'em on a turntable,
let the laser "needle" hover over the surface...), I suppose I could go on
living the life I once knew. Now I gotta have an additional component to my
stereo system and carry a jeweler's lens to read the $%^& lyric sheets.
Progress, I guess.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo Avello
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 6:07 AM
Subject: Raina and SOTW at school.
Dear Dean:
I just can't wait to know what happened with your daughter Raina and the
DP CD at her school. This is so incredible!
What were her school teacher and little classmates reaction?
You don't need to print this post in the list. I guess some other
subscribers have already asked you about this issue. I'd appreciate if
you could tell us how the story ends...
Thank you.
My regards to your family,
Eduardo Avello
Concepción
Chile
{Dean "Terrible Father" Webb: On the actual day she did her project, we
were in a rush and forgot to grab the CD. When I realized we left without
it, I felt bad. Raina didn't mind too much, though, because she was really
busy that day and didn't have much time to sit and listen.
But in other areas to file under "corrupting the youth of the nation", I
will relate that when I used to teach, I kept a turntable in my room. The
library had tons of them and nobody ever used them, so I could always get
one on permanent loan. I would then bring in LPs from home and rock my
class out at gunpoint. Well, not really gunpoint, but they were a captive
audience.
I discovered that kids would stay quieter during tests and stuff if
instrumental music was playing in the background than if there was just
silence. So, I would play LOOOOOOOOOOOONG instrumentals during tests and
stuff I needed to keep the kids quiet during. (The kids, BTW, are 12-18 yrs
old -- 7th to 12th grade.) What did I pick? Mountain's "Nantucket
Sleighride" (live); Side 1 of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here (that one
became a heavily-requested favorite... by the kids!); the 30-minute live
version of Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused"; and, of course, Deep Purple's
live versions of "Space Truckin" and "Wring That Neck." Some of the kids
actually liked them, others were a little critical, and most didn't mind,
but were thankful for the diversion. Go figure.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: NEIL JONES
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Friday, February 12, 1999 2:59 PM
Subject: ref. "Snow on the Water"..........
Dear Dean, just picking up on your posting regarding your son singing
"Snow" instead of "Smoke" , had me remembering what my Mother used to sing
when SOTW, used to blast out of the speakers at home , some eighteen years
ago.......when the song reached the chorous, "Smoooooke on the Waaater",
she would sing ,......" there is a fire down below "....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Its, not " there is a fire down below ", Mother, it is " a fire in the
sky"...........and so it would go on again.....cue the chorous, and yet
again, its still " a fire down below"............I tried to educate her
,but in the end I just gave up........still, its the only Purple song that
had any acknowledgment from her at all......she knew everything by Doris
Day though.....!!!!!!!!!!
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-----Original Message-----
From: nborger(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999 10:52 AM
Subject: Kids & music
Hi Dean,
Snow on the water, funny story. There has been enough snow and freezing
lately in Europe to make it Snow on the ice. Nice that your kids are so
much into your music. My kids have their own taste for music. My son, 4,
thinks that my music is too noisy (just like my Dad). He is totally into
Samson & Gert. My daughter, 2, likes music with a strong beat. Sometimes
she also dances on DP, but her favourite is the house rhythm. Thank God my
wife likes the same music I do.
Does anybody know if the Steve Morse Band is also going to do a Euro tour?
I saw that he has been touring in the U.S.A.
I was wondering does anybody have a favourite DP? I can't decide about my
favourite DP Mark II, DP Mark IX, DP Mark III is also great and DP Mark I
also fantastic, so I can't say I have a favourite DP mark. Lately I was
talking with someone who said that DP Mark I is the only real DP for him,
which resulted in a nice and long discussion.
Nico.
{Dean Webb: My faves are Mk2 and MkWhateverItIsRightNow}
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