DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #46
In this issue:
Gov't Mule
Vinyl
Steve Morse in Europe?
More guitarist quiz answers
Corruptin them childrens
Steve Morse
Dio
DP in Australia
SOTW & Black Night
Quiz Answers
Gov't Mule (2)
Reviews
When is Ian Gillan having the most fun? (Musically, that is...)
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-----Original Message-----
From: ANTLA51647(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 11:11 AM
Subject: Gov't Mule
Someone asked who Gov't Mule was, and what to buy of theirs...Buy everything
of theirs!!! They are incredible! Warren Haynes is the guitar player and
vocalist, He played with the Allman Brothers from 89 till about 96...But they
don't sound like the Allmans..THey are a 3 piece power trio..Like Cream, or
Mountain, some Zeppelin influence..Heavy Bluzzzz....Warren has mentioned in
interviews that he grew up listening to blackmore as an influence...You won't
go wrong..Check them out..
Rick
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From: Zoso
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 1:14 PM
Subject: Vinyl - less is more???
Hi Dean,
I was interested to read Heikki's post regretting the passing of vinyl records, as this is something that's slowly been dawning on me too. I remember buying "Perfect Strangers", (after previously hiding it in the Val Doonigan section so that no-one else could buy it first!) The eager anticipation of waiting for the music to start and hearing the crackles at the beginning of the record when I put it on my dad's old radiogram for the first time are still so vivid in my mind.
However it's not just the crackles at the beginning that I like about vinyl (I don't like crackles anywhere else mind you, my version of "Smoke" always jumps on the chorus... "Sm-ater... Fire in the sky!") but the conciseness of vinyl records seem to make much more powerful musical statements IMHO. The days of four tracks on side 1, three on side 2... at least you knew that you stood a pretty good chance of getting the absolute best of the crop, an epic on side 2 and no 'fillers' or 'padding'.
For instance, if killer albums like "In Rock", "Machine Head" or "Rainbow Rising" were stretched out by today's standards (i.e. by another 20 minutes at least) I wonder whether we'd hold them in such reverence as we do. It seems to me that the intensity of the experience is being lost by record companies who want to pack as much 'product' onto CD as possible, regardless of quality, flow and concept. (I guess there are always exceptions to the rule, "Perpendicular" being one such example, a masterpiece throughout... all 62 mins 30 secs of it.)
Maybe it's the thought of those great big gatefold sleeves, the illustrated dust jackets and the huge pictures that is making me look through rose-tinted spectacles, (love the band shots on "Rainbow Rising" and "Straight between the Eyes"... priceless!) but I wonder if anyone else agrees that to combine the benefits of CDs with the aesthetics of vinyl would be mighty fine innovation.
All the best.
Simon C.
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From: Svante Pettersson
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Steve Morse Band in Europe?
nborger(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com wrote:
>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.
My friend Rasmus Heide from Denmark saw Dave LaRue from the Steve Morse
Band playing with Pat Travers the other night. Apparently Dave told Rasmus
that they were looking into the possibility of bringing the Steve Morse
Band over to Europe.
/Svante
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marcelo Silveyra
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 3:27 AM
Subject: Final guitarist answer
Seeing as to how all the others are right...the last one is the
tragically dead (RIP) Criss Oliva.
Peace,
Marcelo Silveyra
==
-The History of Heavy Metal-
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/2308
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean P Powers
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #45
hey all! I dont post to the list often, but never miss the opportunity to
dissect the new issues as they roll in...two posts in particular caught my
attention in #45, however...
> 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.
Hell, I'm 23 and I feel like an old man these days. I have diverse
musical tastes, but HR/HM is my passion. I run a college radio show
spotlighting DP, BS, IM, VH, Scorps, etc etc...it seems that all the time
I keep getting requests for Limp Bizkit, Manson, etc. I refuse to play
this stuff. Some of it I like, but hey, I've got a format.
My point is this: I feel that I am accomplishing the idea inherent in the
above post. Kids keep calling and asking for "their" bands, and I refuse
to play them. The point is, they keep calling, in other words, they keep
listening. Could it be I've reached a few of these troubled youth?
Curious for more info on my show? Check out:
http://orion.ramapo.edu/~spowers/nightrain.html
(sorry, couldn't resist a cheap plug!)
> 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.
That's easy for me, how many times have I listened to In Rock, wondering
what it would be like to be in the studio with DP working with them on
their pioneering effort. Which member would I be? Hah! I'd be Martin
Birch (he did work on IR, didn't he?), steering the proceedings. Ok, I
know that's unfair since he wasn't a member, but that's my response!
Just wondering, has anyone heard of a top quality recording of the 8/6/98
DP show at the PNC Bank Arts Center in NJ, audio or video? If you have,
I'm interested. I was there, but left during Perfect Strangers. Any info
would be great. Thanks...
Sean Powers
Mahwah, NJ
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From: Paul Sommer
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 10:58 PM
Subject: STEVE MORSE
Hello.
I was just wondering if all solo albums by Steve Morse were as mellow
and laid back as, "High Tension Wires" and "Structual Damage"? These are
the only 2 cd's that i could find in Australia (the rest have been
deleted from the list).
I was actually looking for either. Coast to Coast, Southern Steel, or
Stressfest. Are these albums heavier than the others??? By that i mean
do they sound at all like Steve with DP????? I'd like to think they are
because i want to order them from CD NOW..
Also, what about Glenn Hughe's solo albums, Play me Out and Addiction???
i had a short listen to Play me Out on the net and it sounds as funky as
Stormbringer. Is it????
Thanx
CYA
Paul Sommer
sharkie59(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com
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From: Paul Sommer
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 11:08 PM
Subject: DIO
Does anyone know what RJD is up to now. Is he still with Dio???
What happened to the guitarist on the album " DREAM EVIL " Craig
Goldie??? He's work on this album is really strong with the solo's from
Night People and the title track being me faves. Also the whole of ALL
THE FOOLS SAILED AWAY is glorious. How do other Dio albums stan up to
Dream Evil?? Are they alot heavier or what???
Thanx
Paul Sommer
sharkie59(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sommer
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 11:10 PM
Subject: AUST TOUR
I got my tickets for DP's tour in Sydney. Row 14, section A ! I arriveed
at the booking place at 8.30am ( for a 9.00 am open), and already there
were a helluvalot of people queing up. This isn't bad considering that
Abandon hadn't even come out over here yet. ( I'm glad that i recieved
my copy in March of 98 so that now i will be familar with the songs on
the current tour). What does the current setlist sonsist of and is that
likley to stay the same for the Australian Tour??
Thanx
Paul Sommer
sharkie59(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sommer
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 11:26 PM
Subject: SOTW & Black Night
Does it piss anyone else off that the only songs that DP are credited
with are SOTW and Black Night???
These are the only 2 DP songs that get any radio play in Australia.
Whenever i ask a non DP fan if they have heard of the band, or if the
band come up in talking, the person will always say, " Oh yeah, they did
Smoke on the Water didn't they (add person playing the riff with his/her
air guitar)!!"
Now don't get me wrong, i like these two songs, but they just don't
show the band's brilliance as much as say, Highway Star, SIFLS, Child in
Time, Fireball, Fools, Lazy, Rat Bat Blue, Burn, Hold On, Comin Home,
Gypsy's Kiss or Dead or Alive, to name a few!!!!
Still, it's better than them not being credited at all, i spose
Paul Sommer
sharkie59(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com
{Dean "OK, I'm stupid" Webb: Which song is SIFLS? Them letters just don't ring me no bells.}
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From: SUBRAMANIANCV
To: 'DP'
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 2:18 AM
Subject: The ROCK QUIZ String Strangler Special: ANSWERS!!
> yellow Pals
Eric makes it 4 outta 5
> great show.
> Here goes the complete answers
> plus some titbits
>
> Venky
>
> 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".
> [Venky says] jason becker. his last album was interesting... he was
> so incapacitated by his disease that he couldn't play guitar. so, he wrote
> out all the music for the new album, and a virtual who's who of the rock
> instrumental world played his tunes for him...
>
> 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.
> [Venky says] this guy needs no introduction... the man who made it
> ok to play rock guitar instrumentals again : 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.
> [Venky says] toni iommi - does the name ring a bell?? ;-) here's
> some more info re: him from s_amit:
> And More on this........If you've noticed, there is usually a very
> different kind of sound on all of Iommi's recordings. Its has a veryy
> dullish kind of effect. That is because Iommi uses the lightest gauge
> strings and also tunes a semitone lower...so that the fragile tips of his
> fingers don't break open.He also uses thimbles to protect those fingertips
> when playing.
> and here's some more from him:
> Well! Toni Iommi and whats his name ..Ozzy Orborne were both from the
> Steel City of Birmingham! Both of these guys were also running with local
> gangs. And there was actually an incident much before Black Sabath when
> Iommi beat up Ozzy pretty badly! And when Ozzy showed up for the audition
> for vocalist, both these guys recognised each other....
>
> .......besides, these guys were quite notorious in other ways too...a
> really bad case of rock and roll excesses! Once they poured spirit on the
> hands of their drummer (I don't remember the name of the poor soul) and
> put a match to it. And they laughed (they were not in thier senses
> ofcourse) while he ended up with 2nd degree burns! And there was also this
> case when Ozzy was on his way down an elvator , in a plush hotel somewhere
> in Europe...had an urgent call of nature..and urgent as it was he pulled
> his pants down and defecated right there. And when they the elevator door
> opened in the hotel lobby...Ozzy with his pants around his knees....they
> were given the good old heave-ho ..........
>
>
> 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.
> [Venky says] an avid huntsman, known for his big sound and over the
> top playing - ladies and gentlemen, meet the wildman: 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.
> [Venky says] criss olivia, of savatage, if anyone remembers them...
>
>
When the deep purple falls
over sleepy garden walls
and the stars begin to flicker in the sky
thru the mist of a memory
you wander back to me
breathing my name with a sigh.
Mitchel
Parish
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-----Original Message-----
From: Luiz Fernando Bezerra Pinto
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 12:01 PM
Subject: Gov't Mule
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>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!
>
>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
Hi Daniel,
I remember that because I was the guy that mentioned Gov't Mule. Well, they
have 3 records ("Gov't Mule", "Live at the Roseland Ballroom" and "Dose")
and all of them are excellent, it's difficult to choose the best one. If
you like that kind of heavy blues/rock, played by superb musicians, you
will love any Gov't Mule CD. So, my suggestion for you is to follow the
chronological order. Go for the first album,"Gov't Mule", and I'm sure you
will want to buy the others.
Cheers!
Luiz Bezerra
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rod langlands
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 8:40 PM
Subject: Recent reviews
DP are touring here in Perth Western Australia in April and I'm
interested to hear from anyone who has seen them during the current
tour. Also, anyone who has seen John Lord's solo tour.
Cheers
Rod Langlands
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When was Ian Gillan Having the Most Fun (Musically, that is...)
From Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
I'd have to say that of all the DP personnel, Ian Gillan was/is my favorite. He definitely has a certain charisma and stage presence that even comes across in recordings. I really enjoy his witty, clever lyrics. I also like the fact that he really doesn't seem to take what he does so seriously to the point of stupidity. He definitely has fun when he sings, and when he isn't having fun, he doesn't sing too much. With the band that isn't fun, I mean.
Anyway, I was wondering on which song is he having the most fun of all? After a little scattershooting through my collection, I figured that "Mitzi Dupree", "Almost Human", "Hey Cisco", and "Nobody Home" all had to be rousers for him, but that "No One Came" had to be his funnest hour. That song is always a favorite of mine and not just because of the cool backward piano solo at the end. Gillan's lyrics and emoting make that song for me. Especially the Robin Hood stuff and the choruses... "No one came from miles around and said, 'man, who's he?'" In fact, most of the stuff from Fireball seems to be right up Gillan's alley. Small wonder he considers it his favorite of the Mk2 days.
Anyway, I checked the little blurbs from each of the 8 main pages at my site and noticed that 2 of them came from "No One Came." I suppose I really *really* like that song a bunch.
So, what was the finest/best/whateverest time your favorite DP fellow ever had? I'd like to know.
Later, list!
"Nobody knows who's real and who's faking
Everyone's shouting out loud.
It's only the glitter and shine that gets through
Where's my Robin Hood outfit?"
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