DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #56
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In this issue:
A word from the Editor...
Re: Boxed Set
CTTB vs.Stormbringer
Bolin
April
BS/Dio/Rainbow
When Colin Hart asks for pics...
Machine Head Live
Re: MIJ
JLT/Rainbow
Boxed set
Bolin
Thanks
Resurrection Shuffle
Boxed Set
DP Haiku
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From the Editor, Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Well, time for another DPD. Hope to be on a regular track once again, as things return to routine patterns around here (vacations over, in my new job and all that). I always want to keep the DPD coming out, even though it may take a while to get back to tinkering with the DPD website. Seeing as how I also tinker a lot with my other websites, it's a busy schedule.
Not much else to say here except on to the digest!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Heikki Heino [mailto:heikki.heino(at-a-domain-named)mailis.rkol.fi]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 1:12 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #55
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ted A Sapp [mailto:dodolurker(at-a-domain-named)juno.com]
>Subject: Purps' Box Set
>
>
>Hello All,
>
> Has anyone picked up the DP box set? Just seeing the advert for it in
>Goldmine magazine made me salivate for it. If anyone has, please tell me
>what you think of it, as I won't be able to afford it for quite some
>time, (sigh!) and would like to read some feedback on it, positive or
>negative.
>
>Thanks, Ted
>
That DP box... 5 hours of DP music, some tracks/edits that can't be found on
any other CD. An attept to get ALL those classics together makes the
selection kind of strange: practically every track from Fireball and Machine
Head is included! IMO the booket is great.
I just don't know who Rhino/Warner thought would buy this box. If you are a
fan you probably already have most of the tracks. And newbie fans will
probably consider the price too high.
So:
If you want to have as many DP tracks on CD format (hello all you
completists like me!) go ahead and buy this box. There are about 10
hard-to-get songs/edits. But if you just want to have something with which
to convince your friends that DP is one of the greatest bands ever, I
suggest you buy the following compilations: The Anthology, Knocking At Your
Back Door, and Purplexed. With those you get a good view over Purple's 30
years a lot cheaper (at least in Europe).
Heikki
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Brooks [mailto:rbrooks(at-a-domain-named)wxs.nl]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 2:28 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: CTTB vs Stormbringer
I must be honest and state that I was never the biggest fan of MK III. I did not, for starters, like their live treatment of the MK II songs and I think that their recorded output is variable. Burn had some great moments and was obvioulsy a grasp at a new direction. On this level it suceeded, there could be life after Gillan/Glover, but I guess inevitable the follow up would be make ot break.
So on to Stormbringer, well it is different, it was not Burn nor really what you would have predicted as a follow up either. Everybody is familiar with the artistic struggles within the group, and the result was patchy. It was light years away from MK II but this was ok, they were exploring new areas. But in the final anlysis it compares poorly with the rest of the 70's output. Stormbringer, Holy Man & Gypsy etc are good but there are two many duller moments. Blackers is definatley on the back burner here, look at the credits, and a few months later we saw exactly where his ideas had been. DC was never my fav singer, but he does well hear, music being more suited to his voice, Hughes was great on the record, as compared to on stage where he so OTT. I think it showed a band that had run out of steam. Anyway the banjo player took a hike and that led us to........
Come taste the band. Well I knew nothing of Bolin when I first heard this one. First impressions, well different. Lots of energy and vitality that was missing from the last one. Yeah sure Ritchie was missed, but I also missed him on Stormbringer! Tommy was different, wrote differently, and maybe allowed the others more freedom of expression. I actually like this more than any of the MK III stuff, it has good songs, variety and vitality. A good intro the the new band. For me they blew it all on stage.
Why?
Well several things really, Tommy and his well documented problems and off nights, Glenn and just about everything he did and the songs they played. HS sounded terrible with this band, DC was nowhere near this one, SOTW was bad enough but really. Having said that when they were good, OTWOARF etc, they were damn good.
But on vinyl I still think CTTB stands as one their best efforts, just a shame everything else surrounding that line up is viewed the way it is. I think it influences peoples perception of CTTB. Forget the other crap and put it on and give it a good listen, it rocks.
Richard
{Dean "More comments this time" Webb: I have to agree that the Mk3 treatment of Mk2 material was quite lacking. On the other hand, their live work I consider outstanding and electrifying. I have not heard Mk4 live, but intend to get the King Biscuit CD to give them a whirl. Bolin was in good health, and other list members have recommended it.
Speaking of live recordings, is a Mk1 live record ever coming out of the vault? That would be, at the very worst, interesting and something to compare stuff to.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sommer [mailto:sharkie59(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 5:04 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: Bolin
Brian Lewis said that CTTB was a crap album and made Stormbringer sound
brilliant (or something like that). Get ya' hand off it mate, listen to
number one, Comin' Home and tell me that it is not a song full of energy
and talent. Comin' Home is one of my favorite Deep Purple songs,
Blackmore or no Blackmore. The album also has other powerful songs in
Gettin' Tighter and Love Child. Gettin' Tighter has alot of balls in it
and the guitar playing mixed with Hughe's base in the middle funk
section is spectacualr. Another song which is one of my favorites is
This Time Around. Glenn's voice on this song is breathtaking.
Listen to it again and say that it is a poor album. It is no In Rock or
Machine Head, but it's a helluva lot better than any non DP album.
Paul (no offense intended ) Sommer
{Dean "I knew there would be comments..." Webb: I used to think CTTB was poor until I tried it again when I started the DPD. That platter really grows on ya!
BTW, it reminds me of when I was going to see Black Sabbath on their Born Again tour (Gillan singing, of course). As I sat in the arena audience, a mere lad of 16, but already an avid DP/BS-ophile, I heard "Gettin' Tighter" on the arena speakers just before Night Ranger opened up. (There's a bad that fell off the radar screen...) Anyway, it really made me do a double-take. If they could play this song on the sound system, why couldn't they play it on the radio? That made me miffed. I also noted the irony that they were playing a DP song with Glenn Hughes singing while Gillan was going to be taking the stage... Years later, when Glenn did the vocals on Seventh Star, I began to wonder if that track being played was just happenstance or Mr. Iommi plotting in the wings... ("Say, when you play the music before we come on stage, play something with Glenn Hughes singing... Something *FUN-KAY!") (Then again, maybe not *exactly* like that.)}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sommer [mailto:sharkie59(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 5:07 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: April
Ritchie was born on April 14th. OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Roll the twilight zone theme.
{Dean "Gotcher TZ theme right here, pal!" Webb: doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo...}
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-----Original Message-----
From: wardst(at-a-domain-named)nytimes.com [mailto:wardst(at-a-domain-named)nytimes.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 10:40 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: Black Sabbath/Dio/Rainbow
Hi,
Does anyone on the list know if there are mailing lists for Black Sabbath,
Rainbow and Dio? If so, can someone please e-mail me and let me know how to
get on the mailing lists.
Thanks,
Steven
{Dean "Editor" Webb: The BS list can be found at http://www.black-sabbath.com and is a very nice list, indeed. I don't have addresses for the other two off the top of my head, so I'll defer those answers to the list.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Soveiko [mailto:nsoveiko(at-a-domain-named)doe.carleton.ca]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 3:26 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #55
Quoting message from Deep Purple Digest:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garry Smith [mailto:garry(at-a-domain-named)caleyjag.demon.co.uk]
> Subject: Live at the Olympia
> The second is that the management had asked for everyone
> who had photos from the tour to send them in, and if your
> photo was used on the CD booklet, you got a name-check!
> I guess many of the names there will be on the DPD list.
It was Colin Hart, DP's tour manager, who had asked on a.m.d-p to send in
pictures for an upcoming live album. The promise was to credit everybody
who had signed their pictures on the back. This is how I got a credit,
though my pictures weren't actually used.
Colin made a similar request last September. This time the pictures
apparently were intended for some UK promotion. I keep my fingers crossed. ;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SlatkaMaja(at-a-domain-named)aol.com [mailto:SlatkaMaja(at-a-domain-named)aol.com]
> Subject: hello....please answer
>
> i'd like to know if there exists a " Machine Head Live '72 ", i mean on a
> tape, video casette. , or , DVD.
yes, it was released on video as Scandinavian Nights in Europe and as
Machine Head Live in Japan. Japanese release should also exist on
laserdisk.
see
http://www.deep-purple.com/rosas/jouni/discos/video03.html
for more info.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JMRosen(at-a-domain-named)aol.com [mailto:JMRosen(at-a-domain-named)aol.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 1999 12:56 AM
> To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
> Subject: question re Made in Japan
>
> I actually have a Deep Purple question. I purchased the 25th anniversary
> edition of "Machine Head" on the Warner/Rhino label in the purple slip case.
> Was "Made in Japan" released in the same anniversary series w/slip case?
No, MiJ'25th doesn't have a slip case. It has a regular plasic case with
booklet similar in layout to the original MiJ release except it's black
instead of goldenish. At least, that's how EMI release looks like.
--
Nick Soveiko
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Currin [mailto:vagabond(at-a-domain-named)rock.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 12:55 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Machine Head Live
-----Original Message-----
From: SlatkaMaja(at-a-domain-named)aol.com [mailto:SlatkaMaja(at-a-domain-named)aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 1999 8:27 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: hello....please answer
> hello,
>i'd like to know if there exists a " Machine Head Live '72 ", i mean on a
>tape, video casette. , or , DVD.
> thank u very much, maja xoxo
This is the name on the Japanese release of the video Scandinavian Nights
(Live in Denmark)
issued in the UK in 1990 (Connoisseur Collection CCV-1000)
It is completely different from the CD Scandinavian Nights which was
recorded in 1970.
Recorded live by Danish TV live on 1st March 1972 in Copenhagen.
Tracks:
Highway star
Strange kind of woman
Child in time
The mule
Lazy
Space truckin'
Fireball
Lucille
Black night
The video is a sort of purplish monochrome and the soundtrack is mono, but
very good nonetheless!
Cheers
Brian
------Brian Currin-----
The Vagabond Of The Website World
http://bigfoot.rock.com/~vagabond
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-----Original Message-----
From: Svante Pettersson [mailto:svante(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 6:27 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: question re Made in Japan
At 12:56 AM 1999-03-27, JMRosen(at-a-domain-named)aol.com wrote:
>I actually have a Deep Purple question. I purchased the 25th anniversary
>edition of "Machine Head" on the Warner/Rhino label in the purple slip case.
>Was "Made in Japan" released in the same anniversary series w/slip case?
No, the 25th anniversary edition of "Made in Japan" was not available in a
slip case.
/Svante
ased a week or two ago? Anyway, all the details should be
available at:
http://www.ritchieblackmore.com/
Unfortunately, if you live in the USA it may not be released at all. You
might have to look for an import. I don't know if Ritchie has a US
distribution at the moment.
> Also, will it be the same style of medievil rock that Shadow of the
>Moon was, or will it have the harder edge that Candice added to Stranger
>in us All ( Arial and Hall of the Mountain King) ??? I am hoping that
>the latter is true, but judging from the title, the first prediction
>sounds more likely.
"Rock"? I wouldn't call the last album rock... :^) As far as I know the new
album will sound like the last album. It is not an electric hardrock album.
> Ages ago in September or something, someone said something of a
>Blackmore / Dio reunion. What ever happened to that????
Apparently some managers were trying to get something together but
according to Ritchie's manager there were never any real plans for a
reunion. Ritchie's manager claims that Blackmore's Night has been Ritchie's
main focus all the time.
>Has anyone heard the Glenn Hughe's album Burning Japan Live?? I
>listened to about 30 secs of a couple of songs on cdnow and it sounded
>pretty kewl. Is it?? His voice sounded a lot harder on the version of
>Burn than it did 25 years ago.
That album is great IMO! A great live album featuring some excellent
versions of some classic Deep Purple and Hughes solo tracks.
/Svante
{Dean "Editor" Webb: I've heard good things about BJL, too. It's on my list of CDs to buy.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Svante Pettersson [mailto:svante(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 6:34 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: jlt/rainbow
At 7:31 AM 1999-03-29, masser wrote:
>
>ok, yesterday i bought a whole shipload of records, among others i bought
>difficult to cure and straight through the eyes by rainbow, i have just
>finished listening to them and i have to say they're quite good difficult
>too cure sounds a lot like foreigner only better, straight through the eyes
>has more of a original rainbow feel, although the lyrics of course are very
>different than when dio was with them, i also got jlt's solo album "rescue
>you" this album is a lot like something foreigner could have done it's quite
>good and verges on elton john sometimes, a very good pop album, but it's not
>for everybody, very 80s . what do you guys think of these?
The general opinion among most hardcore Deep Purple/Rainbow fans seems to
be that anything JLT was involved in is worse than the rest of the stuff
these bands has released. I love DtC and SBtE myself and while I think
JLT's later solo albums are better than "Rescue you" I still think RY is a
good 80's AOR album.
/Svante
{Dean "I like JLT, too" Webb: Both Difficult to Cure and SBTE are favorites of mine. Bent Out of Shape kinda went squirrelly on me, but there's some good stuff on it that makes it a redeemable, if not favorite, purchase.
One thing is for sure: JLT is neither Gillan or Dio! Totally different style and capabilities, and best when he's in his own style. I still hold, though, that Slaves and Masters is one of the better Rainbow releases in a long time. I was glad to see Ritchie solve his drummer/keyboard player issues with Paice and Lord, respectively (both formerly of Whitesnake), as they added a dimension that had been absent on the BOOS lineup. Strangely enough, though, it always gets filed under "Deep Purple." I guess the cover art is a bit misleading...}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Svante Pettersson [mailto:svante(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 6:42 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: Purps' Box Set
At 6:54 AM 1999-03-31, Ted A Sapp wrote:
> Has anyone picked up the DP box set? Just seeing the advert for it in
>Goldmine magazine made me salivate for it. If anyone has, please tell me
>what you think of it, as I won't be able to afford it for quite some
>time, (sigh!) and would like to read some feedback on it, positive or
>negative.
I got it and I love it! The package is great and I think the track list is
a good summary of Deep Purple's work so far. IMO it could have been cool to
see some more Morse stuff included. Everyone else I've seen commenting this
box have their opinion about what is "the best of DP" and what should be
included in a box like this but I guess you can't please everyone...
Even if you have *everything* Deep Purple has done I would still recommend
picking up the box for the packaging alone. There are some factual errors
but it looks great!
We haven't had the time to do a special on the box yet but Rhino has some
info on their website:
http://www.rhinorecords.com/
Rhino has a contest where you can win a box set (I think it is signed) and
we will also have a competition soon where you can win a box set. Stay tuned.
/Svante
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carl and Sheri Tripodi [mailto:cnstripodi(at-a-domain-named)annapolis.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 8:17 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: Bolin
My take on Bolin: he was good and liked his style, but I wouldn't say that CTTB was better than the previous 2 Purple albums. I had to listen to CTTB quite a few times to warm up to it. At least Blackmore's talent saved "Stormbringer" and that alone makes it a better album than CTTB. Blackmore's talent again made the reunion albums sound awesome especially "Perfect Strangers". I do have the Bolin box set and like his playing and style. But I just love Blackmore's style above any other guitarist. Thats all I wanted to contribute to this subject.
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-----Original Message-----
From: dull(at-a-domain-named)indigo.ie [mailto:dull(at-a-domain-named)indigo.ie]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 1999 7:55 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #55
>Resurrection Shuffle was a hit for Ashton, Gardner & Dyke,
>which included Tony Ashton, an honoured member of the
>DP family.
>
>There is a version of it on the live Ashton/Lord "First of the
>Big Bands" album. NB - the live album, not the studio one.
Nice one Garry; I'll look out for this!
Gearoid:)
dull(at-a-domain-named)indigo.ie
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-----Original Message-----
From: dull(at-a-domain-named)indigo.ie [mailto:dull(at-a-domain-named)indigo.ie]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 1999 7:55 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #55
>It was Ashton, Gardner & Dyke who did Resurrection Shuffle, Ashton
>being, of course, Tony Ashton (of PAL fame, etc etc). A Top of the Pops
>filmclip survives from 1971 of this song being performed, and I enjoyed
>it immensely when I saw it last year for the first time.
Yes indeed!! This was a type of sound which never really expanded
(because of the times that were in it, mainly, I suspect). The classic
rock lineup wasn't written in stone (ahem;), so everyone had a stab (even
trombone players;) at making heavier music.
Gearoid:)
dull(at-a-domain-named)indigo.ie
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Shore [mailto:psublue(at-a-domain-named)icubed.com]
Sent: Friday, April 02, 1999 4:18 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: new DP Box set
A brief word about the new DP Box set "SHADES." Its no less than
exceptional and the music that comprises the set is that which established
hard rock. I would have liked a few more rarities and perhaps some newer
material with Steve. The collection is terrifc and deserving of a more
detailed review than I'm providing here. However, I highly recommend the
package even if you have all the DP material. It just flows together as one
complete story of a great band. Nice job by Rhino on the packaging and
especially the liner notes.
Note: Dean, I purchased my set from a store called Toones in Allentown, PA,
610-821-9030 for $43.99 (US) plus PA sales tax - 6%. This store has a great
selection of DP legitimate imports as well as other bands. He is reputable
and does a mail order business by word of mouth. I recommend this place
highly.
{Dean "Interested" Webb: He got a catalog? I like to support the record shops that stock the variety and not just the commercially potent stuff.}
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Deep Purple Haiku
by Dean Webb
(second in an occasional series)
OK, guess who this guy is. (I picked a scansion of 5-5-5 for this one.)
Everything louder
Than everything else
Thank you -- I thank YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!
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