DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #67 (special really short issue!)
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In this issue:
A word from the Editor...
DP Melbourne shows
DP Concert review
Pictured Within Tour webpage
Scorpions
50 hours
If only...
DP at Sweden Rock Festival
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>From the Editor, Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Well, not much traffic since last week, which is OK by me as it gave me
time to work on my horror fiction writing. (Interested parties wanting a
copy of my next story should watch this space for an announcement when it's
ready.) It has nothing to do with Deep Purple, but I do find certain Black
Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult tracks to be great to write horror fiction to.
Can't wait until the new live album comes out! My wife thinks I'm a little
nuts to want to have ANOTHER live recording of Deep Purple, given that I've
already got a ton of others, but what can I do? I LOVE THIS BAND!!! It's
funny, too, how I get sick when I hear Guns'n'Roses doing "Welcome to the
Jungle" but can't ever get tired of "Smoke on the Water." Both got tons of
airplay, but the G'n'R song got old, real fast while SOTW is a true
masterpiece. What would western civilization be like without SOTW? I
shudder to think of the possibilities... Thank goodness for Frank Zappa and
that stupid guy with the flare gun, I suppose!
Here's the digest, radio single version! (Definition of "radio single
version": In pop radio, a 3-minute-and-change song is just about right for
most radio formats, at least it was back in the 70s. Longer tunes would get
pared back to that 3+ goal, and most of those edits sounded really
contrived. I got a version of "Woman From Tokyo" (and a few others) that
was absolutely BUTCHERED to get it in under 3:30!)
A special note: Geocities seems to have cut waaaaay back on the number of
folks that can be put on a distribution list. If anybody out there has an
SMTP server that you can donate a POP3 account on to the Deep Purple Digest
and allow me to send to all subscribers in one go, that would be great. As
an alternative, I may have to move the digest over to ONElist. I can keep
it moderated and such there, but there would be (ick!) *advertising* at the
bottom of each issue. Let me know what you think of the situation...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Dudley [mailto:dudleyp(at-a-domain-named)anl.anl.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 9:57 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: Re: DP Melbourne Shows
> The question is: will the Australian
> show compare to LATO favorably? Anyone from the Melbourne show, let us
know
> if it was astronomically, hugely, tremendously, die-and-go-to-heavenly
> wonderful, or just merely awesome?
I went to the Melbourne show at The Palace, which is a large nightclub /
pub
venue that holds about 1000 people. It was just about full. I had not been
to
The Palace for about 4 or 5 years (the last band I saw there was The
Smithereens). There was a sea of black leather jackets, and I felt like I
was
about the youngest one there (and I'm in my early 30's). DP came on around
10:00 pm and finished around midnight.
Anyway, DP blew me away. They were loud, but the sound quality was great
(I was standing in the middle, towards the back near the sound desk). The
band
seemed like they were really enjoying the fact that they were playing that
sort
of venue, rather than a large entertainment centre. They were really,
really tight
as well, so if the CD is as good as that show was, it is a "must buy". My
ears
recovered by about 3:00 pm the next day .....
Cheers
Paul Dudley
dudleyp(at-a-domain-named)anl.anl.com.au
{Dean "Editor" Webb: EXCELLENT!!! Let's all get it within 24 hours of
release, if possible!}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rutz [mailto:case(at-a-domain-named)burning-chrome.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 7:04 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Review: Deep Purple, 08/06/1999 Dresden
Hello,
I'm back from the show in Dresden and wanted to give some quick
impressions.
Venue was kind of an Amphitheater, maybe 4000 people.
Show started half an hour late, as they experienced problems with the
custom on the czech border, equipment arrived two! hours late (a big
applause for the crew, who worked a miracle)
Support Act was a rock act called "Lenny Wolf's Kingdom Come" or something,
great rock with blues influences, they will (as I have heard) be the
support act for the rest of the german tour.
Lightshow was a weak point, the lights were hanging way too low and were
irritating both the audience and the band.
Same setlist as Heppenheim and Weissenfels, so I won't repeat it.
Same goes for the performance, you can copy-and-paste the Weissenfels
review........
So just the things different from Weissenfels, saves time ;-)
Gillan was better than in Weissenfels, better and more screaming, also the
vocals-guitar duel was more interesting.
Lord with even more fire than before, longer and more enthusiastic solos,
incredible performance.
Now for some tidbits:
- Jamming: 69 is coming along well, the middlepart, based on The Mule and
Paint it Black, is used for some free improvisation by the band, different
every time up till now. Same goes for PoH, which shows DP at their best;
they start and end with PoH, but middlepart doesn't bear any recognition to
the studio version anymore and changes from night to night.
- Paiceys drum solo: At a very fast part he used only one arm, holding the
other one up in the air, waving into the audience..........
- During "A Parade" Steve lost his pick, which I did only see but didn't
hear since he just switched while playing to a different style and didn't
miss a note........
- Gillan had another little discussion with a security guy, who was smoking
in front of the stage. Ian, disturbed by the smoke, just pulled the
cigarette out of the hands of the guy and threw it away. The guy (who
probably had heard stories :-) quickly went away and wasn't been seen for
the rest of the evening..........
This must be enough for now, see you in Hamburg.
Bye, Christian
---
Time's fun when you're having flies
Kermit T. Frog
{Dean "Editor" Webb: "Paint it Black"? Whoa. I got DP doing that from
1970... Wow. Will they do "Bird Is Flown" again, too? And "69"? Was that
played in Melbourne? I for one love the song and desperately want to hear
it live.
Oh, and by the way... smart guard!}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rutz [mailto:case(at-a-domain-named)burning-chrome.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 7:15 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: A small page about the "Pictured Within"-Tour
Hello,
I finally came around to putting pictures and stuff on a webpage.
The address is: http://wwww.burning-chrome.com/lord/tour/tour.html
May take a while to load, I put all the pictures on one page.............
Bye, Christian
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Time's fun when you're having flies
Kermit T. Frog
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marko Salo [mailto:scorps(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 5:55 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #66
Hi!
The Scorpions have been on European tour since the end of April. According
to setlist posted on their official site they're playing 6 songs off the
new
album. Obviously since they're headlining this festival, they're allowed to
play quite long. I'd wait for at least 4-5 new songs. How their new cd EYE
II EYE did on Swedish charts?
Svante, hope you're taking LOTS AND LOTS of pics of Scorpions and possibly
interviewing them also. If you can talk to them, tell them to visit your
Deep Purple-site and tell their folks to do so also. Your page is million
light years ahead of theirs...
Marko
>Scorpions (ok, I'll know they have gone commercial, but in the early days
>they were great, Tokyo Tapes is great, lot of guitar from Uli Jon Roth),
>From what I have heard Scorpions will be doing a nostalgia set with little
or no music from the latest album.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Reichberg [mailto:reichberg(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 1:53 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: 50 Hours...
50 hours... I don't have to wait longer until Ian, Jon. Roger, Ian and
Steve
hit the stage here at the Sweden Rock Festival. And is really Pictures Of
Home the opener?++++ I try, but I simly can't wait!
daniel
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-----Original Message-----
From: Poustie, Richard (BMRB Ealing) [mailto:RichardP(at-a-domain-named)bmrb.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 11:57 AM
To: 'Deep Purple'
Subject: If only they played..
Dear Digestors,
It's been a while since I ventured a contribution to this august
publication
and so I thought I'd put things right with the opening salvo in a saga
which
may run and run.
My subject was inspired by seeing the set-list for the latest tour included
Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back In Town" at one show. I was gobsmacked when
I read this.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for the boys experimenting a bit more with
the set-list ( something that would never have been even considered in the
Dark Ages ( 84-93 ) ), but I just wondered, why play this song when there
are so many, as yet unplayed treasures in their own back catalogue.
And so the question to readers of the Digest is this:
WHICH PURPLE SONG(s) ( WHICH HAVE NEVER / HARDLY EVER SO FAR BEEN PLAYED
LIVE ) WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE IN THE SET?
There is only one rule to this: The songs must come from an Ian Gillan
Line-up as there's no way the great man would consider singing anyone
else's.
So here goes, my "most wanted" list is:
1) "Place In The Line"
2) "Demon's Eye"
3) "Loosen My Strings"
4) "Mitzi Dupree" and
5) "Whatsername".
( ..and, if he ever would make an exception "Soldier Of Fortune" ).
What do others think?
PS: Does anyone know the set-list / track-list for the Australia album?
{Dean "Editor" Webb: GOTTA have "Mitzi Dupree", Strangeways", and "Spanish
Archer". Put on "Gypsy's Kiss" while they're at it. And maybe Big Ian
could also sneak in "Slags to Bitches" and "No Easy Way" from his solo
days. That would be great.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Reichberg [mailto:reichberg(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 4:34 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL - revisited.
I'd just like to thank the boys for a magnificent gig at Sweden Rock
Festival last Friday. To me, it may have been their best gig since Perfect
Strangers in Stockholm. Ian Paice played energetically, Jon was better than
for many years, Roger really seemed inspired, Steve was thunderous and Ian
Gillan... well, needless to say, he can't reach the high notes like in the
early 70's, but he sang wonderfully! I think the highpoint was "Sometimes I
Feel Like Screaming", but "Space Truckin'", "Perfect Strangers" and "Speed
King" were SO brilliant too. Especially the way they put in "Blue Suede
Shoes"...
And the Morse "human jukebox" thing... It's so great that DP have enough
self-distance to realize how overplayed "Smoke" is, and then do the best of
the situation!
Among the other acts, I'd like to mention The Scorpions who were
overwhelmingly fantastic (maybe even better then Purple, if that's allowed
here!), David Lee Roth, Hammerfall and Dio, who were all great, and Manowar
who were pure [cattle manure].
Thanx again, and come back soon!
Dan on the silver mountain
{Dean "Editor" Webb: No, it is NOT allowed here. The Scorpions were NOT
better than Purple. You must have been drunk or high. How could any band be
better than Purple?
Actually, it's good to hear the Scorps are doing well. Haven't heard them
in the States in a VERY long time...}
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