DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #68
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In this issue:
A word from the Editor...
Hamburg review
Gelsenkirchen review
Paint it Black Clarification
Sweden Rock Festival Pictures
Led Clones
Ritchie's new band (possibilities)
Allegedly Ian
Ian Paice on Mc Cartney album
If only they played... (1)
If only they played... (2)
Bad Mergentheim review
Boots and if only...
Bad Mergentheim review #2
Ramases
Another letter from Subotai...
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>From the Editor, Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
First, a thank you to all those that offered help regarding my email
growing pains. Don't worry: I won't quit the DPD, as I've really grown fond
of doing it, and there may be some really good news on that front in a few
days or so.
The DPD continues to grow, and we look forward to having our first
anniversary come August 29. If possible, I'd like to have the band stop by
my house for a private concert. Like I said, if possible... if impossible,
then I suppose I'll just play as much DP as I can as loudly as I can get
away with! If anyone else has a good first anniversary idea, I'm open to
suggestions!
OK, Digestors, on with the DPD!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rutz [mailto:case(at-a-domain-named)burning-chrome.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 3:51 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Review: Deep Purple 15/06/1999 Hamburg
Hello,
just some impressions from the show in Hamburg.
Nice venue in a public park, not the usual distance between stage and
audience but a lawn stretching from the stage ending in a small stonewall.
Sound was from my position (first row, left side) horrible, Roger was way
too high in the mix, sometimes you couldn't hear Hammond and
guitar...........which may in part caused by city regulations which didn't
allow them to start soundcheck before 3 o'clock pm but demanded that the
show be finished by 10 o'clock pm.
Due to this regulations the lightshow was absolutely useless, when they
finished it was still broad daylight.
Interesting rules for a concert venue...............
Support was again Lenny Wolf, good act.
Setlist same as the other german dates, encores again Seventh Heaven and
Highway Star.
To keep this short, another excellent show, maybe Steve a little bit more
reserved than the dates before, but still great.
But for me the real star of this show was Ian Paice, I took my time
watching him this show, he is really shining, very powerful drumming and he
seems very much enjoying himself on stage.
What a great man.........
This must be enough, review for Gelsenkirchen is following shortly.
Bye, Christian
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rutz [mailto:case(at-a-domain-named)burning-chrome.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 3:52 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Review: Deep Purple 16/06/1999 Gelsenkirchen
Hello,
a few thoughts about the concert in Gelsenkirchen.
Lovely venue, the stage was a complete circle build into a small stream,
the stage was divided from the audience by a water trench.
Unfortunately the distance was rather big, I had first row but was about 10
meters away from the stage.
Security was very lax, 'til around 4 o'clock pm I could walk around inside
the venue and listen to the soundcheck, very nice :-)
Support Act was none other than Ronnie James Dio, he played for one hour,
mostly old stuff like Stargazer, Heaven and Hell, The Last in Line and
suchlike.
He was amazing, I'm looking forward to see him in Balingen again.
Oh, and he lost Tracy G as guitarplayer, the replacement is much better
imho.......
Purple started around 21:15, so the lightshow was put to good use.
Setlist with one change, Black Night replaced Seventh Heaven as the first
encore.
But songs played this night didn't matter much to me, what happened inside
the songs was the most interesting part.
Nearly all the songs had long extended solos, Steve was in a very good
mood, not one song were he didn't fool around with the solos, changing and
extending bits here and there and going totally out of space in other
places. Some goes for Lord, one of the best performances of the current
tour and the understanding and interplay with Steve was incredible. Lots of
improvisations from both of them, always held together by Roger and a
totally amazing Paicey, who drummed as if his life depended on it. Paiceys
drum solo was another fascinating tour de force and a good deal longer than
usual, when the band returned on stage to continue SK, they had to wait
another two minutes or so because little Ian wasn't ready to call it quits.
Gillan preserved his good form from the earlier shows, some good screams
throughout the show and a heavy Bludsucker among others.
Enough said, hope to see some of you in Bad Mergentheim.
Bye, Christian
---
Time's fun when you're having flies
Kermit T. Frog
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rutz [mailto:case(at-a-domain-named)burning-chrome.com]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 2:53 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #67
>{Dean "Editor" Webb: "Paint it Black"? Whoa. I got DP doing that from
>1970... Wow.
No need to get excited, it is just 30 seconds thrown in with The
Mule.......
Bye, Christian
---
Time's fun when you're having flies
Kermit T. Frog
{Dean "Editor" Webb: Thanks a bunch, Christian, for all your roving
reports! How are you able to follow both Jon Lord and Deep Purple, though?
If it's your job, are there any openings where you work? Nioe work if you
can get it, I must say... :-)}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Benny Holmstrom [mailto:benny(at-a-domain-named)mbox328.swipnet.se]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 6:25 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #66
Marko Salo [mailto:scorps(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
> 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...
You can find some of the pictures I, Svante and Lars took for the festival
site at: http://www.karlshamnrock.com/live/99/
Take care
Benny Holmstrom
===========================
The House Of Blue Light
http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-74774/
Last update: 18-May-99
===========================
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-----Original Message-----
From: John LaRocque [mailto:larocque(at-a-domain-named)chrs.com]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 8:08 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Led Clones
Christian Rutz:
>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.
Ahhhh... Kingdom Come. In the late 80's, Kingdom Come came out with an
album
that perfectly copied the Led Zeppelin sound. While the public ate it up,
it
earned him no artistic respect. Gary Moore's "After the War" (1989?),
featured a song called "Led Clones", where he aimed his guns at Lenny Wolf.
Singer on that track was none other than Ozzy Osbourne, with Cozy Powell on
drums.
I think only three KC albums got domestic (that is, North American)
release,
but over in Europe he's got maybe a dozen albums, including a double-live
disc. Repetoire Records came out with something he did pre-KC called "Lenny
Wolf's Germany", where he does a rock version of the German National
anthem.
For what it's worth, his stuff is *WAY* better than American equivalents
such as "Great White" (which also just put out a Zep tribute album).
John LaRocque
"Outside it's shining
But it's raining, raining in my heart"
{Dean "Editor" Webb: I remember they got called "Kingdom Clone" here in the
states once it became cool to bash Zep clones. I thought that was pretty
crummy to do, since they sounded just fine. I remember interviewing Jimmy
Page at the time for the university newspaper I was working on (yes, THE
Jimmy Page! Score!) and he was really nice about it: he said he didn't care
WHO sounded like Zeppelin, it was all up to each band to play as it liked.
He was a real gentleman about it, and I have the greatest respect for the
guy.
Come to think of it though, he sounded like Zeppelin, too... hmmm... maybe
he had an ulterior motive? Naaaah. Guy's a prince. If you wanna play like
Zeppelin and you can really rock, me and Jimmy give you our blessings!}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Webb [mailto:dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com ]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 12:11 PM
To: 'Deep Purple Digest'
Subject: Ritchie's New Band (possibilities)
If Ritchie and Dio get back together, who should make up the rest of the
band? Here are a few of my suggestions, see what you think of them:
BASS: Bob Daisley, Neil Murray, or Jimmy Bain? I recall reading about some
bad blood between Blackmore and Bain (Bain saying he'd never work with
Ritchie ever again or something like that), so maybe not him... Neil Murray
and Bob Daisley, though are both great bassists and could work wonders on a
new Rainbow album w/ Dio (If that's what they wanna call the new group,
should it form).
DRUMS: Well, Cozy's not available :-(, so how about Vinnie Appice! Clear
choice for the skins slot, especially after Black Sabbath's current tour
ends (no longer needed as a hot backup for Bill Ward!). If Vinnie's not
available, could we get Matt Sorum?
KEYBOARDS: I'm kinda dry on ideas here. Tony Carey's comments about
rejoining Blackmore were less printable than Bain's. Don Airey, perhaps?
He'd be great, in my opinion. If not him, how about...Mickey Lee Soule? If
he'll play, that is...
What do you think?
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-----Original Message-----
From: I S W [mailto:isentertainment(at-a-domain-named)juno.com]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 4:46 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #67
>> 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..........
No, No, No! He ALLEGEDLY took the cig out of his hand. . . ;)
David
{Dean "I Stand Corrected" Webb: I stand corrected. ALLEGEDLY.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: William Shore [mailto:psublue(at-a-domain-named)icubed.com]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 4:47 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Ian Paice reportedly drumming on new Paul McCartney Album
Just a note to advise all readers that it is reported that Ian Paice will
be
drumming on the new Paul McCartney Album. Go figure....Article is found on
the site www.eskimo.com/~abbeyrd.com/fabnews.htm#paulstudio .
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Kirigin [mailto:blackmore(at-a-domain-named)softhome.net]
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 2:12 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject: If only they played.. (2)
Hi Digestors!
I agree with Richard.
Lets make a list of the most wanted songs that we want hear live in the
future.
This is mine:
1. Fools
2. Flight On The Rat
3. Smooth Dancer
4. Never Before
5. Demon's Eye
And, why they didn't played "Woman From Tokyo" on '73 Japanese Tour?
Out of Gillan's line up, I would like to hear "Love Don't Mean A Thing"
live, but as I know it doesen't exsist.
If somebody want to trade rare live tracks on CDR I got something to offer.
Mail me for my bootleg list.
Bye
Ivan (DPAS Croatia)
{Dean "Editor" Webb: There's a recording of "Never Before" on Deep Purple
in Concert (1972 disc). Still not a reason for the band to not do it again.
And a big YES! for "Smooth Dancer"! They GOTTA do that one, too!}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean P Powers [mailto:spowers(at-a-domain-named)ramapo.edu]
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 4:43 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #67
> 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..
>
> 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?
>
> 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".
>
Yeah! I like the way you think man...Loosen My Strings and Whatsername
would be at the top of my list too, along with Knocking At Your Back Door,
Into The Fire, and Smooth Dancer. Now those would be some interesting
additions.
Great to hear all the Scorpions talk on the list, although it is really
borderline I'm glad Dean lets it go. I'm set for the Scorps/Crue tour on
July 2 in NJ. I'll give ya'll a report if you like...
Remasters out Tuesday in the US!
Sean
{Dean "Editor" Webb: ... and "Into the Fire" is on Scandinavian Nights.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rutz [mailto:case(at-a-domain-named)burning-chrome.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 4:55 PM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Review: Deep Purple, 18/06/1999 Bad Mergentheim
Hello,
just my two cents on the show.
Nice little venue in the heart of the city, maybe 3000-3500 people, all
very enthusiastic.
Setlist same as Gelsenkirchen which means BN and HS as encores.
>From my position (first row, directly in front of Steve and Jon) the sound
was unbalanced, whenever Steve played Jon was non-existend.
There were some technical problems, for the first couple of songs there was
no Hammond, only after some fiddling onstage inside! the Hammond Jon could
start playing, just in time for Space Truckin', so Steve had to work hard
to compensate for the loss.
Steve (who seemed to be a little bit tired to me) was during the first half
of the concert constantly talking to the crew, it was obvious that he was
unhappy about something, sound or something else.
But not only technical problems hindered the band, also Gillan was not in
good shape, nearly no screaming in the songs, no "I thaaannk yooouu"s
between. Compared to the shows before he was clearly holding back.
All in all I'd say it was the weakest of the six shows I attended this
year, although Steve played a brilliant guitar solo and Jon really worked
his keyboards (although the visuals were more impressive than the
acoustics......). Roger and Paicey perfect as always and Ian doing his
best, which wasn't unfortunately very much this night.
Otoh it can't have been that worse, the audience loved the band, singing
and dancing, Steve got lots of applause for his solo spots and BN was a
really a hit with a guitar-audience duel :-) so I'm maybe a little
overcritical.
I'm off the tour for the next couple of days (will be back for Cologne and
Plauen, though) so it's time to say Hi! to all the nice folks I met along
the way, especially Gerrit and Blanka (see you in Cologne), Philippe (have
a good flight home), Jim, Lynn and Nick ("very good beer here in germany"),
Jörg and Thomas.
Hopefully see you somewhere along the road again, I wish you well.......
Bye, Christian
---
Time's fun when you're having flies
Kermit T. Frog
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-----Original Message-----
From: G Alberts [mailto:g_albert_s(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 5:36 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Subject:
Here's something for the next digest...
Hi you fellow Deep Purple fans,
I find it hard to get Deep Purple bootlegs. But I am also a big fan of
U2 and there is a very big FTP-archive with a lot of U2-bootlegs in mp3
on the internet. I mean a lot - half of the '97-'98 PopMart shows are
on it! I wondered... isn't there some FTP like this for Deep Purple
bootlegs in mp3?
About the question
WHICH PURPLE SONG(s) ( WHICH HAVE NEVER / HARDLY EVER SO FAR BEEN
PLAYED LIVE ) WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO SEE IN THE SET?
First, I want to say that I already had my dream-list from June 20 last
year in Bocholt:
Hush - I remember this as a great opener, why did they
drop it??!
Bloodsucker
Strange kind of woman
Ted the mechanic
Pictures of home
Fingers to the bone - song 1 from abandon
Almost human - song 2 from abandon
Woman from Tokyo
Watching the sky - song 3 from abandon
Seventh heaven - song 4! from abandon
Steve Morse Solo
Smoke on the water
Evil Louie - song 5! from abandon!
Jon Lord Solo
Lazy
Perfect Strangers
Speed king
Any fule kno that - song 6!! from abandon!!
Highway star
Look at this - 6 new songs and I had the album just a week!
Deep Purple has made some changes in their list since this month -
they added space strucking and '69 and that is VERY positive in my
opinion! But about songs that have never or rarely played live before:
I'd like to hear:
- Mitzi Dupree
- Never before
- Nasty piece of work
- Time to kill
- The battle rages on (actually this is a cool album, why don't they
play songs from it?)
- Jack Ruby
- Place in line
- Wasted sunsets
Greetz,
Gerard Alberts
g_albert_s(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: J S [mailto:bogey_63(at-a-domain-named)yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 5:20 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Cc: Tina Peschla
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #67
Well,
've been at the Show in Bad Mergentheim, Germany, last
Friday and i have to admit: GR8!. Steve Morse was
good, Jon Lord even better. Will have to go to Cologne
next Friday, to see them again, if my schedule allows
it. SM played Sweet Home Alabama, Highway to hell,
Stairway to heaven, Jon Lord improvised good and also
had Fuer Elise. The only thing was, IG didn't reach
the screams in Highway Star. BTW, the Encores were
Black Night and Highway Star...
Sincerely
Holger
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Currin [mailto:vagabond(at-a-domain-named)rock.com]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 3:44 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: off-topic: Ramases
Hi Dean
Would you mind posting this on the DPD? {DW: Not at all. Here goes: }
Hi Guys
This is a e-mail to a group of people who I think may love the obscure
artist Ramases and his quirky albums, Space Hymns and Glass Top Coffin.
There were very popular in Germany and South Africa.
Are you interested in sharing your feelings, opinions, comments, etc in a
simple mailing list forum? Nothing too elaborate or structured, just a
central archive for us "Earth-people".
And remember: "You're NOT the only one, Joe!"
Let me know.
Visit the only known website for Ramases at:
http://www.new.co.za/~currin/spacehymns.html
Cheers
Brian
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From: Subotai "Yurtman" Smythe-Jones
Subject: DP Mongolian Tour, 1997
{Editor's note: Subotai is, hands down, Deep Purple's greatest fan in the
nation that is absolutely the maddest for that band. Back in 1940, he was
already on the phone to Jon Lord's parents, discussing the possibility of
getting piano lessons for the little nipper! Anyway, DP has always had a
special place in their collective heart for Mongolia, and have always done
special things for their die-hard fans in that Purple-crazed country.
He's been called "The Claude Nobs of Central Asia" and has been lucky
enough to promote and arrange every single DP tour of Mongolia since their
first visit there in early 1968 (just before they jetted off to Denmark for
their first European performances). Here's his story of the DP Mongolian
Tour of 1997. Enjoy.}
It's funny you guys should be discussing how much you'd like to hear
certain DP songs performed by the current lineup. When the band swung
through Mongolia last year, we got treated to perhaps the best concert,
ever, which would leave any DP fan more than satisfied.
The incident I'm about to describe took place in Saynshand, in southeastern
Mongolia. I mention this because the southeasterners are notorious for
their rowdiness and it was typical southeasterner spunk that caused this to
happen. I allegedly had trouble lining up security for the show because of
an alleged band member's alleged attitudes towards guys performing
functions that could be alleged to be security. In other words, the whole
crowd was on the honor system. I thought we could pull it off (there wasn't
any security at all on the whole 1997 Mongolian tour), but I guess I
thought wrong.
When the band took the stage, they opened up with "Hush". Surprisingly,
this earned them a huge round of boos and jeers from the crowd. I knew the
audience was buzzed off of fermented yak's milk, but I didn't think they
were nuts enough to boo off the greatest band in the world!
Turns out, they weren't nuts. They were crazy like foxes.
As the band stopped playing in mid-song and looked at each other, several
archers in the audience fired arrows just over the bands' heads. I freaked
out, but the situation was already out of control: several lancers in full
riding kit charged the stage and held the band hostage at spear-point. A
spokesman stepped forward from the audience and had me translate his
message to the band. It was quite simple: Play every DP song ever released,
in order, or die. Although I knew the band would rather stand valiantly
than give in to terrorist demands, they were concerned for the safety of
the road crew, and decided to agree to the conditions put forward.
And so, the band opened up with "And the Address" and went from there. It
turned out to be a truly awesome concert, aside from the lancers' horses
doing their business all over the stage. There were a few minor riots in
the audience over where exactly to place single-only releases, such as
"Demon's Eye", and out-take cuts like "Painted Horse". Nobody was killed in
the rioting, although the paramedics certainly had their work cut out for
them!
It was agreed to let the band have 30 minutes off every 90 minutes of
playing, and they were kept under tight guard during those intervals. The
real reason for the 90-minute sessions was that most of the folks
bootlegging the concert were using 90-minute tapes and didn't want to have
anything get missed in between changing tapes.
Anyway, Ian Gillan wasn't too enthusiastic when he got to the Mk3 stuff,
and nearly lost an ear mid-way through "Burn" when a lancer charged him.
After that, Big Ian sang plenty enthusiastically through all the Mk3 and
Mk4 material. Steve Morse did an outstanding job with the Bolin-era
material, by the way! Outstanding!
After the band finished "You Keep on Moving", they started on "Knocking at
Your Back Door" when the audience surged again. There were many different
factions in the audience, each clamoring for coverage of the various solo
projects and bands during the 1976-1983 hiatus. Some even wanted a full
play-through of Kansas and Dixie Dregs material! Most of the lancers and
archers, though, were Gillan fans, and that settled that little brouhaha.
The band did a medley of Gillan numbers and threw in a few tracks from
Black Sabbath's Born Again album. When Morse and Lord were trading solos on
"Born Again", I thought I had died and gone to heaven, it was so wonderful!
"Hot Line" and "Keep it Warm" came off really well, too.
The Perfect Strangers (with "Son of Alerik") and HOBL material went off
well enough, but trouble hit when it came time to do stuff from Slaves and
Masters. A sizable part of the crowd maintained that it was DP material,
but an almost equal number held that it was not. In the end, a coalition of
pro-SM fans and Rainbow fans who were miffed at not having their stuff done
were able to prevail and Big Ian sang the JLT songs.
Once the band got to Purpendicular and Abandon, they were in the home
stretch. They picked up their fourth or fifth wind and really outdid
themselves with their closer, "Bludsucker." They did not play any encores,
and the crowd was quite understanding.
The show was quite awesome, but there were several bittersweet endings to
the tale. First, Ritchie Blackmore cancelled his Saynshand show, as did
Whitesnake. Second, DP had to cancel the last two gigs of the Mongolian
tour, as they were positively exhausted. Finally, a natural event wiped out
all but one recording of the outstanding (and historical) event. A huge
nickel-iron meteor (that had been magnetized somehow) landed near the town
shortly after the concert ended and its magnetic fields wiped out all the
tape recordings that had been made. The one recording that survived was one
my grandfather made -- an analog recording made directly to vinyl. He was
able to make a set of CDs from the vinyl masters, but does not intend to
release them (China, with all its content pirates being just across the
border had a lot to do with that decision). Instead, he gave up his
yak-herding job and now runs a Deep Purple museum and archive in Ulaan
Bator. If you're ever in UB for a few days, come by and see me and I'll
introduce you to my grandfather and his awesome recordings of what was the
longest DP concert ever, and one of the best, IMHO.
One note in closing: DP will be bringing their own security with them on
the 1999 Mongolian tour!
May your music be Purple and your yaks give plenty of milk that ferments
smoothly,
Subotai
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