DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #7
In this issue:
Microphone? What microphone? You see any microphone?
Trond Backpedals on Woman From Tokyo
Jon Lord's Organ Equipment Explained
More Iron Maiden-DP Connections
DP is a Second Cousin, Twice Removed, of Steely Dan
Purpendicular and Abandon reviews
VH1 needs to do a DP Documentary
Sinatra and Def Leppard are *this close* to DP and WE GOT PROOF!
Nigel is going to make me fix my Links page
Blackmore-Gillan Texas Cage Match (humor)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Julie Wilson
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Story
Clarification! The inadmissible hearsay was that Ian thumped the guy
with his microphone, not the mike stand. Just didn't want to confuse the
non-existent rumor that I never heard or saw! Ian is still my hero!(But,
you didn't hear that from me.)
I GIVE THIS A NINE (9) OUT OF TEN (Unless I am allowed to give Deep
Purple In Rock an 11then, it would be a 10):)
DEEP PURPLE
"Abandon"
[Ed-Got that, guys? We didn't see nothin' about no microphone, neither. If
anybody mentions anything to you about Ian Gillan, just say, "oh, the guy
that screams like this? -- WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" and then when they
say, "Yes, that's the one!" say, "never heard of him!" and run like the wind
in the opposite direction.]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Trond
To: dplist
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 3:53 AM
Subject: Woman From Tokyo revisited
Huh, I get a nagging feeling I've entered the digest by making a fool of
myself. ;-)
Its been a while since I've listened to the Satriani sets, but what I wrote
about WFT being included in full from day one didn't seem right to me when
I read my own posting.
Of course, in the setlists they did with Satriani, (DP Mk VI, possibly;-),
Woman From Tokyo was part of the Space Truckin'-medley, like on the The
Battle Rages On Tour with Ritchie in 1993. What they did add, was the piano
solo, not the quiet middle part.
The piano solo was kept, and they kept playing this set (more or less) up
until the first gigs with Morse in Mexico and Texas in November 1994.
When they started their short "No Good Reason Tour" in March 1995 in
Florida, "Woman From Tokyo" was finally a song proper, complete, with all
verses etc.
It has been there since.
But, opposed to what I first wrote, they did a slightly longer, but *not* a
complete version when Satriani was in the band.
At least I got the chance to correct myself. ;-)
Cheers,
--
Trond
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo Avello
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 7:18 AM
Subject: Lord's Equipment Reply.
Regarding the following topic:
> I just recently saw DP live and have a question for those who are
>more enlightened than me. Lord had these huge white cabinets behind him
>with things at the top rotating around in sync with what he was
playing.
>Awesome effect! Is this the legendary Leslie rotating speaker deal?
>
Yes. These huge white cabinets are two Leslie 122 speaker cabinets,
which are the key amplifiers to Jon's Hammond Organ. Each one feature a
40 Watt tube amplifier (which uses 5 tubes: 1 OC3, 2 12AU7 and 2 6550).
Once the incoming audio signal leaves the amplifier, it is routed to a
crossover, a device which "splits" the signal into high low frequency
(over and below 800 Hz). The high frequency signal is routed to the
upper section of the cabinet, most precisely to a treble driver, which
is mounted upwards. On top of the driver there is located a rotary horn,
belt-driven by an electric motor (two in fact, one fast and one slow).
The low frequency signal is routed to the lower section of the cabinet,
and feeds a 15" speaker that is mounted downwards. Under this speaker,
there is a rotating drum, belt driven by an electric motor similar to
the one described above.
The rotating things at the top that you saw where indeed the treble
horns.
Jon Lord is my hero, and Hammond Organs and Leslie Cabinets are now
considered almost fine pieces of art. I'm glad there is someone
interested in Jon's equipment. There are so much interesting things to
discuss!
Eduardo Avello
Concepción
Chile
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-----Original Message-----
From: John LaRocque
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 7:51 AM
Subject: More Iron Maiden connections
Don't forget, Bruce Dickinson also sang "Smoke on the Water" on the
Earthquake Album (Rock Aid Armenia), which came out in 1990, which was a
fundraiser for victims of the Armenian earthquake. Blackmore, Gillan and
Lord were on this track, along with Bryan Adams, Geoff Beauchamp, Bruce
Dickinson, Geoff Downes, Keith Emerson, Dave Gilmour, John Paul Jones,
Tony Iommi, Alex Lifeson, Brian May, Paul Rodgers, Chris Squire and
Roger Taylor.
Now, Paul Dianno, original Maiden vocalist, also has a penchant for the
track. In 1994 he released South American Assault - Live, from Magnetic
Air records, which also features SOTW. This "live" album is long rumored
to be studio work with live dubbed applause.
Interestingly enough, back in 1985, Food for Thought records released a
three-track mini-LP "I Will Be There" under the monicker, Gogmagog,
featuring Dianno, original Maiden drummer Clive Burr, and Janick Gers
(from the Gillan band). Janick would later join Bruce Dickinson in his
solo debut Tatooed Millionaire in 1990, and Iron Maiden with their "No
Prayer for the Dying" album.
I'm sure there are some more obscure connections, but this should do for
now.
Oh, I have a bootleg somewhere of Iron Maiden doing Smoke on the Water,
as well. Classic track.
John LaRocque
"And if you hear me talking on the wind
You've got to understand
We must remain perfect strangers"
--Perfect Strangers (Blackmore/Glover/Gillan)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jesper Almén
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 1:31 PM
Subject: The DP-Stelly Dan connection
The Steely Dan connection was easy as pie as well...
Jeff Porcaro (RIP) used to be a session drummer and played on a few Steely
Dan records. He also played on Tommy Bolin's solo album Teaser, Tommy (also
RIP)who we all know played in Purple.... Maybe Tommy and Jeff are jamming up
there as we speak, unless the drumstool is occupied by Cozy or Bonham...
Jesper Almén
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ilija Gospodinov
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 11:09 AM
Subject: Comparison: Purpendicular/ Abandon
Since it's a very dear Mark of DP for me, I decided to compare the last
two DP albums, the whole product of DP with Steve Morse. First, a very
important thing is that I've only seen DP live with these members, 1996
in Budapest, and maybe that is one of the main reasons I like this Mark
so much, I don't know?! First, when Purpendicular came out in 1996 I had
already thought that Purple came to an end after the Japanese tour with
Satriani. So, to be modest, it was a revelation for me. I could not get
used to the sound of several songs at first( The Aviator, Loosen my
strings, Soon forgotten) but after a few rolls I took the new band as
something I've been waiting for for a long time, something different
from DP. I kind of started liking the album as Come taste the band, some
seven or eight years earlier. It is very full of creativity, the songs
vary within rock & roll a whole lot, and that was very different from
the several albums after the reunion in 1984, which sounded all much too
alike and not breaking any new grounds at all. So, after I had learned
Purpendicular (no shortcut for this one, too bad?!) by heart, I went to
see the concert in Hungary, thinking: " That's all there is, I just
gotta see them, no matter how they sound, I gotta tell my kids about
this someday...". Anyway, the concert was amazing, the conclusion was
that I had expected a concert with much less in quality, but I was so
wrong!!! Those new numbers sounded excellent!!! and the oldies with such
great energy and new arrangments that I've never heard before!!! After
the concert I started to like Purpendicular even more, if that's
possible.
So, I waited for a few years for the new one to come out, constantly
visiting deep-purple.com for new info on the album. Oh I forgot, the
Live at the Olimpia '96 was extraordinary also, it immidiately became
one of the best live albums I've ever heard (the brass section was such
a great idea!!!!!). When Abandon came out, I waited to go to Holland to
bye the original cd/booklet ( lots of pirats here) and played the album
on the spot for several times, and for a lot more when I came home. Most
of the numbers are excellent, they had kept the raw energy floating,
which made me very happy once more. Apart from the good rocks, Don't
make me happy left such a great impression on me!!! I think that it
should find a place in the live set nevertheless!!! Paicey is
increddible on the album, Gillan also, Lord - WOW!!!, Glover has done a
great bass/producing work and Morse shows once again what his Musicman
can do while in his hands! But I believe that some arrangments could
have ben done better (like the ending part of '69, isn't that boring for
you, the same theme a 100 times??!!; and also the guitar work on Seventh
heaven could have had much more creativity in it, I don't know how could
they have missed these things, if it has been done deliberately, I still
don't get the ideas...). But anyway, apart from this Abandon is once
again an excellent heavy rock document, having the charm of three
decades ago and taking the new instrumental creativity of the last
decade.
A final conclusion: I still prefer Purpendicular, for me it's a 9 out
of 10 (very high considering me being very critical when it comes to
music); and Abandon is 8 out of 10. Hoping to read some more comparisons
of same Mark albums on the DP Digest.
--
Ilija Gospodinov
Rotaract Club Skopje International Officer
e-mail: starter(at-a-domain-named)mpt.com.mk
phone: ++38991 451508
ICQ #14346225
address: Jane Sandanski No.86 5/6
91000 Skopje, MACEDONIA
[Ed- See how he included those numbers? Great job, Ilija!]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph St.Laurent
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Cc: evldrjo(at-a-domain-named)gte.net
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 1:04 PM
Subject: VH1 DEEP PUPLE DOCUMENTARY
In the early 1970's, Three rock bands dominated the music scene hence
known as "The Big Three". These bands were Deep Purple, Black Sabbath,
and Led Zeppelin. Of these "Three", VH1 has done documentaries on Led
Zep and Ozzy, Where is Deep Purple? Have the powers to be forgotten that
Purple were the biggest selling band of 1973, were the loudest band in
the world and boasted the greatest guitarist to plug into an amp with
Ritchie Blackmore? Deep Purple like the other two bands have the
necessary elements for a superb documentary: They were (are) rock stars,
huge egos, superb studio recordings from 1968 to present, poor to
fantastic live shows, outragious behavior, death of Tommy Bolin, band
in-fighting, mega-debauchery, Charismatic mercurial personality in
Ritchie, numerous break-ups and reunions, and Deep Purple/Ritchie are
still viable acts today as in the 60s,70s, 80s and early 90s without
becoming a wretched "oldies" act as other bands have become. VH1 needs
to get off their lazy butts and record a documentary of Deep Purple for
their "Behind the music" and/or "Legends" programs to show what a
classic band DP were/are and satisfy us "Purple People Eaters" who love
DP. Now that I have presented a case, anyone care to add their comments
and trade tapes? If you want to trade tapes, please e-mail me privately
and we can arrange something.
Take Care..........THE EVIL DR.JOE
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jesper Almén
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 2:32 PM
Subject: Shades of Purple.. Sinatra-Def Leppard- Deep Purple connections
Here's a two in one with Sinatra and Def Leppard connections to Purple:
Frankie Boy played with Quincy Jones big band on the record LA is my lady,
Quincy Jones has produced stuff with Michael Jackson.
Wacko Jacko had Eddie Van Halen play Guitar on Beat it,
Eddie Van Halen recorded the Star Fleet Project with Brian May.
Def Leppard played with Brian May on the Freddie Mercury tribute concert,
Vivian Campbell-the guitarist in Def Leppard used to play in Dio,
and Ronnie James Dio used to play with Rainbow ,wherein dwelt one
Richard Harold Blackmore who used to be banjo player with Deep Purple..
Dio also played with a band called Elf, whose records were produced by
Roger Glover (and Ian Paice) who as we all know, played in Deep Purple..
Wheeeew!
Here's a few other connections. See if You can spot them...
City Boy
Pink Floyd
Abba
Cheers/ Jesper
[Ed's silly note: Abba? Easy. They're Swedish and DP once toured Sweden. I
bet they may have been in the audience. At any rate, there are Swedish
people on the list, and I bet one of them has a friend of a friend of a
cousin of a friend who knows a guy who once bought an Abba album. Does this
count? No? Oh, well, I didn't think it would... :-( ]
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-----Original Message-----
From: NigelYoung(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 9:44 AM
Subject: Screaming Lord Sutch
Dean,
If you're interested in Lord Sutch, try this:
http://www.sutch.com/everything/?s=people&id=1012
Cheers,
Nigel
(P.S. Thanks for the favourable comments on my websites on your links page,
I
appreciate it. Next time they're updated, I'll add a link to your site.)
[Ed- Thanks for linking me! Anyone else that wants to link back to the DPD
home go right ahead and do it! I'll put the SLS link on the links page, but
it doesn't count as his home site, official or otherwise. We need to get
something together for the man that made revolving doors an OK thing for
bands to have. Any info, pictures, whatevers, send them in and we can host a
SLS shrine at the DPD page! (see the "Little Richard" page on the Celebrity
Deathmatch area to get an idea of what I have in mind for a start...
)
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>From Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Blackmore vs. Gillan: a Texas Cage Match!
When I was younger, I used to love to watch professional wrestling here in
America. My favorite event was the Texas Cage Match, where the two
participants would be in a ring surrounded by a 15' (under 5 meters) tall
chain-link fence. The first one to climb out would win. No referee would be
inside the cage. There wasn't supposed to be any outside interference, but,
well, things *happened*, shall we say...
Anyway, I just had a thought, envisioning Ritchie Blackmore vs. Ian Gillan
in one such Texas Cage Match. The two would enter the arena in style.
Blackmore would be all in black with a black Zorro-style mask on and with
Candace (his manager in the wrestling world) on his arm. Ritchie's theme
would be "Still I'm Sad". Gillan would be in a Robin Hood outfit, bounding
up the aisles to the ring. Ian's theme (for this match, anyway) would be
"Smooth Dancer", with the guitar part mixed really low...
Once inside, the two would just tear into each other like tomcats in a bad
mood. There would be about 3 minutes or so of the two wrestlers doing some
preliminary pounding, then Ian would start to get the advantage (he's a
bigger guy and has more reach, I believe). Gillan would knock Blackmore over
and then begin climbing on the fence to freedom when Candace would shake the
fence real hard and make Ian fall down, back into the ring.
While Gillan complains to the ref outside about Ms. Night's interference,
she would toss a chair over the fence to her beloved Blackmore, totally
unseen by the distracted ref. Ritchie would charge up from behind and slam
Ian on the back of the head with the chair. Ian would fall to the mat,
motionless.
Ritchie would then take this opportunity to strut around the ring, waving
his hands in victory, oblivious to Ian Gillan reviving and moving towards
him. Just as Ritchie starts climbing the fence, Ian lunges upward and drags
him back down.
At this point, the two start fighting dirty. Ian starts to make fun of the
way Ritchie looks with a goatee. Pained and reeling, Ritchie counters by
quoting the slagging former members of "Gillan" (the band) gave the group's
namesake on their '82 tour. Stunned and hurt bad, Ian would charge back by
saying Morse could mop the floor with Blackmore's guitar playing.
Now the scene turns ugly. The crowd, full of DP and Rainbow fans, starts to
grumble. Some get mad that others laughed out a little too loudly when
Gillan made the last assertion. The laughers respond by saying that, in some
ways, Morse is quite superior to Blackmore. A bottle is thrown and then all
chaos breaks loose.
In the general mayhem, a small pocket of Bolin fans tries to push its way to
the door, but they are overwhelmed by Rainbow die-hards and are sadly
massacred to a man. The Morse fans are decidedly outnumbered by the general
mob of Blackmore fans, but came ready to rock hard and are unfettered by
neo-Renaissance costuming, like what the Blackmore fans came dressed up in.
The spiked wristbands of the true metalheads even the score and the battle
rages on with reckless abandon. (Puns intended.)
Back in the ring, Ian launches his patented Rockett punch and sends Ritchie
spinning. Blackmore comes back with his "certified lethal weapon", the riff
from "Burn", and both musician-atheletes are knocked out flat on their
backs.
Given the general mayhem and the mutual annihilation of the participants,
the referee calls the match off and tries to restore order. Someone puts on
some Kenny G music to soothe the crowd, but it backfires. Unified in their
hate for that awful, insipid saxophone, the crowd, the wrestlers, the ref
and even Candace all charge the arena's offices and destroy all the lame
arena music, replace it with decent stuff, and go out and have a beer.
And a good time was had by all!
Speaking of deathmatches, I've got that part of the site up in some degree
and invite you to take a look. If you have any recommendations of non-DP
bands that you think a few other (or more) DP fans ought to check out, send
in your submissions. If you want to append to any spot (or help out where I
don't yet have pages), send that stuff in, too. If it has DP-comparisons in
it, I'll put it in the list. If not, I'll just post it at the site and give
credit where it's due.
Speaking of credit, get your own credits in by reviewing one of the many
albums still not reviewed! I got 5 pages for the various live releases that
came out after breakups and stuff just waiting for a good review. These
reviews, in particular, can help discriminating DP fans determine which ones
have good sound quality, good performances, etc. If you have one of these
albums, take some time to listen to it and let us know what you think about
it. I'll try and do the same for the ones I own.
One last note: We broke 100! membership is now at 102! YES! I thank you all!
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