DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #76
Lots of subscribers and counting...
In this issue:
A word from the Editor...
Blackmore/Bolin/Morse
A bunch of stuff from Svante
Judy Blue Eyes
Archive Alive
Is Total Abandon in stores?
GillaNet
Don Airey/Colin Towns
Mk. 4 in Indonesia
Royal Albert Hall
Total Abandon review
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>From the Editor, Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
If it wasn't for the Internet, what would I do with all my free time?
Well, I'd still listen to Deep Purple a lot, but I'd be all alone,
wondering, "am I the only one still listening to these guys?" Good thing
I'm not, because, purplefans everywhere, we are keeping them in business!
It's great how there are so many offerings of all the DP lineups and how
the current lineup isn't coasting along and that when we talk about "the
next studio CD", nobody raises eyebrows and says, "that's not what I
heard..." We all know there's going to be another, and the band knows it,
too. Even better, we're fairly certain that it will likely be a good, if
not excellent album!
Anyway, I'm starting to ramble, there, so I'll cut myself off and just
leave it as a big "THANK YOU!" to all the fans who make Deep Purple
possible and all the Deep Purples that made the fans so crazy about them
in the first place!
Now on with the digest...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carl and Sheri Tripodi [mailto:cnstripodi(at-a-domain-named)annapolis.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 1990 8:35 AM
To: Deep Purple List
Subject: Blackmore/Bolin/Morse...
OK, I done stirred the pot. IMO, Ritchie Blackmore is the supreme god
of the guitar, so I have that bias. His material whether with Deep Purple,
Lord Sutch, Outlaws, Rainbow, and his latest band, Blackmore's Night, is
fantastic. No one can compare to RB. When I listened to Deep Purple with
Bolin, it was OK, nothing special. It did grow on me after repeatedly
listening to it, but it didn't sound like Deep Purple at all. It was a
different band. But it was different when Morse joined Deep Purple. I knew
his style and versatility. When I listened to Purpendicular, I was
impressed beyond belief. And when Abandon came out, I was even more
impressed. Then I bought LATO. IMO, its just as good as LiJ. Not better,
just as good. Morse fits in well with the Deep Purple sound and style
where I didn't think Bolin did. Bolin's solo material is great and I like
it, so don't misunderstand me. All 3 have/had different styles which is
a given, but not all 3 fit into the mold which is called Deep Purple.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Svante Pettersson [mailto:svante(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 9:23 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: SOTW and CiT, Bowie and DP, Glenn and Hughes, Guitarists and
guitar players
Hi all! Here's some comments to various topics discussed in the latest
digest...
Jim Wilmoth wrote:
>IMHO, the day that
>
>Deep Purple doesn't play "Smoke on the Water" or...
>Monkees will no doubt be flying out of my rear...
Many people never thought DP would stop playing "Child in time" but they
did. I think people would miss SOTW for about two seconds and then not
think more about it.
Heikki Heino wrote:
>David Bowie's "Singles Collection" is great, too. I know... he's not
>purple even though there was a rumour he'll produce Glenn Hughes' solo
>album in the >1970s. But there IS at least two groups/players who connect
>Purple to Bowie.
>Can you name them?
*Adrian Belew played with Bowie and Frank Zappa and DP mention Zappa in
SOTW. :^)
*Stevie Ray Vaughan played lead guitar on Bowie's "Let's dance" album and
SRV was also on the original "Jesus Christ Superstar" featuring Ian
Gillan.
{Dean "Uh, Svante, I hate to say this, but..." Webb: Uh, Svante, I hate to
say this, but... SRV was about 16 when JCSS was running, I think. He was
in various bands around Dallas and Austin up till he came into his own in
the late 70's. I *don't* think he was in the original musical cast of
JCSS... (SRV's a Texan, like me, and I just have to make sure my version
of the truth under this one roof is at least heard... He's an AWESOME
guitarist, don't get me wrong, but just not on JCSS... OK, enough
fact-checking. Back to the post...}
*Bowie and Queen did the song "Under Pressure", Cozy Powell played with
Brain May.
>Sorry, now I have to go. Otto needs to get some sleep and he won't fall
>asleep indoors since it's almost hot in here. Take care!
That's not Otto the DP fan from Denmark, right? :^)
>>I was gonna say Hey Joe, as i knew that it wasnt written by anyone from
>>Deep Purple, but as i looked at the back of Shades, the writing credit
says
>> Hey Joe
>> (Deep Purple)
"Hey Joe" was not written by DP. The credits are wrong on "Shades of...".
keng(at-a-domain-named)gotnet.net wrote:
>I am in shock as to the general opinion of the last dp list that
>Hughes sucks. Glenn Hughes is by far the most talented vocalist Deep
>Purple has ever had in there employ. Sure he is funky but listen to
>Addiction or Seventh Star or even Gray Moore's Run For Cover he can
>sing heavy metal.
But I think that is what most people think of Glenn. He is fine solo and
in
other bands but they don't like what he did when he was in DP. I love
Glenn's work in DP though and for a while in the beginning of my DP
obsession I wouldn't listen to anything but Mk. III. I just loved Glenn's
singing and playing on "Burn"! Well, I still love that but now I've
discovered the rest of the fine DP line-ups.
>We're about to have a similar discussion on the banjo front, pretty soon:
>see below.}
Aahh! That will be the real test for you as a moderator, Dean! I've never
seen a debate about DP guitarists go on in a civilized manner! :^)
Ivan Kirigin wrote:
>Why people try to compare Blackmore with Morse?
>It is impossible.
I agree! It's always nice to see that I'm not the only one. But then:
>So, stop to compare teacher (Mr. Blackmore) and pupil (Morse). Like Morse
>there are tons of guitarist and every of them will fit good in band
>(remember the episodes with Bolin and Satriani), but there is one and
>only one Ritchie Blackmore.
Do you realise you just compared RB and SM? :^)
>From Dean "Editor" Webb wrote:
>OK, fine. But is he Blackmore? Nope. He ain't. And that's a good thing,
>too.
Amen!
Two things I often think about when the big guitarist dabetes come up:
* You are allowed to be a fan of both guitarists. Many people seem to
think
that if you like RB you can't like SM and the other way around.
* You are allowed to stop love DP when they change guitarists. Some people
continue to listen to DP with Morse although they hate it and then
complain
about how bad Morse is and how good things were when RB was in the band.
Fine - stop listening to DP with Morse then and listen to the old albums
with RB. You can do that, it's a free world. No one forces you to be a fan
of a band you apparently don't like anymore.
But despite all the heated debated about guitar players (ever noticed that
*the band* has four more members? :^)) most fans seem to accept Morse in
the band and are ablr to enjoy both the old and new Deep Purple. As
always,
it's just the angry people that makes the most noise.
/Svante
{But if we turn our stereos up loud enough, Deep Purple will make the most
noise! Whoo-hoo!}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Reichberg [mailto:reichberg(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 5:33 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject:
Actually, CSN very rarely play Judy these day! Nice, by the way, to see
fellow Purple people with the good taste of listening to the great CSN!
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Wilmoth, Jim [mailto:jwilmoth(at-a-domain-named)staronline.com]
Subject: RE:No SOTW
IMHO, the day that
Deep Purple doesn't play "Smoke on the Water" or...
Crosby Stills and Nash doesn't play Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Monkees will no doubt be flying out of my rear...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carl and Sheri Tripodi [mailto:cnstripodi(at-a-domain-named)annapolis.net]
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 12:05 AM
To: Deep Purple List
Subject: Archive Alive...
Don't know whether to take this as a review or not. I'm just commenting
on it. I just bought the CD today and listened to for the first time. Its
hard as hell to get Deep Purple material around Annapolis, Md. I do have
"Made in Europe" on vinyl. Well, I was impressed with the CD. I liked it
very much. Blackmore's guitar playing was really good as usual, even
though he was silent at times. Archive Alive rocks and is a must pick up.
I was really impressed with Hughes' bass playing, though I wish he
wouldn't sing. Lord does some really good work in his performance - very
creative. Paice also does a spectacular job on the CD. Its one of his best
performances. I did like what they did with the song "Space Truckin". And
I like what Coverdale did with the lyrics to "Highway Star" even though
they can't get past the 2nd verse lyric wise. I don't understand why they
also didn't sing past the 2 verse with SOTW. On the live stuff I have
from the Mk3, they don't ever sing past the 2nd verse on SOTW. This CD is
what Deep Purple is supposed to be....hard/heavy rock.
After Ritchie left in '75, it wasn't the same. I will have to pick
up OTWOARF, if I can find it around here. The reviews said it was pretty
good and Dean liked it, so it must be good. I do have LCiJ, so it won't
hurt to get it. I just hope I can tolerate Hughes' annoying voice and I
can actually here Tommy Bolin's guitar playing. I do admit, Hughes did get
much better on Black Sabbath 's " Seventh Star" album. Until next
time....later.
Carl Tripodi
{OTWOARF WARNING: If you don't like Glenn Hughes, you probably won't like
OTWOARF. Bolin is good on it and Glenn has some moments that Glenn fans
live for and Paicey is *unbelievable* but if you don't like Glenn, you're
going to be disappointed, because he is definitely hogging up his time on
stage. In related news, I just got back into BS's Seventh Star, but I
listen to it as an Iommi solo album and it's much better that way. Glenn
makes much more sense as a powerful vocalist on a heavy album with strong
blues influences from Iommi than he does as a *real* Black Sabbath singer.
Gillan pulled it off, as did Dio and Martin. Hughes? The guy wasn't
a BS frontman, was he? Great voice, but just not in that style. Kinda like
getting, say, Pavarotti to sing SOTW. Great vocalist, but...}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Reichberg [mailto:reichberg(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 8:33 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject:
Hello!
It seems like none of the Swedish record stores have started selling Total
Abandon yet. Is the album an Internet only release?
Daniel
{Sure looks that way. That's how I got mine. You folks in Europe are
lucky! You can still get the video: I checked today and it's in stock. US
and Japanese buyers, though, still can't get the video in their format.
Wah.
Regarding buying music on the Internet: works great for me. I ordered from
both the DP online store and CDNOW and the service at both was very good.
The DP store didn't even charge me "Shipping & Handling"! Too cool!}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Bengtsson [mailto:danielbengtsson(at-a-domain-named)telia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 6:15 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: The GillaNet - My Ian Gillan website
Dean, keep up the good work on the list!
Am mostly reading the digests, but thought I'd spread the word about my
Ian Gillan website - The GillaNet.
It can be found at http://listen.to/gillan
Feel free to add it to your links page by the way, Dean.
Comments from all on the list would be very much appreciated!
Over and out,
Daniel Bengtsson
gillanet(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com
http://listen.to/gillan
"They were waiting for the sun to shine out of my superstar arse"
- Coverdale's thoughts on the old DP managers handling his WS "comeback"
in the late 70's.
He's the man! :^)
{Uh, yeah. Gotta love that Coverdale wit... Great singer, but... let's
just hope he doesn't go into stand-up comedy... Anyway, the GillaNet is
way cool, kids! Go see it TODAY!}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ardian Nurcahyo [mailto:nurcahyo(at-a-domain-named)tf.itb.ac.id]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 10:02 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Don Airey / Colin Towns
In one of the previous issues of Deep Purple Digest, Joe Siegler (the guy
who brilliantly did http://www.black-sabbath.com and also the excellent
Black Sabbath Mailing List) said that DP influence on Don Airey can be
heard on "Shakin' My Wings", a track from "Eight Star", bootleg CD of Tony
Iommi solo demos which featured Glenn Hughes, Don Airey and Dave Holland.
I've never heard the song before but people said this track is actually
entitled "To Cry You A Song" and previously available on Jethro Tull
tribute released by Magna Carta. Glenn is on lead vocals, but not Don
Airey on keyboards. The keyboards are played by Robert Berry (Three To The
Power) and Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater, Alice Cooper, Planet X). Tony
did not play guitar on this song. Since Don Airey is well related with
Deep Purple (connected through Rainbow), I'd like to ask a question about
this guy. Is he currently playing with Jethro Tull? Joe Siegler said that
Jethro Tull is another band that Don played with other than Black Sabbath.
Is it true?
About Don, well, what can I say, he's one of those keyboard gods. Take a
listen on Colosseum II records. His playing is very progressive. It's very
different with Jon Lord. Jon's playing is more rock 'n' roll than
progressive. Maybe this is why Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson were above
him on Melody Maker poll. But Jon still rules anyway. The songs he played
are stronger than those songs Rick & Emerson played.
Another keyboard god I'd like to mention here is Colin Towns. I have his
album "Making Faces". It's a good stuff. I really love the instrumentals.
There were songs with vocals but they're not too good. Gillan's vocals is
just unreplaceable. This album also featured performances by Bernie Torme,
Steve Byrd, Liam Genocky, Boris Williams (former The Cure drummer), and
some other people. I also listened to the song "Full Circle" which is
very haunting and emotional instrumental. It's not from "Making Faces" but
I don't know the source album. Anybody knows? What's up with him these
days. Is he still making music? Thanks for letting me know.
Ardian Nurcahyo
PS: Is there any other Indonesian in DP Digest other than me?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ardian Nurcahyo [mailto:nurcahyo(at-a-domain-named)tf.itb.ac.id]
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 2:22 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Deep Purple Mark IV in Indonesia (1975)
Hi, few months back I spent my time reading my uncle's music magazine from
the 70's. Since I've already joined Deep Purple Digest, I'd really like to
share some funny things about Deep Purple when they visited Indonesia in
late 1975.
- When someone (I think he's a journalist) asked a question about the
band's opinion about Uriah Heep, five of 'em (Coverdale, Hughes, Bolin,
Lord, Paice) stopped talking and suddenly all of 'em laughed so loud! Hmm,
I don't know why. It just made me wonder why Paice would do some drumming
on Ken Hensley's tracks "Brown Eyed Boy" and "Inspiration".
- Hughes & Paice were dating twin sisters at that moment! Glenn was dating
one of the twins and Paice was dating the other one. He he he.
There is also an interview with Ritchie Blackmore (not done in Indonesia)
when Rainbow had just released their debut album. Ritchie was rather upset
when the interviewer compared Dio's vocals to John Lawton of Uriah
Heep/Lucifer Friends/Les Humphries Singers.
The best one is an interview with Ian Gillan. In the interview, Ian
mentioned for the first time that he would be back in the music world that
was Ian Gillan Band thing. The interview took place in England and was
done by an Indonesian guy, I couldn't remember his name but he was also
responsible for bringing Mark IV to play in my country. Ian's hair was
short at the time but not too short. I heard that he's currently not a
long-haired dude. Is it right? Well, what can I say. Gillan with a short
hair is like Iommi without moustache or Rob Halford with hair.
Well, that's all I can do. Sorry for my bad English (no, not that John
Waite's band, which I also love anyway)
Ardian Nurcahyo
{Now just brace yourself for the UH fans that'll write in! ;-) Actually, I
like the David Byron years of UH best and never really got into the stuff
with John Lawton all that much. Matter of taste, I suppose. Speaking of
Taste, Rory Gallagher was much better solo, although his work with Taste
is still quite good, but that's for another mailing list, I suppose.
Better keep myself on-topic, eh?}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Poustie, Richard (BMRB Ealing) [mailto:RichardP(at-a-domain-named)bmrb.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 12:04 PM
To: 'Deep Purple'
Subject: Royal Albert Hall #1
Tickets are now on sale for the additional "first" concert on Saturday
25th
September - I'll see you there, 4 rows from the front.
Richard
{Sadly, the RAH is a VERY long way from Dallas. Do you suppose you could
get them to play loudly?}
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From: Dean Webb mailto:dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Total Abandon Review.
This was not an easy review. Courtesy of Tom Swoboda and my personal bank
account, I had recently acquired 5 major DP concerts from various lineups,
including 2 from MkWhateverTheHeckItIsTheseDays (LATO and a HoB bootleg),
and was pretty well saturated with DP material, particularly the tunes
"Smoke on the Water" and "Highway Star." Just about every one of my DP
live sets has those two songs. (BTW: a side observation of mine was that
David Coverdale probably sang both those songs more than Ian Gillan did up
until DP finally broke up. Anyone have the number of tour dates to back up
my hunch?) Anyway, I didn't want TA to be "Just another DP live recording
(yawn)". I had some very high hopes for it, holding it up against MiJ and
LATO, which I rated both at 10 for terms of sheer excellence and vitality.
In spite of its title and liner notes, TA actually seemed a bit restrained
to me. The material had a quieter, more contemplative feel than the
boisterous LATO. Morse's solo at the end of CD 1 is downright beautiful,
but isn't at all a Blackmorean barn-burner. It's almost church music!
Excellent stuff, but very different from what I expected.
The low points of the package were that there wasn't enough new stuff,
particularly "Hey Cisco", "Cascades", and "69". I love those songs and
wanted them to be on there. Oh well. Everything else was beautiful on it.
Lord is free and wonderful; he's freed from being Ritchie's version of a
rhythm guitar and flourishes throughout the recording. Paice is doing more
than 4/4 time and Glover's bass line is as steady and skillful as ever.
Gillan is in good form and is quite witty in the breaks (now HE could do
comedy, I'll wager!). My favorite from the album was Steve Morse's
playing. His little musical scrabble at the start of SOTW was very funny,
but his serious lines were what drew me in most. Overall, he came across
as an extremely warm and friendly guitar player, much more so than his
technical mastery on LATO. I mean, he even made "Pictures of Home" come
across as more than just a bit cozy! He is fantastic, and is one of the
many reasons why you should BUY THIS ALBUM!!!
One other encouraging element on the disc was all the jamming. "Black
Night" sort of just *ends* (the egg timer went off, I suppose) and "Speed
King" goes on for 14 wonderful minutes. I also really enjoyed "Watching
the Sky", "Almost Human", and "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming". All three
of these new numbers come across beautifully and are not "just another
version" of the same material. In fact, none of the songs is throwaway:
each one can stand on its own as a great performance of a particular tune.
I don't think any were good enough to be DEFINITIVE performances, but they
were all great.
And it's on that note that I hang my rating of the record. MiJ chilled me
forever with the terrible majesty of "Space Truckin"; LATO made me laugh
and have fun with its bouncy, jaunty nature, complete with horns. TA made
me feel as though I were in a cathedral at times, at others, a concert of
"serious music", not something related to "Awopbopaloomopabopbamboom." TA
is sophisticated, brilliant, and masterful. I will always enjoy it,
regardless of the rating I assign it. It did not, however, thrill me quite
the same way MiJ or LATO did. It did strike me as more likable than the
Mk3/4 material I own, and I feel quite comfortable in giving it a 9.5. Not
perfection, but still great enough to be a classic on its own ground.
There was nothing wrong with it. It just didn't have the same ooomph! that
the ones I gave 10's to had.
9.5 is a strong buy signal. Go to the Deep Purple online store and get it,
if you haven't already.
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