DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #78
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In this issue:
A word from the Editor...
SOTW faves
Favorite line-ups
New homepage
Ranking the DP lineup
Merry-go-round conspiriacy
Hughes and we welcome back Rob Richardson!
Late offer for RAH tickets...
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From the Editor, Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
When is DP going to come out with the next studio album? I want another studio album. Will someone please call Messers. Gillan, Glover, Morse, Paice, and Lord and let them know I would like another album, please and thank you very much? Thank you if you do call.
Not much going on around here, so I'll keep my comments brief and turn you over to this (short) DPD...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Swoboda [mailto:Tom_Swoboda(at-a-domain-named)compuserve.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 6:22 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: SOTW
Dean wrote:
>> Which version of SOTW is the best? <<
I don't have them all, but right now I'd say the MiJ version. I like
the way Blackmore plays the riff at the beginning, and how Ian sounds on
the chorus.
--T.J.
{Dean "Editor" Webb: It certainly is a good one, and my son gives it his approval. It really sounds fresh on MiJ, too, like they hadn't played the thing a million times already...}
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----Original Message-----
From: dodolurker(at-a-domain-named)juno.com [mailto:dodolurker(at-a-domain-named)juno.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 7:18 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #77
Favorite line-ups:
1) DP MK1
2) DP MK2
...for me all the other line-ups pale by comparison, sorry that's how
I feel about it! (Flame shield activated!)
Ted
(Insert your favorite band quote or witty quip here)
The Lair Of The Giant Hogweed - http://members.aol.com/TedS94/default.html
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
{OK, buddy, explain yourself! Putting Mk1 ahead of Mk2??? Seriously, We're all ears here to hear why exactly you prank them that way... I mean, "Hush" has a good beat and all, but better than "Pictures of Home?" You must have your reasons...}
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-----Original Message-----
From: De Pourcq Michel [mailto:dpm(at-a-domain-named)pandora.be]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 3:16 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: my homepage
Hi Dean,
I've been busy creating my homepage http://users.pandora.be/dpm and I linked yours to mine. Also I've mentioned the DPD.
Please visit it, and tell me what you think (be honnest). It is mostly ment for my trading lists and gig reviews.
bestee,
Michel
{It was down or blank when I checked it last... Let us know when it gets back up...}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carl and Sheri Tripodi [mailto:cnstripodi(at-a-domain-named)annapolis.net]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 8:45 PM
To: Deep Purple List
Subject: Ranking the Line-ups According to ME...
7) The Mark 4 line up (1975-76) ranks in at number seven. What in the world were they thinking? As I said before, Tommy Bolin is a good guitarist, but not for Deep Purple. CTTB is okay and I do listen to it every now and then, but its a completely different band at this time. I think they were very disorganized and it showed live. IMO, I think Lord and Paice didn't have their hearts in it anymore.
6) The Mark 6 line up (1989-1992) with Joe Lynn Turner ranks as number six according to me. This was Rainbow meets Deep Purple and it showed. JLT doesn't have the strong voice needed for Deep Purple. I do like the S&M CD so don't get me wrong. This line up went really commercial and was more like Rainbow rather than Deep Purple.
5) The Mark 5 or Reunion Mark 2 line up (1984-88/1993-95) ranks as number 5. They didn't have the same energy as they did in the early seventies like I thought they would. "Perfect Strangers" is a great album and the tour was awesome, but things fell apart after that especially with the infighting. It did look like instead of breaking new ground with a hard edge, they chose to be more commercial which isn't them by any means.
4) The Mark 3 line up (1973-75) ranks number four. When I heard "Burn", it was half metal and half funk. "Stormbringer" was a disappointment for most. I do like most of the songs like the title track and Lady Double Dealer. Where they did shine was live. I agree with Dean, this line up kicked ass live, even though Hughes couldn't keep his big funky mouth shut. Funk is okay, but not with Deep Purple.
3) The Mark 1 line up (1968-69) ranks number three with me. Just think if they really had the time to construct really good music instead of being rushed by the record company to produce songs. I really like the sound they had too. I'm into the psychedelic with hard rock sound. They did a splendid job , even though Evens and Simper couldn't give what the rest of the band wanted
2) The Mark 7 line up (1995-present) ranks number two in my book. Steve Morse came in and did a world of good for Deep Purple. He gave the band a new direction to head toward. This line up isn't tearing the world apart as they did with the Mark 2 line up, but they are getting the job done really well in my book.
1) The Mark 2 line up from 1969-1973 is the obvious choice to be number one. This line up experimented and brought hard rock up to another level. Their talents were second to none. They were also really awesome live. I love the 20 minute versions of Mandrake Root and Space Truckin'. At this time, Deep Purple were the best jamming band in the world and no other band came close. This line up had a chemistry to produce wonderful and crushing music. These guys were at their peak and the world knew it. Too bad things fell apart when WDWTWA was being recorded and released.
Well, thats how they rank according to me.
Carl Tripodi
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-----Original Message-----
From: Heikki Heino [mailto:heikki.heino(at-a-domain-named)mailis.rkol.fi]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 1:44 AM
To: Deep Purple Digest
Subject: Merry-Go-Round conspiracy
Hi all!
Dean wrote:
>SCENARIO: DP is jamming hard during "Child in Time". Ian Gillan gets tired
>of just playing the bongos and grabs the mike and starts singing "The
>Merry-Go-Round Broke Down." Ritchie flies into a rage and brings his
>guitar down on Ian's head. Ian goes to hospital, Ritchie goes to jail,
>Roger, Paicey and Lord start looking for another banjo player 20 years
>earlier than what actually happened...}
I think Gillan did have something like that in mind. He sang "Teddy Bear's
Picnic" during the House of Blue Light tour, and got kicked out. (If
interested check Nobody's Perfect. It's on either Speed King or Black Night
- can't remember right now.) A couple of years later Ian was back, and so
was "Teddy Bear's Picnic" (check Come Hell or High Water...), and as we all
know Ritchie left before the tour was over. He probably thought it was a
conspiracy, since Lord played that tune, too. I wonder... was "Teddy" on
LATO or Total Abandon?
Hey, wait a minute! It WAS planned! How else could you explain TED the
Mechanic having a line about banjo player taking a hike?
Then, imagine Blackmore left Purple in 1972 or 73. Today
* Coverdale still works as a shop assistant if he hasn't got a promotion.
* Bolin is probably still alive, playing guitar in jazz-rock circles
somewhere in the US. But hardly any of us knows anything about him, because
he hasn't got the Purple connection.
* Whoever the "new" guitarist is, he's been mercilessly compared to TMIB for
over 25 years.
* The DP management has forced DP to release new studio album every year, so
there are about 30 studio (and countless live) albums around. Our boys are
just waiting for the day they are old enough to retire...
Heikki
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Richardson [mailto:robrich(at-a-domain-named)juno.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 12:34 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Hughes and my return from the dead
Hello all, after being without e-mail access for five months, it is so
good to be reading the Deep Purple Digest again!
First, I'll attack the Glenn Hughes discussion before it dies down and my
post becomes out of style: Yes, Glenn's cocaine-induced screams and
yelps can be annoying live, but fore the most part, I prefer it to
Coverdale's "Oh, baby, I'm so out of breath" routine. Glenn has a
powerful voice, and on occasion it can lead him where he shouldn't go.
But I love Glenn in the studio. Glenn Hughes has one of the best hard
rock voices (along with Ian Gillan, of course) ever. Burn and Seventh
Star are two of my all-time favorite albums. I also like his solo album
"Blues", although it isn't really considered a solo album what with all
the Los Angeles (and Oslo) heavy metal guitar players on it. If you like
American-style blues-metal, that's a good album to have. Yes, Glenn does
his yelps and Glennisms abundantly at the end of "The Boy Can Sing the
Blues", but it's not annoying there (to me).
As for songs I'd like to hear Purple do live, I'd like to thank Mikael
for naming "Place in Line" a few digests back. Place in Line would be
great, especially for Gillan and Lord. I think Steve could handle the
blues in this one well. Then again, I don't even think Blackmore ever
did this one live.
I'll add No One Came, Whatsername (the one track on Abandon that as
really grown on me), Demon's Eye, Burn (Ok, only two members were in the
band at this time, but it's a great song), and Knocking at Your Back
Door. Maybe I'm the only one out here that prefers this to "Perfect
Strangers", and that's why it hasn't been played since the HOBL tour (or
did JLT attempt this one?).
Demon's Eye would be great live, but I don't think it was played live
much, even in 1971. There is a boot with it on in, from Toronto 1971 I
think, but I don't believe anyone has one of it with decent sound
quality.
As for there being quite a few nice songs from WDWTWA that don't get
played live that should be, my thought is this: It's like Black
Sabbath's "Never Say Die" in that both were written at the end of a
lineup's tenure, when there was a lot of conflict and therefore bad
feelings attached to memories of songs. So then band members try to
forget that album by playing at most one song off it, and dismissing the
rest as manure. I like both of those albums myself.
Lastly as for who rocked harder between 1971-1975, I agree that Iommi got
far more mellow than Blackmore live at that time, and Iommi's enjoyment
of herbal refreshment may have let to that, but as much of a headbanger
as I am, I liked Iommi's blues and jazz interludes. And no matter who
rocked harder, I would have loved to have seen either band live many
times during that time period (although I was only 3-7 at the time).
Well, there's a use I would have for a time machine.
Purple Reigns,
Rob
{Welcome back, Rob! Long time no post!}
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-----Original Message-----
From: metal marvin [mailto:metalmarvin(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 12:29 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Cc: perfect_strangers(at-a-domain-named)onelist.com
Subject: Royal Albert Hall (Sunday 26th) tickets for sale
Arena B: Row 9 (actually 7th row as the front 2 are removed) tickets for
sale.
Open to offers.
{This got to me on September 2... if the tix are still available, they may be rather inexpensive...}
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