DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #82
Lots of subscribers and counting...

In this issue:
A word from the Editor...
Concerto request
Ian's new look(s)
Graham Bonnet
Bonnet
Least favorite DP
Album pictures
RAH review 1
RAH review 2
RAH review 3
RAH on CD/Video?
Morse's Guitars
RAH review 4
RAH review 5
Gillan & Dio Duet
Ian Paice on VH1
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From the Editor, Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com

Sorry it's late in coming, but I had to help my daughter with her homework
rather a lot this past week... Still, 'ere's a digest for ya!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Reichberg [mailto:reichberg(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 9:26 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Concerto request and question.


•Those of you lucky enough to see the Concerto live: PLEASE send your
reviews as soon as possible!

•Will the Concerto shows be filmed? If yes, what channel/s will broadcast
it?


Daniel
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-----Original Message-----
From: LaRocque, John [mailto:larocque(at-a-domain-named)chrs.com]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 8:47 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Ian's uniform and short hair in TA


Tell you the truth, when I saw Ian's jacket, I was thinking about Yngwie's
penchant for military-style uniforms on videos such as "Live in
Leningrad".
Kind of odd, because YJM refused to participate in military service in
Sweden. (The official FAQ mentions how he threatened suicide if they made
him serve). Here's a shameless plug for the mighty one's new 1999 album
"Alchemy".

I don't like Ian's new short hair. The Rhino box set claims he did this in
the 80's so people wouldn't confuse him with Bruce Dickinson. Apparently
he
hasn't been sober since the 60's. But yeah, but he remains one of my
favorite vocalist of all time. (Heck, Ian's my favorite Black Sabbath
vocalist - I don't care how much he hated "Born Again").

John LaRocque
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo Avello [mailto:eavello(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 11:14 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Graham Bonnet.


Dear Dean:

Hi over there, I was quite quiet over the last months (year, maybe?), but
always keeping up to date by reading the list.

Ardian Nurcahyo wrote:
>Is Graham Bonnet really a millionaire? My friend told me that he is a
>millionaire and that was why he could pay for Yngwie and Vai.
>

I don't know what his financial status may be nowadays, but I remember
reading a comment in Hit Parader magazine several years ago, by the time
of
the releasing of the Alcatrazz album titled "Dangerous Games". He said he
was kind of fed up by Alcatrazz turning out to be a sort of "finishing
school for guitarists", regarding Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen, and the
fact that they turned very famous after they left his band.

My impression is that Graham Bonnet shouldn't have spend a great amount of
money signing in the two guitarrists, since they hadn't the worldwide
recognition they have today.

On the other hand, the one that might have payed big bucks was David
Coverdale, at the moment he signed Steve Vai in to replace Vivian Campbell
for the recording of Whitesnake's "Slip of the Tongue" album.

My regards to you and all DPlist subscribers!

Eduardo Avello
Concepción
Chile
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-----Original Message-----
From: stiv(at-a-domain-named)bitex.com [mailto:stiv(at-a-domain-named)bitex.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 11:03 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Bonnet


Hi,

>Is Graham Bonnet really a millionaire? My friend told me that he is
>a millionaire and that was why he could pay for Yngwie and Vai.

It can't be truth:) I believe that his company paid for both guitar
men. Anyway, do you want what Graham does now?

Take care
Stefan

{Dean "I'm the editor around here" Webb: A brief search at Excite reveals
he was last on their radar screen when he formed Blackthorne in 1993...
what *is* he up to these days?}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Heikki Heino [mailto:heikki.heino(at-a-domain-named)mailis.rkol.fi]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 2:41 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #81


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob Richardson [mailto:robrich(at-a-domain-named)juno.com]
>Subject: Happy birthday
>
>If sure I won't be the only one to mention this but.... Well, it seems
>David Coverdale turns 50 today!  While he isn't my favorite Deep Purple
>vocalist, I wish him well.  Maybe higher album sales would be a nice
>present.
>
Just listened to some Whitesnake albums last weekend. Starkers in Tokyo
was
a nice album that IMO introduced a grown up David Coverdale. But his
age...
I thought he was born in the early 1950's, 1952 IIRC. Happy birthday,
anyway.

After all those "name the best DP..." questions I'd like ask what your
LEAST
favourite DP tracks are. My bottom 3 is:

1. TOO MUCH IS NOT ENOUGH from Slaves and Masters
Lightyears below anything else. That irritating synth sound was probably
dated already when this track was released. How did they ever get to
record
this one?

2. FAULT LINE from the Third Album
I don't like any of the Mark 1 era instrumental intros, but this one is
the
worst of them. Backwards piano and drums, Ritchie soloing... A track that
the Ummagumma era Pink Floyd could have done on a very bad day. Too bad it
is indexed together with The Painter on cd - can't just skip it.

3. BLIND from the Third Album
This just doesn't click. So Jon plays harpsichord... Lyrics are IMO stupid
and Rod Evans is in his most theatrical mood.

Your turn now. Please don't just say that some album is the worst, because
there are good moments on all of them.

Heikki

{My least favorite DP moment? Has to be the pouty-whiny-sounding "We Can
Work It Out." Yecch. I'm so glad they were able to quit doing covers as
their mainstay.}
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-----Original Message-----
From: yareach(at-a-domain-named)email.cz [mailto:yareach(at-a-domain-named)email.cz]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 6:35 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: [zadny subject]


Could you give me adress of all title pictures from all Deep Purple's
albums. The resolution of the pictures on your Album page is very small.

{They're small because that's how big they were at deep-purple.com when I
pinched, uh, borrowed them. Some I re-did on my own and I just kept the
75px75p format. I don't really know of anywhere on the web to find bigger
versions of their covers. The best way to get the cover art is to buy
their records, of course...}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Evans [mailto:kje(at-a-domain-named)vendetta.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 8:22 AM
To: Dean Webb
Subject: Sitting in a dream. DP at The Albert Hall


Well, I meant to write this about 6 hours ago. Unfortunately, it took me
11
hours to get home from our glorious capital city instead of 7, as the bus
ran into a herd of cows stampeding up the motorway and ended up stuck on
top
of 5 cows, one still alive and kicking. Not nice! And it took several
hours
to get rescued.
Down to business.

Thirty Years On
Deep Purple at the Albert Hall 26.9.1999

I arrived in London at lunchtime and sat outside a cafe in the rain (we
love
our English weather) with my friend David waiting until it was time to
meet
Goran, a Swedish friend from alt.music. He insisted that, although he
lives
in Stockholm, he does not actually come from there. (apparently this is
very
important if you are Swedish). We walked from his hotel through Hyde Park
towards the Albert Hall. The Albert Memorial has recently been renovated
and, when it catches the sunlight (there was some by then) it looks
outrageously over the top real Victorian extravagance. We stopped to feed
the squirrels in the Flower Walk (you can't be too careful) and then went
on
to the Goat Tavern near the Hall. The pub was packed with people wearing
Deep Purple T shirts, from all over the world, as far as I could tell.

The doors were due to open at 6.45 and we were supposed to meet some other
friends beforehand . One, Mike, turned up at the pub, having lost the
others - who couldn't find the pub?! - it's just down the road from the
Hall, who (inevitably) had his ticket. Eventually, we found the other guys
sitting on a wall two or three blocks away. Why do I have the sort of
friends who can't organise a piss up in a brewery!?

Finally, we found the right entrance door (round the far side, of course)
and then began the great T-shirt hunt. After negotiating numerous
identical
corridors we found door 6 and the T Shirt stand - surrounded by a couple
of
hundred people! Goran gave up right away, but David and I hung around.
When
you're height-challenged (not vertically-challenged, I'm just as short
lying
down) like us, a crowd baying for T shirts is pretty scary stuff. We gave
up, bought a programme ( the real program, a lovely dark purple (of
course)
affair and a copy of the one from last year's Abandon tour) and found our
seats. Row 9, three seats behind Dougie White, and almost under Jon Lord.
We
met Scott, from San Francisco, in the row in front, who reckoned that he
couldn't miss the occasion and had flown over specially. Then David
noticed
that another of our friends, Chris, had managed to get a T shirt, so he
took
everyone's orders, sprinted back to door 6 and came back with a carrier
bag
full. Now, we could think about the real thing!

Decor in The Albert Hall is a sumptuous semi-baroque mix of dark red with
white ornamentation, with the stage directly under the magnificent old
organ. The house was almost full. Only a few spare seats at the topmost
tiers of balconies and some of those were actually occupied by cameras and
sound equipment. Most people were wearing the usual T shirt and jeans,but
there was a smattering of evening dress here and there. The evening was to
be divided into two parts: the first to allow each artist, including the
orchestra, to show off their special interests and the second, the
concerto
and Deep Purple doing Deep Purple.

The house lights dim, the orchestra takes its place behind the stage
holding
the band's kit. The announcer warns the audience to turn of mobile phones
and pages and to keep quiet during the orchestral pieces as the concert is
being recorded and filmed (CD available Jan 2000). Ready for the off.

Paul Mann, the conductor, who worked on the re-orchestration of the
concerto
with Jon Lord and Marco de Goeij, opened with a goodwill message from Sir
Malcolm Arnold, who was unfortunately too ill to attend. Then the
orchestra
launched into Arnold's Four Scottish Dances. Can a Scottish dance rock?
Well, the first one certainly did. Nice pieces, easy to listen to. No 2 (I
think) included an excellent passage where the bassoon portrayed a drunken
scotsman? slipping, lurching staggering and just recovering in time to
make
it to the next bar (pun intended), which earned the bassoon player a round
of applause. I think no 3 is a bit Celine Dion, but all my other friends
liked this one best.

Then Paul Mann introduced his " favourite person in all the world", Jon
Lord. Jon, looking his usual understated self, all in black, took his
place
at the concert grand at the front of the stage and played two songs from
Pictured Within. The first, Pictured Within was sung, very well, by Miller
Anderson resplendent in a heavy black overcoat. The second, Wait a While,
was sung by Sam Brown (Joe Brown's daughter, for those who remember him).
The set ended to a standing ovation - whether to Sam or Jon or both, no
one
could tell.

Jon, in his turn introduced Roger Glover, who was to perform two numbers
from the Butterfly Ball, backed by Graham Preskett on fiddle, Mickey Lee
Soule on piano and (I think) Steve Morris on guitar. Sung, of course, by
Ronnie James Dio. Wonderful, Roger in his Sunday-best royal blue velvet
gypsy fiddler outfit with a real hat (decorated with mirrors, no less)
instead of a bandanna, in honour of the occasion, and Dio, all in black,
but
otherwise looking as if he had stepped straight off the sleeve of  Live in
Germany. (Well, he wasn't wearing flares, but that was the only concession
to the 90s). Dio sang Sitting in a Dream and Love is all (the frog's song)
fantastically. What a voice! He sounded strong and clear and happy, much
better than 10 years ago. In fact, I think Sitting in a Dream sounded
better
than on the CD.

Roger introduced the audience to the "person I've known probably since
before I was born, the true Superstar", Ian Gillan. Ian, looking more than
ever like a mischievous version Dean Martin, with his new haircut, white
satin jacket and white overshirt and trousers, rocked the audience with
two
of his own good old-fashioned R&B/rock numbers. Well, the first was sort
of
rock a la 12 bar blues, Via Miami and the second, That's Why God is
singing
the blues.

Ian Gillan gave way to the "most welcome member of our family", Steve
Morse.
In keeping with the concert venue, Steve had abandoned T shirt and jeans
for
a pin-tucked black dress shirt (with sleeves!) and trousers. Then The
Steve
Morse Band played Night Meets Light and Take it off the Top with a little
help from Graham Preskett on fiddle. Wow, Steve Morse can play that
guitar.
He makes it sound like half a dozen different instruments. He had a nice
little "duel" with the fiddle, rather in the same vein as his games with
Ian
Gillan on the Abandon tour. Wild!

Then Steve had a go at introducing Ian Paice. It went something like this.
"Er, um this is in two parts. Um, so there's lots more to come, ..."
"Finish it , Steve, come on" "witter, witter, Ian
Paice
doing a jazz version of a Deep Purple song". The talking stuff definitely
doesn't suit Steve too well! Well, Ian Paice, smart in a black suit and
Miami Vice-style T Shirt, got his big band. Well, a small band anyway, a
five-piece called the Kick Horns. Helped again by Graham Preskett's fiddle
they played Paicey's version of Wring that Neck. The orchestra were
beautifully disciplined and sat motionless while all this was going on,
but
Paul Mann occasionally forgot himself and started to head bang (well
almost)
and one of the young percussionists had itchy feet. And the Hall shook. We
needed the interval to recover.

Once again, the reminder about phone and pagers and keeping quiet. The
audience almost held its breath. Then into the concerto. Very, very tight.
Each pause was silent. Some idiot heckler tried to spoil the transition
into
the second movement, but Paul Mann, just held up the orchestra until all
was
quiet. The audience applauded both band soloists and orchestra soloists,
especially Steve Morse, who seemed tense with concentration, and the
clarinettist/oboist?? who echoes his solo. Ian Gillan's voice was right in
there and he gained an extra verse over the original version. I knew that
the concerto had been completely rewritten from the old recordings and
video
and I was alternately surprised at how much the same it was and yet how
different. Better, certainly tighter, I would say. The band and the
orchestra battled and blended beautifully. The finale was far more rousing
than I remember. Jon attacked his keyboard ferociously right up to the
last
chord. WOW.

Then suddenly, the concerto was over. Paul Mann was hugging Jon Lord in
the
middle of the stage, then he kissed Roger Glover, Ian Gillan looked as
though he was trying NOT to be kissed and just shook hands, then, everyone
was hugging and laughing and the audience couldn't stop clapping. But
there
was still more to come.

The percussion section and most of the brass filed out. Leaving the band
do
to some real Deep Purple numbers, with orchestral backing. First, of all,
Ted the Mechanic. The quietist (in decibels) I've ever heard it, but,
strangely enough, the clearest and maybe the best. Then, as we all know,
"Well sometimes the sun rises in the sky, er, then it goes down again and,
um, in between all sorts of things happen" - Watching the Sky. Followed
by,
as Ian put it, "Well you know when you get a message on your telephone or
on
your, er, er, what's that bedside table thing you get in a hotel room
called
... in a language you don't know so you can't reply and you think
Sometimes
I just need to go down to the bar for a drink with my friends, er,
screaming". Nice one, Ian. To finish the set, a song Ian Gillan confessed
he
had always wanted to do with a full orchestra and when we heard it, we
knew
why! A song about the contents of Roger's pockets, that we all know and
love: Pictures of Home. During one of the  quieter bits, a few worried
members of the audience reminded the band not to forget Smoke on the
Water.
Then the house lights went up, everyone left the stage.This cannot be! We
stamped, shouted and tonight, unlike Saturday, they got it right. On to
the
stage came the band and all their guests to wild applause, cheering, Di-o,
Di-o, Di-o and stamping, (Ronny James Dio dwarfed (sorry) between Ian
Gillan
and Roger Glover), to do, you guessed it, Smoke on the Water. Ian Gillan
and
Dio shared the lyrics, verse about. Amazing how different it sounds when
sung by a different voice. All the backing singers, the jazz/brass band,
fiddle , extra guitars, and of course the audience - "I can't HEAR you!".
A
real celebration.

Well, we won't get another night like that anytime soon.

Kathy

I wish I could do the atmosphere. If there's ever another one, you get
yourself over here!


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----- Original Message -----
From: David Meadows 
To: Kathy ; Stuart Forster

Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 12:47 PM
Subject: Saturday 25th - My Review


> This is really hard.
>
> I don't know what to say about the concert I just saw. I don't have
anything
> to compare it to. I have never seen anything like it. I loved it. I want
to
> see it again and again... ok, so I am seeing it again tomorrow anyway,
but
I
> hijacked Chris' computer to write about what I saw tonight. It's after
> midnight and I'm totally drained, mentally and emotionally, so excuse me
if
> it's not very coherent.
>
> The Royal Albert Hall. This is an amazing building. I have never seen a
> building like it. You walk in and already you feel intimidated. It's
just
so
> big and elaborate and just so different to any other concert hall.
Anyway,
I
> got a sort of peculiar swivelling off to the side sort of seat that
seemed
> roughly equivalent to about 12 rows back in a normal hall. An excellent
> seat. I could see and hear everything perfectly.
>
> The London Symphony Orchestra. You know the interesting thing about an
> orchestra? The men have to wear white evening dress and black tie, but
the
> women can apparently wear what they like. The ones in black dresses
seemed
> to fit in best, but I think the Asian violinist's purple dress was quite
> appropriate.
>
> The concert opened with Malcolm Arnold's Scottish Dances. This is a
great
> piece of music. It would have been nice to hear something like his 6th
> Symphony instead, but the dances were more sensible time-wise I expect.
The
> conductor (Paul Mann) explained that Sir Malcolm could not attend due to
> poor health :-( but he had sent his best wishes anyway...
>
> Jon Lord then played two pieces from his "Pictured Within" album. First
> "Pictured Within" with Millar Anderson singing. Then "Wait A While" with
Sam
> Brown singing. This was sooooo good. I cried all the way through
> "Pictured...", then when Sam came forward I was completely surpirsed.
None
> of the guest rumours of the last few weeks had mentioned her but I had
> really
> really hoped to see her. And I really wanted her to perform "Wait A
While".
> I love that song so much and her voice is fantastic. She sings just as
well
> live as she does on record. Plus I think "Sam" is a cute name for a girl
:-)
>
> Anyway... some more musicians came on stage, including Roger Glover and
> Ronnie James Dio. Yes, Dio was there as rumoured and sang two songs from
the
> Butterfly Ball: "Living in a Dream" and "Love is All", and they both
sounded
> great with an orchestra. Dio's voice is still
> good. I think he sounded better than I remember him when I saw him way
back
> in 198mumblemumble. But the amplification was at a sensible level and I
> think the sound of the entire show was just generally better than I am
used
> to from live concerts.
>
> ok, Ian Gillan came on next. Good grief, he had some kind of white robe
with
> a gold jacket and looked like a cross between... well I don't know what,
but
> two very odd things. He sang "Via Miami", a song that I thought
everybody
> except me had forgotten about, then "That's Why God is Singing the
Blues"
> from his last album. Both good songs and not the type of song he
> normally sings. It was cool.
>
> Steve Morse came on, with the Steve Morse Band, and played two of his
own
> songs. I didn't know this band was so good. Why hasn't somebody told me
to
> buy all their albums??? I didn't know the first tune, it was a slow
> laid-back sort of thing. The second tune rocked more and I sort of
> recognised it because it's the tune Tommy Vance used to play on the
Friday
> Rockshow years and years ago...
>
> Finally, Ian Paice came on with an odd collection of musicians. Steve
Morse
> introduced it as an "inpromptu jazz orchestra". There were horns and a
> violin. Anyway, they played a jazz version of "Wring That Neck". On
record,
> and in other live versions, Ritchie totally dominates the song, so it
was
> really strange to hear it with no guitar. You realise that it's actually
a
> very strong drum song, which is obviously why Paice picked it. Ian
played
it
> fairly straight. You always think he's going to break out into a mad
solo
> but he never quite does.
>
> Anyway, then there was an interval, which was good because I had to get
a
> t-shirt. Hmmm... no time to describe the t-shirt, this is too long
> already...
>
> The second part started with the Concerto itself. This is
>
> ok, I have to explain something... this is the only Deep Purple concert
I
> have ever sat down for.
> Everybody sat down. The audience was really restrained for the Concerto.
> Sort of respectful, if you see what I mean. Except for a couple of
MORONS
at
> the back who kept shouting for Highway Star and were obviously in the
wrong
> concert. Anyway, I wondered if the audience
> was just bored, or if everybody was just waiting for Highway Star, but
the
> ovations at the end of each movement were huge... everybody was just so
into
> it I thought it was I don't know I just haven't had an experience like
it.
> The re-scored concerto seemed so close to the original, I couldn't
really
> detect any differences in the orchestration. But the band parts were
> different. Steve Morse. Oh my god Steve Morse, I thought he would play
the
> guitar part as originally
> scored (i.e. "Ritchie") but he just played "Steve" and he's so good. He
just
> went off doing his own solo, then when the rest of the band joins in and
he
> has to fit with the orchestra, he plays "Ritchie"... then he does a
"Steve"
> solo... are you following this? And, listen, he's SO GOOD. I wonder if
these
> violin players look at him and think: "This is the best musician I have
ever
> seen."
>
> So the first movement is good, all orchestra and guitar and organ. Then
the
> second movement is the slow one and has the blues tune and the vocal
passage
> and Ian's voice is still perfect. It's weird to see the band sitting
down,
> and reading music, and so on. Oh, here's an interesting thing: while
Paul
> Mann conducts the orchestra, Jon Lord conducts the band. Roger seems
> to know what he's doing, but Steve and Ian watch Jon for their cues I
> think... Anyway, the final movement is the loud fast one.. oh, I forget
the
> technical term for it... but that means DRUMS and the drums are huge
massive
> crashing and FAST and there's more guitar and Steve is still playing
like
> Steve...
>
> Then it's all over and the crowd cheers forever. Then the Band play a
short
> set of their material, with the orchestra joining in selected places.
Odd
> song choices, but nothing I would complain about. Mostly new stuff: Ted
the
> Mechanic (great), Watching the Sky (cool, almost like it was meant to
have
a
> backing orchestra), Sometimes I feel Like Screaming (utterly utterly
> beautiful guitar passages, I wish there had been more) and Pictures of
Home
> (with all the usual stuff). Great choices.
>
> Finally... finally... EVERYBODY came back on stage and played Smoke on
the
> Water. Well, what else could they do? This was incredible. Two guitars,
two
> drummers, two bass guitars, organ, jazz band, orchestra, and a huge
number
> of singers (about 2000 I think). Ronnie Dio sang the middle verse...
that
> was really odd... and everybody seemed happy... and, oh yeah, we all
stood
> up for it. Well, because you have to. Because it's the greatest rock
song
> ever written. I don't know how this whole mass of musicians worked, but
they
> did. Everything was so clear and just meshed together. It was a
wonderful,
> special, magical ending.
>
> Except nobody wanted it to end. Everybody stood and clapped and shouted
and
> cheered. The house lights came on and nobody left. The canned music came
on
> and nobody left. The orchestra packed up and nobody left. Finally, Ian
> Gillan came out and said "thanks but that's it, the end of the concert.
> Jon's being sick in the toilet". So we left.
>
> But I'm going back tomorrow. In about 18 hours. I don't know how i can
wait,
> but I'm so tired and
> drained I might sleep between now and then...
>
> "No matter what we get out of this, I know we'll never forget"
>
> --
> David Meadows [ Technical Writer | Information Developer ]
> DNRC Minister for Littorasy * david(at-a-domain-named)heroes.force9.co.uk
>
> "And remember, also, that many places you would like to see are
>  just off the map and many things you want to know are just out
>  of sight or a little beyond your reach. But one day you'll reach
>  them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will
>  help you discover the wonderful secrets of tomorrow."
>           -- Norton Juster, "The Phantom Tollbooth"
>
>
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-----Original Message-----
From: De Pourcq Michel [mailto:dpm(at-a-domain-named)pandora.be]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 4:37 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: RRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hi,

first review ofthe saturday gig:

GGGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!

My propre review I'll start tomorrow. (and please, correct my English
mistakes, ta) Maaike, my 9 year old daughter did her review of the gig on
the boattrip back home this evening.

bestee,

Michel
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Reichberg [mailto:reichberg(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 9:12 AM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Concerto on CD/Video?


I just read that the new Concerto will be released on DVD. That's nice for
all of those who own DVD-players, but what I'd like to know is :

Will Concerto be released on CD and/or regular video?


Daniel

{I heard "CD" mentioned in Kathy's post... any official word, though?}
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-----Original Message-----
From: Svante Pettersson [mailto:svante(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 6:02 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Morse and guitar switching


Dean Webb wrote:
>            First off, though, I want to let you all know that the DP
>online store is the only place to get this or the TA CD,

It is also available at shows (it was available at the RAH) and in stores
in Australia. As it is available in the stores in Australia it is also
available for import for any record store in the world so don't be
surprised if it shows up in a record store near you. Officially though, it
is only available in the online store, in Australia and in the merchandise
booths at the shows.

>I think that a slightly different sound mix is used on the video, as it
>brings out more of Roger and Steve’s backing vocals and one can almost
>hear Gillan pounding away on his bongos.

I don't know if they did another mix for the video or not but have you
noticed that sometimes when you watch videos, you only hear the things you
see? I mean, you can not notice some stuff for an entire video but when
you
get a shot of something you suddenly discover that thing and then you can
hear that for the rest of the video. Whatever. :^) We'll leave that for
the
psychology special next month.

>It’s a great video, well done, not a
>bootleg, very good quality, and is worth every penny I spent on it.

Ok, this is worth saying at least one more time:

>It’s a great video, well done, not a
>bootleg, very good quality, and is worth every penny I spent on it.

It is an excellent video! I don't just mean in a "I'm a DP maniac so I
love
every chance I get to see DP live over and over again" but it is a good
video seen from a technical point of view too. Many cameras involved,
cameras above Jon and Paicey so all the JL and IP fans can see exactly
what
they do, excellent editing, camera men who knows who to shoot a soloing
guitarist and so on.

>1. Ian Gillan does a *much* better job on the tambourine than Davy Jones
>of the Monkees or Jan Brady ever did. He should consider a career as a
>professional tambourinist should this singing gig of his not work out.

He could give private lessons! Helping Candice Night become a better
tambourinist might help revive his friendship with Rickie.

>When he has on a normal
>t-shirt, he looks more like Bill Murray.

Hey, you're actually right!

>4. Why does Mr. Morse switch off with different guitars during the
>concert? Each guitarist has his reasons for using particular guitars and
>all… I just would like to know what his are.

Steve basically has two guitars - one without a whammy bar, which is his
main guitar, and one with a whammy bar, which he only uses for a couple of
songs. He also has a backup guitar for each of these in case a string
brakes or the guitar would get very out of tune for some reason. Steve
changes guitars when he want to use the guitar with the whammy bar or if
his guitar is out of tune or has broken a string.

/Svante
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-----Original Message-----
From: De Pourcq Michel [mailto:dpm(at-a-domain-named)pandora.be]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 4:26 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: RAH review


Hi Dean,

This is my (long) review of the RAH concert; hope I can get you jealous
with it ;-)

Michel

25 Sep 99 London Royal Albert Hall




For this concert, I went together with my wife, Gina and youngest (9)
daughter Maaike to London for four days (Friday till Monday afternoon);
not to see Big Ben, nor Madame Tussauds and such; but to "see" Oxford
Street, Harrods and the lot. (So Gina could not complain too much, her
first time in London). Moreover, I had an appointment with Johan Van
Ryckeghem, my usual concert-mate, on Saturday at the Goat Tavern where all
the Net-people should meet.


Pré-show.


In London, we took the bus and walked and walked and took the bus, did
some shopping and window shopping and shopping…. Saturday we had a little
walk through Hide Park, to check the RAH out (our hotel was on the other
side of that park). At the RAH I noticed that I had forgotten my camera in
our room. So back to the hotel (20 minutes to and 20 minutes fro), in the
pouring rain; all this to take a pic of the outside of the hall, and one
of the poster hanging in front of the hall (the only posters to see in
London of this gig!). We could hear the orchestra rehearsing. "What shall
we do while you are at the concert?" Gina was wondering; "maybe we should
go in as well?" There were still seats available; but Maaike, a big Spice
Girls fan, did not want to. So, back to the shopping routine. At last! It
turned 4 PM, we back to the RAH, this time the whole band was rehearsing,
and it sounded the same as 30 years ago! After buying 2 more tickets for
the girls, (AND THEY HAD BETTER SEATS THAN I HAD!!!! I bought mine a month
before the show!) Up to the Goat Tavern! Johan already sat in front of the
window, waiting (and tasting) for us to arrive since 3 PM. Before we
settled ourselves down, a waiter came to "throw" Maaike out; no children
under the age of 14! Those [obscene gerund] English rules! So out they
went, shopping again! (Quite an expensive stay in London it became!)


I had to be the only one in The Goat Tavern wearing a Deep Purple T-shirt,
because on several Internet platforms, I wrote that I will the one wearing
such a shirt; The [obscene gerund] place was full of them! I saw some
familiar looking faces, some I've seen before live and some I've seen on
pictures. Everybody was talking to everybody. Two things stroke my
attention: most of them seem to recall me because I am a chief cook in the
army! In addition, the other thing was that everyone was congratulating me
because Maaike's first concert would be a Purple one. There were people
from all over the world (Canada, Brazil, Belgium (only 2), Finland (hi
Tero), lots of Swedish people (hi Svante, Matz, and all the others). We
were like a real family! I had about 10 visiting cards with me, but they
were all gone very quickly.


Around 19:00 most of us walked to the hall. There was no body search (but
I did not gave it any attention at that moment); and as a good citizen I
handed in my camera at the cloakroom. After a first check, we traded our
places with the ones Gina and Maaike had. Ours were closer to the stage,
but higher. My neighbour wanted to switch places with Gina, but what about
Maaike? After checking out the merchandise: my second disappointment:
there were no special T-shirts. Only the purple one that I had already
(and which I like very much) with a small note on one of the short
sleeves. I did not bother buying one, though I collect (and wear) Purple
and Rainbow T-shirts (anyone???????). To get the new programme you had to
buy the "old" one too. Johan did, but later that evening, a beer under my
seat (how did that get there?) was spoiled on that, so he bought a new
one.


The Show


At 19:26 some musicians of the orchestra entered the stage; someone was
playing a few notes of "Smoke" (on a kind of bass-guitar?)


19:33 Applause. Four Scottish Dances. It were 4 short pieces of music. The
second one sounded like "Peter and the Wolf." Again very short, but very
nice. Then something like "Morgenstimmungen" by Grieg. I was really
sitting there flabbergasted, listening to this kind of music; this was my
first live classical concert. I sometimes - a few times a year - listen to
classical stuff (I have 3 CD's with the originals on which some Deep
Purple and Rainbow songs were based - "Classics for Heavy Metal Kids."
Great stuff.) The following piece I did not like that much.


After this, the conductor, Paul Mann, spoke to us: "30 years ago, where
were you?… Sir Malcolm is not well enough; he sure wanted to be here and
we will miss him… Now two numbers of his new album: Pictured Within'
(applause). One of the most beautiful people I know: Jon Lord!" Who
received a standing ovation.


Pictured within. It sounded a bit like "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by
Neil Diamond. Great! Loved it. Maybe because this was only one song of
this CD, cos I have to admit that I find his latest CD boring (sorry Jon).
Miller Anderson sang a word that really jumped out: "Rainbow." Lot's of
pictures were taken. "Hey?! That is not allowed!" Maybe I'll get my camera
later. The Albert Hall is a real nice venue, very chique and what a
splendid acoustics! The performers received a big applause.


Sam Browne entered stage to perform Wait a While. Which I did not like
very much, a good time for trying to get my camera. Which was no problem
at all!


I am afraid that I forgot most of the first song Sitting in a Dream done
by Dio.


When they did Love is all; (joined by Eddie Hardin on piano, and all the
others, of course) everybody on stage had great fun, during the
dancing-part of the song you had to see the choir, real amusing
themselves. I noticed that Ronny James has very skinny legs (like I have,
only my belly is a little more showing - but I am a chief in the army,
remember?). Johan gestured to me that Dio‘s voice was great and powerful.
This song was rewarded with another standing ovation.


Roger Glover: "Here is a bunch of people I know since the early days."
Gillan, wearing a golden jacket on a white long shirt and white trousers,
received a great laugh from the crowd. Via Miami. There was a lot of
ambience on stage, but the audience seemed quite quiet, maybe they did not
recognise the song from "Accidently on Purpose"). Again Johan gestured
"great voice." When Big Ian throws off his jacket, it caught on Little
Ian's mike stands. He then told us something "about lost luggage and
That's Why God is Singing the Blues". Nice and quiet stuff between Steve
Morse and Steve Morris. A woman is coming front stage to take some
pictures, and nobody is stopping her?! "Muchos gracias, that was TWGISTB.
It was always my great pleasure and honour to introduce our guitarplayer
Steve Morse!"


Who did a few notes of "Stairway to Heaven," which drew wild response from
the audience, so he did another short tune by the Zeps. Then his first
real song: Nights Meets Light. Nice drums with some quiet cymbals
(normally I don't like cymbal-work, but this was good). I did not know the
song, but it was definitive the Steve Morse sound. It sounded a bit like
Focus (an old Dutch band, with Thijs Van Leer and Jan Akkerman - I think
Ritchie likes him), but it was definitely Steve's sound, including that
tiny bum note. Again the drummer took my attention, a real good player!
The orchestra fitted also nicely in. Yeah, I think I forgot to mention the
orchestra who was doing fine work. Horns and sax came on stage. This thing
included some "Sweet Home Alabama."




The next song Take it off The Top was much heavier, Johan really freaked
out on this one. It was done without the orchestra, but a blinder!


"Thank you very much… now there is a lot of music tonight, so to close up
the first half half half of tonight, I would like to bring up Ian Paice
with his Jazz Orchestra (Jon Lord, Roger Glover, the sax things (The Kick
Horns) and Graham Preskett, a violin player). Wring That Neck. For a
moment I thought it was "Lazy." Beautiful (though jazz is one of the few
genres I don't like), except the violin replacing Ritchie's guitar; that
was something that was not working to this ears. In fact I shouted "rape"
to Johan. But who am I? (A chief cook in the army). However, The Lord of
the Hammond was as phenomenal as in his early mark II days! "Hey! I don't
like jazz!!" A very short drumsolo (I thought this had to be Ian's spot;
but he sure will have that later in the main part of the show) and it all
ended very bluesy. The whole place exploded with applause. I forgot to
check the hour when the first part was over (something I always do).


During the break I went to see my girls, they both liked the show so far.
Maaike recognised "Peter and the Wolf." We saw Tim, the former chairman of
the former German fanclub. Who told us that Dougie White was performing
the day before in London with his new band: the Barn Stormers. Real sad I
did not know that! Shame on you Dougie, why didn't you notify us all?


At 21:00 the tuning started, so we hurried back into the beautiful hall
(until now only seen on the tele and the covers) and at 21:03 a big round
of applause (see this time I did not forget to jot the time down). Steve
Morse was sitting on a stool, Glover on a chest and some morons were
shouting.


21:04 First Movement Exactly the same as on the LP (without the
scratching). Unbelievable to witness this live!! There were no video
cameras in the hall - at least not officially ;-) I thought they were
recording both shows. Occasionally one could hear some small differences
in the playing, but one must listen carefully to hear these. When the band
joined in - which really got the crowd excited - one could hear clearly
the different styles between Blackmore and Morse. It was different, but
not worse, not at all! However, this afternoon the guitar playing was
exactly the same (or were they listening to the CD to learn?). Steve's
solo was completely diverse. On one hand that was a bit disappointing, but
on the other hand: now Steve IS IN the band and not Ritchie anymore! (Now
I am listening to the first movement on CD; it really makes my neckhairs
stand up) The clarinet played an amazing quiet thing, only to be disturbed
for a short while by a shouting idiot. The place went nuts, and the
players received again a standing ovation!


Then the shouting started all over again. But he got quickly a straight
answer from Jon Lord: " May I have a word with you? I know you had a great
time in the bar. But please shut up. People are trying to listen." That
was awesome, and very ad rem.


Second Movement Gillan came on stage very silently, and Paice signalled us
to be quiet. He glued a long sticker on the stool to divide it in two;
Steve's part and his. They both shared now the same stool. His singing was
breathtaking, and with some extra text (something like "now I know when to
stop singing my song, when it all starts going wrong")! After his first
part, I caught one of the elderly, bolder violin players yawning. I
started wondering how Jon would sound through the big pipes behind the
stage. This should be majestic; don't get me wrong it WAS very impressive!
And I really want to thank Marco de Goeij, the Dutch composer who worked 2
years on the score, from the bottom of my hart for making this possible!
During the first notes of Jon's solo, which was very bassy, Ian's snare
drums were "snaring." After his superb solo, while the violins were
fiddling, the cellular of one of those modern juppy's went off. The
applause after this brilliant Second movement was rather "normal."


Third Movement. After Ian's first strokes on his drums Steve sounded quite
like his predecessor of this gig, but changed it soon to his own style,
which was like his "Cascades" solo. The drumsolo was very very,
disappointing short: only 2 lousy minutes! I always considered his
Concerto solo as one of the finest he did. L The cymbalist is the same guy
doing the xylophone. Steve's music standard has 2 parts: on the left the
chords and on the right part the set list. This third and final part was
also rewarded with a standing ovation (the public had a lot of work too,
standing up to applaud after most songs). Steve loved the stunning
performance by the orchestra very well cos he kneeled to thank them.
Behind me a twat started shouting: "see ya in hell!" Later I found out he
was sitting behind Gina and Maaike.


At 21:54 Ted The Mechanic: the crowd went loopy for it! The choir was
again having a ball. Then I took my chance and I went to the first row,
just aside the stage, I could even touch it. Great angle for taking
pictures.


I was so excited I couldn't even remember they played Watching the sky!
(And I left my notice book on the fifth row). Gillan came over to shake
hands with us; hope the picture I took of this, works out fine: him
shaking hands with me while I took the pic. I don’t know if it will be
allowed take pictures tomorrow, I think the flashes will disturb the
video-filming.


Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming, well just jaw-dropping good. Then I
quickly returned to get my little book, my kind neighbour knew already why
I was running back to the fifth row and gave me my Holy Scriptures.


Pictures of Home. The Orchestra started this song very calmly and nicely,
then Paicey took over; followed by a marvellous Glover spot. Then it was
Steve's turn with some fabulous guitarplaying. The orchestra fits in so
beautiful, that you almost did not notice them, and I was sitting next to
them! (By now it is 22:22).


Steve came over and handed (not thrown, but handed) some guitarplectrums
over to Johan and me.


Then… on came Dio, Steve Morris, in fact everybody. The place went nuts!
Smoke On The Water. Played with 2 drummers (Paice and Van Romaine from The
Steve Morse Band). Everybody went insane, the crowd as well as the
performers! Dio sang the second verse, standing just next to Gillan;
compared to Big Ian he is very very small! But what a great voice! Steve's
solo is awesome! (I am afraid I am running out of exclamation marks!).
This one really pleased the audience.


The applause was furious and went on for ages; some guy on the opposite of
the hall, next to the stage entrance was whipping up the crowd, by
gesturing that they came back. By now my arms and hands were really
hurting caused by all that clapping. Then Ian came on stage to announce:
"Thank you very much. I don't know what to say, we are finished, thank
you!"


That was it! L It was astonishing, delicious, excellent, ingenious,
gigantic, magnificent, superb, real spine tingling stuff… More! More!
More! One of the security-guys (if you can call them that) gave me a
playlist that was attached to one of the boxes. In fact it were two of
them taped together; I gave the other one to a very nice looking and very
friendly girl, as well as my address (of course for the pictures; and,
yes, Gina knows).


After show.


When the girls and I met again (well we were only a few meters apart from
each other), they told me they had really enjoyed them selves (the Spice
Girl-fan, my wife is more into Eros Ramazotti and other popmusic). Gina
said that Gillan was quite attractive and decent, not like the others like
that guitar player with his long hair or the one with his bandanna
(Roger). Everybody I saw outside was impressed with the supreme show they
saw tonight; except for one Dutchman (Ron) who told us that he came to see
Deep Purple and not that bloody orchestra! (Hey man, wake up! This was the
concerto! When he is that a big Purple fan - and I know he is -, he sure
must have known that there would be an orchestra tonight J ). We stayed
talking a bit with those nice and friendly – in fact, everybody was
friendly - Brazilian girls (the blonde one looked like my first serious
girlfriend). She told me that I sat next to Gillan's wife, when I was at
the front; well I don't recall her, I was that excited by the things going
on stage, that I simply did not notice. Some people who saw me taking
pictures asked for my address, so they could contact me. Hope they turn
out to be fine; this was the first concert I took pics of. On the way to
the hotel, Maaike told me that she would write a review too! After a quick
take-away Thai dinner (from the same restaurant we ate the day before
(fingerlicking good!) I had some trouble falling asleep, when the whole
gig passed my mind's eye. The thing that I felt that was a minor point,
aside of the T-shirts, was the very short drumsolo. I wondered how
"Perfect Strangers" would have sounded like tonight, should have been
majestic! One thing about taking notes is that I miss quite a lot of the
action going on on stage; but I like sharing my thoughts with other
people, like I like reading other people’s long reviews.


The convention.


Normally I did not plan to go to the convention, but it was the whole time
on the back of my mind. After we had done some shopping (yes!!) at Covent
Garden (nice) and been to the Chinese Festival at the Chinese district, I
left Gina and Maaike to do some more shopping, and I walked to Imperial
college. Where I arrived quite late: around 4 PM. The hall was filled with
400 + people, some of them I saw the night before, some new faces with
familiar names (Yes, I am the chief in the army). Johan was waiting for me
at the bar J . There were so many people, so many things to see, (great
video's too) that I simply forgot (!) to buy anything, though I had
brought some extra pocket money with me for this. I was real glad being
there, talking to lots and lots of people, but far too little. There must
have been some others I missed out. We (Johan and I) tried to work out
the -very difficult! - Grand Deep Purple Convention Quiz. Shortly after
that Johan had to catch his train, so he missed the next thing: suddenly,
around 17:20 while I was looking at some posters, everybody rose up from
their seats, "hey what's happening?" A tall man in a black suit came in:


Gillan


He got a huge applause from every person present. Simon led him in front
of the huge video-screen (with a freeze-frame of Ritchie during a solo,
which coaxed a smile from everybody). He answered willingly the questions
some of us fired at him. It went roughly like this:


Why did you cut your hair?


I can give you some silly answers like it was always hanging in my beer,
or it is silly walking around with your hair tied up in a ponytail
(looking at Simon Robinson, who was wearing his hair in this style) But
changes had to be done. I've met some German people today; who were
wearing some clothes, real crap. They told me they did not like my
clothes. The same to you I told them. But I really don't attach any
importance at clothes.


Is Jon OK? (About that shouting the night before)


He was really upset and emotional. This happened at a very quiet moment.
We've sent a roadie looking for them; he found them and gave them £25 (all
4 of them) and sent them outside.


Did you rehearse a lot?


We started on Monday with The Kick Horns and the choir and practised 10
hours a day. Friday we saw the orchestra for the first time at 15:00. The
difference between now and 69 is like day and night. Conductors then were
just waving their underwear, because they could not be in a band. The
orchestra was going: "do we have to do this." Now it is completely
different. Brilliant. Everybody was enjoying themselves, but everybody was
nervous too. There were some Russian guys in the orchestra who wanted to
be with us in the picture. Tonight we will be less nervous.


When can we expect the next album?


Within 6 months; there will be some radical changes. The honeymoon with
Steve is over. Everybody is playing better than ever. (Someone shouted:
"Your singing is better!") On the next CD our personality is coming back.
We must broaden our horizons… (He went on for a while on this matter, I
could conclude from this that the next CD will be something completely
different with less (hard)rock! Hope it will still be the Deep Purple we
all know and love!)


What do you think of Blackmore’s Night’s new CD?


I have lots of affectations and respect for Ritchie. He has a special kind
of humour; everybody grew up, he did not. He IS a brilliant guitarplayer.
We wish him well. He’s brilliant. The wounds are over; after 5 years…. (He
did not answer the question!)

Will you have him back?

Well, it is like when you have been through a divorce: the new wife will
not like it.

Why isn’t he invited?

Again I use the divorce: it’s like inviting your ex-wife to your new
wedding, he would be there frightening the kids.

After this it was time for the sweepstake. He drew some prices kindly
donated by Roger Glover (some laminated and signed passes). Ian was
thanked by Simon and tried to get outside the hall. Of course this could
not happen without signing a lot of things. He signed the T-shirt I was
wearing, and after reading it, he said it was very funny. (A cartoon of
Beavis and Blackmore; designed by one of the Belgian fanclub members; lots
of people at the convention liked it). BTW Did anybody happen to take a
picture of Gillan signing or reading my T-shirt? Would love to have a copy
from it; I had my camera with me, but the film was full.


Simon gave us (in a hurry, time was running out) the answers to the quiz.
Well, I did have some correct answers (15/57!) 1 person had 54 correct! He
told us also that it might be possible that there would be a chance that
it could happen that tonight’s show could have 2 extra guests: 1 ex-Beatle
and some-one from Pink Floyd. But this was all uncertain. This was like a
knife that went through my heart! As I could not be at tonight’s show!


It was very nice meeting all those people you know from the magazines (hi
Stathis, and others), Internet, tape-trading. Nice to connect names to
faces. Pity I arrived very late at the convention so I did not see or
speak to everybody I know. Again there were lot of Swedish, Finnish, Poles
and even 3 (!) Belgians.


When I returned to my family’s meetingplace and we passed, around 19:30,
the RAH again by buss, it really did hurt, seeing all those people
queuing, entering or walking towards the hall, the faces I’ve seen the
night before…I really envied them. But at least I had the consolation that
we had a great Italian dinner and the others did not!
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-----Original Message-----
From: De Pourcq Michel [mailto:dpm(at-a-domain-named)pandora.be]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 4:28 PM
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: RAH review from Maaike


Hy,

me again, with the review Maaike, my 9 year old daughter and Spice Girl
fan wrote:

bestee,

Michel

London 25 Sep 99




When my parents told me that we all would go to the Deep Purple show
tonight, I did not wanted to. I don’t like this kind of music, it is much
too loud and heavy. I like the Spice Girls, Aqua, Steps…


The hall is very beautiful, big with lots of chairs. When the orchestra
played some nice music I recognised "Peter and the Wolf." It was beautiful
but very loud.


Another beautiful song I knew was "Love is All" from that cartoon.


The orchestra played more beautiful music than Deep Purple, but Deep
Purple alone was also beautiful.


A man behind us told me to be quieter, but there were some vulgar men,
also behind us, shouting all the time. Mama said they were shouting mean
words ("go to hell!)


We could see papa at ease, during the whole concert he was writing, taking
pictures and clapping his hands. Johan was waving his arms in the air, and
walking around all the time.


Smoke on the water was also very beautiful, mama was dancing, like all the
other people did. But I got tired and we still had to go a long way by
buss and on foot back to the hotel, where we had to take 3 stairs to get
to our room! Next time I won’t be going to Deep Purple because it is much
too loud and I prefer the Spice Girls, but I am glad I went to this
concert (my first one) and I enjoyed myself.


Maaike (9) De Pourcq



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-----Original Message-----
From: Ardian Nurcahyo [mailto:nurcahyo(at-a-domain-named)tf.itb.ac.id]
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 5:05 AM
To: list(at-a-domain-named)black-sabbath.com
Cc: dplist(at-a-domain-named)deep-purple.com
Subject: Gillan & Dio did a duet!


Well, of course I wasn't there that night, but I think the Royal Albert
Hall shows of Deep Purple (25-26 Sept. 1999) were just great, especially
for the moment where Ian Gillan and Ronnie James Dio shared lead vocals on
"Smoke On The Water". I almost couldn't believe it when first read the
review... This two guys actually could get along well! It's a far cry from
the relationship between Ozzy and Dio or Gillan and Coverdale. All of us
have known that thing between Ozzy and Dio. But who knows about Gillan and
Dio? I am so surprised with this... It is a bit funny cos in an interview
during Ian's Sabbath days, Geezer said that Gillan was Ozzy II. Then Ian
repplied, "Nicer than Dio, huh?". The interview is available on Joe
Siegler's site. Gillan's comment on Coverdale (Dave said that Gillan was a
nice drunk to drink with, but it was a shame that he was joining Black
Sabbath... Gillan replied that Coverdale was a prick and maybe even his
mother didn't like him) makes me think that there is something between
these guys. Something bad but not as bad as relationship between Robert
Plant with David Coverdale. Hmm, I wonder what about Ian and Glenn
Hughes... Maybe it is nice if they could do a duet, backed with Iommi and
Blackmore??? Ah, just my imagination! Sorry if this one is too Purple-ish
but with Dio and Gillan, the ex-singers of Black Sabbath, I think it makes
sense to send this one to the list.

Ardian Nurcahyo

{Makes sense to send it to *this* list, that's for sure! ;-)}
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-----Original Message-----
From: contract73 [mailto:Contract73(at-a-domain-named)aol.com]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 10:00 AM
To: Deep Purple email
Subject: Ian Paice on VH1


Paul McCartney & Friends Live: Peta's Concert
Paul McCartney ran the
September 18 in Los Angeles show. The concert will be seen on VH1 on
Saturday, Oct. 16 at 10:00 p.m. (ET) the band included  Ian
Paice and  David Gilmour

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