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From: Deep Purple Digest
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 2:50 PM
Subject: Deep Purple Digest #9
DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #9
Special 9lb-5oz issue! (My wife had the baby this weekend. Sorry it's late!
:-)
In this issue:
A fun picture and a silly contest...
Mk3-4's version of Smoke on the Water
Burn review
Lord, Bolin, and Hughes stuff
Abandon gets 3.6 and a link...
BLACKMORE!!!
Gates of Babylon
More on Lord
More on Elf
Yet more on Elf and a threat to review every album in context
Mas en Español.
Request for info on Gillan's rapping
ABBAsplatter
Even more about Elf
WFT verse 3
Ilija wants to know about "Fireworks"
Comments on Mk 3/4 live sets
DP Support bands and a call to all DPD guys in Finland
The Deep Purple Christmas Special from Rankin-Bass (Humor)
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>From Dean Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Just posted a new picture on the "Art" page at the DPD website. I titled it
"All Ritchie Blackmore." It's basically a picture of the Mk2 lineup that has
been... *modified.* (Heeheeheehee!)
Now, after making it up, I asked myself a question, "How would a band made
up of 5 Ritchie Blackmores perform?" (Assuming that each played a different
role in the band: vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards.) Who would fire
who? Who would storm off first? Or would they get along just fine? Hmmm...
Another thing that I noticed was that although 3 of the five Ritchies seem
to be someone else upon closer examination, 2 of the five are kinda hard to
tell apart. Which one is the real Ritchie Blackmore?
So here's the contest: find the REAL Ritchie Blackmore. If you think you've
seen the picture before, no peeking at the picture before you make your
guess. Send your guesses in to the list. Those with explanations will get
posted. All correct enties will be entered into a drawing. 2nd place prize
is the chance to spend a week as Ritchie Blackmore's swimming pool
caretaker. 1st place prize is the chance to sit in the bushes and laugh at
the poor sap who's currently Ritchie Blackmore's pool boy. Have fun!
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-----Original Message-----
From: STONE967(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 11:36 PM
Subject: Smoke on the Water with Coverdale/Hughes
Why is it that in Mk III Coverdale never sang the last verse of Smoke on the
Water? (We ended up at the grand hotel...) Coverdale would sing verse one
and Hughes verse two and they would repeat verse one together after the
solo.
This continued with Mk IV. Anybody know the reasons behind that? Also did
Glen Hughes ever sing Child in Time live? Just wondering.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sommer
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 1:10 AM
Subject: Burn
Burn is a great album. The title track has one of the cleanest organ
solo's from Mr Lord. This album highlight's the way that the band took a
more bluesy approach when joined by Coverdale and Hughes. A nice blen of
rock, blues, and weirdness (A"200")
8/10
Paul Sommer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Poustie
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 2:10 AM
Subject: Lordy, Bolin and Hughes (2)
Does anybody have any information on the new Jon Lord solo album "Pictured
Within" ?
The last I heard it was due to be released on September 15th. Can anyone
confirm this date ?
Also does anyone know if this will be a classical affair or along the lines
of "Before I Forget" ?
Also is the main man Tony Ashton featured. I very much hope so.
On a completely different topic I am very much looking forward to hearing
the Glenn Hughes live tribute to Tommy Bolin CD. I ordered it some time
back but am still waiting for it to arrive. I will post a review once it
does. Did anybody get it yet ?
Cheers,
Chris
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-----Original Message-----
From: BSchwanke(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 4:27 AM
Subject: Abandon album review
Hello!
I just want to let you now that you can find an album review for Deep
Purple's
Abandon on my homepage called Metal and Hard Rock Area. I rated it with 36%
(out of 100% - so it would be 3,6/10 on this list). It was a great
disappointment for me because I like Purpendicular so much. The songs on the
new album have not much to offer even though musicianship still is great.
But
I'm going to see DP live next month because they are a fantastic live band.
What do you think of Abandon? Most of the people I know don't like it so
much
as well.
On my page you can also find various reviews for Joe Lynn Turner's album
(solo
& with Mother's Army) and a review for Stuart Smith's new album "Heaven &
Earth". Stuart is a great guitar player and a friend of Ritchie Blackmore.
Joe
Lynn Turner and Glenn Hughes are singing on his album which has been
produced
by Pat Regan (Rainbow, Purple, Kiss..).
Regards,
Birgitt (Metal and Hard Rock Area)
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http://members.aol.com/BSchwanke/default.html
Metal and Hard Rock Area
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Magical Tavern - Axel Rudi Pell Homepage
http://members.aol.com/MagicTav/enter.html
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sommer
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 6:24 AM
Subject: THE LEGEND IN BLACKMORE
Hello all,
I just recently decided to venture into collecting some RAINBOW cd's and I
am incredibly impressed. The highlight so far is GATES OF BABYLON. This
song has some of the most powerful guitar moments i have heard. It was done
in 1979, does anyone know which album it was on?? If so what other songs
featured on it??
It seems that Ritchie has improved with age. Too bad he isnt still with
Purple as the other members of RAINBOW do not pull it off as well as Lord,
Paicey, Gillan and Glover. Blackmore was, and still is the definitive
rock/metal guitarist.
Paul Sommer !!
[Ed- "Gates of Babylon" came from Rainbow's 1978 album, Long Live Rock and
Roll. It's one of my favorites, too. The same album also has "Kill the
King", the title track, and a precursor to Ritchie's Renaissance phase with
the lovely ballad, "Rainbow Eyes." It's very haunting and beautiful. Good
album. Get Rainbow Rising, though, if you want to rock out harder.]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Rutz
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #8
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bolinhed(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
>To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
>Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 4:47 PM
>Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #7
>As for the "6 Degrees of DP," the Pink Floyd connection would be Jeff
>Porcaro,
>who played on The Wall and on Bolin's Teaser.
There is a more direct connection, since Jon Lord played on the second Solo
album of David Gilmour (which name escapes me right now).
There is one more connection I'm aware of: On Jon Lord's "Before I forget"
is Sam Brown singing, which can also found singing as background singer on
PF "Pulse".
Bye,
Christian
---
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
- Arthur C. Clarke
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ilija Gospodinov
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 8:43 AM
Subject: Elf-Carolina County Ball/Trying to Burn the Sun
Well, I will try to answer some of the questions about Ronnie Dio with
Elf together with giving an opinion for the band of Dio's early musical
career. So, after finishing one american tour in January 1972 Glover and
Paice just happened to come into a club where Elf were playing and were
amazed by their potential. So, they decided to stay in america some
more, in order to produce Elf's first album, while the rest of DP went
home. That album (don't know the name) was issued only in america, but
anyway Roger was able to sign Elf to Purple Records and they were
offered support gigs for Purple's american tours. In early 1973 their
guitarist quit (don't know the name also) and they found themselves and
new guitaris and bass player (Dio was playing bass up to that time) and
having that new line-up they decided to put down their second album -
"Carolina County Ball". Although Glover already left DP, he was still
engaged with Purple Records and produced the second album also. Elf
toured with DP in 1974 in the UK, and Glover also had Dio as a guest on
the "Butterfly Ball and Wizard's Convention" album.
Well, at this stage things started to get very messy. Glover was not
the only one interested in Dio's vocals, by late 1974 Ritchie was
already getting the idea for a solo album, and he asked Ronnie if h
could help out with the studio sessions. As you can all imagine the
studio sessions went pretty well and Blackmore firmly decided to do a
solo album. So, around new-year 1974/75 Elf found themselves doing two
albums; the forst one being "Trying to Burn the Sun" which was put on
tape in England early 1975, and afterwards moving fast to Germany to
help Blackmore with "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow". Those two albums are
very interesting to compare. Elf were probably very influenced by the
work Dio was doing with Ritchie, so a lot of tracks sound like they
could have won some big space on "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" (Black
Swampy Water, Liberty Road, Wonderworld etc.) and the production work by
Glover is far better then the sound of Ritchie's album.. Now, once
Blackmore had that album with Dio and the rest of Elf in studio session,
things became even more confusing. He decided to quit Purple and set his
own group which we all know now - Rainbow. In the whole mess, the press
incidentally claimed that Ritchie played on the Elf album TTBTS, and to
aviod problems it was cancelled for issuing, and came out in June but
only in America and Japan. In April Blackmore left DP, started Rainbow
which had the original line-up with Dio and the rest of Elf(without
their guitarist Steve Edwards of course!!) but within a very short time
Dio was the only one left, Ritchie made a new line-up for which he
thought was more capable of long touring. That was the end of Elf.
"Trying to Burn the Sun" was issued in Europe in 1984!!?? at last, and
listening to it now I can say it's a favourite album of mine, a great
effort by Elf (just the title says enough) by which they planned to go
big, but I guess Ritchie had decided to dismiss that band even far
before "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" got out. I really don't know what
to think, I know that it led to Rainbow, and such great albums like
"Rising" and "Long live Rock & Roll" and the amazing "On Stage"; but I
cannot feel some greef for Elf and albums like "Trying to Burn the Sun"
which still have't shined through yet. YET!
I hope that was enough information on Elf, anyway that's all I know, if
anyone has some more, do write to the DPD. I jus want to recomend the CD
edition of Carolina County Ball and Trying to Burn the Sun (one CD) from
the Connoisseur Collection VSOP CD 167 for anyone who is interested or
got interested in Elf by the upper history-review. I am tired now, hey
we should continue with Rainbow, from the very beginning to the end (I
sure wanna read some reviews on the late Rainbow albums??!!) after Elf
it's the best time for it!
--
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
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Richardson
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 12:48 PM
Subject: Why didn't Rosemary and Elf
Henry (Javamx7172) asked about Elf. My brother owned a copy of "Trying
to Burn the Sun", which I believe was the last Elf album (unless you
count the first Rainbow album as an Elf album... which you could). As
Dean said, it certainly wasn't hard rock, but I remember "Black Swampy
Water" as a rather good song on it.
I'd like to thank Jim Collins for speaking well of Deep Purple's third
album, Rod and Nicky's last with the boys. I really enjoy the album and
I know there are others on the list who really like it also. "Why Didn't
Rosemary?", to me, is one of Deep Purple's greatest songs that came from
an era other than Mark 2, 5, and 7 : Blackmore/Gillan/Glover.
And yes, I'll give a review on that album soon. I'm listening to all of
the band's studio albums so that I can rate and rank them all correctly.
Not so bad to have to do this type of research. Not painful at all.
I'm ready for 'Smelly Botty'!
Rob
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-----Original Message-----
From: Fabio Esquivel
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: Translations!
I'm a fluent spanish guy too, with some more fluency on english... Just
some corrections:
> Anyone else but me is going to sing this next song, 'cos I'm the
singer.
> Cualquiera de los demás va a cantar la siguiente canción, porque soy
el
> cantante.
"Cualquiera menos yo cantará la próxima canción, porque yo soy el
cantante."
(just a little out of sense, isn't it, Carlos?)
> STEVE MORSE:
> (He seems to be the big, funny guy that doesn't say much. He
> probably could get by with simple gestures and the occasional solo.)
> So he doesn't need translators. Lucky guy that expresses himself
eloquently
> with his guitar.
I must agree here... I saw them last February in Costa Rica and Steve
really rocks on stage! He was so expressive in the guitar, sometimes
imitating Ian's voice while singing...
> ¿Hay alguien por ahi del terruño este, POR FAVOR?
No precisamente en España, pero indudablemente no eres el único
hispano-parlante en la lista ;-)
--
Fabio Esquivel
--
[Ed- Puedo comer vidrio; no me hace daño.]
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-----Original Message-----
From: JGibbes(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: Deep Purple Digest #8
In a message dated 05/09/98 22:33:13 GMT, you write:
<< "Rap album?". "The one you did with the Ray
Sillengaard and the Bolland brothers." "It's out? I haven't even heard
the demo tapes. How is it?" "They released it in Japan last year >>
Tell me more,please.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jesper Almén
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 4:45 PM
Subject: Purple-Abba, return of the bellbottoms..
Just to clear up the connections of Purple and other musicians with a few
different names apart from Jeff Porcaro (let's face it, Jeff Potcaro played
with EVERYBODY),here's a few answers...
Bjorn and Benny from Abba wrote the musical Chess together with Tim Rice,
and they also had Murray Head sing one of the roles on the studio album.
Murray also played Judas against Gillan's Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar by
Webber/Rice.
The Purple- Floyd connection I had in mind was Jon Lord who played on a few
tracks on one of David Gilmour's solo albums.
The REALLY farfetched connection between Deep Purple and City Boy is (apart
from the fact that both band were british) that City Boy's guitar player
Mike Slamer played in the band Streets with singer Steve Walsh who also sang
with Kansas where Steve Morse played for two albums...
Finally, what on earth does Grabsplatter mean??????
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Reichberg
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 6:21 PM
Subject: RE: Elf
Hello!
Elf made three albums in their carreer: "Elf", "Carolina County Ball"
and "Trying To Burn The Sun". On the first one, Dio (still as Ronald
Padavona) sang and played bass. That album was produced by Roger and Ian
Paice. On the two other records you'll hear the band that - with the
exception of guitarist Steve Edwards - would become Rainbow.
I bought re-issues of the albums on vinyl in the eighties, but I think
you can find them all on CD these days. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
My favourite Elf album is the last one. "Wonderworld" and "Prentice
Wood" are easily among Ronnie's best ever songs.
I think Elf was a GREAT band. Even though I love the heavy side of
Ronnie, I've always loved his softer singing too. And with Elf, Ronnie
proves he is a fantastic rock n roller!
I think it's a bit sad that Ronnie only want to sing metal these days.
His two lates albums are ultra-heavy. My dream is to hear Ronnie once
again sing some swinging rock n roll and some tender ballads.
There were some rumours that Elf was re-uniting. If they do, I strongly
support it. Not least because it's about time Mickey Lee Soule leaves
his job as Jon Lord's keyboard technician and starts playing again!
Daniel
reichberg(at-a-domain-named)hotmail.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Trond
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 4:34 AM
Subject: WFT third verse
Tim wrote:
>>>
I have never heard Gillan sing
the CORRECT third verse he seems just to repeat part of the second verse or
mumbles/ screams. Does anyone know of a version where he does the third
verse correctly??
<<<
You meant he last verse:
Rising from the neon gloom
Shining like a crazy moon
Yeah, she turns me on like a fire
I get high
?
I think he sings this all the time on the versions from 1995 onwards, or am
I mistaken? The 1984-1994 short versions left this verse out.
Cheers,
--
Trond
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ilija Gospodinov
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 7:58 AM
Subject: Phantom Edition??!!
Hey just a question: Has anyone heard or seen a DP edition called
"Fireworks"?? I got it on a poster, although I've never heard anything
about it, even if it exists at all. So some help would be highly
appreciated...
--
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
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Currin
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 6:07 PM
Subject: re: DPD #8
In DPD #8:
From: AlexandroTalamini
Hi from Brazil =)
I would like to know if anybody knows a DP boot (CD format prefered,
good sound quality) from Coverdale/Hughes era, where they play Gillan's
era songs. I mean anything different from HIGHWAY STAR and SMOKE ON THE
WATER. Does this "damn thing" exist? And if so, how? where?
***
Brian's reply:
Extract from Benny Holmstrom's Live Tracks page:
Deep Purple Mark III ; 8 December 73 – 7 April 75
Burn
Georgia on my mind
Going down
Gypsy
Highway star
Lady double dealer
Lay down stay down
Might just take your life
Mistreated
Smoke on the water
Space truckin'
Stormbringer
The mule
What’s going on here
You fool no one
As can be seen from this list not many Mk 2 songs were played live, in fact
The Mule was just an instrumental snippet after the Drum solo during You
Fool No One.
All 4 of the mk 2 tracks are available on various official releases i.e. Mk
III: The Final Concerts, Live In London and California Jam.
Congratulations on your new edition to your family, hope all went well. (or
is it still going to happen?)
I'm writing that Live And Blue review and will send it shortly.
Cheers
Brian
---------Brian Currin--------
Vagabond Of The Website World
www.new.co.za/~currin
The Deep Purple Web Index
www.new.co.za/~currin/dpwebdefault.html
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tero
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 8:18 AM
Subject: Support bands...
...any idea what band /which bands are supporting Deep Purple on their
European tour?
Any other Finns on this list? If you are going to see DP 29.9. write to me:
Tero(at-a-domain-named)tjh.pp.fi - we are (me and my friends) hopefully arranging a fan
meeting before the show...Ian and Ian kinda promised that in the summer...
Tero
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>From Dean "This One's a Joke!" Webb: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
The Deep Purple Christmas Special from Rankin-Bass (HUMOR!!!)
Say, it being just after Labor Day in the USA (We have ours 4 months later
than the rest of the world because we're not on the metric system yet :-),
Christmas season has begun. Any day now, all those cute Xmas specials made
by the Rankin-Bass studios will start showing again... Frosty the Snowman...
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer... Santa Claus is Comin' to Town... The Little
Drummer Boy...
One show that doesn't come on too often, though was the Deep Purple
Christmas Special. It was done well after the studio's heyday, and exhibited
one the last efforts made to use stop-action figures by the studio, which
was starting to do the lion's share of its work in animation. I know it was
based on the Mk2 lineup and was first aired in 1973, ironically after the
breakup of the Mk2 lineup. (This probably explains why it never showed all
that often, as it did not receive that wide a distribution in the first
place.) I'll always have a spot in my heart for those figurines made by Paul
Coker, Jr., who also did some great art in MAD magazine through the 60s and
70s.
Anyway, the story line went something like this: the roly-poly Deep Purple
puppet/figures were getting ready to jet across the Atlantic to do a concert
in "The Big City" (no city specified) when they get approached by one of
Santa's Elves to help out in a pinch. It seems that the elves were tired of
the normal Xmas music and wanted things amplified a bit more than Mr. Claus
was willing or able to provide.
To help out, the elf (whose voice sounded not unlike Ronnie James Dio... I
never caught the full roll of credits and they cut them short these days--
anybocy know for sure on this one?) brought Santa's sleigh for them to move
at near-instantaneous speed between The Big City and The North Pole. The
band decide to go for it and a magical, musical journey gets underway.
As the band wrap up the *animated* version of "Speed King", though, the
nefarious forces in the shape of one Mr. Johnny Q. Rotten (true story: this
was the character the Sex Pistols guy took his stage name from!), who can't
stand Rock and Roll and can stand Christmas even less. J.Q. Rotten (who
looks like the old banker J.P. Morgan and whose voice was perfromed by Harry
Morgan, of Dragnet and MASH fame) fires a rocket at the sleigh and sends it
crashing.
Well, even though our plucky bandmembers and their elvish escort are caught
by the evil Mr. Rotten, they don't despair. THEY ROCK! Tricking Mr. Rotten
into letting them have one last show, they get all of Rotten's minions
jamming out to the tune of "My Cool Toy From the North Pole" (sung to the
tune of "Woman From Tokyo" and only two verses at that...) which segues into
"That'll be the Day" by Buddy Holly. (This version got xmased-up really
well. BTW, there was a reference to this medley on Nobody's Perfect,
although the non-xmas versions of the songs were used.)
Once Rotten's henchmen are rocking out, Rotten tries to order them to quit,
but they put him in a cage and drag him along to the North Pole. There, a
grateful Santa lets DP play a concert for his elves and spreads enough
Christmas Cheer to make Mr. Rotten become Mr. Right-on and provide enough
fertilizer for the Upper Midwest. DP performs rocked-out versions of "Up on
the Housetop" and "Pine Cones and Holly Berries." Blackmore and Lord provide
two brilliant, but severely curtailed solos. The edits on Lord's solo were
painfully obvious, as it goes straight from one beautiful classical passage
right into the chorus of "Up on the Housetop."
Well, the concert is a huge success, Mr. Right-on now uses his rockets to
deliver presents and DP puts on their concert in The Big City with just two
changes: 1) They kick off with "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" (as Santa
Flies overhead) and 2) They do it all in Santa outfits. To this day, I will
never forget the sight of all the lads in DP jamming away as puppet/figures
decked out in redsuits with white trim. It was so cool and so funny at the
same time. The other funny thing was that the figures smiled all the time:
the Ritchie Blackmore figure had the cutest grin, too! (How ironic...)
Anyway, the whole thing ran for an hour (including commercials, of which
there were many). It was a favorite of mine growing up and, even though it
doesn't get shown every year, I scour the channels to find any one that
actually does show the thing. I think I've seen the special maybe 3 times my
entire life, and the last showing was in 1995. If anyone has a copy of the
tape, I'd be interested in getting a copy made for myself.
If anybody else remembers seeing this special (I'm sure many of you with
active imaginations will *REMEMBER SOMETIHNG*!) and notices anything I left
out, please send in your remembrances of the DP Special. I'm sure everyone
else would be happy to hear about it.
Anyway, Merry Christmas (for those who observe it) and Merry (other holiday
of religious significance, as appropriate) and a Happy (non-religious
holiday of general, worldwide observance, as appropriate)!
Dean "I Made All of This Up!" Webb
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