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Darker Than Blue RSS- Vinyl Guide‘The Vinyl Guide’, a podcast for fans and collectors of vinyl records, interviewed Ian Gillan recently about his records, his time with Black Sabbath, his avoidance of nostalgia and the history and future of the Deep Purple. Ian says they have dates next year and confirms that they have talked about another studio album. He […]
- More GlennBlack Country Communion (see below) also get hefty coverage (and the cover story) in the new issue of Classic Rock magazine (October)) and via a tie-up with their label Mascot, there’s a ‘best of’ cover mount CD as well which acts as a good taster if you’ve not bought the earlier albums. Thanks to Tom […]
- The black crows circleThe fourth Black Country Communion album is due around Sept 22nd on both CD and vinyl (thanks to Tonny Steenhagen for the info.) From the taster track studio video I found on the Ultimate Guitar site (Link below), it seems to be more of the same, and just as Zeppy too (check Joe’s solo out!). […]
- Here’s five discs for ya!I guess it makes sense to mark the occasion, even if I don’t see any mention that it’s the 30th anniversary of the seminal 1987 Whitesnake album. Thirty years ago. Anyhow DC is pushing the boat out with a monster five disc set. The catch is if you bought previous editions (the 25th anniversary edition […]
- Bonnet biography on saleThe publishers are now taking pre-orders for Steve Wright’s exhaustive Graham Bonnet biography The Story Behind The Shades, with a September delivery date confirmed. Anyone who orders ahead of then from here gets a bit of a discount too. There is a regular softback, 176 pages (plus 160 rare photos and 170 items of memorabilia!), […]
- U.S. tour set list spoilerThe double-header American tour (dates on the site) kicked off last Saturday, and finds Deep Purple clipping back the set a bit to allow for Alice Cooper (and their crew, and Edgar Winter). They have also dropped some of the new album and the show includes just two numbers from Infinite, one as the first […]
- It’s ArteThat German broadcast of Deep Purple’s current tour from Hellfest is finally on line, you can check it out via the link below. Thanks to Tim Summers for the info. Really well filmed and a pretty decent performance, and great to see Paice back on top form too. http://www.arte.tv/de/videos/076475-000-A/deep-purple-beim-hellfest-2017
- C’mon, let’s go…If Galaxy Quest is one of your rainy Sunday film treats, you may enjoy the trailer/s for a new 2017 US Sci-fi parody series called The Orville. You may even recognise one of the Machine Head classics used as the music for the first one! Thanks to Karl-Heinz Baier for the heads up. Will certainly be […]
- A Fire In The SkyNo, not a story about the upcoming Machine Head book of that name, but the title of a new Deep Purple US compilation (though we do wonder where they got the idea!) due in September, most likely to tie in with the band’s tour there. It’s the first extensive collection for America in a good […]
- South AmericaFive Deep Purple shows over in South America in December 2017 if you fancy a bit of a pre-Christmas break! Added to our date list. Argentina, Brazil (three venues) and Chile. Thanks to Mark Maddock.
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July 16, 2012 at 1:14 am |
I will agree that they are still a very good band, as whenever they come around I always go and see them. They were here in Ontario Canada back in April, and it was a very good show. Having said that you simply cannot argue with the strength of the band in the seventies during their heyday. Two things come to mind, one is the obvious, and that is the fact that Gillan cannot sing as he did then (pretty easy to understand that) and for me, the softer sound of the keyboards and the much different style of Steve Morse’s playing. Even during the reunion shows, there was not that “grinding” raw sound that is well documented in live recordings of the 68-76 era. Blackmore’s sound had a very distinctive minor sound that meshed perfectly with Jon’s beast. That was the Purple sound that I fell in love with. To me, those were the best days.
August 17, 2014 at 5:37 pm |
You betcha. The band ROCKED back in the day. Sadly Ritchie is no longer interested, Jon is gone, and Ian’s voice has changed so dramatically it’s tough to get interested enough to go out and see ’em when they come around. Saw them in Maple leaf Gardens for the Perfect Strangers tour in the early eighties and then in Boston after moving to the States, but never without Ritchie. Steve Morse is a great player and as good as you can expect for a replacement but you’re right Dave it’s just not the same. If they could get a big re-union with Blackmore and maybe even Coverdale and Hughes all together with Gillan, Glover and Paice I’d be there though. Just wouldn’t be able to stay away from that much of my best Rock memories. A tribute to Jon Lord show?
They wouldn’t even have to come close by… I’d travel for that one!
April 9, 2012 at 9:54 pm |
Sorry, but as a young fan (23), I’m fed up with all those nostalgic comments about the ‘good old times’. If you think, that ‘old time’ was better, it happens not because that the time is ‘bad’ now, but because you were younger then. You’re missing not the ‘old time’, but your own young mind and body.
So, please, the older fans, if you don’t like it, just give up the band and let Deep Purple be ours – young fans’ band.
I’ve seen them live in 2009, 2010, 2011 (going to the 2012 show again) and I think they ARE fabulous and fantastic live.
I adore the ’72 DVD, the band plays like furious dinosaurs on full fire, volcano! But personally for me nothing can be compared to the LIVE experience that I witnessed in the last three years.
OK, I’m not saying that DP is either better or worse now than it was in ’72. I’m not even comparing those shows, because notwithstanding the so called ‘time’ and ‘age’, they do always have their IDENTITY as an astonishing and volcanic LIVE band. I love them simply because of this identity that they never loose.
So, the word ‘was’ is not compatible speaking of this amazing band. Deep Purple ‘was’ Deep Purple? No way! Come on! Deep Purple IS Deep Purple!
March 30, 2012 at 4:10 pm |
Those where the days when Deep Purple WAS Deep Purple.
I wish I could go back in time. At that time they where superior to all the rest. Forget Sabbath and Zeppelin.
I hope that also YOU were around at that time. For us, it will never be the same. They are still good, but this was on an other planet.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then look for the KB-Hallen live-DVD. Black and white it is, but so much power and energy compared to the newer DVDs.
Ok, I might be an old fool. But I like it.
Happy Easter!
April 5, 2012 at 11:08 am |
Well yes I was around at the time, and they must have done something exceptional to keep me interested all these years. And I know exactly what you mean about the 1972 video (or DVD). I remember leaving the viewing room shaking after seeing that when we first found the tapes back in the 80s. And I’m not even a Deep Purple fan, as Ritchie will happily tell you!