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Metal-Rules.com has a review of the Purple gig in Montreal from August 27. It’s well written and may put a smile on your face, even if the author doesn’t quite get all the facts straight.
But to the Purple at hand! And don’t come at me with the “Deep Purple was better when they extended Space Truckin’ to a 25 minute jam that included a feedback-laden Ritchie Blackmore hissyfit, exploding amps, velvet bell bottoms, a damaged TV camera, destroyed guitars, and several lives lost in the process” rhetoric, either. They’re not that band anymore. They’re septuagenarians. And also, they’re in their 70s. Let ‘em play 15 five-minute songs instead of four half-hour wankfests. We want to hear Ian Gillan sing, not watch him play his damn congas all night. And honestly, they haven’t put out a bad record in at least 20 years. Their newest, the abysmally titled =1, is a very fun, energetic slice of heavy blues rock, and it’s clear the boys are mighty proud of the record, because they would wind up playing five tracks from it. Which I thoroughly enjoyed. New guitarist Simon Ferguson has brought a lot of energy to the band, a much different dynamic than when Steve Morse was a member. There’s more bite to Deep Purple now, and a lot less jam-band smoothness.
Read more in Metal-Rules.com.
Meanwhile, MetalTalk.net reviews the gig in Bridgeport, CT, from September 3, with better pictures, but significantly less insight:
I was highly anticipating this show, as the last time I saw Deep Purple was at Giants Stadium in New Jersey in 1988, where Guns N’ Roses and Aerosmith were playing when I was 17 years old. Having been formed in 1968 and still performing is an amazing feat.
They kicked off the night with the powerful, make-you-drive-fast song Highway Star. This song brings back memories of cruising the strip at night with my high school friends.
Read more and check out the photo gallery at MetalTalk.net.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
As predictable as this comment will be, I didn’t realise DP have already changed guitarists, again! Sheesh, poor old McBride didn’t last long. As for the second comical review, well journalism has to start somewhere doesn’t it, unfortunately. The First of Two R&R Hall of Fame Inductees??? Hmmmm, Steve Howe was the only member of his tribute band to be inducted, but let’s not split hairs shall we. Comical indeed. Cheers.
September 8th, 2024 at 23:28If the reference above involved the Made in Japan and/or the other 3 related releases (4 nights were recorded) version of Highway Star, my interpretation of that jam is they took Mandrake Root’s solo section and placed it in the middle of Highway Star. Of course if I am wrong please anyone feel free to correct me.
September 9th, 2024 at 07:59Space Truckin’ wasn’t it, the extended & borrowed to a degree Dave Brubeck Quartet’s ‘Blue Rondo a la Turk’. DP were inspired by Keith Emerson’s band Nice & their take on it in the late 1960’s, which then crept into their live set in another form with everything else. I have always enjoyed the extended live version of Space Truckin’ from that era. Classic Deep Purple indeed. Classic late 1960’s into the early 70’s live rock music. That journalist who already has another ‘new’ guitarist in DP, is either deliberately being silly about a few things or he just doesn’t get it. What is that Bob Daisley lyric on the Blizzard of Oz song Revelation ‘Mother Earth’, ‘mother please forgive them, for they know not what they do’. Cheers.
September 9th, 2024 at 08:59I should include the Blizzard of Oz track in it’s full glory. Superb guitar from Randy Rhoads & Don Airey is sublime on this song, the strongest & most melodic song on that debut album. I have always thought it is sort of ruined a little at the ending with the heavy section coming in. Not badly as such but that rockier bit could or should have been a separate song. The softer quieter pastoral song Revelation should have had a different ending to fit in with it’s original music & intent. Anyway here it is. Don Airey in a ‘metal’ band. Not that he hasn’t done that before in hard rock. Cheers.
https://americansongwriter.com/the-environmental-crisis-that-inspired-revelation-mother-earth-by-ozzy-osbourne/
September 9th, 2024 at 09:23I’m from Denmark, and in Denmark we have some critiques, persons who are not quite so enthusiastic for older musicians as the rest of us are!
Especially Thomas Treo is one of a kind to put it mildly!
Well, I’ve read a lot of other reviews and am always impressed how they seem to look at DP, and IG.
IG is an older man now, but I would love to hear any other 79’year olds who can sing just like him! He has a tremendous voice, and yeah it’s not like when he was a young man, how could it be?
I don’t sound like I did when I was a young girl, but for me he sings out of this world and I like to appreciate his efforts because he is amazing.
And let me end this little praise by saying that normally I am on FB, and that’s fun, but I do enjoy the lack of pure worshipping here 😉
September 9th, 2024 at 10:17I’m sure IG and the rest of DP are beautiful men and all that, but I like to go more into the depths of the music and not so much on the looks and hotness 😄
Thanks K
Sorry all I meant to say Space Truckin’ from the Made in Japan releases. Oops. Needed more sleep that day or something
September 10th, 2024 at 02:03Karin, you Viking Princess, are you now becoming a permanent illuminating fixture in our dark man cave? 😉
Ok, regular showers then. It couldn’t last forever.
Are/were DP beautiful men? I never thought them a particularly handsome band. Jon Lord in the first half of the 70ies, Ian Gillan (my wife disagrees!), Glenn Hughes and Tommy Bolin (the latter two only when they were not too sweaty, bloated and drugged out) were the only ones I would consider handsome, Tommy especially had an androgynous charm in the way he played, moved and looked. Ritchie, for all his vanity, was never a good-looking guy (a bit like a vulture!) and David Coverdale really only blossomed in early Whitesnake before he overdid things in his LA hair metal phase in the later 80ies.
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That Metal-Rules review is a hoot, especially:
“Anyway, that show I went to (Slash, to be specific, back in 2012) was a pleasant surprise: not because the set was rippingly good (cos it was) but because I ended up getting back home before ten p.m. After years of going to club shows that would end at two in the morning, this was a luxury! Yay, middle age!
That memory was in my mind as I scurried my way through downtown Montreal at the ridonkulously early hour of six p.m., the late summer sun still blazing in the sky, trying to arrive in time for Deep Purple’s latest visit, which was commencing at 6:30 sharp. Man, it was surreal. It was packed, there had to be 12,000 other aging rock and metal fans in the Bell Centre all there for arguably the best heavy metal early bird special you’ll ever encounter. Don’t these people have jobs?! I wondered, having taken two hours off from work just to make it to the arena on time. Then I saw all the grey hair and realized that many of these people, 95% of them men, are probably retired. If one of those dudes had a nickel for all the enlarged prostates in the building, they could buy themselves a couple Molson Exports and be racing to the bathroom every 20 minutes for the next eight hours. Seriously, the men’s rooms were packed all night. See your doctor regularly, fellas!”
That had my prostate contracting for once – with laughter! 🤣
September 10th, 2024 at 17:16Uwe – yes I’m here to stay! You’re a fun and very interesting group of people! I love reading the different posts 😊
Well, now I’m moving into an area I so enjoyed was lacking here, but since you bring it up 😉:
Yes, IG is a very very handsome man, so is RG, and the rest of them too!
Even in their late 70’s I must say your wife is right…
The situation on FB is that that’s all (especially the lady-folk) can talk about.
I’m ok with that of course! Every person is entitled to his/her sympathies!
What I love here is that we can talk about so many other things: was it really bad the way SM was let go or was it ok (I’m still not quite settled on that), all the RB discussions etc etc
Btw: can any of us suggest topics? Or is it the admin who decides?
I’m asking because there are some tunes I would really like to hear your thoughts about. F.e The Spanish Archer, that is still a mystery to me.
Thanks K
September 10th, 2024 at 21:05#7 Uwe:
for me Deep Purple MKII looked beautiful in the Perfect Strangers photo session!
lord with the legendary moustache, raybans and long hair, black leather jacket, and white tennis shoes.
Ritchie in python boots and leather suit (amazing jacket!)
Paice with mega sideburns, and baseball style look.
Glover with a T-shirt and an incredibly Miami Vice-like style.
Gillan still in great shape with very long hair, boots and shirt.
I loved the blue-toned photos in the PS book!
when i think of them in my mind i’m always like in 84, even if i started listening to them in 1988….what would i pay to be older and have seen them on the PS tour!
September 10th, 2024 at 22:43“Btw: can any of us suggest topics? Or is it the admin who decides?
I’m asking because there are some tunes I would really like to hear your thoughts about. F.e The Spanish Archer, that is still a mystery to me.”
Liebe Ms Verndal, our Admins keep us selflessly entertained with an embarrassment of different topics every week and in their wisdom grant us a lot of freedom to sometimes stray a bit from subjects. Not that I personally ever would, I abhor digression and streams of consciousness.
But what are our questions re The Spanish Archer then? We’re here to help!
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September 11th, 2024 at 16:03For Karin (and let’s not be binary, but inclusive: anyone else who takes an interest in Jon’s scarf wear), we must accommodate:
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September 11th, 2024 at 17:50@10
Well thanks for enlightening me in the Admin’s amazing work to entertain us 😊
Let us never stray, but!
The Spanish Archer is a bit of a mystery for me because it doesn’t seem to fit in ‘the House of Blue Light’ completely.
Not that I’m not intrigued by the song, because I’m listening to it almost every day!
Unfortunately I’m not a musician but for me it sounds like a medieval tune. It’s rock alright, but there’s some feeling in it that goes way back! Do you know what I mean?
The rest of the songs ‘Bad Artitude’, ‘Call of the Wild’, ‘Dead or Alive’ etc are so much more DP.
And the lyric is puzzling me! What I love about DP’s lyrics are the humorous tones in them, tongue in cheek, 😉<- this kind.
September 12th, 2024 at 06:26But in The Spanish Archer it’s much more severe.
I know the phrase ‘Spanish Archer’ can relate to bad Spanish vocabulary, meaning ‘the el-bow’, showing someone the door out of one’s life.
But is that all that is to it? And who is the storyteller?
Ian sings ‘The Spanish Archer’s gonna make you pay” and “The Spanish Archer’s gonna bring you down” – is he talking to himself or the lady?
It feels like a complete heartbreak 💔
Sorry if I’m not making any sense here (which unfortunately is true for most of my life 😉) and I have the hardest time explaining completely what I mean (if any of you could learn Danish in a hurry it would be so much easier ☺️) and maybe there isn’t any deeper hidden meaning in the lyric!
Maybe it’s just a lovely song made to entertain, maybe I have had too much time on my hands to dwell into DP’s music, but this song keeps living in my brains and heart, like a gnawing but sweet pain.
So any light on this would really be appreciated.
Ian Paice’s drumming is wonderful, Blackmore’s guitar playing is adorable, and Ian Gillan’s voice is charming and has its usual amazing rock sound and of course Roger Glover as always keeps a lovely balance in the song. I’m just puzzled.
Thanks for the nice pictures btw 😄
K
Liebe Frau Verndal,
here I go mansplaining what seems to me a breakup song, hardly a topic of male competence, can’t we get Taylor Swift to do a guest text analysis?
With Gillan lyrics things can move from the biographical to the abstract in the course of a sentence, but Spanish Archer seems pretty straightforward to me. He has his doubts, has lost trust and is intending to give her the elbow/Spanish archer (of course, wimmin are always to blame when relationships fail, that is at least the male default position).
That said, the line
“is there someone somewhere waiting in the wings to take my place
let’s not drag it out like a (James) Cagney death scene”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3ET1np5cQs
might also apply to his then-situation in DP. It’s no secret that the enthusiasm and reunion good vibes of the Perfect Strangers phase dissipated quickly and that the recording of THOBL was already under a black cloud. Big Ian might have felt something, becoming unsure of his status in the band. He had rooted for THOBL being recorded in some urban state-of-the-art studio in NYC like The Power Station, but neither Jon (“The thought of recording in NYC fills me with dread.”) nor Ritchie would have that. So he was already miffed before he sang his first note in the sessions.
September 12th, 2024 at 23:22Ohh! Uwe, I did not know about the uncertainty for IG!
I thought everything was fine.
Women always to blame? Yeah, probably, we are intriguing creatures ☺️
By the way: who is Taylor Swift? (😉)
Thanks, K
September 13th, 2024 at 06:46The Spanish Archer indeed. Blackmore & his magic again on the guitar & the feel of the song, a spell cast, yes as he only can. The irony of the lyrics or some of them & the thread bubbling along at ‘clenching & unclenching’ in regards to management etc mishandling things, is not lost on many of us. I see The Spanish Archer as more along the lines of someone getting their comeuppance or receiving bad Karma, in some aspects. A bit similar to Smooth Dancer perhaps? Cheers.
September 13th, 2024 at 08:06The other musical similarity to 1972 Purple in The Spanish Archer is Ian Paice from about 4.20 on playing that snare attack, rat tat tat tat tat tat tat improv along with Glover on the bass. Quite a few times amongst all that improvising towards the end. Similar to the snare drum thing he did on Pictures of Home after that little break when closing out that song. Glover praises him for it on that Classic rock Machine Head dvd while he is sitting at the mixing desk. Brilliant he says & off the cuff. 15 years later he joins in repeatedly & even plays it once without Paice accompanying him. Classic Purple. Sorry I had to break that snare drum attack down to that basic lingo. It is for any bass guitarists (well one in particular) who may not understand. You know what they are like, keeping it simple etc. Not to worry, they mean well. Cheers.
September 13th, 2024 at 11:43MacGregor, thanks so much 🙌🏼
I must admit, even though I of course have dwelled upon Smooth Dancer, and it’s an amazing tune BUT I’ve never combined it with the tension between IG and RB! It makes perfectly sense now 😂 wooowah a tongue lash from IG!
I’m quite impressed that the two of them are still alive to tell about it 😉😄
And here I have thought it was all about the females in their lives…
And thank you very much for breaking it down to basic lingo in @16 😊 I’m not a musician so I’m really grateful for anything explained so I can understand it.
September 14th, 2024 at 05:58For me it’s just what it makes me feel, it’s really nice to know WHY the music makes me feel a certain way!
K
Who’s Taylor Swift you ask, liebe Karin? Just some childless American footballer‘s GF with a love for non-edible cats and a knack for getting people signed up to do the right thing.
I‘m one of her great supporters here!
Moving on to the more mundane in shape of Herr MacGregor‘s lucid drum break observations: It will please you no end that I always loved that part too which I have never heard in the shuffle of another band. ‘Rat tat tat tat tat tat tat’ indeed, I love how you drummers compensate for dearth of a paleoanthropologically more advanced vocabulary with such primal, yet highly effective (and inherently charming) onomatopoeia.
What can I say? CRASH BANG WALLOP !!!
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September 14th, 2024 at 12:13Steady on Uwe with the big words, I am getting confused here in Tasmania. Mind you I shouldn’t be as that does relate in so many ways. “Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology? I do prefer the second wording, a little bit of a gap between the two words makes much more sense to me. It gives me a little time to adjust before contemplating the next word. Being a (ex) drummer or someone who still enjoys hitting sticks & lumps of wood against things to makes a noise, leaves me still dwelling in no-mans land. I am glad you could relate to it. Thanks for the Animal from Sesame Street drumming tutorial. He is a classic drummer in more ways than one. Cheers.
September 14th, 2024 at 23:20@ 17 – thanks Karin, yes the Blackmore & Gillan stand off over that period has left us with quite a few classic DP songs. Because of the rivalry & or bitterness I would say. When Gillan is annoyed he expresses it in lyric and Blackmore in his guitar playing. Plenty of fire & passion in the songs at times. The Spanish Archer is a fine example of that & for me it represents the best of that lineup in many ways. Regarding the drumming talk, that is the only way I know how to explain that as many others may also. I don’t read or write music charts & if someone placed a chart in front of me & said ‘play that’, I would be doomed. But as you have probably noticed, my main concern was that Uwe would not know what I was on about, he he he. Hence his reference at comment 18 to the primordial aspects of human evolution. I do sincerely hope he doesn’t think I still dwell in a cave somewhere out here in Australia. All be it one with a computer with internet access & that I do really need to move into the 21st century instead of dwelling in the dim & distant past of primordial existence. All good fun though. Cheers.
September 14th, 2024 at 23:58Uwe, I’ve read a lot of your comments, and giggled 😄
September 15th, 2024 at 11:56And I have to say it surprises me a tiny bit that you are one of ms Taylor’s supporters!
But I’m all in for variety 😃
And ok I love to listen to Pet Shop Boys now and then (and Sweet, ELO, Fleetwood Mac and other great bands from that period of time, the great 70’s) DP does stand me closer though 🥰
K
Oh you’re a drummer 🥁 NICE!
Now listening to the Spanish Archer, everything falls into place! And of course also Smooth Dancer!
I have read somewhere about an autobiography of IG, is it a good read, or merely blah? Wanna know before I buy it 😊
September 15th, 2024 at 12:02What I mean is: if he actually wrote it himself I guess it’s really great, but did he wrote it or was there a gw in between?
Thanks, K
Karin, have you too noticed how that MacGregor guy always picks on me, drumming up sentiment against me? I caution you about any excessive mingling with him!
He did teach me a new word though, “primordial”, I had to look that up, danke! 🙏
September 15th, 2024 at 14:04Uwe as far as I can tell MacGregor is the kindest man and I guess he likes to pull your leg 😄
September 15th, 2024 at 15:37Ok guys, another tune that has been troubling me a bit!
Strangeways from The House of Blue Light.
I have been investigating the word Strangeways, and as far as I can tell Strangeways is a prison!??
Does the word have another meaning, because Google is threatening to block me completely if I keep up asking silly questions 🤓
But what does Ian G sing about in Strangeways?
F.e the first verse:
And if you want to get ahead
Get some decent clothes
The only way to make it
Dress the part
That gets right up my nose
😳 what does he mean by the last two sentences?
Please help this Danish weirdo 😑
September 15th, 2024 at 15:50Thanks, K
#22 Karin
Ian Gillan’s autobiography was written together with David Cohen who has written many books (including one about Lady Diana).
It dates back to around 1993 and is certainly a pleasant read, full of anecdotes and absolutely necessary to have a picture of the complex life that our favorite singer had.
September 15th, 2024 at 17:05What the hell is “nice” about being a drummer, Karin?! They only tend to clutter and are generally noisy – snoring sounds that go rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat and stuff! I’m a bassist, we make for stable, reliable & conscientious relationships! 😂
The IG bio is a good, but not a brilliant read, sure it involved a co-gw as these publications tend to, but there are enough witty Gillanisms in it. And its due share of poetic license, but autobiographies are by definition subjective.
September 15th, 2024 at 18:53I try not to hate something just because it’s new. I find Taylor’s music tuneful if ever so samey; when I listen to a full album, I have issues telling the songs apart. She’s neither a great singer, nor has a great voice, but at least, thankfully, doesn’t oversing all the time, pretend to have a black voice or engage in endless melismas like so many of her female compatriots do.
I do respect her for the diligent work and preparation she puts into her presentation – very industrious – and how she herself controls her career, not a bimbo on puppet strings. She also doesn’t starve herself to death, thereby setting an unattainable precedent for her teenage fans. I find that responsible.
Many years ago – it was around the time when she made the transition from New Country wonder to Pop star (which many people at the time said was doomed to fail) – I read a lengthy ROLLING STONE interview with/article on her. The interview was conducted in a pedal boat on a small lake in Central Park, NYC, because she wanted to go outside of her apartment there for the interview, yet be by herself with the interviewer. But of course she got recognized by a group of giggling Upstate girls celebrating a birthday in NYC whose boat approached Taylor’s as they shouted if it was really her (which Taylor duly confirmed). A little chat ensued, Ms Swift asked what they intended to do with the rest of their afternoon/evening and they said “Probably go eat at McDonalds with our last dollars, NYC sure is expensive!” So Taylor proceeds to grab her wallet, takes out like a 150$ or so and reaches over from boat to boat to hand it to them with the comment: “Here, go eat somewhere nice!”
The cynic in me says, yeah, she polished her image with that chance encounter right before a rock journo. But the romantic in me whispers: “Uwe, she DID NOT HAVE TO DO THAT and could instead have her bodyguards in another pedal boat chase the birthday party girls away. But rather, she tries to make people happy.”
September 15th, 2024 at 19:39Ha ha ha Uwe. I do think it is Ian Paice’s bad influence on me all those years ago. Him telling poor ole Roger at the beginning of MKII, ‘I lead, you follow’. Cheers.
September 15th, 2024 at 21:21All drummers are alike: Sadists towards bassists and masochists towards geetar players!
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Kære fru Verndal @25 re Strangeways: Herr Gillan is anathema to sartorial convention. He wore a beard, cut his hair and wore a three-piece with latter day DP Mk II just to piss off Blackmore big time who hated all three on him, refused to wear the mandatory black leather with Black Sabbath, and has been seen wearing nothing or women’s dresses in hotel lobbies and bars around the world. Or backstage for that matter …
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So any kind of pressure to assimilate and “dress the part” (“Klæder skaber folk.”) bugs him big time and “gets up right his nose”, an annoying feeling as we all know from the COVID tests.
September 15th, 2024 at 23:11Oh, I forgot, Karin: I think Big Ian just used Strangeways as a pun, not as a real reference to His Majesty’s Prison in Manchester.
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In the song, Gillan criticizes, inter alia, dress codes, organized religion and tabloids and finds himself as always the odd man out, strange ways …
September 15th, 2024 at 23:35@26 hi Fla76,
September 16th, 2024 at 05:39Thanks so much 😊
Oh it’s from 1993! Wonder if he plans a new?
Thanks, K
@27
Uwe 😄 well as far as I’m concerned the drummer AND the bassist are the two stable anchor points in any band. None of them can’t be missed!
But Uwe, please enlighten me, with you being a bassist, was Steve Priest a good bassist?
September 16th, 2024 at 05:48I do enjoy Sweet (not the bubblegum period so much) and it seems to me SP was really good. So was Mick Tucker!
K
@28
Uwe I had no idea TS is much more a human being than she is portrayed to be in the media, so I have not been reading about her, nor listening to her music.
But you have a point: she didn’t have to be so nice to those girls!
I wonder though if it is possible at all to keep oneself sane in all this famous cheering and worshipping.
September 16th, 2024 at 05:56K
It is only the glitter & shine that gets through. Nice to see Mr Gillan in touch with his feminine side. Cheers
September 16th, 2024 at 09:07I enjoy some of Taylor Swift’s songs, well, not too much, but I do. They are well crafted in the lyric department as far as I’m concerned. The music passes me by more or less.
Anyway I prefer someone like her as a role model for the kids to – let’s say – Kayne West. Exchanging bracelets and creating an overall peaceful atmosphere of self empowerement seems a much better idea to me than spreading antisemitism and megalomania.
September 16th, 2024 at 12:55…and don’t get me wrong, Kayne West’s music is a lot more interesting than Taylor’s, no doubt. But I like my artists to make the world a better place – the older I get the more so. That is what I always liked about, say, David Coverdale – his attitude is …errr …uplifting, dare I say. Let love, light and peace restore the plan of the earth … don’t let anybody make you afraid…that kinda stuff. Give people a good time. He really bonds to his fans via social media (in fact he has answered me two times there – and no, I didn’t ask a thousand times …;-) ) – interrupted by constant advertising for his latest box set of course. 😀
September 16th, 2024 at 13:03Steve Priest was very nimble on bass, Karin. Not a man obsessing about what he exactly played to a song, there was really very little he could not do on bass, a bit like Glenn Hughes in that way, a real natural on the instrument.
Andy Scott, over all the differences he had with him, once said that Steve was the best bassist he ever played with – and also the loudest!
Sweet’s career was really a quest for development – from Bubblegum to Glam Rock to Hard Rock/proto-Heavy Metal to – in their final phase – thinking man’s 10cc’esque orchestral pop. I saw them in 1978 when they toured Level Headed with an extended line-up (second guitarist + a keyboarder), it was a sophisticated rock show, not a teenage rampage. Priest’s high pitched vocals were at that point beginning to carry more and more of the set – as their music grew more intricate, I got the impression that it started going over Brian Connolly’s head. I would see him years later, in the early 80ies, again, he was by then a wreck of a man, terrible to see and hear. And a couple of years ago I went to see Andy Scott’s Sweet which was an evening bathed in golden nostalgia, but not really comparable to the Sweet I initially saw in 1978, out to prove themselves as “serious musicians”.
September 16th, 2024 at 14:30@30,31
Thanks so much dear bassist 😊
So maybe Strangeways was meant as a prison for Ian when it has to do with conventions?
Regarding the dresses, that is beyond adorable 😅😅
September 16th, 2024 at 14:40What annoys me a lot is the fact that many men have lovelier legs than women! 😂😂
K