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Showzão!

A pretty decent audience recording of the complete Deep Purple show on September 13 in São Paulo.

Setlist:

  1. Intro
  2. Highway Star
  3. A Bit On The Side
  4. Hard Lovin’ Man
  5. Into The Fire
  6. guitar solo
  7. Uncommon Man
  8. Lazy Sod
  9. keyboard solo
  10. Lazy
  11. When A Blind Man Cries
  12. Portable Door
  13. Anya
  14. keyboard solo
  15. Bleeding Obvious
  16. Space Truckin’
  17. Smoke On The Water
  18. Green Onions
  19. Hush
  20. Black Night

Thanks to TheKillerHorseman for the video, and to BraveWords for bringing it to your attention.



21 Comments to “Showzão!”:

  1. 1
    Mark Sheehan says:

    Simon McBride has cemented his place in DP. He’s a fantastic player and the magic replacement for Steve Morse. The band has new life.

  2. 2
    MacGregor says:

    Thanks for the footage & yes it is rather good quality. Bleeding Obvious indeed. I have not listened to any songs from the new album for weeks, a deliberate sabbatical. Good to return with fresh ears & to listen to the songs I like played live, they still have it. Cheers.

  3. 3
    MacGregor says:

    I forgot to mention Don Airey’s solo, good old school melodies & technique there. Are there any of those keyboard warriors left? Most probably not as Grumpy Rick has hand issues these days & his son Adam augments on many of the songs live in concert. Hoping that Rick can still dazzle a little with a solo section all to himself. Cheers.

  4. 4
    Matthew says:

    I find it odd that someone would spend the whole concert watching the small screen on their phone!

  5. 5
    Adel Faragalla says:

    They dropped ‘Show me’ for when ‘a blind man 😭’
    This song sends more shivers down my spine than ever before.
    Could this be the greatest DP song ever written.
    Who cares about greatness anyway we are all equally one.
    Thank you for the music DP
    Peace ✌️

  6. 6
    stoffer says:

    Thanks for the vid! enthusiastic crowd to say the least 🙂

  7. 7
    Peter Steiof says:

    I attended the concert in Sao Paulo. Very good, perfect sound and Ian Gillan in fine form. 1hour 45 playing time.
    Perfect

  8. 8
    Karin Verndal says:

    Thanks very much for the possibility to see and listen to the concert online 😊💜

  9. 9
    Uwe Hornung says:

    “Simon McBride has cemented his place in DP. He’s a fantastic player and the magic replacement for Steve Morse. The band has new life.”

    How right Mark is. “Mediocre player” my ass.

  10. 10
    Attila says:

    This is to Steve. I you ever get to read this. I watched the Brazil gig. The solo before uncommon man.: sure that is a Dublin pub hero’s take on that. And that is disappointing, but also it is the genes of r and r. But the important thing is that you are being played. You are being played.

  11. 11
    Aireight says:

    While I will always appreciate Steve’s legacy in the band, if I said nobody can play the solo in HLM better, I stand corrected. It’s also great to see Simon staying with the Dirty Fingers in his solos, including embellishments!

  12. 12
    VD says:

    This person stood there with their arm raised for 105 minutes. That’s some dedicated bootleggin’ lol

  13. 13
    Phil says:

    It’s great to see “A Bit On The Side” fit seamlessly into the opening set. The standard doesn’t drop when going up against the other 3 Mk 2 songs.
    Cheers
    Phil

  14. 14
    Robert says:

    What’s with worldwide ban of Highway Star on recent YT uploads? Anyone knows?

  15. 15
    Uwe Hornung says:

    In a whimsical mood, I just listened to Whoosh! again. The album is only from 2020, yet it seems such a long time ago! Things have happened indeed.

    First things first: It still is a mighty fine album. Mature, intricate, orchestral, original in style, Steve really could sculpt aural landscapes, no two ways about it. But man it is a VERY SOMBER, even melancholic album and it really doesn’t rock much, it is essentially a progish melodic rock (or melodic prog?) album – and a good one at that.

    Steve’s sustain-drenched and processed tone is in a class of its own and his melodies are exquisite, his rhythm guitar original. What is missing, however, are riffs that go for your jugular or gut and Simon’s pushy & shoving rhythm playing. That has upped the hard rock ante in DP quite a bit.

    =1 is more immediate and catchy than Whoosh!, but the latter has dignity and something special. Steve’s last original songs studio album with Purple was an excellent one, nothing to regret there.

  16. 16
    AndreA says:

    what an amazing concert! And Gillan is amazing! He sings so amazingly!! Great performance!

  17. 17
    Karin Verndal says:

    @9
    😂😂
    Exactly 👍🏼

  18. 18
    francis says:

    c’est facile de reprendre le nom du groupe et de jouer les anciennes chansons!!

  19. 19
    Ivica says:

    Four songs from the new album and over an hour and 45 minutes of a quality concert at their age.They are a miracle!
    “=1” excellent album for me, possibly except for “I’m Saying Nothin” and “No Money to Burn” (not bad songs) all songs could be on the concert setlist.

  20. 20
    Max says:

    Since Bob Ezrin’s in control I thought Whoosh was the best of the lot. Until now. I agree 100% that =1 is a whole different beast and brings back some elements that were (at least here) sadly missed. The Ezrin-albums with Steve showed a whole new band in my book, a good one but not one I’d love. In fact I did not go back to them too often. Dare I say I prefered Purpendicular, Bananas and even Rapture of the Deep in places. Apaprt of course from the classics. Now it feels like Purple are back again at what they do best. They deliver the goods. No disrespect at all but I always felt SM wasn’t the right fit. Not because I am a Blackmoron but because to these ears he lacked a certain looseness (as in the Stones), aggression and overall Rock’n’Roll feel. No mistakes sure – but no surprises as well, no sense of danger, all very polished. I did like the Satriani shows more although the man had no time to really connect to the band. Bottom line: I am very happy about the way things are going.

  21. 21
    Uwe Hornung says:

    “Blackmoron”

    Brilliant! 🤣🤣🤣

    “No disrespect at all but I always felt SM wasn’t the right fit. Not because I am a Blackmoron but because to these ears he lacked a certain looseness (as in the Stones), aggression and overall Rock’n’Roll feel. No mistakes sure – but no surprises as well, no sense of danger, all very polished …”

    I totally geddit. To Steve’s defense: He never claimed to have a “danger” element in him, his musical career resembles that of an athlete training for the Olympics. Conscientious, hardworking, committed, intent on extending his craft, striving for absolute reliability at the highest artistic level. Purple got what they paid for.

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