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Westfälische Nachrichten reviews the October 26 Deep Purple gig in Lingen. It starts with mentioning the combined age of those on stage (354) and continues:
Superlatives that raise questions among the 4,500 visitors in the sold-out Emsland Arena. Can the old rockers still do it, or are they resting on their laurels for “Smoke on the Water” and their other top hits? Deep Purple quickly throw the impression of being old hat overboard.
They start with “Highway Star” and then race through their career, which has now lasted for over half a century. Unlike their esteemed colleagues from Jefferson Starship, who opened the evening, the Brits even have a brand new album with them, which has the telling title “=1” and has stormed the charts straight away.
Read the review in original German or try Google to translate it to other languages.
Meanwhile, National Turk reviews the Amsterdam gig on October 29 in English:
Fortunately, only the film projections of the hard rock inventors’ performance in Amsterdam are dated.
Of all the touring classic rock acts, Deep Purple is the most classic. The rockers carved from stone kicked off the hard rock era with the album Deep Purple in Rock (1970). And Machine Head (1972) is seen as one of the driving forces behind heavy metal, alongside the work of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.
But Deep Purple is still playing. And the band doesn’t just rely on old hits. Deep Purple released three new albums in the past four years. And this year’s vital hard rock album =1 even forms the main part of a fresh setlist in the Ziggo Dome.
Continue reading in National Turk.
Thanks to Friedhelm Wenning for the Lingen link.
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I find DP’s newfound mass popularity unsettling. This is not what I bought in for, nein. 😑
October 31st, 2024 at 02:36Yo,
Credit where credit is due…Back when DP started out, if you roll-back 50-years, how many people were listening to music from 1918, yet alone celebrating it ?…
You can listen to the whole DP catalogue today, & it’s still all quite listenable, & very enjoyable.
It’s a good thing imo that people around the world can come together & show some respect for something that has endured, & remains vital & important. It could be an omen that it’s possible to showing more respect to ourselves, & so work harder towards a world with total peace upon it. There’s only a few elements to remove such as the IAEA & the MIC’s to reach that resolve.
A rolling stone gathers no moss !!! But it will end-up at the bottom of the hill someday, so enjoy the moment !
Adonai vasu !
October 31st, 2024 at 11:58Ah Uwe, don’t tell me that you don’t like the new pop all boy band called Deep Purple. This is what RB was trying to do with Rainbow. He wanted commercial success and could not convince the rest of DP to agree.
October 31st, 2024 at 15:27Now DP have done it without even trying and did not abandon their principles. A lot of young people are realizing that most of the so called music of today is crap. Now some are finding out what to listen to.
@ 1 😀 Me neither.. nej
October 31st, 2024 at 15:47“So from time to time we meet up, & have wonderful affairs!”
Mr Gillan is such a charmer, & so tactful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEqjWzYDONQ
October 31st, 2024 at 22:32