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The last band standing
Another review of the November 6th London gig, this time courtesy of Brighton and Hove News:
Cometh the hour, cometh the band. After an introductory blast of ‘Mars’ from ‘The Planets Suite’ by Gustav Holst, Deep Purple take the stage and go straight into the classic ‘Highway Star’. Guitarist Simon McBride impresses from the off. I’d heard good reports about him. I’m pleased that they appear to be accurate. Ian Paice isn’t using a drum riser, which is very unusual. We’re given an early warning that tonight isn’t going to be a nostalgia fest by the second song ‘A Bit On The Side’, which is from the current album ‘=1’. However, Purple have such an illustrious back catalogue that it clearly can’t be ignored, so we get ‘Into The Fire’ from 1970’s ‘Deep Purple In Rock’ album third song in. Ian Gillan is in fine voice. Obviously he doesn’t sound like he did in his twenties. The screams aren’t quite so high as back then, but his voice is still strong and his pitch is excellent.
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Alles ist gut.
November 10th, 2024 at 23:13I love that bespectacled Ian is NOT using a drum riser. Always thought that cool and nonchalant.
Ian and Roger have been playing together for half a century – I don‘t think they need eye contact anymore to know/anticipate what the other guy is doing, but both of them on the “ground floor“ shows a nice communal spirit. Paicey sits in the music rather than above and behind it.
November 11th, 2024 at 04:29Just how big is Paicey’s drum set there, anyway? LOL!
November 11th, 2024 at 14:45Uwe@ 1,
Yes. And alles ist gut, or will be, here in The US beginning last Tuesday, November 5th!
No need for me to sprint through my Portable Door. ;>
Peace,
November 11th, 2024 at 20:05Ted
Don’t believe the rumors, John, SIZE DOES MATTER !!!
November 11th, 2024 at 22:07Ha ha ha, yes Don Airey looks like he is keeping an eye on that drum kit, especially that bass drum as it lurks ever so close & looms even larger.
November 12th, 2024 at 07:38Ted the Republican @4: While I can‘t share them, I‘m happy for your feelings! And there is one good thing about it: It was democracy at work with a clearcut result and all the “the electoral system is rigged against us”-mythology is now forever debunked. That’s good for the peace of mind of the whole country.
November 12th, 2024 at 14:41Guys, what does this mean:
November 13th, 2024 at 00:56“Ian Paice isn’t using a drum riser, which is very unusual.”
@3 & 5, what’s this, another John? How is this possible? Maybe I’ll have to change my spelling to Jon, or Johnny.
November 13th, 2024 at 02:58Yes, IP & RG are definitely a finely tuned unit, in perfect step with one another. It’s all about the timing, dont’cha know!.
@8: If you look at most drummers, they are elevated a bit above the rest of the band. Paice is on the floor, at the same levels as the other guys.
Here is a picture from 1993, notice that Paicey is up on a riser here:
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/566776143/photo/deep-purple-performing-at-brixton-academy-london-britain-1993-deep-purple-ian-gillan-jon-lord.jpg?s=612×612&w=gi&k=20&c=_gi4TIJ0evCSC5akdXgNR9qgi0xgQK50UYntIiFXqXg=
Having the drum set straight on the floor is how he was placed back in the 70’s. And of course, it’s one thing less for the crew to setup, giving his tech time to do social media for the band. 🙂
November 13th, 2024 at 07:17@10
November 13th, 2024 at 07:23Thanks Svante 😊
It’s as simple as that then! Ok I thought – well I don’t know what I was imagining but not that 😄
Now here is a drum riser for you, Karin … 😉
https://www.metaldaze.eu/2016/06/dio-live-in-amsterdam-1983.html
November 13th, 2024 at 09:14We can’t have more than one John really, this is oppressive and getting out of hand! I recommend John I, John II or collectively ‘Johns Gang”.
Karin, I am sure that our learned percussionist Svante wanted to add that the drums flat on the stage floor is still and has always been the way most jazz artists do it. I think it has something to do with improvisational communication which Little Ian probably does more than some drummer six feet high on a riser banging away to an in-ear click track and raising his snare hand up into the air with every beat. I can’t stand that type of “Tommy Lee”-drumming (though he was one of the better instrumentalists in Mötley Crüe whenever his adult home video experiments let him).
November 13th, 2024 at 13:46“It’s as simple as that then!”
Karin, when a man explains things, then the whole world in all its intricacies unfolds as simple and logical! 😇
November 13th, 2024 at 15:30Both Johns @9: I’m only trying to be selflessly helpful here as I usually aspire to be, but would it be an idea to differentiate you two better by the appropriate John adding “GACUYWITE30s” to his first name? It’s kinda descriptive I guess.
[GACUYWITE30s of course stands for – you pretty much knew it – ‘good-at-chatting-up-young-women-in-their-early-30s’]
👴📣👩👩🦰👩🦱👩🦳👱♀️💃
November 13th, 2024 at 15:46@12
November 13th, 2024 at 18:24Yeah ok, thanks 😊
And yet another silly question: is that really smart? To place the drums so up high?
I mean isn’t it essential for players in a band to have some kind of non-verbal communication between them?
And for Dio, who certainly wasn’t that tall, it must have been completely impossible.
I’m just asking because all the videos I have seen of DP’s concerts, I find a lot of nods, smiles, laughs even (mostly when R.B. did something nasty and Ian G somehow gave him back) but also in friendly ways when Steve Morse started in the band. And now with SMcB there’s a lot of friendly banter 😊
@13
Aarh, your comment came up after I send that one to Max!
But thanks, you answered my question inadvertently 😊
@14
November 13th, 2024 at 18:29Yes, you’re completely right there my German friend! And do you know why mansplayning always shows up so simple??
(I’ll be GLAD to tell ya 😄)
Max sent you a random picture from a Geisterbahn at a carnival fair where Ronnie Dio used to tear tickets disguised as an elf,
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTW08N1yp3QOhxMLT3lo1Jr9_1ZfZsZ5AWFSA&s
just ignore Max then, Karin, he’s only trying to confuse you!
“And do you know why mansplaining always shows up so simple??”
Don’t keep me a-waitin’, Karin, I wanna hear it!
November 14th, 2024 at 00:03Karin, placing the drums on a riser is mainly a visual thing so the audience can see the drummer better (though it might also help that some of the zzzing of the cymbals spares the poor ears of the bandmates while at the same time they hear the bass drum(s) better).
I have noticed that you were likely never a heavy metal chick, Karin, so Mötley Crüe probably doesn’t mean a whole lot to you, but there are some things you can do with a drum set ONLY if you put it on a riser and then some!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Eo6htO4t8&t=31s
Honorary mention for leading the way as rotating drum sets go (or Herr MacGregor will never speak to me again):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ_SVVWYMUk
And then there is of course always Litte Ian’s ultimate idol Buddy Rich doing somersaults on a drum set …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnkkhYM4Whg
November 14th, 2024 at 01:43Thanks Uwe for the reminder of how ELP wasted millions of dollars really quickly then dismissed the orchestra on tour with them & then tried to recoup the millions continuing with the tour as a three piece. Not my favourite era of ELP I have to say, too overblown (yes even I find certain things in progressive rock too much). Not to worry, as long as Karin watches & enjoys Carl drumming without his shirt on, that could be worth the price of admission alone. Perhaps? In regards to the old Buddy Rich trick of spinning upside down, that is a classic & we have to laugh. Cheers.
November 14th, 2024 at 07:54@20
November 14th, 2024 at 10:34Wait wait wait, who is Carl? And why is he drumming shirtless??
@19
Tell me honestly Uwe! What revealed to you that I’m not a, what did you call it?, a heavy metal 🐥??
@18
November 14th, 2024 at 10:38I do believe you’re way more intelligent than I am, so I do not have to explain anything to you… 😃
how can we ever forget Terry Bozzio & his mega massive drum kit. Chad Wackerman is no slouch either in this video snippet of a drum duet improvisation. Both Zappa alumni of course & Wackerman played with Allan Holdsworth & Men at Work where I witnessed him first in concert 1985 era, then with Holdsworth 2002 era. I do think Bozzio’s kit would have been ‘nailed down’. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiP5s51kNJU
November 14th, 2024 at 10:53Drum rising
Here is Cozy doing his 1812 solo in Munich 1977, if you look hard you can see he is being liftet (by a forklift?) during the end of the solo. I think it is a band called Rainbow.
https://youtu.be/7ssSiw-yAuw?t=5281
November 14th, 2024 at 11:22