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Deep Purple live at Nokia Arena (Tel Aviv, Israel 2014-02-22) A superb performance by the band and they sound the same as they were 40 years ago. Being a fan in the great audience I enjoyed the whole performance , feeling young and bringing back memories from the rocking years of the 60’s & 70’s. […]
Read more »Israeli English language daily The Jerusalem Post has a very positive, if somewhat superficial, review of the first gig (February 22) in Tel-Aviv: The ‘explosion’ on the stage started at 9:30 p.m. Saturday night and did not stop for two hours. Yes they are senior citizens but if you put your hands over your eyes […]
Read more »Falconer Salen, Copenhagen, Denmark Tuesday, February 11, 2014 I went to see the band last night in Copenhagen. It’s been a few years and I actually enjoyed it. Sound was the best I’ve heard from them and like seeing a bunch of old friends I delighted in the reconnect, not knowing if and when I […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at SAP Arena (Mannheim, Germany 2013-11-02) Powerful from start to finish with sweet humour from all the lads, Mr G. cracking puns and rabbiting funny stuff. FRIENDS: they are NOT old, but older – ie even more experienced They were ALL outstanding virtuosos … as were the crowd ( – and I […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at SAP Arena (Mannheim, Germany 2013-11-02) We (six of us) went to see the boys in Mannheim. Peter Frampton was good and is still a master of the voice box and his several guitars. He played for an hour and on the setlist were eight songs. At half past nine Deep Purple […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at Westfalenhalle (Dortmund, Germany 2013-11-01) First of all let me make it clear that I was on the very skeptical side when I read the reviews of the Regensburg gig. Although I’ve always been a big admirer of Mr Gillan, I always hated it when he was struggling and I´ve witnessed that […]
Read more »I guess sometimes you have to be there to know. However here’s a couple more reviews from the UK tour, covering both sides of the coin…. Purple returned to Glasgow on the back of the great new album and we were intrigued to see how much they would change their set to accommodate it. We […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at Donau Arena (Regensburg, Germany 2013-10-25) With positive but nevertheless mixed feelings I remiss on the performance. Frampton+co was good and funny. But Peter: ‘mit Euch’ nicht ‘mit Ihnen’ (chuckle!). We’re all united, ain’t we? Was Gill(i?!)an quite with it til Strange Kinda … (ie 5 th)?! It got better and better […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at Clyde Auditorium (Glasgow, UK 2013-10-13) I recently went to the Glasgow Auditorium to see Deep Purple on their Now What 2013 tour. I was apprehensive as I saw them in the SECC in 2003 when Lynyrd Skynyrd were the support band and Skynrd played them off the stage. Purple were at […]
Read more »Deep Purple live at Roundhouse (London, UK 2013-10-17) Having not seen DP in a band situation (sans orchestra) for a number of years, this was one of the most anticipated shows for me for a while. The Now What ?! album was very contemporary, and my god, so was the show. As much as the […]
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