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O2 reveiw at The Arts Desk
A well written review, in which the author goes to see the Purple show a tad sceptical, but comes out totally enthusiastic.
If anyone tells you that Deep Purple’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969) wasn’t a masterpiece then they’re an idiot. In fact, it was, more or less, the only successful use of an orchestra with a rock band ever. Now, 40 years on, a pensionable Purple have hit the road again with a full symphony orchestra. But they’re not playing the Concerto. They’re playing their hits. And, critically, they’re performing them without founding keyboardist, Jon Lord, and guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore. And so, at 8.30pm when support band Cheap Trick had failed to ignite the room, even with a five-necked guitar, a 12-stringed bass and a lead singer looking like Dave Lee Roth, it looked like this might be another nostalgia night for music past its sell-by date.
Read the whole thing at The Arts Desk.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Thanks for the review.
Anyone know whether a show from this orchestral tour will be filmed for a DVD release?
December 3rd, 2011 at 10:18Tim:
December 4th, 2011 at 18:56Monteux 2011 was released one month ago… Its filmed during summer leg of orchestral tour.
What’s the point? It can’t top the new Montreux release…. not much in the DVD catalog comes close to that.
December 4th, 2011 at 19:21I just ask myself how good and superior should be the Verona one…
December 6th, 2011 at 22:29Hi, I was in O2 Arena with my son who’s ten, and we enjoied a great exhibition of the guys!!! I think there were 20,000 people or more, and Roger, Ian, Ian, Don & Steve made a great, unbelievable show, with a perfect matching with the orchestra…
December 7th, 2011 at 21:45Very good also the performance of Cheap Trick, they ignite certainly the area in front of the stage (we were on the nineth row), and my son caught the copy of their last album cover thrown by the mad guitarist Rick Nielsen!
Larry, if you were answering #1, I believe he was asking about the tour in general. I don’t think he was aware of the Montreux 2011 release…….
Cheers
December 8th, 2011 at 02:47Obviously not… and Verona will be coming out anyway, or so they say. That will be a nice one according to how well the gig went anyway.
December 13th, 2011 at 07:30I’ll be looking forward to that one too…..
December 14th, 2011 at 16:50Live at Montreaux 2011 has mixed review about Ian Glllan’s worn-out voice. Some fans feel Gillan resembles Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, whose weak vocals were derided by former band mates Gilmour and Wright. This concert tour with orchestras is good fan service, although the expenditures bring up deficit and might not regain the cost for low sales of the dvd and concert ticket in the USA, where DP once distributed free tickets to audiences.
December 15th, 2011 at 10:27Steve Morse doesn’t seem superstar like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai or Joe Bonamassa, so his relatively moderate guitar play has been much more suitable for current Gillan’s weak vocals.
December 15th, 2011 at 20:24In fact, since “High Tension Wires” (1989), Morse’s albums never made any chart success on Billboard 200 in the USA.
Ahhh @10,
Here we go again. A chart success monitor. What does that in this day in time matter regarding anything PURPLE? Especially in the US. Apparently another non-concert attendee. Morse is jamming the tunes as hard as ever. Gillan is doing just fine. Have you even the effort to buy a ticket and see for yourself??? I doubt it.
Cheers
December 16th, 2011 at 01:43Continuing from #11…
Moderate Guitar play? WTF are you talking here? He is spotlighted and playing quite boldly from where I sit. Of course again, I have actually sat in a seat at a Purple Concert many times. Please enlighten me regarding your actual witnessing them and him.
Cheers
December 16th, 2011 at 20:00We know Steve Morse is basically jazz fusion-type guitarist. So Mark 7/8 Purple remind me of Ray Fenwick era’s Gillan Band (1977-78), which was purely jazz rock, but was commercially failure in the UK. Ironically, DP remains popular in Europe, but in more competition U.S.A., they are classified to third-rate classic rock band such as Uriah Heep & UFO.
December 17th, 2011 at 00:52Steve Morse fans understand he is basically jazz fusion-type progressive rock guitarist, though being also influenced from a country and blues.
December 17th, 2011 at 22:56So Mark 7/8 Deep Purple remind me of early Ian Gillan Band (1976-78), which was purely progressive jazz rock.
While DP remains popular in Europe, in more competitive U.S.A., they are classified to second-rate classic rock band with Grand Funk Railroad or Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
Heep, Ufo, ELP & IGB: all great in my book, must
be something wrong with me…
December 18th, 2011 at 22:05Vavoom..
Care to write it again and change it again too???? Comparing DP of today to IGB of ’76 is way off the mark. I have the records and have seen and heard live footage of IGB and DP, plus been to many DP shows. No comparison my friend. Purple in no way shape or form generate a jazz/ fusion feel, especially to the degree of those IGB days. I’d say they compare to the ‘Gillan Band’ though.
Cheers
December 19th, 2011 at 00:48