Perfect Strangers from the Rising Sun
Another promo clip from the upcoming …To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo) video release. This time it’s Perfect Strangers:
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.
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Another promo clip from the upcoming …To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo) video release. This time it’s Perfect Strangers:
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Just as I remember it from that late afternoon in the Budokan last April!!!! Fantastic!
August 13th, 2015 at 18:17Big Ian’s vocals are rather good on this?!
August 13th, 2015 at 18:37Whief. This tracks always works for me. Something transcendental about it… and the band.. years improve it as well!
August 13th, 2015 at 19:23It took a fourth trailer to get it right. Excellent. And if you still care about music enough, you’ll be buying the 3 vinyl set as well. As a collector I have to say it can be a lot to swallow to get all versions, so take your pick on the videos. The CD should suffice as well. Downloads, yawn.
August 14th, 2015 at 00:44Nice one! The last minute or so is very powerful and tight. Great job by Mr Gillan. Imagine how many times he had sung this song and he still seems to love doing it!
August 14th, 2015 at 02:09My son and I were at the very front near Steve for the opening concert of the 2013 British tour at Manchester and it was superb concert, showing that the band just gets better with age. This new film shows how the band work together as a unit, something we were able to witness first hand. I’m just so sad that their 2015 UK tour is just one night, in the middle of the week, on the wrong side of London – it will be the first Purple tour I will have missed for many years.
August 14th, 2015 at 09:53I’m sold.
August 14th, 2015 at 17:24perfect…..perfect…..perfect……
August 15th, 2015 at 11:45not crazy about the energy on this one.Gillan sound really flat,me thinks.
August 15th, 2015 at 18:39Looking forward to it!!!!
August 17th, 2015 at 05:29Gillan sounds flat here? Well then jump off, you’ll never get it. This is as good as any piece of Purple footage in the last 20 years. Just to enlighten some, I’ve watched both shows and listened to the audio discs, get ready to be happy, unless you simply dog on the Morse era, which it’s funny to call now that it’s by far the longest Purple era. Superb shows for complete different reasons. Al, you’re just a Gillan ogre, no other way to explain it. It sure is silly to complain over and over about something that can’t be helped, it’s called age. There are warts and all fans, and then there are anal retentive, over technically driven Blackmore nuts. Let’s see how he half steps the down tuning next June. Dropped D anyone?! 😀
August 19th, 2015 at 02:10Since when do they play it not in the original tune?
August 19th, 2015 at 19:15The Intro starts correctly in D minor but then when the band starts they change to C minor …
Anyway, happy birthday to Ian Gillan.
Really impressed with IG here as he has struggled the last two concerts I’ve attended. Also agree with LRT’s sentiments: without Morse we simply wouldn’t have Purple any more, and I reckon he has added a great deal to my musical enjoyment with DP and other bands. Tight band, aren’t they, here?
August 20th, 2015 at 23:06http://www.metaltalk.net/columns2015/201517296.php
August 21st, 2015 at 12:54Awesome… filmed really well. I have always thought that PS is the best DP song without a guitar solo. Would have loved for RB or Steve to add one in concert right before the closing keyboard solo lead out of the song! That would have been extra special.
August 24th, 2015 at 16:04Did they ever write something as classic after the big man left?
August 28th, 2015 at 17:58Both this and the Wacken set were slated for overseas release on Aug 28th.
August 29th, 2015 at 16:59Did anyone out there give them a listen/look ??
Not due in North America ’til Sept 18th.
Today was release day in Canada. I watched the concert and gotta say, for me, this is the best live relase the band has done since MIJ. Excellent stuff! I hope the band continues with its return to prog and extended jams.
September 18th, 2015 at 23:31Gillan isn’t ‘flat’, the whole song is! They play one or two songs a whole tone flat these days, as do most 30/40+ year bands. Actually, the fact that most of the songs are still played in the original key is a testament to how great Gillan is.
September 23rd, 2015 at 15:33this is playing on palladia – yes they rock! recorded it!
September 24th, 2015 at 00:21I’m hooked on this album. Airey’s solo in the middle of Lazy is insane.
I really wish he’d solo at the end of the song, along with Morse. I’m not one of those stuck-in-the-past fans, but my favorite part of Lazy (esp live) was the end, when they’d all “solo” simultaneously. Five guys going off in different directions to the same song.
Regardless, this is a great show.
October 9th, 2015 at 00:00