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Bones rattle and teeth shake
NME reviews the 2024 Montreux Jazz Festival and starts right with the most important in our quarters:
“We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline,” growls Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan, erupting after what could arguably be the most iconic riff ever gets a bigger reaction than any guitar part could – not least because it marks a homecoming of sorts.
The rock legends hail from London, but ‘Smoke On The Water’ was born here. Written about the fire and destruction of the Montreux Casino at a Frank Zappa show in 1971, it’s as much a record of the history of rock as it is one of rock’s most historically important tracks.
You feel it tonight as the local mayor and dignitaries gather with the sold-out crowd to rock out and watch dry ice from smoke bombs crawl across the lake behind a background of mountains at the 58th Montreux Jazz Festival. The Guinness Book Of World Records crowned Deep Purple as “the globe’s loudest band” in their ‘70s heyday, and you’d be forgiven for thinking they were trying to reclaim their title tonight. Bones rattle and teeth shake as the band shred into the night, providing a worldie of a set for this “unbelievable, formidable, magnificent, superb” audience.
Kudos to NME for their opinion.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
It’s frightening when DP become this popular. I can’t handle this.
July 16th, 2024 at 02:50@1. Ditto!
July 16th, 2024 at 12:59Fingers crossed for a great concert film
July 16th, 2024 at 16:08You had better get used to it Uwe. If you cannot handle this sort of Deep Purple popularity, that does not bode well for your recent initiation to the ‘Swiftie’ club. Fancy admitting that on a hard rock bands site? The purchasing of those cd’s instantly gets you in. You should have been aware of that. Cheers.
July 17th, 2024 at 07:31But Taylor is a porphyrophile too, it all =1!
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July 17th, 2024 at 23:14Ha ha ha, thanks Uwe, nice try & it almost worked he he he. The more I see of this gal, especially in Purple, the more ‘addicted’ I seem to feel. Can anyone help me, please, otherwise I am doomed, doomed I say. Cheers.
July 18th, 2024 at 00:52Yo,
@5…
Thanks for bringing Taylor’s ASSets to our attention…Is it true that she can sing too ?…
Peace !
July 18th, 2024 at 10:45@ 7 – yes Uwe seems to be fascinated by the ASSets of certain artists, he he he. It is ok though & he readily ‘came out’ about his younger days when he ‘worked’ as a DJ in the ‘red light’ district. All good. He is still with us so he couldn’t been that bad a ‘sinner’ back then, surely not. Cheers.
July 18th, 2024 at 21:48For the record guys, I respect Fräulein Swift for the way she mapped out and successfully executed her career, also for her ability to strike a nerve with so many women with her lyrics. But is she a turn-on for me? Nope, she’s too much ‘girl-next-door’-pretty and there is nothing dangerous to her. I dig more the heroin-rock-chick look like Patti Smith, Chrissie Hynde, Joan Jett or Sheryl Crow.
And if you want it glammed up, I think Ms Lorraine Lewis of Femme Fatale is still pretty much unbeaten!
https://youtu.be/YBu5lL9i5n4
https://youtu.be/sZn9gZ3npsY
Honorary mention: battleships and HER:
https://youtu.be/9n3A_-HRFfc?si=JBgCgwRaZZpL8gqd
July 19th, 2024 at 02:18