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The pent-up feeling
Ian Gillan spoke to France’s Riff X, and the interview appears in their METALXS series. The conversation revolves around the latest album =1, some anecdotes from the bygone days, and his, ahem, unique sense of fashion. Ian’s words are in original English, with subtitles en française.
Speaking of anecdotes and the unique sense of fashion, here’s an excerpt from the interview:
I remember doing a show in Germany, a solo show with an orchestra. It was a disaster. It was in a mining facility [with] huge machinery. It was like a science fantasy kind of background, a Ferropolis, it was called in Germany. They have big festivals there sometimes. It was a disaster. It was raining and they sold no tickets. Should have held 20,000 people. There were 200 or 300 [people] there. The promoter put the seats a long way from the stage. There was no cover on the stage. There were no monitors. There were no lights — just one white light on the stage. One caravan for me. Nothing for the orchestra or the musicians. The rain was coming down. We reached halftime. Everything was terrible. They’re all sheltering under the stage, wet with their instruments. I’m sitting naked in my caravan. My P.A. [personal assistant] comes in. My clothes are drenched. She said, ‘Oh, they’re making a fortune out there’ — she’s joking, ‘they’re selling ponchos. Look, I bought one for you.’ It’s like they have at Niagara Falls when you get on the boat, and they’re just transparent plastic ponchos. I said, ‘That’s what I’m wearing on stage for the second half of the show.’ So she said, ‘I dare you.’ I said, ‘Okay, I will.’ So I walked out naked on the stage, apart from this plastic poncho, which was transparent. And the orchestra got up, and they realized what was going on, and they started playing with fire. And we had just the most wonderful time because we were laughing at the rain, we were laughing at the circumstances. And the audience all got out of their seats — there weren’t many of them — and they all came to the front of the stage, and suddenly we were all entwined in this thing.
Somebody took a film of it on their camera, and it went up on YouTube that night. Around midnight, the phone started ringing. My manager: ‘What the fuck do you think you’re doing?’ And then the DEEP PURPLE manager comes on: ‘What is he doing, destroying the reputation of the band?’ And so, I said, ‘Well, actually, if you were there, you would have understood. But this camera recorded things, the sound and the vision was out of sync, because of the distance. The lighting was horrible, the orchestra was all out of tune, because of the rain. And it sounded like a cacophony of absolute nonsense. But if you were there, you understood the circumstances. And it was Sally, my P.A., who had said, ‘Ian actually saved the day.’ If you just watched it on YouTube, you’d think this is the worst thing that ever happened. In actual fact, it was one of the best experiences of my life.
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the info and quotes.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Ah, Ian Gillan being Ian Gillan, good on him. He has always been an anarchist in that sense, a rebel with a cause so to speak. I do think he & Blackmore were the reasons the Purps were not the flavour of the month, year or decade in the British & USA establishments eyes. This comment is a follow on from what DeeperPurps was talking about over at another post & I responded with the Blackmore antics comment. Led Zep were much more within the establishments rock ‘n roll image so to speak, hence their huge popularity. They embraced the USA & played it out where Purple never did. Just who did Deep Purple think they were. Good on them (Blackmore & Gillan), give the knobs heaps I say. No pun intended re Gillan’s see through poncho, Uwe behave yourself. Cheers.
September 26th, 2024 at 22:39Très bien, c’est magnifique!
As if anyone of us here minded “Big” Ian performing stark naked, let it all hang out bro! Live your life like a dangle in the wind.
September 26th, 2024 at 23:18Karin, this is NOT for you. Go fetch us some drinks please, tak skal du have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUHJyL7Hgrw&t=122s
September 26th, 2024 at 23:24By the way, “Hang Me Out To Dry”-Big Ian lies about the size …
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Ian_Gillan_in_Ferropolis_2009-09-04.jpg/900px-Ian_Gillan_in_Ferropolis_2009-09-04.jpg
… of the audience (Now what did YOU think?!). Almost 3.000 people were there (pretty much the standard attendance at these Rock Meets Classic Travelling Circuses) though not all may have born witness to the full length …
… of the set given the amount of precipitation going down.
September 26th, 2024 at 23:39Finally, and I have this from a trustworthy source, who was there: Ian did wear a G-string which gives new meaning to his popular stage rap: “Thank you for your support, I shall wear it always.”
The orchestra played Highway Star, Strange Kind Of Woman,
September 26th, 2024 at 23:52Woman From Tokyo, Pictures Of Home, Fireball, Ted The Mechanic, Perfect Strangers, Black Night and Smoke On The Water. For obvious reasons “Loosen My String” was dropped from the set.
Excellent interview of Ian Gillan. Interesting how he refers to the cathartic effect that Simon McBride had on the band….the pent up feelings that were released in the rest of the guys, and how everything became easy!
September 27th, 2024 at 02:59Well I did warn Uwe to behave himself. Where is Sigmund these day, not that we really need him. Uwe just expressing his ‘feminine’ side, again. Cheers
September 27th, 2024 at 05:52@ 6 – if that is the case DeeperPurps, it would be a very similar scenario as 1994/5 with the then new banjo player Steve Morse. A different frustration perhaps, but a sort of similar outcome. Best record since Machine Head, hmmmmmm. Musicians always or usually rave about their latest release highly & rate it this way & that. As the dust settles though, that very often does change. Anyway, time gentlemen, time is all we have for a simple song as Gillan wrote. It is in the present day until the next one etc etc. Cheers.
September 27th, 2024 at 06:22@3
September 27th, 2024 at 07:37Alright then, what are you all having? 😊
@6 DeeperPurps
September 27th, 2024 at 07:52nothing more true!
🍻
By the way gentlemen, I got a dvd from my very own sweetheart, it’s a dvd about Ian Gillan, and the title is: Ian Gillan Highway Star, a Journey in Rock.
September 27th, 2024 at 09:14And there is mentioned how Ian and his darling wife both endured nudism, so please my dears don’t be alarmed 😄
K
“Uwe behave yourself.”
Alas!, I tried, but I’m too much a fan of performance art.
September 27th, 2024 at 09:35“And there is mentioned how Ian and his darling wife both endured nudism, so please my dears don’t be alarmed 😄 …”
Where would this place be without Karin’s comfort, sympathy and consolation in hours of need?!
September 27th, 2024 at 14:29I was at this concert. Since I had a poncho from the beginning, I didn’t get wet.
The concert was very interesting. The musicians had to be very careful with their instruments because of the rain and kept sliding further back from the edge of the stage.
Ticket + Flyer … https://www.flickr.com/photos/d_kahler/3889715160/
September 27th, 2024 at 16:40I hope they didn’t do Purpendicular.
September 27th, 2024 at 21:30“The concert was very interesting.”
It’s nice to hear that Dirk – ignoring all adverse circumstances – was erect with attention.
September 28th, 2024 at 01:00So, Dirk, were there 200-300 in attendance or 3000? 🙂
September 28th, 2024 at 03:53@13
September 28th, 2024 at 06:42And I make great coffee too 😉
Remember when reading this, IG lives by the motto, “never let the truth get in the way of a good story”.
September 28th, 2024 at 09:06Poetic license is a good thing, reality can often be so boring and dire, it needs spicing up.
There was this wonderful (in the truest sense of the word) movie called ‘Big Fish’ by Tim Burton about a son estranged from his father for always creating these wild, unverified stories. And at the very end of it, at his father’s funeral, all these characters from his wondrous stories show up paying their last respects and it turns out that everyone of them had a core of truth.
https://youtu.be/D0kiS4ROWkQ
Big Ian isn’t a documentary reporter, he’s a storyteller. And that is good. All folklore comes from embellishments.
September 28th, 2024 at 11:15Karin @18: Your husband is blessed!
September 28th, 2024 at 12:29Gillan also in this beautiful interview transmits a new fire inside herself.
September 28th, 2024 at 12:52the guys in every interview underline that Simon’s arrival was a new life for them.
I’m sorry for Steve and his fans who criticize the new direction, but musically Purple have been reborn after years of soft prog flattening.
MacGregor @1, exactly! You have hit the nail on the head. Zep, The Who, and others have become the corporate and commercial darlings of the establishment. In effect, to a degree they have become “domesticated” through all the hype and overexposure. Meanwhile the anarchic antics of Blackmore and the anti-fashion of Gillan have created a certain underground niche for the Purples. I’m fine with that!
September 28th, 2024 at 17:53Did I just see the word ‘folklore’ printed for all to see, in a comment by Uwe @ 20? “And that is good. All folklore comes from embellishments”. Or am I hallucinating first thing in the morning with my coffee yet to be consumed? I think I will quickly retire again & wake up again & then see if that word is still there. Cheers.
September 28th, 2024 at 21:40Not all folklore involves damsels in distress, dragons and magicians, mein lieber MacGregor. Some tales feature fierce everyday life warrioresses with good aim ejecting ping pong balls – live with it!
September 28th, 2024 at 22:09.
@21
September 29th, 2024 at 12:21Well that’s what I keep telling him ☺️
Some great observations from a deep-thinking man there …
“We’re all road-hogs.”
“Simplicity is a great platform for virtuosity.”
“So you write stories that are intriguing.”
“It’s not just what Simon brought in, it’s what he released (with the others).”
A very illuminating interview, and it is rare that you see Ian that relaxed.
September 29th, 2024 at 13:51@ 5 JS Gemmell
😂😂
September 29th, 2024 at 20:32The cynic in me says that that is a sort of dig at Steve Morse in some aspects. And as obvious as it is, a similar scenario to 1994. So in hindsight, it is possibly looking like Steve Morse hung around too long then? I wouldn’t call any of those ‘observations’ deep thinking Uwe & I presume that you are joking. Gillan just saying it as it is, bleeding obvious. Cheers.
September 29th, 2024 at 22:04@ 27- I forgot about the ‘best record we’ve made since Machine Head’ comment from Gillan. Cheers.
September 30th, 2024 at 02:14No one is digging at Steve, they are just saying how they are experiencing playing with Simon. Steve was for 28 years ‘a’, if not “the” main musical figure of DP, no one is writing his contributions out of history. Simon just elicits a different reaction within the band chemistry – that is neither his nor Steve’s fault.
Best album since Machine Head? Maybe because of the joy, rejuvenation as well as the commercial and critical validation the band felt. Certainly not in purely musical terms. But I don’t see the point in these comparisons in any case though Big Ian is somehow fond of them: I remember how he promoted THOBL at the time by saying it was their best album for him since Fireball.
September 30th, 2024 at 08:30listening to the last album I feel like saying that the last three with SM are as heavy as bricks in the pockets.
September 30th, 2024 at 09:54Yup, =1 is a joyous album. That is not to say that all albums with Steve weren’t, Purpendicular and Bananas come to mind as joyful works with him.
September 30th, 2024 at 11:04@31
September 30th, 2024 at 11:15Oohh he did! (Saying THOBL is one of his faves)
Well what not to love about it 🤩😝
Yo,
=1 is a great album…And it flies-by as you listen to it. The band should be proud of this effort for sure, & yet all the albums with Steve are worthy of praise too imo. The Ezrin albums are a notch-up imo, since they’re a little more concept albums, & stay consistent from start to finish.
Never ever underestimate Don’s contributions…He’s an extraordinary force to have in the band.
Adonai vasu !
September 30th, 2024 at 11:28Big Ian is a great rock singer and my idol, but I was not happy when he collided in Modena “with Pavarotti on his court in the aria “Nessun dorma” from the final act of the opera “Turandot “by Giacomo Puccini.
September 30th, 2024 at 13:26He entered an unknown field, Luciano Pavarottii’s field, he was almost eaten by the king of high C, he was merciful …went to less than 50% of the voice power.
for me in the last three albums there was no homogeneity, we went from jonny’band’s rock n roll to pieces of busy prog… taken one by one the songs were beautiful but everything together was tiring for me, without a common thread. For me with Morse the really good records stop at Rapture..
September 30th, 2024 at 14:04@36
September 30th, 2024 at 18:25Oh interesting!
I heard it completely different: Ian sang ‘Nessun Dorma’ as a rock singer would do, not as a Tenor.
I think he nailed it perfectly 😊
K
#36 Ivica
and what does this about Pavarotti in Modena have to do with it?
I saw that performance live, I remember it as if it were yesterday and I was left with a bitter taste in my mouth, but I already knew how it would go: a great performance by Gillan up to the chest C on “Vincerò” which she missed and tried to disguise in her own way.
all things considered, and unfortunately I would have liked him to have taken that “Vincerò” better, Big Luciano invited Big Ian, the voice of Child in Time and Jesus Christ superstar, to sing with him, I would say that for Gillan it’s a big medal of valor to hang on his uniform, and who are we to say that it wasn’t a great thing?
Pavarotti was the greatest opera singer of the end of the century and a very intelligent man, let’s remember that and that all makes sense.
#37 AndreA
September 30th, 2024 at 22:00you are absolutely right, even if in Rapture already a bit of boredom in song writing was coming
Now that we have Karin with us, I have arrived at the conclusion that our lack of Italian-bred hunks in assless chaps doing opera is nothing short of deplorable.
https://tyrannyoftradition.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/manowar.jpg
I have decided to single-handedly do something about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMDM0byqPO8
I have Big Ian’s performance with Pavarotti on CD (an Italian tabloid offered it as a bonus CD with one of their print media, one of my Italian partners of our law firm got me a copy!), it’s charming, but it wasn’t Ian’s best day and it can’t compare to what Eric Adams – assless chaps or not – did with Manowar live. Admittedly, Adams is seven years Big Ian’s junior. He’s also an Ian Gillan fan and legend has it – and which band could possibly have more mythology attached to it than Manowar? – that he got the job with Joey DeMaio (ok, one more pic for Karin …)
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/48/13/bd/4813bde75d47f56f9adb6f3e10fe1740.jpg
after faultlessly singing Child in Time at his audition rehearsal with the fearless metal warriors – all three ascending parts.
D E A T H
T O
F A L S E
M E T A L ! ! !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HERk3FcLSzY
(The above vid is fake, but fun! 🤣)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1G9D8A4Fiw
There is something heartwarming about metäl cröwds.
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Ok, we need something to compensate for those boys among us (there must be a few) who are rather non-committal about assless chaps as a male fashion accessoire, hier das deutsche Fräuleinwunder …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UlxB3hShSI
Doro still can’t really sing after all these years, but her heart is with it. That must count too.
September 30th, 2024 at 23:46@39Fla76
About Big Lucianone
October 1st, 2024 at 05:45He has been also a big tax evader 🤣
I remember the Freddie Mercury ft. Montserrat Caballe performance. Probably a little more suited together than Ian Gillan with Pavarotti. It is a shame Gillan couldn’t have done something like that when 20 to 30 years younger. Rock music vocalists as good as they can be are not in that league, but they both did ok. Cheers.
October 1st, 2024 at 06:09@40
October 1st, 2024 at 08:33One comment only:
Oh please 😄
@42
October 1st, 2024 at 10:05Ok so I’m the only one on the whole wide world that just love what IanG is doing there?
Well I do!
🤩
I was just trying to be inclusive!
October 1st, 2024 at 11:34@45
October 1st, 2024 at 12:15Well thank you so much 😊
Most women don’t like to admit they actually love Manowar. But I am not easily fooled.
October 1st, 2024 at 16:14I like my Italian opera with a little bit of oiled-up male skin! Big Ian always wears too much clothes at the exact moments when you don’t want him to.
October 1st, 2024 at 19:29Uwe, I had no idea who they were until now! 😄😄
October 1st, 2024 at 20:37@ 48- my wife saw Gillian without shoes- needless to say the next time he was wearing shoes – she was vey disappointed!
Go figure!
October 1st, 2024 at 21:34@ 44- just because you liked Gillan’s ‘performance’ Karin doesn’t necessarily mean it worked. He isn’t an Opera singer, plain & simple. It was a nice thing to do perhaps, good fun etc. He has his limitations like any other singer, it is the way of things. Cheers.
October 1st, 2024 at 21:49Oh come on, Karin, you didn’t know what TRUE METAL was and MANOWAR’s affirmative views of the natural female role which are somewhat akin to David Coverdale’s circa Lovehunter?
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/At0AAOSw7ltiayDY/s-l1600.webp
Joey DeMaio, MANOWAR’s band leader and bassist, used to be Geezer Butler’s bass tech. Last I heard, he was still living with his parents, as you do with an Italian heritage,
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5tY-XfbgJe0/SZ2gNKoUaCI/AAAAAAAACMY/o1qakLArv3Q/s1600/DeMaioParents0203.jpg
in their house in Auburn, NY State …
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5tY-XfbgJe0/SZzKzr8ve5I/AAAAAAAACKo/Yj0PTLG2BMY/s1600/quickstream.jpg
He has always been a sharp dresser.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5tY-XfbgJe0/SZzNf8Us_6I/AAAAAAAACKw/JOr-W9HhBK0/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg
October 1st, 2024 at 23:52@51
October 2nd, 2024 at 07:44Exactly! EXACTLY 🙌🏼
Ian isn’t an opera singer but oh man he did that Nessum Dorma like a champ!
Of course it didn’t work if he should have been a tenor! But he isn’t, he is an a amazing rock singer. And in that perspective it worked very well!
Thanks MacGregor, you had the words I needed!
Sorry I’m not perfect in English, I really wish you lot would hurry up at learn som Danish!
@52
I must say you certainly know your way around these guys Uwe 👍🏼
I just have to say they don’t do it for me, neither the music nor the looks ☺️
But I’m really happy you find so much joy in their performances 😃
Btw: please enlighten me: in ‘Space Truckin’ does Ian G sing: ‘We’ve have been around the Borealis’, or is he singing ‘We’ve been around the boring Alice’?
October 2nd, 2024 at 07:50Now I can hear him singing both in the same recording 🤯
I think the point is exactly that, Karin, it can be heard as both. Gillan is a man who does crossword puzzles for leisure all day and loves wordplay.
October 2nd, 2024 at 13:48Returning to the slippery greaseball subject of Manowar, you are aware, liebe Karin, that your good horned friend Elizabeth is an unabashed nose-a-wrinklin’, eyes-a-rollin’-an’-a-poppin’ fan of theirs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TsoyyMNrY8
October 2nd, 2024 at 14:30@55
October 2nd, 2024 at 14:51Crosswords puzzles are a brilliant way to exercise one’s mind! I do them all the time!
Ok so he can sing both: ‘Borealis’ and ‘boring Alice’!
Well well well! I’m just happy that he never has made a taunting song about my German /Sweedish/Danish/Russian forename 😄
@56
October 2nd, 2024 at 14:53Well Elizabeth has a very different taste in music than I have!
How come you’re so smitten with her cute little nose 😃
I’m not. I hate cute noses on women (and that rehearsed female YouTube influencer nose-wrinkle). I like bold ones, Mideastern type, like Cher was born with.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh2ziRQloYmI2EPGWN34s3U4acuPjSNWU3MXv7RvG_aiEleTv-ke0MXnK9zjO8PVYSs9XLY6tKnqGJRUHYtt3vTeP9a-C43X3koHJQPMAeT77s1KcqgLpxGLjBGtu2_7SGZd9hipjGoCM/s320/1966cher.jpg
I never got over what Jennifer Grey did to hers.
https://i.insider.com/6272ab6ac3fd45001951fd4a?width=1136&format=jpeg
If there is one thing you cannot trust a woman with, then it is how her nose should look, they all have the blandest tastes.
October 2nd, 2024 at 18:21@59
October 2nd, 2024 at 20:47Well alright then!
Hopefully the size and form of the nose in a person doesn’t dictate the personality 😉
I thought size didn’t matter, that saying ‘it’s what you do with it that counts’, oh well, not to worry. Cheers.
October 2nd, 2024 at 21:11@ 53 – I look at it with open eyes & ears Karin & see it as a form of respect between both sides & that is a good thing. As we know over the years there has been & most probably still is a form of disdain held for the ‘rock ‘n roll’ form of music from the traditional classical side of music, both from within the establishment & also certain musicians. So any collaborations between the genres are welcome & both the Gillan & Mercury duets are or were a good thing. Reading Pavarotti’s comments regarding being jealous at not being able to ad lib or improvise when singing says a lot. As he said, they CANNOT or are NOT allowed to do that sort of thing when performing. I have to admit to thinking, I wonder how Pavarotti would have gone singing Smoke On The Water? Ha ha ha, have to smile at that thought. Regarding Uwe’s ‘obsession’ with those Manowar guys, he does worry me at times does Uwe. I am still trying to contact Sigmund Feud with my Ouija board, to see if he can help us with Uwe’s dilemma. Cheers.
October 2nd, 2024 at 22:14That, lieber Herr MacGregor, is an apologetic urban myth and was never true, sigh! They just tell us that to make us feel better …
May I quote from a scientific study, I feel honor-bound to do so:
“A study from the University of California and the University of New Mexico took 75 women, aged between 18 and 65, and presented them with 33 different-sized 3D penis models made of rigid, odourless (very considerate), blue plastic to “minimise racial skin-colour cues.”
The results found that the average preference was for a penis that measured 6.3 inches in length and 4.8 inches around. Whereas for a one-time sexual encounter, the average plastic penis the women chose was larger, measuring 6.4 inches and 5.0 inches in circumference.
Now, this isn’t the best news for most men’s egos, because the average male penis is 5.2 inches long and 4.6 inches around, as revealed in a global study of 15,000 members.
But don’t worry too much. According to the same study, only 2.8 per cent of men have an abnormally small penis, so the chances are you should be ok.”
Now do get the ruler (or notched drum stick, whichever you prefer) out and do post your findings here, vielen lieben Dank. Metric or imperial, all data is helpful and contributes to science, one way or another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5j0dTw1BI
October 3rd, 2024 at 00:22What a sadness to read..
October 3rd, 2024 at 14:38@62
I would rather hear Placido Domingo rock on to Smoke on the Water 😃 he is an even greater tenor than Pavarotti was! Yes yes I know a lot, LOT, of people disagree, but oh man he sings so beautifully without exerting himself like Pavarotti did!
Freud! Well I’m Jung at heart and prefer him 😉
October 3rd, 2024 at 14:48Mick Tucker’s famous drumstick-twirling!
I have exercised very much lately!
Today I finally got the hang of it 😃
Unfortunately it was outside, with my Apple-pencil, and after have twirling it 4 times, it fell on the tiles and broke 😣
October 3rd, 2024 at 16:06Apple ought to know how to make pencils that can manage a twirling and a landing on concrete tiles without breaking.
Am I right?
Say you didn’t know and sue them for emotional cruelty, Karin!
I JUST KNEW you were Jung, that esoteric charlatan 😋, and not Freud.
AndreA: It’s a stiff message, I know.
October 3rd, 2024 at 17:21Domingo might have been technically better, but to me Pavarotti had more warmth in his voice. I think that made him more accessible to a lot of people.
October 3rd, 2024 at 17:33@67
October 3rd, 2024 at 18:43HOW did you know? 😳
@68
October 3rd, 2024 at 18:47I beg to differ!
Placido Domingo has warmth, kindness and tenderness oozing out of every pore 😃
Pavarotti was a great singer, but out of the 3 tenorers Domingo is the only one with staying power 🤩
Pavarotti was over rated by many, the ‘darling’ of that genre, it happens, hyper media eh. So many other awesome singers, but no, it has to be Pavarotti. It happens with anything it seems, the flavour of the month etc. Movies, sport, celebrity rubbish, food, fashion, music, which one will it be this month etc etc. Anyway, it’s those ole horses again. Cheers.
October 3rd, 2024 at 20:57And here I was thinking we were talking (@59 & 60) about the nose, oh dear. We NEED Sigmund for Uwe now, more than ever. HELP him please, someone, anyone! Cheers.
October 3rd, 2024 at 21:19“Placido Domingo has warmth, kindness and tenderness oozing out of every pore …”
Ok, you beat me, I don’t know any of his pores!
October 3rd, 2024 at 22:52Now do look at Herr MacGregor, that up-to-no-good rapscallion,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_nOXWUHFZ0
feigning innocence!
October 3rd, 2024 at 23:27Dr Karin @69: Homeopaths are always Jung and never Freud.
October 4th, 2024 at 01:44I suppose one could look at Pavarotti as a sort of ‘rock star’ of the modern era of Opera. Very popular, enigmatic & flamboyant. And talking of famous opera singers, the wonderful Maria Callas all those years ago was a classic Diva & also a ‘movie star’ so to speak. The media loved it all as do many others. One thing for sure is that there will never be anyone like either of them again. Cheers.
October 4th, 2024 at 02:30@71+72
You’re right MacGregor!
I do like Pavarotti (he did praise Ian G after all 😉☺️) but he always looked like he was on the edge of a heart attack 😣. Whereas Domingo looks like he is having fun singing😃 and to me it seems like Domingo’s technique is superb. He also performed with the Danish soprano Inga Nielsen, oohhh boy – sent shivers down my spine ☺️
You are convinced Freud is the answer? 😄
October 4th, 2024 at 05:00@73
October 4th, 2024 at 08:49🤣🤣🤣
@75
October 4th, 2024 at 08:51You know many of us! Nice 😃
@76
October 4th, 2024 at 09:00I think you’re completely right MacGregor 😃
Oh Maria Callas was amazing.
There is a new flavour of the month, oh what’s her name, she sang last years “Last night at the proms’, a very tall, beautiful and wonderful soprano, Lise Davidsen – I believe her name is, she is also marvellous 😍
I have the lp with Domingo performing in Carmen, the lady singing opposite him is also amazing. Guess she is a mezzo-soprano, not sure about that though 😊
@ 77 – I am not sure Karin, as to Freud being a help or not. He is being a little feisty lately as every time I wake him from his slumber he growls at me ‘is this about that Uwe Hornung character, again”? He then tells me to sod off & goes back to sleep. So I am at my wits end, any ideas will be gratefully accepted, a few cunning plans perhaps. Regarding the Opera, I will have a listen to the duet with Domingo & Inga Nielsen, who I don’t recall knowing at all. I am not a Opera aficionado, I just have a listen here & there occasionally when someone suggests something or when an article may appear in the print or on tv. Back in the day Opera was on the television every Sunday afternoon, so I watched & listened a little at times. There is plenty of drama in it, I guess I am sometimes drawn to that also. Maria Callas’s life unfortunately for her, fitted all that drama of Opera in many ways. A tormented soul she appears to have been & preyed upon by certain unscrupulous people. She was also fawned over too much it seems when reading certain articles from that era. That is life at the top I suppose. However she was then treated appallingly when her voice changed. Such is the fickle nature of performing at such a high level. Probably a good example of an artist living the dream for a short while & then exiting the stage for good. A rather short life she did have in some regards but a life well lived in other aspects. Oh the drama of it all. Some one should write a song or something. Cheers.
October 4th, 2024 at 11:07@ 77 – that is sad to see Inga passed away at 61 years young. Cut off in her prime. What a voice & yes indeed with Placido very up lifting. Thanks for the recommendation. Cheers.
October 4th, 2024 at 12:05Much like Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud was a great analytical thinker and builder of academic worlds.
Not everything worked in real life.
October 4th, 2024 at 15:09Oh yeah, you’re completely right about the sad situation for Maria Callas. A lot of her life reminds me of the very great Judy Garland. She was also brilliant, but people around her did not do her good 😢
I’m glad you liked Inga Nielsen and Palcido Domingo together 😊 I love them too, and listen often to both singers 🥰 They have/had so much power in their voices and their personalities 💜
Have you checked out Lise Davidsen? I loved her in Last night at the proms last year. She is from Norway if I remember correctly.
About you and our dear dear Uwe, I do believe wholeheartedly that the two of you co-exist, if one of you is missing everything would fall down in here 😄
And I’m really not sure about the marvellous Sigmund Freud! He was a great capacity but was a bit too entangled in some weird speculations regarding the male anatomy and women’s supposedly envious fascination of that, ahem, part!
October 4th, 2024 at 15:30Whereas Carl Gustav was much more interested in each person’s personality 😅😅
Ok, now you are way off topic. Back to Purple, please.
October 4th, 2024 at 16:12@85
October 4th, 2024 at 16:30So sorry, but with these sparkling personalities in here we’re often lead astray ⭐️
Thanks for keeping us straight in here ☺️
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October 4th, 2024 at 17:26Well, Judy Garland are almost purple:
October 5th, 2024 at 11:24“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow”.