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The melody is hot and the message so sweet
Deep Purple opened the final leg of the 2024 tour with a show at the Spodek in Katowice, Poland, on October 17. The setlist got a bit of a shakeup, with 6 songs off the last album being played live.
Setlist:
(as reported on setlist.fm)
- Intro: Mars, the Bringer of War
- Highway Star
- A Bit on the Side
- Hard Lovin’ Man
- Into the Fire
- Guitar Solo
- Uncommon Man
- Now You’re Talkin’
- Lazy Sod
- Keyboard Solo
- Lazy
- When a Blind Man Cries
- Portable Door
- Anya
- Keyboard Solo (with snippets from Chopin and the Polish national anthem)
- Bleeding Obvious
- Space Truckin’
- Smoke on the Water
Encore:
- Old‐Fangled Thing
- Hush
- Black Night
A recording of the show has already surfaced:
Thanks to Tobias Janaschke for the proofpic (that is actually from Berlin, October 19), to Mariusz Florek for the video, and to Mike Whiteley for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Wow!!!
Old‐Fangled Thing played live too!!!
but did they add it making the set list longer, or did they take something away?
October 18th, 2024 at 22:24They did this just for me, I’m seeing them on Tuesday in Mannheim!
Way to go, Bob Dylan plays on his current German tour no less than nine songs off his most recent album.
October 18th, 2024 at 23:04…and the guy that carried them from Blackmore quitting only gets one song ! Absolute joke !
October 19th, 2024 at 00:06And where’s Perfect Strangers?
If that’s not back in the set by the time they come to England…I won’t be going !
Holy flurking schmidt!
October 19th, 2024 at 00:46They’re up to a SEVENTEEN song set now!?
And here I was thinking the sets would get SHORTER as they age…😲
Yo,
6-songs of the last album making it into the live set-list, speaks volumes about the quality of “=1″…
The early Mk-II albums only contained 7-tunes each for your consideration…
Excellent stuff ! Keep-up the great work boys !
Adonai vasu !
October 19th, 2024 at 01:09@ 5 – The limitations of vinyl back in the day, about 40 minutes total time. Regarding the live set, Mark II improvised a hell of a lot more. Not too many short songs. Just a bit of reality thrown into the mix. Cheers.
October 19th, 2024 at 10:24Excellent concert setlist of 6 new songs, superb, the new album deserves it.
October 19th, 2024 at 12:41Opening traditionally with “Mars, the Bringer of War”
Why not let’s say with a movie on the wall (from Playboy After Dark 1968, all eras to the present day) with the musical support of the first DP song “And The Address”?
In the first twenty minutes of a traditional fast hard rock song, “A Bit on the Side” fits nicely between the fast songs Highway Star and Hard Loving Man, Big Ian does not give up on the vocally demanding Into The Fire.
Simon McBride Solo Before Uncommon Man (26 -32-39 ) Touched Metallica – Enter Sandman
One of the highlights of the concert is two new songs in the piece Now You’re Talkin’ and Lazy Sod, Ian sings with ease without spasms on the face, Steve and Don like Ritchie and Jon used to, the rhythm section is precise, Little Ian at the end of the song Now You’ re Talkin’ didn’t give vent like on the studio recording. Lazy Sod is live in concert for rippling boogie rock like Status Qou or ZZ Top.
Nothing without Lazy (Song from the company of 8 great DPs..(Hush,Black Night,Child in Time,SOTW,Highway Star,Burn,Perfect Strangers)
I don’t know if the guys tried to pre-engage Lazy like say Clapton Layla for MTV Unplugged. needs) an acoustic version of Lazy (vocal part)…the guys sit on chairs like Led Zeppelin used to (by Herr Uwe) and perform an acoustic set…Glover, Gillan and Simon with guitars Ian Paice on tambourine perform Lazy, Anyone’s Daughter and All the Time in the world…? What do you think!?
Ian Gillan is a miracle…the world has lost the recognizable voice of combat sports announcer Bruce Buffer. If the great Ian retires…he could replace the famous Bruce (Space Turckin 1-19 56 – 1-20-06). Again his vocal emotion in ‘When a Blind Man Cries’
1.53 concert duration, missing the full 2 hours of only Perfect Strangers
I’ll see you
Perfect Strangers sounded clumsy with that key change they introduced, I don’t miss it just for that. It can always return for another tour. It also never really much developed as a live number, but remained rather static in rendition. Not why I go to see DP, they’re not the Eagles you know.
I told everyone here more than a year ago that we would see pretty much all Morse era material ousted from the set midterm, no one wanted to believe me back then and there were all these people expecting a resurrection of Morse goodies – not ‘appening!
I think Simon respects Steve as a guitarist (how can you not), but the Morse compositions are not really his bowl from the Belfast Unionist soup kitchens.
Now, all you dear Steve Morse fans, you may swoop down on me and sink your kitsch mock-Native American airbrush art eagle talons into my heretical body! 😆
October 19th, 2024 at 13:05@2
October 19th, 2024 at 14:11You very lucky man 🙌🏼
Would be nice to see some footage of the concert 😉😊
Doesn’t entice me to see them this time around.
October 19th, 2024 at 15:14I think the 6 live songs played from =1 were likely of a shorter running time than most of the songs from their earlier albums. Plus big Ian & the boys were probably in a finer fettle than usual on the night.
October 19th, 2024 at 16:24On a side note… As a hobby at home, & just for my ears only, I used a.i. apps to strip the vocals from all the songs on =1, & I can tell you that they all stand up as excellent instrumentals in their own right. Simon is like Ritchie, Satch & Steve (& Gary Moore) all rolled into one.
Anyone contemplating doing what I have done should be aware that not all a.i. apps are equal. Some are better at some specific things than others. I’m not gonna suggest to you which ones to use, because trial & error is the best way to learn & discover what works best for you.
Sometimes, just listening to the vocals on their own will send chills down your spine.
I found that a couple or three of the songs on The Battle Rages On were better to my ears without the vocals. But that’s just me. I prefer Black & White from THOBL as an instrumental. Some of the Mk3 & Mk4 tunes sound incredible to me on their lonesome, without DC’s unrefined caterwauling scraping at the senses. I love my high res edition of One More Rainy Day, without Rod’s vocal stylings!
Then there’s the exciting world of remixing on the computer. Just ask DC, he’s a big fan of such things, as his latest box set proves. Imagine laying the vocals from one song over the music of another song (stripped of it’s vocals)…Oh yes! I am capable of such atrocities… Dr Frank & Stein (filled with lager) at the controls. You can feed stuff into a.i,, then tell it to make something else similar…. & then it does it! Total freakazoid. I could never have predicted being able to use this kind of tech when I was at school in the 1970’s!.
Yeah, I know I’m gonna get verbal bashing for this, but honestly, I couldnt give a fk. They see me rollin’ & they be hatin’. I’ve gotta go & get back on my tractor, it’s got a great music system. Bye for now!
The band has a lot of confidence in the newer material, and fresh songs keep it interesting for them.
October 19th, 2024 at 16:45You know sometimes you just have to be frank and honest and speak freely from any BS.
October 19th, 2024 at 20:43Steve Morse took DP on a journey that has ended and that’s the words of IG. Now he is not a good fit when it comes to promoting the new album and they are happy to link MK2 to the =1 so the bottom line is Steve Morse stuff is no longer a good fit with the new living breathing DP members.
Now the question is whether SM was ever a great fit to link MK2 with his stuff and the answer is no and yes. No he was not a great fit but Yes he was a great fit because the band didn’t want anyone to sound like RB live and going forward recording because that was a step back at this particular time in the band history.
I love SM era with DP but to visit it live on stage with Simon McBride doesn’t make any musical sense.
Peace ✌️
Now what is with Gillan constantly going around in the back? do they need to strain themselves like this at their age? do they need to cover the whole world? no they dont.It is greed or promotors and managers i have no clue but this is silly.
@ 13 Agreed.
October 20th, 2024 at 01:04John, I have absolutely no issues with people remixing stuff – I think it‘s a legitimate art form, all power to you.
Adel, to quote Jim Steinman as sung by Marvin Lee Aday: You took the words right out of my mouth!
https://youtu.be/_wO8toxinoc
I too think that Simon‘s Ritchie is better and more natural than his Steve. I loved Tommy Bolin‘s tenure with the band, but wouldn‘t have expected reunited Mk II in 1984 to work their way through the Mk IV songbook. Steve is history, albeit a very important one.
October 20th, 2024 at 01:44Glad the band think’s North America can’t appreciate new material.
October 20th, 2024 at 02:09@14: Because they want to?
October 20th, 2024 at 18:39@14
October 20th, 2024 at 19:47I’m pretty sure they don’t NEED to do it, I guess they love to do it 😊
with SM I appreciated them with conviction until Rapture Of The Deep
October 21st, 2024 at 05:16Yo,
I can understand people wanting to hear more of Steve’s era tunes in the set, but one could & should also ask, how many DP tunes is Steve playing within his new band(s) ?…
@19…I’m not sure why you don’t get on with “Rapture of the Deep”, I find it a more focused effort than “Bananas”, even “the” album that started DP on their progressive-rock journey for the last few albums with Steve.
@13…qt.”You know, sometimes you just have to be frank and honest, and speak freely from any BS”.
***Amen !
Adonai vasu !
October 21st, 2024 at 11:07Rapture of the Deep is for me the most lackluster album from the SM era, I never got to like it and I tried hard. It’s not horrible, just without any sparkle. The band must have felt the same way because it led to their eight-year-hiatus from recording until Bob Ezrin resurrected them (my eternal thanks to him for that!)
For the record: I don’t think it was Steve’s fault though it was not much later that he began diverting his creative juices to Flying Colors (whose debut was hugely inspired).
October 21st, 2024 at 14:04It would be really weird if DP started playing other Morse tunes all of the sudden. Imagine that: to have the guy around for 28 years and only now that he’s gone decide to throw some Mk7/8 material into the set.
They still play Uncommon Man because its their tribute to Jon (as is Above and Beyond, but that one’s long gone). I believe it’d been dropped long ago if it wasn’t for that.
October 21st, 2024 at 15:53@21
October 21st, 2024 at 17:10Oh nooo 🥺
Please relisten to Girls like that and Kiss tomorrow goodbye!
There is this boyish charm and joie de vivre on both tunes, so massive that I almost don’t need coffee listening to them 🤩
@18: Paicey said yesterday after the show:”When you stop, at our age, you don’t start again. And even if you do, it’s not going to be the same”.
October 21st, 2024 at 21:47“I’m not sure why you don’t get on with “Rapture of the Deep”, I find it a more focused effort than “Bananas”, even “the” album that started DP on their progressive-rock journey for the last few albums with Steve.”
I don’t disagree, Gregster, IT IS more focused, Bananas is a bit all over the place, but they had a new line-up and new producer at the start, were still finding their feet and searching for a new sound. But, but, but … Bananas sounded fresh if a little insecure to my ears and ROTD sounded dull and unmotivated as a whole (though the ballads on it are strong). I didn’t hear any enthusiasm on ROTD, I heard that galore on Now What?! Infinite was then a slight drop, but Whoosh! was another strong Mk VIII showing.
That said, there is nothing in MkVlI’s and VIII’s back catalog that Steve needs to be ashamed of. Even the stuff without sparkle is at least solid.
October 22nd, 2024 at 02:05Yo,
@25…Herr Uwe stated…
qt.”Bananas sounded fresh if a little insecure to my ears and ROTD sounded dull and unmotivated as a whole (though the ballads on it are strong). I didn’t hear any enthusiasm on ROTD, I heard that galore on Now What?! Infinite was then a slight drop, but Whoosh! was another strong Mk VIII showing”…
***Easier for myself to reply in point-form below, re-my thoughts on these albums…
1. Bananas…Has some great heavy rock moments, up there with the best ever, but its also like a 4-corners pizza, where each 1/4 is a different topping…
2. Rapture of the Deep…I really like all the album, but perhaps the production is too soft for the music over-all…But this allows the tunes to really come-to-life in the live arena. It also imo marks the start of DP’s ongoing sojourn with progressive rock.
3. Now What…Great album from start to finish.
4. InFinite…To my ears & likings, the best album produced with Mr.Ezrin with Steve on-board.
5. Whoosh…This album completes a superb trio produced with Mr.Ezrin, but I think InFinite has a little more special musical magic weaved throughout its contents.
Phew !
Adonai vasu !
October 22nd, 2024 at 11:22The endless musical material presented on the table for the Bananas album was immense.
October 22nd, 2024 at 15:37The guys were buzzing with ideas and materials that was never channeled properly into a final product.
I love Bananas the album but I am always afraid to play it because the production is so dire it triggers my IBS attack.
ROTD has nothing to offer musically apart from one riff in ROTD and a great Bass work from RG on the wrong man and the final scream from IG on money talks.
Sorry if I upset anyone but ROTD is the worst album in DP catalogue and even the cover is the worst.
Having said that the weakest DP album still offers moments of individual brilliance but collectively it’s Rubbish.
Peace ✌️
Bananas was an uneven production, yes, it sounded like a demo in places and some frequencies are harsh in the mix, but it had ideas and was varied.
ROTD sounded to me like Mk VIII were running out of steam. But then Bob Ezrin came along.
October 23rd, 2024 at 02:25BTW, I saw DP in Mannheim, it was an excellent gig, good sound (I was standing so close to the sideways monitors they have on stage, I could feel Little Ian’s kick drum throbbing in me – and what a great kick drum player he is), Big Ian’s voice holding up well and the Belfast Kid turning out a better fit for the band every time I see him. I concentrated on him, he really has given the band new lifeblood, there is lot of physical interaction, inside jokes, playful shoving around and at one point Simon even sang a harmony vocal line to the SOTW chorus (it sounded good). He’s lovably cocky and his solos are testosterone-charged. But Simon can be extremely tasteful too, during WABMC he quoted some Peter Green and for a moment you thought you were listening to late 60s/early 70s Fleetwood Mac. Nice.
Set list was the same as in Katowice (with the exception of Hard Lovin’ Man, which was deleted in Mannheim, but was apparently also not contained on the Berlin set list pictured above), the new sequence flows better and the six songs off =1 did not seem to put any undue strain on the more casual DP fans, everybody welcomed the new songs which were played with lots of enthusiasm by the band, I even liked Bleeding Obvious, a song that has so far given me a hard time on the new album.
Herr Gillan was in a chatty mood and explained to us how the portable door was one his many childhood inventions and how he used it to either rob banks or visit brothels. Also how it is connected to Anya: One time he picked the wrong portable door and came out on the tip of an iceberg, losing his grip there and sliding down, through a colony of seals, only to land on a huge polar bear who then proceeded to stand up with Ian on its shoulders so he could see this beautiful woman walking through the Arctic and her name was Anya.
It’s all true and happened just like he said, there are even pictures of it:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hHV7R_PELK0/maxresdefault.jpg
Roger’s baffled expression while Big Ian was explaining all this was priceless. 😆
October 23rd, 2024 at 03:02@24
October 23rd, 2024 at 08:49That seems right 😊
Hopefully they have the stamina to keep on going 😊
@29
Thank you so very very much for the review of the concert 😃
I’m surprised SMcB sounded good, (sorry Simon) because hearing him on YT is not good 😃 but that could be the YT’s fault!
Yeah Ian G have had some rather brilliant inventions in his life, a submarine and a space rocket (whether his friend who was the captain loved it is more debatable) but a portable door….. well who didn’t want to turn up unannounced different places.
Hope SOOOOO much they come back to Denmark next year and that I can get tickets in time.
October 23rd, 2024 at 15:16@29 Can confirm what Uwe writes about the Mannheim gig. The band were in good form, playing like a well oiled machine with a lot of fun on stage.
October 23rd, 2024 at 16:31Regarding Simon’s singing: on his solo long player The Fighter he does all the singing himself, and it sounds quite good. Worth a listen.
@32
October 23rd, 2024 at 20:43Thanks Hogi, I will immediately take a listen to The Fighter while my ears are blushing for the nasty thing I said about SMcB voice. I put all the blame on YT 😉
He’s not a bad singer at all, I wish they would do more with his voice now that they have the opportunity.
October 23rd, 2024 at 20:57@32
SMcB ‘the Fighter’, oh man he is a great guitarist 🤩
And not a half-bad singer either 😉
Seems like his self confidence is almost at the same level as Ian G ☺️
The Irish soup kitchens did him real good 😃
‘Just takes time’ is ok too!
And even Bryan Adams couldn’t have put that amount of strutting around in ‘Kids wanna Rock’! Well BA almost feel like a pale copy 😄 (but the last drum solo is pathetic 🫣)
Do you know who the hairy-arm keyboardist in “Live at Anaheim” is? Can’t find his name anywhere.
October 24th, 2024 at 07:09Big Ian hasn’t turned 80 yet and Karin is already diverging her interests toward the youngest member in the band, tsk, tsk, tsk … A woman’s heart is a deep dark well of icy waters.
Re your other interests: Joe Mennonna?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mennonna
https://joemennonna.weebly.com/index.html
October 24th, 2024 at 15:51Sorry – can’t find the tread where Gillan’s Living for the City is compared to the original by Stevie Wonder.
October 24th, 2024 at 17:13Now I have listened carefully a lot ( A LOT) of times, and yes, Ian G has THE voice for that song.
Stevie Wonder is what his surname suggests, but he doesn’t have the raw energy, the lion roar, as Ian G has!
In the video there is this very posh lady, a VIP, who in the end is a headbanger with the rest of them 😂 somehow I can’t see SW make that neat twist 😄
@36
Oh please!
As I guess I’ve mentioned a couple of (hundred) times: there isn’t anyone like Ian G!
And no, NO!, SMcB could never take over vocally in DP with the same force and power as the current vocalist has!
I took a listen to SMcB because I had ditched his voice, and you and Hogi sang SMcB’s praises 😄
He is not half-bad, but he is certainly not like the big man himself!
Thanks yes, it looks like Joe Mennonna 😊
October 24th, 2024 at 22:48Aber Frau Verndal, Living For The City is a song about black self-empowerment, about the mass exodus of black people from the rural South to the perceived opportunities of the urban industry centers of the Northeastern and Midwestern US of A in the first half of the 20th Century.
Wiki writes about the lyrics:
“Born into a poor family in Mississippi, a young black man experiences discrimination in looking for work and eventually seeks to escape to New York City (alluding to the Second Great Migration) in hopes of finding a new life. Through a series of background noises and spoken dialogue, the man reaches New York by bus, but is then promptly framed for a crime, arrested, convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison.”
I can’t help it, but I have a hunch GILLAN’s NWOBHM hamfisted version doesn’t do the various sociological aspects of the song justice – at all. It’s a tricky song for a white man to do, even trickier for a Brit and hilariously out of place for a band like GILLAN. And nope, I don’t think that Big Ian’s childhood experiences in a London still ravaged by the Blitz are comparable to those of a young black male migrating up North from Mississippi when segregation, Jim Crow Laws and the Ku Klux Klan still ruled there. If I had been a member of GILLAN when covering this song came up (it apparently wasn’t Big Ian’s idea to do it), I would have said: “Guys, I don’t think this song is appropriate for us to do, if we really want to cover a Motown number, let’s try another one.”
I don’t think that Iron Maiden could have done a credible version of Bob Marley’s Buffalo Soldier either – and we’re not talking about the music.
https://youtu.be/uMUQMSXLlHM
Buffalo Soldiers were all-black US Cavalry and Infranty units which in the second half of the 19th Century fought for their white masters against another minority, namely Native Americans in the so called Indian Wars. Bitter historical irony.
I have no idea what possessed GILLAN to do a civil rights song, I already thought back then that is was a particularly insensitive to the point of callous choice.
In contrast, Big Ian doing ‘South Africa’, the Bernie Marsden co-penned song, was commendable. I’m not saying that a white band cannot support a black cause credibly, but if you do it, then do it with some style like the Manics did in their heartfelt hymn to Paul Robeson, a black activist, actor and singer of the last century.
https://youtu.be/9_QGfzeiNb0
When I hear the Manic Street Preachers do “Let Robeson Sing”, then I get goosebumps of the good kind – yes, I know they are every leftie’s favorite social justice warriors trio. When I hear GILLAN’s version of Living For The City, I still cringe at the insensitivity of it like I did the first time I heard it and read the lyrics.
And they didn’t really do a lot with it musically either except metalling it up. All their ingredients like the strange middle instrumental part are all already contained in the original. Just plain lazy and the weakest number on Magic by a stretch.
Incidentally, I could think of ex-DP members more qualified to pay their respects to Stevie Wonder, just sayin’ …
https://youtu.be/OOtm4dnLetE
October 25th, 2024 at 00:00@37 Karin
LFTC is a fantastic rock interpretation of Big Ian. It releases soul, I see Big Ian’s soul more today because his movements on stage when he sings often remind me Joe Cocker
October 25th, 2024 at 05:42If the social and historical background of the song is irrelevant to you, then I guess the GILLAN version is a workmanlike rendition if verging on the pedestrian.
Kind of like Blackmore’s Night doing Robert Zimmermann’s The Times They Are A-Changin’, a song that was once a call to arms for the modernization of society and is now performed by two people and their cosplaying associates who deem the Late Middle Ages/beginning Renaissance to be an era preferable to what we have today. Feudal times, how incredibly cool and romantic, especially if you were a serf! 😏
Too bad One Direction or Imagine Dragons never did a version of Joan Baez’ Sacco & Vanzetti, it is such a nice little tune! Never mind what it was about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY8uEYsFoJs
October 25th, 2024 at 14:00@39
I see your point!
I’m so sorry if my comments have been insensitive, that was not my intention at all 🥺
I’m here for the music alone, nothing else.
And I did not know the background of LITC, I really just love the way Gillan is doing that song.
Sometimes political correctness can hurt people a lot more than just being natural and open and show love from the bottom of one’s heart.
Maybe a crazy incident this one, but please read on:
In Denmark we’ve had an ice cream all my life. It was invented in 1922, and had the name Eskimo-is.
But all of a sudden the delicious ice cream had to change its name!
Many today perceive the word Eskimo as racist or derogatory. The word Eskimo is used for the people who live in the area around the Arctic – that is in Greenland, Alaska and northern Canada and in northern Russia.
The ice cream was named in a time when very few Danes were aware of the condescending meaning of the word. The ice cream’s name should therefore not be perceived as offensive, even if the word ‘Eskimo’ is today described as derogatory.
Never the less, the name was changed.
We have some friends who are originally from Greenland, now living part time in Denmark part time in Greenland, and I tell you they were quite surprised why a small ice cream could make such a political storm.
They told us: “well in Greenland we have a band called ‘The Eskimos’, so for us it’s rather a praise to have an ice cream named after us, than the opposite’
Of course I cannot be certain that every single person in Greenland has that point of view, but those I know have not been offended at all.
PC is a very dangerous way to go by, even if the intentions originally have been pure, because it can lead to anxiety towards other nations, and maybe the way to go is not to be anxious but to communicate openly and wholeheartedly: sorry I’m not sure if I step on anyone’s toes here, but I love you and wanna be your friend NO MATTER WHAT! Teach me what I don’t know and I’ll do my best.
And dear friends in here, sometimes an ice cream is just an ice cream, sometimes a song is just a song!
I don’t know if Ian G was against doing LITC, (I have a feeling that if he was against doing it he would have refused to do it, and if the other members in Gillan were determined he might have left Gillan the way he left Ian Gillan Band, I really don’t think he would ever just succumb and keep silent if he had a strong opinion of any kind, but ok I don’t know the man, but he really doesn’t strike me as a pushover!)
No I don’t know what it REALLY means to be a black person in any part of the world, but I do know I wanna be friends and have open communication with all kinds of people. And my friends come from all kinds of cultures, nationalities and with all kinds of opinions 😉
October 25th, 2024 at 15:44@40
I couldn’t agree with you more! Except maybe the Joe Cocker part 😅😅
Ian G does have a wonderful voice, he did when he was young, middle-aged and now as an older man his voice is still my favourite!
AndreA what do you think of his voice when he’s singing ‘Haunted’?
October 25th, 2024 at 16:10Uhh I get chills up my spine 😃
@ 39 – fair enough & good points there Uwe, I know what you mean. I didn’t mind the Gillan version of that for what it was, a cover version of an old classic. However it was also a sign that the Gillan band had run out of steam, the Magic album I didn’t play a lot. Good to see you mention ‘ham fisted’ in relation to another band other than Cozy era Rainbow, he he he. Cheers.
October 25th, 2024 at 20:45I’m sure no member of Gillan meant any ill when they picked out that song. I don’t know who had the original idea other than that it wasn’t Big Ian, given the jazzy instrumental parts it might even have been Colin Towns who had an ear for it. Ian was initially bemused by the choice – he did not worship at Stevie Wonder’s altar like both Glenn Hughes and David Coverdale did, those soul-infused Northern Brits -, but liked the outcome.
For fairness’ sake, Gillan were the split-off DP band with still the most sociologically aware lyrics. DC has always avoided any sociological, much less political statement in his lyrics like the plague and Roger’s attempts with Rainbow (Can’t Happen Here) always struck me as a bit on the naive side (but still better than his truly horrendous sexist tripe on All Night Long – ask yourself if you would want your teenage daughter to be described like that when she visits a rock concert -, but he is ashamed of that today too).
Anyway, I much preferred what Big Ian did on ‘South Africa’ (also musically, not just the activist part), that song deserved to be a hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCGGAoZUhSA
Apartheid was vile and cretinous, it couldn’t last, but it lasted long enough.
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PC is originally just an attempt of trying to be polite and not hurt people accidentally. ‘Eskimo’ (meaning ‘raw meat eater’, a practice which makes sense in a Polar climate as it preserves nutrients and meat going bad is no issue there due to the low temperatures) has been replaced by ‘Inuit’ in the German language too. I generally don’t have issues with PC conventions, but it can go overboard (but OTOH excesses don’t warrant proclaiming it to be a bad practice per se). In Germany, the Sarotti ‘Mohr’ (as in North African moor), who once graced chocolate bars
https://img.fotocommunity.com/sarotti-77addb3d-58c7-43cf-a815-8df3c5ebf514.jpg?height=1000
has lost his complexion and is now a Sarotti ‘Magier’ (magician):
https://www.lebensmittelzeitung.net/news/media/7/Mit-den-ande-Stollwe-Mar-geh-auc-der-Saro-Moh-an-d-68232.jpeg
Now look who’s talking about PC – I have this (well-deserved) horrible reputation for low ball un-PC comments wherever I go, demeaning poor Tassies, wimmin and making inappropriate references to Germany’s darkest chapter. I even crack nasty jokes with my Dutch-Jewish son-in-law. My wife always says: “One of these days someone is going to take you by your word …”. I have to hope that people don’t.
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I wasn’t asked, but Haunted is a lovely song and my favorite track on Bananas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4k5apni_RI
Big Ian is a great balladeer, I never get enough of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWImYEISgeI
October 26th, 2024 at 02:43@41
No it’s not irrelevant to me.
It’s just quite difficult sometimes to know every aspect of everything that had happened, happens and will happen.
It’s pretty difficult no to do and say wrong 🥺
Lots of times, like the example you bring up with Bob Dylan’s magnificent song and Blackmore/Night’s performance (haven’t heard it) things change, time change, well people change, and what was deadly serious at one point has become lesser important, one might even say that the decay of time sometimes erases your memories, not because you want it to happen but because so many other deadly serious things take place and overtake the overriding seriousness of what once seemed to be the foundation of our history.
Who is to blame?
I will certainly not blame decent musicians who wanna make us feel good, forget our problems for 2 x 19 minutes (well I know the cd versions have more minutes 😉) (and I saw that it’s LFTC not LITC 🙄)(sorry, my bad)
Well to lighten up the gloomy mood, coffee anyone? It’s on me 💜💜
October 26th, 2024 at 05:50I don’t know Uwe, if musicians ceased to perform certain cover songs because they might think some people think it could be controversial, there would be a lot less songs being covered. Is that the reason? Many people don’t bother about why the song was written, they just like the song. It is a fine line perhaps, but the musicians, whoever they are, are surely entitled to play a song for enjoyment etc. Some take the piss, some like the song genuinely & others would possibly want to ‘spread the word’ of the lyrics. It is horses for course again. A certain song could be deemed insensitive if performed or used for other intent though. We see that far to often these days in regards to politics etc. A fine line indeed. Cheers.
October 26th, 2024 at 06:03@ 43
October 26th, 2024 at 10:37Karin,
I like that song, beautiful guitar and beautifully melodic voice full of warmth. But it took me some time because at first it just seemed likedance song for old people in adance,hall.
I’m probably old now…
@45
October 26th, 2024 at 11:23Uwe,
another fantastic ballad that I love is FIGHTING MAN.
and don’t be jealous if Karin🥰 asks the question “only” to me 😅
Ian Gillan has often stated his dislike of rassism of any kind. I do believe he wanted to underline his views by covering this song. Never in my wildest dreams I’d gotten the idea of that bein’ not approbiate. Usually playing song of others is a sign of respect in my book. I don’t mind RB playing Dylan (a hero of his) expect for the fact that their version is kitsch.
Karin, there are a lot of stories like your Eskimo-one. PC people tend to tell others that they have to feel victmised – if they want to or not.
October 26th, 2024 at 18:05@48
October 26th, 2024 at 19:40😄 well I know the feeling, of getting old I mean!
But hey the alternative is worse, I usually think, when the mirror is letting me down again…
@45
So funny you mention ‘All night long’ because I have a distinct feeling it’s a clone of Rat Bat Blue! I guess RG was co-writing RBB with Ian G, and well there was a lot of the same words, meanings used in both:
All night long: ‘Hey girl, would you like some wine? What’s your name? Are you by yourself? Are you the one, what’s your sign, can I take you home?’
Rat Bat Blue: ‘Hey baby, what you gonna do when the lights go up on you? What’s your name, can I drive you home? Sweet woman, are you all alone?
And regarding your comment about teen-daughters, well in the often mentioned (from my side at least 😉) autobiography from Ian G there are some quite graphical descriptions of how groupies are looked at and treated! Ok, boys will be boys, are the usual excuse, and yeah where were the parents to those girls? I’m ashamed that those parents never taught their girls to have some much-needed self esteem! But that’s a completely different discussion.
Ian G’s South Africa is a very strong song, must admit though I don’t play it very often. But the lyrics is an example of how cruel people can be to each other.
Yeah you’re right PC wants to have the polite side, but oh man how often isn’t it hurting big time anyway? Misconceptions galore 😞
I love the open talk more than I can explain here!
Too often the things that are not said are the most poisonous, and I really dig your flabbiness 😅😅
I must admit I’m not familiar with Ian Gillan Band, and even though René appreciates your recommendation regarding ‘Five moons’, I really don’t like it. There is something so “wrong” (I don’t refer to the lyrics, but to the whole composition) with that song.
And excuse me, but the excessive use of saxophone screams ‘80s compositions but I guess it’s earlier? Oh just checked, it’s from ‘77!
Just need to mention Cooper, the German Shepherd! Check him out on YouTube,
https://youtu.be/9JsuhzxVis0?si=RqgbWRtDYBYaWhvS
Has nothing to do either with Ian G, DP or singing but he is so adorable 🥰
Uwe you’re ALWAYS asked!
‘Haunted’ is a lovely song, in the video Ian G pats Steve Morse on the shoulder after a solo, and I find it so endearing 🥰. I’m not sure, but I don’t think RB would have liked the gesture….
Deep Purple was giving a concert at Hard Rock Cafe in London, and they started with ‘Fireball’ after which Ian G said that it’s nice to start with a ballad! 😄
I LOVE ‘Fireball’ as the only one in my home sadly, Jon Lord said Ian P’s drumming was ‘dramatically good’, and oh yes it was!
Once or twice a week we listen to each other’s favourite music, and we can veto certain songs but not all! It’s a nice way to broaden one’s horizons 😊 but sometimes it has surprisingly effect: it’s not completely surprising that I have a deep felt penchant to Ian G, but I wasn’t aware how much until I discovered my darling husband citing Ian G’s way of saying ‘alright’ – you know he prolongs the ‘-right’ part of the expression 😄😄
Our cute Charismatic Voice-Elizabeth was dissecting Bon Jovi’s ‘Living on a Prayer’ (she really has a sweet nose 🥰) and it dawned on me: we haven’t been around Bon Jovi, have we? (Well I guess you guys have, at some point! Often I feel in here like when I was 5 yo and ran to my mother completely overwhelmed by the fact that I just had seen some figures and strange colours on the full moon, and at that age I hadn’t heard anyone else describing that phenomenon so i logically believed I was the first ever to have seen that! )
October 26th, 2024 at 20:55So – what do you think of Bon Jovi?
Are they in any way influenced by Deep Purple?
@49
So funny you mention ‘Fighting man’, I saw Peanuts (you know the comic/cartoon) there is ‘Fighting man’ mentioned quite fondly 🥰
I really love ‘Sometime I feel like screaming’, it’s so longing, so full of missing someone, and then just before I find myself sobbing on the floor in a puddle of tears, there are this wonderful middle part:
‘ Backstreet dolls and the side door Johnnies
October 26th, 2024 at 21:01And the wide-eyed boys with their bags full of money
Back in the alley going bang to the wall
Tied to the tail of a midnight crawl
Heaven wouldn’t be so high, I know
If the times gone by hadn’t been so low
The best laid plans come apart at the seams
And shatter all my dreams’
Oh I love that song 😍
@50
Yeah Max! Exactly 🙌🏼
In the autobiography of the man himself (well Ian G, if someone would not know whom I’m thinking of here 😉) his love and kindness to people in general is so obvious!
I really can’t picture him doing a song like LFTC with a dark motive!
I know Max, PC do like to alienate people instead of bringing us closer together!
October 26th, 2024 at 21:07I truly hope the original intentions were pure, but nowadays it seems like everyone has to be deeply offended at some point.
@41
October 26th, 2024 at 21:44Sorry Uwe, I completely forgot to put this comment in before (my mind has been wondering, preoccupied)
‘Feudal times…’ well you’re right of course, but don’t you think sometimes people, like Blackmore and Night, seek back to more simpler times, more innocent times (yeah yeah, I know what you think now, it wasn’t an innocent time for people who weren’t well off) (but compared to nowadays mayhem it might seem more innocent, more easy to handle)?
Often enough people seek back in time because the present is too hard to handle. And even though I never imagine RB feel the world overwhelming, or at least he may never admit it, it’s a distinct reaction isn’t it?
Big Ian doesn’t have a racist bone in his body, I’m sure of that.
You guys have probably noticed by now: Lyrics are important to me. Messages are important. That doesn’t mean I cannot enjoy music with irrelevant lyrics, I’m fine with “yummy, yummy, yummy, I’ve got love in my tummy”.
https://youtu.be/tUwLPuc1WSo
But I can also understand Graham Nash leaving the Hollies when they started banalizing Bob Dylan songs with Neil Diamond type arrangements (nothing wrong with Neil, I really like his work):
https://youtu.be/3AI1v2Ma45g
Sometimes a song’s lyrics are very much tied to the history, experiences and image of an artist or even a 0ne-time historical event.
What I regret is when a song’s initial message gets diluted via a cover. And it doesn’t even need to be political. Judas Priest’s cover
https://youtu.be/WOAHpLBNiUw
of Joan Baez’ Diamonds & Rust
https://youtu.be/1ST9TZBb9v8
is musically great, but of course it renders Joan’s wistful longing and mourning lyrics about her unrequited love for Bob Dylan more or less meaningless – even keeping Robert Halford’s romantic preferences in mind, I don’t think he ever wanted to get into Bob Dylan’s pants (though the name Judas Priest is lifted off a Dylan lyric!). That said, even Ms Baez likes Priest’s version and once told Halford so when she met him (had him washed and brought to her trailer!) at Band Aid USA.
Other songs require a certain historical situation, one of my favorite Dylan tunes is Hurricane
https://youtu.be/voH11xV4AKI,
a song about the black boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Carter
who was in prison on a fabricated murder charge. Rubin was eventually – after 20 years of prison for a crime he didn’t commit – released, Dylan doesn’t play the song anymore (it contributed to the realization of the aim it was written for and has thus fulfilled its purpose) and so should probably nobody else even though it has a stirring melody and evocative lyrics. It’s like a shipwreck under the sea protected as an archeological site that should not be disturbed anymore.
For the record: Frau Verndal, my posting intro:
“If the social and historical background of the song is irrelevant to you, then I guess the GILLAN version is a workmanlike rendition if verging on the pedestrian.”
was not addressing you specifically, but rather picked up on the sentiment of many people that lyrics and messages aren’t that important to them when listening to music.
They can of course be, but not always:
https://youtu.be/7z-GwNavp1Q
Love that song!
And this one too!
https://youtu.be/HwKUaYBUYNc
Impeccable bass playing full of groove and melody.
October 26th, 2024 at 22:38Andrea @49: Damn right, I’m jealous as hell!
But being the chivalrous, tragic hero type, I realize when I’m beat …
https://youtu.be/pa-dGYjSq5k
October 26th, 2024 at 23:50however in this concert Big Ian does not seem to be in the same vocal shape as I have seen him in other videos some months ago.
I won’t get tired of saying that some stressful songs for him like Space Truckin should be removed from the set list.
we could do without hearing When a blind man again, a song from THOBL would have been better.
I would always like to hear Perfect Strangers, but for Ian this song has also become too stressful in my opinion, so it’s normal that they excluded it.
instead of Into the Fire and When a blind man, I would like All the Time in the World and one between Never a World, Haunted or Walk on, or even the cumbia pearl Doing It Tonight!
I am also one of those fans who consider Bananas better than all the albums with Morse that came after it.
#51 Karin:
October 27th, 2024 at 00:31do you know the legendary Pretty Maids, the greatest Danish hard rock band?
Roger Glover produced their first albums in the 80s, and Gillan guest-voiced on one of their Christmas songs (basically he played a crazy Santa Claus!!), but their best albums for me are from 1993 to 2013
@39
It’s surprising, but it always seemed to me that Stevie, although the author, did not fully feel the tragedy of this boy in his singing, so I like Gillan’s evil performance more, in which you can see the desire to fight such injustice (and not to live the life of a black man, although the life of a white man in post-war Europe was not bed of rosees).
And one more thing. I did not like ROTD, but gradually this album grew in my eyes and is now one of my favorites. And as for the band’s attitude to this album, as for me, they did not record anything new for 8 years because the public did not accept the album well, which they themselves liked very much, in any case, it seemed to me so after a few interviews.
@42 In Georgia, we still have ice cream called Eskimo and we never thought that we were offending anyone’s feelings, on the contrary, I think it is a sign of respect 😊.
October 27th, 2024 at 02:56Guys – I am on the verge loosing it! Please help me 💜
On YT there is this song with Ian G, ‘I thought no’, wait a minute I’ll try to do a Uwe-trick here:
https://youtu.be/3EX7OL9__e8?si=Afm_Jd07mtzw0sAe
Hope it is ok…
Well I’m completely in love with this tune, but I cannot find any suggestion to where he is doing this.
October 27th, 2024 at 09:24I know the song is from ‘Accidentally on Purpose’ but where is this particular concert from? And where can I buy it!!???
Thanks 😘
@ 53
October 27th, 2024 at 09:39Oh yes, I know Peanuts but not this mention. What sa about the song?
@60: https://www.discogs.com/release/7781285-Ian-Gillan-Live
October 27th, 2024 at 10:23@56
Uwe, I had NO idea that ms Baez was in love with BD!
Why didn’t he do something about that? What a power couple they could’ve been!
I really like Bob D’s songs, even though there is a deep lack of knowledge of the most of his compositions 😞 (remember one of my dear brothers bought an album with BD, but he later admitted it mostly was because of the pretty girl on the album cover 😄)
Actually I studied his phenomenal productions in school (we had a lovely music teacher 😍) but then he was put upon the shelf, and next time I recognised him was with the other gentlemen/geniuses in Traveling Wilburys! (‘Tweeter and the Monkeyman’ is as funny as it is cute😊)
Ohh, you don’t write to me personally, well that’s a disappointment that is hard to deal with 😨 but I’ll survive as Gloria G once said!
Yeah I love ‘Silly love songs’ as well!
October 27th, 2024 at 10:40I’m not completely sure everything PMcC has been composing is brilliant, but he did have his moments!
When he returned after his darling Linda died, he made the hard-to-forget album ‘Run devil run’, it’s a lovely r’n’r album 🤩
@62
October 27th, 2024 at 10:42Thanks so very much Svante 🤗
@61
October 27th, 2024 at 10:54Of course I can’t find it now!
Normally I take screenshots of everything and anything remotely interesting, but this one slipped away 🙄
But two of the characters are talking together, one of them mention ‘Fighting man’, the other has it stuck in the brains afterwards !
Maybe nothing deeply hysterical funny, but so cute it was mentioned there 😊
@58
October 27th, 2024 at 11:00Fla76 I had no idea!
Roger Glover has had his fingers into many productions I guess!
@62
October 27th, 2024 at 11:03Oh it’s vhs!
Do you think someone could be persuaded to make this into a dvd format?☺️
@62
October 27th, 2024 at 11:19Sorry for the confusion Svante, I found it on dvd and bought it!
Thanks so much for the link 🙌🏼
@59
October 27th, 2024 at 11:21It truly is a sign of respect 😊
And in Denmark it was (well still is but now under a different name) a very delicious ice cream 🤗
Gillan live and especially Garth Rockett and the Moonshiners are great fun! Still given a spin now and again.
October 27th, 2024 at 15:02And for poor old me messing up expect and espect above …and countless other goofs…please don’t expect (ha! Here we go!) my English to be flawless…still working on it. One of the reasons: I do care for lyrics too, just like you, Uwe. In fact I learned a lot about the language (by looking words up etc) and life in general from songs. Though Coverdale’s poems might have misled a younger Max time and again… 🙂
Karin, Joanie and Bobby (as she always calls him) were an item in the 60ies, but with androgynous young Dylan being a (not just one) ladies’ man the signs were on the wall right from the get-go. There was also an “A Star Is Born”-undercurrent between them. Initially, Joan Baez was the more famous folk singer and activist, she actually dragged eternally shy young Dylan into the pop spotlight. As time went on, he resented her fame and eventually discarded her when she was no longer useful to his career (an unfortunate utilitarian trait often found by artists when dealing with other people). Add to that how Baez was a dyed-in-the-wool political activist and social-justice-warrior, always up for any worthy cause while Dylan took a more flippant view of politics and regarded himself as a storyteller first and foremost.
Anyway, he broke her heart, as the worst men do to the best women, and she then married a non-singing, non-glamorous leftie academic and activist (as brokenhearted women licking their wounds do) who was a good father to her son, but died sadly prematurely.
I should write romantic novels. 😍
October 27th, 2024 at 18:29@70
October 27th, 2024 at 19:14Max your English is perfect 👍🏼🤗
@71
Thanks for info! I had no idea of all the drama 😨
Yeah you ought to write novels of the heart! Maybe you could interweave a little thriller component too! Maybe combined with some poetry ☺️
Did you have a look at Cooper?
October 27th, 2024 at 19:18#66 Karin
well, if you don’t know Pretty Maids I suggest you listen to them as soon as possible, they are a Danish excellence, a rough, melodic and emotional hard rock, with the great Ronnie Atkins 100% rock in their veins!
October 27th, 2024 at 20:33If I remember correctly Ronnie also beat cancer a few years ago.
Pretty Maids were one of the few hard rock bands that when grunge came along they stayed true and never changed their sound.
together with Gotthard, Ten, Fair Warning and Brother firetribe they were the only ones to keep the level of hard rock high in the 90s-2000s
@60
October 28th, 2024 at 00:15This performance is one of my favourite live Gillan concerts Live In Nottingham or Access All Areas (that’s the name of my DVD)
Did I “have a look at Cooper”, Karin, which Cooper do you mean, Alice Cooper? I’ve seen him a handful of times, both with his own band and The Hollywood Vampires [yes, I witnessed grown wimmin throwing their bras at Johnny Depp and him nonchalantly twirling them around the headstock of his Telecaster (the bra, not the women, though he could have probably twirled those around his fingers!)].
I like Alice, he was the first hard rocker with an appeal to me as a teenager. He’s undervalued as a musician though he is a singer with limitations. His live shows are basically however greatest hits revues with very little change over the years.
October 28th, 2024 at 02:05I have to say that i miss the jazzy and slightly lighter approach to the MK2 songs from the late 90´
For me the band was at its prime with both Steve and John in there.
Just listen to Live at the Olympia, Total Abandon, Pherhilion and you hear that the main body of the songs are just bass and drums, For Instance Steve hardly ever play behind Johns solo,- theres no need to, -In that way he was actualle more like Blackmoore than Mc Bride.
And i Edmit, i don´t like Simon in there, All the finess is gone,- it could as well have been Bonamassa or any other booring bluesrocker
October 28th, 2024 at 11:15@76
🤣🤣
Noooo not Alice Cooper (nor Johnny Depp) but the Uwe-trick link I had in the comment, wait a minute, I’ll try again 😊
I remember you also have had German Shepherds 😍
https://youtu.be/R7stdO_Zyiw?si=xGvJ3Rdqq1-ii8I2
By the way, what do you think of Johnny Depp’s singing?
October 28th, 2024 at 14:02I don’t think his ‘Heroes’ is half-bad 😊
@75
Oh mine too Nino 😃
Thanks to Svante and the link he send here, I got my paws on a copy and are now awaiting for its arrival very patiently ☺️
October 28th, 2024 at 14:06@74
October 28th, 2024 at 14:10Thanks Fla76 😊
I’m not familiar with them but will certainly check them out 👍🏼
“Noooo not Alice Cooper (nor Johnny Depp) but the Uwe-trick link I had in the comment, wait a minute, I’ll try again 😊”
You continue to baffle and confuse me, Karin, I still don’t know what “Cooper” is supposed to refer to. The Nottingham gig clip of Ian @60?
I actually saw Gillan on that particular tour (Naked Thunder) in Frankfurt, he was playing a huge (then) modern disco. Good gig (it was the first time I heard WABMC live) though it had me wondering about his immediate future and I wasn’t wrong: Next gig I saw him was on the Toolbox tour and by then he couldn’t even fill a small club (a former cinema) in the middle of nowhere anymore, his commercial fortunes were definitely on the slide (and Ian was never any good with money as he has admitted himself again and again). Then came the invite to return to DP and he swallowed his pride (and had his ultimate revenge by in effect taking over the band once Ritchie had left).
The less is said about the Naked Thunder album the better. It hides an unspeakable crime …
https://media.tenor.com/H2YdMwMzKQ8AAAAM/psycho.gif
… all bass on that record emanates from a, yes, truly horrifying … KEYBOARD SYNTH.
At least live the bass parts were played by the wonderful Chris Glen, the man with the extra-long fingers due to some genetic defect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl1MdNWhkg8
(No joke, look at his fingers resting on the other guy’s shoulders, he has extra finger limbs/phalanxes, it’s a rare hereditary DNA quirk, he’s Scottish, they don’t like to mingle much there unless shipped off to faraway convict islands …)
The extra-length lets Chris do things on bass that are literally “out of reach” for other bassists.
My favorite German shepherd was Ralf, originally trained to be a police dog, but singled out for being “too soft” and then given to us. He wasn’t good for breeding either, because he was too dark, too much black and grey, not enough brown fur. He was a lovely and loving animal, but his hunter instincts one day got the better of him. Unleashed, he saw a rabbit or hare on the other side of the street, the wolf in him erupted … and a lorry got in his way. ‘Die hunting’ so to say. At least it was fast and in an adrenaline rush. 😥
I like Johnny Depp. (Edith is a Keanu Reeves fangirl.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKWAIIu7V5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKKRue9Q914
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXM-UFrq-R8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1cQyJdZQUk
Almost as much as Nicholas Cage (who’s done a horrible amount of laughably bad movies, but can still pull a stellar performance together in the right environment).
I think Herr Depp is a fine rhythm guitarist, has rock star presence and non-sings/mumbles ok, I also deem it likely that he didn’t hit Amber more than really necessary/deserved by her; in love and war …
But I still don’t know what ‘Cooper’ means/is.
October 28th, 2024 at 21:38Tsk, tsk, tsk, Karin do your household chores!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnpEoYU02iE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK-SnqXK-EM
Not knowing Ronnie Atkins (walks of stage grumbling & shaking head …), UNMULIG!
October 28th, 2024 at 21:52For Karin:
https://youtube.com/shorts/s9ChX9RBZVc?si=XxeTZduLzluRCPB_
https://youtube.com/shorts/iGwzOFL-dms?si=DlFhZp5-8VURTWga
https://youtube.com/shorts/Hj2ZP1qdmqA?si=M7bHM8AENSDG1Ngw
The Hollywood Vampires are good fun.
October 28th, 2024 at 21:56#82 Uwe
Nordic Union I gave a quick listen at the time, but they didn’t leave a mark on me,
I prefer to play it safe with some of my favorite Pretty Maids songs:
https://youtu.be/CcJJvRenq5w?si=zefC1Yf5wdc6egbJ
https://youtu.be/av5PKzPZhpg?si=7LpTBoNCeEejQJMV
https://youtu.be/tQ1FUkxgWZc?si=CVx9YCmjyxn1XXd1
https://youtu.be/wNNg_6JyF-s?si=k6Bt2dojnUFvxvaD
https://youtu.be/H2Z9BM7xZq8?si=XD6FPv0IgeVn0hDN
below Merry Jingle feat Mr Ian Gillan!
https://youtu.be/8bxHbL8wE9I?si=FJnmMzrUft_Ls70q
Ronnie has also given great performances with Avantasia
October 29th, 2024 at 00:46@81
Ooh boy…
Cooper is the name of that beautiful and amazing German Shepherd!
…appearing in the link I send 🤣😂
One of the two GSD I had, had a similar background to your Ralf, and my GSD’s name was Greif.
October 29th, 2024 at 04:42@ 78
RE: By the way, what do you think of Johnny Depp’s singing? I don’t think his ‘Heroes’ is half-bad.
His cover of Heroes adds a whole new dimension to this song… but, in my opinion, where he really kills (no pun intended) is his cover of Jim Carroll’s People Who Died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzXNw47OoOg
October 29th, 2024 at 06:52Uwe, Johnny-boy isn’t the most loud singer but he does have some qualities!
I like him as an actor, f.i ‘Chocolate’ is a lovely movie, but I often find him very restrained, but that isn’t a bad quality in a human being 😊
To be honest I’ve always found the Hollywood Vampires to be a pendant to Traveling Wilburys, just darker more ‘dangerous’ compared to TW’s apparently obvious gentlemanlike behaviour 😄
I’m still giggling over what you once wrote in here about Jeff Lynne, that he should be some kind of dyslexic illiterate, not being able to write an ordinary letter 😅
October 29th, 2024 at 07:31I don’t know if he does the X-word puzzles like Ian G does, but one can be quite intelligent, interesting, imaginative and inspirational without the X-words puzzles! (I love X-words puzzles even though i don’t find myself neither intelligent nor inspiratonal)
@86
October 29th, 2024 at 08:20Dilligaf 775
I agree wholeheartedly 😃
I’m from Denmark where we are known for massive understatement and thick sarcasm, so when I write ‘not half-bad’, what I really mean is:
HE IS MAGNIFICENT 😄
“One of the two GSD I had, had a similar background to your Ralf, and my GSD’s name was Greif.”
OMG, that’s not a name for a dog but for some secret WW II Nazi operation! 😎
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“I’m still giggling over what you once wrote in here about Jeff Lynne, that he should be some kind of dyslexic illiterate, not being able to write an ordinary letter 😅”
I SWEAR I read it somewhere, Karin! And it’s not that rare: People with dyslexia, dyscalculia, the whole ADHD thing are relatively often in the arts, it doesn’t mean that you can’t paint, sculpture, design or write great music. John Kalodner, the A&R man behind the success of Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Cher, Whitesnake, Asia and many others once wrote a very interesting article where he stated and I paraphrase:
“We are currently culling the artistic talent of generations by feeding our children Ritalin/Methylphenidate. Much of the music of the 60s, 70s and 80s was created by people who had learning disorders. These people don’t get a chance to artistically evolve these days because we try to turn them into functioning attorneys and auditors with medication suppressing their true talents.”
I’m inclined to agree with Herr Kalodner. If you have ever seen Lindsey Buckingham or Steven Tyler live, you don’t doubt for a second that these guys had issues in school. I’m speaking of experience: My son was neither a good reader, nor good in math nor could he sit still. But he could tell fifty shades of any color apart and was the only person in the family who could draw and sketch, teaching it to himself. Teachers wanted to give him Ritalin to make him more “schoolable”, my wife and I said “Over our dead bodies.” He became neither a lawyer nor an auditor and never wears a watch because he is not really good at reading it, but he now creates fashion, designs sets for photo and film shoots & plays music in California.
Nature always compensates. There is something in the way the brains of these people are wired that make them excel at certain things and face issues in others. And Ritalin is a scourge.
October 29th, 2024 at 17:48@81
Re: the very long fingers on the bassist ☺️
Sorry maybe I’m losing my ability to measure distances, but his fingers do not seem very long 😳
You don’t like ‘Naked thunder’?
Well, ok for me Ian G could sing from a cookbook (I know, normally it’s a phone book people use as a reference but in this day and age, how many phone books are available? Cookbooks, on the other hand, there are really many of them, just ask Jamie Oliver)
I just can’t explain what it is, but man that voice could make flowers grow faster! 😍
Ralf had a happy life, doing what he loved: chasing wild game.
Greif.. (I called him Bamse, the Danish word for bear, because he was big and so completely adorable 🥰) Greif a name for a nazi op!?
Haven’t thought about that, but maybe he did have something going on because when I walked him in our city and people (well you know…) wanted to chat, Bamse growled deep down and insisted we leave if he didn’t accept the company I had ended up in 😄
He was really magnificent.
Our current doglet is also a cutie but I assure you if burglars came by Anton would gladly show them the goods, should there be any (there aren’t) but we love him.
Well I better be off doing my, what did you call it?m household chores 😃
October 29th, 2024 at 18:22@84
October 29th, 2024 at 18:23Thanks Fla76, I borrow your links 😊
@89
October 29th, 2024 at 18:49WELL DONE, VERY VERY WELL DONE (my outburst is directed that you and your lovely wife didn’t give your son Retalin)
I’m NOT blaming parents who do give their children medication prescribed by their doctor, but oh you’re completely correct, it destroys so much in their minds, so much creativity and can alternate their personalities 🥺
My favourite approach is to help the kids using their splendid abilities instead of dull them down unnecessarily. (I do know it can be easier said than done…)
I’m not completely convinced that Lindsey Buckingham had any kind of problems in school (Steven Tyler on the other hand 🫣) but that Jeff Lynne is dyslexic, well I’m not here to argue at all, but how did he manage then writing the lyrics down?
I’ve read several times, f.i when he wrote ‘Mr Blue Sky’ for the awesome album ‘Out of the Blue’, that the weather in Schweiz finally cleared up with sunshine all over, after weeks (maybe days?) of dull and grey weather! I mean, come on!, did he make small drawings instead?😂
And at a concert I saw, he had the lyrics on a monitor in front of him (he has written so many songs I do understand he needs a little help remembering all the lyrics) so I guess he is able to read!
And the way many musicians appear on stage, well it can be the reaction on all the lovely sound waves, they are standing in the middle of pure energy 😄
Btw: did you know that homeopathy, provided by a well trained homeopath, can help those who suffers from ADHD and ADD? They are not sedated by the remedies but they are getting marvellous help to control their mental, and often also emotional, challenges!
I’m impressed by your sons magnificent career 👍🏼
1. I understand that you are measurement-challenged, Karin, most women are because they are always being misinformed, men trying to sell them something as eight inch when it’s really only five-and-a-half. As for Chris Glen, if you think that a pinkie like he has is normal
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1084206196/photo/sensational-alex-harvey-band-plays-electric-ballroom-atlanta.jpg?s=612×612&w=gi&k=20&c=wBFbag6_xjg0xZ2lobogJjIyzo88vRVcgZSA3oF_C7A=
then I would suggest a quick complete DNA screening of your whole family! 😂
2. Lindsey Buckingham is a restless and introvert manic on stage, there is definitely something wrong with him. But he’s also a great artist and one hell of a guitarist.
3. Being dyslexic as a child doesn’t mean you can’t write lyrics eventually though Ozzy Osbourne indeed never could – he had severe learning disorders as a child.
4. ‘Naked Thunder’ sounds like the limited budget late 80s production it is. The song material has moments, but the synth bass is awful. My favorite moment on the album are a few seconds of Rock’n’Roll Girls at 01:30 when Ian releases his inner Elvis, I love it when he does that (and it’s strangely rarely discussed here how much Elvis there is in his vocal style).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrSq4oZKYak
5. ‘Greif’ is archaic German for a bird of prey, it was the kind of martial-sounding word the Nazis liked. There was also a German WWII bomber called ‘Greif’, the Heinkel 177
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSsuVn-tcVUqUNDakDsn1g1MoHrEjveeHHZgw&s
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/He_177A_NAN1Jul43.jpg
and even by German warbird standards that was one hell of a mean and foreboding looking aircraft. Not a good one either, the two-in-one-engines had the unfortunate habit of setting themselves on fire midair which gave it the nickname “Reichsfeuerzeug” (Reichs-cigarette lighter) among pilots!
6. We did take Leon to therapy rather than down the Ritalin road and very soon those therapy sessions actually became extended drawing lessons and he really enjoyed going! And the therapist, an older lady took us aside one day and said “He’ll be alright, but not in a conformist way, just let him follow his own path.” And that is what we did. We just let him. That can sometimes be the hardest, but also the most effective thing parents can do.
October 29th, 2024 at 22:56@93
A dna test? Maybe that’s a very good idea..
Re.4: “sounds like the limited budget late 80s production it is” – ok a synth bass?
Re Elvis: I honestly think that Ian’s voice is K2 x 1 mio times better, normally I never exaggerate and I really don’t think I’m doing it here 😄 but I just wanna make a statement: Elvis would have been so lucky had Ian G helped him to sing better 😃
(Btw: K2 is a very high mountain, just woman-splayning so we don’t end up in the same situation as with the whole Cooper incident 🤭)
Greif = bird of prey, oh well, I did not choose the name for him, the kennel did. I chose Bamse 😍
Re 6: you are GOOD parents 💜💜💜
October 30th, 2024 at 13:53@ 88
RE: so when I write ‘not half-bad’, what I really mean is: HE IS MAGNIFICENT
I understood that… I should’ve prefaced my comment with “I agree with you”.
I don’t think Depp gets the respect he deserves as a musician. Americans only see him as an actor. They aren’t aware that he was a musician long before he took up acting.
October 30th, 2024 at 23:58@95
November 5th, 2024 at 08:48Maybe, just MAYBE he is lacking respect as a very very good musician because of all the ladies worshipping Depp as an actor!
I really like him in HW, but ok hadn’t I seen him in motion pictures first, I might not have noticed him, he really seems to be withdrawn as a person.
Nothing at all wrong with that 😊
I attribute it to your charming and bedazzling youth (and thus forgive you), Karin, that you think Elvis might have needed lessons from Ian Gillan “to sing better“. With me, young people are allowed to say anything.
Young Ian thought different though, he collected all of Elvis‘ albums up to Blue Hawaii (1961) and considered himself “a great Elvis fan“.
K2? Of course I knew what that is: a Don Airey solo album!
https://youtu.be/_bY1L1AV928
Why one would want to climb on top of it has always escaped me. mountain climbing is one of the most senseless and good-for-nothing endeavors known to man. But people are free to waste their life and take silly risks. Just don’t expect overbearing sympathy from me for it.
November 5th, 2024 at 12:47@97
November 5th, 2024 at 21:24I thank you my German friend for assuming I’m in the category ‘youth’ 👧🏼
I do know how Ian G was feeling towards EP, I just have a distinct dislike to the American crooner 😄
He was way too full of himself and I really didn’t like his voice that much. In Danish we have this expression: smør-tenor – don’t know how to translate that, but it isn’t nice I tell you! In German maybe ButterTenor 😝
My sister-in-law loved him when I was a kid, and I remember marching out of the living room in protest every time she wanted to listen to his outpourings 😄
So – I found that Ian G could have, should have, ought to have taught that American guy something ☺️
Karin, get your petticoat and tie your pony tail! When a young Elvis released this in 1954 as a 19-year-old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmopYuF4BzY
it was friggin’ revolutionary! No white man had sung like that before – with that sleaze and sexual innuendo. And technically with a great range and a wonderful sense of rhythm.
And as his voice matured, he was still developing things that you hear with rock singers today, like when he goes into vocal overdrive here at 00:42:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ64T6gEdC4
Not liking Elvis, but adoring Ian Gillan is a bit like saying you hate eggs, but calling an omelette your favorite dish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWZJPU7rf4
That overdrive Elvis could put in his voice at will, I hear it here too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fl7yNIPlGM
There was also Elvis the Crooner/smør-tenor, yes, he had a variable voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A5AFzXTYpo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQAe1WRCXH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-eG-ItWhM0
I don’t have issues with Elvis the Crooner, but there will always be Elvis “the boundary-breaking young talent with an edgy charm”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt7Akjzkc54
Suzi Quatro, a lifelong Elvis-fan, did a lovely tribute to him with his backing vocal group The Jordanaires:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R97hrS3hF9M
“Free your mind”, Karin, “and the rest will follow”, it’s time to reassess!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7iQbBbMAFE
November 5th, 2024 at 23:50@99
Well, I really do like eggs and an omelette!
I do have to tell you! My skin cringe listening to EP, just when it does listening to death-, trash and other kinds-like-that-metal!
I don’t have more time now to describe how it makes me feel, I just can’t help it, I prefer Blackbirds singing (which we still don’t have here ) and indeed I prefer decent rock to Elvis-the-pelvis 😅
November 6th, 2024 at 07:23Karin … you’re serious?
I mean how can any human listen to “Mary in the Morning” and not get overwhelmed?
November 6th, 2024 at 09:22@101
Well I don’t know… I just took a listen to the song you suggested and had to stop right away.
To me it’s just too much ‘whipped cream with Nutella and tons of sugar’, if I can give some kind of explanation 😊
It’s not that I don’t appreciate f.e When a blind man cries, I love that one, and I also really like other more gentle tunes, f.e Silver Spring with Fleetwood Mac, but I guess I don’t buy into EP’s emotions in the songs he is singing, sorry was singing. He seemed so phoney.
Do you know when you experience anyone doing anything and you can just feel they’re in it for the money alone?
I know money is a big part of the businesses but for me there is a big difference to be in it for the money alone compared to those who are doing the singing (dancing, performing in any way) because they just can’t help themselves, it’s their lives, and you just know they would be doing it if they didn’t earn a penny (or cent!) and were standing on a corner in any city singing because it is burning inside of them.
I remember my mum listened to a German young man, Heintje, and I hated every second of it, and Elvis reminds me a lot of that young man ☺️
I’m not only into rock, I adore the more classical music too, tenors and sopranos who really mean every single note they’re singing 😊
November 6th, 2024 at 12:49Genuine feelings are right up my alley, and sorry EP doesn’t strike me as such.
“I remember my mum listened to a German young man, Heintje, and I hated every second of it …”
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, Nick and Svante, can we now please have Karin ceremoniously burned on this site, perhaps via crowdfunding? She said Heintje is German! That has just insulted two nations, The Netherlands (always kind of touchy when you say they’re really German 😂) are in uproar as I write.
https://youtu.be/PDBDtIOxUsI
Watch Heintje singing in his mother tongue here …
https://youtu.be/6vmLNYTqF20
And adding insult to injury, the Dutch … wait for it … Danish heks claims this here is without emotion!
https://youtu.be/rlPazQMcNW8
Karin, we’re coming! 🔥🔥🔥
https://i.gifer.com/JU2V.gif
November 6th, 2024 at 15:01@103
Ok Ok, you reacted as I hoped! 😆
A little return for all the insults you have been giving me!
I’m not saying he is without any emotion, sadly the emotions are only towards himself and how adorable he thought he was 🙄
But this guy here, he is giving everything he has in him, and meanwhile not concerning if every hair strand isn’t perfect!
https://youtu.be/3EX7OL9__e8?si=thYV-J8bOa5D_jo
And at the end of the day, can anyone discuss taste? I like coffee, no LOVE coffee, other people prefer tea! Guess it’s the same when it comes to music.
I’m awaiting, bring it on!
November 7th, 2024 at 04:34@103
Saw this little beauty
https://m.facebook.com/groups/punsonelinersandcleverwordplayjokes/posts/d41d8cd9/1973535546459715/?
And by this I bid you farewell 😘
November 7th, 2024 at 05:47Sorry @105 was a little mean, here it is in all the glory 😆
https://share.icloud.com/photos/064GrK9DHHg2ex5S86TxSqrgA
Bye everybody 👋🏼
November 7th, 2024 at 07:32Karin, Karin … Must be that cool northern folks’ heritage shining through … Elvis sang for all of his life. He was in Gospel music since he was a kid. He sang and played at home with his friends. He arranged songs himself (but didn`t write) and he had tons of feel. Even my sons – one of them’s in Rock and Heavy Metal and the other’s in Hip Hop – can agree on Elvis and are deeply moved by his performance.
Comparing him to Heintje … And I thought you were a nice and mindful pige in the first place! Tststs …
November 7th, 2024 at 09:54Everyone is free to like and dislike anything, Karin! I just think that it is really difficult to extract the Elvis influence from how Big Ian sings without his voice losing part of its charm. He was never an Elvis impersonator – I think he respects him too much for that -, but even in the 70s I heard more Elvis in Big Ian’s voice than, say, in Robert Plant’s or Ozzy’s singing. I found that appealing and it made Big Ian’s voice commercially accessible.
With a lot of late 60s/70s rock and pop fans, Elvis has been relegated to this “overweight guy in white jumpsuit doing his Las Vegas routine”-image. That misses just how pivotal an influence he was with his singing style in the 50s and for everything in rock and pop that came after.
Or maybe I just appreciate Elvis because my mom really liked him! 😂
November 7th, 2024 at 13:42So you actually knew that little Heintje was one of those Dutch trailer drivers that clog the left lanes of our Autobahns and not a Kraut? 😂 I am relieved then!😇
November 7th, 2024 at 13:56@107
Well, according to people who really know me, I’m downright loveable 😄
Max sweetie, I can’t explain why I don’t like EP! I just don’t!
I’ll tell you what I do love, and here comes examples ‘the Uwe-style” 🤣
https://youtu.be/IKFM6mQqRn8?si=xv1KpGdSnCxppFky
The next one is an example of what I would bring on a desert island, should I ever end up there:
https://youtu.be/Ybg2BEy_pu0?si=yCm8vM5pP8x2Wj1F
Oh man and this one is ‘chills up my neck’
https://youtu.be/hQM97_iNXhk?si=ZexAVeDUQcX5eL0s
This is beyond charming:
https://youtu.be/hSZKk0vPx1Y?si=dMxi7bpj4xcSnbsX
A little gem in Danish 😍:
https://youtu.be/TcSXTdZ2g9Q?si=oSKJzerG3JTbSoE3
This one is UNBELIEVABLE 🤩:
https://youtu.be/NLWx7lSZw-c?si=gXGhHE9RMA36NSC3
This comes with me on the earlier mentioned desert island:
https://youtu.be/F7ZF2xaNhyw?si=mga996SOuMm5TECo
This is downright beautiful:
https://youtu.be/Ayf6zjQK074?si=DoXCFiZhtieUv-At
This I would sincerely love to hear Ian G sing:
https://youtu.be/eDwi-8n054s?si=l1ywENpawOnMksSW
And finally, a little fun!:
https://youtu.be/z9nkzaOPP6g?si=jT4BNgf7miFbxo5U
Oh I forgot these charming guys:
https://youtu.be/63c7KL4RTiA?si=qW5GX0jbEO7QzeBU
And Dan Baird in Malmö:
https://youtu.be/SGBTATjijs4?si=PXLeu9U_7HT8rm3Q
So please guys, don’t tell me I don’t have a heart just because I’m not into the ‘flødebolle’, sorry don’t know the English word 😄
November 7th, 2024 at 14:52I do appreciate music of all kinds, but for me I have got to feel the singer, the band behind it!
@107
No not the ‘Nordic heritage’, all my family, except for one decent brother, fainted every time the American crooner was full of himself, oh sorry, was singing 😄😄
November 7th, 2024 at 14:54@108
I would love to have that chat with Ian Gillan himself!
I don’t know of his likes or dislikes and honestly, I would not change my taste!
You mentioned Suzi Q as a big Elvis-fan! I really don’t care my dear. And
if Queen Mary of Denmark and a rock-loving husband would persuade Mette Frederiksen to make a law that everyone everyday should listen to EP, I would migrate, like immediately 😁
I’m glad your mum had such an impact on your taste in music, mine had also, but in reverse 😃
November 7th, 2024 at 14:58@109
November 7th, 2024 at 14:59Well a girl (woman actually) needs to have some fun on other people’s behalf 🥳
Oh I forgot this disgrace in my city:
https://www.memphismansion.dk/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA57G5BhDUARIsACgCYnzr23ey7LfeGttrHJG-L04I3q5bFaWCKg9khl1YIzq_iHnF-9y0tgIaAuN4EALw_wcB
It’s a danish bloke who loves EP so much he needed to make a shrine to his idol!
I’ve been told the food is loveable, so if any of you ever would like to visit you probably will se me OUTSIDE drinking coffee and holding a banner saying I love Deep Purple 🤣
November 7th, 2024 at 15:14Yes, ‘Fußbodenschleifmaschinenverleih’ (in lesser developed languages: parquet-grinding-machine-rental), it all makes sense to us andcreatingnewwordsbyputtingexistingonestogether is a great advantage of ze Tshörmenn längwich + increases readability (so-called ‘increasedreadabilityfactoradvantage’).
Also, we’re really good at sticking the verb at the very end of the sentence so you can read a full paragraph (we like our sentences long because we’re complex thinkers!) without knowing what the subject of the sentence is doing to or with the object of the sentence. Or if he is simply dying without doing anything at all. That heightens the reader’s suspense and anticipation, nicht wahr?
Max, shall we two establish an Elvis Presley Appreciation Society subgroup here? You could be the Elvis Presley-Gedächtnisvereinskassenwart (treasurer) and I could be your deputy (‘Gedächtnisvereinskassenwartsstellvertreter’), ja?
https://youtube.com/shorts/NtvLmys7foI?si=hBl6GMhheyCm22EG
November 7th, 2024 at 15:43Stubborn woman that Karin is. Not listen she will. Trust THE FORCE we must.
https://media.tenor.com/QIuc0yIU5CEAAAAM/star-wars-yoda.gif
November 7th, 2024 at 22:44Thanks a lot Karin, after having taken a day off to click through your list of artists that meet your emotionall needs I have to say you are a true Bildungsbürger. Don’t ask what that means because or you would prove me wrong.
Eclectic indeed. And highly agreeable I’d say with the exception of ELO – but that’s just me. And calling me sweetie made up for almost everything including the US election, the demise of our government, the appointment with the dentist and the wife wanting to paint the living room. BTW: Have you checked out Frankie Miller? You might like him…regarding your love for Dan Baird (that I share).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU91DKqjAJg
Uwe, we might even become the founder fathers of a german department of the Church of Elvis Presley …
And of course you`ve got the more impressive one …”Gedächtnisvereinskassenwart (treasurer) and I could be your deputy (‘Gedächtnisvereinskassenwartsstellvertreter’), ja?”
November 8th, 2024 at 08:07Church of Elvis Presley
November 8th, 2024 at 08:08Facebook · Church of Elvis Presley
Ca. 1940 Follower
We at the Church of Elvis worship Elvis Aron Presley and preach his devotion and salvation through his music and preserve his legacy.
@117
November 8th, 2024 at 09:05Oohhh my 🤣🤣
@117
Bildungsburger??
Now I’m really curious!
Uwe – can you explain to me what that is?
Well no I’ve never heard of Frankie Miller, but I will definitely check him out.
I just made that list, and I even forgot Oasis (I simply love these:
https://youtu.be/dhZUsNJ-LQU?si=IAQ0Jr3P66Top2MB
https://youtu.be/-6X0rOC32AA?si=mdtp5JRQW7tX4-bm
https://youtu.be/oHQL7BoeDbA?si=BSKoFd-1JzggB7-f
https://youtu.be/Wp5zZ5cdu98?si=1lrC19dgCjJb2bkI
https://youtu.be/mPc2plEHrHA?si=FIC3jqTW2DwX4OnJ
(Sorry now you have to take a day off again, or you can use the weekend 😄)
Have a lovely weekend everybody 😃 I’m off to IKEA, (they have lovely meatballs I have heard 😉)
November 8th, 2024 at 10:49Wives suffering from interior design hot flashes (those dreaded sentences that start with “We really could …”) are a definite sociological and medical problem that needs to be addressed. I feel for you Max.
US? Kamala is my President, the election was rigged, stop the steal!
Yesss, ‘Church Of The Latter Day Saints Of Elvis Aaron Presley’ with Reverends Max & Uwe – sounds good! Karin: Fall to your knees and repent if you please!
https://youtu.be/KkRLYcLseUg
November 8th, 2024 at 13:32@117
I do like Frankie Miller 👍🏼
Regarding the Bildungsbürger, well thanks I guess…..😉
November 8th, 2024 at 15:40@121
Well Max and Uwe, normally wives are completely equipped to do the ‘fixing-up’ ourselves!
Repent what my dear?
November 8th, 2024 at 18:18@121
It has to be addressed, Uwe! And as they say: What am man says he’ll do a man will do. There is absolutely no need to remind him any other year!
@122
Always glad to be of help! (Regarding recommending other artists to the other sex or spreading wonderful words around the non german part of the world taht is – not so much when it comes to painting the kitchen! And please do not mention the I-word again.)
November 11th, 2024 at 12:27#124
“I” as in the meatball place?
Consider it done ☺️
My sweetheart isn’t particularly fond of visiting that place, so we combine it with 45 minutes in the store, and then he gets meatballs 😃
November 12th, 2024 at 11:39I-word? Meatball places? What kind of cove(r)t flirting is this?
And they’re all crayfish mass murderers over there!
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7114/7849914918_b5c9b72df5.jpg
“There is absolutely no need to remind him any other year!”
Man, I hate being chased too.
November 13th, 2024 at 00:56@126
Sorry 😅
Cover flirting? I’m not familiar with that word!
Btw: I’ve been collecting dvd’s with the phenomenal Deep Purple in concert, and for a long long long time, there was some I couldn’t get, but yesterday I got the last I wanted!
November 13th, 2024 at 10:03I know it’s not at all the same as to be there in person, but it’s ok 😊
And then someone mentioned to me that it’s not normal for the womenfolk to like Deep Purple!
Well, it’s very normal for me, but if that’s true maybe that’s why we aren’t so many women in here?
It’s perfectly fine for the womanfolk.to like DP, Karin. But actually rather few do. So it makes you stand out! And I am so lucky to know all three of them by now… 🙂
Which dvd have you hunted down finally, Karin?
Uwe, anytime I wanna get to some decent city around here to, say, visit a museum, go to the movies or to a theatre, attend a concert…I have to drive pass the meat palace. The huge I-sign seems to.scream at her ladyship …
November 17th, 2024 at 07:56Like in U-boats and coal mines, wimmin are a disturbing presence in our solemn monastery of Purple worship! 😂
I think some of the key elements of the Purple sound like the heavy focus on instrumental accomplishment, long solos and improvisation pull levers more with men than they do with women. Just look at yourself, Karin, you‘re mostly here for Ian Gillan and really don‘t give a damn about the four other singers Purple has had, at least that is my impression. Which is perfectly fine, we all have favorites.
Purple‘s music is also not especially chorus heavy – just look at Bon Jovi and his millions of female fans to realize that a strong and dominant chorus helps you with the fairer sex – you chicks like to sing along when doing your housework or making coffee! 🤣 (You may hit me for that, I deserve it!)
Finally, my son says DP’s music is inherently unsexy and lacks magic and esoteric appeal compared to, say, yes, Led Zep. I tend to believe he’s right and that the amount of women who need to change their panties after 20 minutes of Mandrake Root or Space Truckin’ is likely negligible. But what do I know.
Not “cover flirting”, but “covert/covet flirting”. Look up ‘covert’ and ‘covet’. It was a pun between the two. Just like “not swimmin’, wimmin, wihimmin!” in GILLAN’s No Laughing In Heaven. 😂
November 17th, 2024 at 15:52@128
Ok Max, I’m the only female I know who loves DP (and no Uwe, I am not indifferent to the other singers of DP, they just don’t make my brains lit up in beautiful colours like Ian G does! He had and has the most magnificent voice in my head, but I’ll get back to you ☺️)
Oh Max I was so lucky to find Made in Japan on dvd! There is a lot of interviews and I have seen some of them on YT, but in a very poor quality, so it’s nice to see it in a better edition.
And then I found Live at Montreux, I haven’t unwrapped it yet, I will of course in the near future 😄
I’m sure there are more dvd’s I haven’t got, but I hope to retrieve them over time. It’s nice to have good things awaiting 😉
November 17th, 2024 at 18:08@129
Well it’s just one word Uwe, and I’m gone!
(😆🤣 no no no you’ll never chase me away!)
I admit wholeheartedly I adore Ian G’s voice, but you’re sadly mistaken if you believe I don’t appreciate the long solos, let it be guitar, drums, organs, I certainly love that too!
But when I’m indifferent to the other singers there have been with DP it’s because their voices do not resonate in my mind like his does!
It is a bit difficult to explain, but I’ll try this approach:
On FB there are MANY women worshipping Ian G at his profile. They love him, they admit to be in love with him, and they are very open about their feelings and his attractiveness. That’s ok by me, if that is what they focus on, by all means go ahead!
It’s not that I’m blind, I can see that he was a very charming young man, and now as an older man he is certainly very nice, but for my sake he could look like a goblin or a troll, because with that voice, oh man!
I do like choruses where I can sing along, if the windows are closed 😉 (I won’t hit you, that’s Edith’s job) but the reason I adore Deep Purples music is because it’s so beautiful!
It’s intriguing, it’s full! It’s complete!
Whenever I listen to them, full blast at the set, René either with me or not, the dog tucked in far away in another room, and me in the sofa with a nice coffee, and I close my eyes, I feel like a wall of music, a tapestry with beautiful colours, a complete experience!
Does this make any sense?
If I was send away to a desert island, Deep Purple’s music would be enough – of music that is – to keep me happy!
I’ve listened to it for a very long time, but still I find new aspects.
It’s like when I read beautiful and meaningful poetry, you know that kind that makes sense in your head and heart, where you sometimes months after still can dwell on a certain word used in a magnificent sentence! (And btw I do know the difference between covet and covert, oh man you’re easy to mess with sometimes 😄)
Yeah, with DP it’s like having my cake and eat it too, another quote from No laughing in heaven!
Oh while I remember, what ever happened to the charming bassist in Gillan?
November 17th, 2024 at 18:46@129
November 17th, 2024 at 19:12Oh I forgot 😉
– for you musicians, your approach to the music is much more technical or academic I guess!
Unfortunately I cannot play any instruments, so for me it’s an emotional experience, not lesser I guess, but that’s how it is!
Furthermore I have this peculiar ‘thing’ that letters, numbers, names and music signals colours in my mind! So when I listen to what I find beautiful music, whether it’s Deep Purple’s, Fleetwood Mac, Beethoven, operas, or Racey, Shania Twain, Foo Fighters or whatever, I see or hear colours. That adds to the experience ☺️
On FB there are MANY women worshipping Ian G at his profile. They love him, they admit to be in love with him, and they are very open about their feelings and his attractiveness.”
Good for him, he’s a widower now and as my mom used to say in her more pragmatic moments: “No one has returned yet.”
November 18th, 2024 at 02:26@133
I’m pretty sure you know that wasn’t the main topic in my argument:
“Good for him, he’s a widower now and as my mom used to say in her more pragmatic moments: “No one has returned yet.””
The reason I commented like I did, was NOT to speculate in Ian G’s lovelife!
It was NOT to ridicule the women who are very attracted to him!
It was merely to explain what my focus is while I listen to Deep Purple and why I love Ian G’s voice so much!
But I guess the lawyer in you that can’t resist turning arguments on their head to confuse and win discussions 😄😄
That’s ok, but be careful not to be satisfied with winning a battle but losing the war ( yeah I’m under the influence of the ‘1000-day’ today 😢)
Love this one:
https://youtu.be/63c7KL4RTiA?si=fNWQNSzfXWdz-cPY
Filled with boyish charm and good rock 🥰
November 19th, 2024 at 08:19@133
This one:
https://youtu.be/w1jc_Vn7T6g?si=nNoxTpjqP14T3xxc
is completely lovely!
November 19th, 2024 at 08:32It’s from ‘88 when Georgia Satellites visited the notorious Roskilde Festival!
As one person mentioned: it takes balls of solid rock to stop a song like that just to wake up the audience! 😃