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Jon turned it down, so…
Louder Sound reprints a Prog magazine short feature on the Butterfly Ball project, stemming from a 2018 interview with Roger Glover.
In 1973, Alan Aldridge and William Plomer published a picture book titled The Butterfly Ball And The Grasshopper’s Feast, based on a 19th-century poem of the same name by William Roscoe.
On the surface, it seemed unlikely to stir any conceptual inspiration from a former Deep Purple member – but, as Roger Glover recalls, it did just that.
“I’d seen a four- or five-page feature in the colour supplement of a Sunday newspaper, and I thought then it looked a bit lively,” he says. “Then in 1973, after I had left Purple, I went into our management’s office one day and saw the book on a table there. And at that point I was asked if I fancied doing an album based on it.”
Continue reading in Louder Sound.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Popular on skiing slopes everywhere!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pl2DbT-qiA
And in Belgium (= a country invented by the English to annoy the French! 😂)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_o5UeqSPbA
Aussi in France …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYvUx8I-z7M
Popular avec les enfants …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4T37EaW4eU
Voilà, très edgy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7B3ZAkYHp0
Street busking style rock’n’roll!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUuuBSs-fQ0
Folk rocky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iab2TdLMh2c
Alors, ‘eavy metalle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb8rH8XuEqU
Het Eindhovens Popkoor zingt!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh3c9C6C-fk
New piano overdub and even Phil Collins’ (= interim drummer in obscure jazz rock outfit Brand X) daughter Lily (inter alia @00:05 + 00:22) likes it – avec lots of other très beautiful people from the fashion, luxury & film world!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAe0OW_0iX8
[I posted the last one just for Annabelle Wallis (@00:13 + somersaulting @00:46), she’s kinda hot. Now that we all need to have red blood in our veins and all as Danish life coach Karin has stipulated – I didn’t want to stand (or hold) back, I’ve been a middle child all too long!]
November 21st, 2024 at 01:10@1
It’s a lovely song actually! 😊
“Danish life coach Karin” – well thanks for the promotion 🧑🏻🎓
November 21st, 2024 at 08:47@1
November 22nd, 2024 at 04:02Oh, in the latest video, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili plays the piano.
Frau Nino, you Georgians are truly terrible, is there anybody from your neck of the Caucasus that is not musically talented?! 😂
Not so modest with your Khatia, she deserves some exposure here …
https://youtu.be/0U-IXWaapx4
Also very obviously a soccer fan …
https://youtu.be/nifspyswb-8
Impeccable technique, dynamics & force, Jon Lord would have certainly approved. She would have been someone to perform his finger-breaking Boom Of The Tingling Strings which was so challenging he couldn‘t even play it himself.
https://youtu.be/MuQq5m4VDLM
[Frau Karin, if she can get away from the coffee machine, will no doubt translate for us!]
https://youtu.be/MuQq5m4VDLM
https://youtu.be/3zuOWaIehpU
November 22nd, 2024 at 12:34Thinking about it, Khatia would have also been an attractive replacement for Jon in DP, she certainly has certain stage dramatics down pat! Is that what they learn in Georgian music academies these days, lascivious throwing back of your hair? 😎
The demon of temptation is everywhere. With the aid of Herr MacGregor, we must not succumb!
November 22nd, 2024 at 15:31We Georgians are doomed to this 😁🙃. We have to sing songs in three voices since childhood and use this skill all our lives during feasts, and we have feasts often. But talent is certainly important. For example, I studied piano for 7 years at a music school, but I was never able to learn to play at a high level, I only entertain my friends, and in three-part singing, the third (bass) voice, which my husband sings with ease, remains an undisclosed secret for me.
November 22nd, 2024 at 18:50@4
November 22nd, 2024 at 20:16I’ll love to translate if it’s ok I can do it Sunday, are pretty busy tomorrow improving my skills in light therapy, taking all day!
I’m very excited about it, I’ll love to tell you all about it 😄
No need to translate the whole thing, Karin, just let us know the gist of it.
And is your pronunciation of ‘Deep Purple’ also as cute as the Danish announcer’s: “Dee Burrbel”? 🤗
“Light therapy”? It’s only November and you guys living near the Arctic Circle are already getting depressive? I thought that usually took until January or February to happen to you?☝️🤓
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Hey Nino, all secrets are eventually revealed, so you‘re a piano 🎹 player, we‘re honored by your presence!
November 23rd, 2024 at 12:04@8
😄😄 I hope I pronounce it properly, fonetic: [diip pørbel] or anything like that 😂
No no sweetie light therapy is a treatment to heal any kinds of trauma! Invented by real doctors 😃
Oh man I’m completely beaten! 8 hours intensive education!
I need some serious coffee and then I’ll sleep 😊
Btw: a person’s favourite colour is very revealing!
November 23rd, 2024 at 18:34@8
It’s about Jon Lord’s piano concert, Odense (largest town on Fyn) symphony orchestra performs his piano concert.
– there’s a giant leap from the rehearsal to the concert with Deep Purple, but with one common denominator: Jon Lord!
Odense Symphony orchestra performs this at two concerts.
Jesper Rosenkilde, head chairman of Odense Symphony Orchestra, finds the music of Jon Lord very exciting, his music very broad based(me: whatever he means 😐)
Some may wonder about the development from rock to classical music, but his desire to go more into classical music was the main reason he left Deep Purple in 2002 (me: really! That was the main reason?)
Jesper Rosenkilde says he is a devoted Deep Purple fan, and he feels like Paul Mann (the conductor) that especially in the last movement we can hear some Smoke on the Water, and that is all right (me: yeah it is 😍)
But they agree that his music is his own kind!
Paul Mann is a personal friend of Jon Lord, and that’s the reason why it’s performed in Odense.
Luckily the orchestra had an opening in their calendar so they agreed on making a cd.
They find it very exciting for an orchestra like the Odense Symphonic, to get a great brand as Jon Lord to come and work with them.
Jesper Rosenkilde continues: ‘it’s also very exciting for them to make a record with EMI!’
And then amazingly Jon Lord adds: well we have always disliked Elvis Presley so much, we really can’t stand his voice and music so it’s nice once and for all to give our Danish fan Karin the benefit of the doubt: Elvis is out! Deep Purple always in! (Ok ok maybe I invented the last paragraph 🤣 but the other sentences are completely true 😃)
November 24th, 2024 at 15:17@8
November 24th, 2024 at 16:00😁
Oh, no, I can hardly be called a pianist, because I faked an attack of appendicitis at 14 (I now have a scar on my stomach as a reminder of my stupidity) so that my parents would leave me alone and not force me to go to music lessons (my mother is still ashamed). I am an architect, like my husband.
“[diip pørbel]”
😂 Only in the Kingdom of Denmark! Most other cultured nations have the linguistic capability to pronounce “p” as ‘p’ even in the middle of a word and not as ‘b‘. Repeat after me, Karin: diip pørpel!
November 24th, 2024 at 19:31Now that is material for a real Georgian drama: Young Nino, pressured by convention and family tradition into music, sacrifices her appendix by using her favorite architect’s divider to perform the life & death surgery herself!
Cue in solemn Georgian music (Media Vita):
https://youtu.be/9_9X1e1Odrg
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And now to you and your p-pronunciation deficiencies, Karin: These animals here
https://media4.giphy.com/media/9PTw6rs8jHNAI/200w.gif?cid=6c09b952hfi5j5ox2f2qc716mvuuq9j42zc6juble7otzi5l&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g
do not pronounce themselves “obossums”, it’s o-P-ossums! ☝️🤓
And vielen Dank for the translation of the Odense event, Jon would have no døubt abbrøved. 🤗
November 24th, 2024 at 20:29@12
November 24th, 2024 at 21:07I am repeating…….
And thanks to you now I’ve dislocated my tongue 😜
😄
@13
I promise you, that link – I was immediately back to my childhood when we all were fed 😆
“ Jon would have no døubt abbrøved.” <- excuse me?
November 24th, 2024 at 21:13I remember the Young Ones episode where Rick is trying play a word game & it gets rather confusing in regards to the spelling of his name ‘Rick’, when Vyvyan pipes up & says, ‘he spells it with a silent p’. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1XHFMZs0i4&t=40s
November 25th, 2024 at 05:30Why do you never hear a pterodactyl urinate?
https://media.tenor.com/5wlSuuHJYpQAAAAM/pteranodo-jp2pteranodon.gif
The p is silent.
This is all very adolescent and in no way a reflection of the high standards of discussion we generally uphold here.
November 25th, 2024 at 12:12@13
Cue in solemn Georgian music (Media Vita):
https://youtu.be/9_9X1e1Odrg
November 26th, 2024 at 00:00————-
There are now some clips on the Internet that are attributed to Georgian origin, but this is not Georgian, but Gregorian. If anything, here is a Georgian military
https://youtu.be/WOCkEIACQqg?si=TefM9yCuuqmxRsqL
Or This
https://youtu.be/Ss0rB_-8tfA?si=7UuPQ3evoZ5lT-jZ
And here are the dances
https://youtu.be/2ScNh2vrHuQ?si=e0XHs1CPWWmPJ7gh
Ah, I noticed that too, but only after posting, liebe Nino!
That second, more modern military song is really interesting. The way the multi-harmonies are placed reminds me of the Ukrainian ‘Carol of the Bells’ Christmas song which has rightfully become so popular:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gBDFMD5kLvc&si=q7aEPVFh6PNetCN-
The choreography of the third vid is pretty spectacular too.
November 26th, 2024 at 16:32I’m not quite sure why they say the movie that never was. I’ve had it on video cassette for ages. I wonder about some of these purple experts on here that don’t know what they’re talking about. It’s not very good though mind you, people dressed in animal costumes running around lol
November 27th, 2024 at 03:44Scott, a full feature animated version with the songs was initially planned.
Not that I thought the animation of Love Is All which was to serve as a prototype was particularly good, even for the times, certainly not Walt Disney quality. But good animation was pre-CGI labor-intensive and therefore expensive. And UK companies didn‘t really have the tradition nor the experience and skills for it.
The pantomime people were much cheaper to fill the screen. I never minded them, it was 70s artsy, ok with me. Bit like The Lion King Musical where the animal characters are artistic interpretations and not naturalist depictions.
Ultimately, the concept of combining live footage with a visual retelling of the story (whether animated or not) was flawed. The Butterfly Ball was a children‘s story, they would have preferred a visual reenactment all the way through, not giving a rat‘s ass about whether Ian Gillan sings a tune. But with the adults seeing the film it was the other way around, they wanted to see Gllan at the mic, not Froggy prancing about. The film didn‘t know what it wanted to be, a concert documentation or the filmed version of the Butterfly Ball story.
November 27th, 2024 at 13:09The Butterfly Ball ‘pantomime’ scenes are beyond embarrassing. Must have been trying to do a ‘Ken Russell’ or something. It was the time for many supposed ‘surreal’ or avant-garde films as they were popping up all over the place & had been for some time. Monty Python was also a form of silly entertainment for many who enjoyed that ilk. They needed a director who actually had a bit of creativity to do something along those lines for the BB, not whoever it was that devised all that additional footage. It was beyond poor at it’s worst. They should have just had the concert footage & left it at that. Cheers.
November 27th, 2024 at 21:54Not much love for avant-garde and Lars von Trier films here, I see. 😁 I’m personally fine with a little surrealism!
November 28th, 2024 at 11:38Who said anything about NOT liking surrealism or avant-garde? Just like anything in life, it depends on the delivery of it. Cheers.
November 28th, 2024 at 20:46@23
November 28th, 2024 at 20:51I am thoroughly impressed you know of Lars von Trier ☺️
If you take even a remote interest in film making, how can you not know Lars von Trier? He’s an enfant terrible, but a brilliant one. Dogville was great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC3UFn5MeCg
November 28th, 2024 at 23:23@23 @25
I hear you! Lars von Trier gefällt auch mir 😀
November 29th, 2024 at 07:30@26,27
I’m truly impressed 🤩
But then again, you guys have never mentioned any appreciation towards Carlsberg 🙂↔️
November 29th, 2024 at 16:37Those Danes/Dünengermanen always think we don’t know them, Max! Nothing could be further from the truth.
November 29th, 2024 at 16:47@29
November 30th, 2024 at 11:25Aww Uwe 🤗 for that remark alone you are by now in my last will ☺️
I‘ll do the rhyming this time for Max:
Ein guter Regisseur, der Lars von Trier
Doch Carlsberg ist ein schlechtes Bier
Barely good enough to be peed against the wind while standing on top of a dune. 🙈
November 30th, 2024 at 12:11@31
December 1st, 2024 at 05:13Tsk tsk – and here I had you mentioned in my last will 😄
‘Barely good enough to be peed…”
December 1st, 2024 at 09:43I’m araid I have so type: agreed.
…but I hear the coffee’s really something else!
December 1st, 2024 at 09:48@34
December 1st, 2024 at 12:14Max I truly make good coffee 🤩
I am sure you do, dear Karin!
As you are a woman of good taste and high developed abilities as your sheer presence here proves on a daily basis!
And the beer doesn’t do my that good anymore anyway…
December 1st, 2024 at 15:07@36
Awww man now you’ve saved my day 🤩
I do have to inform everyone not living in Denmark that there are many different kinds of Carlsberg Beer 😃
Personally I prefer Carls Special, IF someone is holding a gun to my head, but there are so many other varieties!
Carlsberg Animus, is a very expensive beer, an unfiltered and unpasteurised and malty beer, aged in used whiskey barrels.
In Latin Animus means “the breath of life”, more symbolic “the inner soul”.
Just to let you know that Carlsberg is a brand with great diversity 😃
And when you get a great actor like Mads Mikkelsen to advertise for
Carlsberg that also says something 😄
And now I am done!
December 1st, 2024 at 17:02@37: Yeah, what it says is that they sell so much beer that they can afford using Mr. Mikkelsen. 🙂
December 1st, 2024 at 19:03@38
Well Svante, I never saw it that way! Maybe they should get the price down a notch, then they can use some poor unimportant actor and people can get their beer cheaper ☺️😉
A question completely off-topic: is it just me or is ‘Kiss tomorrow goodbye’ from the lovely album Rapture of the Deep the perfect tune for a 007 movie?
December 1st, 2024 at 19:09“Aged in used whiskey barrels”, what will our “Reinheitsgebot” make of it I cry?!
That wouldn’t even be allowed to be sold as “Bier” in Germany, it would be relegated to being a “bierhaltiges Getränk”! 😂
December 2nd, 2024 at 01:10Now that you mention it…nice idea.
December 2nd, 2024 at 06:41@40
Uwe, do you have ‘die Wiesn’ all year round?
It almost sounds like it when I think of how much time you spend insulting the Danish beer 😄
Well never mind 😊
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December 2nd, 2024 at 07:20Max, the 007 tune? Or the cheaper beer? 😃
Oktoberfest beer is generally low quality. I’ve never been to it, nor do I intend to. I don’t even like Munich as a city all that much.
But what’s even worse than the real Oktoberfest is when regions in Germany that absofuckinglutely have nothing to do with that tradition culturally appropriate it and stage their own silly little Oktoberfests – horrid!
I’m sure there must be good beer in Denmark from small breweries too, but Carlsberg is generally industry grade beverage. Their boutique brands might be different, but I’ve never seen them in Jylland, generally a region where there is not too much emphasis on good food and drink. People at the coast seem to have other priorities in life.
December 2nd, 2024 at 18:36@43
“Oktoberfest beer is generally low quality.” – yeah I know!
In Denmark a lot of people have adopted the party theme from our beloved neighbours in the south, and in Randers they start in august with Oktoberfest 😄 don’t ask me why!
“People at the coast seem to have other priorities in life.” – yes! Bathing in the sea at the west coast and drinking lovely coffee 😍
You’re right, we don’t dwell too much on food! Actually when we spend thousands of DDK at new kitchens with all the state of the art appliances, most often the kitchens are used for heating up pizza slices 😂
December 2nd, 2024 at 22:01Ain’t we adorable ☺️
The 007 tune, Karin! Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye sounds like a perfec title.
Oktoberfest is just another excuse for getting drunk out of your head. It’s just plain silly …in Stuttgart they gather in cheap Lederhosen that look all the same (via Amazon I guess), sit in a huge tent and drink awful tasting beer … when it has no connection whatsever to the city and its tradition.
December 3rd, 2024 at 08:10Does your case of severe DDDD (= deplorable dereliction of domestic duties), liebe Karin, extend to NOT treating your family with flæskesteg
https://vikingdelight.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BrunSovs-768×1024-1.jpeg
and risalamande
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Risalamande%2C_a_Danish_Christmas_dessert.jpg/1920px-Risalamande%2C_a_Danish_Christmas_dessert.jpg
on Christmas too?!
Det er kedeligt. As is the fact as on my many visits to and stays in Jylland I have NOT ONCE seen either flæskesteg or risalamande offered in a restaurant anywhere! You know, I generally enjoy homely peasant food from all parts of the world, be it haggis or spare ribs.
December 3rd, 2024 at 10:50@46
As I wrote in my embarrassing realization of my lack of attention, I have NEVER prepared flæskesteg!
René has on the other hand never asked for that dish! (Phew)
The reason is found in the fact that when I was very young I worked at the greatest slaughterhouse in Denmark, now known as Danish Crown, then it was known as Østjyske slagterier, and even though I worked in the office, I was every day to find at the butcher chain where I collected data, and I saw “things”!
The people working there were kind and friendly and very nice to me, but ohh seeing all the dead pigs and the smell, well that ruined flæskesteg and other similar recipes for me!
Peasant food! 😄
December 3rd, 2024 at 19:11Well, ok, you have visited the wrong restaurants my friend, there are plenty of restaurants that serve “peasant food” as roast pork!
By the way, just so you don’t insult the sensitive Danish people, peasant food in Denmark is more likely to be oatmeal, rugbrød, and vegetable soup!
Flæskesteg isn’t!