Alive at sea
Black Country Communion has posted a video of he band’s past live performances, including one in March 2024 on board of the Keeping The Blues Alive At Sea cruise.
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the heads-up.
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Black Country Communion has posted a video of he band’s past live performances, including one in March 2024 on board of the Keeping The Blues Alive At Sea cruise.
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
I know I’m regarded as the Glenn Hughes fan boy here, but this is actually excellent – just weighed as a band performance. Sure, BCC is more in a Trapeze and Zep, than in a Purple vein, and Derek Sherenian’s (tasteful) keyboarder role is more patterned after John Paul Jones than Jon Lord’s – keyboards are NOT a second lead instrument in BBC like they are in Purple, they are more a texture thing (though he sometimes does let rip, but not enough for my purploid taste buds!), but if you are willing to forgive all that, then this is a great live performance of what BCC do.
Given that these guys don’t play together all the time, but all have “day jobs”, the band is shit-tight. And while Joe Bonamassa is obviously channeling his inner Jimmy Page (especially with all the choppy rhythm work he does), he’s inspired and in full service of the band cause.
Glenn’s introduction of Jason Bonham at 01:33:20 is cute.
And while we’re at it: Some refreshingly tour-de-force bass playing – and if I say so myself!
Finally, even the ubiquitous detractors will have to admit: Not much falsetto screaming going on, Glenn is actually quite subdued and working a lot in his lower range.
PS: They play Mistreated at 01:41:10, the only Purple song in the set. With a Telecaster!
February 10th, 2025 at 21:07Thanks for the heads up regarding Glenn Hughes vocal Uwe, much appreciated. That first 30 minutes is rather good on all fronts. Excellent sound and Hughes certainly does sing within himself, so much better that way. A great sounding band there, so much better that down to earth sound, as a good band should be compared to their (over produced) albums. A low crowd mix too, how I like it, no over the top at mixing the audience up too high. I am at about 60 minutes in and the sound on the ocean cruiser gig(s) is a lot more hit and miss, that is ok though. Good to see and hear Joe Bonamassa playing rock music and yes that third song from the commencement of the video does have a very Zeppelin styled riff and rhythm to it. Jason Bonham’s influence there no doubt as well as Bonamassa and the other guys of course. I like Derek Sherinian’s low key keyboard approach, it works really well and I have him on the Dream Theatre album ‘Falling into Infinity’. A very versatile keyboardist indeed. I did notice a little call and response between Sherinian and Bonamassa at around the 50 minute mark, excellent. I will watch a little more tomorrow sometime. Thanks also to THS folk for posting the BCC live performances. Cheers
February 11th, 2025 at 10:15I paid Herr MacGregor for his post, wasn’t cheap either.
February 11th, 2025 at 23:57I finished watching the concert. Mistreated is not for anyone who does not like Hughes falsetto overdone vocal histrionics. It was difficult for me to get through that one, I kept watching mainly for Bonamassa’s take on it. We can hear that aging hard rock vocalist thing with Hughes like others, Gillan and Halford included. I happens, getting older eh. The higher register isn’t melodic or strong, but the mid to lower is still good. Too much screaming over all those years & hedonism doesn’t help either. Not to worry. Around the 125 minute mark there is another Zeppelin style song in ‘Save Me’ and that is definitely one of the better songs that I have heard from these guys. Nice and lengthy too with good vocal melody. This live material is the most I have ever listened to or viewed of BCC. I will watch that first concert again, the first 30 minutes or so. A better complete all round song selection & sound on that. Thanks again for posting. Cheers.
February 12th, 2025 at 02:25Well I have just been reading about that Save Me song from BCC and apparently it was ‘partially’ written by Jason Bonham, Jimmy Page & John Paul Jones sometime after the 2007 Led Zeppelin one off gig. There you go eh. Life often has its surprises and maybe I should get out a little more. Old news. Cheers
https://forums.ledzeppelin.com/topic/15750-unfinished-led-zeppelin-song-on-new-black-country-communion-cd/
February 12th, 2025 at 02:41Dare I say that Glenn Hughes albums and collaborations is unmatched when it comes to the Deep Purple family tree.
February 12th, 2025 at 06:36I am not talking about album sales but I am talking about wealth of musical enjoyment.
Peace ✌️
I love you too, Adel.
February 12th, 2025 at 14:06@4 “Mistreated is not for anyone who does not like Hughes falsetto overdone vocal histrionics. It was difficult for me to get through that one, I kept watching mainly for Bonamassa’s take on it. ”
Phew, I thought I was the only one! I’ve never enjoyed Hughes’ falsetto, overdone vocal histrionics even on the MKIII live albums. How to ruin a good song: Stick with the Coverdale (DP & WS) and Dio versions.
Joe’s guitar is nice and not too distorted/metal as a lot of OTT covers are.
February 12th, 2025 at 15:06–> LAWYER’S OBJECTION <–
Dio's version was so low-testosterone, de-balled, asexual, un-macho hurt pride and emotionless, he might as well have been singing about his pet dragon running off!
If you sing something like Mistreated, meaning it is really key. I'm not saying that Glenn can emulate DC's wounded lion's roar emotions, but – falsettos and all – he's still more credible than Ronnie.
I'm one of those people who hold Mistreated as a rather harmonically unremarkable and minimalist song, the riff was Ritchie attempting Paul Kossoff guitar economics, but not really matching them – the song lives and dies by a heart(or even lower organs)felt vocal performance.
If the court reporter puts my statement in the protocol please.
February 12th, 2025 at 16:17@3
“I paid Herr MacGregor for his post, wasn’t cheap either.”
🤣 no I believe that!
But it makes me wonder: you will actually pay people to have the right attitude?
February 12th, 2025 at 17:43@8
“Phew, I thought I was the only one! I’ve never enjoyed Hughes’ falsetto, overdone vocal histrionics even on the MKIII live albums. How to ruin a good song: Stick with the Coverdale (DP & WS) and Dio versions.”
Finally! 😄
You are completely right here Matthew!
February 12th, 2025 at 17:45(But maybe you can earn some money if you promise Uwe to change your taste, at least in public😉)
@7
“I love you too, Adel.” – 😄😄
The hard part is to appreciate people who dare to be the one who stands out! (I guess the word here is: Integrity!)☺️
February 12th, 2025 at 17:49Any criticism of men-only-clubs in this day and age strikes me as premature and not really thought through. There are obvious benefits.
February 12th, 2025 at 19:03@9
“Dio’s version was so low-testosterone, de-balled, asexual, un-macho hurt pride and emotionless, he might as well have been singing about his pet dragon running off!”
February 12th, 2025 at 20:22Hmmm 🤔
Your nose-crush, Elizabeth, adores Dio!
@13
February 12th, 2025 at 20:58I do not criticise!
I just wondered if there was some pocket money to be earned…
Regarding Uwe paying me for my ‘review’, the only trouble is the cash hasn’t arrived in my account yet. Hmmmmm, come to think of it, he didn’t mention cash or money in any form, I wonder what the ‘payment’ will be? With the song Mistreated, Dio would have loathed having to sing that one would think, especially as the tours evolved over time. So the delivery of it in some sense wouldn’t have been as genuine perhaps, I could be wrong on that. Does his voice suit it, not really just like Hughes delivery and voice doesn’t suit it either. As Hughes himself says at the Cal Jam, “it’s a blues song, something we can all get down to”. Glenn Hughes doesn’t have a blues voice either to my ears. It has to have that in its delivery. Anyway in regards to the recent BCC clips, it was good to see Bonamassa playing it with that Telecaster as Mathew says @ 8, it is the tone of the guitar and how it is played that is so important. I don’t think Blackmore is trying to ’emulate’ Paul Kossoff at all, he may have been influenced by Kossoff, it is a Blackmore take on the blues. I am not that familiar with Kossoff’s overall playing barring the proverbial song or two. I didn’t ever get that excited over what I heard of the band Free. Cheers.
February 12th, 2025 at 22:20Don’t tell me there was anything sexy, alluring or endorphin-discharging about Ronnie Dio as Rainbow’s, Sabbath’s or his own band’s front man, Karin!
February 12th, 2025 at 23:07Don’t tell me there was anything sexy, alluring or endorphins-immediately-discharging about Ronnie Dio as Rainbow’s, Sabbath’s or his own band’s front man, Karin! His fan base consisted mostly of pimpled teenage boys leafing in vain through Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings to find the saucy parts (there aren’t any).
Pick someone sensible please! All Australians, for instance, are handsome and make great lovers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYkbTyHXwbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YANKWdvoHsI
And they age well! (About time we provided for some eye candy for minorities here!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ2lBjzcWkU
That’s whole lot of hard work, devotion to the cause and disciplined eating that went into the torso of this 73-year-old senior citizen at the time of filming! Some respect please.
February 12th, 2025 at 23:35Wrinkle-nose Lizzie also loves Rob Halford, who, it is known, only has superficial interests in women. So her choices don’t speak for healthy womanly instincts. 🤣
February 12th, 2025 at 23:39@16
February 13th, 2025 at 07:44“Don’t tell me there was anything sexy, alluring or endorphin-discharging about Ronnie Dio as Rainbow’s, Sabbath’s or his own band’s front man, Karin!”
I have never thought anything special of Dio, I was just quoting your nose-crush Elizabeth!
Dio was way to short, had no radiance whatsoever, and as a former co-worker commented on a rather dull person: he had as mush appeal as a Gaswarmwasserbereiter 😄😄
I didn’t even like his voice! He was screaming without enthusiasm!
@17
“His fan base consisted mostly of pimpled teenage boys leafing in vain through Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings to find the saucy parts (there aren’t any).”
😂🤣 well enough said about Dio!
And regarding the, ahem, interesting links, I don’t know how to respond ☺️☺️
@18
February 13th, 2025 at 07:50Hey I like your nose-crush! She is a cutie and has learned me a lot about voices!
Really, I did believe Ian wasn’t taught how to sing so wonderful, I just somehow thought he opened his mouth and was just as happy and surprised of the beautiful sounds he makes 🥰
Fantastic band and music
From the opening songs ” Sway” and One Last Soul to penultimate song Black Country… Fantastic band and music, maybe the closest living ones band
but last song….Mistreted? okay Joe and Hughues performed so good but
With some DP songs (Child in Time, Lazy,Wasted Sunsets , including Mistreted, I have no compromises. Only the originals can perform that vocally and instrumentally
Yes….there is one case…. “Mistreated” by Bernie Marsden , David and guys (Live…in the Heart of the City )for me the best moment of the WS live album, maybe even a better performance than the original kings performed at California Jam 1974…Sorry Ritchie 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXAKOx2pM0I
February 13th, 2025 at 09:04Not sure what all the bullshit is about in how someone looks and acts how that has anything to do with their musical creativity. Have I digressed a little, perhaps or perhaps not. Ronnie James Dio was a wonderful vocalist, one of the most respected in rock music. He was, also just as a few others were, NOT only a rock or metal singer. One of the most delicate voices he had, sublime indeed. And he was a rather down to earth chap it appears. He got the job done very well, the same as most front man lead vocalists. No doubt at times the ego was there but show me a lead singer who doesn’t have that occasionally, some of them for most of the time. What was he supposed to do while fronting those bands? Run around the stage like a chook with its head cut off. Pointing at the crowd incessantly, carrying on like a git perhaps? He did NOT mimic anyone but plenty do mimic him and he had his own stage presence. The music does the talking first and foremost, not the facade of “hey look at me, I am a front man in a rock band and aren’t I just great’ Lucky for Uwe that he used the word ‘mostly’ in his assessment of the Dio aficionados. I will let that one pass, for now. Cheers.
February 13th, 2025 at 10:00@ 20 Karin, please check the boxes with a bicycle in them! I have to make sure that you’re not a bot.
I mean calling the King a butter tenor, putting down DC, one of the best blues-soul-rock-singers on the planet (second maybe only to Paul Rodgers) and finally accusing RJD of “screaming without enthusiasm” is a bit much. Things are getting out of hand. Does Caramba pay for any pro-IG-bots?
@ 9 Uwe, I never saw the point of GH singin Mistreated. Why does he have to do that? Of all mk 3/4 songs he can pick from. It isn’t even a real hit you have to play. Of course, Glenn can handle everything, fine singer he is, but I doubt the wisdom of tackling David Coverdale’s signiature tune. And of course the testostrone is missing while he cannot add something different and noteworthy to the song. I guess Dio had to do it because the man in black wanted him to, enjoying his own solo spot a lot I guess. But Glenn? It is like he’s trying to prove he can outshine DC even all those years later. Which of course he cannot. (Well he can today as we all know, sadly. But not when DC was in his prime. DC has openly admitted that GH was the better singer technically but DC claimed – and right so – he got into peoples hearts and … well you guess the rest.)
February 13th, 2025 at 10:55@16 Oh, Herr MacGregor I am sad to hear that. Since FREE have been a part of my listening pleasure for the better part of 40+ years. Koss was one of the best guitar players ever IMHO. And everything Paul Rodgers sings he turns to gold. (It’s just that their forumn is not as entertaining as this one …) 😉
February 13th, 2025 at 10:58LOL, you just endeared yourself 🔥🧙♀️🔥 to the Dio cröwd, do buy some fireproof clothing quick, Karin! While you’re at, buy some for me too.
I wouldn’t say that Dio had no radiance whatsoever, he was a storyteller of sorts certainly and conjured his fantasy worlds in his shamanic way, but his act as a frontman and singer plus the way he (not) moved on stage were completely asexual. Anything by Rainbow really was. Their love songs didn’t really move you (even though JoLT tried his best) and their sex songs weren’t raunchy, naughty or playful (like a lot of WS stuff at least was). It was all kinda stifled & stiff, but the latter not in a physically pleasurable way! 😂
And before anybody now states that “not all music needs to acknowledge love, sex & romance, Uwe”, I will say: Rock’n’Roll was originally a term for making love, some traditional values please!
All that said, I still found it deplorable that Karin had nothing nice to say about Rick Springfield’s chiseled bare chest. A golden opportunity irrevocably missed.
February 13th, 2025 at 13:28@18
My squeeze asks:
Where does this guy, Rick what’s-his-name exercise?
(And his next sentence was): he can’t be married! He must spend all his time in the gym 🤣🤣
February 13th, 2025 at 14:17“Gaswarmwasserbereiter” – now that is a term we haven’t used a lot here! 🤣
https://camplux.com/cdn/shop/files/BW211G-2_1050x.png?v=1724379570
I understand that they are still very popular in Demark’s more rural regions, at least those that already have communal water supply connections?
February 13th, 2025 at 14:37@28
🤣🤣
I don’t think my co-worker meant it as a nice thing Uwe!
He was very popular among the ladies and he had quite a harsh attitude on women who wasn’t adorable, so that’s why he used that expression!
But you’re right, it’s still used in sommerhus-områderne, you have to have seen those at least once!
February 13th, 2025 at 16:01“NOT only a rock or metal singer.”
I love MacGregors deadpan delivery of even the most incredulous statements.
No, Ronnie was only for the … waitaminnit … last 30 years or so of his professional existence an arch-dedicated metal singer or can you name me ONE recording he did since he joined Sabbath in 1979 that wasn’t heavy metal (for sake of argument I left out his Rainbow tenure though most of that was heavy metal too)? Poor Ronnie was totally typecast/stereotyped. The only time he left his image prison was when he sang the two Butterfly Ball songs with Roger as the side program to the rejuvenated concerto in 1999.
He totally disowned his Elf (a reasonably variable band in its output) legacy too. He’s on record for saying in one of his bad mood interviews that he had no interest in the Elf albums being reissued whatsoever and that “they should all be turned into pizza boxes”. 🙄
Way to go. I found most of what Elf did less rigid and harmonically more interesting than anything Rainbow, Sabbath or Dio (the band) committed to tape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-c_0-ufRtk
I agree though; Ivica and Max, that Mistreated is a David Coverdale song and that even Glenn Hughes can’t do it justice, it’s an ill choice for him, especially since he isn’t Mr Machismo either. The only credible non-Coverdale cover I’ve heard of the song was incidentally done by a black woman, listen here @02:41, she tackled it convincingly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJW8kCGnP5g
“@ 20 Karin, please check the boxes with a bicycle in them! I have to make sure that you’re not a bot.”
😀😁😂🤣😃😄😅😆😀😁😂🤣😃😄😅😆😎 (you will live to regret this …)
Max, at its current stage of development, no AI could even remotely approach to emulate Karin’s idiosyncratic + brilliant Marie Antoinette “Let Them Eat Cake!” whimsicalness. That woman defies anything a digital mind could do. She’s a natural phenomenon usually only found even farther up north …
https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltw6q91lXE1qjbojyo1_400.gif
Herr MacGregor, sigh, you again … Mistreated not to do anything with Free? Even Ritchie has opined to the contrary and voluntarily named the Free songs which were the inspiration for him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QT7kAIkIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyle6hZLxRc
Mistreated is by all accounts poor man’s Free!
February 13th, 2025 at 18:26@19
February 13th, 2025 at 20:50Sweetie I have to tell you something:
One can express one’s admiration towards a person without being emotionally involved 😉
I believe your cute nose-crush is very happily married, and still she can admire other men!
I do think her healthy instincts are expressed towards her sweetheart 😃
Ok?
@23
Sorry MacGregor, I really didn’t meant to be disrespectful!
But I have seen a lot of videos with Dio, and I am not impressed with him 🤔
In one video he is singing with Purple, and he is singing in a way that even Ian Gillan looks at him with concern.
I do acknowledge you are a lot who like some vocalists that I don’t, but I am willing to learn why you find them fascinating 😃
February 13th, 2025 at 20:56@24
😂😂
Well I asked René if I am a human being, and he is tempted to say that indeed I am not a bot 😁
“Does Caramba pay for any pro-IG-bots?” – 😁😆 oh I wish they did! But actually my opinions are not for sale!
As I have explained before, I sleep almost 7 hours every night, sometimes a lot less, and I have a busy schedule so I do not have a lot of time to listen to annoying (annoying for me that is) vocalists…
I am more than willing to learn to appreciate other vocalists than Ian, but man they have to be good 😄
February 13th, 2025 at 21:02@26
🤣🤣🤣🤣
“All that said, I still found it deplorable that Karin had nothing nice to say about Rick Springfield’s chiseled bare chest. A golden opportunity irrevocably missed.” – I certainly didn’t say anything bad!
I am really amazed that man is more than 70 yo!
But as René mentioned, he must spend most of his life in the gym 😃
“While you’re at, buy some for me too.” – I would love to! Any preference in colours? ☺️
“I wouldn’t say that Dio had no radiance whatsoever” – again: I am sorry but how can anyone think he had any impact?
I just listened to some songs with him, but ok – I might be a musical illiterate, but isn’t it just like when some people love red roses and other people are merely annoyed about the thorns?
On the other hand I am completely honest, so when I appreciate someone, for argument’s sake – let us go for Ian Gillan – I think he has set very high standards, had I never heard Ian singing I might think differently about DC, Dio, Glenn etc but I can’t help being wildly impressed with Mr Gillan, and a lot of the other vocalists don’t reach that high!
Btw so sorry for all that happened in München 😥😥
February 13th, 2025 at 21:16@ 30 – which part of my comment do you not understand Uwe. Let’s take it out of context then shall we, which is what you have attempted to do. Ronnie James Dio like many hard rock vocalists, was capable of the most delicate of vocal delivery when it was needed or when he felt like singing it. And don’t go on and NOT include Rainbow. How convenient eh and at the same time you include Rainbow as ‘metal’ (for the record I do not). Ronnie James was a sublime singer on certain Rainbow songs, you know them so I don’t need to repeat any of that, however maybe you should remember them. Oh hang on you have deliberately left Rainbow out, I get it, but you have mentioned his wonderful vocal and melodic singing superbly on the Butterfly Ball. Strange that, well not really as that isn’t ‘metal’ and was before Ronnie leapt into the abyss of hard rock and metal. When in Black Sabbath he did venture there, usually in the opening of a song, ‘Children Of The Sea’ and ‘Falling Off The Edge Of The World’ and the mid section of ‘Country Girl” and the wonderful singing on ‘Over and Over’ (a song Iommi does his best to destroy with his incessant over the top lead guitar playing) from the Mob Rules album. The music & image of hard rock and metal gets in the way much more as Dio ventures down that hard rock and metal road. I am not familiar enough with his ‘solo’ Dio career, so I will not be silly about it and say that he may or may not have performed that way in certain songs as I simply do not know. There are plenty of other singers who perform the out of the ordinary vocal performance, hence we occasionally hear comments like’ why can’t he or she sing like that more often, it is so much nicer than all that noisy music they do”. Some seem to think that is all Dio could do or they couldn’t be bothered acknowledging another side to his singing. So we get the proverbial “oh he is a great metal vocalist”, the same with so many other singers, but we know they are much more than that. Cheers.
February 13th, 2025 at 23:18Karin, Dio did no doubt leave an imprint as a heavy rock (let’s not use the contentious “metal” term) singer. While he didn’t exactly take many risks when singing (neither does Paul Rodgers), he never overstretched himself either and had ultimate control of his voice, less bum notes than Ian Gillan or David Coverdale too, it has to be said.
What he didn’t have was a fierce falsetto/passagio voice like Rob Halford, Graham Bonnet, Lou Gramm, Glenn Hughes or Ian Gillan (which cost him the job with Rainbow eventually), but he knew how to make do with his lower tenor voice to often great effect. How good Ronnie was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5H94GHb-10
becomes obvious in how a lot of other singers have a hard time singing his songs, both Halford and Gillan have struggled doing that.
Dio studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORnvO1VyYMk
Halford studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SJpdRWd9A0
Dio live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWAhd4KkVUU
Big Ian live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BN22jySIeA
Dio studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7nKzCRL_oo
Klaus Meine studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBlXcg6wOOk (If you can get over Klaus’ Tshörmen äkzennt, he does an admirable job, but it still isn’t as good as Dio’s version.)
Dio studio, one of his best numbers ever IMHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWf-I7C-8yk
Doro studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd-KhQFv0Qs (Someone has to say it: Doro has a wonderful persona, but she’s never been much of a singer.)
I’m not one of those people who think that Ronnie was the greatest heavy rock singer ever (he’s a bit too one-dimensional for me), but he certainly had his own shtick that was not easy to emulate. He has a very high esteem among other rock singers of the genre: Your Ian is on record for saying that when he was with Sabbath he found the Ozzy material a walk in the park to sing, the Dio numbers however close to impossible.
But who are we to believe that we could convert Kærin Kåråmbå, High Priestess of the Tæmple of Gillån? Surely she will rather watch something reverential such as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4IUJMbPlG8
Enough, jeg skal have en kop kaffe! Kaffe smager lækkert …
February 14th, 2025 at 00:02@ 32- no need to apologise Karin, I am not offended in any way. The vocalists that we are familiar with are all very different singers. Different songs, different situations etc etc. They are all good at what they do and none of them are ‘perfect’. They all have their human vulnerability and that in itself can and does appear in their craft at times. It all comes back to tastes in music, just like most things in life. Also of relevance is how much we hear and know of the artists. Some vocalists have more good songs to sing than others, some are even in bands we don’t necessarily like, so be it. Myself I get tired of hearing the same vocalist too much, as is the case with many musician depending on the instrument. Sometimes ‘just a little is enough’ and some people may reply to that with ‘too much is not enough’. All good things in moderation I say. Cheers.
February 14th, 2025 at 00:27“I am more than willing to learn to appreciate other vocalists than Ian, but man they have to be good 😄”
Ok, let’s try this then and see if it’s not just lip service:
1. Layne Staley?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nco_kh8xJDs
2. Devin Townsend?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twi28xWoLxc
3. Graham Bonnet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-NOSlqLW8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voY8tkW1b38
4. Robert Halford?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8u64k0Hyg
5. Geoff Tate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw
6. Robin McAuley?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIMSfx2wlcw
7. Paul Stanley?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HshQidqYxjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUi_Dtcg0C4
8. Dan McCafferty (featuring Roger Glover on bass!)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeDzJBDzgDg
And no chickening out, Karin. We want answers. Resistance is futile.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2f/Hellboy_Shot_1.jpg/220px-Hellboy_Shot_1.jpg
For ease of reference, you can use the numbers.
February 14th, 2025 at 00:52Those two Free songs you sent Uwe, a standard blues thing going on there, not exactly very original is it. So many artist at that time were trying to get away from that, it worked out ok for a few though. Mistreated still sounds like Blackmore’s take on the blues. You can beat your head against the proverbial brick wall, it will not sound any different to me. It is delivered with so much more gusto too from Deep Purple, something extra to it indeed in a big way that gets it away from the standard cliché blues thing. At least with the band Free, their career paved the way for a much better band in Bad Company. Far better songs and frig all blues standards, very refreshing. Excepting the two songs most people know, All Right Now and Wishing Well, Free to my ears are rather boring. That is how I hear it as I have again been listening to a selection of their songs from the early 70’s. That is NOT a put down of the musicians at all, it just the way they sounded, the songwriting etc. Paul Rodgers writing with Mick Ralphs was a much more better suited team for rock music in general. Simon Kirke’s drumming also improved quite a lot with Bad Company. Horses for courses again. Cheers
February 14th, 2025 at 03:24Hello Karin, here is a story that gives Denmark a little hope and possibly some sunshine. As Uwe is always giving you a hard time for being up there and according to him it is always raining and miserable, I just noticed this lovely story. Cheers.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/north-america/hundreds-of-thousands-sign-petition-to-buy-california-for-denmark-20250213-p5lbzv.html
February 14th, 2025 at 06:13@35. IG does a better job than JLT did on ANY DP Gillan tracks! Peace and Love!
February 14th, 2025 at 08:17@37
February 14th, 2025 at 08:23😂🤣🤣
I never chicken out!!!
Today I’m quite busy but as soon as I have, wait…. 7-8 hours to check everything out I will let you know 😃😊
Hm… apart from Paul Rodgers (the one Ritchie Blackmore wanted
February 14th, 2025 at 11:18so bad in DP) and David Coverdale (please check out Need Your Love So Bad, Karin! Even the girl said this is stunning and she is into Bach Choirs …) I would recommend:
Frankie Miller
Roger Chapman
Chris Farlowe
Spike
Danny Bowes
Roger Daltrey
Grregg Allman
Glenn Frey and Don Henley
Joe Perry (unbelieveable!)
Jimi Jamison (the one DP wanted to replace IG in the 90s)
…and Maggie Bell. 😉
@37
February 14th, 2025 at 14:54MacGregor, do you ever get tired of listening to Ian Gillan?
By the way: Nightmare has been restored and is AMAZING!
😊
@40
😂😂 yeah I read it yesterday!
I wonder what the president thinks of that!
Thanks MacGregor 😊
Actually we have LOVELY weather!
February 14th, 2025 at 15:01I guess Uwe is very envious of the Danish weather in general, and of course of our yummy food, beer and coffee! And MacGregor you know when someone is so miserable living in his own country, the easiest way is sometimes to trash us….. after all that is the explanation I tell myself every time Uwe is attacking me 😅
I’m genuinely stunned, no … devastated that the otherwise so refined and cerebral Herr MacGregor prefers Bad Company over Free. 🤯 That is a bit like saying West, Bruce & Laing or Baker, Bruce & Moore were better and more important than Cream, gulp. Or, shudder the thought, that Rainbow Rising eclipses In Rock and that Macca’s Silly Love Songs is a more impactful song than The Beatles’ A Day In The Life. This will need a while to settle with me.
Bad Co were a fine band (not a great one – and the quality of their albums continuously dropped off already from the third one onward – Running With The Pack – with the nadir being reached with album no 6 Rough Diamonds), but – I hope Max will support me on this – were creatively on another level (and so much more than just a Brit blues band) due to in a large part Andy Fraser’s creative input and bass playing as well as Paul Kossoff’s lamenting and soulful guitar playing (Mick Ralphs is a competent guitarist and songwriter, but his lead work is nowhere near Kossoff’s). Free also had a much more encompassing musical vision, the band is so much more than just the two radio staple hits everyone thinks about when hearing the band name.
Bad Co was Paul Rodgers’ (never the most experimental or style-shifting musician) attempt to distill the commercial aspect (sort of the John Fogerty ingredient) from Free’s work and make it palatable to American masses (minus Kossoff’s drug addictions and Fraser’s incessant self-searching as a closet gay man). Dumb it down even more and you end up with Foreigner: Free –> Bad Company –> Foreigner … the devolution of music. 😎
(Wanders off stage dejectedly, muttering: “And there I thought that this most notable Tasmanian hermit philosopher with his luminous mind …”)
PS: Bad Co’s sophomore album Straight Shooter has remarkable songwriting – even better than the debut – and I personally have a soft spot for even Burning Sky which was already in their decadent and over-saturated phase.
February 14th, 2025 at 15:05@30
Oohhhh man! That Delta Deep lady, woah she has a BEAUTIFUL voice 😍. I am so very much impressed with her! Well with the band too ☺️
“Marie Antoinette “Let Them Eat Cake!” whimsicalness.“ – well it wasn’t the Queen who said that!
Wikipedia (I know you often likes to quote that site, so therefore I use it for this):
“Although the phrase is conventionally attributed to Marie Antoinette, there is no evidence that she ever uttered it, and it is now generally regarded as a journalistic cliché.[2] The phrase can actually be traced back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions in 1765, 24 years prior to the French Revolution, and when Antoinette was nine years old and had never been to France. The phrase was only attributed to Antoinette decades after her death.” (Cough cough 😉😄)
“That woman defies anything a digital mind could do. She’s a natural phenomenon usually only found even farther up north …” <- aarhh 🥺 now I am actually hurt 😥 (noooo I’m not 😂)
February 14th, 2025 at 15:26@36
“less bum notes than Ian Gillan or David Coverdale too, it has to be said.”
😄😃 even when Ian makes those, it sounds good!
I just can’t help it, he truly is a gifted man!
Ok, the Hear N’aid stars video, this actually shows Dio what he is, and why I don’t like him (sorry guys, but I don’t ) he is way too theatrical in his way of delivering the song.
I mean, it’s like a part he has been taught to do, but there is no soul, no real feelings behind it. (I can get the matches for you, so you don’t have to look for them when you prepare for my departure 😄) whereas the guy you like Uwe, Auntie Roberta, woah, he has raw power! (Not like Ian, of course, but he is up there 😊)
“Man in the silver moon”, love the music, but Dio is ruining it because he was so pretending. (Did he actually have a day-job? He should have kept that 😆)
“This is your life”, ok, he could write tunes! Is it Auntie Roberta singing? Way better voice that Dio.
But ok, to be fair, he is not completely wrong in BS HaH! 😉 (there is a little of the Led Zep vocalist in him there 😊)
Ian in the same song: ohhh man, that voice! I wish I could bottle it and save it for a rainy day (not a recording, the real deal ☺️)
Can’t you hear his voice is so crystal clear and pure, even though he distorts (right word?) his magnificent voice.
This must be a recording form the start of the year he spent with BS? I do believe his voice was broken a bit in the end. (It’s rather peculiar that Bev Bevan is the drummer, when I think of him in ELO! He was such a nice schoolboy then (combed hair and clean socks every day😄)
guess he still was when playing with BS, but he must have toughen up a bit! )
Guess the diff between Ian and Dio is that Ian gives EVERYTHING he has in him, whereas Dio seemed to be playing a part, and couldn’t wait to finish so he could get a cup of tea 😉
“The temple of the king” with Dio – so sorry but that voice annoys me!
Had I never heard Ian Gillan maybe I could have listened to this…..no I couldn’t! Then I would rather listen to Bamses venner (do you know them? A Danish band with cute pop songs)
Klaus Meine!!? Is he still performing? Like his accent 😊
Dio, Egypt: really?! The music is fine, but do you think it is this good?
(Really??? 😳😳😳 Is this your opinion because you’re afraid of getting burned with me 😁😁)
Doro? Is she related to Dio in some way? She sounds like a very weak edition of Bonnie Tyler.
“Your Ian is on record for saying that when he was with Sabbath he found the Ozzy material a walk in the park to sing, the Dio numbers however close to impossible.” <- 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 sweetie, that makes sense! Dio’s songs were impossible because no matter what Ian did, he could never sound so artificial and shallow!
Re the last video: well who am I to go against the marvellous Pavarotti!
Why can’t you just join me in admitting how fantastic Ian was and certainly still is!
Or the vocalist of Metallica!?
Well this has been fun 😃🤗
February 14th, 2025 at 16:27Now I also need a coffee (well I cheated, I had coffee whilst I listened to these songs 😊☺️)
Make Geography Great Again @40:
I’m all for naming Greenland ‘North Florida’ (by the same token, the Panama Canal could perhaps be ‘Key South Passageway’?) in the near future, that will also put an end to all that global warming nasty woke nonsense the liberal elites and fake news media have been force-feeding us! Once polar bears live in Florida, that lie will be comprehensively debunked.
February 14th, 2025 at 16:46Settle down, Herr MacGregor, @35, it puts you at a cardiac risk at your age getting worked up like that!
When I wrote
“No, Ronnie was only for the … waitaminnit … last 30 years or so of his professional existence an arch-dedicated metal singer or can you name me ONE recording he did since he joined Sabbath in 1979 that wasn’t heavy metal (for sake of argument I left out his Rainbow tenure though most of that was heavy metal too)?”
all I wanted to elucidate was that Dio painted himself into a corner for the last three decades (not before!) of his musical career – no one forced him to become the godfather of fantasy metal and remain that for the rest of his life.
Sure he was more variable with Elf (which I like best among all his bands, they were a great little outfit and I loved Mickey Lee Soule’s rock piano), even with Rainbow. I just made a point of placing the beginning of his metal career at 1979 (him joining Sabbath) because you can at least be heard with the argument that Rainbow was more than just a metal band and that songs like Rainbow Eyes still showed the flexibility of the man.
But then, just like Puff the Magic Dragon, he retreated into his fantasy metal cave and stayed there forever (the Concerto gigs with Purple excepted).
Can we thus settle for the following?
“Ronnie James Dio was, especially in his younger years, a varied singer with great vocal control and a one-of-a-kind tone who voluntarily began to slowly narrow down his artistry to just one genre by the age of 33 (after an unnamed British guitarist had abducted him from his former band), reaching cocoon-like musical isolation by age 37, becoming a staple artist and poster boy for ‘Metal Hammer’ and ‘Kerrang!’.”
I just prefer THIS Ronnie Dio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMZP8XcCfLo
to this one, ok?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stuAgNt-RnE
[Even though that particular Dio line up had some fine musicians! 😁]
And it has always bemused me greatly that among the most fervent Dio disciples there are comparatively few people that know his Elf work well, much less appreciate it. That’s a bit like preferring Christopher Walken’s later appearances in B and C movie horror flicks (he has a golden rule to never turn down any acting work, no matter how bad the script is) to his performance in The Deer Hunter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejKXrGiZbtw
For the life of me, I think that this music is more adult, life-affirming and playfully artistic than the type of lumbering dinosaur metal-by-numbers he became later on known for. IMHO, Ronnie confined and ultimately wasted his talent for reasons I never quite understood.
February 14th, 2025 at 17:59@38
Ok, now I have some time to go deep into this vocalist-theme 🥰
1. I do know Alice in Chains, but now listening thoroughly to this, I must say: he definitely deserves some more time in my earphones ☺️
He reminds me of……ahh man who is it?! Uwe, does he sing in other bands? …… there is something so familiar with his voice 🤔
Wait – he reminds me of Kurt Cobain, yes, that’s it! Can you hear it?
2. Ohhh ok, if I was 30 years younger and, well, deaf, I might have listened to that 🤣 (I am not so much into that kind of rock 👵🏼)
3. So sorry, but no, not my kind of music either 😔
4. Woah what a voice! Auntie Roberta? There’s a little of Pudalko in his falsetto 😃 That is a beautiful voice, and you can really hear he is singing his heart out! That is not a 9- 5 job for him, so to speak 🥰
5. Oh ok, if that’s supposed to be a lullaby I will never sleep again ☺️
He has a beautiful voice, but in my head the whole arrangement is way too Pink Floyd-ish 🥺 (and I actually like ‘Wish you were here’ A LOT now 🙃) Had I never gone through ‘The Wall’ in highschool, I would enjoy this immensely, but now, even though the voice is calm and soothing, underneath there is some ‘danger’, sorry can’t explain it better. (Actually he sounds a lot like the vocalist from Crash Test Dummies)
6. Ohh noooo 😁😁😆 no no no no…no!
7. Ok A) is typical Paul Stanley, but B) well that is beautiful, that voice could actually melt the last ice on the poles…😉
8. Nice! A mix between John Fogerty and Bryan Adams! Really not bad at all ☺️
Thanks so much for guiding me through this!
February 14th, 2025 at 20:22I would never have listened to these tracks on my own 😊
Do I still prefer Ian Gillan above all other singers? Well what do you think 🥰 🤗
@43
What!? No links! I have to do all the hard work here?😃 well ok, it’ll have to wait until tomorrow, because I am tired 🥱 😴😴
So until tomorrow: nite nite 😊
February 14th, 2025 at 20:25No cardiac issues here at all Uwe, not angry, just looking at things across the board, so to speak. Ronnie Jame Dio certainly did what many do, actors included. When they try different things in their early career, they then stick to the one thing they have some success with, both commercially and on a personal satisfaction level. Hence the type casting from people in regards to their career. He was content with that later part of his career, good for him. Yes he was a much more diverse singer than metal or hard rock, it is a shame in that aspect that he and others don’t go there anymore with the earlier singing that they are (were) capable of. Do they ‘dumb it down’, a bit harsh me saying that, however, yes most probably if we look at it like that. Or do they just travel an easier road. Ronnie Dio during the 1960’s certainly tried a few different genres and he obviously became sick and tired of not getting anywhere by the time of the Elf band. Then two Deep Purple musicians lured him into a more creative and potentially career defining move. He had been around a long time Ronnie, sheesh he may have even influenced Ian Gillan more than Elvis did. Karin, it was a joke of sorts, relax, both Elvis and Ronnie have left the building. Regarding the actors who work with a bad script. Well no doubt there are a few here and there for different reasons. Seriously though many established actors do not go there because they either think it is ‘beneath’ them or they merely enjoy getting their teeth into something with more substance. There are plenty of musicians who do the same, session musicians particularly. Finances and recognition can convince someone to do something that they may not usually do. Horse for courses. Cheers.
February 15th, 2025 at 02:09So Staley (he died of a heroin + cocaine overdose in 2002, Karin, he was as troubled as Kurt Cobain, if not more so), Halford, Tate, Stanley and McCafferty (a favorite of Ian Gillan btw) all found some grace with our Marie Antoinette (who never did say anything about cake, it is true, the Frenchies just didn’t like an Austrian princess on the throne), who’d have thought!
“Guess the diff between Ian and Dio is that Ian gives EVERYTHING he has in him, whereas Dio seemed to be playing a part …”
I think I know what you’re aiming at. Dio was marveled at for the vocal control he displayed, but I sometimes missed a bit of exuberant going-to-and-beyond-the-limits-of-what-you-can-do in his vocal delivery. Dio never took vocal risks, never over-extended himself, that is all very well, but a bit of danger and taking chances belongs to rock’n’roll. I found the amount of control with which he performed vocally sometimes a little stifling, there was no sense of that anything might happen any minute now on stage. You know that Iggy Pop ingredient which makes rock wild and great. Ian used to have that in loads as a young man (he’s toned it down, but, hey, he’s turning 80 this year), Ronnie didn’t even have it as a young man, he was never wild. But I accept that many people found that amount of vocal control and the fact that he hardly ever risked a bum note impressive.
February 15th, 2025 at 02:22@ 45 -settle Uwe, don’t get too upset old son, it’s only rock ‘n roll. No cardiac issues for you I hope following my comments. I do hear a vast improvement in songs with Bad Company & yes Paul Rodgers naturally evolved with that from songs like Wishing Well especially. As I stated, this is NOT a put down of any of the musicians in Free, it is the songs, they just don’t jump out at me in any way. They were finding their way is how I put it. The blues, that raw approach to rock music, courtesy of Paul Kossoff especially, it was that era after all. Early Led Zeppelin would have influenced Free no doubt. Peter Grant could see & hear something in Bad Company, signing them to Swan Song records in the US & giving them more than a head start in the success of the rock ‘n roll world. I only ever owned the first three Bad Company records. They started to fall away quite quickly in the songwriting department, there was the odd song here & there in the later 70’s but by the time the 80’s hit they were spent to my ears. Grant did let go of them after John Bonham’s passing and that apparently knocked the wind out of what remained of the band. When I think of Paul Rodgers and what I like about his rock style in music, I think of BC. I did buy the first Firm record & cd. Good in places it was, didn’t last long though. The second album had a couple of decent songs. I have not followed Paul Rodgers at all since then. A fine singer, musician and songwriter writer he is. Now go and have a nice cup of tea and a siesta, that will help you get over all the shock horror of my musical preferences. Cheers.
February 15th, 2025 at 04:10@ 40 & 48
RE: “Make Geography Great Again” Why not.. I’ve calling Nevada “West Mississippi” (sadly, it is, in a lot of ways) pretty much since I moved here.
February 15th, 2025 at 08:59Accidentally I heard this one:
https://youtu.be/wz_LUxlf0bs?si=BQuxjCX50A2eOwfr
And pushed to the limit I will declare this song, and indeed the voice, for GREAT!
Is it JLT who sings?
February 15th, 2025 at 12:00It is true that Bad Co was the more “settled” and “mature” outfit compared to Free, but it has to be remembered that Free were literally babies when they became successful: All of them born between 1949 and 1952, none of them were even yet twens when they recorded their debut in the autumn of 1968. Andy Fraser was only 16 (and had to lie about his age for them to play gigs at certain clubs), the band were initially smiled upon “as promisingly enthusiastic Blues-dedicated teenagers”.
In comparison, Bad Co were seasoned old hands: Rodgers and Kirke were in their mid 20s while Burrell and Ralphs were in their late 20s when the Bad Co debut was recorded in November 1973, weathered road and studio veterans so to say. But unlike Free, Bad Co walked an utmost narrow line of musical safety, no one accused them of ever having attempted anything new. They took the Free sound, streamlined it and then ran with it up the Billboard Charts and into Yank arenas and stadiums, no doubt aided by Peter Grant’s robust management.
February 15th, 2025 at 16:18@ 57 -Karin don’t do that so early in my morning. Lucky my coffee was totally sunk by the time I read your praise of another ‘Deep Purple’ related lead vocalist. Uwe will be, well we probably will have to call an ambulance or something. Thanks for the clip though as I haven’t heard that Deep Rainbow song for about 30 years. I gave my cd away to a friend as he enjoyed the album much more than I ever could. It sounds like a Rainbow ‘Bent Out Of Shape’ era song (1983), as others do on Slaves and Masters. We then could just push the MKII reunion back a year or two from 1985 say, this album would have fitted well as a follow up to BOOS. Then we could have had the reunion and those 3 albums linking up together as a trifecta and resurrecting DP MKII as it was always going to be. Cheers.
February 15th, 2025 at 22:31@57: Yup, JLT it is, nobody ever said the guy can’t sing.
In the first half of the 70s he was in a band called Ezra, who were New Jersey local heroes and covered inter alia DP songs, here at 02:08 you can hear a snippet of them playing the Rat Bat Blue Riff:
https://youtu.be/Dwl3bvOqM68
Overall, their music was dominated by a Hammond sound, so not DP-unfamiliar territory.
February 15th, 2025 at 23:51It was Bad Company who I heard first when a young lad in the mid 1970’s. So going back to listen to where they all came from, Free sounded a little raw for me and still do. They were very young indeed and searching for their niche and everyone has to start from somewhere. Free were a good band, it is just the songs apart from a few were nothing I liked that much. Rodgers was trying to force that blues vocal, the same as Robert Plant was on the early live Zeppelin. I am not a fan of forced vocal at all, it sounds a little like they are yelling at times. Once Free edged further away from that they sounded better around the 1972 era. Bad Company of course didn’t have any of that, much more suited to rock songs etc, leave that blues to other people. However are we forgetting Mott the Hoople in the origins of BC. I don’t mind some of the Hoople, the 1972 -1974 era that is and Ian Hunter while not the greatest singer, especially on the harder songs, has a decent enough voice and their material was quite good in places. Mick Ralphs on guitar, then Luther Grosvenor then Mick Ronson, say no more. Of course without David Bowie’s intervention and the song “All The Young Dudes” the Hoople may not have done anything decent to gain a hit or two as they were about to call it a day. I used to own the Ian Hunter double live album from 1980, ‘Welcome To The Club’ and played it a lot back in the 1980’s into the 90’s. So many really good musicians from both of those bands. That mid 1970’s era spawned two very good new bands for me, BC and Queen. Sheer Heart Attack, what a new album that was, the first I heard of Queen. Note the reference to Hoople in the Queen song ‘Now I’m Here’ “down in the city, just Hoople and me’. Queen supported them at that time in the US, 1974. A Mott the Hoople live song from The Midnight Special Show, December 1973 below. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fmplGJ6l9E
February 16th, 2025 at 00:38Full support here, Uwe, your words about FREE would have made some great liner notes on a box set.
February 16th, 2025 at 14:29In fact I hapoened to come across Paul Rodgers first when he was in Bad Co too, Mr. MacGregor. And I liked it a lot so I bought the back catalouge of the man and found FREE even better. Much better. It is timeless class. Which cannot be said for something like Rock”nRoll Fantasy …;-)
I’m a great fan of Mott the Hoople and Ian Hunter especially. He hardly ever tours in Germany where Mott never meant much, but I’ve managed to see him in NYC, Frankfurt, Stockholm and Manchester – some geographical range of venues! 😂
Hunter is essentially more of a singer/songwriter than a hard rock frontman and of course his one-of-a-kind gravelly and broken voice is limited both in range and note accuracy, but it is just right for his self-penned material. That vid you posted is interesting for showing that rare line-up when Mott the Hoople featured two keyboarders: Morgan Fisher playing piano on the left and Mick Bolton Hammond organ on the right (he’s not the Mick Bolton guitarist who played in UFO prior to Bernie Marsden and Michael Schenker).
Mick Ralphs’ departure from MTH hit Hunter hard – Ariel Bender/Luther Grosvenor looked great on stage and was a wild player, but couldn’t contribute as efficiently as his predecessor Ralphs in the studio and as a co-songwriter, there was a disconnect in the band’s late phase. Ralphs of course left MTH when he realized that Paul Rodgers (who was opening for MTH with his post-Free band Peace at the time) could sing Mick’s own songs better than either Ian Hunter or Mick himself when Rodgers and Ralph’s did some backstage jamming together. The Bad Co debut has with Can’t Get Enough and Ready For Love at least two songs that had been played (or at least elements of them) by MTH before, but not to Ralphs’ satisfaction.
https://youtu.be/h5MvCYKjHvU
https://youtu.be/r2tjYDk7OCg
February 16th, 2025 at 14:55@59
So sorry MacGregor 😄
I do have to be fair 😉
February 16th, 2025 at 18:07@60
February 16th, 2025 at 18:10Yes I love the start of RBB 😊
Thanks Uwe for that early version of Ready for Love and I must say it is rather good version, better than Bad Company’s in certain aspects. Looking at Ian Hunter’s career and I cannot believe he is 85 years of age. Older than any of the rockers that we are familiar with. Cheers.
February 17th, 2025 at 07:17@43 (continued)
– Glenn Frey Don Henley, even though I indeed isn’t young, I somehow feel way to young to this kind of music 🙂🙃
– Joe Perry – the guy from Aerosmith? Does he sing?
– Jimi Jamieson, I’m always here – ohh my, I feel I soon will be kicked out of here 🫣 but ok in my ears he sounds like so many other singers.
– Maggie Bell, Whishing well – ok then… sorry I don’t know what to say here, I know a lot of people will praise her. But – no I better be silent 😁
I love music, especially rock and classical music. A few others, like Pet Shop Boys, Fleetwood Mac and well a lot of British singers and a few American, is my daily repertory 😃
It is not that I don’t want to listen to others, but as I have explained before, every time I hear music, or see letters or numbers, I have colours in my head (I looked it up, it’s called Synaesthesia, and apparently a lot of us who have this phenomenon can’t find their way (not in life per say, more in finding the way through a city etc. I can almost literally get lost in a phone booth, and here I am lucky because phone booths doesn’t exist anymore 😉 no, I have no idea what so ever when I drive in my car, so I am extremely grateful for GPS!) But this colour thing makes some singers, and some music almost a pain for me to listen to 😝
Ian Gillan on the other hand, has this voice that is soooo soothing for me. The same with Purple 😊
I just explain this because I would hate if you think I’m a critical evil piece of human 😕
And now I have to dash! I broke my iPad yesterday, or the screen is broken (has been rather painful typing all this, but see: I take my chores in here very seriously!) so I have to go find a store where I can buy a new one, if I ever can figure out how to get there 😂
February 17th, 2025 at 13:45I think I prefer the Bad Co version, Rodgers is just a very good singer and handles it well, better than either Hunter or Ralphs could.
It’s easy to like Bad Co, their music is highly accessible and they do nothing that could rub one the wrong way. It takes a bit more listening time to get into Free, but their music has more depth and is more rewarding in the long run. Like Max, I heard Bad Co before I heard Free too. Of course, Bad Co is also better produced.
DC once quipped that to him “Bad Co sounds like a mix between DP Mk III and JJ Cale”, I thought that was quite apt. 😆
February 17th, 2025 at 15:37@43
February 17th, 2025 at 17:14Sorry Max, I had written a fairly long essay of the first singers you suggested, but it must have been twirled out in space somehow.
Well you didn’t miss much 😉
To make a very long store short, I wrote something like this:
All other singers are annoying, I prefer Ian Gillan ☺️😄
“All other singers are annoying, I prefer Ian Gillan …”
That’ll teach you to question DEVOUT FAITH, Max! 😂
If Ian is Jesus (and who would dare to argue with that and risk unspeakable North Jylland wrath?!), then Karin must certainly be his always supportive Mary Magdalene …
https://youtu.be/Ba7RipuaV1I
… or Mel C!
https://youtu.be/lw5HdK8_p6w
Mel isn’t Yvonne vocally, far from it, but there is something very touching in her performance. (I was never a Spice Girls hater.)
Speaking of MM, the best film depiction of her I’ve seen was this here, Rooney Mara with her trademark serious and somber, yet intense acting really nailed the part:
https://youtu.be/d385fB-94aU
And incidentally in real life went on to marry the man depicting Jesus some years later! 😘 (Though Joaquin and her were an item already before filming the movie, the chemistry and animal attraction between the two is palpable even though their love for another remains platonic throughout the film.)
February 17th, 2025 at 19:16I suppose I like the extended instrumentation on the Hoople version of Ready For Love. Even Mick Ralphs vocals I quite like, it is a different version, a typical early 70’s even late 60’s feel to it. The same melody and lyrics and Rodgers and Ralphs didn’t really have to change it that much in that sense. A good song is a good song. One way to look at it. Cheers.
February 18th, 2025 at 01:34@70
“If Ian is Jesus (and who would dare to argue with that and risk unspeakable North Jylland wrath?!), then Karin must certainly be his always supportive Mary Magdalene …”
🤔
Oh ok Uwe, so even your quick mind and sharp wit didn’t perceive what I said in @67 regarding WHY I actually prefer IG and DP!
Let me know if you need me to go further into detail ☺️
Btw: how come every time I visit Ikea in Aarhus, I see and hear German people everywhere? Don’t you have Ikea in Germany?
February 18th, 2025 at 03:32I don’t mind you lot being here, I just wondered if the Danish meatballs taste better than in Germany 😃
Never mind Karin! Though it’s a pity I don’t have a chance to read ‘no way’ in so many different ways.
February 18th, 2025 at 10:43@73
February 19th, 2025 at 07:51☺️
Well just read @67 and insert the first names on your list, and you pretty much get the picture 😉
Except for Roger Chapman! His ‘Shadow on the wall’ is really good 😊
To us Krauts, IKEA is the pinnacle of Scandinavian civilization, we just like to go there and marvel, Karin!
I probably like Ian Gillan‘s work more comprehensively than you do, Karin, (remember I am the IGB aficionado here!), but I don‘t see the need to like him to the exclusion of other singers who did work in Purple. Burn and CTTB were as vibrant records as In Rock to my ears and Stormbringer was plain versatile, entertaining and interesting. There is no contest between IG‘s, DC‘s & GH‘s voices for me. In their own way, each one of them is/was a formidable singer and their individual styles are way too different to allow a better/worse qualification. When you say that DC can‘t really sing (his loud breathing is an element of his style just like Ian’s falsetto screams were) then I scratch my head – it was his voice that enticed millions and millions of Americans to elevate WS to superstardom in the late 80s, at a time when he was no longer a spring chicken (1987 was his 12th – 13th if you count in the Snakebite EP – studio album!). WS‘ success in the US wasn‘t the result of hype or bespoke third party songwriting, but due to the fact that people heard something in his voice and latched onto it. DC‘s second US career eclipsed his first one with Purple, IG with IGB/GILLAN, RB and RG with Rainbow and GH (although in a similar position as DC) with his various exploits failed to climb similar heights. Some credit please for the former youth from Saltburn-by-the-Sea.
February 19th, 2025 at 15:38I know about that Synaesthesia thingy Karin, as I have a friend who uses that to great effect in her art. For her paintings have sounds too, so she composes music she sells along with the paitings.
February 19th, 2025 at 16:40@75
February 20th, 2025 at 09:13“To us Krauts, IKEA is the pinnacle of Scandinavian civilization, we just like to go there and marvel, Karin!”
Oh my oh my 😄
You are aware of the fact that Ikea is invented in Sweden?
Denmark is the marvellous country south-west of Sweden!
We have not invented anything like Ikea, but we are the population where Gillan made an impressive landmark and changed the musical scene for good – right?
@75
February 20th, 2025 at 13:29Uwe, You are absolutely right.
@76
February 20th, 2025 at 13:31Max I would love to see those paintings 😃
@79
https://www.kd-art-media.de/
Karin, this is the link…if you contact her, say hello for me …
February 20th, 2025 at 16:06@80
February 20th, 2025 at 17:54Thank you Max 🙌🏼
Karin, the borders of the Kingdom of Denmark have historically always been in flux (as they currently again are … 😁) and shifted so often, whenever it suited you Sweden was part of Denmark or the other way around!
But yes, I was aware that IKEA is Sverige – they have that animal with the antlers as a mascot –
https://www.skandinavientrips.de/reiseblog/in-d-auml-nemark-gibt-es-nun-zum-ersten-mal-seit-5000-jahren-wieder-elche/images/tinyMCE/two_mooses_102016_99_0217_1401063760.jpg
that you guys only reintroduced in 2017 (your prehistoric ancestors ate them all!), in Lille Vildmose which should not be too far away from your neck of the woods if I’m not mistaken, Karin?
Did your moose population stabilize by now or did you eat them yet again? Be honest with me!
https://swedishwild.de/cdn/shop/products/Algryggbiffytterfile.jpg?v=1685966812&width=1080
Germany is actually considering to reintroduce them too (we had them until the early Middle Ages, widespread swamp-draining and being hunted for meat likely led them to becoming extinct), they could today find habitats in Brandenburg’s re-naturalized swampy woods and moors. Occasionally, a few come to visit us from Poland which still has a healthy moose population. Moose need that special austere swamp & moor plant diet, a regular German forest and affiliated agriculture would offer a too nutritious flora for them, their digestive system couldn’t handle it.
So how are your elsdyr?
(And let’s get this right, the English translation of elsdyr is not elk or elks – those are a different type of deer – but moose:
https://ke-courses-production.s3.amazonaws.com/asset_files/production/5207/attachments/original/CO-bull-moose-elk.jpg?1611249190 )
February 20th, 2025 at 22:17“Denmark is the marvelous country south-west of Sweden!”
My geography is good: Denmark is that part of Scandinavia that even the Swedes found too dull to conquer!
Just joking, I know you were there first before anyone else …
https://www.dailyscandinavian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/310522animal-seriously.jpeg
February 20th, 2025 at 22:41@82
“that you guys only reintroduced in 2017 (your prehistoric ancestors ate them all!), in Lille Vildmose which should not be too far away from your neck of the woods if I’m not mistaken, Karin?”
That is correct, have been there several times. The flora and fauna are breathtaking 🤩
“Did your moose population stabilize by now or did you eat them yet again? Be honest with me!” – 😄 to be completely honest: I’m not sure.. but I know this: I haven’t eaten any of them ☺️
But there has occurred another problem in our part of the country: wolves!
Well, they are no problem for me, I would love to see them alive and kicking, but unfortunately these marvellous animals have this rather unfortunate trait that they kill cheeps, and they do kill a lot of them.
I do understand the people who own the cheeps that it must be devastating, but I hope from the bottom of my heart that there will be found a solution, so that we can keep the wolves.
I do believe some of them have emigrated from Germany 😊 (or maybe all? Do you have that problem in Germany with wolves?)
Thank you for the lovely drawing of us getting to the moon first! ☺️
February 21st, 2025 at 10:40We do have wolves again since a couple of years, yes. Like most germans I have never seen one. They kill sheep and there’s a lot of fuzz about it, discussions going on if they should be shot. It tends to get a bit hysterical for my liking. Not one person got killed by a wolf here to my knowledge whereas dogs bite and kill quite a few…
Just started reading ‘Run with the Wolf’ btw …
February 21st, 2025 at 13:21😀
They did a similar thing here in Australia, particularly in Tasmania as it was the last stronghold of the Thylacine, aka the Tasmanian Tiger. They never touched sheep at all, mob hysteria again eh? Plus the moronic Government put a bounty on the poor ole tigers head. Wiped them all out within one hundred years. I have read of similar scenarios in regards to the Wolf in Europe and other places. The mob mentality, have to love it, NOT. A warning for anyone who may not like confronting images in this link below. Cheers.
https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/extinction-thylacine
February 22nd, 2025 at 00:15@85
“Not one person got killed by a wolf here to my knowledge whereas dogs bite and kill quite a few…”
Exactly Max! When dogs kill it’s awful, of course it is 🥺🥺, but wolves are never a danger to humans.
But it’s like the discussion is twisted here: they blame everything on the wolves 😞
Wolves are marvellous creatures 🤩 do you know they stay faithful to their partner, literally until death do them part!
If it was possible (but I know it isn’t) then I would love to have a wolf! I have had the next best: German Shepherd Dog 🥰
Oh that book you’re mentioning, is it written by D.H. Bishop?
February 22nd, 2025 at 04:51😃 Sorry Karin, I forgot to name the author. Actually it’s a book by Martin Popoff about Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow … (titeled after a song on Rainbow Rising) … Hope you and you Shepherd had a long sunday walk on this beautiful spring sunday …without any wolf encounters…!
February 23rd, 2025 at 14:34@88
Ohh Martin Popoff, is it a good read Max?
Yes we’ve had beautiful weather 😍, and unfortunately no wolves 😞 I would so much love to meet some of them. I know they do live not far from here.
February 24th, 2025 at 06:34Today we have rain again, all day ☔️ that’s ok too ☺️
Just started reading it, Karin…special interest stuff of course. I find Popoff’s book a nice addition but nothing.much to write home about.
No wolves in this part of Germany …southwest, close to France…too many people, too small the woods I would guess. Checking the results of yesterday’s election the wolf is at the door though and I hope they manage to keep it out.
February 24th, 2025 at 11:50@90
Close to France Max? Parles-tu français?
I have always preferred the animals ❤️
February 24th, 2025 at 20:22I don’t speak French, Karin, just understand a little. It’s a pity but I didn’t pay a lot of attention when I had French lessons back in the day. Except for the teacher, she was stunning, which didn’t help to focus on the language. Most people across the border in Alsace do understand German though…or English. And concerning the animals….good choice I guess.
February 25th, 2025 at 13:31@92
“I didn’t pay a lot of attention when I had French lessons back in the day. Except for the teacher, she was stunning, which didn’t help to focus on the language.” – 😄
You know Max, songs have been written regarding that unfortunate situation ☺️
February 25th, 2025 at 13:52I’ve been so appalled at how the public and political discourse has been going in Germany in the recent months that on Sunday for the first time since 1979 (when I voted DKP as an 18-year-old at the first election I was allowed to take part in 😁) I voted for a hard-left party, DIE LINKE. I can now consider myself an election winner of sorts as DIE LINKE did actually very well – nearly doubling its last federal result! ✊
With so many people and politicians now following AfD’s lead on anti-migratory drivel, I thought it was time for an antidote/Gegengift. I don’t necessarily want to be ruled by a hard-left government and a lot of their demands are idealistic pie-in-the-skies, but I want a genuinely liberal voice in parliament on migration.
Re non-human wolves: There are a lot hidden agendas. When wolves were still extinct in Germany, I remember how hunters’ associations would justify their own existence by claiming that they needed to replace the large predators like wolves and bears to keep nature in balance. When the wolves came back, they changed their official tune: Germany’s cultivated landscape was not suitable for wolves anymore they said all of the sudden. But if you ask hunters (I know a few) in private what the real reason is then they will readily admit that the return of the wolves simply makes it harder for them to hunt game as the plant eaters have become more reclusive and timorous due to the new presence of a formerly extinct top predator of the food chain. It takes the fun out of their sport, that is what it comes down to! 🙄 They have gotten used to game languishing in German forests without fear of a natural predator, baited by food the hunters disperse, easy to hunt and shoot.
A single wolf specimen decimating a sheep herd on a continuous basis can of course become an issue. That can be solved though via shooting that particular animal if all else fails. It’s not like I can’t relate. I have a pond with large and valuable fish and there is attrition/casualties every year by herons coming from the nearby swampy area to see what specialties my pond offers for them. 😂 That is not great and I have been cursing these – impressive – large birds flapping like feathered pterodactyls over our house and pond on more than a few occasions when they have killed or wounded my fish, BUT not once has the thought crossed my mind that I would want to kill one of them (I do yell at them though or chase them away!) or – worse still – eradicate the whole species from our region. They do what they are meant to do: hunt fish, that’s life & nature.
February 25th, 2025 at 19:07Re Tasmanian Tigers, I really liked that film here, Herr MacGregor:
https://youtu.be/KgfB9kebFNI
February 25th, 2025 at 19:14I do remember that film Uwe, I watched it approximately 15 years or so ago. The thing that annoys a lot of people including me is why they keep going on about the rainforest and rugged wilderness being the habitat of the Thylacine. It would have never lived or hunted in that terrain. They were an open grassland predator and the ability to run down the native species (pademelon, wallaby, kangaroo) was their main attribute. They were not a fast runner either, compared to a dog or a wolf. Anyway a bit of drama that film was, I enjoyed it at the time in certain aspects, however I wouldn’t these days. I do enjoy Sam Neil and Willem Dafoe as actors. Have I become too critical of things, well I guess I have as I prefer history to be kept in perspective as much as possible. A Thylacine, wallaby, kangaroo or pademelon wouldn’t last two seconds in that type of rugged wilderness, many of the native species wouldn’t. A playtypus would though living in those remote creeks and rivers. Thanks for the reminder of a film I had forgotten about. Cheers.
February 25th, 2025 at 21:33“You know Max, songs have been written regarding that unfortunate situation ☺️”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGj8oM9NUZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIZofPB8ZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M4_Ommfvv0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6srhImKhxS4
I would not dare to pass judgement … 🤐😇
“Girls who are very bright,
Must stay in class all night,
And practice their biology …
I love to teach high school, high school
I need to teach high school, high school
A, B, C, D, E, F, G …
How I love anatomy …
2+2 and 3+3,
Students have a ball with me …”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sflTSw-732w
(Co-written by Bob Ezrin btw!)
February 26th, 2025 at 03:55@97
Aww thanks Uwe, it’s been too long since I’ve heard Police ‘Don’t stand so close to me’, actually a lovely song 🥰
I had a tiny crush on Andy ☺️ (when I was very young and kind of stupid!)
The very nice song I was thinking about is this one with the amazing Dan Baird 🤩
https://youtu.be/SFpsDAL4oKE?si=GXujVskR-rmPHt35
(So much joie de vivre, happiness, charms and what not 😍)
And now we’re talking about Mr Baird, please listen to this gem:
https://youtu.be/G4djEACK0dM?si=AM4IkvS0FlcOB0-l
The sun is shining 🤩☀️
February 26th, 2025 at 11:06Re Karin’s “Aren’t German forests big enough?”-question which she posted in another thread in her charmingly scattershot coffee talk approach:
They generally are, but wolves roam huge territories and can cover large distances in one night, so there is always some meadow, agricultural field, Autobahn or military training ground (they love those!) they come across. And of course there are also the places where sheep are often herded too. And wolves aren’t dumb, if they are not hunted, some of them lose their natural shyness in regard to human dwellings. That leads to issues, just like the herons at my pond. 😂
But the human population is split on the subject. There are wild nature lovers and wolf fans and there are people who view them as a disturbance in a cultivated environment and as a constant threat to livestock and domesticated animals. Germans are not really relaxed about wolves like, say, Romanians are who have come to live with the fact that in their capital of Bucharest wolves invade every night from the nearby woods, roaming the streets and raiding garbage bins + hunting ownerless dogs and cats. In Romanian folklore, the wolf is seen as a mystic harbinger of positive news and a bringer of good luck. The roaming wolves leave the city suburbs every morning at dawn to trot back to their woods. And everyone is fine with that. In Germany, if a wolf is seen near human dwellings, panic rises. Blame the Bothers Grimm! 🤗
February 26th, 2025 at 12:36Yeah, Hanoi Rocks rocks, Uwe!
Good heavens, you brought ‘p-word’ to the table … I recommend this take on it:https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/die-linke-junge-leute-retten-die-partei-und-machen-es-den-demokaten-schwer-meinung-a-261515bd-6a80-4b6b-a238-c595465f8138
And just like in ‘p-word’ there is a lot.of lying going down when it comes to hunting, I know. Btw: Have yiu heard Hunting Season by Tony Carey? I used to have a soft (apt!) spot for his solo work …just saying and steering away from ‘p-word’ to music again.
February 26th, 2025 at 12:52I didn’t know the Carey number, Max, though it was recorded in the neighbor house where I once lived!
Re p-words and the sauertöpfische SPIEGEL article: Youth’s role in society is many things, but certainly not to make life easier for the older generation! This site here devotes itself to the celebration of a music that was created 55 years ago as part of a cultural revolt, think about it.
And: Bodo Ramelow was in charge of Thuringia for a decade, during that time I saw neither a notable decrease in democracy there nor the reintroduction of communism. 😂
Why the surprise about me liking Hanoi Rocks? If you (like me) grew up with The New York Dolls, then there is a straight line leading from one to the other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrdqX_auyPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiwkr8TqAEM
I love me some sleaze rock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLpxfxBaoUw
“Well I Love TV And I Love T. Rex
I Can See Through Your Skirt, I’ve Got X-Ray Spex
I Came From The Sky Like A 747
I’m The Bad Boy, Baby, I Fell Out Of Heaven
Sex Führer, Baby, I’m A Love Dictatör
Blitzkrieg Romance, I’m A Cool Dominatör
P-R-I-M-E Prime Mover
Baby You’re M-I-N-E, I’m The Groover
Well I’m Christ In Shades, I’m A Napalm God
Your Lipstick Flickers Round My Lightning Rod
You Fever Pitch Bitch, You Love To Tease
Well I’m A Hot Dog Daddy, Up On Your Knees!
Sex Führer, Baby, I’m A Love Dictatör
Blitzkrieg Romance, I’m A Living Detonatör
P-R-I-M-E Prime Mover
Baby You’re M-I-N-E, I’m The Groover – Yeah!
I’m The Sex Führer, Baby, I’m A Love Dictatör
You’re A Disco Reptile, A Funky Alligatör”
😁😂🤣😁😂🤣
I told you I love sophisticated music and lyrics that don’t objectify women!
Ok, admittedly, some riff inspiration from these guys here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VVFNgbsDC4
February 27th, 2025 at 01:55No surprise, Uwe. Just approval. Well to sleaze rock that is. 😉
February 27th, 2025 at 10:55@99
“In Germany, if a wolf is seen near human dwellings, panic rises. Blame the Bothers Grimm!”
I guess you’re right here!
Where we live some people are frightened beyond belief, thanks to some local politicians who feel the need for getting easy points, and even though brilliant biologists who have been very open and honest regarding how to deal with wolves should we ever meet any, the gossip has been severe. (And it is gossip, not founded in reality.)
They have also been quite open regarding wolves that are mentally challenged, and how to deal with that! (Shooting them)
I guess Disney also has his weight of influence here, The Big Bad Wolf 😄
Btw: did you order the box set with Gillan?
March 2nd, 2025 at 17:48Did I order the GILLAN box? Is the Pope Catholic?
March 2nd, 2025 at 21:48@104
Hmmm, 🤔 is the pope catholic??
🧐 well, that was a tough question 😂
Ok ok, but have you received the box set yet??
March 3rd, 2025 at 00:18I received it today. Haven’t removed the wrapper yet.
March 4th, 2025 at 16:17@106
Oh you’re lucky!
March 4th, 2025 at 16:27Denmark isn’t placed that far from Germany, but no box set to this person yet 🤔
You won’t enjoy it, Karin, that one quote by Ian in the liner notes will thoroughly ruin it for you, even set you back in your reconvalescence:
“It was Heartbreak Hotel that got me. The establishment thought Bill Haley was it, but, as always, the kids on the street knew better. It was Elvis, who didn’t write, BUT HAD THE GREATEST VOICE EVER …” 🤯😑
(assuming a sincere, helpful & empathetic tone …) Maybe you can still cancel your order, Karin? I want to spare you the ensuing duress. 🤭
PS: Now watch this boxed set rocket 🚀 up the Danish 🇩🇰 charts, reassuming Ian’s rightful place as Denmark’s adopted favorite singer, cultural icon and sales king of the early 80s. 😇
March 4th, 2025 at 17:01@108
Thank you so much for your heartwarming concern, I really am touched and somehow – well confused! 😵💫
Please let me know if I’m missing anything here, but in all the records I have with Purple and Ian in these different constellations where he has been outpouring his magnificent voice, including all the live dvds (many of which I’ve never opened because to me they are collectors items, but I promise – if necessary I will open them to investigate further ☺️) I have not once found this sentence (in any form):
“You have to love, adore and worship Elvis Aron Presley in order to be allowed to listen to Episode Six, Deep Purple, Ian and the Moonshiners, Ian Gillan Band, Gillan and Black Sabbath. And should you not love, adore and worship Elvis Aron Presley, this music is NOT for you, especially not for you Karin Verndal”!
It’s really weird but I have never read that sentence anywhere, but tomorrow when I have a break (where I normally read and write a tiny bit in here) I will investigate all the dvds thoroughly for this!
And if I find Ian Gillan mentioning such, I will be very sad, because I LOVE Purple and Ian’s music, but I really can’t stand the other guy, Elvis 😥
Dear Uwe, I really don’t give a tiny rodent’s behind for other people’s opinions of Elvis!
Never have done, never will!
So my question to you is: why is it so important for me that Ian says Elvis had the greatest voice?
I mean, why should it be so crucial to me and my taste in music?
If I was Ian Gillan, and I heard that some weird female in Denmark appreciated my voice much more than the singer I adore, then I would think (still pretending to be Ian) “whoah – my voice really must be something else AND this Dane really has a lovely taste in music and singers!”
(Now I’m me again) – I accept other people’s taste in clothing, hairstyles, food, beverages and if they like cats more than dogs, I am even so tolerant that I would never demand people to wash their hands with strong soap in order to have a look see in my personal collection of Ian Gillan and Purple items (items mean here DVDs and records!), I will not check out their fingernails to see if they are well manicured!
I won’t even get nervous tics if these persons find Elvis to be the greatest influence in Ian’s music career!
I accept that a lot of people adore Elvis! So am I from now on allowed to just liking the music I prefer?!
March 4th, 2025 at 22:31Or will this discussion appear from time to time? (Just asking so I can have coffee prepared AND being well rested in order to answer truthfully and with the outmost respect for other people’s opinions!) ☺️😉
“Denmark isn’t placed that far from Germany …”
Yes, and haven’t we always administrated you most efficiently in the past?
😎
I actually got mine from Burning Shed, that might account for differences in speed of delivery. I sometimes just order from them to support them (though Amazon would have been cheaper), because they have been nice to me in the past and we need to keep mail order music competition alive.
March 4th, 2025 at 23:15@110
“haven’t we always administrated you most efficiently in the past?“
Ohh yes, to some degree at least!
I bought mine from Townsend music store, but don’t know who will be delivering! (Wouldn’t mind if it was Ian himself..)😆
March 5th, 2025 at 11:04In his rainproof see-thru poncho, dear? “Shall I sign this with my hands?”
March 6th, 2025 at 15:17@112
‘Giggling’ 😄
Please turn around and go away!
March 6th, 2025 at 20:31