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Much too short

Deep Purple live at Emsland Arena (Lingen, Germany 2024-10-26)

First the complaints: The gig in Lingen, Germany, last Saturday was much too short! They should have played at least 22 hours longer. Then I could have heard a good bunch of my favourite DP songs.. But after two hours the old and lazy sods seemed to be exhausted. Of course not!!! After fascinating two hours the sold-out Emsland-Arena (capacity of 4500 people) was cheering for more, but the lights went on. I must not mention the musicianship of the band members, we all know how great they all still are. The courage of the band not to rely only on the old classics, but play six (!) songs from =1 made this gig very special for me. The best: If somebody was there, who didn’t know anything about Deep Purple, he or she surely couldn’t decide which song was from the seventies and which one was a new song. The songs from =1 fitted perfectly. With Simon McBride on guitar the band has gone back to it’s roots. Don’t get me wrong: I appreciate Steve Morse very much, but somehow Deep Purple seems to be rejuvinated with Simon as many people stated here before. This also applies to Ian Gillan, who after all the gigs in the last months still is in very fine form. Of course he can’t scream as in the seventies anymore, but today he sings much better than for example during the eighties, when he and Ritchie Blackmore seemed to be competing who is the worst of the two … All in all I had a wonderful evening and I’m quite sure that goes for the other 4499 people who witnessed this concert too. One more complaint to conclude this review: It’s a pity that they dropped “Hard lovin’ man” after the American tour, because it’s one of my favourits. But instead we got Old-fangled thing as the first encore which was more than compensation. Long live Deep Purple!!!

review by Friedhelm Wenning

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