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<H1 Align=Center>Faces / Deep Purple / Southern Comfort<br>
  Auditorium Theater, Chicago, USA.</H1>
<H2 Align=Center>20. and 21. July 1971</H2>
Newsgroups: alt.music.deep-purple<BR>
Subject: Recollections of Chicago DP concerts<BR>
From: <A HREF="mailto:garagesail@aol.com">garagesail@aol.com</A> (Mark B. Weber)<BR>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 19:17:53 GMT 
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<P>Just wanted to pass some of my recollections on about Deep Purple concerts:</P>
<P>Faces/Deep Purple/Southern Comfort, July 20&21,1971 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago.</P>
<P> Ticket prices at that time were $6.50 (main floor),$5.50 (1st balcony), $4.50 
  (second balcony and gallery). The concert was so undersold that I traded my 
  my 12th row seat in at the ticket boot for a 6th row center.</P>
<P>Southern Comfort was an okay band in their time with the southern tinged folk 
  rock that was mildly received.</P>
<P>Deep Purple took the stage and I believe started with Speed King. The energy 
  in the auditorium went from 0-100 in about half a second and they played louder 
  than most anyone I had ever heard before (hey, I was only 15 yrs. old at the 
  time). It was a very high energy, high volume performance which was very well 
  received by the audience (encore that night). DP's performance definitely pushed 
  Stewart and the faces to really work hard that night and put on their own great 
  performance (Faces with Stewart first album had just been released). This is 
  about all I can presently recall.</P>
<P align="left">Mark B. Weber
<P align="left"><A HREF = "71fall.html">Mark's 2nd Review</A><br>
  <A HREF = "720122.html">Mark's 3rd Review</A> 
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