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Setlist poll: Return of the Jedi
If our first setlist poll have proved anything, it’s that most people can agree on what exactly the golden oldies are (and even there opinions varied wildly). Let’s tackle it from a slightly different angle — how many new vs. old songs should be in the setlist? By “new” we mean anything starting from 1995.
How many new songs in a set would you like to hear?
- 6 (14%, 170 Votes)
- 5 (14%, 167 Votes)
- 8 (14%, 164 Votes)
- 10 (12%, 147 Votes)
- 7 (12%, 146 Votes)
- 4 (9%, 109 Votes)
- Only new songs (5%, 63 Votes)
- 3 (5%, 57 Votes)
- 9 (3%, 38 Votes)
- 15 (3%, 35 Votes)
- 12 (3%, 31 Votes)
- None (2%, 26 Votes)
- 2 (2%, 18 Votes)
- 1 (1%, 10 Votes)
- 13 (1%, 8 Votes)
- 11 (1%, 7 Votes)
- 14 (0%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,198
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- Poll closes on October 27, at 23:59 UTC (let’s make it a blitz).
Thanks to Erik Lidström for the idea.
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October 23rd, 2007 at 23:47Oh, I really like these polls. I think they are very useful for the modern DP business. The classic rock image is more and more losing ground. There is enough new material, and so many young fans. And the selling of newer Live-Albums should be more efficiant, if the setlist would contain more of the Morse-Era songs or other non-classic hits from this band. I’m happy to see this band improving their habits…
October 24th, 2007 at 05:55On the average, dP plays 15 songs by concert. Therefor I’d say half new material, half classics.
October 24th, 2007 at 08:03Okay, how do I divide 15 by 2? Let’s say they can make an effort, and add a 16th track to their set.
If they play 15 songs i’d like to see 4 new ones, 7 classics and 4 songs bever done live before (hard lovin’ man….etc).
eric
October 24th, 2007 at 08:39I’d have no problem with a dozen Morse era tunes.Highway Star opens,Smoke closes.Perfect Strangers as the encore.
October 24th, 2007 at 09:458
October 24th, 2007 at 10:43Nine has always been a magic number for me. 9 Morse era songs. Smoke, Highway star, Knocking at your back door or Perfect Strangers. Then 3 ultra rare surprises. Mitzi Dupree, Rat Bat Blue and place in Line.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:31I agree with Bryan Caillouette. That would be fun to watch.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:43They should play 7 new, 6 classics and 4 old songs that have never been played live before. Also, I should create the set list! Deep Purple e-mail me anytime! I should get so lucky!
October 24th, 2007 at 12:09Well, not much point in making a poll like this, because in the recent poll people decided that they don’t want to hear virtually no (or almost no) new songs in the setlist.
October 24th, 2007 at 13:12Ansd apart from all – what does “new song” notion mean? A song from currently promoted album? Or a song from last three albums? In any case the response was not too positive, I’m afraid…
At least half (if not more) should be new (1995-present) songs. DP is not just a nostalgic act; they are still a dynamic, creative, musical force with new ideas and songs to perform. Still they have a 40 year heritage to acknowledge and entertain us with.
How many Old vs New vs ‘never played before’ songs on the setlist: I’d say when making a setlist, the band has a “good” problem to consider.
October 24th, 2007 at 14:23I want to hear Smooth Dancer, Strangeways, Fools, Solitaire, Hungry Daze, Spanish Archer, Loosen my Strings, Seventh Heaven, Place in Line as well as a few staples. I don’t want to hear Black Night anymore. Its sounds boring without blackmore playing on it. I am not saying I want Blackmore back – I know the albums after Perfect Strangers have been poor in comparsion to what you would expect from Deep Purple. And Purpendicular was clarification that he had to go. I just want more from the current line up than what we are getting from them. The set list is too predictable. This band is so good musically they could really do the songs above brilliantly. I know there will be people there who want to hear SOTW but the rest of the set list really needs revitalising.
October 24th, 2007 at 15:48I think they should play as much as possible of the new songs. The have 2 members that haven’t played on the classics albums and it must feel strange for them that they do new albums but the songs don’t last long in the set list. If they want to keep it fresh and not like an old cover band they should do at least 11 new number and on a rotation song list 4 other old songs.
October 24th, 2007 at 15:57I suppose Deep Purple, the band, not the management should take a look at this. Yes, we would love to hear some material from Steve Morse Era. Damn, you have a variety of tunes to choose from. Anything never-before-played from Purpendicular to Rapture of The Deep would make me smile, and I wouldn’t be the only one smiling. I understand that MH is your best album commercially, but a die hard like me, really would like to see you putting on the show with 10 ‘new’ songs, and 5 or more classics. However, I really appreciate Steve’s in improving the oldies ( some bits from Chid In Time incorporated into Pictures of Home was a terrific idea imho).
October 24th, 2007 at 16:31Hi, more new songs – definitely!!! Sometimes I feel like screaming, Ted, Rosas Cantina, Seventh Heaven, Wrong Man, Rapture, just to name few. You cannot be without Smoke and I guess Highway Star. Bloodsucker was great as well. Pre 1995 and post 1973: Perfect Stangers and Battle Rages On. 3 to 5 old ones, up to 3 old but rare and the rest newer stuff. That’s it for me :-).
In my opinion Purple lost the chance to make the newer ones “classics” as well by not keeping them permantely in the setlist. E.g. who would have complained about a permant “Sometimes I feel like …” or “Ted”?
Cheers Joachim
October 24th, 2007 at 17:14Just to remember Hanau 1996, which was the right direction:
1. Fireball/Into the fire
2. Maybe I´m A Leo
3. Ted the mechanic
4. Pictures Of Home
5. Black night
6. I´m not your lover
7. Sometimes I feel like screaming
8. Woman From Tokyo
9. Bloodsucker
10. Purpendicular Waltz
11. No one came
12. Rosa´s cantina
13. Smoke on the water
14. When a blind man cries
15. Somebody stolen my guitar
16. Speed king
17. Perfect strangers
18. Hey Cisco
19. Highway star
I saw RUSH last week, and the show featured 8 or 9 tracks from their new album, some classics (Tom sawyer, Mission, YYZ,…) and the rest was old(er) material rarely played on stage. The set list was radically different from their R30 tour, three years ago. This time they dropped A LOT of classics!!!
I think dP should do the same. I’m not saying it was an easy playlist that Rush did, and to be honest I prefered the previous tour which was an anniversary tour, and they played ALL the classics froim ALL albums, but this time it was the “Snakes and Arrows” tour, and the album has been well promoted on stage, while giving the fans some forgotten pearls too.
Who dares win.
October 24th, 2007 at 18:12More songs from HOBL, S&M (yes), BRO, P, A, B and ROTD.
October 24th, 2007 at 19:21Top it of with a few mk I classics….
I would say around 10 songs would be nice.
Songs like
Loosing my strings / The Aviator / sometimes I feel like / Almost Human / Watching the sky / Sun goes down / Silver tongue / Money talks / Rapture of the deep / Before time began.
Would be great if they put a setlist together with all these songs included
October 24th, 2007 at 21:11My copy of “Perpindicular” has a song at the end of the CD called “Don’t Hold Your Breath”, though it is not listed on the sleeve, nor are the lyrics printed on the inside.
October 24th, 2007 at 23:23Does everybody else’s copy of the CD have this song?
I’d like to hear it performed live!
I said 9, heres a few…Ted, Cascades, SIFLS,Almost Human, Haunted, Razz Dazz, Silver Tongue (2005 US tour opener AWESOME), ROTD,Junkyard, MTV, Things I Never Said, Well Dressed just to name some. Also a few rarities, Rat Bat Blue, Bad Attidude,Anya, Painted Horse or Kentucky Woman.
October 25th, 2007 at 00:37I WANT TO HEAR :
THE BATLLE RAGES ON
October 25th, 2007 at 00:42MARY LONG
HUNTED
SUN GOES DAWN
NOT RESPONSABLE
SPANISH ARCHER
MITZI DUPREE
LALENA
LIVING WRECK
WASTED SUNSETS
Deep Lavender, I still have the sticker on my version of Purpendicular, and it says, “Includes the bonus track DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH” and under that, “Prominent 1001)”. In America, we get different tracks and in Japan they tend to get extra bonuses. I imagine this track wasn’t on every version of the release.
I agree with the general consensus–we need more Morse-era songs and the ‘classics’ are getting worn out. There are classics they don’t play…”Burn” for one–I still think it would work, even as an instrumental arrangement.
I agree with your suggestion to play it live. Heck, there is more than enough to choose from!
As Deep Purple fans, we sure have a different take on this that the casual listener in America. Most people here would want “greatest hits,” and therein lies the problem.
October 25th, 2007 at 04:13That’s my set list… Maybe too many songs? C’mon mates you can do it!
1 Pictures of Home
October 25th, 2007 at 08:572 Strange Kind of Woman
3 Rapture of the Deep new
4 Fingers to the Bone new
5 Walk On new
6 Cascades new
7 Wasted Sunsets
8 Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
9 The Aviator new
10 Junkyard Blues new
11 Black Night
12 The Battle Rages On
13 Clearly Quiet Absurd new
14 House of Pain new
15 Smoke On the Water
16 Highway Star
17 Hush
18 Perfect Strangers
19 Speed King
They should play the old classics in a 6-minute medley and try to combat their classic rock band image with the newer material. The medley could include the worn out Highway Star, Black Night, Smoke, etc.
October 25th, 2007 at 09:18We all have our favorite songs we would like to hear but the fact is there going to play what they want and it might not be exactly what you want. So I have come up with a solution to make everyone happy. ( Well at least it would make me happy ). Why don’t they pick a location and do one concert, record it for a cd and dvd release and call it “Things We Never Play” The show would consist of about 18 songs that Deep Purple never play or maybe only played once ever and they would be songs that they would probably never play again. My setlist would look something like this.
1. Smooth Dancer
2. Rat Bat Blue
3. Place In Line
4. Flight of the Rat
5. Hard Lovin Man
6. Not Responsible
7. Wasted Sunsets
8. Mad Dog
9. Call Of The Wild
10. Time To Kill
11. Sun Goes Down
12. Pictures Of Innocence
13. Haunted
14. Razzle Dazzle
15. Clearly Quite Absurd
16. Don’t Let Go
17. Money Talks
18. Girls Like That
The songs don’t have to be in this order but you get the idea. You may not ever see these songs played live at the show you go to but at least you would have a live version of them on cd and dvd.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:03It is indeed a return of a poll…
I agree with what Purpletemple says about Rush, I saw them in Rotterdam. They were really promoting their new album by playing a lot of new songs. They also took some songs they rarely played before.
Purple should do the same, if you don’t want to be in the nostalgia circuit you have to get out yourselves guys!
Play new songs! I really like the live tracks from Abandon for example, and also the Live at the Olympia 1996 version of Cascades. Things I never said is a good live song and Junkyard blues too.
Also, as some others mentioned, take some songs you haven’t played live since a long time… Knocking at your back door, Mitzi Dupree, Bloodsucker, Anyones Daughter, Hard Lovin man and Hard Lovin Woman…
Old stuff? Just stick to Highway Star and Lazy … and maybe Smoke on the Water.
Needless to say that Rush played without a support act, they came on stage at 20.05 and played until 23.20 with just a 20 minute break.
If your repertoire is so big, it should be a treat for the people that come to the concerts to hear just the band you want to hear, not some freaky local rockband trying to make an effort on gaining some new fans…
Cheers!
October 25th, 2007 at 11:13for George Martin
October 25th, 2007 at 11:48Good idea! I’ don’t like your set list but the idea is great. I propose a new set poll including the few played songs…
Long live DP
More Morse songs. Play an oldie once every 4 or 5 songs so that the casual fans have something they know or that everyone can sing along to, but vary the classics; why not do “Perfect Strangers” one night but not do “Knocking at your Back Door” that night? Make it either “Hush” or “Woman from Tokyo” but not both in the same night; make it “Black Night” OR “Strange Kind of Woman” OR “Speed King” but not all of them in the same night. And then yes by all means, knock people out by surprising them with one or two much less typical oldies – a “Demon’s Eye” here or a “Bloodsucker” there. But only a few – That way the band can play the new material that shows that this is a band that progresses!
There is a LOT of good stuff on the past four studio albums that just has not had its due and should be played live. I thought that Purple playing “THings I Never Said” here in the US was FANTASTIC, really bold! I mean, they had to know that very few people had the tour edition of ROTD, and yet they played that song live, and it was excellent. They were confident in that new song. I would love to see more of that attitude.
October 25th, 2007 at 17:53Let me add that my ideal for the next live album would be one culled from a few shows in which they played less typical numbers, and in which they then edited out the over-represented oldies. We do not need another recorded version of the greatest hits songs. I would LOVE to get some of the new songs live, though. Maybe that would be a cool Direct Sales or pay-to-download sort of release.
October 25th, 2007 at 17:55Add 3 or 4 songs from the 70s and 80s for the encores and the rest should be from 1995 and later. After all, are they promoting their new lineup and new albums, or forever stoking the fire of nostalgy and the “blackmore-should-return” sentiments?
October 25th, 2007 at 18:34The idea of a “Songs we rarely play” show is great!
October 25th, 2007 at 18:36May this idea get to their ears.
Ian Gillan : “Forget it. It’s NOT gonna happen………”
October 25th, 2007 at 22:48Good idea George, just wish it would happen!! gotta enjoy DP fans they are the BEST
October 26th, 2007 at 00:08I agree with the consensus. MORE MORSE SONGS!!!! Include some of the less played songs. Rat bat Blue would make a great song for an extended jam and solos. Mitzi Dupree instead of Anyone’s daughter, House of Pain, Back to Back, MTV, The Aviator (PLEASE PERFORM THIS LIVE- IT’S A GREAT SONG). THe casual fan can get inot the new stuff as much as the older stuff. I had two students attend the Radio City show in NYC. Both loved the show, but wanted the rarer songs played and this was thier first DP show (they are seniors in high school).Ian once said that Fireball is his favorite DP album due to tis diversity. I completely agree with this and maybe they should add that diversity to the setlist.Don’t Hold your Breath was include on a cassette version of Purpendicular whenit was initally realesed, and was recently included on a rerelease of the CD.
October 26th, 2007 at 00:58“songs rarely play”. yes, songs like burn, mistreated, stormbringer, lady double dealer, soldier of fortune, dealer, drifter, love child, you keep on moving… but the arrogance,ego from mr.Gillan don´t make me happy.
October 26th, 2007 at 01:04No problem – 15 old and 15 new, 2,5 hours!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:02To alf +
October 26th, 2007 at 10:46Do you really want Ian Gillan singing David Coverdale songs? Maybe Coverdale will someday do an all Burn, Stormbringer and Come Taste The Band show. That’s the guy you want singing those songs. At least I know I do.
A 3-parts concert :
1st part : the whole new album (Pink Floyd did it in 87-88)
2nd part : recent songs (96-2003) + rarely played oldies (like “Hallelujah” or “Rat Bat Blue”, to give a hint) + songs from 84-93 (like “Gypsy’s kiss” or “Call of the wild”)
3rd part : classics in a medley, + a recent or rare song
Encore : a big classic + a total surprise (like “One more rainy day” or “Getting tighter”… if Gillan and Glover admit that DP existed without them)
Toto releases a new live album : look how nicely they manage to rotate their setlist : new songs, classics, rare songs, recent songs… Should DP hire Bobby Kimball then ? 🙂
October 26th, 2007 at 11:27Gillan has the final say about the set list as Mr. Morse once said!
October 26th, 2007 at 11:35Hy, I love ALL the songs from all the albums. Anyway, I absolutely agree with Jeorge Martin and it would really be a dream come true if they recorded a concert like that (not to mention the chance to be there). I also agree with Jim Sheridan: the set should be a bit different from show to show, that way we could have more great stuff to look for. The three-part + encore-show of The cat-that-sleeps would be great but we will never see it, they are not Kiss (fortunately)
October 26th, 2007 at 13:19Imagine the fun and games IG would have remembering the lyrics if Purple did play all of the suggested stuff… that would be worth the price of admission alone! 😉
October 26th, 2007 at 13:37I would like to hear some pieces from THE HOUSE OF BL,Hard Lovin’ Man from ’70ies. Last year I ‘ve got to listen mary Long (I’ve been loving it since my first time ) and Living wreck: very cool. I’d like that the opener on Stage could be Highway star like many years ago,it gave us a good input at the beggining…
October 26th, 2007 at 14:29bye friends
If they played only Mk-Morse material, I would go to see them!
October 26th, 2007 at 15:19Please boys, more new stuff !!! The new songs are FANTASTIC !!! Cheers
October 26th, 2007 at 19:10Here is my vote:
Cascades Im not your lover
69
Silver Tongue
The battle rages on
when a blind man cries
Contact lost
well dressed guitar
under the gun
Knocking on your back door
Money talks
Sometimes I feel like screaming
Ted the mechanic
Mary long
Highway Star
More Morse Area Please 😉
October 26th, 2007 at 20:55IG should never be expected to sing MKIII nor will he, the “Cat” has some good ideas but lets not compare DP to Toto (no comparison)
October 26th, 2007 at 22:42DP come to places were don’t play before, the band is very old and yet play in news city´s in the world, for some people is a dream see DP, then these people want hear the olds song’s is obvius they play old song’s. in México DP play first time in Cd Juarez and Guadalajara in 2005 rapture tour.
October 27th, 2007 at 00:34hello everybody!
i agree deep purple must do a surprising set list,with more new songs.what do you think of this set list?this is mine one:
1-knockin’ at your back door
2-ted the mechanic NEW
3-strange kind of woman
4-finguers to the bone NEW
5-wrong man NEW
6-fireball
7-junkyard blues NEW
8-steve solo/well dressed guitar
9-lazy
10-sometimes i feel like screaming NEW
11-i got your number NEW
12-rapture of the deep NEW
13-rosa’s cantina NEW
14-perfect strangers
15-any fule kno that NEW
16-smoke on the water
17-before time began NEW
encores:
18-ramshackle man
19-roger’s solo/highway star
i would love to hear this in a concert
October 27th, 2007 at 00:35“Don’t Hold Your Breath” was on the original 1996 release (Prominent 1001) as a bonus track. I have it in my hand. Maybe it was an American-only release at the time. It was released on BMG–at least here. It is true that they tended to have bonus cuts on cassettes, however (to get one to buy the cassette).
Anyone else have “Don’t Hold Your Breath” on the original run CD? There is also an unlisted “track” on the TOC that is blank before it goes into the song.
October 27th, 2007 at 04:42Spanish Archer, extended Steve Morse version.
October 27th, 2007 at 04:44I agree that the current mark should do Mark III/IV or JLT era songs, unless they really want to of course.
They have enough material from the Mark II and Morse period which isn’t played already.
What I don’t understand is the excuse they use that songs have to be played often before they can really be good, and the excuse of the lyrics forgotten by Gillan.
After all, it’s their job, not like they have to go to work all day and practice between work and the show.
And on the other hand, when it comes to do shows with “new” songs for a Gillan’s Inn tour, then it works…Or Ian Paice playing more obscure songs with a Purple Tribute band.
There’s something I don’t get there…
October 27th, 2007 at 08:13PLEASE EVEYONE MUST GO TO YOUTUBE AND WATCH THE ITALIANS WICKED MINDS “FROM THE PURPLE SKIES”.WONDERFUL,VERY DEEP-HEEP STYLE.THIS BAND WAS A POWER METAL BAND AND NOW THEY PALY 70 ROCK MUSIC(IN FACT DEEP PURPLE INFLUENCED VERY MUCH POWER METAL:IAN GILLAN WITH HIS SCREAMS, IAN PAICE WITH THE DOUBLE BASS DRUMS IN FIREBALL,R.BLACKMORE AND JON LORD WITH THEIR HEAVY AND EPIC STYLE).EVERYTIME I READ AN INTERVIEW FROM POWER METAL PEOPLE THEY SAY THAT ARE INFLUENCED BY DEEP PURPLE.
October 27th, 2007 at 12:08Oh, I forgot to answer the original question; set list: It´d be the concert of my life if they played Hard loving man, Mad dog and Money talks, ALL three, the rest, I´d put 6 from MKII (apart from Hard lov man) and 7 from 95 on (apart from Money talks). If only one of the three were there, it would be fantastic as well. Cmon´, gillan & Cº, consider it…, would you?
October 27th, 2007 at 14:00I meant: this mark should NOT do any material from Mark III IV or JLT era 🙂
October 27th, 2007 at 16:15I AGREE WITH ALL, BUT I WANT TO SEE A DEEP PURPLE SETLIST REFLECTING 40 YEARS OF MUSIC, SO THEY WILL BE PLAY 1 OR 2 SONGS FROM EACH ALBUM, SINCE IN ROCK, IT’S NOT A JUNKIE, SEE BELOW, MY FRIENDS:
FROM IN ROCK:
1-CHILD IN TIME
2-SPEED KING OR BLACK NIGHT
FROM FIREBALL
3-FIREBALL
4-FOOLS
FROM MACHINE HEAD
5-HIGHWAY STAR
6-SMOKE ON THE WATER
FROM WHO DO WE THINK….
7-WOMAN FROM TOKYO
8-MARY LONG
FROM BURN:
9-BURN
FROM STORMBRINGER:
10-STORMBRINGER
FROM COME TASTE THE BAND:
11-GETINN TIGHTER
FROM PERFECT STRANGERS
12-PERFECT STRANGERS
13-KNOCKING AT YOUR BACK DOOR
FROM HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT
14-BAD ATTITUDE
FROM SLAVES AND MASTERS
15-KING OF DREAMS
FROM BATTLE RAGES ON
16-THE BATTLE RAGES ON
17-ANYA
FROM PURPENDICULAR
18-TED THE MECHANIC
19-SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE SCREAMING
FROM ABANDON
20-WATCHING THE SKY
FROM BANANAS
21-I GOT YOU NUMBER
FROM RAPTURE OF THE DEEP
22-MONEY TALKS
23-RAPTURE OF THE DEEP
AND 24-HUSH
October 27th, 2007 at 16:16Want to see more of MK III and JLT era songs. Burn, The Cut Runs Deep and Mistreated. Why also we should forget mr Tommy Bolin and MK IV.
Something what Luis is saying, is right. Perhaps different songs, but something from every album starting In Rock.
October 27th, 2007 at 18:32hello! before we start the concert when they fix up everything the manager should put some song from deep before and after gillan glover era and of course before morse and airey era this is the first thing for a good warm up!
October 27th, 2007 at 23:25an exemple burn from coverdale or gettin’ tighter then start the concert with silver tongue /: spanish archer/: 69/: picture of innocence/: MTV:/ ROTD :/ then a medley of steve and don with rosa cantina sometimes i feel well dressed guitar any fule know that /ted fireball et.c instead of stuff from other bands then almost human /: hey cisco/: may be iam a leo:/ lazy:/ anyone daughter :/ before time began /: and for the finish sotw and highway star this will be the dream concert i reckon/ thanks guys anyway for keeping me alive! cheers; richard legris.
Don’t hold your breath was on the original Japanese release,and because the US release was so far behind the rest of the world,they released it here as well.
October 28th, 2007 at 02:42Thanks to ‘T’ and ‘CP’ for the info on “Don’t Hold Your Breath”. It’s a great song; worthy of a spot in the setlist.
October 28th, 2007 at 03:35One song I’ve not seen is mentioned is “Why Didn’t Rosemary” from MkI lineup. I think the current lineup could really rock that song up. Also “Lalena”, alternated with “When A Blind Man Cries” for a slower blues type song.
I selected 10 because I would like to see half of the songs as present Morse/Airey tunes and 10 from the past. They should be playing at least 20 tunes per show. 40 years of recordings means you have to play for while in order to appease the masses. This is much more important than selecting the perfect list. These present 15 song sets only leave the crowd displeased. Even if you don’t play everyone’s favorites, you should at least play for a proper amount of time. Leaving the crowd disatisfied by short changing them with a short set is out of line. Purple will never play the exact set list that every fan wishes to hear. That is obvious and shouldn’t be expected, but playing such short gigs is inexcuseable. Casting asside the Morse era tunes is also wrong. He has been in the band for 13 years and Mr. Gillan even wrote a song bitching about the “Classic Rock” delima (MTV). It’s time to “Butch Up” and stick by your guns and push the new stuff down OUR THROAT. We are ready and the world needs to hear it. If they won’t play it on the radio, at least take charge and play them “LIVE”. Isn’t that what you are known for? Just Do It!!! You’ll feel better. Otherwise I have a title for a song on your next album….”Same Old Song”.
Cheers.
Cheers.
October 28th, 2007 at 20:22I would like to follow Luis idea, but they won’t play that long and I(…) would make othert choices :
1) Mandrake root
October 28th, 2007 at 23:172) HardLovingMan
3) Fools
4) Fireball
5) Smooth dancer
6) Place in line
7) rat bat blue
8) Wasted Sunsets
9) A gypsies kiss
10) The Unwritten law
11) Strange ways
12) The battle rages On
13) Enya
14) Twist in the tale
15) Rosa’s cantina
16) cascades
17) The Purpendicular waltz
18) 7th Heaven
19) Sun goes down
20) Silver tongue
21) Kiss tomorrow Goodbye
22) Son of alerik(Let’s welcome the return of the man in black once more…..)
The idea of playing a couple of tracks of each album would seem a reasonable idea.
However, I cant imagine Gillan entertaining tracks belonging to Coverdale/Hughes. Thats unfortunate, but I guess understandable to a degree.
The fact he wont sing JLT era DP……………thank god!!
October 29th, 2007 at 12:08Alf,
Remember Coverdale singing Gillan songs . Absolutely horrible and i am sure Gillan would succeed in singing Coverdale songs in a perfect way , but i really respect his decison not to do so. They have really enough material to fill several hours . I would suggest 20 songs with 12 new ones.
As classic ones : Smoke , black night , anya , the battle rages on , demon’s eye , lazy , perfect strangers , knocking at your backdoor
The new ones :solver tongue , house of pain , wrong man , clearly quite absurd , doing it tonight , walk on , picture of innocence , rosas cantina , the well dressed guitar , sometimes i feel like screaming , girls like that, bananas.
So , what shall we do now if a new album comes out ? Easy : add another half an hour to the gig and play as well 5 of the brandnew songs
October 29th, 2007 at 22:34i agree with germain, “songs rarely play” was the point, maybe the reasons for IG dont sing DC songs are: 1. the voice. 2. the credits 3. the ego. Just one song will be great, one intro, solo, pieces…
October 30th, 2007 at 02:37One question: why not DP play some songs only instrumental?( and IG just shut up) without lyrics from mark III and IV.
I believe IG is better, but the DC career is most “successfull” (without DP)than IG. DC dont need too much the BRAND DP, even an reunion. God bless DP and Gillan also. Sorry for me spanish-inglish
Hy again!; this is the list I´d like them to perform. It covers almost every album and I think everybody would be confortably in:
October 30th, 2007 at 21:541-Hush
2-Demon´s eye
3-Place in the line
4-Almost Human
5-Girls like that
6-Lazy
7-Medley: Wring that neck/Contact lost/Well dressed guitar
8-A 200/Airey´s solo/
9-Money talks
10-Mean streak
11-Mad dog
12-Hard lovin´man
13-One man´s meat
14-The purpendicular waltz
Encore
15-Don´t let go
16-No one came
17-Smoke on the water
If doing a couple of songs from each album to reflect the 40 years, why start at In Rock? Wouldnt that be 38 years of a span. Although the first line up was not as ‘established’ or as influencial as the subsequent line ups, (personally speaking) the initial line up was the foundation of what was to become a great rock band, therefore in my view would warrant some inclusion.
I would, for one, love to hear the current line ups take on other classics, but I doubt it will happen, but still we can all live in hope.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:59Maybe thay just want to play what they are comfortable with.
Should fans dictate what they play?
If you dont like the tracks they do…………………..dont go!
October 31st, 2007 at 17:18It’s not the fans who get to dictate what songs they wanna hear.
It’s Gillan’s voice nowadays, or the lack of it.
November 2nd, 2007 at 03:23Well it seems people on these blogs crucify Morse for not being worthy, may as well condemn Gillan for having a 62 year old voice!!
November 2nd, 2007 at 09:29The Burn, Stormbringer, & Come & Taste The Band song’s were written by Deep Purple in the end not by Spice Girls . They really should be getting some attention, would love to hear Steve play the solos on Burn , as Steve said on Live In Bombay India DVD Blackmore wrote some great stuff.
November 2nd, 2007 at 13:08Am getting tired of hearing the usual number’s in the set list too, some unplayed songs from In Rock would be better Flight Of The Rat , Hard Lovin Man , or even Mandrake Root from Mk1 , what’s wrong with A Gypses Kiss nothing Don would do a good job with those organ solos.
Just a few of the better Morse songs from over the years should be included but more of the 70’s 80’s songs should be there .
AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Seems the same old arguement rambles on. For the love of GOD, isn’t it time that we all come to terms with all of this nonsense? Get used to the fact that you will never hear the “Perfect” Set list. You wil never hear every tune that you desire to hear. The present line-up of the Greatest Band in the world is playing the tunes they deem they should play. To state that they play the same songs is not true by any means. Yes, they adhere to a particular list on particular tours, but each tour is different from the last. Much more-so now, than back in the “Blackmore” days. If you have been following the band for a few years, you can’t say that they play the same songs each tour. Do they continue to play certain tunes every time? Of course. Let’s face it. As great a band as they are, they have only a few tunes that made it to the Radio. You will alway hear them play SOTW, Highway Star, Hush. Black Night became a Deep Purple cult tune due to it being a “B-side” that became very popular “live” and is now always demanded. So there are 4 songs right off the bat that you must subtract from the remainder. That doesn’t leave much room for many changes when they only play 16 songs on average. That is why it is imperative that the main point which needs to be conveyed to the Purple Camp is that they must extend their live shows to no less than 2 hours. To be honest, there is no “Bad” set list. All songs Purple are awesome songs. No matter which line-up. Even the “Rainbow/Purple” Slave and Masters has some great stuff on it. I would have to say that over the 35 years that I have been a Purple fan, and the 20 or shows that I have attended, they have played a vast array of songs. Plus, if you truly check out the set-lists since Morse has joined, you will see a huge amount of changes throughout. In simple terms, the root of the “complaint department’s” problem, is that they play way too short a time period…… for a band of their caliber and song catalogue. They constantly convey 2 things. They are a “LIVE” Band and that they don’t like being called a “Classic rock” Band.
Well then, start playing longer “Live” shows, and less “Classic” songs, and definately more “Morse/Airey stuff. This would address most of the frustration that the fans have. There truly shouldn’t be so much negative discussion regarding these heralds of music wizardry. But I gurantee one thing. There would be much less criticism if there was proper time played and more jamming it up right, no matter what songs are played.
Cheers
November 2nd, 2007 at 18:01Even I would be interested in a 2 disc set of live tracks filled with Non Made in Japan tracks……..
Why don’t they make a compilation of the Lord/morse era in that vein?
Or shoud I try that myself ?
Ok……..
here we go……
Disc 1.
1) Pictures of home
2) Into The Fire
3) Ted the mechanic
4) SIFLS
5) rat Bat blue(there is arecording of that, not?)
6) Fireball
7) Fools
8) Cascades
9) Rosa”s cantina
10) The Purpendicular Waltz
11) Wring that neck
12) Blood sucker
13) Watching the skies
Disc 2)
1) Demon’s Eye
2) 7th Heaven
3) Mary Long
4) Hey Cisco
5) When a Blind man Cries
6) HUSH
7) I m not your lover
8) Enya
9) The battle rages on
10) Pictured within(…)
11) The well dressed guitar
12) Wring that neck
13) woman from tokyo
14)69(Incl The Mule, ermmmmmm)
Did I forget something?
If you really need crap like The Aviator then we are heading for a third disc…….
November 3rd, 2007 at 14:50maybe already, I dunno………..
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww, My God……….
I forgot at least one important one :
NO ONE CAME……………..
How Ironic………….
November 3rd, 2007 at 15:10Here’s one for ya…….
The ever underrated Deep Purple version of “Hey Joe” from the MK-I era.
This is hand over foot, a better rendition than the famed “Hendrix” version, yet gets no recognition. I would love to hear this present Purple incarnation take off on this one, using the form that was used back then, but with the present bands influence. What a great tune to have fun with.
Cheers,
Tracy Heyder
November 6th, 2007 at 20:59When one takes into consideration what the band does play, in the long run it stands as a pretty decent compromise overall. It caters to most of the general audience most of the time. Only hardcore fans like us want oddball rarities and Songs They Would Never Play.
November 7th, 2007 at 04:11I Totally Agree, but……
some tunes, even though “Oddballs” as you put it for Purple folks, would do very well. “Hey Joe” is a very familiar song, unfortunately due to the constant air-play of the Hendrix version on classic rock stations, so in retrospect would be a great one from Purple Past to re-introduce due to it’s familiarityand give it a Morse/Airey spin. Plus just listen to the intro and body and the end of the MK-I version. Very cool song to improvise on and yet the “basic goers” would be attracted to it due to the fact that it is known and also, actually a Purple tune, prior to being made famous by Hendrix. Two or Three Birds with one Song, they can’t go wrong.
Cheers
November 7th, 2007 at 19:20Hey, yeah Tracy Heyder, you´re right, sure. Nevertheless, nothin´wrong in making good wishes, singing in your mind the oneself perfect set list as you eagerly write it down for everbody to read. It´s no complaint, how could it be when every concert is superb, whatever they play?. This next 18th in Paris will be my 10th DP concert. I started attending them too late, being my 1st in 98´s Abandon tour, in my home town, Barcelona. ´t was magic and every following one has been too. Never saw Ritchie but what the heck!, have a mountain of stuff with him, official as well as bootleg. I wish they played longer (MUCH longer!) concerts but… 2007 and still being the absolutely best hard rock band in the fk world, when I clearly remember back in 1988 everyone I knew saying they were already dead. And saying it again in 93. And saying it again after Jon´s departure. But they always get on and better and better, now with the Rapture, best album since 84 or, even, since 72 (as they perfectly know, which is why they play so much material from it in the currently set list). They always change a song, a solo, a jam, even a note, or just an intro from Gillan for the following number. That´s enough and worth one and every concert for me, thank you. Say sorry to everybody for such a long out place nostalgia (I´m getting old..). That said, I say let them play whatever they want, fancy or feel like and let´s hope they make it last 20 songs, instead of 15, served with a loooot of impro. I thaaaaaaaaaank……. (from the buttom of ma heart)
November 7th, 2007 at 23:16Proud to be an Oddball……
November 7th, 2007 at 23:18Yeah, a lot of songs of the morse era.
November 14th, 2007 at 13:57And as a surprise songs from Ian Gillan Band/Gillan, Dixie Dreggs/Steve Morse Band, Don Airey (donT know whether he wrotes songs in the past, but he played in great bands like collosseum etc. Why not?
Well, my only stipulation is that the majority of songs should be Morse era!
Assuming they play about 16 songs live, 10 should be Morse era, leaving about half a dozen for the older classics. Which is plenty, for those of us who have seen Smoke et al, more times than we care to remember!
November 23rd, 2007 at 18:18