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Rock Meets Classics
If you’re wondering how the Rock Meets Classics tour is progressing, here’s a video clip for your viewing pleasure. Ian Gillan with Mat Sinner Band and the Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Prague ripping through the Highway Star and Knocking at Your Back Door:
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Where’s the rest of Purple?
January 18th, 2012 at 19:43rb
Well… rock n’ roll never dies… but what about a rock n’ roll spirit.
January 18th, 2012 at 21:22This is truly impressing…’Highway’star reminds me on my hollidays in the Ardennes where we use to take one of those ancient folcloristic steamtrains hubbling and puffing over the rails…always wandering wheather the thing would reached the end.The screams of Ian representing the trainwhistle…
Well congratulations !
I only have to close my eyes to imagine those days in live…
Only I didn’t close my ears at same time and so my consciousness awaked me rudelly with greatest indignation.
Is is a shame and an insult to in comparison with the original song.
And KAYBD is in lower key and better for Ian’s singing…bt agian the song comes by in slow motion.
btw. I didn’t take the effort anymore to look up the name of this terrible bad slow guitarist, who ruines the end of KAYBD, but perhaps he wished in his heart a quick elimination of this perfomance .
But it will certainly be better on the promised new DP album to come with the already 9 written songs 8)
January 18th, 2012 at 22:33Enjoyed that!
January 19th, 2012 at 13:30I actually thought the guitarist (Mat Sinner maybe?) added a breath of fresh air to both songs (All be it all except the end of KAYBD). His sound was very Blackmoreish and was lovely to be reminded.
ig sounded in good form too!
it could be better for Gillan to not scream the high notes…now it’s going to be embarassing to listen…he could sing them in a lower key…
January 19th, 2012 at 13:31Mat Sinner is the bass player, apparently.
January 19th, 2012 at 13:33Ian sounds better on HS than in the recent Montreux dvd
January 19th, 2012 at 19:28I`m really happy that in Deep Purple there are musicians on organ and guitar and no posers. The guitar player in this video is not my cup of tea and I don`t hear any impressive interprtation in his solo.
January 20th, 2012 at 12:00@3
Shame and insult to original song? They aren’t the Original Band. This is a mix match of musicians along with an orchestra. This is a tour of many Rock personalities joining with a classical style orchestra, bringing the two together but giving homage to these classic Rock songs. They aren’t trying to emulate the original. They are actually doing just the opposite. Hence the very title of the tour….’Rock meets Classic’, joining forces in order to give these tunes a classical twist. Frontmen from various Rock Bands singing different renditions of known songs with an orchestral theme. Your statement is ridiculous. I guess if Deep Purple ever did an ‘unplugged’ performance (something I’d love to see done), you would say the same thing, obviously not getting the fact that “it’s supposed to sound different”. I am truly amazed at how narrow minded fans of a band with such a broad base of ability can be No window for change or variation. That is truly the ‘shame and insult’.
Cheers
January 20th, 2012 at 15:14@9
Perfectly said, Tracy.
January 21st, 2012 at 06:47I do fully agree to every single one of your words. (including the unplugged idea – that’s a dream of mine as well).
If some people don’t understand the concept of this wonderful project you can only pray that they might get some insight.
Vamos a ser sinceros realmente nada mal para no ser DP,es Gillan con músicos invitados,por supuesto que el guitarrista no es Morse o Blackmore…en mi parecer highway star mucho mejor interpretada que knocking at your back door.
January 23rd, 2012 at 04:42