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Steve Morse can do whatever he wants
There are a lot of reactions floating around the good old ‘net to the new Purple album details released yesterday, but this one came from a slightly unexpected angle. It wasn’t long until somebody pointed out that the album artwork kinda sorta resembles the Devin Townsend Project logo, which he used since 2009.
Devin is actually pretty cool with this, and twitted:
Re- deep purple logo: not a big deal to me. Not sure it should be…plus it’s Steve Morse and he can do whatever he wants 🙂
So there you have it: a controversy that was over before it even started.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Well, it’s the infinity symbol, it’s not like Devin invented it. It’s a good thing he’s cool with it too.
December 15th, 2016 at 19:05And the cover art is great.
Devin logo dtp
December 15th, 2016 at 19:11Purple logo is dp
Sometimes, rarely, sense does prevail in this world.
December 15th, 2016 at 19:20In other news, John Wallis blogged the following from his grave:
December 15th, 2016 at 20:07“hey i’m pretty cool with Devin Townsend using the infinity sign, that I invented in the 17th century, as his logo… I love listening to his music in my grave”
Devin showing some class!
December 15th, 2016 at 23:22Hahahahahaha… 😉 just remember that the previous album Now What was the name of an existing album by Lisa Marie Presley… Sooo, why would anyone be surprised by this latest revelation?.
Jon Lord once described DP in interview as “musical magpies”, they’d nick anything from anywhere, however, it probably wasn’t the band members that designed the cover logo.. Such is life, get over it.
By the way, if by chance you didn’t like the new single, then perhaps this one on youtube may tickle your fancy!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guz_yJZF9EU.
dp v dp…. big funky smiles to ya. 🙂
December 15th, 2016 at 23:25Devin towsend……..its stolen from deep purple
December 15th, 2016 at 23:39Pretty mature reaction from Devin Townsend!
December 16th, 2016 at 05:30If that logo belonged to Blackmore Knight or Rainbow can you imagine what could have been the reaction.
December 16th, 2016 at 10:58Some people are just so cool and some people are just greedy bloodsuckers.
By the way, one of the Devin Townsend Project’s songs is called… ‘Grace’!. Hmmmm…. just wondering if she’s Anyone’s Daughter?. 😉
December 16th, 2016 at 14:05Smiles to ya.
This is not a new logo.
I knew I had seen it before…and after checking DP releases, I found that variations had been used, but I was certain I had seen something like it more than just recently.
https://trademarks.justia.com/media/image.php?serial=77445061
December 18th, 2016 at 03:42We see a recumbent eight ( “8” ).
Nothing else – only your in fantasy …
Okay … don’t forget the factor of: “pure coincidence”
LLRnR
kraatzy
December 18th, 2016 at 15:57Ondřej Kubín @ 1 – good comment!
December 19th, 2016 at 09:16Simon @ 4 – classic, loved it, well done! Cheers.
Old Pythagoras & Plato & Aristotle & a few others are as old as Deep Purple themselves, so we could surmise they, (DP), asked for permission to use it & permission was granted! Simple really. Cheers.
December 19th, 2016 at 10:12Blackwood Richmore @6
December 19th, 2016 at 12:43Mr Glover and Mr Gillan have always chosen covers and titles.
The cover of Bannas chosen by Roger. Ian come up with the design for ROTD and Now What
Taking other people ideas is not a crime as long as you give them the credit for it or silence them off with a bit of money!!!!
Ian Paice once said that we like to be our own guys we wear our own cloths and write our own music.
But if it looks and sounds good who cares about who come up with the idea first.
Child in time is a great example of the hypocrisy of the band as Our beloved Lord never gave credit to the original guys who came with with the main tune.
Smiles all around.
The last cover I enjoyed was HOBL
December 26th, 2016 at 14:20