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Purple people eaters
This review by Peter Creascenti of Deep Purple Mark 4 gigs at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City in January 1976 has originally appeared in Sounds on February 14, 1976.
DEEP PURPLE is a band beset by severe internal problems, problems that are now affecting their live performances and may ultimately destroy the group forever. When Purple’s five musicians should be thoroughly obsessed with convincing their audience that the band’s experimentation with the Deep Purple formula, sparked by the addition of Tommy Bolin, is both vital and valid, they’re instead allowing themselves to be consumed by frustration and divided by personal ambitions.
You’ll detect no bitterness among them when you come taste the band, but there just isn’t enough room in the champagne glass for these five fish to swim around anymore. Maybe there never really was.
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
I am sad now the title got my hopes up that Ian and Roger might have found the time to record a follow up to their album.
April 1st, 2021 at 08:21Do you think that if we mention it enoug they might accidentally find themselves with soem spare time to record a few new songs.
@1 Marcus, they’ve already discovered how to record their albums in secret, so we only get to find out about it when they’re ready for us to know!.
The trick is just to lower your expectations… that way you won’t be disappointed if it doesn’t happen.
In the mean time, here’s something to be going on with…
https://youtu.be/J4tAG8uV_9U
April 1st, 2021 at 11:01Pretty good, eh?! 🎶🎵💃🕺
Was this the show where John Bonham walked onstage and pulled a gun on Glenn Hughes?
April 2nd, 2021 at 17:02Blackwood Richmore @ 2…
Pretty good stuff. On that note, here is something more relevant maybe? This album with no band member credits was rumored to be Purple incognito…. I have the original vinyl copy. Purple have always denied taking part yet, there are many parts to these songs that have a closeness to future Purple songs.
Hell Preachers Inc. “Psychedelic Underground”
April 2nd, 2021 at 20:07https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kfhgNFahzYSgGwUJ8ukgjbawW66_UAI3I
Hi Tracy @ 4,. I’ll start out by recalling Deep Purple began in 1968… They bounced between the UK & Germany etc. playing gigs. So there were lots of other bands around at that time playing along similar themes.
Musicians trying to make it listen to each other’s efforts & become inspired by what they hear… Certain members of DP have on multiple occasions told of how they have been musical magpies & so on. They borrow ideas & work on them.
They are not alone in this. Twisted Sister’s ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ vs ‘Oh Come All Ye Faithful!’ is another. Even Slim Dusty’s ‘The Pub with no Beer’ is based on the old musical relic ‘Beautiful Dreamer’.
For example, this Canadian effort from 1970 (Not 1973 as erroneously listed on some webpages), may sound familiar?.:
https://youtu.be/TJVSymN0yqM
Yep, it’s quite similar to this one that you know from 1971:
https://youtu.be/rIbYeEDO1sQ
And so it goes… Hellpreachers were a German outfit. They probably crossed paths with DP Mk1 on the German circuit. It appears that certain members went on to form the band Lucifer’s Friend.
Here’s a taste:
https://youtu.be/VD_mytxCdeg
Anyhow… on the Hellpreachers album, the guitarist was in all likelihood a chap by the name of Rainer Degner. Likewise, the organist Peter Hect & the drummer Joachim Rietenbach. Bass by Dieter Horns & vox handled by George Monro- a.k.a. Mavros.
The Hellpreachers album arrived some months prior to DP’s ‘Wring That Neck’.
Tracy, this is the first Lucifer’s Friend album:
https://youtu.be/L1Kg0_wDFig
Kraut rock kicks ass!
April 3rd, 2021 at 04:16Cheers Tracy. 🍻🎸🥁 😇
Hi Tracy, I’ve just remembered that Ritchie, Jon & Ian Paice played on an album named ‘Green Tambourine’ by the 1960’s band called Sun Dragon:
https://youtu.be/GSnH7kR7z-M
It was good for it’s time, & probably made better by listening with a generous share of smoke & ‘shrooms!
April 4th, 2021 at 03:51😉☮️🌼🧙🏻♂️🚬🚀🍄🦎🌈🗿🎪🎠🎢🎡🦧🌮🍕🥧🥃🍻😎
@#6: I remember that Green Tambourine song from my youth. I would have been 5 years +/- depending when it came out. It had to be a fairly big radio hit here in So. California because that would not have been in my folks albums. Had no idea of the DP connection.
April 4th, 2021 at 13:51@7 Jet Auto Jerry, actually the song ‘Green Tambourine’ was a huge hit in the States for a band called The Lemon Pipers, in late 1967:
https://youtu.be/S5Vz-z4PEkk
Of course the Sun Dragon version was a cover, one of many back in the day.
Status Quo also did a cover on their debut album. Dig those groovy chicks, man!:
https://youtu.be/A2Dy0xoRNbU
Cheers! 🍻 🟢🎵🎶
April 4th, 2021 at 15:23ad Blackwoody 5: … and the winner (of all stealers and so-called borrowers) is: Led Zepps.
April 5th, 2021 at 15:34The circle is closed and done.
@9….Steelers and borrowers so called Uriah Heep to dozens to implore the likes of all things. Dizzy Zepps incouraged by many of young blocks quarter century wise. Forever the circle is left open do to black hole syndrome.
April 7th, 2021 at 12:14Heep stole alright from Purple, but they also added something of their own: REAL CHORUSSES and top-notch harmony vocals, never really the Purps’ strong department, Mk III and IV eras excepted.
And I’m not sure whether Ritchie did not hear his 16th Century Greensleeves riff (which dates back to Mk II days) first when Mick Box hammered out his iconic Gypsy bludgeoning riff in the neighboring rehearsal space in preparation for Heep’s debut.
Cry Free always sounded heepish to me too, perhaps a reason why it never saw the light of day. I could very well imagine David Byron singing that.
April 9th, 2021 at 22:43@11 Uwe, I think there’s nothing new under the Sun. Life is repeats…
April 12th, 2021 at 13:59Man is basically an advanced ape, & apes are simply repetitive creatures that mimic practically anything & everything.
It’s just a matter of finding a way of doing things a little bit differently, so as to capture one’s imagination.
Whoever said that pop will eat itself was right!.
Heads up!…
DC sells out…
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-coverdale-house-sells/
🏡💲💲💲
April 13th, 2021 at 23:21