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Passion, energy, fire, and just enough flamboyance
Harp playing Amy had a very purple weekend with listening to Highway Star and Smoke on the Water:
Family tree bonus: on the instigation of lovely Elizabeth, Amy listens to Stargazer:
[Update Dec 13]: Here’s another bonus. It is rather incidental to our site, does not quite deserve a separate post, so we’ll tuck it in here. Amy and Elizabeth held a virtual meeting of the mutual admiration society, and in between oooh’s and aaah’s an interesting idea was brought in: classic rock in the 21st century kind of finds itself in roughly the same position as classical music found itself by the mid-20th century. In other words, pretty much everything has been already said, done, composed, and performed. Now what?!
For the impatient: that question was raised starting at around 27’40” into the conversation.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
I have watched Amy’s take on Rainbow’s Stargazer & it was a good one. I noticed she commented on the ascending & then descending music at the end of the solo. That is also in the lyrics that she was most probably not aware of, the wizard climbing the tower of stone & then falling. Excellent songwriting of course and this is a fine example of writing together & complimenting each other. Blackmore & Dio, say no more. All that blood on the sand and then we see a Rainbow on the horizon. Good compliments for all the band from Amy & she particularly liked Cozy’s input. Cheers.
December 13th, 2024 at 05:37OMG, Boy MacGregor, forever stunted in his development regarding his fantasy obsessions,
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5940a58315d5db433b61226e/1514662439172-WAK9EMJN4WZ7GXFYT2Y3/1y9208-admin.jpg?format=2500w
writes about the Stargazer lyrics as if they were actually about something! 🤣 Wizards, clueless about even the most basic principles of aeronautics, cracking their skull on desert gravel … and then the music elegantly descends … Legions of construction slaves blissfully unaware of the benefits of labor union organisation obviously laid off (“now where do we go …”).
Can’t you guys listen to somewhat age-adequate music?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSNSTerj2Kc
December 13th, 2024 at 15:50Didn’t they have Deep Purple at her boarding school for musically talented girls?
December 13th, 2024 at 15:56Didn’t they have Deep Purple at her boarding school for musically gifted girls where she spent her youth secluded from the world? 😎
She says that her “first exposure to DP has been quite a good while back” when she heard CIT – that was scarcely two years ago, yet she makes it sound like she was harkening (or harpening?) back to the 70s. 😆
Oh well, if she’s friends with – cue in cute nose wrinkle here –
https://media.tenor.com/yO4XKnkwqSYAAAAM/nose-wrinkle-judy-garland.gif
Lovely Liz, then she’ll find some rapt attention here. 🙄
Curmudgeonly regards
Uwe
December 13th, 2024 at 16:09@4
December 13th, 2024 at 17:25“ then she’ll find some rapt attention here” – please translate 😃
There is a Rainbow rising Uwe. You know what one good thing about Amy & her listening to ‘rock’ music, a genre she was blissfully unaware of according to what she originally stated. She doesn’t have any hangups or negative regressive comments to make. In her world it is what it is at that moment. Not a bad way to be & while she will more than likely never become obsessed with popular music & good on her for doing that, that keeps her grounded in that sense. No fawning over certain ‘stars’ or ‘celebrities’ etc. Good isn’t it & while I am not a follower of all these ‘youtube’ reactors at all, I have watched a few from her & Doug the ‘herbal enhancer’ & I have enjoyed them for their honesty, naivety & no prejudice opinion at the time that they record it. I have never watched Liz just for the record. That Rainbow Uwe, it is on the horizon. Have a look next time. Cheers.
December 13th, 2024 at 20:59I should say the reason I watched Amy’s Rainbow clip was because I had just finished watching some of the Sydney 1984 Deep Purple concerts online, 40 years ago today it was. So I needed to listen to something else. The Louder classic rock site is repeating the George Harrison story again from that second Sydney gig. I watched some of the next nights performance of December 14 that has been filmed, not too bad all things considered. Thanks to all here at THS for posting the Amy clips by the way & I will get to the DP ones shortly. Then Uwe will be in for it with some harsh, brutal criticism of all things DP. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMFZcUTSzEo
December 13th, 2024 at 21:15Such extraordinary bullshit.
December 13th, 2024 at 22:34I’ve never fawned over any rock or pop star, they’re people, they all have to take a dump at least once a day (with Big Ian then writing a song about it 😆), constipation phases aside. I don’t think anyone in Purple has deity status, you can have severe flaws in character and still be a remarkable musician and you can be a wonderful person and still not contribute anything musically meaningful. Even bad people can do great art, ask Leni Riefenstahl.
I understand the entertainment-, validation- and appreciation-value of what Liz and Amy do (though I find their podcasts extremely drawn out, I think you can meaningfully comment on Stargazer in five minutes and don’t need thirty …), they come from a different musical world. And many rock fans feel that the band they root for is somehow elevated if an opera singer or a harp player says something nice about it. But these podcasts are manufactured to create feel good vibes with the core audiences of the subject band, you can tell by the mere fact that they never ever criticize anything and never really uncover anything as banal either. Those ascending notes that Blackmore plays at the end of Stargazer before he culminates in what I call the “squealing seals” at the very end? That is nothing more than a Mixolydian scale played front to back note for note, it’s what you learn in early piano lessons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixolydian_mode
If Liz and Amy were sincere about what they are doing, they should have been cracking up laughing at that part, it might sound nice, but it is banal to naïve, “Alle meine Entchen”-entry level really.
Decades ago, I once heard a radio program where a classical trained singer took Nena’s and Bruce Springsteen’s vocal styles apart, with Nena finding more grace than the Boss who from a classical singing viewpoint does everything wrong there is to do wrong. That was good fun, she called Springsteen’s singing affected and mannered, very unnatural. The Boss’ disciples were up in arms. Good fun. 🤣
I also wonder if rock musicians with no classical background discussing classical music would trigger the amount of likes these ladies do. Would classical musical fans flock around them and gasp in elation if, say, Kerry King of Slayer said he liked Béla Bartók or would they say: What the hell does he know about it? 😝
There still seems to be an inbuilt inferiority complex with rock fans regarding their music that they clamor for validation from outside sources. Me, I have played with classically trained musicians often enough to say that they are mostly utterly hap- and helpless when asked to play anything in a rock environment, it’s like asking a ballet dancer to join a football team. Even the most basic principles of blues, funk and rock are remote to them. Most of them can’t even play in time to a drummer as they are not used to a steady beat holding it down.
But if you guys and girls find Liz’ and Amy’s scripted and enacted re-appreciations of ole Purple Family chestnuts enlightening, who am I to ruin it for you, you have my blessings, not that you need them.
Personally, I’d be more gratified if Billy Cobham and Simon Phillips did a 10 minute discussion on what makes Ian Paice’s and John Bonham’s drumming stand out (not in a sense of who is better, but what they are respectively trying to achieve) in their respective bands, but that’s just me!
Back to Liz & Amy, enjoy whatever it is that they do!
PS: Oh, and that string arrangement at the end of Stargazer is for any professional string arranger laughably simplistic, stiff and monotonous. If you want to hear a proper string arrangement for a rock song, listen to the coda here, that is in a different world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09oKxyAcdQs&list=PLz6cAheObZcgvtx2MN5k1b4caxn02UeQm&index=8&pp=iAQB8AUB
December 14th, 2024 at 13:34#2 Uwe
The lyrics are about something: Simon Magus, as depicted by Jack Palance
December 14th, 2024 at 15:49Who needs this crap?
December 14th, 2024 at 22:13@ 9 – “But if you guys and girls find Liz’ and Amy’s scripted and enacted re-appreciations of ole Purple Family chestnuts enlightening, who am I to ruin it for you, you have my blessings, not that you need them.” Enlightening??????? you have to joking there Uwe, surely. Scripted entertainment it may be in certain aspects & we only have to remember how naive & out of place Amy was at the very beginning and to now see how she acts it out these days. I always fast forward through the drawn out talking bits, even with Doug and even if he is enhancing himself on the famous herb or not. We also are very familiar with how many people act when there is a camera in front of them, especially if they know they have an audience. It is what it is & I actually deleted a line from my original post, it said “and now we wait for Uwe’s put down Rainbow comment”. Predictable old son, so predictable. By the way, the ascending & descending effect is to mimic the wizard climbing & then falling, what is wrong with that. They are telling a story & you put effects and or music to it. Don’t you watch movies? Seriously though it is the old Rainbow loathing thing again with Uwe, stuck in his side like a rusty old nail, it keeps annoying the hell out of him big time & it looks like it will continue to do so. “If Liz and Amy were sincere about what they are doing, they should have been cracking up laughing at that part, it might sound nice, but it is banal to naïve, “Alle meine Entchen”-entry level really.” Oh we get it Uwe, they are supposed to be negative like you about something, and just to please you. “Personally, I’d be more gratified if Billy Cobham and Simon Phillips did a 10 minute discussion on what makes Ian Paice’s and John Bonham’s drumming stand out (not in a sense of who is better, but what they are respectively trying to achieve) in their respective bands, but that’s just me!” What and you wouldn’t be negative about Bonham’s drumming, pull the other one Uwe, it has bells on it. Anyway all this reminds me of the Kansas song : Carry on my wayward son, there will be peace when you are done, lay your weary head to rest, don’t you cry no more. Cheers.
December 15th, 2024 at 08:33