Vincent Price is back again
For no apparent reason, the record company has posted a live clip of Vincent Price from To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo), released almost 10 years ago.
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up.
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For no apparent reason, the record company has posted a live clip of Vincent Price from To The Rising Sun (In Tokyo), released almost 10 years ago.
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
The excellent Steve Morse, …a minute and 20 seconds of magic !
March 15th, 2025 at 06:39“It feels so good to be afraid” 😄😄
Love this song! Love this band 💜
March 15th, 2025 at 07:54Steve and Big Ian will win any “ugliest T-shirt”-contest hand down. It will be a tie between them. But really: Roger, Little Ian and Don are a close third, forth and fifth! 🤣
The song is nice though, always liked it. Don’s mock theremin sounds are great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qf9O6c20o
March 15th, 2025 at 08:16We can’t mention ‘theremin’ here without pointing to Clara Rockmore!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdFSU8sn3mo
March 15th, 2025 at 08:29A wonderful version and Vincent Price is back again, bless him. Good all round sound there and Morse’s solo is very good with that restrained approach, no twiddly dee bits. Certainly puts the ‘aficionados’ in place who say that that lineup was too ‘light’ or whatever they have said along those lines. Comical really, but some people have really short memories. Thanks for posting. Cheers.
March 15th, 2025 at 09:08@ 4- thanks Uwe, very moving that performance from Clara. To think that that instrument was created app 100 years ago. Being silly now, we can get AI to do all these things now, humans have served their purpose. Cheers.
March 15th, 2025 at 10:25Brilliant…and , dare I say …The good old days ! When the band was exciting ! I really miss Steve …bring him back !
March 15th, 2025 at 13:07I really don’t like what the band has become now
I’ve never liked this song,
rather, a sense of hatred perhaps.
It’s definitely a song that only DP could do, but it’s probably the only Purple song that repulses me, as much as Queen’s Invisibile Man made me sick from the first time I heard it.
Don’t ask me for technical explanations on this, it’s just a matter of these two songs transmitting to me absolute zero, cosmic nothingness (something that no other song by Purple or Queen has ever done)
March 15th, 2025 at 14:16I was at that show! At the Budokan in Tokyo in April 2014! Ian had worn that same faux tux t-shirt just a few days before in London at the Royal Albert Hall for the Jon Lord tribute concert.
March 15th, 2025 at 14:34“It was like everybody woke up—like Rumpelstiltskin, you know, from their long sleep. And we all started rocking again”.
Contrary to Don’s comment, this LIVE cut shows Steve wide awake and rockin’ on stage.A heavy riff and great solo.
March 15th, 2025 at 17:55The song is a bit grittier here than on the album, and all the better for it. Great stuff!
@10: I quite agree, but I notice that Steve is smiling here. There are plenty of performances where–and I can’t blame him for it; he’s always rock-solid–he doesn’t have the energy and zest he had in the nineties with Purple.
March 15th, 2025 at 18:26Hi Andrew- Yeah,you could see that,with his wrist problems,it wasn’t always fun for Steve.
March 15th, 2025 at 18:49Btw,I don’t have the energy and zest I had in the 90s anymore,either. Ha !
Auntie Pulplette, l u tulning Japanese?
https://youtu.be/nGy9uomagO4
https://youtu.be/2IMAXMpt-P0
March 15th, 2025 at 19:13(Who said Klauts can’t sound like Toto if they give it ein bisschen a tly? Vee haff ze vvvays … Gleat numbel at the time!)
Can’t we all just agree that Ritchie, Tommy, Joe, Steve and Simon all had/have their strengths and weaknesses, yet still left their indelible stamps on the various line-ups?
That ‘who is better or worse?’ is sooo beside the point. DP have never had anything less than remarkable guitarists, period.
March 15th, 2025 at 20:15I really, really love the Steve Morse era of Deep Purple. I will stick up for them forever.
March 15th, 2025 at 23:06Wonderful albums, great concerts.
Fla 76 …I guess that’s down to everyone’s personal taste …and there’s nothing wrong in that !
March 16th, 2025 at 00:20It’s actually one of my favourites and the first song that I actually played twice from Now What …but, if we all liked the same or agreed on everything, it would be a very boring world !
Personally, I’m never gonna take to Simon ( even though he is a brilliant player …he’s not Deep Purple class …he’s just a session player that’s filling a gap until they quit ..which won’t be long )
And after the comments about Steve from some of the band…I feel quite repulsed ! Steve never said anything bad about them and has come out of this whole thing with class and dignity
@ 14 – no one here at present is saying what you are implying Uwe. People are only talking about what they like, either the song or the lineup. In regards to Joe (Satriani) being mentioned by you, point me to when he was a member of Deep Purple, albums, songs etc and I will add him to the members list. Cheers.
March 16th, 2025 at 05:24This song Vincent Price is a perfect example of the two forces combining so well. Lyrics with the music. Whichever way it happened it works so well. I can just imagine the lads jamming on this feel and with Gillan hearing it and then Vincent was invoked from the other side. Or it could have been the lyrics that he had and he asked the guys to come up with something eerie, brooding and dark. A brilliant and fine tribute to Vincent Price it is. I am sure he would have enjoyed hearing it and we just never know, maybe he did. Cheers.
March 16th, 2025 at 07:06if I had to pick one, Tokyo 2014 is probably my favourite latter day Deep Purple concert film.
It is extremely well recorded. Pure joy in the video / audio department
Hellfest 2017 is stellar, but sadly dvd only
We need another few concert films from Infinite onwards!
March 16th, 2025 at 10:15I saw Joe with Purple at a full gig, so I could at least imagine how things might have turned out, lieber Herr MacGregor. A member he never was, but being the first guy to replace Ritchie since Tommy’s ill-fated attempt 19 years before qualifies him for me as more than a sideman. Playing lead guitar with Purple live is hardly a sideman role by any means. And he did things in his role live no one before or after him ever did, listen to those lightning-fast arpeggios he does here during KAYBD @05:39 and 06:39:
https://youtu.be/FXag1wAemoU
If Joe would have failed live, I doubt we would have seen an Mk VII, VIII or IX. He made DP realize they had legs to walk with even without Ritchie. I think that makes his short tenure with the band special, pivotal and worthy of being remembered.
March 16th, 2025 at 18:37