On Aug 12, 11:14Â am, wenquan lee
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:> On Aug 9, 11:39Â pm, Morning Glory
yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 9, 8:10Â am, Dale Houstman
skypoint.com> wrote:>
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>>>> Deep Purple is a flash in the pan kind of group which doesn't merit
>>>> much except for a handful of tunes. Pearl Jam, however, were a
>>>> prominent grunge band at the time.
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>>> I suspect you haven't heard much of Deep Purple beyond their handful of
>>> (huge) hits, but they were a very exciting live band,
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>> In fact, to tell the truth, I had a friend who was a co-worker of mine
>> that I collaborated with on story about Deep Purple. We did plenty of
>> research, went to concerts (I purchased tickets and went with him to
>> see them live in concert at the California Jam Festival in '74 (now on
>> DVD), listened to three out of four of their studio albums and met
>> them backstage. I enjoyed listening to Blackmore's exciting guitar
>> playing and his improvisational skills were outstanding (in fact I
>> later heard they were almost banned from playing in America ever
>> again), but what was missing was clearly the fact that the lyrics of
>> the songs were just pedestrian in relation to the music performance,
>> in fact the band members didn't impress me as human beings. Blackmore
>> struck me as being quite snobbish with a keen awareness of his
>> greatness (he didn't say much to my friend, but I was aware that he
>> indeed thought highly of himself). Surprisingly, when I brought up the
>> subject of Neo-medievalism to warm him up to interviewing he became
>> more tolerable. Gillian was the opposite of Blackmore and quite
>> enjoyable. The others didn't leave strong impressions on me, so I
>> don't quite remember them except what happened to one of their roadies
>> who threw a beer bottle at the wall barely missing poor Roger Glover's
>> head (tee-hee) by an inch!
Actually this event took place at an earlier concert (maybe a couple
of months before this) , I keep messing up the years because my most
first encounter with the guys was when Gillian was in the band- what a
nice, friendly guy he was, compared to the egotistical ass that
Coverdale was. He was interested in our photographer- Jim who was
carrying around his camera backstage. I'll never forget what Coverdale
said to Jim: "Am I going to be on the cover?", "No", "Well then, why
do the damn story?"
Jim and I had a laugh about that.
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> i think pj's eddie vedder has a great voice (although again, from a
> technical perspective, soundgarden/audioslave's chris cornell is
> probably technically better)
I agree here.
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> haven't listened to too much deep purple but enjoyed your stories -
> will check them out now!
You should check out the DVD of Deep Purple live in '74. At the end,
you can see Ritchie destroying everything he can lay his hands on. I
remember hearing his loud voice down the hallway after the concert
(apparently he was still pissed that the band had to go early before
their scheduled visit and the roadies weren't very helpful in setting
up the equipment). I looked at my friend and he looked at me and we
thought the same thing: This is going to be one hell of a night!
