That could be interesting just such a shame it JLT doing vocals , dio would of really made it good.Do they have a website ??

Thought it was time to get this thread back on the go, just been listening to la Villa Strangiato, Tom Sawyer and YYZ. One of the top bands I have ever seen, great music, musicians..the musicians musicians for me. Got to be the best three piece ever in my books.

Paul Gilbert 24th Nov

All the three Experience members have gone now, what wonderful and fab music they all have left behind

I read somewhere on the net that they will be doing some outdoor gigs in the UK next summer

May get some respect !! They have always had respect, All electric Guitarists should learn a few of Angus's solos, his phrasing of the pentotonic major and minor stuff is really good, comes up with some great solos ...

Yes lets hope so, but I would imagine they will

Really peeved, I logged on at work at 10am with pin code, got 2 tickets up at 4 mins past for the london show, by the time I got to buy tickets, it said my time had run out to buy tickets, I went back did it again and at 10.10 the gig was sold out..I was lived, I rang and it was engeged untill gone 11.00 am at which point they had added another show at 11am, that too sold out by the time I got thru ....YIKES...rand Birmingham and they had sold out too. JUst hope they add more, if not its going to me beeing fleeced on a concert Package to Europe .

getting email from O2 saying I could pre book tickets for ACDC tomorrow morning.

Here is the Uk gigs for the tour, they go on sale tomoorow morning at 10am, shall be getting mine online tomorrow all being well 14 Apr 2009 London O2 Arena 2008-10-17 October 17 21 Apr 2009 Manchester MEN 2008-10-17 October 17 23 Apr 2009 Birmingham NEC 2008-10-17 October 17 I expect more will be added as they seem to be going like hot cakes everywhere else. Its 17years since I last saw them.

Congrats Ritchie, There is a short interview with Candice in Classic rock this month, when asked if she is the Yoko Ono and stopping Ritchie playing with Purple/Rainbow again, she replied look Ritchie is Ritchie and he will do what he wants...I tend to agree..sadly missed though in the rock world ..although I think they said he plays alot more electric guitar on the new album and covers a Rainbow tune.

Have to say in the 80's I loathed their music, but in the the 90's with Warren Cuccurullo on guitar and i have to say Ordinary world is a really great song with some tastful guitar..I also liked the Covers album Thank You with the Zep classic with again some tastefull guitar work .

That must of been good, I read that alot of the tour you saw had empty seats, Purple were just very popular then and i guess Ritchies name wasn't a big draw there as it was in UK !!

Don't think its pos in my opinion, I would like to see MK III again. Jon Lord has said that he would like to do one last DP gig were all members play from every lineup..if he could pull that off then I for one would be like last year getting a Zep ticket, i would sell my gran

Well you can go and see him in tights and minstrel hat with Blackmore's Night

I would take one last Rainbow gig

How cool on both come back Ritchie for one last gig ...please !!

Yeh its a good one , DIo and Blackmore were made for each other.

It wouldn't of happened, the world wanted the MK II lineup in its entirety !!

Yes very much so, but I do wish Steve would be a little more animated

With respect to the 3/5 of the classic lineup, without Lord/Blackmore it just isn't the same however good The Morse era songs are !! I think he is brill but Blackmore as you know to me is just cool !! I saw MK II four times, MK V once, MK VII once and MK VIII twice. Although V with JLT was a bit well its JLT the gig I saw was cool as they opened with MKIII's Burn (and thats my fave Blackmore riff) so that was good as would have loved to see MKIII line up !! Morse does the Blackmore stuff real justice though, he really is awsome !!

got the post wrong !!

Yes I know what you mean, I still go to Purple gigs but its like watching a really realy good tribute band with one original member in it !!

Steve is one of my all time fave guitar players, wonderful technique, tasteful player, he has it all in my opinion, but he isn't Ritchie who was a showman and has written some trully great rock songs, but Steve is a great player

Ditto