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JON LORD and BRUCE DICKINSON Perform With DEEP PURPLE In London
- Sep. 26, 2008
According to a posting on the DEEP PURPLE fan site The Highway Star, PURPLE was joined by former keyboardist Jon Lord for five songs at this year's Sunflower Jam 2008 on Thursday, September 25 at the Porchester Halls, London, England. This marked the first time that Lord has performed with the band in several years. Extended versions of "Hush" and "Wring That Neck" insured that fans of Lord's Hammond style were sent home happy. Singer Ian Gillan had the flu and as a consequence the band reshuffled the setlist to include more instrumental pieces.
The group's setlist was as follows:
01. Pictures Of Home
02. Strange Kind Of Woman
03. Hush (with Jon Lord)
04. Wring That Neck (with Jon Lord)
05. Mary Long
06. Highway Star
07. Contact Lost
08. Steve Morse Solo
09. Well Dressed Guitar
10. Smoke On The Water (with Jon Lord and IRON MAIDEN's Bruce Dickinson)
11. Black Night (with Jon Lord and Bruce Dickinson)
12. Lucille (with Jon Lord and Bruce Dickinson)
The Sunflower Jam is an evening of rock 'n' roll unlike any other. Artists such as Robert Plant, Margot Buchanan, Paul Weller, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice have all come together in the past to support The Sam Buxton Sunflower Healing Trust. The Sam Buxton Sunflower Healing Trust is an exciting new charity that aims to provide integrated, supportive care for cancer patients in the UK. The charity was created in 2006 and since then has supported thousands of cancer patients and their families.
For more information, visit www.thesunflowerjam.com.
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DEEP PURPLE Singer 'Burns Down The House' At Charity Auction
- Sep. 26, 2008
According to a posting on the DEEP PURPLE fan site The Highway Star, a quiet family dinner next to a charity event at a Portuguese resort Santa Barbara De Nexe turned into an impromptu performance for PURPLE singer Ian Gillan. The Portugal News Online reports: "As diners dug deep in their pockets for an Albufeira based children’s charity, Ian Gillan, who had been dining privately with his wife and daughter, was encouraged to provide an impromptu performance of one of the greatest rock classics of all time, 'Smoke On The Water'. Ian was backed on guitar by resident local musician Howard Scott Parkin who jumped at the opportunity to play with the DEEP PURPLE frontman, if only for one song."
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come back Ritchie for one last gig ...please !! -
I just borrowed rainbow - live in munich 1977 from library... this stuff is amazing!!!!!!!!!!
Yeh its a good one
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What if Ronnie Dio would of become the singer in '84 reunion?
It wouldn't of happened, the world wanted the MK II lineup in its entirety !!
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Steve and Ritchie come from 2 diff guitar styles but they both kick ass on stage!
Yes very much so, but I do wish Steve would be a little more animated
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3/5 of the classic MkII lineup though.
I've never even seen Purple, but you can tell it's not the same without Ritchie when listening to live recordings.
I will say though that Purpendicular and Rapture of the Deep are very good albums with some great songs on them, probably better than anything the reformed MkII lineup put out between '87 and '93. Certainly better than than Slaves & Masters!
I think they should play more Morse era tunes live.
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 !!
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Along with Ritch, Purple lost its reliability. I have alvays been on same opinion with Ritchie on Gillans voice... he left it somewhere early 80's. Steve Morse is a great guitarist, but he can't make same like atmosphere as Ritchie (and I'm not meaning human relationships now!!!). The resingment of Jon Lord was Purples last breath. I like Well Dressed Guitar, but they really miss something. They should of stop when Lord left.
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 !!
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What do you good people think about STEVE MORSE?!:)
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
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What Deep Purple member you would be?
I would be Blackmore 'cos i'm very same like character; moody, difficoult...so on...!
Ditto
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I wish there'd been at least one more studio album with Bolin, I really like "Come Taste the Band".
I guess "Days May Come and Days May Go" makes up for it, there's some great jamming going on there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQKWZIcW7O4
Yeh I like CTTB too don't get me wrong but the tour they did was dogged by poor performances by him...The james gang stuff is cool though
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Tommy Bolin was a heroine user and he was expelled because of it. He poked his playing hand full of drugs and he couldn't play in months. (That's what I've been heard) Dont't know did Hughes or Coverdale give any stuff to Ritchie or Jon. But I herd somewhere, that Ritchie was nearly always drunk on stage.
I have never heard about Ritchie being drunk on stage !! On the Tommy Bolin front, the drugs must of affected his playing, when youlook at some ot the footage of him with Purple on stage he plays really awful and he just couldn't cope playing Ritchies style of playing in songs like Highway Star etc !!
Shame really as he was a talent sometimes.
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Rock'n'Roll..Zep
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At first I survived my first orchestra rehearsal. The piece we play (tragic symphony by Schubert) scares the hell out of me, but it went better than I expected.
And then, this afternoon, I started working on my first try to compose a classical piece.
It's gonna be a duett of violin and viola and maybe electric guitar...hope I'm not too dumb for it!
are you a violin player in the orchestra ??
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Although I am not religious or spiritual, I had a dream about my late dad this morning where he was standing straight up and I said to him are you out of pain now where you are ? he said yes and I hugged him, I then woke up and felt good about that
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Dunno about Ritchie but Glenn and Tommy were big cocaine users.
Yeh I should of said the MKII linup were a drinking band !!
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Hi Leddy,
If you never got around to hearing it, it's on youtube now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gATmOcoXE2c
Hi Ady cheers for link, its great
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Extreme followed by Paul Gilbert a few days later
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Instrument? I may well have seen him perform, as I used to be partial to the occasional orchestral concert at the Winter Gardens (damn you, Bournemouth council).
RB
He was principle Flute for over 30 years up untill 1988
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Yes, tragic. Far better acoustics than the brick shit-house of the BIC next door, but ultimately politics got in the way of good taste. I even managed two gigs there myself. Was your dad a member of the BSO?
RB
Agreet the Bic is just a sports hall and you know how it sounds in those place
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Did Ritchie ever messed up with any drugs? Or cautch because it?
Not that I know of !! I think that Purple called themselves a drinking band !
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For me its When the Levee Breaks, just sounds so sleazy..The whole song and vocals is very carnal...Epic
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I saw Yes for the first time when this album made its live debut in its entirety at Bournemouth Winter Gardens, UK (venue now a car park), on 16th and 17th November 1973. I also saw them at Southampton, UK, on the Relayer tour during May 1975, and later that year at the 15th Reading Festival, UK. On all occasions they were on top of their game.
RB
Fabulous, I saw them in the 90's and the oo,s
...What a travesty that the Winter gardens has gone !!!! My old Dad played there hundreds of times !!! -
I definitely recall reading in a magazine article in the 70's (probably in Creem, though Circus is a less likely possibility) that Jimmy, during an interview, stated that "Zoso" was an alchemist's symbol for the element Electrum. Does anyone else remember this (or have the source), or has Pagey repeated this claim elsewhere?
Wow is that really you Roy, love Whatever happened to Jugular
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come back Ritchie for one last gig ...please !!
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 
...welcome aboard 
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I would take one last Rainbow gig