Deep Purple fans in here???

[Cosmicman]

Any Deep Purple fans here?
I do reviews for magazines and web blogs. I like this one so much I figured I'd post it in here...


I got this for my birthday today. It is a double DVD set of new Deep Purple live footage at Montreux celebrating the night of the 40th Festival.
This is awesome! This is the reason why Ian Gillan is one of idols!
Steve Morse's guitar playing and Ian Paice's drums sound incredible. Roger Glover is still one the best bass players by far and you can't even tell Jon Lord is gone with Don Airey on keyboards. Deep Purple comes together hard in this double DVD set. I keep playing it over and over.
The second DVD is a bonus DVD of Deep Purple at the Hard Rock Cafe, up close and personal. It is pretty close let me tell you.
The bonus interviews are awesome also. They explain why Jon Lord exited the band. It was all on good terms.
Their new album, "Rapture of The Deep" is unbelievable. You can hear some live cuts on here. If you are Deep Purple fan, pick this up!!

[saildog]

I've only recently gotten into Deep Purple. Definitely like their sound, but I don't know much about the band and the only stuff I've heard is on the Greatest Hits CD I picked up a few weeks ago. I like all the tunes on that disc.

Cool review. Wouldn't mind checking that DVD set out.

(I've only recently discover how much I like Iron Maiden and Dio, as well. Don't know why I passed over bands like up 'til now because I've alway enjoyed heavy metal and hard rock.)

[Count Creepyhead]

I'm not a huge fan, but I really like "Machine Head" and "Perfect Strangers"

[HardyGirl]

The only song I know is Smoke On The Water.

[Adam West]

The only song I know is Smoke On The Water.

The first chords to the song are the ones that I think everyone learns how to play quickly when they first pick up a guitar. Great song and great group.

[hobub]

Of course. Live from the Playboy Mansion, Deep Purple!

[Hulk]

One of my favorite 70's bands, nothing pumps you up more for a night of hard partying than cranking up Deepest Purple.

[Cosmicman]

One of my favorite 70's bands, nothing pumps you up more for a night of hard partying than cranking up Deepest Purple.

Cool. I knew there was a reason I liked you!! Deep Purple rules!! Awesome music to crank up before going to do something that you need to be pumped up. I used to crank up Machine head before my band would play a big show at the Annex or the Barrymore Theatre.

[hobub]

Wow Demon and Hulk I've always felt the same about Purple. Here's another sleeper band that I also like to crank up for the pump from the same era Nugent's Dukes

P.S. Paul, but the only think I like about rap is watching you dance around the pole at a stripclub


Len

[kingcarm]

Wow...no Ritchie Blackmore (the man in Black) on Guitar? I think Deep Purple is one shade lighter without him.

[txteach]

Ian Gillan did some good stuff with Sabbath. I remember in H.S. Rocking out with smoke on the water, hush, and my womans from Tokyo.

[megoat]

zzzzzzzzzz

[Cosmicman]

Ian Gillan hated being in Black Sabbath

Ian Gillan did some good stuff with Sabbath. I remember in H.S. Rocking out with smoke on the water, hush, and my womans from Tokyo.

The whole album and tour was kind of an accident he wound up in Black Sabbath. "Born Again" was a good album but Ian wasn't happy with any of the production or memorizing their lyrics. He left shortly after the tour and formed the Ian Gillan band, which years later thankfully Deep Purple reformed the Machinehead lineup to create the famous album, "Perfect Strangers" and the rest is history.

Here is Ian Gillan talking about some of embarrassing moments and the infamous Black Sabbath Stonehenge stage that was later used as a prop for comedy in the Spinal Tap movie because it was such a stupid idea.

YouTube - Ian Gillan - Black Sabbath / Born Again -stories

PS. Sorry for the long wind. Ian Gillan is one of my idols. I worship him like some people in here worship original mego boxes.

[EMCE Hammer]

I have a boot of Born Again before Geezer Butler ruined it with that awful mix job. It's not half bad. Perfect Strangers is one of my favorite songs; I was on cloud nine the first time I heard it. Ian amazes me with the range he still has.

And those Sabbath stories are hilarious.

[kingcarm]

I have a boot of Born Again before Geezer Butler ruined it with that awful mix job. It's not half bad.

Hey Bro, any chance of burning me a copy of that. I'd love to hear it.