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Going crazy with a Purple night

This was my fifth DP show and by far the greatest. The set list was fantastic, the whole band was fantastic, and the crowd got crazy.

I will never forget the moment that Ian asked Steve to keep playing Sometimes […]

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Caracas’ Purple night

What night! A legend closing the South America 2008 Tour.

9.30 p.m.: Gillan, Glover, Paice, Morse & Airey. Sold Out, Sound good (7.5/10) and Purple 10/10!

First time in my country, I travelled 400 miles but, this night was something […]

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Ecuador: Another big night

Deep Purple’s concert in Quito started at 21:10 local hour. The first 20 minutes of the concert were plagued with sound problems, fortunately they were remedied.

The set was full of all time classics: Space Truckin’, Mary Long, Into the […]

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Better than in the seventies

I’m from Barcelona and I was on holiday in Argentina when I discovered a DP show in the classic Luna Park Stadium and, of course, I decided to go.

It was the best DP show I’ve ever seen! Perfect in […]

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Sold out at Luna Park

SOLD OUT!

SUPORT GROUP : La Carga

SET LIST
O1-Picture Of Home (with a bit of Child in Time)
02-Thing I Never Said
03-Into The Fire
04-Strange Kind of Woman
05-Rapture of The Deep
06-Mary Long
07-Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
08-Steve […]

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Friday night in Rio de Janeiro…

As perhaps the international rock act that has visited us most times in the recent years, Deep Purple once again arrived in Brazil for the third visit in the rather long Rapture of the Deep tour.

A Deep Purple gig […]

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Buenos Aires: Simply perfect!

As always before, when I had the chance to see Deep Purple in my country, it was magical, wonderful, engergetic, fantastic, simply perfect!

As a rarity for me I have the privilege of hearing Mary Long live for first time. […]

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Goose bumps in Mexico City

My wife and I were simply thrilled to have attended our first DP concert. It was a long wait and when we were finally face to face with one of our all time favourite bands it was just an outburst […]

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Sao Paulo: I cried a little bit …

Rapture of the Deep’s third passage in my city. We all thought that would be nothing really new besides Mary Long and The Battle Rages On, but… here it is (read the comments after the set list):

Pictures of Home […]

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