The other way around as well…..

Huh?

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whats YOUR point?

I have already stated that I still like the latest version of DP, I just wish they could write something stunning again thats all…If they don’t have the ability to do this with the current line-up go and find someone to write something for them! They don’t need to re-invent the wheel, just compose a song or 2 that can compete with what they did before! IG has shown that he still has this in him with OETM, unfortunately he doesn’t have the suppoprt of a secondary songwriter to produce something great…less is more for the next offering please. I never came across a truly succesful band that composed for complexities sake. This is a common mistake that young writers make, not musicians with the experience, ability and training of Steve and Don. It’s there job to give Ian & Roger the musical foundations on which they can once again build those great melodies…

I know they are enjoying what they are doing, but the fans need something brilliant to look forward to in the shows without having constantly pillage the back catalogue.

@32 Good and Crap are not the only analogies you know. We as Purple fans know what this band do well and it’s not JUST improvise.

It just works however you like, or not.
My overall point is that it tends to annoy to have to read the same one liners concerning this stuff. It tends to bore unless it’s well constructive to the point where it actually might cause a change in the situation, but it’s pretty evident that isn’t going to be the case.

Go ahead and give that short list of those doing any better after this long in the game…. you sound as if you know there is better out there, follow them while you’re at it, bottom line, love it or leave it if you can’t deal with it, because it’s simply not going to change for a band this far beyond their prime.

They invented the wheel with DP InRock, so why keep trying to believe they can re-invent that wheel every time out… can’t they just have fun for the rest of the duration? If not for fun they would have never surfaced, then things became like work and the fun factor became so reduced that I’m happy they cut that cord and got back to the idea of what being in a band is first and foremost about, regardless of the whining it’s produced in those who expect the world of them… they’re only human.

On or off the bandwagon, it’s up to you, but there are fans who can care less about the small stuff.

@29

Whats ‘good’ to you, might be crap to others, okay?

The last 15 year has really been adding to my depressive tendencies

Whats good is good

The past was BETTER and it still makes me wanna jump out my chair of sheer joy
Watching the now DP always gets on my nerves, except for when he s sort of quiet, then its almost possible to enjoy……

Although I m not very pleased Jon left I CAN stand Don a lot better

So thats proves your point wrong

HIS adding to the band is a change I can live with

Ofcourse its something else

When its not dramatic or exiting it should be left out

MY OPINION

What you’re saying doesn’t make a bit of difference whatsoever, it’s an opinion that there is a significance to what you’re saying, but it’s just that, an opinion. Thanks.

Good answer Stoffer, I love the Morse, Airey version too (Live mainly and some songs…:-) but the legacy is 69-75, without this and the huge commercial success achieved by this era we would have no Purple.

Maybe a good one for a new thread?

Hope not ! Cheers to all.

I’m totally astounded how ACDC’s latest album received so much positive press. They just crank out the same stuff album after album. I’m sure ACDC fans might argue to the contrary though. I guess “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” obviously works for them. But here is a band, essentially from the same vintage as Purple but these bozos are revered as being current and hip - *shrugs shoulders*

Take Zepp’s concert in he UK a year or so ago. All these celebrities rocking up to the show and it was all over the news, all this for what amounted to nothing more than a best of concert. I know it was pretty cool to see them on stage again but there was never any mention of them being a “dinosaur band” from a bygone era. No, it was like here is a once in a lifetime chance to see the best rock band of all time. Give me a break!!!

CHEERS TO YOU ALL !!!!

Cudos Mr. Gillan….now, be the total Front Man for Purple and tell those Managers how to do it up right….

Cheers

About time his album gets the media coverage it so rightly deserves: it’s his best solo work since Toolbox(Gillan’s Inn not counting), and been listening to it whenever I can/have the time!

Now, I just collect interesting song titles which can come from anywhere. I have hundreds of them which can be adapted to fit a musical idea. A title is a good place to start since it defines what kind of mood a song is going to be and can serve as the germ of an idea.

btw, Gillan gets unbelievable mass-media support for Morocco, can anyone answer WHY?
One Eye To Morocco became probably the most “talked-about” and “media-supported” album by Purple family members’ works, for the last decades…