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Deep Purple - press review about Essen

13 March 1996

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HEADLINE: FIVE ROCKSTARS HAD THE BLUES

Five not even the youngest men "blow 5000 fans wind out of bones" the band Deep Purple created an extraordinary atmosphere in Grugahalle.

A stage without any 'show theatre ' , stars concentrated on the main thing: Rock n' Roll. Ian Gillan - loud voiced for what he is well known - had best temper and fitness. Roger Glover played a bass frequence "down in the stomach" fat grooved with lot of fun. Jon Lord's organ sounded asa always and will sound in a hundred years. Ian Paice did a powerful and very exactly drummimg . Steve Morse often copied Blackmnore , but he (Morse) always found back to his own play. imaginative and sensible , he seemed to be very integrated and actually he is more than even a Blackmore replacement. The boys played a mixture of old hits to sing with the crowd and some not even popular masterpieces. The new songs didn't reach quality of the old highlights, but that had no influence on the audience good temper . Only one ballad , all the somgs were played very powerful and without any compromise

Deep Purple gets the greatest compliment for that evening, which can be made for Rock'n roll:

They had the Blues !

Well, that was a local daily press review, which is indeed a very good one !

( a bit difficult to translate because of metaphors ...)

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Newsgroups: alt.music.deep-purple
Subject: Essen, Deutschland 13/3/96 - Review in press
From: nickel01@marvin.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
(Thorsten Nickel)



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