at home I have a 5.1 version….

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No, this is not nonsense and might even work these days, but I think they hold on and stay true to what they think is right, and when they got back together they did not think this was a good idea. Now the solo stuff is so old I doubt it would present much, especially world wide, although a good part of European crowds would know the songs, but the rest of the world never even heard them.

Gillan’s Inn should not be listened to in stereo, I believe it was intended to sound bad in order to pump the 5.1 version, which is 100 times better sounding.

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ah…
what is your favourite color???
Pink???

Yes,sure I know, I wrote about MK2 members..

in my last past days I played Gillan’s Inn louder than ever in my car..

I’d like to think that sometime on tour DP plays pieces
each one from his solo discography (one piece by Gillan’s,one from Morse’s,one from Glover’s,one from Paice’s and Aire’s).

Am I nonsense?

ciao
cheers

;-?

I’m just waiting for you to ask…”What’s Your Favorite Color?”

Cheers

Also, on Gillan’s Inn were Satriani, Airey and Morse.

SOTW featured a studio version by the mk7 w/Lord line up revisited, along with JR, someone who obviously was guesting for sales purposes… how he and Gillan ever hooked, must have been an outside suggestion.

We all know Blackmore was their in spirit, as homage was paid to his writing, by those who played his guitar parts. Better than nothing, as it’s the last type of thing Ritchie would ever be involved in, physically.

Jon Lord made THE HOOCHIE COOCHIE MEN and Gillan featured on it.

Gillan made Gillan’s Inn and Jon Lord (also Glover and Paice) featured on it.

Ritchie Blackmore reamins always lonely….

eh…Why?

I have to disagree on your statements that Gillan caused Ritchie to do what he did. We are all responsible for our own actions. Gillan was addressing Ritchie’s desire not to do the encore. Ritchie got his way. But not at Gillan’s expense. The Fans who paid for a proper show are who lost out here. Also, as I stated above, when one decides to derail the rest of the band in a gig, someone has to step up and call him on the carpet as I had to do with our Bass Player. My situation happened early on in our gigging days, and once I stepped in and took my stand, it never happened again. It’s an intolerable act. Just as with Axel Rose walking off stage as he did repeatedly. He needed his Arse Whipped instead of pandering to him. It’s a lucrative business and those few whom make it to top as these musicians have, do so by the dollars and following of their fans. The Show Must Go On. Nobody is above that. Especially those who are lucky enough to get that record deal and tour the world on the income of those who rush to see them. Had Gillan backed up his ‘Finger Poking’ with a plausible threat to shove his harmonica up Ritchie’s Ass if he left the stage, I think there would have been an encore. Ian towers over ‘Little Richard’ and should have forced the issue. Then they could have all left after a Proper show and gone to the Pub for Lager. That’s what we did. As soon as we finished our last set, before breaking down our equipment (we didn’t have the luxury of Roadies), we walked over to the bar and pounded down some Dark Ale and discussed the issue and put it behind us, right then and there. We played together for 6 more years without another occurrence like that.

Alan Northwood:

Again, a repeated statement that is unwarranted regarding which line-up is as good as the other…..IT’S PERSONAL TASTE. Rating which is best? There is no such way to judged that. Been a fan for 40 years and have been equally moved by them all. Do I prefer some tunes over others? Sure. Even within the same MK. But None have been any better than the other. It depends on YOUR personal taste and that’s it.

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Okay, if that’s really what you meant… but the fact of the matter is that Ian was sticking up for everyone involved. Jon Lord’s recall of this show was that they were “all” seriously pissed off at Ritchie that whole day because he was mocking their enthusiasm for the entire set of Wembley shows, because he wasn’t happy with the MTV coverage on one of the nights, and the fact that he was not their focus “we were being covered, Deep Purple, all of us, not just Ritchie Blackmore.” Jon’s words there, he also said Ritchie tried to redirect one cameraman down an exit corridor.(funny, but talk about a bully)

Ritchie might act big for his britches, but he’s quite lucky Ian never popped him one over the years, and he knows it. So a little poke to tell him to shape up isn’t exactly out of line… it’s much more out of line to shit on your audience because they don’t respond like kneeling worshipers, when it just might be your own fault because you’re not into even being there at the time.(really, where was his head, in some German castle 10 years in the future?)

I see more mention of Ian’s drinking… as if Ritchie doesn’t drink, plenty! Give me a break, they both hit it too often if you ask me.

@40

“One thing to remember…” that’s your opinion.
Some don’t care, some do… and some disagree, probably the ones who don’t care and know that age is not reversible… regardless of Ritchie, he is old too. I don’t think in 1985 they were as good as they once were with him, so what are you trying to say? Comparing him to himself is the same outcome as comparing him to someone else… neither of them seem to improve anymore… comparing them is the problem.

One thing to remember. Deep Purple without Ritchie are simply not as good as they were when he was with them. Still enjoyable though and I will be at the NEC in November

Long live Rock ‘n’ Roll

Right - wrong, who are we you to say?

How does “stupid” look, is it recognizable in the snow?

(man that’s shallow)

This is now : Deep Purple Mk. 8
Ian Gillan, Steve Morse, Don Airey, Roger Glover, Ian Paice
For the fans and the audience
Long live….

Cheers

Which is why I misspell so many words….

I’ll drink to that…

Cheers

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In a related story of my own….

My band ‘LOzT CAUz’ was playing a gig at a fairly large Pub one night. We were scheduled to play from 10pm till 2am. We would break up the night into 4 sets of 10 songs. We were running a little behind schedule and when 2 o’clock struck and we finished the 8th song on the list, our Bass player unplugged his equipment and was done. I looked over at the guitarist and he looked at me and both of us were pissed. The crowd was really having a good time and very into our music. We had a huge argument with the Bass player over the fact that we wanted to finish the set. He was ‘Clock Watcher’ and had no interest in going past his paid time. The patrons were chanting for more. I sat on the drums and began playing a beat and motioned to the Bass player that if he didn’t turn on his shit, he was going to go home with a drum stick up his ass. The guitar player began to join in and we started jamming with the beginning of the tune we supposed to play….’Warpigs’. Eventually the Bass player turned on his amp and joined in. We had a great finish and after that gig, we had a meeting and settled the issue of leaving the stage without the rest of the band. It’s a Friggin’ NO NO!!!!

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hahahahaaa, D’you guess what you said?
What is the comparison betwen TV shows and journalists with straight suits, Theater Actors with the text they know by heart…. O My God….
ROCK MUSIC man, this is NOT TV, this is NOT theater performance, this is NOT parliaments session to wear straight jackets… THIS IS ROCN’N'ROOOOOOOOOOLL………
This is Deep Purple - rock group, inspired by natural emotions, natural feelings, SPIRIT OF FREEDOM you know…

This is NOT Led Zeppelin who did what their fans wanted them to do.
Deep Purple is a free band of free musicians….

I agree you that every musician must do their best on stage to give a pleasure to the audience… and so did Gillan… sometimes maybe he was overdrunk but it is his business, and as a SINGER he always did/does his best.

on Come Hell Or High Water DVD Gillan is so drunk that sometimes he hardly manages not to fall, but what??? his voice was a bit spoiled during TBRO Tour, but he always did amazing job…

NO ONE CAN TEACH IAN GILLAN HOW TO MAKE AUDIENCE HAPPYBY THE PERFORMANCE!!! no matter drunk or not, he always manages to keep every human (in the 30 000 and more audience)smiling, jumping and being happy by the music…

Ian Gillan is a typical and iconic band LEADER, he can always lead the band and the whole audience during the show, is he drunk or not… charisma man, charismaaaaaa…

So, Peter Elliott, please, if you want to see academic singers in straight jackets, then Rock isn’t your cup of tea, I think you’d better to go to Opera houses more often…

But we love Rock’N'Roll, we love drive, energy, crazyness… so let us see Ian Gillan overdrunk on stage once more

You obviously don’t know much about the order of things before and after, and sometimes during DP gigs in 85 to 93.
Blackmore drank before the shows, always going on stage good and primed. Gillan on the other hand would do his heavy drinking afterward.

So he had a beer handy througout that show, big deal, Blackmore had a half a fifth of scotch prior to it. Which one is going to really hurt?
Beer is like water compared to whiskey.

Don’t be so gullible, where was it Ritchie and Ross headed off to… the pub?

Don´t waste your time on them.

Or maybe the rest of the band had enough of Blackmore leaving them on stage……..time to get their own back!

Who cares…….Blackmores gone…….long live Deep Purple!!

It wasn´t obviously the entire band that opted against the encore, as Paicey was also on stage. But in all honesty Blackmore doesn´t seem to be as upset about it as you think he would. Whoever advised the sound be switched off, he didn´t seem to hold a grudge against anyone.

But why suggest they played a song they never acutally did(Strangeways)?

Gillan was being a selfish idiot by drinking throughout the show. Drunken performers rarely make for an endearing sight or sound. By getting intoxicated, Gillan was showing total disrespect for the band. Gillans’ autobiog clearly reveals he had a drink problem during this era.

When I had my own band I made it a ruling that no member was allowed onstage intoxicated in any way. For one, it would affect the overall performance and that would all reflect on me as singer and leader. I fired one member after a dire gig… he was a guitarist and he had taken some illegal substance unknown to me and the gig was a nightmare as he screwed everything up. Made us look like total prats. After the show we had a post mortem and when I realised what the guitarist had done, I fired him there and then.

How would it look if the biggest TV chat show hosts went on air tipsy or drunk? Or you go to a theatrical show and one of the actors is drunk? It all rubs off and affects everybody else’s performance as they have to try and hide the fact as best as possible that one member is not fully on form.

Blackmore can be a moody sod at the best of times but on this occasion he was absolutely right to refuse the encore. Gillan had been unprofessional and showed him and the rest of the band up.

(TO THE THS.COM ADMIN, I THINK IT’S QUITE IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING VIDEO, SO PLEASE, POST IT ON THE THS.COM BLOG)

BUT a few days ago I watched video on YouTube, from THOBL Tour, from Paris Bercy, when after the main set ONLY Ritchie came to stage to do encore, he played Smoke riff, but he wasn’t joint by the band, so ritchie waved hands to the audience and said bye to them…

I still don’t know why other members decided not to play encore In Paris Bercy, in 1987…

here’ the video:

three encores were quite usual in September 1988. They closed the main show with “Knocking At Your Backdoor” (with “Space Truckin’” closing figure) and later on went to the set of four encore songs: “Woman From Tokyo”, “Speed King (with “Burn” riff), “Hush” and “Smoke…” Some ‘European ‘88 gigs are true killers. In 1993 occasonally there were three encores - in Germany theyt started adding “Hush” and then “Speed King” and “Smoke”. The biggest diversity was in 1987 (”WTF”, “BN”, “Smoke”, “Hush” at times)… The author of the story would need to give at least a year to verify this! Still it’s usual that they tend to remember that the bell was ringing but they never know in which church actually.

This story could happen in London Brixton 1993, on the first night! This was the time where Ritche had these immense trouble with equipment so he cut the show short to the maximum.

(silence is mocking?)

But Ross is up to his same old bitter bullshit.
He cites the drama… let it ensue… but is this really the place for this same old trash? It’s full of the same old argument ingredients.

However, what does that “W” sign actually mean then, and how do you do a gesture like that which obviously requires both hands to be made, when you´re actually supposed to be playing guitar?

I can understand that Ritchie had enough of Ian’s drunk behavior, but to let the rest of the DP members standing there on the stage before al those fans wondering what the hell happend, and why Ritchie left the stage.
That’s a realy sad action, to let your other band members down like that.
It’s not there fault that Ian’s drunk, that’s one thing that pisses me of with blackmore always only thinking about himself.

sorry..