Still alive, still got a show
Purpendicular featuring Ian Paice have released a couple of singles from their upcoming album Banned.
You Better Behave:
Blood Red Moon:
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up.
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Purpendicular featuring Ian Paice have released a couple of singles from their upcoming album Banned.
You Better Behave:
Blood Red Moon:
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
The singer is beginning to sound like Burke Shelley from Budgie.
https://youtu.be/ZA1ZtBpT5H0
You Better Behave is an interesting mix of a a Morse era meets Mk IV riff and a psychedelic Mk I chorus.
Blood Red Moon echoes Rainbow’s Jealous Lover with me.
I’ve heard worse/more non-descriptive stuff from Purpendicular. The production sounds a bit cheap, but these guys just don‘t have Purple‘s budget. You can tell by the mix that the drummer is a bit “more equal“ than the others though. 😂
August 21st, 2025 at 01:03Well, I just hope they show up in Denmark in September, then I won’t ask for more this year ☺️
August 21st, 2025 at 05:50Its a shame the rest of the band dont sound like Budgie
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August 21st, 2025 at 11:59hm, music, text and video-artwork partly from KI? Drums a little too mid-tempo-cozy always, i don´t like this projekt, but i like Ian Paice`Drumming with DP still more than very much!
August 21st, 2025 at 12:14I’m not the greatest Purpendicular fan either, but I’d prefer it if they played more of their own stuff live. I find that more interesting as Ian’s involvement goes. I know how he sounds with Purple!
I geddit, Purpendicular’s bread is in being a tribute, but couldn’t they do half-half? I’ve never seen them play more than two of their own songs at any given gig.
August 21st, 2025 at 15:51@5
Maybe it’s just me, but I would be happy if they choose to play children’s songs all night, as long as they show up in September!
I will cheer, clap and NOT sing along 😃
August 21st, 2025 at 19:34I think Demon’s Eye is much better coverband. They played with Jon Lord and Ian Paice. They recorded two albums with their own songs with Doogie White. They are worth checking out.
August 21st, 2025 at 21:37The last album Human Mechanic was an improvement and it was ok in my book if nothing much to write home about. And while I prefer bands playing their new stuff and skipping oldies for it (Stones anybody?) and am very glad DP did at least do 5 new songs on their recent tour I think for Purpendicular 2 songs are enough. Those songs are not THAT brillant and people come to hear a set of classics. Unlike many tribute bands Purpendicular are very loose and change the things around a bit, they make them sound different without losing track – no small feat I’d say. I heard excellent performances from them. Another bonus is getting to hear Mark III stuff and some Whitesnake goodies (NOT from 1987!) too. And a lot of fun and folling around with songs. (After all DP doing Roadhouse Blues came from IP playing it with Purpendicular in a medley with Black Night that got a bit more interesting because of that.)
August 22nd, 2025 at 07:30But the best part by far: Getting to watch IP at work from a few feet distance.
BTW: I begged him to release a solo album of his with swning stuff in the vein of Wring that Neck on the RAH recording – he said he would love to but was very sceptical of who’d buy it. Hands up please, dear bunch!
@8
“he said he would love to but was very sceptical of who’d buy it. Hands up please, dear bunch!”
– I’d buy it in a heartbeat!
Does any one of you know if they’ll show up at the concert if only very few have bought tickets?
August 22nd, 2025 at 12:46I think about 53 (fifty-three 😱) have bought a ticket for the concert in Kolding at the moment.
A friend of mine mentioned: ‘ohh not gonna happen’, but ohh I hope he is wrong.
On the other hand, how few will they play for?
Sure I would buy it. He could ask Macca to guest on it who would surely return the favor of Run Devil Run.
Likewise if anything was ever released of him guesting with the Buddy Rich Orchestra as he sometimes does.
Give Ian my number, I could think of a few other special guests …
https://youtu.be/1_6RQKoCTVY
August 22nd, 2025 at 14:19Karin, I‘ve seen Ian play half-empty small venues with Purpendicular , it was more like a school concert.
August 22nd, 2025 at 19:52@11
Ok thanks Uwe, but 53 is not a great number….
Couldn’t we drum up the lovely people in here to take a little prolonged weekend in Denmark, Jylland, and then attend the concert 😃🤩
August 22nd, 2025 at 20:33Find these tracks sounding very “demo-ish” and lack the essential energy to be exciting unfortunately.
August 22nd, 2025 at 22:40Rock n’ roll has to be exciting 🙂
We wouldn’t be writing a word about Purpendicular here if they weren’t graced by Little Ian’s presence, we all know that. I just tried to be nice, but will now again revert to my usual curmudgeonly self. It’s what people expect from me.
August 23rd, 2025 at 03:59@14
Ok, you continue to be a old grumpy if you want to 😃 but I’m told that the singer in Perpendicular actually is quite something 😊
And I’m dying to see Ian P in action!
August 23rd, 2025 at 09:35I’m afraid that singer in Purpendicular is my greatest issue with the band, he has an unpleasant aura to me, I tend to bristle with him. It’s almost an animal reaction, something about him signals to me the guy is fake.
As such, seeing Purpendicular is for me always a compromise of seeing someone I look forward to (Paicey) and someone I don’t. I don’t have that often with people, but I have it with some, Ian Anderson and Gary Moore as performers among them.
August 24th, 2025 at 11:48@16
“he has an unpleasant aura to me”
– woah you sound almost ‘new-wave-ish’ to me here 😄
“something about him signals to me the guy is fake”
– fake? Like he pretends to sing? 😃
Oh ok, I know what you mean. Actually it is interesting how people have an impact on us.
It’s the chemistry between us that decides how well we get along.
Not often is it possible to point a finger at a certain ‘quality’ or trait, but it can be very distinct that feeling that something is wrong or crooked.
“Ian Anderson and Gary Moore as performers among them.”
– Ian Anderson? Really? A friend of mine quoted some of his lyrics, I found it pretty actually. So what is it about IA you’re not fond of?
Not to pull your ‘pig-tails’ but Taylor Swift actually has this ‘anti-dot’ feeling to me. Can’t explain what it is, but she seems so fake and almost a ‘paperdoll’ trait.
August 24th, 2025 at 17:41I know how you have described her before, how kind she was to some girls who didn’t have a lot of money and she gave them some, so they could eat a good meal. It is sweet, no doubt about it, but when ever I hear her sing, I really feel a bit nauseated.
Have the same with male singers like Elton John and Rod Stewart.
I know most people disagree on that, but I really have this icky feeling 😝
Edith doesn’t like Taylor either! I can understand how she can rub people the wrong way. I’m not a fan (I find her music mostly forgettable and have a hard time telling songs apart), just an interested observer.
I don’t detect any warmth in Ian Anderson’s stage persona, interviews or lyrics – that unsettles me, cold people always do.
August 24th, 2025 at 23:00@18
Oohhh Edith 😃
You find IA cold?
August 25th, 2025 at 09:02I better check him out again then.
JT’s music is 90% cerebral and designed on IA’s virtual drawing board in his intellectual brain. It’s a music you need to acquire a taste for – I never fully did even though I have all these fancy Steven Wilson remixes from them. But listening to Tull is a strictly intellectual exercise for me, Anderson’s music doesn’t move me emotionally. I’ve seen them live too and find his stage demeanor a bit on the unpleasant side. Not the guy in whose band I’d like to play. I definitely found the similarly cerebral Frank Zappa a warmer singer, performer and overall human being.
This with all respect to IA’s unquestionable musical capabilities.
PS: And after more than 50 years of listening to him, I still don’t like his extremely nasal and affected court jester vocals. They are the epitome of un-Rock’n’Roll to me, but JT fans obviously love them.
August 25th, 2025 at 17:33Uwe is no Jethro Tull fan, never has been, it is obvious in his comment. He will tell us he owns so many of their albums, but to me that doesn’t mean anything, he often says he buys albums of artists he doesn’t like??????? He is a music ‘collector’. Not to worry. He has often said that the Warchild 1974 album is his favourite. That in itself says it all. A rather bleak album for many reasons at that time. Each to their own. Tull were known for their humour and in-depth analyse of many things, not to mention their compositions, diversity and melodies etc. Frank Zappa on his death bed contacted Anderson’s manager and said that he would like to talk to Ian. Ian dialled his number twice apparently, but he freaked out and pulled out at the last second. Saying that the difficulty of talking to a dying man was his reason. Fair enough, but he does regret in hindsight that conversation not eventuating. I personally think that Zappa was going to tell him, ‘well done, good effort all-around’, humour, musical arrangements and attitude etc. Tull were a bit Monty Python- esque throughout the 1970’s, I think Zappa would have enjoyed their take on a few things. I could be wrong of course. Anyway, ring out those Solstice bells Uwe. It ain’t all that bad is it? Cheers.
August 25th, 2025 at 22:35@21
“he often says he buys albums of artists he doesn’t like???????“
– EXACTLY! Had me puzzled too, big time.
I would never buy music I didn’t like. But ok, I’m not a hot, tuff, dangerous, ferocious, animalistic, carnivorous, impressive and highly intelligent lawyer, so I guess I just be silent for once 😄
“Saying that the difficulty of talking to a dying man was his reason“
August 26th, 2025 at 07:32– phewww such a baby!
You never go against a dying man’s last wish if you in any way can fully it!
Never really thought about it, but yeah – after listening to Tull for 40+ years now…no, make that 40+ winters, I dig out their albums in autumn and wintertime only…I have to agree: this is an intellectual Vergnügen in the first place. I cannot imagine putting on some Tull when I am just heartbroken or madly in love. Neither when thundering down the road with the windows down or lying there by the lake having a few. Ian Anderson provides the soundtrack for the thinking man sitting by the fire on a winter’s day, smoking the pipe – but strictly tobacco that is.
August 26th, 2025 at 08:07I have yet to meet a Tull fan who ‘loves’ Ian Anderson’s voice. They appreciate it and he does get the job done. Like many lead vocalists, he is better in the lower to mid range. He had a strong voice, until 1984. A distinctive voice too, a bit like Ozzy and a few others. They get the job done for the band and the songs. He is a singer songwriter, who else could sing his own compositions better than what he composes them for? Would another vocalist work at all, why would he want to do that? After 1984 of course his throat was never the same again and like many aging rock music vocalists, he ain’t the same. One of rock musics greatest composers is Anderson, along with Pete Townshend. There are not too many sole songwriters in their realm fronting a loud rock band with their esteemed catalogue behind them. As you said Uwe, throw in Frank Zappa too. These musicians are ‘eccentric’ characters, they are a little ‘out there’, so to speak. Hard to work with at times no doubt. Zappa from what we hear was incredibly difficult, for many reasons. However there are also other musicians who are difficult to work with too, we are aware of some of them from stories, media etc, etc. And talking of media, I have often read that back in the day Anderson was a favourite of many interviewers, handing out quality beers for everyone post concert, engaging in humour, quick wit, being very modest and also respectful to one and all. He certainly wasn’t held in low esteem by many from what I have ever read or that I have witnessed in filmed interviews. Like many people in life, do we get them on a good day or a not so good day. I am not sure that you would ‘know’ either Zappa or Anderson to say that one was ‘warmer’ than the other. You may have been rather surprised there Uwe, if you ever did get to know them. It could very well depend on what mood they were in at the time. Cheers.
August 26th, 2025 at 10:29A lot of care goes into JT’s music, I’ll give it that. I just listened to the new Living In The Past box, it is just as well done as all the similar releases before.
Yes, I indeed “collect” JT, they are after all an idiosyncratic part of the 70s rock scene, I show them respect, even if they don’t really move me. My preference for War Child likely stems from IA’s sax playing on that album, I prefer sax to flute as an instrument. IA has in the meantime of course disowned his attempts at playing sax, but last I heard War Child was JT’s greatest success on the US.
I’ve read IA’s admission that he chickened out of a phone call with a dying Uncle Frank too. Western cultural deformation comes into play here – as a civilization we’re terrible at handling the subject of dying and death and the Western culture handles it especially appallingly, I don’t know why that is.
Yet it’s immature and even impolite to avoid the subject with someone who is dying. I’ve had talks with people my age who are dying about their thoughts, hopes and fears, it’s the least you can do. They tend to appreciate it because it is generally such a taboo. I otoh believe we should teach about death and dying already at school and help people to acquire a set of skills to handle it. What IA did because he never had the chance to acquire that skill was in fact embarrassing and not at all how an adult should carry himself in a situation like that. But hardly untypical for Western society – we’re terrible at death as a biological certainty.
August 26th, 2025 at 12:01@25
“I’ve had talks with people my age who are dying about their thoughts, hopes and fears, it’s the least you can do.“
– exactly! 🙌🏼
We are here for each other people! Don’t be so caught up in your own lives/thoughts/fears!
Reach out – you never know what people go through, and maybe your smile, hug and words were what helped them get through 😍
“we’re terrible at death as a biological certainty.”
– yeah 🥺
When my darling mum died, I was there, at the hospital, at her bed, with my brothers.
It was at the same time the worst and best experience in my life.
You will never regret doing something, but ohhh man you will regret NOT doing anything when it’s irrevocably too late.
BTW:
August 26th, 2025 at 14:41JT – are they a bit into the occult?
@24 – MacGregor, you may have noticed that as early as 1978 Anderson’s voice was sounding extremely harsh and worn out on some of the tracks on “Heavy Horses”.
He recovered his full vocal power on “Stormwatch”, but songs on HH such as “No Lullaby” and “Living In These Hard Times” were a harbinger of the bigger problems that were to come.
Love or hate his singing, who else could have sung his compositions? A cold fish IA may or may not be in real life, but there is ample humour in his lyrics and and considerable human warmth. Especially considering how complex many of the songs are.
A remarkable body of work. To this day, think pretty much everything Tull did up to and including “Broadsword” was pure gold. “Songs From The Wood” possibly the pinnacle.
Re Zappa phone call: in that inteveriew where he talks about not making the call, Anderson mentions that Zappa had badmouthed Tull publicly on more than one occasion. Perhaps Zappa wanted to apologise.
August 26th, 2025 at 16:06@23
“Ian Anderson provides the soundtrack for the thinking man sitting by the fire on a winter’s day, smoking the pipe – but strictly tobacco that is.”
– well, as a health therapist I cannot recommend any kind of smoking, but! Men smoking the pipe, with decent tobacco, I have to say: nothing much has a nicer smell.
A roaring fire, tons of snow outside, plenty of food and coffee inside, no work awaiting, just days off inside a hyggelig (cosy) cottage, and then some storms and wolves howling nearby, and then that pipe…. That sounds about right!
August 26th, 2025 at 18:42@28 I get the picture. And nice it is too. Best you can make of a winters evening in the colder half of this ol’ earth.
August 26th, 2025 at 20:36Zappa not being nasty about JT here:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vip4VfvbgMw
August 26th, 2025 at 21:28Fires at Midnight, from the Songs From The Wood album. BN album named that too, coincidence? Anyway, thanks Skippy @ 27- for the info on Tull. I never knew that about Zappa ‘bad mouthing Tull’. Hard to tell with these ‘sarcastic’ guys at times and which way to take any of it. Same with Ritchie and some of his comments.The Broadsword and the Beast is grand. Their last great album, for many reasons. Even a mention of the Vikings in the song Seal Driver. ” Could you fancy me as a pirate bold, or a longship Viking warrior with the old gods on his side”. No matter where I go, they are there, in some form, waiting, watching. Will I ever get away from them? Regarding Anderson’s vocal demise, I was at that Sydney concert where they pulled out after about 15 minutes. His throat was wrecked after landing in Oz after six months touring. Luckily that other meddlesome British band were in town to give us something at least. I forget their name, Shallow Lavender or something along those lines. Uwe, regarding Zappa mentioning Tull, there is a lot that I haven’t seen or heard from Frank. So thanks everyone for that info, interesting indeed. Musicians commenting on other artists, it comes and goes either way at times. I always read that Zappa didn’t pay hardly any attention to other artists, but that could be wrong too. He just wasn’t interested in other bands etc. What we read and hear eh? I remember watching recently that impromptu jam with Pink Floyd, not much to go on of course and who organised that and what for. What about that disastrous jam with John and Yoko? Don’t go there unless you have a penchant for Yoko’s lovely lilting melodic voice. Cheers.
August 26th, 2025 at 22:25Zappa jamming with John and Yoko. Then Pink Floyd. Don’t be too critical folks, it was the late 1960’s into the early 1970’s. Light up a spliff or something, it makes it more easier on the pain threshold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_sQLIUi0mQ&t=195s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz9bn24rxrI&t=7s
August 27th, 2025 at 00:13That John Lennon and Yoko jam with Zappa has Yoko way down in the mix. The clip I watched a few years go, she was right up there, very ‘out there’ with the add libbing vocal performance, to say the least. Karin, please don’t let Anton hear that vocal, he will scurry from the room in fear. Mind you, he has had to put up with the ole leather lunged screamer a fair bit in his life, so he may take it all with a grain of salt, the poor little thing. Cheers.
August 27th, 2025 at 09:39Who would have thought that Zappa went to a Slade gig in England in 1972/73, liked what he saw and then went backstage to tell a totally baffled Jim Lea that he thought his bass playing was great? With an already slightly inebriated Dave Hill intervening with a “Now who’s this, he looks a bit like Frank Zappa?!” and Jim going under his breath “Shut the fuck up, HE IS FRANK ZAPPA!”
Or that Uncle Frank would produce and guest on a Grand Funk Railroad album?
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
QUOTE
The band had actually broken up, but after Frank Zappa expressed interest in producing an album for them, they reassembled for one more attempt at success. Recorded in 1976 for MCA Records, this album included a guest performance by Zappa, playing lead guitar on the song “Out to Get You”. Although the pairing seemed bizarre, Grand Funk drummer Don Brewer said, “His whole viewpoint on what rock and roll is all about is basically the same as ours…. Keep it as simple as possible and really bring the balls out of this thing.”[3] Zappa said, “All I did was, in a documentary way, make a record which tells you exactly what they really sound like. For the first time on record you can hear Grand Funk Railroad … and they’re fantastic, fan-tastic with an F three times taller than you!”[3] Grand Funk decided on the first day of overdubs to split up again, although Zappa stayed until 4 a.m. trying to talk them out of it.[3]
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https://youtu.be/JUau43oYvbQ
(That guitar solo is so hilariously Frank!)
I think Zappa had a very wide-ranging taste in music and kept an open mind about things.
And crucify me, but I think both that John & Yoko and that Floyd jam have their moments, Zappa was no slouch on guitar.
August 27th, 2025 at 12:15Returning to the more important subject of Taylor & Travis, I sincerely hope that our two antimatter-Swifties (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!) will now pause their vitriolic catcalls while festivities continue:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/27/you-belong-with-me-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-a-love-story-in-11-pictures
I’m working on a vid summing up my feelings similar to this one, you just wait!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqSTXuJeTks&t=209s
August 27th, 2025 at 23:28@35
“YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE”
– YEAH! 🤣🤣
And I do believe we are way more in here than just two!
But Uwe, you have a very direct way of expressing your opinions, so for the sake of peace, some of us will just keep quiet!
WELL I DO NOT 😁😆
August 28th, 2025 at 08:15Any kind of demure behavior seems to always have been alien to you, young lady!
That is hardly a cause for celebration.
August 28th, 2025 at 22:11@ 34- “And crucify me, but I think both that John & Yoko and that Floyd jam have their moments, Zappa was no slouch on guitar.” So you did have a toke on a spliff then Uwe, well done. It does sound ok then doesn’t it, he he he he. Who would have ever thought that? Cheers.
August 28th, 2025 at 22:20Regarding the Floyd and Zappa jams, at least that is something from nothing, original so to speak and not a boring old rock ‘n roll blues standard. Something that Lennon always bored me to tears with. Give me McCartney any day although I am not as familiar with his post Beatles albums either, only a few hits here and there. Frank Zappa was a wonderful guitarist, a very good lead player, so yes at least we get to hear a little of that with both of those cameos. That Slade story is amusing and I don’t follow Zappa much at all. So to hear that he was involved with other artists is a first for me, but good to hear all the same. With the Grand Funk Railroad too. Cheers.
August 28th, 2025 at 23:01Not everything Macca has done post-Beatles was gold, but overall his albums show greater consistency in quality than John’s. John always wrote great individual songs but as albums go he was a bit lackadaisical re quality control. I think he had more of a singles mindset.
August 29th, 2025 at 11:47@34
“I think Zappa had a very wide-ranging taste in music and kept an open mind about things.”
IMO he had the widest… he knew no boundaries as far as his compositions were concerned. The most open-minded musician the world will ever see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF0PYQ8IOL4
August 31st, 2025 at 08:18@41
“he knew no boundaries”
– Russ, I know his lyrics were quite frivolous, but I guess he tried to make the music quite…oh what’s the word?…..interesting.
I often compares him with moderne rap, provocative and in-your-face.
What Ian is doing with great success, implies without saying it too directly, FZ was not bold, but simply unimaginative 😊
September 1st, 2025 at 16:28@42
“FZ was not bold, but simply unimaginative”
I disagree… while FZ was no Gillan when it comes to his lyrics; you can’t deny that his musical arrangements were top-notch. Kinda like a combo of Spike Jones meets Beethoven meets miles Davis plus a little bit of Pablo Picasso (or Salvador Dali if you prefer) on acid.
Like George Carlin et al, he wasn’t afraid to address all of those mundane aspects of life that remind us that we are all a helluva lot alike in so many ways. He was quite serious about not taking things too seriously. He never missed an opportunity to poke fun at society and pretty much everything else. He was a satirist supreme.
Not only did he give us this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XsuYMtnCKY
He also played a mean guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAjr5tZyeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp6LT2MdaPI
And yes, he was right… you can make more money as a Butcher (at least in my little patch of Northern Nevada).
It’s late here and I’m over-tired. Perhaps Uwe could articulate my point better…
September 7th, 2025 at 05:47@42
Post script to my previous post:
And in the the spirit of ‘inclusiveness” which seems to be all the rage these days; here’s one for little Anton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX3ar2Isb8U
September 7th, 2025 at 06:04@44
On behalf of Anton ‘the killer’, I say thank you very much 😊☺️
@43
“you can’t deny that his musical arrangements were top-notch”
– ohh no denying there. I was merely thinking of his lyrics, ‘in-your-face’ provocative like most rap today.
“Spike Jones meets Beethoven meets miles Davis plus a little bit of Pablo Picasso (or Salvador Dali if you prefer) on acid.”
– yeah, rather decent description 😃
Ohh and Flo is dead 🙁
September 10th, 2025 at 20:36