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Smoke on the Dundee
Newspaper The Courier has another piece of Scottish Purple history: a picture of the band taken backstage at the Caird Hall in Dundee on October 15, 1970. It is published as a part of their 1970s illustrated nostalgia trip. Check it out in The Courier.
In other trainspotting news, a cassette tape with handwritten label Rainbow — Rainbow Rising was spotted all the way out in New Zealand on the UK TV programme The Repair Shop. It was series 11, episode 20 from 2023, if you are really inclined to track it down.
Thanks to Simon Dickens for the repair info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
“Aberdeen Press and Journal – 13 Oct 1970
15 Oct 1970 – Dundee, Caird Hall – UK
Deep Purple
September 4th, 2025 at 00:31Tear Gas” ???????????
Was Deep Purple’s performance that bad that they needed tear gas? Or perhaps the audience were rioting for more and the tear gas had to be used to settle all those screaming ladies down. Big Ian had somewhat of a reputation to uphold back then. I didn’t think the Scots would behave in such a manner. They weren’t Danish were they? Cheers.
Rainbow Rising cropped up on the latest episode of The Repair Shop too. Only a brief glimpse of someone wearing the T shirt but an odd coincidence.
September 4th, 2025 at 08:54(I hope my memory’s not failing me on this.)
Tear Gas was the band that became Sensational Alex Harvey Band before Alex joined them.
They lacked a frontman and he lacked a band.
September 4th, 2025 at 14:49It was a marriage made in heaven.
I believe Chris and Ted ended up playing with Ian on one of his Solo tours while not in DP.
If we are into random mentions.
Deep Purple was not the answer to a question on University challenge.
In the picture round of the 1st September episode, in the picture round the students had to identify the artist whose work was used on famous artists.
One of those was Bosch who painted the cover of Deep Purple.
September 4th, 2025 at 15:04Sigh, Herr MacGregor is a young man living on a remote satellite island of an even remoter super-island who has devoted large parts of his life to banging on things and enjoying the noise thus emitted. You will have to count all that in when passing judgement on him for his foolish display of ignorance re Tear Gas, without whom the history of Scottish rock music would need to be rewritten.
https://youtu.be/s3U_vQaZlgg
https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/avatar170s/17247b659baf4363a81e0d5413f34639
https://youtu.be/svSV_G65CF4
But who’s to say that you can’t learn something along the way – I always thought Hugh (keyb) and Ted (dr) McKenna of SAHB were siblings when they were only cousins!
They don’t learn anything at these missionary schools in the Australian wild.
So this was perhaps the first time Chris Glen and Ted McKenna met Ian Gillan on whose Naked Thunder tour they would be the rhythm section almost two decades later. Small world, eh?
September 4th, 2025 at 15:18@#1: Tear Gas was a Scottish Band which later became The Sensational Alex Harvey Band when Alex engaged with them
September 4th, 2025 at 17:58Teargas were the support band..and eventually morphed into SAHB..
September 4th, 2025 at 18:06Was surprised that they still played Hush at that time.
September 4th, 2025 at 20:08Alex Harvey indeed and even he and his band made it onto our tv sets back in the mid 1970’s. Guitarist Zac Cleminson even moved to Australia when very young, fancy that eh? Of course Ted McKenna needs no introduction, drumming on the Rory Gallagher albums Top Priority and Photo-Finish to mention a few. Have been listening to those and others since the 70’s. Cheers.
https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2022/05/zal-cleminson-interview-tear-gas-and-the-sensational-alex-harvey-band.html
September 4th, 2025 at 22:06Is there a way out of this avalanche of public shaming for Herr MacGregor I ask? 😑
For information purposes only:
https://mai-ko.com/travel/japanese-history/samurai/harakiri-and-suppuku/
September 4th, 2025 at 22:39I think they only retired Hush for good (before dusting it off again during the reunion) when they toured the Fireball album. When they played in Dundee, In Rock had only been out for four months and Hush was – besides the comparatively recent Black Night which they saved for the last song of their main set – their only international hit so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GU72pRHq98
(LOL, Ritchie is really jazzing Hush up in his solo!)
The set wasn’t badly structured, Speed King as a hard hitting intro, Hush as something that was familiar to even more casual fans, Into the Fire and CiT as more tracks from In Rock, with the latter bringing in ballady parts too (otherwise missing in the set), followed by a trio of largely improvisational, lengthy tracks – Wring That Neck, Mandrake Root and Paint It Black + drum solo – before they rocked things up again with the recent single hit Black Night and a Little Richard rock’n’roll tune (Lucille) as the encores – nicely bookending a gig that had started with Big Ian name-checking three Little Richard songs in the opening number Speed King: Good Golly, said little Miss Molly …, Tutti Frutti was oh so rooty … + Lucille was oh so real, when she didn’t do her daddy’s will.
September 4th, 2025 at 23:25@11
RE: Hush… Thanks, that was a great way to kick off my day.
September 5th, 2025 at 18:31Thanks for the lessons in ‘throwing myself on my own sword” Uwe, much appreciated. Would I do that in a public humiliation ritual is the big question, most probably not. The shame of it all. I have been decapitated here a few times, as well as being drawn and quartered and also had my head placed rather violently on a spike. But to do that to self sacrifice to myself……………it sounds rather painful…………..Cheers.
September 5th, 2025 at 22:11