Fire in the bassement
The infamously apocryphical mark of Deep Purple performs Fire in the Basement somewhere behind the freshly fallen Iron Curtain (JLT says it’s Budapest, but the hazy memory says it was the Ostrava show that was filmed for TV).
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The infamously apocryphical mark of Deep Purple performs Fire in the Basement somewhere behind the freshly fallen Iron Curtain (JLT says it’s Budapest, but the hazy memory says it was the Ostrava show that was filmed for TV).
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Did Joe really simulate masturbation on the “give this boy a helping hand” bit?
What a wanker…
October 13th, 2025 at 22:06The Radio City Music Hall Show was filmed.
October 13th, 2025 at 23:30(shakes head
You guys, I beg you …
Comrade Joe, a man with undiluted sympathies and even in-depth personal ties to the countries of the former Warsaw Pact does very well know the difference between The Czech Republic and Hungary, how can you doubt him! Does perhaps only Nick in tried and trusted Czarist Empire school of (shuddering) thought judge all these former “satellite states” as one and the same? (I mean Soviet tanks were deployed in both at one time or another, one can get confused … 😈)
Joe wore a different outfit in Ostrava, Roger a hat and not a French beret and the vid quality was much worse as was the stage lighting:
https://youtu.be/hr31fFofaY8
If this wasn’t DP with all the Ian Gillan baggage attached but some other band, say Bad Company, everyone here would be saying what a fine group and performance this is. That track swings like hell and Joe’s voice is great on it. I have only pleasant memories from the one time I saw Mark V.
And that Steinberger bass actually sounded quite good!
It’s a shame that no official live release of Mk V is available. Can we send some tanks to the record company to properly address the issue please?
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October 14th, 2025 at 00:30Well, the band sound very good…..
The vocalist however, not so much 😄
He does not have the strength in his voice as the master himself has (Uwe, yes, I’m of course referring to Ian ☺️)
October 14th, 2025 at 04:39When DP collides with Rainbow 👏👏👏 you get a merger made in Heaven or Hell. It depends on your taste.
October 14th, 2025 at 04:42I personally love it.
Peace ✌️
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October 14th, 2025 at 08:08I agree this isn’t classic deep purple but slaves and master is a great album. I still enjoy listening. Beautiful keyboard playing from the one and only Jon Lord . Fire in the basement…truth hurts …. cut runs deep….great songs.
One of the worst songs to ever be composed, released and performed by a band called Deep Purple. Yeeeeeks.
October 14th, 2025 at 08:10Hello.
It´s of course Budapest, Hungary, where this is from. Just look at the bassdrum head of Little Ian´s.
S&M record is quite good, you can call it Deep Rainbow if you want, but there´s plenty of decent songs there. King of Dreams really has a simple, but great guitar riff. Fortuneteller, The Cut Runs Deep (the sound of Ritchie´s guitar is marvellous)….and this particular song, Fire in the Basement, for example. A little bit of Lazy there, don´t you think?
Lyrics? Who listens to them? : )
And just like Uwe, I also have positive memories from March 1991 in Helsinki Icehall.
The opener of the set? BURN ! Never heard that one live before or after. By DP, that is.
…and talking about that song…reminds me what really was a bit confusing was the recent gig of Mr. Hughes here in Finland. It´s really a shame that they never got back together just for a gig or two as Mk. III, when Jon Lord was alive and kicking. Sometime years ago I asked about this from Mr. Paice, but that´s another story.
All the best to all of You.
Kippis!
October 14th, 2025 at 08:58Radio City was filmed?!
Budapest was filmed as well, not just opening night….
it’s a shame there’s no official live document of MkV. The band was on top form, and regardless of what people think of Joe in Purple, he delivered every night
October 14th, 2025 at 09:38Sounds really good!! wish there was footage of the entire show to hear how JLT sounds on the classics
October 14th, 2025 at 10:20There are certainly DP line-ups I love more, but neither the album (though hardly cutting edge, but neither was Perfect Strangers, another very safe record) nor the tour were horrible. Ritchie actually seemed content – a rare state of mind with him – and the band chugged along nicely on the new material.
Some of the most remarkable DP albums do not feature the complete Mk II line-up, Burn, CTTB, Slaves & Masters, Purpendicular … I don’t subscribe to the state religion that either Ritchie or Big Ian have to grace a DP release for it to be a worthwhile one.
October 14th, 2025 at 10:40I note Ian’s bass drum is painted in Hungarian colours.
I only saw Joe perform twice, once in an old sports hall that was bent out of shape and once singing for Yngwie, where the odd Rainbow track was a blessing. The boy may be able to noodle, but he cannot write songs.
White Marshall’s should be left to the ‘Quo. Though some of theirs were actually Vox AC30s
October 14th, 2025 at 10:57Budapest was also professionally filmed.
October 14th, 2025 at 11:25