[hand] [face]
The Original Deep Purple Web Pages
The Highway Star

Archive for the '2007 North America' Category



There’s fire in this guy

Denver: After the local band was finished, it was nice to see a big stage with no monitors. This is especially appealing to someone who was right up front like I was. It was quite intense since I realized afterward that I enjoyed every song. The only problem was that there was such a low […]

Read more »

Exclusive club show in Aspen

This show was announced with less than weeks noticed and was booked at a venue that maxed out around 425. The unofficial word from an employee the following day was the crowd reached over half capacity. The show didn’t get much press outside of the Aspen area. But Aspen has rockers! I talked with several […]

Read more »

Conviction, passion & pleasure

San Francisco: With all the talk about song lists, and, what should be on it or off it, August 15th, 2007 brought this lad back to what really matters – Deep Purple on stage lovin’ life and the music they play. Ya, know what, I even wrote in a blog that I’d only go to […]

Read more »

Beyond expectations

Phoenix: Yeah! Everything I expected from the band and more! I am a 40 year old who used to listen to my big brothers 8-tracks, been rockin for a long time, been to many concerts. The Perfect Stangers tour in the 80’s was the best concert I had ever been to….untill Rapture From The Deep. […]

Read more »

A band ON!

A band ON! San Francisco: To begin, this was the 8th time I’ve seen Deep Purple in concert. 3 times with MKII, 2 times with MKIII, and 3 times with MKVIII. The show at the Warfield was one of the best shows I have ever seen with the band. From the beginning of Pictures Of […]

Read more »

Purple maxed out the fun in Frisco

Seeing a DP show is such a special experience, that I find it hard to express myself without using the same words (marvelous, amazing, wonderful) that I have used before… so I’ll try to avoid those words. I don’t want to be long winded so I’ll simply relate a few random surprises from the show. […]

Read more »

Watson for Purple at Frisco

All in all, a pretty good show. The sound didn’t really grab me right off the bat. First four songs were kept a little brief as they really did play a long set. I had resigned myself to the new material being scarce, and yet to my surprise we got Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Lazy and […]

Read more »

We ended up at the grand old theatre

Ventura: This was a show that had originally been scheduled at the Hudson Theatre in San Bernardino, which is 100 miles east of Ventura. The Ventura Theatre is old and grand, much like its headliner. A very steamy hot night greeted the band as they ripped into the opening four-song burst and Ian was in […]

Read more »

Gillan on a low note

The opener Blue Oyster Cult was abysmal. This was the worst band I have ever seen in 40 years of gigging. Why does a band with no fire and the talent level of a bar band have a name that has people gaga? How can Purple accept cheers from a lame and real dumb crowd […]

Read more »

Deep Purple deliver taste of nostalgia

Deep Purple gave the animated crowd a solid and strong performance that was a credit to the influential troupe’s legacy – writes The OC Register.

Read more »

||||Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
© 1993-2024 The Highway Star and contributors
Posts, Calendar and Comments RSS feeds for The Highway Star