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Southern Germany rocks

A short report from the gigs in Ravensburg (Saturday, August 2nd) and Benediktbeuren (Sunday, August 3rd): The sound was excellent, in Ravensburg/Oberschwabenhalle quite bearable regarding volume, at least my ears didn’t ring afterwards although I didn’t wear earplugs (so either my ears are so jaded meanwhile or it was more quiet as usual). In Benediktbeuren […]

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Ravensburg: Unforgettable evening!

Having seen DP one week ago in Cologne, the set list was nearly the same in Ravensburg last Saturday. The encore was extended by a breathtaking version of Speed King including some songs from the sixties, a stunning guitar-keyboard duel and s short bass solo from Roger. Stuff for a live record! Despite the fact […]

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Highway stars in London

Firstly the venue, The excel is excellant!,great place for the motor show,so much roomand the temporary arena was great too,good time to go to the motorshow,late in the evening,no queues,got to do loads of things that you would normally have to wait ages to do,show was on until 8pm.. I saw little Ian wandering around […]

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Deep Purple at the London Motor Show

A very different and refreshing set from the past few years. Started of with Fireball and finsihed with Black night with many favourites in between. From where I was the sound was great and the boys looked like they were realling enjoying themselves. I even managed to take a few pic\’s. [May we see them? […]

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Still the best there is

It’s the first time I’ve seen Deep Purple outside since Knebworth (23 years ago!) and it’s a perfect, warm evening, a nice big stage, beautiful lights stage lights gathering prominence as the daylight fades, and a perfectly balanced sound. The arena is just a square of tarmac surrounded by some temporary-looking grandstand seating. The crowd […]

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A wonderful night

Last night i went to a very wonderful Concert of DP at EXcel in London. The set list was nearly the same as the DP-Fan from Belgium has written. They started with Fireball and ended with Black night. This concert was much better than the last one i saw in Germany / Mannheim. I cant […]

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Steve, the smiling guitar god

Because the other performers at the festival did not interest us at all (Isabelle A, Bart Peeters, Eddy Grant,…) and the Purple show would only start at 23:00, we left sunny Bruges rather late, around 18:30. Due to the returning tourists heading inland from the coast it took us a while to arrive in Tienen. […]

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Purple tease the old gods of thunder

OK,… the sky was black and lighning had been igniting roaring thunder. This must be a Deep Purple concert. After Eddy Grant who tried to do a rain dance, we had to wait for Deep Purple to break loose. Let me tell you that the other parts in the country got their share of pooring […]

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Belgium: Fresh as a cat fish out of the water

OK, the sky is black and lightning was igniting roaring thunder. This must be a Deep Purple concert. After Eddy Grant doing a Jimi Hendrix act during his voodoo rain dance, we had to wait for Deep Purple to bring down the house. Let me tell you that the other parts in the country got […]

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They still rock!

2008.7.26 Tanzbrunnen, Cologne, Germany Yesterday i went to my first purple concert. Purple were in great form and their new setlist rocks. Gillan was in great form, as were Morse and Glover. Airey was difficult to hear at times (from were i stood). Setlist (don´t renember the right running order): Fireball (1st)interpolating: – Into the […]

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