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Orlando: Had to stand through Edgar Winter…. oh well. DP hit at about 9pm and set sail. Non stop for the first four with a little talk. Very crisp and clean and professional. No frills if you get my meaning. Nice to see a band actually look like they are enjoying themselves. I have a […]
Read more »Deep Purple’s 2007 summer tour supporting “Rapture of the Deep” made it to the States this week, opening with a show July 12 in Atlanta. And at Chastain Park Amphitheatre – a spot known for drawing crowds sometimes more interested in picnicking and socializing than in the music coming from the stage – Deep Purple […]
Read more »Getting down to Chastain Park that night with a cooler full of beer was a breeze. Steppenwolf was already playing by the time we found our seats and cracked open some beers, going through the motions really. They croaked their way through “Magic Carpet Ride” and “Born to be Wild”, which got the crowd moving […]
Read more »I am afraid I might hurt some people with my review. But, I am going to say what think and what I feel about USA opening show: This is unfortunately the last DP show I am going to attend. IF (and probably it will) everything stays the same with the DP shows. It’s not fun […]
Read more »Being a Deep Purple fan exposes you to strange things. The band’s headlining gig at the Danish Jelling Music Festival on May 26 is no exception. The unbelievably unintelligent and overrated underachievers in Bloodhound Gang occupies the main stage before Deep Purple. Hopefully their idiotic rants against gays, girls and non-Christian religions is just that […]
Read more »The band entered just before midnight and it seemed they felt a little cold – barefeet and all – but the audience soon compensated for that. It just took the opening song to get the feedback coming from the 20,000 – pretty much all age groups as always. The setlist was the usual festival greatest […]
Read more »In my previous review of Brussels (Belgium) concert (25 Jan 2006), I said that it was magic. Well, this time in the Lotto Arena of Antwerpen (Belgium) on 18 May 2007, it was super magic. Last year I was really impressed after attending a DP concert for the first time in my life after following […]
Read more »Not so much a review, but here is the setlist of Hellendoorn: Intro Pictures Of Home Things I Never Said Into The Fire Strange Kind Of Woman Rapture Of The Deep Fireball Morsemania’s/Well Dressed Guitar When A Blind Man Cries Lazy The Battle Rages On. Space Truckin’ Highway Star Smoke On The Water encores: Hush […]
Read more »At the age of 12, I got the albums 24 Carat, In Rock and Machine Head on vinyl from the guys at my mother’s ballroom dance hall. In the meantime Maiden, Priest and Saxon found their way to the public and to me. I’m still a music fan in all these years, gonna play a […]
Read more »A day without Deep Purple is a like a day without sunshine A sunny day in the Antwerp harbour… nice temperature… fantastic day to show off my new Rapture of the Deep T-shirt which I bought at the last gig I saw at Rock Zottegem last year. I convinced a French friend to come along… […]
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