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What a great show tonight! All three bands were on top form. This was my 17th Purple concert and what a great set. The right combination of old and new. The songs from Rapture are the best ever and are brought to life when played live. Probably the best version of Highway Star I have […]
Read more »Great to be in Newcastle – friendly people and cheap drinks! Missed Thin Lizzy unfortunately but will catch them in Sheffield and the NEC. Styx were a band I had absolutely no knowledge of prior to this gig, but after the initial shock of seeing every pose in the air guitar book in the first […]
Read more »For the second gig of Deep Purple in Sicily (the first in their long history has been in Palermo, the day before) Palasport of Acireale is completely sold out: over 6000 persons are present; among them a lot of fifty-year-old men, some babies carried from parents, other fans intermediate aged and several defenders. The expectation […]
Read more »We waited several hours in front of the Rhénus Hall (to get a better place at the show), and finally enjoyed the explosion of Deep Purple (the best group) which, far from undergoing the devastations of the years, offers an uninterrupted spectacle. They gave us immortalised songs and new compositions with a scientist’s proportion of […]
Read more »I didn’t catch the band in Paris last time (January 2006) because the tickets were too expensive. It was the very first time since 1985 I missed a DP show near where I live. The last show I saw in June 2003 during the summer tour disappointed me with its lack of magic and its […]
Read more »The gods of rock’n’roll played Pau! First of all thank you very much guys for changing a little bit the setlist. Very clever idea because Toulouse and Pau are very close and only four months separate the two gigs. SO it’s good we could hear different songs. In fact Wrong man and Kiss tomorrow goodbye […]
Read more »The gig was sold out in front of 6.000 people. A great rock show Set list (in this order) Picture of home Things I never said Strange kind of woman Rapture of the deep Fireball Into the fire Steve Morse solo Well dressed guitar When a blind man cries Lazy The battle rages on Don […]
Read more »On a cold pre-spring night in Normandy, Deep Purple put the fire into our hearts. Pictures of Home smashed the audience with its drum attack. Hilarious moment when Ian Gillan took the wrong tuned harmonica during the solo in Lazy. I’ve expected so long to hear The Battle Rages On in the Rapture of the […]
Read more »Deep Purple in Tirana, Albania on March 4, 2007.
Read more »Deep Purple played a sold out gig on March 7th at Palaraschi in Parma, Italy, in front of almost 4.000 people. The setlist was exactly this one: Intro Pictures of Home Things I Never Said The Battle Rages on (they played it during the soundcheck… Maybe for the first time!) Strange Kind of a Woman […]
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