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See and read The Sunflower Jam
Deep Purple’s appearance at The Sunflower Jam turned into a very different show, high on improvisation and special guests.
Introduced by Yes’ Rick Wakeman, Deep Purple got under way with Pictures of Home and a pumping start.
– That’s Johnny Lord!, exclaimed Ian Gillan after Hush with an extended solo from Jon Lord – and then Gillan introduced Wring That Neck from The Book of Taliesyn – ‘I must have been only 15 in those days.’
For the encores of their 65-minute set, Deep Purple were joined by Bruce Dickinson and Ade Omotayo from Amy Winehouse’s band. Together they did a rare version of Little Richard’s Lucille.
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Thanks for the great review and thanks to Ras for the fantastic fotos!
This must have been a fantastic event.
Karl-Heinz
October 8th, 2008 at 07:07How great it must have been for the band to be able to do this, and a big hug to Don Airey for being such a sport:-) To bad Gillan had the flu, but there you go. If anyone else in the band has the flu no one notice, but when it’s the singer everyone can hear it. It’s a rough spot to be in, but we all know what he is capable of when he is in his usual shape:-)
Nice one guys!!!
October 8th, 2008 at 07:12Was this show recorded? Audio/Video or both?
October 8th, 2008 at 23:16Love DP, they are my #1 Hard Rock band, from MK1 till the current member.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:12I hope this is recorded on DVD.
DP 4 ever!
Great review, helping me to imagine being in the audience.
October 12th, 2008 at 08:36I have always loved the way my favourite bands (Deep Purple being one of course) clearly enjoy being up there (usually, everyone has a “bad day at the office” once in a while) and react, invent, change what is going on.
Credit to everyone on stage at Sunflower – for the music and for the fund raising.