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Waving the middle finger to Father Time
BraveWords has an illustrated review of the band’s first gig of 2022:
If you are one of those who believe that there’s a certain age in which we are too old for rock n’ roll, any of the current members of Deep Purple would politely ask you to hold their beers. Despite being Steve Morse the only one in the current band incarnation – also dubbed as MK VIII – who hasn’t reached the seven decades of life yet, these five veterans have plenty of gas in their tanks, enough to get the audience all amped-up and fist-pumping in the air during the initial night of their now underway 2022 tour.
Continue reading in BraveWords. And if you happen to be at any of the gigs, do not hesitate to write your own review.
Thanks to Tobias Janaschke for the heads up.
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To be honest all that talk about retirement and the guy are old is just makes me sick in the stomach.
February 13th, 2022 at 05:32Music has no age and retirement is for boring people.
Do what you like at any age and who the ***k tells you what to do with your life.
If you love DP family tree members then be happy for them that they all well and happy.
Peace 👍
About time too they resumed touring, you can see that Big Ian already ran out of money for a hairdresser! ; – )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2e8vct1Yg0&t=138s
February 13th, 2022 at 19:38Ian has been brushing up on lyrics, I can’t think of any other live performance where he sang the words to Perfect Strangers as written, it is certainly rare. Although anything he sings is fine by me.
February 15th, 2022 at 22:14