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A stop gap that changed history
[Aug 7 updated: part 9] In anticipation of the upcoming reissue, powers-that-be are teaspoon feeding us what Roger Glover and Ian Paice have to say about Made in Japan. This post will be updated if and when further chunks are released, which will bump it in the News in brief column on our front page.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Which goes to show: Always listen to your Japanese record company, the Emperor knows best!
Domo arigato dear business suits of the rising sun, without you this album wouldn’t exist.
July 16th, 2025 at 02:43Well, who needs coffee when one can listen to this 😃🤩
July 16th, 2025 at 04:41Just listened to ‘Strange kind of woman’, from the improved MiJ
Ohhh boy! 🤩🤩
July 16th, 2025 at 05:17for me it´s still the best live-album ever and next to the golden Made In Japan is the original of the silver Made In Europe LP, cause it has an unbelievable energie in the playing, also. But i still use my old 70s-versions, for me that´s enough sound.
Rainbows On Stage and DP Live in Long Beach 1976 are the two also important live-albums from the DP-family.
I wish that “live in Stuttgart 1993” would be on vinyl (4LP) this was an unbelievable gig, too and it was much better than “Bombay Calling” which has no good sound, for me.
July 16th, 2025 at 08:49@4
Oh yes, of Bombay Calling I was disappointed. It has a pirate sound, and the Fireball (opener) isn’t included. Disappointing.
July 16th, 2025 at 09:37@ 2 Hu Karin, how did you get your – without a doubt – very lovely hands on a copy of that improved MiJ set?
Apart frrom getting a divorce, a change of name or whatever online the kingdom of Denmark seems to be ahead of its time in many aspects.
July 16th, 2025 at 09:56And for me Abandon live in Australia live is one of the worst sounding Deep Purple live albums.
July 16th, 2025 at 11:49#1: Well, their Japanese record company also insisted that they release The Last Concert In Japan, so they don’t always know best. But as for MIJ? Absolutely!
July 16th, 2025 at 12:41This is it!! This is where it was at and still is after all these years.. the best hard rock album ever..nothing comes even close..
especially not the MK III and MK IV live albums… This is it!!!
Cheers!!!
July 16th, 2025 at 15:16If the Japanese hadn’t been so adamant/persistent in wanting a live recording for their own market, we might today be without a proper eight track recording of Mk II at its peak in the post-Machine Head phase. The BBC Concert and the one in Denmark were still relatively insecure with the new material, they were coming to grips with it and testing it out, not yet the well-oiled machine playing with the controlled frenzy of the summer of 1972. And whether in the absence of the MIJ recording, Mk II would have recorded something as strong in sound and quality in the last year of their existence is at least doubtful, Ritchie and Ian would have likely not been exuberant about the prospect and Mk II’s inner morale began to decay pretty swiftly after the first Japan tour.
Looking at it today, one tends to be baffled about Purple’s reluctance to record themselves live. In their very own perception, they were a better live than studio band and always attempted to make their studio albums sound as live as possible, yet no one ever thought about taking a whole step and recording the band truly live?
And it’s not like pre-MIJ all live albums by rock bands had been quick cash-in rubbish and lesser releases: Both Humble Pie’s Performance: Rockin’ The Fillmore and Rare Earth In Concert, both released in latish 1971, had been very successful double albums in the US – actually the best-selling records of these bands. Before that The Rolling Stones’ Get Yer Ya-Yas Out had gone to #1 in the UK charts in 1970 (around the time of the release of In Rock), preceded by no less than The Who’s Live At Leeds which had gone to #3 and #4 in the UK and US charts respectively also in 1970. So the realization that a good live album can immeasurably promote and boost record sales of a good live act (at very low production costs) was really common knowledge by 1972. The Japanese weren’t just idly throwing rice balls against the wall to see what sticks, they – TORA, TORA, TORA! –
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had a sound plan and commercial nous.
So DP weren’t really the first or even among the first to realize the commercial potency of a good live album, but – rather the opposite – shuffled their feet quite a bit and jumped belatedly on the gravy train.
But with legendary results!
July 16th, 2025 at 15:18@6
Well, thanks ☺️
I get my crooked hands on the notification I got from YouTube that ‘Strange kind of Woman’ was ready to listen to 😄
And you’re completely right:p! Denmark is a happening country! (Except for summer time…)
July 16th, 2025 at 18:03Let’s not forget the influence that the late great Martin Birch played in recording MIJ. Plus could not agree more with Wiktor!
July 16th, 2025 at 19:50Wiktor @9: And especially not Rainbow’s lame On Stage which to anyone who had actually seen Rainbow live in the era 1975-78 was an extreme disappointment, they really did pick lackluster performances for it, even Cozy agreed with that undiplomatically when promoting Rainbow On Stage in 1977.
July 16th, 2025 at 19:53Guys…
https://www.loudersound.com/news/hard-rock-song-soundtrack-stranger-things-season-five-trailer-2025
July 16th, 2025 at 21:02@ 10 – Uwe, what about Grand Funk Railroad, Live album. That was 1970 and rather popular from what we read. My older cousin’s record collection had that in it when I was introduced to all this evil music, along with MIJ of course. Bloody hippies everywhere with their long hair and tattered jeans. Why didn’t they choose a ‘normal’ career is beyond me. Cheers.
July 16th, 2025 at 22:08Martin Birch with only 8 tracks (unthinkable even at the time of Nobody’s Perfect!!) recorded the best live album in the history of Rock, distant sounds, reverberated, with too much panpot, but tremendously powerful!
luckily Martin has unloaded the mid frequencies (I always believe that for equal-tone curves an album, especially a live one, should always have less mid frequencies than high or low frequencies).
and then the incredible acoustics of the Budokan and the Festival Hall greatly favored Martin’s work!
if I remember correctly, just one overdub at the beginning of SKOW because Gillan made a noise when he tripped over the microphone stand!
The other interesting anecdote was that Ritchie broke his guitar at the end of ST, threw it into the audience and the audience threw it back at him at least twice on stage with Ritchie himself incredulous that the Japanese didn’t understand and were so “correct”!
July 16th, 2025 at 22:09The Mark II Purple really had no idea about what would work, other than how to make great music. They thought “Never Before” would be the hit track on Machine Head, despite classics like Highway Star, Smoke on the Water and Space Truckin’, plus underrated tunes like Pictures of Home and Maybe I’m a Leo, not to mention When a Blind Man Cries. They didn’t think a live album would sell. Gillan didn’t realize it wasn’t a good idea to take his marbles and go home when the band was at its zenith. Blackmore was looking to replace Gillan.
July 17th, 2025 at 01:09John @8: I know this is controversial, but to me Mk IV’s Last Concert In Japan is an important document how that line-up prevailed against all odds that night, with Tommy still heavily compromised because of his arm. You could hear a band working hard and there are musically magical moments on that album with Lady Lick, Love Child, Wild Dogs, the organ version of Soldier of Fortune and You Keep On Moving.
Last Concert shows a flawed Purple giving their best. I prefer it to Made In Europe, which is professional, well-played stadium rock, but rendered somewhat soulless, with a withdrawn Ritchie phoning in his solos.
July 17th, 2025 at 04:58Live at Leeds from The Who was one of the absolut first live Vinyls who came out and for me it´s at the same level as MIJ. The Who was earlier…
July 17th, 2025 at 08:47Yes, Herr MacGregor, Grand Funk Railroad‘s “Live Album” was pivotal and iconic as well, hitting the #5 spot in the US and Canada in 1970 and even a respectable #29 in the UK in 1971. That album is even rawer than MIJ (mainly because early GFR were a more unrefined band than DP were in 1972) and also totally undoctored (because GFR and their producer were so naive they didn‘t even know such a possibility existed).
We also have to mention the Allman Brothers Band‘s At Fillmore East in this context which was released in the summer of 1971 to wide acclaim.
I guess we‘ve established by now that Purple‘s ignorance of how important and beneficial the release of a live album can be was more proof of how they lived in a secluded bubble in the early 70s due to their incessant touring than a reflection of then prevailing record company beliefs and experiences. I‘d go as far as to say that had they followed In Rock or Fireball already with a live album, they would have broken through even earlier.
What James writes @17 is very apt, half the time Mk II did not know what they were doing.
July 17th, 2025 at 13:20Hi Fla76. Jon stated years ago that there might have been an overdub at beginning of SKOW but when Simon Robinson put together the first Live in Japan box set, he says there was no overdub. What we hear is how it was. Also, Uwe, I agree there were some musically magical moments on LCIJ usually created by Paice and Lord but I, and I may be the only person on the planet, love Tommy’s solo in Burn.
July 17th, 2025 at 15:28@8/19 Fespite his terrible jokes Uwe has to be supported on his views of Last Concert In Japan. It has great moments galore.
July 17th, 2025 at 15:56Support stops for his opimions on Made in Europe of course because that’s magic by all means.
@7 And Total Abandon…really, Timmi?
I always thought the setlist very samey but the playing and especially the sound are ace to these tortured ears.
I don’t hear any magic on Made In Europe, Max, I hear great competence and professional routine. That live album has a desolate mood about it.
July 17th, 2025 at 22:07@16 -“The other interesting anecdote was that Ritchie broke his guitar at the end of ST, threw it into the audience and the audience threw it back at him at least twice on stage with Ritchie himself incredulous that the Japanese didn’t understand and were so “correct”! Ha ha ha ha, thanks for that Fla76, that is humorous indeed. Throwing it back to him, classic. At least that news has restored some sort of normality here, after Karin’s seismic shift in allowing DC and GH into the Purple fray. Fancy submitting to the almighty like that, hmmmmmmmm, interesting. I hope Uwe doesn’t get too carried away with that, however he deserves a few points for his persistence. Regarding any other live albums from DP, no thanks. Nothing else from DP comes close to MIJ. Some things are just like that in this world. Cheers
July 17th, 2025 at 22:39#17 : yes i agree 100%: This may be explained as follows: the really big wave of success and the biggest stages came after the decision (and DC and GH pflückten z.T. ihren Erfolg blöderweise), and therefore they didn’t yet know that they were that good and unique in their combination. Following the motto: we can do it again with other musicians, it’s just rock ‘n roll business. Regardless of whether you look at it from an artistic or a business perspective: they did not evaluate themselves correctly, and on top of that, there was the inhumane burden and the mindset that this would only be a few years of their youth – who as a young musician back then believed that he would still be making rock music as a profession at the age of 75?
July 18th, 2025 at 06:45@24
“Regarding any other live albums from DP, no thanks. Nothing else from DP comes close to MIJ.”
Indeed… the next closest, in my opinion, is Last Concert in Japan. I love Tommy’s slightly dissonant guitar playing due his injured arm. The only negative thing that I can say about LCIJ is that Glenn shrieks a little too much.
Sometimes dissonance is good… it works for Tom Waits and he has milked that for all it’s worth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rzTuh202fA
July 18th, 2025 at 07:20@ 23
July 18th, 2025 at 07:55For the younger readers: We have to have this MiE discussion here at HS time and again. Of course Uwe is terribly wrong. Made in Europe does have magical moments. While Strombringer and Lady Double Dealer are just very good Burn and Mistreated are among the best recordings of … any band …ever. Easily up there with Highway Star or Child in Time from MiJ. While Uwe – a man of taste and knowledge – continues to deny these simple facts is beyond me. I can only guess some Bärbel put his offer down while MiE was playing in the background or something like this. (I know what I am talking about – I avoid listening to The Doors for 45 years now … for a reason.)
Liebe Jungleser,
Maxens sincere and empathetic concern for my adolescent love life is heartwarming, but while wimmin can be blamed for many evils in the world, Made In Europe and my perception of it are not among them. I bought the album with high expectations immediately when it came out (at a time when young Max was still scrambling to glue his Smokie-BRAVO-Starschnitt together one presumes …) and I was struck by how cold and indifferent (to each other and the audience) DP sounded on those final gigs of Mk III. That doesn‘t necessarily make the performances bad, but MIE is to me very much a heartless, going-through-the-motions and ultimately bland corporate affair, I greatly prefer the Kilburn gig from 1974 on “Live in London” when Mk III still sounded hungry, dangerous and even edgy in places rather than saturated and even a little jaded.
But MIE is no doubt of historical value as a document and who am I to criticize how it might have impacted on a young innocent Smokie fan blossoming into manhood when he first heard DC say in a cool tone of voice “ROCK’N’ROLL …” before all hell broke loose with the Burn riff? 😘 (Admittedly, a great moment on that record.)
https://youtu.be/q_dJhBJyE18
Oops! Wrong link! One more try … there …
https://youtu.be/Xt8h2iipU_M
July 18th, 2025 at 15:11(The DC quote that turned you into a man music-wise is at 01:11, liebster Max, I hope the matched footage has some adolescent excitement drip/ooze back into your memories! 😇)
First things first when it comes to DP.
July 18th, 2025 at 20:16I knew Made in Japan by heart before I ever listened to Mark III. In fact MiE was the first recording of DC I ever heard – and it was quite a shock! I was used to Gillan’s voice and my first impression of DC was he got the flu or something. But I got used to it real fast and favoured singers with a more raunchy blues and soul voice ever since (liking Chris Norman gave a hint of that, I guess) . And MiE was the follow up to MiJ in my book and still is.
#27 Max:
I agree with you, MiE is a great live album, not at MiJ level, but almost close!
#28 Uwe:
I beg to differ with your point of view:
as for the sound rendering, it’s true, due to some strange alchemy (the double voices and the lack of Roger’s bass) MiJ’s sound magic was not repeated,
but that’s not to say the DP mkIII didn’t sound dangerous and exciting (and probably even dirtier and wilder than the MK II which had arrived at perfection).
I remember reading several interviews by some journalists in the MKIII period, like the one of Lord made by Lester Bangs, where he said that the MKII had become predictable, while the MKIII was a more lively and exciting thing.
As a MKII fan I can say that there was some truth in those words, and it is perhaps only thanks to MiJ’s incredible recording that MiE did not become better
July 18th, 2025 at 21:05@29
“and it was quite a shock! I was used to Gillan’s voice and my first impression of DC was he got the flu or something.”
– so this is what a cerebral hemorrhage feels like!!
I ought to be very rude now, but I won’t go down that path 😉
Wasn’t your comment what I have been saying all the time regarding the former vocalist of Purple, David Coverdale??
But when I silently mentioned the troubles with his voice, all of you in here were over me like vultures over a poor corpse of a cute deer!
I will let this be a lesson for me! Never trust any man again…..
July 19th, 2025 at 04:00MiE has a good sound, I’ll give it that. And Jon, Glenn and Ian play well. Ritchie, however, is withdrawn and barely communicating with the others anymore. That can have its brooding charm too, but Mk III is no longer a collective working towards a joint goal on the Graz, Paris and Saarbrücken gigs (speaking of: Why hasn’t Saarbrücken in full been released yet?), while Mk II in the summer of 1972 still was.
My issues with MiE are really only about the general feel of the album, as opposed to who plays what were or the line-up change. It’s the document of a band soldiering at a still high quality standard, but without enthusiasm or joy. I find Live in London much more gripping and infectious.
In contrast, MiJ shows a band in collective frenzied bliss playing off each other.
July 19th, 2025 at 16:41@31
July 19th, 2025 at 17:08But Karin… I was a young boy when I first heard DC – not a mature lady! At 14 I had never heard any blues singers with a voice like that. I just didn’t know there were people who sang that way! But as I said I got used to it quickly and loved it evdr since.
BTW: Anytime I play the Rock me baby-paft of Mistreated to anyone and ask what they thought the singer was like they would not believe it was a 23 yo white brit. To this day I feel that performance is second to none.
Thanks Fla76…. of course it’s eciting…and a bit dirty too. Top notch Rock”n’Roll. The funky stuff RB plays in Burn before hitting that riff again…GH bass…. it don’t get better than that.
The Rock Me Baby part is nice, always my favorite on the record too, granted, and Ritchie’s funk exploits teasing into the riff are entertaining and expertly played though I always wondered whether he was taking the piss on Glenn with that along the lines of “I’ll give you some Mel Galley, you Brummie fake wannabe funkster! 😈“
July 19th, 2025 at 22:02“But Karin… I was a young boy when I first heard DC – not a mature lady!”
That’s quite alright in this day and age, but when did you make the changeover, liebe Maxine? Do you have new preferred pronouns, perhaps non-binary/inclusive such as they, their, them?
https://www.haikosfilmlexikon.de/comedy/kl/kleinesa.JPG
July 20th, 2025 at 01:01Made in Europe is a fine testament to that MKIII beast and I used to play it a lot back in the day and loud too. Blackmore wanted a different approach and he got it, in spade fulls. Nothing lasts forever as we know, that different beast didn’t enjoy its new found greener pasture for as long as the beast before it did. And even that was rather short lived in many ways. Many of the bands from that early 70’s era were travelling on a very similar road. It doesn’t last that long, for any of them when we look back on it. How many albums and tours, only a handful here and there as they all kept evolving or they ended up disintegrating. Life can be fickle as they say. Regarding Karin’s take on a young Coverdale and his throat or vocal prowess back then. It probably is just that, he has lured her into the Coverdale abyss. That husky, slow deep breathing voice. Come on Karin admit it, old Cove’s has you mesmerised, finally his spell has worked. It took a while with her dogged determination to NEVER let another vocalist cast a spell on her, but it has happened folks. That heavy deep breathing, it takes you back to your teenage years doesn’t it. That young lad at school who has the hots for her and he doesn’t have the courage to talk to her in person, so he runs to the public phone after school and calls. The trouble is he is so out of breath after all that running he cannot get the words out. Well we could presume it was that. Maybe it was Coverdale himself, didn’t DP MKIII begin their touring in Denmark. Or was it Whitesnake, did they tour Denmark, the plot thickens. Cheers.
July 20th, 2025 at 02:38@33
😂
Ok, I was rather less matured when I heard his voice, and I really could hear the troubles in his voice.
But nevertheless I’m satisfying that I am not the only one who actually could sense the troubles in his otherwise very nice voice!
(Psst: I wonder if other of you fine gentlemen in here have the same courage as Max, who, well, maybe unwillingly agreed with me 😁)
July 20th, 2025 at 06:20Uwe I did become an old geezer rather, not having made use of the new possibilities (pissibolities?) the Ampel has left us as their main legacy yet.
July 20th, 2025 at 09:19And indeed when I was young I.was impressed with albums that I think havn’t aged that well for me. Made in Europe is not amongst them. To top it all of I dare to say the first two songs have agedbetter than the first two songs of MiJ. Even my youngest was imöressed amd thought Mark III much more relevant and moving today than Mark II. As much as I like IG and praise his lyrics…I listen to Burn/Stormbringer/MiE/CTTB/LCiJ much more often than to In Rock or MH.
That youngster you described existed…but it was On Stage that made him shiver and shake…the intro et all…that seemed like a gift of the gods back then while today it clearly isn”t that devine any more. MiE was just great back then – and remains to this day.
@35
🤣🤣🤣
I didn’t think of that !
But it was indeed fun 😄
I have seen Max, on his Facebook picture, and I have to say: no Maxine there whatsoever!
July 20th, 2025 at 10:07@36
“Come on Karin admit it, old Cove’s has you mesmerised, finally his spell has worked.”
– 😂😂
Well now Max has proclaimed me to be a mature lady, (I do need to say that in Denmark a ‘mature lady’ is wearing support hoses, walking with a cane, having dentures well not made by oak like a former american president but usually way too white, and not fashion white I need to say, wearing several hearing aids, and has to use magnifying glasses just to find her proper glasses, and has purple-ish hair 🤣 well, never mind, I forget, forgive etc as I have learned to perfection in here 😙) I must admit that when I was younger I was a lot more stubborn, so when I had an extra hour, the other day, to think about it, I figured out that maybe I ought to give DC another listen. And when he was younger his voice was indeed delightful!
Not Ian Gillan delicious, no one can reach that level*, but DC has a very nice voice in his own right.
And it was his love ballads that won me over. When he is singing from his heart he touch the strings of my heart. Guess he also does that to you gentlemen!☺️😉
On the other hand, Oasis, both brothers have energetic and interesting voices! And gentlemen, if you only remember Noel and Liam when they were young men, please take a listen to them now where they have matured (Noel is 58 and Liam 52) they have become more interesting.
As always I am very be happy to help broaden your horizons ☺️
https://youtu.be/SctuM8–na8?si=G0gEkm73xd1sghYI
Just like Paul McCartney: when he was a young lad, he had boyish charms, no doubt about that, but the cover album he made, shortly after his beloved wife Linda died, his voice was much more masculine!
Take a listen here:
https://youtu.be/HXIr-6weakY?si=MTwW2gWXzsfI_jse
Regarding Ian, his voice was also very masculine when he was young, but certainly he has developed a depth in his voice since he was in his late 50s that really soothe the songs he his singing. Even though I’m well aware he can’t sing CiT today, he has so many other fine qualities in his voice.
Like a matured (hey there we have this very promising word again 😄) whisky that has spend a lot of time in oak barrels while very feminine hands have touched them gently when they dusted off the beautiful crystal bottles 😍
And now I am done!
*except the former mentioned birthday song-guy I heard some time ago, think it was in April!
July 20th, 2025 at 10:50Indeed, for some reason WS toured Denmark only very late in their career, as late as around Slip Of The Tongue according to my only very cursory research. Which seems strange to me as his first gig with Mk III in late 1973 was at KB Hallen in Copenhagen! One must assume that a ferocious young Karin, at this point not having recanted her views yet through my patient evangelism, made further border entries impossible for the usurper of her beloved Prince IG. 🤣 Danish immigration is quite unlike Danish sex, i.e. not liberal at all, even the dogs have to bear German names …
In hindsight, it is likely fair to say that DC’s vocal problems stem from him nearly always singing above his natural low tenor or even baritone range since he turned pro with Purple in 1973. In the late 80s, he exacerbated things by trying to compete with American helium singers ten years younger than him. DC wasn’t a hard rock singer before he joined DP, he molded himself into one.
Repeatedly, he tried to sing lower (on his solo albums after his departure from DP and on Into The Light when WS was on hiatus), but never saw it through and relented after a while to revert to the tried and trusted, but not really natural for him to conform to commercial expectations.
THIS was his natural range even as a young man:
https://youtu.be/ivz9KS5P9yI
And as a late teenager, young twen he already sounded like this:
https://youtu.be/kxSxzdfIPLI
As long as he had a high tenor/falsetto natural talent like Glenn with him as a vocal foil, he rarely attempted anything silly with his voice live or in the studio, but that all changed once he became a sole lead vocalist.
Coverdale knew his strengths, but he always admired Glenn’s high range control and force of voice. Perhaps IG’s shadow loomed a little large too with his passaggio/falsetto capabilities.
July 20th, 2025 at 15:16@41
“One must assume that a ferocious young Karin, at this point not having recanted her views yet through my patient evangelism, made further border entries impossible for the usurper of her beloved Prince IG. “
– well, well, well, 😆 neither am I ferocious (I’m as meek as a lamb according to persons close to me, who hasn’t been gagged I do need to point that out!) nor is it your ‘patient evangelism’, as you so humble regard yourself!, that turned me into a listener of David Coverdale!
And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with DC’s allegedly charms (which he has indeed, nothing wrong there either) no it was a dear friend that let me listen to some of DC’s love songs that won me over!
And in opposite to some of you in here, I’m not too proud to admit when I have been a little wrong from times to times!
Actually it takes a lot of courage to admit being a bit wrong in this society of hunting, bloodthirsty males! (Btw: when I was a kid, around 15 yo, I thought the film ‘Deer Hunter’ was about a very sweet, dear and kind man who hunted geese for food for his family. With that in mind, I was nicely shocked when I saw the film 🫣 it also taught me to learn to spell correctly!)
“Perhaps IG’s shadow loomed a little large too with his passaggio/falsetto capabilities.”
– Ian has always been GREAT!
“In hindsight, it is likely fair to say that DC’s vocal problems stem from him nearly always singing above his natural low tenor or even baritone range since he turned pro with Purple in 1973. In the late 80s, he exacerbated things by trying to compete with American helium singers ten years younger than him. DC wasn’t a hard rock singer before he joined DP, he molded himself into one.“
– AHA! So you admit too that the very nice David Coverdale had problems singing!!!!
I hope Admin in this very fine place, will make a little note of that! (Don’t know why they should make a note, but it sounded good, didn’t it!?)
So – all along I said: listen guys, DC does not sound at all healthy when he sings, I indeed was right! And now – when you think this ‘mature lady’ is so old she cannot remember from her nose to her mouth (don’t ask, it’s a Danish expression!) you come crawling into the spotlight and admit what I said all along….
July 20th, 2025 at 19:05I need a cup of coffee, indeed I do!
Karin, admittedly I gasped in abject horror and reeled in physical shock when Max in an utter glitch of decorum + an apparently heavy bout of eyesight impairment (—> grauer Star) likened you to a “mature lady”! I have no idea what sites he frequents where “mature ladies”‘ might be a nom de guerre tied to certain – must we really go there? 😑 – male expectations, yet here we are with a damage heap of gargantuan proportions.
I am sure he has long regretted his appalling faux pas and is now tormentedly obsessing over it … Of course, you can forgive him eventually,
https://live.staticflickr.com/381/19515957701_c45c931852_h.jpg
but only in a nuanced, womanly way, i.e. by reminding him on a revolving basis for the rest of his life that you have done so and that his probation never ends!
(in a more upbeat tone) On the other hand:
Now Max might be gone …
But I’m still here …
You know I’ve been waitin’ …
All these years …
https://youtu.be/Z6qnRS36EgE
July 20th, 2025 at 20:05Maxi @38, no need to defend your penchant for Mk III and IV in front of me, both line-up’s had their sparkle, if not lyrically. They were perhaps more accomplished stadium entertainers than Mk II were (who broke up before they had really reached the cusp of their success).
But do tell me, granted that you lost your, uhum, Smokie virginity to Rainbow On Stage and MiE, what is it that you don’t like about the 1974 Live In London gig and recording? I think that is fantastic if not offering the same widescreen Martin Birch production as MiE? You never mention it. I thought it was one of the best post-split releases from the vaults by Purple which as we all know were of varying quality in those times of great dearth.
PS: Mk III certainly had a more testosterone-charged raunch to them than Mk II and also a mid-70ish saturated, decadent glam factor which I for one thought appealing, more a Rolling Stones flair if you will. There was a grandiose air to them that fitted well with the times, you walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht …
https://youtu.be/rsU_jcENdz4
(Oh man, Carly was incredibly hot.)
Tommy Bolin especially was a hedonism pin-up girl (and eventually paid for it dearly).
July 20th, 2025 at 21:15@ 41 – amusing those old photos of a young Coverdale. His singing there does remind us of Joe Cocker and even Chris Farlowe. He needed to find something and thankfully Deep Purple found him. Plus the fact that he has breached the Ian Gillan fortress twice in Denmark, once in 1973 and again recently, that in itself has to be a commendable achievement. That slithering snake eh? Even Anton didn’t notice him, and we all know how little doggies are really good at finding and dealing with cunning snakes. Anton must have been asleep or something. Cheers.
July 20th, 2025 at 23:12@44- yes indeed, a superb song Your So Vain is. The days of the highest quality singer songwriters. “I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee and your so vain, you probably think this song is about you”. What poetry, what a surreal song and a beautifully crafted melody. Thanks for that reminder Uwe. Don’t get caught up in all that glitters is gold stuff, he he he. ‘Those were the days my friend, we thought they would never end”. Cheers.
July 20th, 2025 at 23:37Here I stand, accused and guilty in the first degree for having chosen the wrong word once more. Happens time and again (I do – instead of No way / One more – instead of bill please / mature lady – instead of…well please feel free to fill in expression of choice here.)
July 21st, 2025 at 09:04Our learning here: Thou shall not write in foreign language to woman folks and lawyers.
Aber Frau Verndal, nine out of ten people here agree that DC permanently damaged his voice in the 80s singing outside of his natural range with hair Metal WS! Whether added to that he had a wrong singing technique or physical traits (that deviated septum that got repaired late) that exacerbated matters is up to debate. You attribute it all to his heavy breathing, I’m no respiratory specialist, but to me that was always a stylistic shtick of his and it should be noted that he mainly used his trademark air gasps when he was singing low not helium high. I think he thought it was erotic.
And changing one’s mind and reappraising something is perfectly fine, Karin, more people should do it and hopefully most of us here do once in a while. Life is in flux. There was a time in my life when I thought Rainbow’s debut was a stronger album than Come Taste The Band, 50 years onward, the former sounds dated while CTTB is brimming with life and virility.
“Actually it takes a lot of courage to admit being a bit wrong in this society of hunting, bloodthirsty males!”
But we’ve always gone out of our way to be nice to you, like a baby sister, shown sympathy and compassion even for your Nordic coastal heritage, viewed your Elvis aversion as the passing young girl attitude that it was … all was really well until Max fumbled fatefully … let’s not get into that again!
Your misconception of ‘The Deer Hunter’ was cute – yup, that was a tough movie, not just for a teenage girl. I just saw Robert De Niro in the newish The Alto Knights in a double role
https://youtu.be/1aayuOp0AnE
and while Mafia films starring him have been done to death, it’s another stellar performance (well, actually two!) by him on his way to imminent retirement.
July 21st, 2025 at 13:17#42 Karin
In reference to Davide & Ian’s voices which have deteriorated over the years, I say to you and Uwe what my singing teacher told me:
If you can hit that high note dirty, you have it, it’s yours, with good technique, study and practice you can hit it clean.
so even David had the high notes of 1987 in his register, his problem as well as that of bigIan (like that of 90% of rock singers) was that he did not have the sufficient vocal education to sing them correctly when age and bad habits increased.
Glenn, Ronnie, and Joe’s natural vocal technique saved them from the same fate. (Of course, they also played much less live.)
July 21st, 2025 at 14:35Karin, do be gracious, magnanimous & merciful in all your bedazzling splendor, forgive Max now, the man, shattered in his plight, has atoned for his sins …
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Accolade_by_Edmund_Blair_Leighton.jpg/1200px-Accolade_by_Edmund_Blair_Leighton.jpg
https://youtu.be/IfsPf7gIp7Q
July 21st, 2025 at 15:15@47
Awww Max, all is forgiven 😃🤗
I just needed a bit of a laugh 😄
Please continue writing in here, you’re a welcome and very funny kick-in!
July 21st, 2025 at 16:28@45
😄well MacGregor, Anton wasn’t even thought of, nor was his great-great-great….great grandparents thought of at that time 😄
But I can promise you that if Ian would drop by now both Anton and myself would be stepping over each other’s toes and paws to bid him VERY welcome!
Regarding David C: the same 😃
July 21st, 2025 at 16:34@48
“Aber Frau Verndal, nine out of ten people here agree that DC permanently damaged his voice in the 80s singing outside of his natural range with hair Metal WS”
– aber Herr Hornung! I remember vividly the many times I sat here in my sofa corner, all confused and bewildered because I just couldn’t understand how come you very fine and super intelligent gentlemen so hardly refused to hear the massive problems with DC’s voice!
And yes, I described his breathing problems as one of the problems, (he thought it sounded erotic?! Well, it didn’t…)
“But we’ve always gone out of our way to be nice to you, like a baby sister”
– awwww it’s exactly how it feels for me in here – so thank you all from the bottom of my heart 🥰🥰
“shown sympathy and compassion even for your Nordic coastal heritage”
– what does this mean though? PLEASE EXPLAIN!
“viewed your Elvis aversion as the passing young girl attitude that it was”
– hey! I still don’t like the bt!
“all was really well until Max fumbled fatefully”
– I have forgiven Max completely ☺️ he was just using the wrong word. I’m sure he would have said: old bird 😅
Robert De Niro is a fine actor! I do still prefer this guy:
https://youtube.com/shorts/WCKmQA5Wmtw?si=vMpeceQAcOfr7otG
July 21st, 2025 at 16:52And I do think Anton would be marvellous in a new Godfather movie!
@50
Way ahead of you Uwe, please read @51!
July 21st, 2025 at 16:55@49
Thanks Fla76 👍🏼
“If you can hit that high note dirty, you have it, it’s yours, with good technique, study and practice you can hit it clean.”
July 21st, 2025 at 17:00– interesting! I use a big darning needle in the derriere 😅 gives a high pitch scream that can awake the dead ones!
You should thank me, Max.
My usual rates apply.
July 21st, 2025 at 21:06#55 Karin
more or less, when I was young and with my musician and metalhead friends we would hear at concerts some high-pitched metal singer like Michael Kiske, we would say “that guy is getting his balls squeezed”!
July 21st, 2025 at 22:15@ 42 – “Actually it takes a lot of courage to admit being a bit wrong in this society of hunting, bloodthirsty males!” There’s that Viking heritage rearing its head again. Sheesh, was it all the males was it Karin, he he he? Surely many females gave as good as they got? I actually worry about getting my head lopped off by either a male or a female. I don’t think it really matters in the end does it? In regard to Coverdale and his ‘heavy’ breathing, I agree with Uwe. I always thought old Cov’s thought he was being cool or something, erotic even as Uwe said. I have heard the odd male singer do that at times over the decades. It’s a blues sort of thing, getting down and morbid, for want of a better description. Now leave us ‘innocent’ males alone! Cheers.
July 21st, 2025 at 23:06I am not sure why Coverdale just didn’t opt for the castrati operation when he moved to the USA. He would have been able to hit those high notes no problems then. Can anyone here seriously think that David would have objected to that operation. As horrible as it has been in history for all those young lads back in time. Come on David, it’s never too late. There may even be a few female ‘surgeons’ out there that would gladly perform that ‘operation’ on David. Cheers.
https://operavision.eu/feature/castrati
July 21st, 2025 at 23:15It‘s a myth by the way that eunuchs could not have an erection. They could and were therefore very popular among the ladies of their era for endurance and general fun without fear of biological repercussions.
July 22nd, 2025 at 14:09@56 Thank you for…what?
Rubbing salt into the wound of our juvenile Scaninavian regular?
July 22nd, 2025 at 14:45Blowing up a case of misused word to an epic sin?
I have always been very good in getting in and out of trouble myself – and in being forgiven. Given my use of language that is absofuckinglutely a question of life or death.
@58
“Sheesh, was it all the males was it Karin, he he he?“
– now I think, no not all ☺️
Re DC: I really do enjoy his voice in those ‘soft’ lovesongs.
July 22nd, 2025 at 16:10@61
Max, you’ll soon need to developed this skill: ‘smile and nod’ whenever Uwe is on the prowl 😄
You are indeed and completely forgiven!
Nothing to forgive really, I was just making a bit fun of the fact that indeed I am a mature woman (never forget the first time in a supermarket where a much younger mum said to her child: make room for the lady honey – I looked around to see which lady, and then it dawned on me: the lady was me 😆)
And ever since the dawn of time (whenever that happened) women of all ages have become rather preoccupied with the hastening decay of one’s outer exterior. Not much to do about it!
Men have it so much easier! When you get older, you get dignified and elegant, whereas women’s only option is to be old crones!
I will soon learn to live with that, but until then, I might from time to time (over-)react when the subject discussed is about age in general and my age in particular.
July 22nd, 2025 at 17:09@61
Ohh forgot: I guess the: “ You should thank me, Max. My usual rates apply.”
July 22nd, 2025 at 17:14is about the misunderstood phenomenon that Uwe thinks he is the reason I ‘forgave you’.
But as I said above: nothing to forgive really, but hey being 58 in a world where women’s value drops to unseen depths after we turn 25, I do from time to time feel a bit vulnerable ☺️😉
his Ozzness has left the building. Vale Ozzy, one of kind. Rest easy old son.
https://www.loudersound.com/news/ozzy-osbourne-died
July 22nd, 2025 at 22:21@57
“some high-pitched metal singer like Michael Kiske, we would say “that guy is getting his balls squeezed”!”
– ouch! Not that I exactly know how that feels but I have an idea 🫣
OTOH: singers who actually are capable of singing like that without looking like they’re dying or worse, are indeed impressive 😊
July 23rd, 2025 at 06:22A “remixed” version of “Live in Copenhagen 1972”:
https://youtu.be/DSKqw9f-luU
Sorry, here is the right one, no remix though:
https://youtu.be/L7exUMHWoYE?t=164
Janbl
July 23rd, 2025 at 10:32@67
Janbl, I do prefer this one ☺️
July 27th, 2025 at 14:25https://youtu.be/UWupO17Q8D4?si=v7EV2Pr7KK_8nhi3
Ohh, and if I may say this on behalf of all of us who likes cykling less than hammering your thumb with a heavy hammer:
I AM SO HAPPY THAT THE TOUR DE FRANCE IS FINALLY OVER!
🥳🥳🤩😄
July 27th, 2025 at 14:32It’s the wind.
In Denmark I mean.
Whatever direction you take with a bike, the wind is always in your face.
It’s a country designed to make cycling unattractive.
July 28th, 2025 at 11:58@70
That is why 99,99 % of the Danish population (except me!) have electric bikes!
July 28th, 2025 at 14:26And Anton never gets tired pulling you?
July 28th, 2025 at 23:46@72
I ignore this 😄
(Btw: should he be doing that I would end up in a corn field, or worse: the neighbour’s rose bed! )
July 29th, 2025 at 06:47Ha ha ha, Anton pulling Karin along on her skateboard or roller blades, that is hilarious. I sincerely hope Karin that now you have more time on your hands and it is summer up there in Denmark, Anton IS getting out a little more. Cheers.
July 30th, 2025 at 22:56@74
“I sincerely hope Karin that now you have more time on your hands and it is summer up there in Denmark“
– sadly no MacGregor! We have rain, thunder, rather windy, and temperatures around 20 C.
But it’s ok, I seriously consider sunbathing in solariums, just to get a bit of a tan! Being whiter than the general perception of what “ghosts” look like, it’s a bit embarrassing being so white, so maybe some burned “bacon” would help me getting through the near coming winter.
“Anton IS getting out a little more“
– I promise you, Anton is taken very well care of 😃
At the moment he is staring at me (the time is 5.09 pm) and he usually gets his dinner at 6 pm, so around 4 pm he starts to break me down 😄
But I keep up morale in my home! No dinner before the right time!
Have you ever seen the sitcom Frasier?
July 31st, 2025 at 15:14Martin’s dog, Eddie, stares at Frasier constantly and so does Anton at me!
But I am made of steel! 😄
@74
Here is Anton, staring!
July 31st, 2025 at 15:19Imagine being stared at like that for hours….
https://youtube.com/shorts/yQsvopmby4M?si=U-yW1MnYsvowNPfn
@ 76 – yes doggies are devoted and I always liked that and I miss having one. All good though as long as he is staring at you for the right reason. It is hard to tell sometimes he he he. Regarding being as white as a ghost, we have a saying out here (it could be from another country I am not sure). When people see you that white they can say ‘your as white as a guide post, get out in the sun a little’. Our guide posts along the sides of roads are painted bright white, now although made of plastic they are still that. The lack of Vitamin D is the worry. However as you know we can supplement that. Maybe that is what Anton is saying to you, ‘my vitamin D levels master, my vitamin D’. Cheers.
July 31st, 2025 at 23:11“Here is Anton starving!”
Fixed it for you, Frau Verndal!
Incidentally, is Danish dog food different from Danish cuisine for human consumption in general or are they one and the same? 😎 I do know how you Danes don’t really make too much fuss about food.
July 31st, 2025 at 23:49What a great dog that was, you had, Herr MacGregor, though it never quite tamed …
https://youtu.be/o79vefZC-aQ
August 1st, 2025 at 12:36@78
Well, you told me that the chef in the Muppet Show was called ‘the Danish Chef’ in German television 😁 (in Denmark he’s called the Swedish Chef, have no idea why, the Swedish food I have had was delicious!
So I guess you better ask Edith how she finds the Danish Cuisine!
I am no genius in the kitchen, but I manage to keep my household well fed!
August 1st, 2025 at 14:57@77
Aww I do get you miss having a little doglet. Can’t you get one?
“When people see you that white they can say ‘your as white as a guide post, get out in the sun a little’. “
– 😄 well, I hear that all the time too!
“The lack of Vitamin D is the worry.”
– I make sure we get vitamin D as a supplement every single day! Actually it’s acting as a hormone in the body, more than a vitamin, and takes care of so many vital parts in the body, so you’re right: it’s important to be filled up with Vitamin D ☀️ – also called the sunshine vitamin 😊
“Maybe that is what Anton is saying to you, ‘my vitamin D levels master, my vitamin D’.“
August 1st, 2025 at 15:04– 😄 oohhh no MacGregor, Anton is really saying: “mum I’m starving, and it’ll be on your sorry head if I die within the next 10 minutes” 😄 but so far he has survived!
“We have rain, thunder, rather windy, and temperatures around 20 C.“
Sounds about as tropical as summers in Jylland get!
https://youtu.be/R82XGJV_nkU
August 1st, 2025 at 20:01@80
“…in Denmark he’s called the Swedish Chef, have no idea why…”
In America he’s the “Swedish Chef”. It’s the way he talks, which to you, probably sounds normal. Because to us, you guys have this vocal affliction. I believe it is called an accent.
I’m sure if you heard me talk it would sound equally as weird to you. Because of the absence of said accent.
August 2nd, 2025 at 08:31@78
“I do know how you Danes don’t really make too much fuss about food.”
I hear that Fulskager is good… haven’t had a chance to try it yet. 🙁
August 2nd, 2025 at 08:35@82
“Sounds about as tropical as summers in Jylland get!”
– indeed you are right!
Do you know Laid Back? !!
Oh they are from a time, ancient times, when I was young 🤩
Maybe the rest of the nice people in here wanna listen to this:
https://youtu.be/faj84XKLzTQ?si=UfNmjra4qCPg0CfW
But this one may be a bit more serious:
https://youtu.be/AUxm4e4TsQ8?si=hD_GtU-EWVUqk81O
😄
I guess techno wasn’t wasted on Danish bands 😄
Sorry here is the serious tune, thinking of Denmark as an agricultural country!
https://youtu.be/yByP88jUQH4?si=BjouWgkXihpo7Hnd
August 2nd, 2025 at 12:25@83
“Because to us, you guys have this vocal affliction. I believe it is called an accent.”
August 2nd, 2025 at 12:27– 😆 WHAT! Well, at least we understand most foreigners that come by to visit our little adorable country 😊
@84
Well, they are indeed yummy!
Even when I make oatmeal it is very nice!
Maybe because I always listen to very good music making food!
(That’ll say everything Ian and Purple! But also Georgia Satellites, Oasis (YES! Oasis!) and other Britpop bands 😄
But this one is on the top of my list at the moment:
August 2nd, 2025 at 12:39https://youtu.be/uIFHZhUgQiA?si=tx-p0ljn4cqMTg7P