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Discipline, necessity, or instinct?
Steve Morse recently was a guest on the Pod and Mr. Music podcast. He talked about playing drums in the town square, coming of the angels, mechanics of playing Bach, being busy and busier, learning to drink tea, and walking into the room with suitcases, among other things. A good part of the conversation revolved around his years in Purple, which he remembers fondly.
Thanks to Manic Miner for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Thanks for the wonderful Steve Morse interview. Regarding the Purpendicular sessions, it looks like Tea won the days there indeed. No coffee in sight most probably, he he he. And then we venture to the Flying Colours (correct spelling) or is that the Australian band Flyying Colours. Anyway with Steve talking about the in studio sessions and coffee lost out there it seems. Some people just need to get their priorities in order, if you take a coffee break, anything can happen as a form of punishment it seems. Cheers.
December 31st, 2025 at 05:15I could have sworn the interviewer is French, n’est-ce pas? But apparently not.
It’s heartwarming to see that Steve is emerging from the grieving period – it’s what Janine would have wanted. He’s in joyous mood here and I’m happy for him.
Interesting things about the Purple do’s & don’t’s:
“You don’t tell Ian what to sing, you just let him do his thing.” I think it is exactly that what tore Blackmore and Gillan apart musically over the years – Ritchie wanting to retain an influence on the vocal melodies and Ian just not having it (anymore). Their styles grew apart, probably already around Fireball. Candice said in a recent interview that to this day the Blackmore’s Night vocal melodies are mainly her husband’s do and she just adds the words. And the rather conventional vocal melodies of BN and the Gillan vocal exploits of Mark VII, VIII & IX’s are truly worlds apart. I believe that Ian considers what Ritchie deems to be a good vocal melody trite and banal. (I tend to agree!)
The acoustic/unplugged reticence of DP … – ah yes, here Steve points something out. For some reason, Purple were always fearful of “sonic disarmament” – as if the “Purple Wall of Sound” was an always required ingredient (it is certainly one of their trademarks) to their success or that their songs would not stand up to an unplugged environment (not all would, but there would have been enough). There is no MTV Unplugged of Purple even at a time when it was all the rage and commercially lucrative. The closest Purple ever got to playing “bare” like Zeppelin would regularly do was the 1993 performances of one song, Anyone’s Daughter, and even there only Little Ian left his regular tools of trade for some front of stage percussion. (Their is also a South African unplugged radio show from Morse days, but it is instrumental because Big Ian either truly had or feigned throat problems, he’s never been much of an unplugged guy in his solo career stints either.
I regret that Purple never had the guts for a one-off concert or short tour with a dedicated unplugged set. Hell, even a band as energy-reliant as Status Quo (incidentally: Frohes Neujahr, Max!) is unafraid to do so …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nWY3g4Dkzk
https://youtu.be/XI7Pr8eVFUs
I mean even KISS managed that format surprisingly well …
https://youtu.be/YBO5uKqfm5g
https://youtu.be/E2NHLRrAWqg
Finally, the pains Steve goes through when comparing guitar greats at the end trying to ensure he says something nice about everyone are endearing to witness. Steve, the eternal student assembly speaker! 😂 So Hendrix (innovation), Page (for being a producer-songwriter-guitarist maverick), Beck (innovation again), Clapton (melody and vibrato) as well as Petrucci (right hand technique) are his icons.
Speaking of right hand technique, am I the only one who actually thinks that Steve’s style would actually benefit if he did less of the left/right/left/right pick technique and worked more with hammer-ons and sweeps? I know that machine like right hand precision was his trademark (and it is close to impossible to emulate by lesser mortals), but I really would like to see him – as he announces in the interview to attempt to do in the future – branch out a little on that (now that he has to in any case due to having overstrained his picking hand for decades). I for example never liked how rigidly he played the Perfect Strangers melody riff as opposed to Ritchie’s more playful “fencing style”.
January 1st, 2026 at 21:31Don’t blame poor ole Ritchie. Ian Gillan has a limited take on vocal variations to my ears. He doesn’t do ‘unplugged’ does he. It doesn’t suit his style. DP MKII were on a mission of hard rock in the initial years. There was a little more variation in the reunion days. They don’t do acoustic, not with Gillan on lead vocals, he isn’t into folk music, even blues for that matter. Too much hard rock for Ian Gillan and he was shone up a little in the IGB in that sense. Even Gillan the band doesn’t really have a lot of variation when we think about it. Colin Towns was the one there trying to do that and managed to squeeze a little diversity in at times. Hence Ian’s move to Black Sabbath. Not only for finances, he just cannot help himself vocally, especially back in those days. All vocalists have their style and to me they get boring after a while, too much of the same old same old. We have said that about the instrumentalist musicians too, Ritchie gets bored really easy. Blackmore was more varied in Rainbow with Dio’s vocals and overall outlook. I was glad that Steve Morse brought some acoustic to Purple, initially at least. Another reason Purpendicular is their best post Blackmore album. That would be one reason Abandon was a harder and courser album. Jon Lord wasn’t as involved on that record either was he? It has always been a little disappointment to me with DP, but that is who they are. Robin Trower has never played acoustic guitars apparently. He just doesn’t like it. Some bands are really good at those variations, it depends on the music and of course the musicians themselves. Black Sabbath had more acoustic diversity than DP, most rock bands did. Regarding Steve playing more ‘sweeping’ and hammer ons, no please no. Steve can get annoying with his too busy technique to my ears at times. Keeping it more simplistic is his key (any guitarist for that matter), even more so these days. That interviewer putting Steve through that comparison thing was disappointing. What is the point of that. The comparing that some people do. I wasn’t surprised Steve was uncomfortable doing that, many musicians don’t get into that sort of thing. Cheers.
January 2nd, 2026 at 15:02Sometimes I think that Steve is the most wonderful guy in the world… if you take out his admiration for Jimmy Page :S
Thank God (spoiler ahead) he did switch to Jimi Hendrix at least…
January 2nd, 2026 at 16:36continuing on with Ian Gillan song melodies dilemma. I did notice a much more melodic sense re-emerging when Deep Purple reformed in 1984. Working with Blackmore and Glover again with the songwriting helped in getting Gillan to sing more melodic and not as full on as he had been in the Gillan band and even worse, The Black Sabbath stint. Sometimes a horse can be lead to water and even drink it at times. Cheers.
January 3rd, 2026 at 01:23I have a recollection of Gillan saying in an older (early 90ies?) interview that he considers a rock album with more than 2 ballads boring. Thinking of an album such as Bananas, containing Haunted, Walk On, Never a Word (maybe best example of Steve’s intention as he mentions it in the interview) and Contact Lost, probably he found it an exaggeration. Yet, for ageing IG his performance has been consistently great in such tracks (also Don’t make me happy comes to mind).
I think the problem with doing an acoustic live is that DP classics are a lot ‘riff driven’. Songs like Smoke, Highway Star, Speed King, Perfect Strangers etc can sound quite cringey if you do a careless acoustic cover. So they should make a setlist containing very few (I’d say max 1, done in a clever way) of those. There are classics that can work though, Woman from Tokyo, maybe even Fireball that does not depend that much on some riff, Child in Time also, if the vocals could be handled.
Also I believe that DP always had this ‘in your face’ attitude in live perfomances. Even now, hearing the rhythm section of little Ian and Roger live is like it shouts “well young men, we are close to 80, but we are not kidding”. And very loud it does.
January 3rd, 2026 at 08:45Before Uwe jumps in and tears me apart for my Ian Gillan vocal comments, re; acoustic and folk. I am talking DP not his solo music, as in the Dream Catcher album. Having said that, doing solo albums gets the ideas away from the ‘mothership’ of DP. Meaning there isn’t that ‘pressure’ of the hard rock stigma hanging over things. Having said that, does the vocal style of folk and ‘world music’ suit Ian’ voice. Not really to my ears, he sings well on it and it is grand to not hear any hard rock vocal and the cursed falsetto screaming as such. Cheers.
January 3rd, 2026 at 21:40All very astute comments and I concur, Manic and Mac, no need to tear apart anyone!
January 4th, 2026 at 19:25One of my issues with BN has always been that every song seems to have the same melody. I think we all know that RB wanted a more bluesy take on WFT for example but MK2’s strength was always the amalgamation of the various members which was stronger than the individuals. I would argue that none of the individual members ever matched MK2 in their pomp.
I think the irony (if that’s the right word- it probably isn’t) is that the lighter Morse contributions brought out the best of IG – SIFLS, The Aviator, Touch Away and (I don’t know who originated the track) Never A Word ( a sentimental fav of mine since my Wife came down the aisle to it) and that MKMorse rarely matched previous iterations for the heavier tracks with the exception of Time For Bedlam
January 5th, 2026 at 08:49@& Well said, MacGregor. One Eye to Morocco is a fine album, too. Not really folk or acoustic, more like pop- and soft-rock but still a nice change from Ian’s usual hard rock style. One of those occasions where he sings with a deep baritone rather than screams with an ever deteriorating falsetto.
January 5th, 2026 at 12:21Yes, one of the many lowkey, home demo’ish recordings Ian likes to sell to us as serious “solo albums”. As quality control goes, he really is the Neil Young of DP – minus the latter’s undeniable solo highlights of course. 🤗😈
To me the last IG solo albums measuring up to his stature and status were Accidentally on Purpose with Roger and Toolbox which was at least committed. Both albums are now 35 or more years old. In the meantime, he has released nothing outside of DP that I would qualify as more than “mildly entertaining novelty value if cast in a benevolent light”. Does anybody buy Ian’s albums who is not a DP fan? I doubt it.
Ian was and is great in DP and was great in IGB, GILLAN & Black Sabbath – with established writing teams around him where he can/could contribute his one-of-a-kind vocal melodies. But left to his own devices, his solo output is underwhelming. There is no “Band On The Run” among it (in post-Beatles-speak), the releases are a ramshackle, whimsical mishmash with hardly any musical vision. No one will mistake him with Peter Gabriel anytime soon.
Now Karin will have something to write and tell us what laboriously and painstakingly written and recorded milestones of 20th and 21th century pop music Naked Thunder, The Javelins excursions, Dream Catcher, Gillan’s Inn and One Eye to Morocco really were. 🤣
January 10th, 2026 at 21:02@ 11- I hear what you are saying Uwe and please be careful what you are implying, the Lady of the north takes NO prisoners. Seriously though I don’t have a problem with someone experimenting with solo releases. They don’t have to be sonically sounding great albums to me. I look at a lot of them as a release of sorts, for the musician. Trying different low key and experimental things with different musicians or even by themselves. Why not? I remember buying Pete Townshend’s ‘Scoop’ album back when it was released in 1983. Demos and some finished songs and whatever else that it contained. I enjoyed that, it gives us another side to some of our favourite musicians. Big Ian does need to work with accomplished songwriters as you stated, many singers do just like the guitarists who don’t sing have to work with fine vocalists for collaborations of decent songs. Comparing Gillan to Paul McCartney and Peter Gabriel is mismatch of sorts. Karin please spare Uwe your wrath, forgive him for he know not what he do. Cheers.
January 10th, 2026 at 22:38continuing on regarding ‘solo’albums. Dave Brock released demo’s and finished songs on his first solo album, Earthed to the Ground in the early 80’s. With a drum machine as ghastly as it does sound. But the intention was to do something experimental ‘at home, while waiting for Hawkwind to get going again’. Some songs later appeared on Hawkwind albums. Ian Anderson’s ‘Walk into Light’ his first solo album 1983. Drum machine again (unfortunately it inspired Anderson to do the same with Tull’s next album, a major regret and so it should be). Working with new keyboard player Peter John Vettese and it is a strong compositional album, better than the subsequent Tull album Under Wraps and the solo album doesn’t have that finished gleam to it, that doesn’t matter to many folk. And as far as record sales go it probably doesn’t matter to the musicians either, although the record company may have differing views on that. Anderson’s later solo albums did have a much more ‘professional’ finish and presentation to them. We probably should take into consideration the low budget setting at the time and even a home studio perhaps, especially in the earlier days. There is nowhere near the same pressure involved when going ‘solo’ when getting away from the behemoth of the main band. To experiment or to not experiment, that is the question. Cheers.
January 10th, 2026 at 23:47@11
Indeed I will Uwe, but later…
Let me link to this band, I have loved them always, no not only because of the well known and maybe a bit over-played soft song, but because of this one (among so many others):
https://youtu.be/TDGvmM1qAVg?si=l1y90jlllDUdZy15
I can’t begin to tell you how this wonderful Rock’n’Roll is colouring up my mind 😃
This one – ohh my! – lovely too:
https://youtu.be/yetBsgViVvM?si=nUnzWYlqSS3Q3Hlh
And this one is BEAUTIFUL 😍:
https://youtu.be/mHGv5FCS2j8?si=FWIPnCH8Iih4wVnm
Now where were we?
Ohh yeah, Ian’s magical solo projects! They were indeed something else…
And I can tell you Uwe, I look forward to receive the box-set with IGB!
Ok ok, let’s have the very well sung, produced and a bit overplayed tune:
https://youtu.be/L6-uJLteKek?si=HvPbsAcGozCPrVSx
But this song is the reason I find them among the top rock bands in the world (and suburbs):
https://youtu.be/8SOa3IeoxVo?si=NLXCeRL5trwCfoFf
I am a sucker for happy songs and bands! I really dig when I can sense they’re having a good time… (yes, it may be a feminine trait..)
Funnily enough they’re mentioned as a glam-heavy band….. well then I guess the Danish band Aqua is a hard rocking ensemble….
Well enough said about Aqua (sorry to those of you who like them…)
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but where else can I write about the music I also like, besides Purple 😄
And Uwe, now I really look forward to hear you tearing Mr Big apart – as you almost always do whenever I write about a band or a singer I like 😄😄
(Except Pet Shop Boys, where you surprisingly were with me in appreciation of Neil and co 😁)
Ohh yeah, I also really like Steve Morse 😂 (and attempt to be faithful to our hardworking admin guys 😇)
January 11th, 2026 at 08:04Sorry, Karin, I find the American Mr Big – though good musicians all – terribly dreary and bland – and I can’t stand To Be With You. 🤣
I prefer the English Mr Big (a different band) from the 70s, a band more in the smart pop 10cc/City Boy vein:
https://youtu.be/RNsSV2jMagw
https://youtu.be/XaBBV275Q-E
January 11th, 2026 at 14:09@12
But MacGregor, I am kindness personified ☺️😃
I would never dream of hurting anyone intentionally! Maybe if that person said something nasty about my favourite troubadour…. No, not even then!
Life has a way of sorting hurtful persons out 😁
P.S. I do find that Ian writes songs on his own very beautifully ☺️
P.P.S:
I have been listening to another band, besides Mr Big that is, these guys:
https://youtu.be/odz3c68JE1c?si=2ofOrjw6mp4EwVf_
So much fun!
Of course I remember ‘More than words’, but I lost track of them somehow.
January 11th, 2026 at 14:47But a nice funk band they seem to be 😊
Ah…Karin… Mr. Big. Time and again I dig out their albums. Some great stuff to explore. And that bass-Billy is killer. Billy is in the Winery Dogs too, recommended as well. Ritchie Kotzen is another Dog who was in Mr. Big for a couple of albums. Great player and a very good singer in his own right.
Btw Eric Martin is a great admirer of Paul Rodgers too. And if it does not have to be hard rock all the time you may like some of Eric’s solo work. Somewhere in the middle is a nice album I played in the car quite often.
And Extreme! Hell yeah. If you don’t like what you see here…get the funk out. Gotta love ’em.
January 11th, 2026 at 20:29@15
Uwe, re those two songs you linked to, now I’ve been listening to them a lot of times, and I have one comment for you:
You know what Muzak is, right? Well when I listen to those two tunes, some how I find myself in an elevator, deeply annoyed because of those noises that occur from some speakers somewhere, placed so I cannot reach up and destroy them….
You cannot in all honesty and sincerity claim the British mr big better than the American Mr Big?
Come on Uwe! I have deep respect for you, but I hope that you’re joking 🧐
Now, put your feet on the table, have your coffee within reach and listen to this, with an open mind:
https://youtu.be/46BCpSJKIjw?si=WJhUUiaQfK7vTfOw
So much energy and so much fun 😃
January 12th, 2026 at 11:17@18;Well Karin…to really be able to appreciate those pearls in the crown of Britisch songwriting you have to be wayyyy more mature than you actually are. More like…say…Uwe I guess. Makes me wonder why they picked the name Mr. Big for their band as it is plain misleading. For the US band it’s obvious they listened to Free a lot. They even did a cover of the song on the album Bump ahead.
January 12th, 2026 at 15:49Purple connection: JLT did versions of Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy and Colorado Bulldog, GH did Price you gotta pay.
The music of Mr Big US is well-played, Karin, but not quirky and very conventional.
The alleged “Muzak” single hits by Mr Big UK were just that, single hits and written as such (just like To Be With You was not typical of Mr Big US), but generally they stretched the format more, this here is not elevator music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itxTVWM_acE
In the mid 70s, Mr Big UK (at one time a Queen support) were lumped together with English clever pop-art-rock such as Queen, Sparks (the Maels are of course American, but their success was British), Be-Bop Deluxe, 10cc, Pilot and City Boy. I have more of a penchant for that type of music than for straightforward American melodic hard rock. It’s for the same reason that Thunder doesn’t really impress me.
But I’m sure that both Thunder and Mr Big US can pull off a convincing live show, they’re not bad bands, just a little on the unremarkable side.
January 12th, 2026 at 17:44@17
Ohh Max! Vielen Dank ☺️
I’ve said it before, really don’t mind saying it again: Uwe could actually take notes from you 😃 (are you listening Uwe?! 😁)
I did not know Eric was influenced by Paul Rogers, but he sure can sing 😊
I will look up his solo work.
And yes, the bassist is really great, and he can even sing too!
When they covered this one:
https://youtu.be/8SOa3IeoxVo?si=PbeNw2DB5Qlf2Agv
I was so impressed how they can play each other’s instruments 😍
Yes, Extreme are amazing funk/rock/pop
January 12th, 2026 at 18:36This:
https://youtu.be/Eb1JFC2_lLc?si=l-qzmji0UzSsYiac
is beautiful 🤩 and Nuno is not half bad 😃
@19
Max! 🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant! Made my day (well late night actually)
I do remember some earlier debates regarding maturity! But I suppose no one gets red cheeks when I say this:
Maturity is not at all what it’s cracked up to be 😂
US Mr Big caught my attention with the slightly over played “to be with you”
But this one:
https://youtu.be/elkYpuUeB3w?si=m_D96BIhShftKlWs
Where Pat’s still in the band though he of obvious reasons can’t play the drums, well that is so lovely 🥹
This:
January 12th, 2026 at 23:08https://youtu.be/v9U9j9OOG3M?si=d7wULOT2342rUT-W
Well darn it if they aren’t mentioning some guitarist named Stevie Ray 😄
Besides that, I love the groove of this band… please don’t shoot me but I hear some Whitesnake influence here ☺️
@20
Uwe, thanks for the link, and tell me in all honesty: is it you writing the first post in the comments 😁
I am always amazed how we interpret music…. But one’s taste doesn’t necessarily mean it’s wrong or Muzak…. It just means it’s different 😄
Allow me to show you some different ‘non-Muzak’:
January 12th, 2026 at 23:33https://youtu.be/xGytDsqkQY8?si=ormK1QceAwcty-Mq
Dan has a certain John Lennon feel, even more than our kid has 😊
And this feels pleasant and pure hygge ☺️
Max has a much more bluesy rock oriented taste than mine, Karin. I like that type of music too, but it‘s not my all time favorite, probably stemming from my David Bowie/Glam Rock/New Wave days plus my Beatles upbringing, I also very much appreciate clever pop that is a little off the beaten path:
https://youtu.be/xTVzRfZEiAM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgakpSoHEiE
https://youtu.be/IyGK8cKX1rk
https://youtu.be/VAtGOESO7W8
https://youtu.be/1isRH9E9WAE
https://youtu.be/w4xeHYI4A2k
https://youtu.be/GcqGRE_fGlQ
https://youtu.be/kjrUOlK2714
You get the gist I think, I have a penchant for music that sometimes borders a little on the slightly unsettling grotesque.
Purple are not really chief protagonists of that, but their music – thanks to mainly Ian Gillan – has more elements of that than, say, Led Zep or Bad Co.
When I was a kid, my older brother brought home the Magical Mystery EP by the Beatles and the song that immediately fascinated me most was this here:
https://youtu.be/3kGO4iAuGac
January 13th, 2026 at 01:27That Semisonic track is nice, Karin, bit like these guys here …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw
I guess what attracts me to “quirky pop” is that it is a bit less overt than bluesy hard rock and works on several levels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d022vGBC75o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbFydtLF-Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRtydnIycCY
January 13th, 2026 at 10:48@24
Uwe, have been listening to all your links (You obviously can’t limit yourself any more than I can 😄 but because I love music, I really don’t mind 🙏🏼)
Cars: classy 😊
Sparks well, haven’t we been around those gentlemen a couple of times, this one still makes me smile:
https://youtu.be/6Z9Bc4heH2I?si=q6AYPr1KXliYAdMF
And this one:
https://youtu.be/C8dqCQ2MHfQ?si=MBJdcf-4F7p3_Fa6
is completely adorable, and I find it to be shout out for the ‘15 minutes fame’ so many talentless people seek incessantly and tirelessly ( I look so much forward to Danish TV stop producing those horrible programs, where the only fun part is to watch people at the auditions being finished of by relentless judges..) ( I never watch those auditions though because I feel so sorry for these people made so openly a laughing stock)
Be Bop Deluxe – have never heard them before! Bill Nelson reminds so much of this guy from that band 😄 arhhh man cannot remember them….. they were very much happening when I was in Gymnasium ‘83 – ‘85 – uhh come on now! Wait, have to find that out – my impatience was rewarded 😁 this one:
https://youtu.be/KwIe_sjKeAY?si=rBwsjiD6HcKAOAvr
Ohh who can be in a bad mood listening to Madness 🤩
Well, it was the vocalist from Madness I was thinking about re Bill Nelson. And in this video I love the nod to Monty Python 2:43 + I simply adore the heavy piano in the beginning.
Tears for fears! Really???? And you don’t appreciate boybands 😃
What in all that is pure and decent Uwe is grotesque about Tears for Fears?
If you had linked to this:
https://youtu.be/Ye7FKc1JQe4?si=Vnuby1FocwEWgKh_
I would have understood so much more your lust for quirky music 😅
Awwwww – Wax – Bridge to your heart ❤️
I love it!
My hairdresser was won over by her now-husband with this song 😃 she had many a good story to tell me about that 😄
A very nice ‘pick-me-up’ song if someone should wake up in a sad mood! But who would do that in the long and cold winter?! 😁
Ohh yeah David Bowie 🤩
When he died ‘someone’ (not me!) said: his job here on earth was done, the mothership had collected him 😄
I really dig his voice 😊 and he is sucking some toes at the end 😁 what’s not to like about that 😆
and I really love he didn’t care too much about other people’s opinions – or at least that was the impression he made on me.
I guess he wrote this song?
Super furry animals!
Have never heard them before… but I can certainly see and hear Oasis have a massive influence there 😃
Talking about Oasis:
https://youtu.be/TDe1DqxwJoc?si=t98u7d2YZbLYKCZZ
Having a tiny soft spot for our kid and the chief 😃
Btw, talking about Noel, I have, until now, claimed Christine McVie’s Songbird to be the best lovesong ever written. I stand corrected!
This one is the best and I cannot imagine another song ever push this of its throne:
https://youtu.be/XBIyFiGzWZs?si=s4r1-k_eZyO_r3Mt
Ohhhh my ❤️ to quote another great German: it has been on hot rotation in my home 😃 please take a look at the pianist, how he is leaning in (3:00) when playing this unbelievable beautiful song 😃
Only because of this song I’m ok with the fact that Oasis stopped for a period of, was it, 16 years?
Show me that woman who wouldn’t melt into a little puddle had anyone ever sung this for her!(maybe I’m in the wrong neighbourhood here asking that kind of question…😄) it has EVERYTHING! I surely hope the woman Noel made this for, had it in her to thank him thoroughly ☺️
The flaming lips – another band, completely new to me 😊 oh but how much fun 😃
And I promise you: the irony is not wasted on me here 😂
Uwe, your last remarks re Ian Gillan make me finally see that all the times you said to me that he is ‘my’ Ian, in reality it was a projection so massive that I’m beginning to understand your darling wife’s need to visit my lovely country 3 weeks every year 😁
Well, as I always say: live and let live!
P.S. how do you in any way call this, the other great love of your life, these guys:
https://youtu.be/aEL6gh1Vz6s?si=bogSsLRhRIAKSV3D
a little unsettling grotesque 😄
Well, maybe Quo and JP are among the bands who keep you solidly connected to the ground among the rest of us 😃
The Beatles song: classy!
Let me end this lovely tour in your head with this not unsettling and not at all grotesque song, but woah I love it so much:
https://youtu.be/TULj4SJFmKE?si=XGK2ZBDTR1F3Cd_m
Sorry, so sorry 🤣🤣
Wrong song, the right one is this one:
https://youtu.be/F38ZRgp_N6k?si=7oRLm9BcxRBfl0lJ
He is married to a Danish beauty btw! Ok I would have loved his voice a little more Brian Johnson’ed ☺️
Well enough with twisting your poor lawyer brain, here is my song:
https://youtu.be/gYQ6MIjoY_k?si=UiUlkyfMkYE4X648
Would Nuno have being a perfect fit for Purple? (I mean hadn’t Simon McB happened)
And this:
January 13th, 2026 at 12:24https://youtu.be/TcQDi6u28VQ?si=xq1o4NzBFZ4XseaJ
@26
“Super furry animals! Have never heard them before…”
Me too… that is until I went to this club in The Reeperbahn… Oh wait a minute, those were just regular furries. 😈
January 14th, 2026 at 11:27@26
Post Script:
Meant to include this in my previous post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8hbN6TPL6E
January 14th, 2026 at 11:41Super Furry Animals are a Welsh indie pop collective, darlings of the music press, popular among people who like more arcane Brit Pop Rock such as Manic Street Preachers and Stereophonics.
Not really an American staple diet. Or even a Continental European one for that matter.
https://youtu.be/GNB3WWkNVhM
https://youtu.be/XHlUcYYifO0
It‘s the kind of whimsical pop that could only come from the British Isles. Needless to say, I got turned on to them by a Welshman in our law firm. He had real esoteric tastes (and lf course laughed about Deep Purple), but was a treasure trove for stuff like this.
January 14th, 2026 at 23:33@29
Uwe, if he hasn’t been gone, you ought to get him fired NOW! AT ONCE! IMMEDIATELY!
No one laughs at Purple and get away with it!
Not on my watch… 😡
Besides that, I’m sweet as candy 😄 (but don’t mess with Ian and Co, then I’m a ferocious lioness…)
January 15th, 2026 at 09:50Why? He was very good at pulling my leg about DP (and JP of course, a band most Brits consider hilarious). I prefer people making jokes about Purple to ignoring or being unaware of them.
January 15th, 2026 at 20:33@31
I prefer people out of ignorance don’t know what Purple are all about.
Really don’t appreciate if they make fun of the best band in the world 😆
January 16th, 2026 at 08:07Beware of people who can‘t take a joke or take themselves serious all the time!
https://yt3.ggpht.com/KFmm3x1KKBKKO1fLz6hVozvSugVn7VlnxO_e12a5xy0On2zJUdtPJBDUfdXFglkw9gbzrp6GTtmW=s1600-nd-v1
January 16th, 2026 at 14:27@ 33- ha ha ha ha, classic Uwe. That Coverdale chap is worse than Paul Rodgers, something I cringe about often. Are you sure that original article wasn’t from me, he he he. Cheers.
January 16th, 2026 at 22:06@33
😄 I guess it’s fair to say that I can be accused of many things, but lacking at least a little bit of humour is not not of them….
January 17th, 2026 at 09:29