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An outfit called Echoes and Dust reviews Splat! from a casual fan point of view.
I’ve always loved both the Rod Evans and Ian Gillan eras, spanning the band’s first two Marks, from Shades of Deep Purple through Who Do We Think We Are. That’s generally where my listening stopped. Now, here I am in 2026, and Deep Purple have done the impossible by staying true to their roots.
Their new album, Splat, gives them the awesome power they deserve by retaining their energetic hard rock foundation while embracing progressive ambitions. Listening to it feels like watching an episode of the ’90s animated Iron Man or The Incredible Hulk series back when superhero cartoons still had a genuine edge.
Read more in Echoes and Dust.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
The Meeting: August 1971 vs. May 1982 – Ritchie talks to Ritchie
1971 Ritchie: (Staring at 1982 Ritchie’s outfit, leaning against his Marshall stack, holding a battered Strat)What happened to your hair? And what is that rubbish I just heard on the radio? “Stone Cold”? It sounds like something Foreigner rejected. Where is the fire? Where is the speed?
1982 Ritchie: (Sipping a drink, looking entirely unbothered)The fire is exactly where it needs to be: on the American charts. You’re still driving around Europe in a sweaty van, tearing your fingers apart playing ten-minute solos on “Space Truckin'” for audiences who just want to smash chairs. I’ve cracked the States.
1971 Ritchie: (Scoffs)You sold out to the Americans. We built Deep Purple to destroy bands like that. We took the blues, we took classical music, and we made it heavier and faster than anyone else. Now you’re writing three-minute pop tunes for teenage girls to listen to in their cars? You’ve gone soft. You’ve stopped practicing.
1982 Ritchie: (Smiles thinly)I didn’t go soft; I grew up. You think playing fast scales makes you a genius? It’s a parlor trick. Any kid in a guitar shop can learn to shred. But writing a perfect, melodic hook that gets played on every radio station from New York to Los Angeles? That takes real discipline. Besides, I got bored of the noise. Heavy metal is turning into a cartoon.
1971 Ritchie:A cartoon? We are changing the world! Ian Paice and I are pushing the absolute limits of what a rhythm section and a guitar can do together. Who are you playing with now? Joe Lynn Turner? He sounds like a cabaret singer. What happened to a real singer with grit?
August 1st, 2026 at 05:161982 Ritchie:Ian Gillan’s screaming would have ruined these songs, and quite frankly, you’ll grow to loathe him anyway. Joe delivers exactly what the music needs—sophistication and melody. You think you’re a purist, but you’re just stubborn. Have you listened to ABBA? The melodies are brilliant. That’s what I’m chasing now. Not mindless speed.
1971 Ritchie: (Shaking his head, strumming a harsh, aggressive chord)ABBA. Unbelievable. You’ve forgotten who you are. You used to be a tyrant on that fretboard. Now you’re just playing standard blues boxes and leaning on the tremolo arm because your fingers are too lazy to do the real work.
1982 Ritchie: (Glancing at his watch)Think what you want. I still have the fingers, I just choose when to use them. Enjoy your grueling tours and your artistic integrity. I have an arena to play tonight, and the promoters actually paid me upfront
The comment from the reviewer that he was always a fan of the Evans and Gillan eras says a lot about some fans, that we as hardcore fans forget when we overanalyse things. While we discuss Roger’s bass playing 1972 vs 1996 or Airey’s approach to the Hammond vs Jon’s, some people simply see the frontman.
August 1st, 2026 at 11:23Sure they do. And for good reason too: A voice is the most individual and starkly differentiating component in (vocal) music.
That said: Non-DP fans never realize that Ian Gillan didn’t sing Hush originally or that 80% of the Burn album is actually sung by two different people swapping lines.
August 1st, 2026 at 16:32That was entertaining, James! 😂
But I think Ritchie would have liked Joe Lynn Turner’s voice already in 1971 if Joe had switched on his Paul Rodgers mode.
In hindsight I think that Ritchie was never that 100% a fan of Ian’s voice. He thought his early 70s neo-Jim Morrison look handsome and admired his range and that he could outscream Robert Plant, not sure if either the lyrics or the unconventional choice of vocal melodies by IG – which increased over time – were ever to his taste, but his ego enjoyed the joint success for a while. I think Ritchie’s appreciation of Ian’s voice and image was very much of utilitarian nature – Ritchie unfortunately has that streak in him – both in the early 70s and when he rendezvoused him in the late 70s as a replacement for Dio, but also when the reunion finally took place. Had DC stepped up to the plate in 1984 and said I’m gonna do it!, I don’t think Ritchie would have balked. (Little Ian might have had a thing or two to say about that though! 🤣)
Speaking of the bespectacled drummer Shinto God,
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Itsukushima_Gate.jpg
he once said something very perceptive along the lines of: Ritchie and Ian see the world diametrically different. Ian isn’t bothered by that in the least, but it offends Ritchie no end.
August 1st, 2026 at 18:35I’d like to understand where the “echoes of Emmaretta” are in The Rider that the reviewer says…
#1 James:
August 1st, 2026 at 23:49The dialogue you wrote is beautiful, does it have any connection with the review?
Yo,
@1…ROTFLMAO !
For sure the later Rainbow albums had an AOR vibe going, as there’s no point in making them or being-in-the-business if you’re not glancing over at the charts & wanting to be there yourself, to pay the bills etc etc, yadda,yadda…
But RB never sold-out per-se imo, as in the live arena, it was business as usual, & his playing was full-of-fire & arguably never better in the early 1980’s…Watch below, & perhaps you’ll amend your post a little lol !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29LKnev1tjU
Ciao !
August 2nd, 2026 at 00:04then if you change your point of view, probably Ritchie was much more modern and popular with the AoR of Rainbow rather than continuing to make music like Purple.
The 80s were years of great musical and fashion changes, the years of planetary successes, of dynamism and mainstream at the same time, all or almost all the 70s groups paid tribute to the sounds of the 80s.
August 2nd, 2026 at 10:19Ritchie tried to record AOR albums in Rainbow’s end phase while retaining the old Purple drama – albeit reduced to just him – at the gigs. I don’t think that strategy worked too well because he was nurturing expectations with his recorded output that he did not fulfill with his live presentation – Foreigner, REO, Journey & Survivor fans do not go to concerts to hear guitar orgies, they want song after song after song they know and short + snappy solos they remember from the record. Rather, Ritchie was still catering live to the ever same Blackmore crowd – he just wasn’t Mick Jones who would put his guitar in service of the song and nothing else. The girlfriends taken along by Ritchie fans (who knew and liked the songs from the record) must have been a little bewildered at what they saw and heard. Ritchie tried to have it both ways and thought he could get away with it.
That a guitarist-centric show might not be an ideal presentation form to an AOR crowd is something that could and should have dawned on him after Rainbow’s failed attempt of cracking America via a mammoth tour opening for REO (spelling the end of the Dio era as Blackmore’s frustration grew that his band was not killing the midwestern arena kings night after night) in 1978.
Anecdotal evidence: On the SBTE tour I took a girl to a gig in Rüsselsheim who basically knew SOTW, SYBG, ANL, I Surrender and Stone Cold – she had never owned a Purple or Dio Rainbow album in her life nor did she know who Ritchie Blackmore was (yes, such people do exist my brethren!). Tanja enjoyed the handful of hits and the descending laser eyes from the arena ceiling, but was basically impatiently tapping her foot in anticipation of the next radio staple while watching the band during most of the concert. Ritchie’s guitar smash orgy towards the end went right over her head: “Why is he breaking his guitar?” as did the drum and keyboard solo, Blackmore’s longwinded intros and solos )if you’re not a fan of lone electric guitar) or the call-and-response stuff between him and David Rosenthal. At he end of the gig she said that it had been “alright”, but that she had seen better – quoting a gig of the Rolling Stones she had more recently been to.
I don’t think that Turner ers Rainbow’s attempt at bland AOR while retaining Ritchie’s lone gunslinger image and mystique in the live arena really worked. It might have satisfied old fans (who would have doubtlessly been even more happy had the Blackmore/Dio/Powell triumvirate continued), but it wasn’t really honed for the new audience Ritchie craved for. There was a noticeable disconnect.
August 2nd, 2026 at 14:45A casual fan that managed to become deaf, dumb and blind after Who Do We Think We Are?
Ow no, he started in 93 with a movie reminding him of the band wih the song River deep, mountain, high.
But that song is not on the soundtrack, Highway Star is though….. ??????
No mentioning of the BATTLE RAGES ON TOUR….
But we ve to his advice also to enjoy a bit of BURN?
His facebook seems splattered with pics of the new album.
How convenient.
August 2nd, 2026 at 20:10Did this nerd let AI write a review?
@8 – Anecdotal evidence, ha ha ha ha ha, oh dear oh dear, is that the best you can do Uwe, sheesh, spin us another one. Uwe’s eternal frustration is that the IGB and Gillan didn’t make frig all attempt to ‘crack’ the USA, such frustration for Uwe evidently stated repeatedly here at THS over the past years. Not too impressed with old Coverdale, although probably content in as much as he at least sold his soul correctly to the devil and did actually make it, attempting to be some of the artists Uwe has mentioned as AOR, or should that be hair metal, of course it should for Coverdale, as embarrassing as that was at the time. But commercial ‘success’ we are talking by the look of Uwe’s comments and a few other mirror images no doubt. Get down on your knees and worship. Seriously, if we can take Uwe’s comment serious, he does get some satisfaction from the fact that Ritchie ‘failed’ in his attempt at making a hit or two and attempting at getting a commercial breakthrough in the USA at that time. Comedy gold? Indeed. If ONLY Ian Gillan had got his act together selling himself, he could have really made it and Uwe, then would have been in raptures, or would he? The big question of course folks is did Uwe ‘get it on’ afterwards with the lass he took to the Rainbow gig, or did she tell him to piss off because he took her to a bum gig, no pun intended! Stay tuned folks, same Bat time, same Bat channel. Cheers.
August 2nd, 2026 at 23:00Which begs the question Uwe. How many innocent people’s musical lives have you ruined by false promises and by dragging them to a concert involving the Man in Black? It seems to be an ongoing thing with you, are there any more good folk out there that have been ‘bamboozled’ by Uwe and his other worldly comments. ‘This show will be the greatest thing you have ever seen or heard’ or ‘you have to come to this concert, this will blow your mind’ and on and on with all sorts of ‘false’ promises that leave nothing to be desired. Is there a lesson in this for Uwe ladies and gentlemen? You bet there is. Will he take it on board? Well, we have a fair idea as to his wanton ways and attitudes to certain musical acts, so that one is still out there with the judge and jury. I will give Uwe one thing though, he tries hard, he really does. Don’t let it get to you Uwe. I am sure those innocent folk have forgiven you, or have they? Chin up ole son! Cheers.
August 3rd, 2026 at 00:26There were always people Purple did not pull over with the change from Mk II to Mk III, that was nothing rare in the 70s. I wasn‘t one of them, but if you loved Mk II
– for Ian‘s smart lyrics and his clean tenor voice,
– a generally proggish vibe,
– a still mainly bluesy and classical playing Ritchie with some Eastern flavors sprinkled in,
– for the might of the GORGAN and Jon‘s more prominent role that went with it
then
– a bluesy-gravelly vocalist singing about witches, love, sex and breakup paired with a second singer with a piercing soul falsetto,
– a rock star swagger made for US arenas and stadiums aiming to overwhelm rather than entertain people more cerebrally/witty,
– Ritchie digging himself more and more into his Eastern scales rabbit hole – I play guitar like I just walked out of a vampire movie set – and exchanging joyous flash for moody drama and a more mannered approach on his Strat, plus
– a diminished role for Jon Lord
were not gonna cut it for you. One of these committed Mk II fans was Herr Schäfer, my biology teacher in eleventh grade (imagine Dusty Hill with ginger hair and you know what he looked like), who one day asked me to loan him Rainbow’s Rising when he heard me talk about it. He dutifully returned it after two weeks or so and said it was good, only to then smile and say: “But it’s not In Rock or Fireball, is it?” Fair enough, it wasn’t, there is a reason why Mk II was the classic DP line-up to most people.
And in hindsight I have to say that Mk III was Ritchie’s stepping stone from Mk II to Rainbow: He emancipated himself from the GORGAN role, calibrated the band more to suit his needs and – with Gillan out of the way and Jon more relegated – put more focus on himself as the future solo star.
Never forget the initial power imbalance of Mk III: David and Glenn were six years younger than Ritchie and met him as this established rock god and multi-millionaire. In contrast the Ritchie that Ian and Roger met in 1969 was the same age as them and had little to offer other than an out-of-London-fashion bouffant hairdo, unquestionable guitaristic talent and some US experience touring with a novelty act there that had lost stamina quickly. Conquest of the UK and Europe was at that point still in the future and would be a joint feat of the new Mk II.
August 3rd, 2026 at 00:45@12 Uwe
I agree with most of what you write here, I think I have disagreed in the past about “Eastern scales in Mk3”, but this is an old discussion 🙂
I wonder a bit about:
> – a diminished role for Jon Lord
I do not really see this in MK3, to my ears Jon shines similarly to the MK2 albums.
Anyway, if we had more Purple lover teachers like Herr Schäfer in the 21st century, education would be better
August 3rd, 2026 at 13:52I think if Mistreated had been recorded for In Rock, a snarling Jon Lord organ would have carried the signature riff as well. But Ritchie wrote it with the concept of Jon NOT doing that, stating at one point: “There wasn’t much to do for Jon in Mistreated and I liked just that.”
Jon himself has said that his role in DP began to change with Mk III (and even before that: late Mk II) and that he too retreated from the GORGAN role, dumping the Marshall amplification sound that had dominated the Mk II albums in the process. I’d say that as far as “instrumental ball contact” goes, the ratio between Jon and Ritchie shifted from 60:40 in favor of Jon in Mk I days to 50:50 in Mk II to 40:60 in favor of Ritchie in Mk III. And Rainbow relegated the keyboard contributions to 25:75 in favor of Ritchie (or even less).
August 3rd, 2026 at 16:02#14 Uwe:
add 40/50 in PS (because Ritchie had brought the compositions, but Jon’s work is excellent and intelligent even with the synths) and 50/50 in THOBL (because Ritchie was already getting tired and Jon patched it up)
August 3rd, 2026 at 19:57Yes, Ritchie – much as on Stormbringer – was already withdrawing again on THOBL. Which is not necessarily a bad thing as far as the variety of music on an album is concerned, but then Ritchie fans don’t want variety from him, they want trademark performance! 😂
Herr MacGregor, of course I have spread the gospel! I took my son to Judas Priest, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Scorpions, Glenn Hughes, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Marilyn Manson, AC/DC (I warned him) & Motörhead (ditto) (and he took me to Velvet Revolver, Cindarella, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackberry Smoke, Guns & Roses + Gary Clark jr.). My daughter has been to DP, ELP and Judas Priest, she took me along to Shakira, No Angels and – decades later – to Tuareg ethno rockers Tinariwen. Edith has been abducted by me to inter alia Status Quo, Eagles, YES (she later on quipped about “the malest audience I’ve ever seen”), Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry, Jon Lord, Neil Young, Tom Jones, Bob Dylan, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, Robert Cray, Blackmore’s Night, DP, Walter Trout, Tedeschi-Trucks, Elton John, Albert Hammond, Sparks, Steve Harley and Ian Hunter (she draws a line at Judas Priest!) just like she has dragged me to David Gilmour, Leonard Cohen and Paul Simon to name a few.
Is inviting someone to a gig so uncommon Downunder? I once gave Fleetwood Mac tickets as a birthday present to my secretary in her early 20s who hardly knew anything from them – she really liked it! (I didn’t go with her, her mom did.)
PS: When I took Tanja to Rainbow on the SBTE Tour, I selflessly thought that the music would be intellectually undemanding enough to suit her preferences, was that a crime?
August 4th, 2026 at 11:19Uwe, on the GORGAN aspect I agree, but I would not call it a ‘diminished role’ for Jon in the 2 MK3 albums (and also in WDWTWA). Meaning, e.g. Malice in Wonderland does not have much GORGAN either, but Jon is a protagonist there.
August 4th, 2026 at 13:53Just for the sake of the argument, not to raise much disagreement, cheers
Manic, but PAL had a PORGAN (piano & organ)! 😂 (Oops, PORgaN sounds somewhat of adult nature, doesn’t it?)
You’re right, Jon’s prominent role was not just contingent on him doubling lead riff lines with Ritchie. But no doubt also due to the raw sound of the Marshall amps I found his Hammond (not so much other keyboards) stood out more on In Rock to WDWTWA than on Burn to CTTB. Mind you, even an Mk III and IV Jon Lord was still mightily apparent in the overall sound, we were just spoiled as DP fans from his Mk II days. Wasn’t there a review by Rolling Stone or other American rock mag that called the Hammond on In Rock “ridiculously overloud”, but still complimented on its quality?
And let’s not forget that Burn (the song) probably featured Jon’s most stunning “assorted keyboards” solo ever. And Lay Down Stay Down had a great piano solo plus Might Just Take Your Life that mighty Hammond intro (which apparently found inclusion on the album in that arrangement only because it was felt that “Jon needs a song where the organ is a centerpiece too” after much of Burn was dominated by mighty Ritchie riffs).
August 4th, 2026 at 19:03I always liked a bit a varity and never really understood why everyone has to be heard in every song with DP. I enjoy Hold On for the fact that RB isn’t around until his famous solo … and I am a fan of the man! But why not? Keeps things interesting. I never missed JL much on Mistreated either. Or on Soldier of Fortune. Where on the other hand the live take of that song from Japan clearly shows how great that song sounded with JUST the organ too. (To this day I wish theys had done the whole song, one of DP’s finest moments in my book). The inrto to (original) Here I go Again is another highlight. Did I mention Need Your Love so Bad? I listened to that version JL and DC did in the chapel again just the other day. No doubt among the best thins any of the DP camp ever recorded – well for me at least. It is breathtakingly beautiful. Other songs can do without organ, without guitar or drum … hey, and let’s hear a drum’n bass and voice only track, the individual players in DP are more than capable to make it interesting enough. 😀
August 5th, 2026 at 09:08+1 on the examples of JL’s work with WS you gave, scaly Max!
August 5th, 2026 at 17:22@19 Thanks Max, good examples indeed and you gave me the chance to re-listen.
Generally, I never cherished much Jon’s work in Whitesnake, I did feel his role was somehow diminished there. But these are good cases for sure!
August 6th, 2026 at 07:11@ 20/21 My pleasure. Of course JL was kind of over qualified for the job in WS – on the other hand I do believe that exactly that fact made the band the band it was: JL and IP, Neil, Micky and Bernie were all top players and stuck to rather simple blues rock … that was the magic, wasn’t it? Jon’s solos added a touch of class, you could always sense what he was capable of – and live they did stretch a bit.
My point was I would like a bit more variations in the instrumentation sometimes. I really like SPLAT! a big deal. But it’s – like most of the time with DP – everyone, everywhere, everything louder than everything else. Sometimes just a piano and a voice … an acoustic guitar … a bass riff (You Keep On Moving) … whatever would spice things up. Think Won’t get Fooled Again by The Who, Time by Pink Floyd or stuff like CiT and KAYBD … it adds drama and keeps things interesting to break things down a bit to one or two instruments I think.
August 6th, 2026 at 10:25#16 Uwe:
did you say Fleetwood Mac?
One of my biggest regrets is never having seen “la divina” live. I don’t know if they’ve ever done any European tours in the last 30 years, but they haven’t been to Italy.
#22 Max:
you’re right, Splat is always rich in all the musical instruments, perhaps Guilty Trippin’ is the most airy song thanks to the piano parts.
for example I really love the wave motion of Walk On, but it’s practically a semi-ballad
August 6th, 2026 at 19:45I saw the Mac twice, once without Christine and one more time after her later return to the fold. Both gigs were wonderful, but Christine’s English Rose pop element is crucial so the one with her was even more stunning.
I didn’t go to the gig my secretary and her mother went, that was the tour with the guy from Crowded House and the Heartbreakers guitarist depping for Lindsey Buckingham who had been pushed out of the band by his former lover. Now we all know Lindsey is a handful and a card-carrying neurotic, but he is also one of the most idiosyncratic and gifted guitarists ever plus a great songwriter and musical director so watching Fleetwood Mac without him is bit like seeing The Beatles without John Lennon. I couldn’t bring myself to go. Mind you, Neil Finn and Mike Campbell are both great musicians and apparently by all accounts did the material justice, I heard no complaints.
But Lindsey is Lindsey. Live he is a manic force of nature and living proof how untreated ADHD can be a good thing.
August 7th, 2026 at 00:14If there was one thing DP was never really good at then it was “being sparse”, Max! 🤣 When the Purple wall of sound rumbles at you, you better take cover …
It was the second-most frequent criticism lobbed at them – after allegedly playing music beneath their true capabilities – that everything always had to be “full on”. I guess that is part of the unholy In Rock legacy (even though CiT had a sparse intro, but that was only one song). Once they left the Mk I pussyfootin’ behind, Purple always aimed to overwhelm live. It’s a band that prefers bold type. My ears have gotten used to it over the decades, but Purple don’t really offer much laut/leise-dynamics in a Led Zep, Bad Co or Wishbone Ash vein. All Purple musicians like to be busy at the same time. ☝️😎
Not unlike Status Quo in intensity now that you mention it! 😂
https://youtu.be/zyuiAvSCD4c
August 7th, 2026 at 00:39#24 Uwe:
“the divine one” I was referring to is not Christine, but Stevie, of course seeing the full lineup including the extraordinary Lindsey must have been an unforgettable experience!
MKII and MKIII wrote dynamic songs, few but there are, but they didn’t play them live.
August 7th, 2026 at 09:46We had to wait until the 90s to hear Fools, Anyone’s Daughter & WBMC for example
@23
Fla76 – la Divinia? I guess you mean this lady:
https://youtu.be/KUhBc35T-e4?is=0uDttpDPFBlMSVqI
Whereas this songbird was brilliant:
https://youtu.be/bfkFO9gBMBs?is=FY4zQt4mDLHZkgU2
@24
I agree with you Uwe, CMcV was the best.
And Lindsey has been complaining a lot – A LOT – lately about his former girlfriend and band members.
Are you completely sure he is a ADHD person?
I’ve treated so many, kids and grownups, for this disorder and he really doesn’t strike me as ADHD material. But what do I know ☺️
@22
August 7th, 2026 at 11:09Max, Re Splat (I like very much there is this symbol in the right colour!) I have come to like it a lot 😊
Still feels colder to me than other albums, well all the other albums.
I wish I could reset my brain so I could listen to In Rock for the first time again, because maybe it would be something like listening to … sadly I cannot remember if In Rock felt cold, I was just so much in awe, being a pre teen and everything 🤓
Karin, maybe I know what you mean. Steve Morse had a cleaner and somehow warmer sound than SMB has I guess. And Ritchie too sounds warmer – at least to these ears. Don uses some keyboard sounds that seem clinical…other than JL did. And DC had a warmer voice…. so.maybe most DP sounded warmer for one reason or another. Plus that compressed production on SPLAT! … Still I like it a lot…but warm I wouldn’t call it. But In Rock isn’t either is it?
August 7th, 2026 at 13:34@28
Max! You hit the nail on the head 🙏🏼
In Rock – when I listen to that phenomenal album these days – feels, and the colours (you know in my head) are, breathtaking!
But if I could go back in time I wonder if I would have described it as ‘cold’.
I simply cannot remember it.
But of course you’re right re the guitarists:
Ritchie had a very warm sound, so did Steve, but at =1 I found SMcB rather warm too, actually he also does at ‘Arrogant Boy’, very much there to be honest. The rest of the numbers…. Well, he is a brilliant guitarist 😊
I had this suspicion that it could be the producer who made it like that: 🥶 but I’ve always liked Bob’s work. So maybe it is a coincidence – no matter what: most people are praising the album 😊
Yeah you’re right re David… but I do also find Ian’s voice pretty warm. Don’t you?
However: next album is anticipated with great longing.
(P.s. have you listened to the new Rolling Stones album?)
August 7th, 2026 at 17:51Is Lindsey ADHD? You bet! The way he prowls the stage like some caged feline, all nervous and tense, with extremely heightened senses of awareness, has to be seen to be believed. It is both fascinating and slightly unsettling to watch him live. John Kalodner, so pivotal for Fleetwood Mac’s re-emergence after the Buckingham-Nicks duo joined, has once commented that Rumours would have never been recorded had Ritalin already been discovered when Lindsey was a schoolboy. True words.
I am convinced that a huge amount of what we call Western Art would have never happened if we take people suffering from ADHD out of the equation. It is both a gift and a predicament. My son has a bit of it too (we never fed him Ritalin though teachers recommended it) and it is a huge part of his artistic and creative drive. Doesn’t always make life easy for him though, but maybe an easy life is not all to aspire for.
August 7th, 2026 at 23:53@30
Ahh you’re right of course Uwe!
The people I’ve treated never lost their edge, they just found some peace and tranquility in the head 😊 and I was thinking of Lindsey these days. But earlier on he was more feisty ☺️
Was looking at him here, especially 4:56 – 5:18
https://youtu.be/p8Ojjn35kP8?is=_jkfosX73tjr-LBv
But I’ve always wondered if he just got caught up in the moment.
I’ve never felt ADD or ADHD to be a problem like that, but people who feel it’s causing them stress and anxiety need to get some gentle help. Not from Ritalin though.. Even though I know a lot of people do feel a lot better using that drug.
August 8th, 2026 at 04:17@29
Ian’s voice got warmer with age…. but my could it be razor sharp and cold sometimes back then.
Just got the Stones album but have to wait til ‘m in the mood. Just wading through a six pack of Bernie Marsden albums that just came in from England.
August 8th, 2026 at 10:14I have treated patients with ADHD with a variety of medication, most of them felt better with treatment…Dopamin is essential to the human brain but the side effects of especially Ritalin like tachycardia and hypertension can cause major problems, overall i think that there is a tendency to diagnose psychic disorders much faster and often too fast compared to the 1990ies..
August 8th, 2026 at 12:24Buckingham is absolutely compelling and at the same time very likely also a pain in the proverbial body part as a band mate. The guy is driven …
https://youtu.be/bVsxvoUX9Rw
August 8th, 2026 at 15:48Regarding the Buckingham talk, what about the other substances at that time that, well wouldn’t have been helping things would they? Or perhaps they did. I couldn’t stand him live in concert, well at least the concert a friend was viewing on his video setup at the time that we watched, many decades ago. Even a rabid FM fan I knew couldn’t stand him and left out going to a concert because of his previous experiences. That is what being a entertainer is though, whatever comes with it and whatever happens on the night. Of course back in the day many just thought he was really ‘out there’ as with the adrenalin and ‘uppers’ etc that he may have been on. At least he has survived ok, well from where we see his occasional life on display. Who knows what goes on in his private life. Cheers.
August 8th, 2026 at 22:42Anyway, it seems that the relationship between Stevie and Lindsey has improved again, maybe they too feel that the ride on the carousel is about to end, and it seems that 2027 will bring the Fleetwood Mac Réunion tour for the anniversary of Rumore, as well as the reissue of the historic Buckingham-Nicks album with some sort of special event.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lindsey-buckingham-stevie-nicks-reunion-1235538237/
my hope about any dates outside the USA is close to ZERO
August 9th, 2026 at 09:00Those two are never gonna get away from each other. 😂 Unless one of them dies before it happens, I’m sure we’ll see them together on stage or in the studio again.
August 9th, 2026 at 16:46