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What happened at the bar?
Deep Purple are resuming the Splat! tour on September 29 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Ian Gillan spoke to an outfit from that country called Z-Rock.
We talk about Deep Purple’s new music, inspiration, and the secret behind creating songs that continue to find new fans generations later.
Ian Gillan also looks back at some of the defining moments from nearly 60 years of Deep Purple history – his memories with Ritchie Blackmore, the musicians who have shaped the band’s sound, and the 1969 concert he would love to experience again, this time from the audience.We also talk about the music Ian listens to himself, how Deep Purple choose their live setlists, the possibility of another autobiography and, of course, the band’s upcoming return to Bulgaria.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Ritchie orderd a shot, German beer & spaghetti 🤣🎩
September 23rd, 2026 at 12:21Wot, no extra Ketchup this time?
September 24th, 2026 at 12:02A slight slip of the tongue: Gillan said “Don was the godfather of this band.” Obviously, he meant Jon. But it’s funny because a mafia godfather is often referred to as a “Don.”
September 24th, 2026 at 22:18It’s nice that BigIan said, “A few days ago, I wished my friend Rob Halford a happy birthday.”
Uwe will appreciate this passage.
I’ve listened to El Tomatito: truly impressive. I don’t know his biography, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he came from a lineage of flamenco guitarists.
September 24th, 2026 at 23:30That voice-double-tracking of a low and a shrieking high voice in the background in Guilt Trippin’ is something that Rob Halford has perfected since he rejoined the Priest in the Noughties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwMZ20ZVZeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpL0UEW50II
You might say it is the trick aging former tenor and falsetto singers employ to give their voices some of the bite and aggression they can no longer really credibly muster with just one voice as their vocal cords have changed. Of course, Ian has always multitracked his voice as a lot of 70s singers did (Ozzy!), but back in the 70s he would mostly double one existing and already high-pitched vocal line as opposed to dividing it in a lower voice and a falsetto shriek. Not criticizing this, you have to make do, and the result sounds fine to me though they cannot really be replicated live unless you use a lot of technology.
September 25th, 2026 at 02:28I’ve written this before – for me there were a lot of parallels between DP and JP in the 70s:
– their approach to writing riffs,
– a certain elegance in their songwriting,
– the role of the rhythm section (Ian Hill worships Roger Glover),
– Halford’s rhythmic use of his voice and the screams,
– Glenn Tipton’s approach to playing solos.
If you strip away the leather, the graphic novel fantasy escapist lyrics and are prepared to add a keyboard in your mind, then at the core of JP there lies a DP egg that spawned much of it. That is not to say that the Priest hasn’t purloined elements from Black Sabbath, early Queen, Uriah Heep, UFO/Scorpions and sometimes even a little Led Zep as well, but I hear the DP strain as dominant try as JP might to always play the Birmingham card to emphasize their closeness to Sabbath.
When DP and JP toured together some years ago, the web was awash with comments by either raging JP or DP fans denigrating the other band and proclaiming what an ill fit the package was. And I just shook my head and thought it’s not an ill fit at all, it’s an IDEAL one. The differences between the two bands – the biggest one is to my mind JP’s utter disdain for any form of improvisation – are overall of lesser nature than what they share.
I heard Priest first in 1977, this song here …
https://youtu.be/W5Opvi_UHLY
It immediately docked on to all my synapses, the riffs in and the groove of the verse reminded me of Flight of the Rat (my favorite track on In Rock) – and the Sabbathesque chorus topped it off. I was hooked for life.
A lot of early Priest riffs in the 70s breathed a Blackmore school influence (though admittedly there was also a shot of Iommi riffology in them too, a bit best of both worlds),
https://youtu.be/xyww5oVfOuc
https://youtu.be/h9kIQS9GaQk
https://youtu.be/h7JGbaWsxTQ
Glenn Tipton had even opened for DP with the Flying Hat Band before becoming in effect JP’s musical director:
https://youtu.be/MaqGjrwiL5M
September 25th, 2026 at 13:23#6 Uwe:
Honestly, I’ve never found any musical similarities between DP and JP, let alone in the way Big Ian and Rob sing.
September 25th, 2026 at 21:15That’s because all that excessive double bass drum ra-ta-ta-ta-ta first ruined your ears and then your brain, maledetto! 🤗
When JP first got noticed in Germany via opening for AC/DC on their Highway to Hell Tour, German Musik Express ran an article that described the Priest (Killing Machine era) somewhat sardonically as “like Deep Purple in
Rock… or leather more aptly, but without Jon Lord, yet with piercing shrieks à la legendary Ian Gillan on Made in Japan” – and we’re the spiritual home of DP, so we should know!☝️🧐https://youtu.be/bNHdpshFiZw
https://youtu.be/hV2nle-YEAk
https://youtu.be/YXJtz1TgmIM
I don’t think Rob Halford got this from listening to Paul Rodgers:
https://youtu.be/7PVenGdovxI
Apparently his big sis Sue (= later on to become Ian Hill’s wife) was a big Ian Gillan fan (to this day many wimmen are …). Sue was also the one to tell a proto-Judas Priest looking for a vocalist that her baby brother “can sing a little” and that they should “try him out”. 😂
September 26th, 2026 at 00:52#6. Reminded me of a video years ago on YT, where a guy played a Jon Lord-style Hammond along with the audio of Priest’s Breaking the Law. Sounded brilliant. Can’t find it now.
September 26th, 2026 at 11:20@ 7- Fla76, Judas Priest are Uwe’s ‘pet shop boys’, if you know what I mean. There is something there and it just isn’t all that leather, chains, whips and everything else. Maybe it was uncle Rob wearing his sister’s blouse all those years ago, something lurks deep within Uwe’s dark recesses of his mind. Or of course it could simply be Uwe’s misspent youth lurking around St Pauli’s at the Reeperbahm. He must have been utterly devastated when Rob jumped ship, in more ways than one. Oh well not to worry, everyone has a foible or two, don’t they? Or do they? Ha ha ha, Judas Priest, why does Uwe even bother? He doesn’t support any other ‘metal’ or glam band, in that sense. But with JP, he is addicted it seems. something isn’t quite right folks, and damned we all are if Uwe ever finds out what it is. Stay tuned of another exciting episode of ‘Will he or won’t he’. Cheers.
September 27th, 2026 at 23:45I became certain that Halford was gay when I first saw Priest live opening for AC/DC
https://www.highwaytoacdc.com/blog/public/concerts/1979/2015101832_imag1604617x800.jpg
– before that I thought it likely, but wasn’t sure, after having seen him live I was. Not because of his Village People biker look, but because of the way he moved on stage. There was no brawny athleticism about him like there was with, say, DLR, or with Bon Scott‘s street urchin projection, Halford’s whole demeanor was that of a strutting gay man putting on the act of a straight heavy metal singer – in a word theatrical. Around the time an NME female journalist reviewed a Priest gig – she didn’t like it at all and scathingly wrote: “I have never seen an act so studded with male macho symbolism, yet so devoid of any true virility!” And I thought to myself, girl, if only you knew, you’re not targeted!, but to her defense, back then at least, wimmen weren’t really very good at spotting a male as gay which helped Freddie Mercury’s, Elton John’s, Barry Manilow’s and George Michael’s (initially at least) closet careers no end.
BTW, it’s not true that I don’t or didn’t support “other metal or glam bands”, I supported bands like the New York Dolls, KISS, Starz, Strapps, Aerosmith, Sweet, Sparks, David Bowie, Ted Nugent, Roxy Music, Doctors of Madness, Alice Cooper, Dictators, BÖC, UFO, Scorpions … (The differentiation between hard rock, heavy rock and heavy metal never played a role for me – to this day no one has been able to give me a foolproof differentiation between the three that applies in all cases – to me a band like the New York Dolls was a hard rock band that dressed up as drag queens without ever really seeming all that gay to me, in fact I don’t think anyone of them ever was.)
I think Priest spoke to me so much in 1977 when I first heard them because they filled a void the dissolution of DP a year before had left in me. Those were dire times for heavy music: GILLAN and Whitesnake did not yet exist, Tommy Bolin was dead, and I never really latched on to Rainbow as I had done to Purple, too one-dimensional. I mean Rising was a tour de force alright, but did it feature something tender and beautiful such as this?
https://youtu.be/zVCB581Ibpc
The NWOBHM was still years away, yet Priest were a comparatively new and young band that was confident in playing heavy music with some instrumental finesse. And the parallels to DP were of course obvious to me, I don’t think Sin After Sin (the album I first heard from them, released by CBS, their two previous albums with Gull Records had hardly been available in Germany) would have impressed me as much had Priest been a Led Zep clone.
And I would have never heard of Priest or Sin After Sin in early 1977 had the NME not continuously poured derision over them [“Come back Deep Purple please, listening to this (Uwe: JP’s version of Joan Baez’ Diamonds & Rust) all can certainly not ever be forgiven, but it is at least by now mostly – mercifully so – forgotten …”] and – at the height of the Punk era – ridiculed everything they did. That is why I think to this day that bad reviews are not necessarily harmful to a band’s career. They certainly attracted my curiosity.
September 28th, 2026 at 16:27#10 MacGregor:
Uwe wandering around St. Pauli?
For sure!
Back in 2004, when I rode my motorcycle to Wacken, I passed through St. Pauli too!
#11 Uwe:
September 28th, 2026 at 23:16I find points of connection with Judas, UFO, and Scorpions—and even Kiss, regarding the more radio-friendly songs—but I have always viewed Purple and Judas as representing two different approaches to hard rock music.
Uwe seems to have a love/hate relation with RISING.
Rainbow too one dimensional and JP playing heavy music with some instrumental finesse? LOL
“Something tender and beautiful.? Allright then.
Catch the rainbow and temple the king?
Live they did a lot more than just crashing through loud music.
Loved it when RB played his subtle improvisations, Dio singing songs from his soft past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g24e3eP9MQ
” Ow Donna” , where did that originate?
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September 29th, 2026 at 13:40For the record: I was in the Frankfurt Red Light District. My contact to the Hamburg scene was fleeting and restricted to that one time incident when a famous Hamburg pimp had been shot dead in some turf war to much media attention and his Kingpin ‘colleagues’, who had publicly shed tears in their fur coats at his funeral only a few days before, visited Frankfurt one night to inspect “his (now ownerless) girls” (one of them was doing a stint in the peep show I worked at) and divide them among themselves after, uhum, appropriate trial runs. Succession in the flesh so to speak. I was told at the time that this was a tried and trusted tradition/ritual in the pimp world. Ordnung muss sein. 🤗
September 29th, 2026 at 16:51Insane story, Uwe.
Its getting wilder and wilder, your resume.
When was this?
Where you in the pimpbuisness as well?
Or just endorsing this erotic industry with legal knowledge?
September 30th, 2026 at 15:03Early 80ies. I had an offer or three to move in a girl’s apartment and “not work”, but just “be with” her – I guess that is pretty much the definition of a pimp had I said yes. They all start small. You first get a Golf GTI as a present from your “Lady” and by the time you have a few of them … (Ladies, not GTIs!), you can bet on owning a Corvette eventually, which – I’ll admit it! – would have been tempting.
https://www.corvsport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/One-of-the-few-notable-outward-changes-to-the-1982-Corvette-was-the-addition-of-the-Cross-Fire-Injection-emblem-on-the-front-fenders..jpeg
(I hope everbody noticed how that rhyme was almost as good and apt as “now she eases gently from an Austin to a Bentley“.)
A Corvette, a Rolex (easy to turn into money if you have to leave all of the sudden overnight) and a bull terrier plus several women, none of whom are on harsh drugs (bad for business and longevity of the product), were the insignias of power in that microcosm back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV5ztdWx56I
The Red Light People thought it quite hilarious that I studied law of all things, but they also respected it. I remember the Dutch animal porn we sold secretly under the counter – with you guys it wasn’t verboten, we had laws against it. Ever since then, I don’t look at ponies and large dogs the same way. The whole concept is overrated IMHO though.
PS: I always liked Catch the Litte Wing, Temple of the King and Rainbow Eyes!
You think JP didn’t do ballads? Nothing could be further from the truth (and there are more JP than DP ballads) and their ballads were among the best things they did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSF8Ur_kHZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPt2llIGv_w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXB6rHTkDfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxyEq17TpU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM1Y75jNaZ0&list=PL7Pp9Uv-hwpuMz7b2VFwmctYCBhrf5D2E&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ4W6KeGdRM&list=PL7Pp9Uv-hwpuMz7b2VFwmctYCBhrf5D2E&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnNB2dseOI&list=PL7Pp9Uv-hwpuMz7b2VFwmctYCBhrf5D2E&index=18
October 1st, 2026 at 01:19I already knew they had ballads but the band never really appealed to me.
Loved the guitar duets though.
I always felt it remarkable to find out a gay man singing in a heavyrockband.
And it puts me off, like Mercury going OTT more and more after they sold out and betraying their classic era.
But wth do I know?
Was it true that Blackmore and bandmembers went to transvestiteclubs?
I do remember him wearing nylon stockings but….
Animalporn, ouch. Israel has been accused to use dogs trained for rape , dogs from the Netherlands, but I also read its impossible.
I recently was told that I am preuts/rigid cause I refused an invitation to take part in pool of sorts, meaning having sex with people phucking around.
SEX used to be one my great hobbies.
October 1st, 2026 at 14:13But after several break ups and meds I became a boring old fart,
I always felt it remarkable to find out a gay man singing in a heavyrockband. And it puts me off, like Mercury going OTT more and more after they sold out and betraying their classic era.
Oh man, I don’t know where to even start with how many things are wrong with those statements, RV! 🤯😱
https://loudwire.com/lgbtq-gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender-rock-metal/
Weren’t you Holländers supposed to be all libbys at heart?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31s2z257tAI
PS: So Queen‘s “classic era” with men in ballet outfits (Mercury), heavy blue eye shadow (Taylor) and painted finger nails (both Mercury and May) was manly then? 🤣 They were so “manly” that Lynyrd Skynyrd almost beat them up as “faggots” when the macho Southerners opened for Queen in late 1974.
https://www.queenlive.ca/queen/reviews/74-12-04_Frankfurt_review_a.jp
Apparently, Roger Taylor was not amused:
“They were awful. They were Southern rednecks and they could not believe it when they saw us four caked in make-up and dressed like women. They were outraged, confused, and a little frightened, because the four nancy boys were giving them quite a run for their money on-stage. God, Lynyrd Skynyrd! They were arseholes, frankly. When they played that song ‘Free Bird’ it seemed to go on for months. As I remember they had three lead guitarists. Hmmm, well we only seemed to need one. Absolute arseholes. Later on they had that terrible fatal plane crash, didn’t they? Shouldn’t speak ill of the dead … bollocks to that!”
https://www.queenlive.ca/queen/74-12-04.htm
October 1st, 2026 at 16:59The link to the review of the 1974 Queen gig in Frankfurt with Lynyrd Skynyrd opening was incomplete, my bad, sorry:
https://www.queenlive.ca/queen/reviews/74-12-04_Frankfurt_review_a.jpg
October 2nd, 2026 at 01:30This is drifting way off topic now. Move to the forum, please.
October 2nd, 2026 at 06:30We were done already, no worries!
And John Deacon was a DP fan after all and present at the 1969 Concerto, even liking it! (I’m clutching at straws!)
October 2nd, 2026 at 13:58Yo,
What a crazy thread lol !
I listened to the Concerto only last week in 5.2 surround-sound with excellent results !
I also learned in recent times that Freddie Mercury was an accomplished classical guitarist, having received lessons secretly for 14-odd years from the same master that helped Santana along the way…
And all this came to a head in 1982 when Santana stopped a tune mid-song, & asked for anyone to join him on-stage that thought themselves worthy. Freddie Mercury was secretly at the show, jumped on-stage, & proceeded to blow everyone away on Santana’s Yamaha acoustic.
This was in response to Santana’s scathing comments about Freddie in a then recent interview. Here’s the bollox below…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTaUfbZfnUA
Ciao !
October 2nd, 2026 at 23:13@22
Which Concerto edition?
1969? 1999?
October 3rd, 2026 at 16:02Gregster, you’re listening to the wrong AI!!!☝️🧐
“No, Freddie Mercury never played guitar at a Santana concert.
Stories or videos claiming that Carlos Santana invited Freddie Mercury on stage to challenge or mock him—or that Mercury played guitar at a Santana concert—are entirely fictional internet myths and AI-generated narrative videos. Mercury occasionally played the rhythm acoustic guitar live for Queen when performing “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” but he never shared a stage performance or guitar duel with Santana.”
“There is no real interview or historical event where Carlos Santana criticized Freddie Mercury; viral videos circulating online depicting a rivalry, backstage challenge, or negative comments are entirely fictional dramatizations.
Viral Fictional Stories
• Made-up Feuds: Recent viral videos on platforms like YouTube and Facebook claim Santana insulted Mercury by calling him a “theatrical showman with no real musicianship” or challenged him on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
• Entertainment Only: These narrative-based clips explicitly state in their descriptions or content that they are fictional stories created for entertainment, rather than real rock history.
• Mutual Respect: In reality, both Carlos Santana and Freddie Mercury were iconic musicians of the same era who respected each other’s distinct contributions to rock music.”
It also makes no sense:
– Carlos Santana has such an all-encompassing view of art he would never denigrate someone like Freddie for being “too theatrical”, Freddie’s theatricality and musicality are two sides of the same coin. If you think Freddie was unmusical, you must be deaf, Carlos Santana certainly isn’t.
– In 1982, when the Rolling Stone interview supposedly took place, Queen took endless flak in the US for no longer being arena rock, it was the commercially unsuccessful Hot Space Tour where Billie Squier was creaming them into the ground night after night with his AOR hymns. They never toured the US again, Freddie thought rock fans moronic for disliking dance and club culture and took it personally.
Santana otoh never had issues with dance music himself, if Tito Puente’s Oye Como Va, Mi Ritmo (= “Listen how it goes, my rhythm …”) and Israel Lopez’ Chanchullo
https://youtu.be/BpAXzTpANNw
https://youtu.be/vcOIpRqRQ-w
as popularized by Carlos aren’t 💃🏻 🕺🏻dance music, then I don’t know what is!
“Arena rock” my ass, Queen in 1982 were pushing the envelope of what a rock band can do and half of America hated it:
https://youtu.be/f_gnIvgBOPA
Why do people make up crap 💩 like that (which takes all of 10 seconds to disprove?)? 😤
October 3rd, 2026 at 16:07Yo,
@23…It was the 1969 show, as that’s the only copy I have. I’m always blown away at how good the recording sounds. Orchestras are quite tricky to record apparently, yet alone with a Rock band !
@24…Yes indeed, I agree that this may well be bollox too, which brings us to the core of our problems this day-&-age, namely, how do we prove anything any-more as being real or fake ?…
I suggest that the positive side of all this, is that it’s the beginning-of-the-end of peoples trust in modern technologies, yet alone world gov’ts & their bollox…
It appears however that in the short term, there will be more & more of this-type-of-thing popping-up. And for the record, I didn’t search for the story, it found me…This would indicate spyware / AI filtering through searches on the net along with recent downloads etc etc to then cherry-pick items that may interest me…And even if wiped from my computer etc etc, the results are still stored on these AI data-bases being erected everywhere. It makes no sense, other than to keep us all busy & distracted from the real events going on.
The 1991 invasion in Iraq for instance along with the follow-up 10-years later saw the use of nuclear waste technologies & nuke-bombs, that can leave a tyre intact on a truck, whilst reducing a man to little more than bones. This indicates that all this area of land, & surrounding areas uninhabitable, & the peoples extinct within 100-years…I suggest the war at the moment in these areas is nothing more than speeding-up this process, whilst cashing-in on arms sales…Very sad circumstance.
As IG said in song, “It’s not us, it’s him over there”…No,no,no indeed…
Ciao !
October 3rd, 2026 at 23:20The internet is by now flooded with AI shit like that and YouTube is an especially bad culprit. Not just as regards music history either. The lore that is meanwhile invented about WWII incidents and technology and “documented” by (un)suitable AI imagery is mind-boggling. I only recently saw AI hallucinating about a high altitude German fighter’s (Focke-Wulf Ta 152) supposed air-cooled radial engine issues (the Ta 152 only ever had liquid-cooled engines and those were inverted 12-cylinder V Motoren) while showing AI pics of the plane with no less than three different engine types, none of which were ever mounted in it in real life. It all looked beautiful and detailed, but was technologically absolutely made-up steampunk fantasy.
I’ve by now grown really wary and skeptical – you have to.
October 4th, 2026 at 14:47SANTANA is music to dance to which I did in 1987 when they played a 3 hour set in Rotterdam.
I m not a dancer but when I was doing so at that show it was the first time I didnt feel emberassed.
I even felt great and sensual.
I was 22, very long haired, more or less undamaged and feeling good after sports and losing 30 pounds.
I threw my hair around and danced, well I moved in a way that made me think….
Hey. WTF. I CAN DANCE
Since 77 I avoid dancing cause it usually meant I d have to do that while hating the music.
But ladies loved it, so….
I gave up trying and faking it.
There s so much in SANTANA s music, and indeed a lot which prompts one to move.
Gregg Walker is my favourite singer, still is, and when I heard him I was confused.
A black man singing in a band that rocked and had great drums, keys and ofcourse the guitar.
And that in a time where in my perception most of them had jumped ship from good old soul to disco and even worse genres.
I acquired some guilty pleasures along the years but in general it depressed me and Stevie Wonder was right to say he hated it,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H8PxOF9Rmo
October 4th, 2026 at 16:56Yo,
@26…People will have to wake-up in the end, though it’s the young generation of kids being brainwashed in the education system that will take the longest to reprogram, since this bollox is all they know…
*When paying for fuel, the service-attendant will often ask, “Hello, how are you today”?…And I always reply “I’m sorry, I don’t really know, I don’t have my phone with me, & AI knows everything…I can give you my phone-number if you like, & you can ask my phone for the answer”?…And then we have a laugh about it all, especially when the people behind me waiting are playing with their phones…
Even funnier is the look on their faces when I pay using cash…( Though sometimes it’s a disturbing look, since people have forgotten how to count the change)…Hmmm…
@27…Santana is great, & I recently acquired probably the best live recording of the band called “Lotus” from a show in 1973…It probably moves “Moonflower” into 2nd-place lol ! Apparently it’s tricky to find, as it was one-of-those Mr.Udo “For-Japan-Only” releases initially, though I tend to think it’s available in Europe for sure if you don’t have it.
You’ll like this downloadable, legal & free attachment below from a show circa 2016 with John McLaughlin…It’s pretty intense, so put your seatbelt on 🙂 !
https://archive.org/details/santana-mc-laughlin-2016-montreux-jazz-rsi
Ciao !
October 4th, 2026 at 22:26As far as I know LOTUS was a triple album and stacked everywhere overhere.
I do agree with your assesment of Moonflower.
It has great tracks.
But it is disturbing mix of studio and live takes.
Whereas boots, there are countless of the band, show us a more satisfying reflection of what the band did live.
Any suggestions?
I do love this one though I m not sure if it was shortened.
Weirdly enough I taped it on a black BASF 10 years before I landed around the block of the venue in a dorm, starting my study at RijksUniversiteitLeiden.
At the same hall I also searched thru old vinyl when there was a flee market, the hall still reeking of cattle(?)and bought my first editon of Jesus Christ Superstar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0npqKCbdiE
October 5th, 2026 at 14:05Yo,
@29…
I’d suggest that you have better resources than myself as regards to the bootlegs available, certainly at the local level…Europe & the US-of-A seem to get higher priority than here.
I’ll leave a link to a recently discovered source, where I grabbed my recent Mk-VI recordings, of which 2/3 were quite good, with one being par-excellance. You’ll find them not too unreasonably priced, though bulk buying is the best method to get the best-bang-for-your-Euro, & a few titles will come in 4-disc multiple show formats at the same price as single / double single-show disc-sets, so be careful when ordering. As with all bootlegs, purchase at your own risk however lol ! *( I can confirm that what they deliver is of far better sound quality than what’s found on You-tube etc etc, at least with the DP Mk-VI boots I acquired)…
https://sakura-record.jp/product-category/cd/
Thanks for the Santana link, I’ll try to download later, as it didn’t want to at this time of writing.
Ciao !
October 5th, 2026 at 22:54“I’d suggest that you have better resources than myself as regards to the bootlegs available, certainly at the local level…Europe & the US-of-A seem to get higher priority than here.”
I d not know.
I dont but boots
Only twice I think. In the end I tossed out a lot of money for the ROCKPALAST audio on 2 CD but the beginning was worse.
Bought DP in Australia and it sounded, to me, awful.
No, I downloaded tons of flac/wac boots, which I stopped because it got so much.
I never revisited the extra drives,hopefully I still can use them in the future.
In the meantiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime I m happy listening to boots on YT.
They used to be mp 3 which is an insult but that changed years ago.
If I d go on a killing spree of buying everything I d be able to file for bankruptcy very soon.
October 6th, 2026 at 15:31Yo,
@31 said…qt.”I’d go on a killing spree from buying everything, (&) I’d be able to file for bankruptcy very soon”.
Indeed, there’s so much good music to catch-up on & buy…But there’s also a limit too…Not so much because of the expenses involved, but from not having enough time to listen to everything !..
Youtube can be quite rewarding, but I’ve learned that sound quality varies dramatically, especially if you’re listening to an album from the 1980’s…What you find is that the album plays & sounds really good, but only until the video-single-released from the album is reached…This is when the superb stereo sound will often go back to a mono sound, since the video was intended for a TV with a single little speaker…
All that said, CD’s are cheap to buy, & have gone-down-in-price when compared to how everything else has gone up, at least here in Oz..Single ( & even double CD ) releases are still around $20-30:00 new…They’ve always been this price since their inception back in the mid-late 1980’s lol !
2nd hand CD’s need a good home too, can be cheap to buy. Sometimes there’s no choice but to buy 2nd-hand. *Discogs needs careful searching to avoid being ripped-off, though they do have those hard-to-get items. E-bay can be quite rewarding, though always compare asking prices with new items, as new is new.
Ciao !
October 6th, 2026 at 22:47I used to own the Santana ‘Lotus’ triple live album, I bought it in the early 1980’s. Taped my favourite selections of music to a cassette then left it unplayed thereafter. Pristine condition it was. It had the ‘massive’ fold out inserts of many different ‘religious’ and other spiritual images. Huge it was when all folded out on the floor, which was the only place large enough for it to be displayed in its entirety. Owned it more as a collectors item to be truthful, although I was into Santana back then and had other albums from the 70’s on vinyl. I gave it away with a few other ‘collectables’, ten years ago upon my downsizing and moving down to ‘no man’s land’ aka Tasmania. How long to hold onto all these earthly possessions eh? Plus I didn’t own a turntable any more or a cassette deck either. I had ‘evolved’ from a quasi luddite existence into semi luddite one. Uwe will probably be rolling his eyes and thinking “don’t tell me he has actually evolved a little of late”. However that could depend on one’s own take on the word ‘evolved’. Many people would see moving from ‘mainland’ Australia down south to Tasmania as a ‘devolving’ act. Cheers.
October 7th, 2026 at 00:17Yo,
What one decides to hang-on-to, or lose in life regarding personal possessions is their option to do so. It’s appreciated that carrying-around too-much-baggage is not necessary, & can be seen as hoarding by some.
As for myself, I have never bought anything that I didn’t want or even need, simply because you worked hard for your money, so your purchases had to meet a certain personal value, & prove their worth.
Perhaps I’m a hoarder per-se, but I keep my stuff simply because it still gets used, or will get used again, even if all my CD’s are ripped onto a private internet free hard-drive for example, (so that the never get corrupted & remain spyware free) & then sit-on-a-shelf. But they remain the primary source for re-ripping, should digital degradation set-in on the hard-drives, & you don’t have to buy-them-again lol !
It’s good to let go of stuff you don’t need any-more, but someone will get the option to acquire these things when you’re gone regardless.
All you need to ask yourself on these matters is “Do you own your own stuff, or does the stuff own you”?…
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”.
Ciao !
October 7th, 2026 at 23:02Don’t be so hard on yourself, I think as drummers go, Herr MacGregor, you have pretty much peaked and reached your evolutionary zenith.
Mind you, you come from an environment where mammals still have duck bills and lay eggs, so it’s all a bit relative! 🤣
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October 8th, 2026 at 01:22