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Wizard Stealing the Show
Many of us complain that the band’s performances over the years have become less improvisational and more predictable. Here’s an outsider view of the show in Oslo on October 28, 2026.
It starts from
I’ve never really considered Deep Purple one of my favourite bands. I own several of their albums, but even their biggest classics have never quite had the same effect on me as they seem to have on millions of other fans. Take “Smoke on the Water”, for example. One of the most iconic guitar riffs ever written? Absolutely. A particularly exciting song? Not to my ears.
I’ve also struggled with the band’s live recordings. Songs that are perfectly enjoyable in their studio versions stretch into seemingly endless instrumental passages, and I’ve often wished they would just get on with the next song.
…and ends with
I arrived expecting an enjoyable evening with a legendary group whose music I’d never completely connected with. I left with a new appreciation of what makes them special.
Perhaps Deep Purple have always been a live band first and foremost.
It just took me a little longer to realise it.
Read how this gentleman arrived from point A to point B in All Music Magazine UK.
Photo credit: KENNETH SPORHEIM / All Music Magazine UK
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