Scoot asked in my “MTV” post yesterday if I had heard the album. Yes, I have heard the new CD one and a half times. One time by my computer on very low volume last night, and one half time this morning while I was having breakfast. The first impression is pretty much as when I heard two minute excerpts from eight of the songs earlier in the week. It’s a good album straight through with no fillers. But I think it’s a bit too early for a review. I’m just about to go out on a walk through town with the album in my iPod. We’ll see what that does to impressions of the new masterpiece.
“Mr. Grover, Mr. Gillian oh you must have made a million on the night that Frank Zappa caught on fire”
– “MTV” from “Rapture of the Deep“, Deep Purple 2005
Tonight Steve Morse Band will jam with Jon Lord in Hell. That would be great to see. I also wanted to see Nightwish which playing there tomorrow. Hell Blues Festival is a great place, I was there 2 years ago when Jon Lord was jamming one night and the second night he had a solo concert in Nidarosdomen in Trondheim (Norway). Anyway, I didn’t made it to Hell this year. But I saw Nightwish yesterday in Stockholm (Sweden). It seems like some Deep Purple fans like them. Their last album, Once, is a masterpiece. A few years ago they did a cover of Rainbow’s “Snowman”, which can be found on the album “Bent Out Of Shape“. Nightwish version is called “Walking In The Air“.
Take care
Benny Holmstrom
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