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The age debate from a different angle
St.Petersburg based Sobaka.ru took a slightly unorthodox approach to the photo report of a Deep Purple concert. In its dead tree incarnation Sobaka.ru is a glossy ‘lifestyle’ magazine, so they concentrated on people in the audience instead of exclusivity of what’s happening on stage.
And you know what — the result kinda sorta lends some credibility to Gillan’s claims of the “18 year old audiences” often repeated in interviews. At least in some places. Yes, there’s is probably quite a bit of a selection bias going on, but you gotta have young people in the audience to start with in order to make such selection bias possible. And yes, they all rush to the front row, and yes, the front row is all that the band can see from stage.
Check out the gallery at sobaka.ru.
On a more traditional note, there’s plenty of good pictures here, here and here.
Thanks to Kostya and Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
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Nice, Nice very Nice…………..thanx for all the pics looks like everyone is having a great time and isn’t that what Rock N Roll is all about?!
November 12th, 2013 at 18:13That’s a great pic! Reminds me of Rainbow and Long Live Rock n’ Roll.
November 13th, 2013 at 21:04“sorta lends some credibility to Gillan’s claims of the “18 year old audiences” often repeated in interviews. At least in some places. ”
Yeah, in VERY some places. In Berlin, for one, most of the front rows audience were dangerously approaching 40-50 range, so the “legend” about average of 18 years is, I think, largely overblown.
November 15th, 2013 at 09:05go to a lot of shows, EdwardsColetta? No, didnt think so :))
November 19th, 2013 at 11:00I think this is the generation that was born near Tsjernobyl. 🙂
December 14th, 2013 at 20:33purplepriest1965 says:
“I think this is the generation that was born near Tsjernobyl.”
I guess you mean because they’re shining and you’re just dark:-)
December 16th, 2013 at 13:13Corporate radio/attorneys destroyed rock music on the radio in the United States about 25 years ago. Just the same 500 songs regurgitated for decades to appease the corporate beancounters. So, the average age of a Deep Purple audience in America is probably 70. Nothing wrong with that, though. They’re the true fans who bought the records. Rock music was part of the fabric of our lives in the 1960s through the 1980s. The younger generations (most of them, anyway) have no idea what they missed. Vinyl sales have been skyrocketing in the U.S., so that brings some hope that rock albums and instruments are being discovered by the youth.
June 24th, 2022 at 21:16