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He said a hey, hey, hey yeah!
A newly restored and robotically upscaled Gillan live video from the BBC’s Rock Goes to College series. It is the ever so frantic performance of New Orleans, complete with guitar demolition (wonder where Bernie got this from).
Thanks to Steve for his relentlessness.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Outrageous behaviour from Bernie. Mind you, tensions were building at that time, were they not? Possibly a symbolic gesture by Bernie? Cheers.
August 2nd, 2025 at 01:55Ohhhh John McC is really good, and the rest of the band: WOAH 🤩
Ian, however, sounds a tiny bit weak in his vocal performance. But ok, the last song at a concert, so maybe he just needed some hot coffee…☺️
August 2nd, 2025 at 02:18Bernie has a lot to learn from Ritchie re the proper execution of a Strat – The Art of the Kill … Very messy the way he does it.
Sound of the vid is pretty dull too, doesn’t sound like that was upgraded at all.
August 2nd, 2025 at 05:26Love it!! Nice vocals from Gillan and a great duel between Gillan and Bernie in the “hey hey hey” section, great stuff!
August 2nd, 2025 at 08:56Madness that makes you laugh.
August 2nd, 2025 at 09:19It’s a fun band that never took themselves seriously and that’s why they fit the purpose but they didn’t evolve with time hence why it was short lived.
Peace ✌️
If you look closely, you can see Bernie swaps his stage strat for an obviously old wrecked one ( like Ritchie used to do ) …right at the end of the show .
Curiously, Bernie also seems to yell something at Gillan towards the end …..and if you recall your John McCoy interview, he mentions Bernie yelling at Gillan during shows ” Where’s the accounts !?” …maybe this is one such example
August 2nd, 2025 at 11:28fantastic, 10000% hard rock, pure orgasm!
God bless Gillan for her solo career and her musicians!
August 2nd, 2025 at 12:28“Ian, however, sounds a tiny bit weak in his vocal performance.”
https://preview.redd.it/vi4ldytkeajy.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=416f546a6387bd2f289b1efc4d4076a711a99498
Watch this freshly-baked David Coverdale fan girl
https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChsSEwieo8jmkuyOAxV0qIMHHQowAXoYACICCAEQChoCZWY&co=1&sph=&cce=1&sig=AOD64_0i8faZaI6ymvem9TelDA4G2rqspA&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwj0icHmkuyOAxU2_7sIHTlVK4MQwg8oAHoECAkQFA&nis=2&adurl=
use any opportunity now to put down our beloved Ian!
Oh woe is me, from sanctity to replaceability, ‘tis only a short path of abandonment in the dark, damp & cold caverns of a woman’s heart.
Credited to Ewu Gnunroh
August 2nd, 2025 at 12:47If truth be told, I always thought GILLAN’s penchant for releasing vintage rock’n’roll or otherwise ill-chosen covers (—> Stevie Wonder civil rights songs) as singles as a somewhat lame cop-out. I know Ian is an Elvis nut, does vintage rock’n’roll well, but releasing 50s and early 60s chestnuts in the early 80s, where is that different to what these guys did, it’s a novelty approach:
https://youtu.be/qigUdmLyMBs
(the 1976 remake)
https://youtu.be/m8OMmvON_DA
(the 1961 original)
It’s good fun, but it’s lightweight and it doesn’t establish you as a serious artist with own material having something to say playing that type of music on TV shows, I’m sorry to say. It’s another example of GILLAN devoid of true management focusing on the wrong things. You were never gonna crack the US charts as a Brit band with the ex-Purple singer by covering Elvis, Gary U.S. Bonds or Stevie Wonder songs, that is either brainless or presumptuous.
And it’s not like GILLAN’s arrangement (or Ian’s singing approach) was that radically different from the 1961 original, they gave it the standard frantic speeded up freight-train-on-a-rampage GILLAN treatment, big effing deal, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band re rearrangements they were not:
https://youtu.be/J9Ib8sC_wX8?si=EJ3SHPhhscdnk9Nl
It’s especially ironic as by that time Gary U.S. Bonds was having hits penned – audibly so – by Bruce Springsteen in the US:
https://youtu.be/aKxfxixwdXE?si=OPPyMha8wP_TAs-t
I know, I know, Rainbow did Russ Ballard songs and Whitesnake turned Bobby Bland’s Ain’t No Love into one of their early signature songs, but both bands forged new styles with those songs (Rainbow leaving the dungeons behind and Whitesnake making the Blues part of their musical image), I don’t see how GILLAN’s regurgitated golden oldies served the same purpose of introducing GILLAN’s album music to the public.
That doesn’t mean that I couldn’t enjoy a song like that thrown in as an encore at a GILLAN gig or as a B side of a single, but as the lead single of your forth album as a hard rock band trying to establish itself internationally?
Everything around GILLAN was pretty much scattershot and “let’s throw this against the wall to see what sticks”. In contrast, both Rainbow and Whitesnake were efficiently run with a vision that in DC’s case even became reality, he managed – with strategic input from John Kalodner – the feat of becoming a US household name again nine (!) years (impossibly long as rock band careers go) after WS took its first slither in 1978.
August 2nd, 2025 at 14:39the king in smashing is for ever Pete of course, but Bernie is not bad…
August 2nd, 2025 at 16:09often listen to those three albums “Mr Universe”, “Glory Road” and “Future Shock”. It’s a shame that this band (with Bernie Torme) didn’t record a good live album and capture the era, they were the ones who did it.
August 2nd, 2025 at 18:35@ 8 – “Ian, however, sounds a tiny bit weak in his vocal performance.” Indeed Uwe. Karin has just invited me to frame a nice little saying of hers. It is already hanging on the wall. Oh what a lovely morning it is. I also have been reminded of that saying I have heard from certain good friends who are women, ‘it is a woman’s prerogative to change her mind”. I did jokingly change that many decades ago to ‘it is a woman’s fate to change her mind’, he he he. Cheers.
August 2nd, 2025 at 23:19@8&12
Gentlemen! Stop!! 🛑
Of course Ian is, has always been and will certainly always be the number one singer!
WHAT I meant was: it was the last song in the concert and you can hear his voice is a tiny bit (not weak!) less stronger than we’ve heard in that concert.
It is still MAGNIFICENT! 🤩
As I’ve told in here a lot of times, only one other voice had blown me away! Birthday song-guy… even Ian can’t sing like that guy did.
August 3rd, 2025 at 05:33Unfortunately I don’t have a recording of that voice.. but it will make DC go to the third place of singers, at least in my head ☺️😃
This song, however:
https://youtu.be/q_dJhBJyE18?si=1xYUNwJ9VoWkAJmb
Has absolutely nothing to do with Ian, but the vocalist’s voice is adorable!
However this one:
https://youtu.be/oY4r9sY24bw?si=_-o0DaiTN9R0ff_T
I’m afraid will make the most of you in here sick 🤒 😄
But then this:
https://youtu.be/9YU94V1q4c8?si=UhH1vBFi23yoGoXK
Where the composer himself claimed to have had a ‘biblical moment’ writing this! (It was to his gf, and I simply adore it!)
And this:
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=o2zequD7ecA&si=_JdcTjspFZVtM3iZ&feature=xapp_share
Woah! Just woah!
So see, I like a wide variety of songs, bands, tunes, but no one in their right mind (Uwe!) will ever believe that Purple with Ian as the vocalist isn’t my all time numero uno!
And to prove that:
https://youtu.be/AKduW12QtUY?si=X-AKnb-o8UhT3G58
And this:
https://youtu.be/IKFM6mQqRn8?si=Zg8TvvCNSYRxu_IT
And not to forget this:
https://youtu.be/qGdXo0h7CxI?si=h0DmQ6_khFqlEZiA
No one has ever done what he has!
But me liking his voice so much doesn’t mean that I can’t appreciate other brilliant singers….
August 3rd, 2025 at 07:01@10 & everyone else…
Townsend was definitely the master of guitar destruction. I see guitar smashing as a form of art.
But not everyone sees it that way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_diKw9F6t3U
Extra credit for anyone who can name every person who appears in this video. (Uwe, that’s your cue)
August 3rd, 2025 at 07:58@ 13 – you said ‘weak’ Karin, careful of your fate now……………..You cannot change your mind without possible fateful consequences. Besides, I would have to amend that framed comment of your’s I just put up on my wall. That is set in stone with a titanium frame and bullet and explosive proof glass. In other words, indestructible and someone will find that in eons to come and they will know who you are.. Talk about fate. As for poor ole Cov’s, already demoted to number three and falling. Cheers
August 3rd, 2025 at 09:30@15
Ok, this has to be a guy thing, hasn’t it?
I have never quite understood the need for destruction of instruments!
I really really haven’t…
It would be equivalent to me smashing acupuncture needles, or trashing my remedies!
August 3rd, 2025 at 11:32To me it’s completely pointless, so I would be grateful if someone who understands this kind of behaviour can explain in plain English why it’s so cool😃
There’s too many! I didn’t catch Blackmore though.
Riddle me this: Which DP core member other than Blackmore broke a stringed instrument on stage? Answers on a postcard …
August 3rd, 2025 at 16:12@17
Well, it may have started because of testosterone driven lust of destruction or out of frustration because of tension or bad sound – but it soon.became part of the business plan. As Ritchie said…it’s Friday night, they had a few, they paid a lot of money…they wanna see someone smash a guitar!
August 3rd, 2025 at 21:54As we know he used cheap japanese guitars for it…just part of the show. Smashing things can be fun though. My son just told me he has fond memories of him and me throwing stones through the windows of an old factory building when he was a kid. Yeah, might be a boy thing.
Btw: John Hiatt wrote a song about it: Perfectly Good Guitar. Nice song but he missed the point… as it were cheap instruments, only purchased to smash them.
Karin it isn’t cool as you said, it is nothing but juvenile behaviour from either side of the human coin that can do this sort of thing. It is a so called rebellious act, a sort of ritual in some aspects. Tantrum throwing more like it in most cases. Putting on a show for some, as long as crappy instruments are involved and no one is hurt. Pete Townshend destroyed genuine Gibson and Rickenbacker’s I believe. Fenders too probably. At least some would have destroyed cheap copies or the like as our Ritchie allegedly did, not that that is an excuse. A drummer would never do such a thing! @ 15- Russ, what sort of ‘extra credit’ are you giving, financial? Or just a belated slap on the back, he he he. Cheers.
August 3rd, 2025 at 21:55@16
“you said ‘weak’ Karin, careful of your fate now……………..You cannot change your mind without possible fateful consequences.”
– yes I know I said it first, and it was a big mistake!
August 4th, 2025 at 00:56I meant of course “less strong “ 😃
I thought the guitar smashing always a redundant show gimmick. Hendrix setting his Strat alight had something sexual to it, but white middle class boys like Pete, Ritchie and Paul (Stanley)? The revolution will be televised for the bourgeoisie …
August 4th, 2025 at 01:46Karin @14 the Scissor Sisters‘s I Don‘t Feel Like Dancin‘ has always been a brilliant track, why anybody here should not like it is beyond me, especially as Ian has dabbled with jaunty disco tunes too:
https://youtu.be/qX3H_SPTkwk
It‘s one of his best tracks outside of DP.
August 4th, 2025 at 01:55@18
Jon Lord?
Yeah, I noticed Blackmore’s absence in the video too.
That particular band backing up John Hiatt is my favorite line-up of his. Particularly, guitarist Michael Ward who sadly never really got the fame he deserved.
August 4th, 2025 at 07:02@19
And if you ever run dry of windows to smash, there are some places in Denmark where old buildings soon will be put down, and I guess you and your boys will have a lovely day out there 😄
I know about RB smashing cheap guitars, but even though, I still don’t get it. But I get my testosterone levels aren’t that high….
On the other hand:
August 4th, 2025 at 09:54It really seems like summer is almost over in Denmark. And then yesterday I heard this sweet old lady complain: “well what happened to the global warming! Shouldn’t we be having warmer summers? I don’t get it”
I simply had the urge to go give her a hug, but didn’t, because that would be weird 😄
Roger Glover. When with Rainbow he snapped the head stock off his Gibson Thunderbird on stage when he accidentally bumped it against a mike stand. Thunderbirds, due to their large head stock and very narrow and sleek neck/head stock joint are prone to find this as their end – it has to do with their mahogany wood construction, mahogany warps less than maple (the wood Fender and Rickenbacker necks are made of), but breaks easier on sudden impact.
Anyway, he was playing live and only noticed it when the strings were all of the sudden gone to his touch after the headstock snapped off (from the pull of the strings after cracking at the joint). It explains why Roger stopped playing the Thunderbird whose sound, look and playability he loved:
https://images.app.goo.gl/RQ2dw
(Notice the huge headstock and narrow neck of the bass!)
https://preview.redd.it/roger-glover-with-rainbow-difficult-to-cure-tour-may-8-1981-v0-fvsabzdpvvqe1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=d9825aa36874f3ec5f4365ccd0e8a63fb8d7d171
In his own words from a 1991 interview:
When I was playing with Rainbow, I had a Gibson Thunderbird bass, a lovely bass to play – I wish I’d been in Purple when I had that.
Anyway, we were playing one night and it was virtually the last chord of the last song in the encore. I was playing away, and I suddenly became aware that I couldn’t feel any strings, so I looked down and the strings were just hanging down off the bass. I looked up at the fretboard and the head had disappeared! The T-birds were very weak, construction-wise, directly behind the nut, and I must have accidentally touched my mike stand with the head of the guitar and – WHACK! – instant headless bass …!
From Guitarist (UK), April 1991. Transcribed by Lee Jones
Nothing that would happen to him today anymore, his Vigier Basses have carbon rod reinforced necks which are basically indestructible.
August 4th, 2025 at 13:32@20
“Pete Townshend destroyed genuine Gibson and Rickenbacker’s I believe. Fenders too probably.”
– shaking my head and saying: tsk tsk tsk 🙄
As Max wrote, it may be some show off high testosterone levels 😄
August 4th, 2025 at 13:55@22
“show gimmick”
August 4th, 2025 at 14:01– I just wonder what art-lovers would think if an artist ruined his latest painting! Or maybe broke the brushes he had used to paint a beautiful mural, or if a brilliant novelist throw his computer out of the window the day he has finished his latest novel….
And I could go on….
@23
“Scissor Sisters‘s I Don‘t Feel Like Dancin‘ has always been a brilliant track”
– ohhh really!
I have always liked that band. I especially enjoy the vocalists falsetto!
“especially as Ian has dabbled with jaunty disco tunes too:”
– I don’t know how to react here 😄😄
I remember you posted this before, and I asked if it really is Ian singing…
However I do have another question:
Would Ian have been an equal brilliant actor as he is a singer?
My question isn’t completely stupid 😉 I just wonder if a person so gifted as he is, would have been able to pursue another career in the same area: arts!
August 4th, 2025 at 14:09Which goes to show: Ritchie doesn’t even get credit for effectively controlling guitar overpopulation!
https://i.makeagif.com/media/12-22-2015/SCFk1f.gif
https://i.makeagif.com/media/4-26-2015/6tbxPt.gif
The poor man was the first victim of cancel culture. 😑
That said, I preferred it when he masturbated with his Strat rather than breaking it, seems more wholesome to me.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/fbe149799f28fe89359bf57e6f1d93eb/tumblr_ow3tdvxj961wsawzlo3_500.gifv
Good technique too.
August 4th, 2025 at 14:49“I remember you posted this before, and I asked if it really is Ian singing …”
It is and it’s on the CD you just ordered, honey!
“Would Ian have been an equal brilliant actor as he is a singer?”
I doubt it, his stage persona is not that far removed from his real life persona, I don’t think he really enjoys acting all that much (occasional cross-dressing and running around naked ignored for sake of argument). He’s no Freddie Mercury, David Bowie or Lady Gaga.
He had the offer to play in the JCS movie, but that was due to his natural likeness (and of course his voice) to the traditional perception of Jesus rather than any particular acting skills.
August 4th, 2025 at 15:07@26
“I wish I’d been in Purple when I had that.”
– ok, maybe this is a stupid question, but couldn’t he just have bought such an instrument if he wanted it????
“Nothing that would happen to him today anymore, his Vigier Basses have carbon rod reinforced necks which are basically indestructible.”
August 4th, 2025 at 17:21– huh 😳😵💫 well, I take your word for it….
@31
“It is and it’s on the CD you just ordered”
– and as I have mentioned over and over: a lot of the items I purchase is collectors items, that’ll mean that I never open them!
I treasure them highly! They are now in a safe, next to my most valuable remedies, and therefore I haven’t heard them….🤓
But I take your word on this 😄
August 4th, 2025 at 18:14@31
“I doubt it, his stage persona is not that far removed from his real life persona,”
– he could be a, oh what’s it called? Method-actor?
“I don’t think he really enjoys acting all that much (occasional cross-dressing and running around naked ignored for sake of argument).”
– well, have you asked him?
“He’s no Freddie Mercury, David Bowie or Lady Gaga.”
– that’s for sure! Two of them are dead and the third a lady…☺️😉
“He had the offer to play in the JCS movie”
– but turned the offer down, because of a very low salary!
But that wasn’t my question!
August 4th, 2025 at 20:28If a person excels in one creative art form, as singing may be a very big part of, and singing I guess is also to put on some kind of a mask, a new identification, would it be so far fetched to see such a singer as an actor?
@ 28 – Karin that scenario with artists as in writers and painters would have happened a gazillion times over the centuries, and most probably still does to this day. Many creators of their own art are rather critical of themselves and most probably destroy it at times, before anyone can become privy to it. Yes that is a lot different to doing it in public though, they are not showing off in front of an audience. It is a ‘testosterone’ thing no doubt in some aspects. But surely females are not prone to such things? Oh hang on, have we got half a century to explain, no not really, it is the way that human beings are wired me thinks. And the ‘ego’ too. Cheers.
August 4th, 2025 at 22:19That is an amusing story regarding Glover’s bass guitar, a real WTF moment. Looking at it from the humorous perspective, I can imagine Blackmore looking across, rolling his eyes and thinking “after all these years, he has not paid any attention as to how that should be done properly”. Cheers.
August 4th, 2025 at 23:06You buy CDs you don’t listen to on purpose? 🤣 That is even worse than me, I only sometimes buy CDs of bands I know I don’t like, but do listen to them at least once in the interest of science. Hell, I have the new Coldplay in my car and have even listened to it a couple of times. It is – even for Coldplay – dreadful, but strangely fascinating that something this bad could be that popular.
I’d have divorced/”consciously uncoupled” Chris Martin too, way to go Gwyneth (and Dakota J stepped on the brakes just in time too, Coldplay’s music is Fifty Shades of Bland).
August 5th, 2025 at 04:08“– ok, maybe this is a stupid question, but couldn’t he just have bought such an instrument if he wanted it????”
Gibson Thunderbirds first appeared in 1963, were only produced in small numbers and already phased our again by 1966. They were rare and it would have been difficult for Roger to get his hands on one.
In 1976/77 they were reintroduced again, but by that time Roger was no longer in DP. Again they were phased out by 1978.
The third reintroduction came in 1987 – by then Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe had done a lot to repopularize that bass he played trying to emulate his hero Pete Way of UFO who also had a penchant for TBirds – and they have been in production ever since having become the signature Gibson bass via their idiosyncratic look and neck-thru mahogany construction. The original design of the bass stems from a US car designer of the 20s and 30s of the last century: Ray(mond) Dietrich.
https://www.rossispeaks.com/dietrich/
That is why Gibson Thunderbirds have that classic Art Deco look while Fender Precision and Jazz Basses will forever look like the plain Jane tools they are.
PS: Re rod rigidity, you just have to indeed trust a man’s word, Karin, we know all about it, both as regards its presence and the absence thereof!
August 5th, 2025 at 04:56@35
“Many creators of their own art are rather critical of themselves and most probably destroy it at times, before anyone can become privy to it.”
– this I get!
“It is a ‘testosterone’ thing no doubt in some aspects. But surely females are not prone to such things?”
– well….😄
“it is the way that human beings are wired me thinks. And the ‘ego’ too.”
– well I’ve spent many hours wondering about this!
What is the ‘ego’?
I mean those who appear to have a very big ‘egos’ often are very small humans! OTOH those who appear very humble and rather self-destructive (meant in a humble way of course, not suicidal) can have the most healthy egos.
Isn’t it what we call a paradox?
Not a lot is what it seems…
In Denmark, and I guess a lot of other countries, have this proverb:
You shouldn’t look at the dog’s hair.
This sounds stupid! I guess another way of saying it is: don’t judge a book by its cover!
Well of all the ‘books’ I’ve read, I can certainly verify that 😊
Oh but I was led astray here!
August 5th, 2025 at 09:04I guess we all try to go through life with the outmost elegance, and when we fall down and hit our 🧠 the best thing to do is:
Get yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again ☺️
@37
“You buy CDs you don’t listen to on purpose? 🤣”
– 😂😂
Oh but I do listen to them! Via Apple Music, YouTube and the likes of that.
But some things are so important to me that I hide them and save and savour them 🥰
“That is even worse than me, I only sometimes buy CDs of bands I know I don’t like,”
– that is NOT worse than you!
I never buy music I don’t like…
I never invest in things I don’t appreciate 😄
“but do listen to them at least once in the interest of science.”
– well, well, well, what kind of science I wonder? 😂
“I’d have divorced/”consciously uncoupled” Chris Martin too, way to go Gwyneth (and Dakota J stepped on the brakes just in time too, Coldplay’s music is Fifty Shades of Bland).”
– I haven’t seen ‘50 shades of grey’ so cannot follow this sentiment of yours!
But I do wonder Uwe: normally you present me with tons of statements re how popular a singer/band is, and indirectly telling me: ‘how can 50.000 flies be wrong? Sh*t tastes wonderful!’
And you can’t say that Coldplay and Chris Martin aren’t popular! Even in Denmark several hundreds attend their concerts 😄
Coldplay made one song that actually moves me, this one:
https://youtu.be/AEp08vVYreg?si=T6-Bt2KEREaLHooT
And if you find the music/singing too awful then find the lyrics and READ IT!
August 5th, 2025 at 09:28It’s actually quite moving. And I guess CM is so vulnerable that this is what touch so many people 😊
@38
“Gibson Thunderbirds first appeared in 1963, were only produced in small numbers and already phased our again by 1966. They were rare and it would have been difficult for Roger to get his hands on one.”
– ohh ok! I thought the Purple people had access to whatever they want! ☺️
“PS: Re rod rigidity, you just have to indeed trust a man’s word, Karin, we know all about it, both as regards its presence and the absence thereof!”
August 5th, 2025 at 09:31– Ohh but I do!
Ohh but I do!
Karin, please, no innuendo here when the boys are watching!
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/authoritarian-parent-punishing-scolding-school-260nw-2244132969.jpg
August 5th, 2025 at 14:45I knew I could get you to admit liking Coldplay, even if only just a little! 😂 Wimmin are like open books to me.
Chris Martin’s alleged “vulnerability” took a severe hit with me when – to have a good joke – he destroyed the love life, professional life and private life of two people via the widely reported ‘kiss cam incident’ at a recent Coldplay gig. His comment on stage They’re either very shy or they’re having an affair … triggering a social media manhunt on the two was both inappropriate and mean – and I have yet to hear an apology from him. I don’t see how buying two Coldplay tickets makes you agree to being publicly shamed and damaged like this. An abysmal misjudgment on his part and I fail to see how another entertainer of Martin’s stature – say Taylor Swift – would have similarly mishandled the situation.
https://youtu.be/-jr1TIB9HWE
PS: I thought Fifty Shades of Grey neither as enthralling nor as terrible as a lot of other people thought. Dakota Johnson, given the right material, is a very good actress.
https://youtu.be/clHPEEnRfFo
Suspiria was one of the most impressive movies in the last ten years.
Dakota was great in The Peanut Butter Falcon too.
https://youtu.be/UNl9RqjLCwc
August 5th, 2025 at 15:19@43
“I knew I could get you to admit liking Coldplay, even if only just a little! 😂 Wimmin are like open books to me.”
– 🤣🤣
To this profound statement I can only say this: Pfff!
And re the incident at the Coldplay concert:
Well, who says Chris Martin did that, or rather his crew, did that on purpose?
Normally people going making out at a concert haven’t got a whole lot to hide.
I really don’t think it was a product of malice made by Coldplay and the crew.
Does he owe the couple an apology?
Well I don’t think so! They are both grown ups, and I guess – I guess – they are capable of thinking in consequences, if they are not, they certainly shouldn’t be having the jobs they have, oh sorry – had!
“I don’t see how buying two Coldplay tickets makes you agree to being publicly shamed and damaged like this.”
– I have never been to one of these occasions, but I’ve been told that football arrangements in the US have the same things going on, kissing-cams or what not. And I know a lot of people hope they will be filmed kissing their loved one on camera! Do these sport arrangements owe people an apology for being filmed? No, I really don’t think so. People being there know what can happen 😊
I do believe he guy acted completely awkward in the moment!
First of all he left his lady-love alone in the spotlight!! Woah, what a hero…😄 had I been that woman I would have been ashamed, but mostly because I had been involved with such a clown 🤡 😄
Second: he bowed down, in shame I guess!
So stupid.
Instead he should have done this: waved to everybody and smiled and kissed his girl openly and with a big smile. Then everyone would have cheered and laughed! And not laughed at him, but laughed at the openly display of lust for life…
Of course he then had something to explaining to do to his wife, but at least he had shown some true masculinity in the moment instead of hiding like a little boy who had stolen a popsicle (no pun intended whatsoever!)
I feel sorry for the guy’s wife. I don’t think it was the coolest way of finding out about the infidelity, but I wonder if she didn’t already know.
To summarise: it’s not Coldplay’s fault! Mr Director and his HR-boss could have found another place to cultivate their amour!
And Uwe, I wonder if you would have been so outraged had the incident taken place at a Judas Priest concert 😁😄
What Ms Swift would have done?
I don’t know the girl, but I guess the exact same thing as Chris Martin did!
I mean she is certainly no stranger to publicly reveal boyfriends who she believes have done her wrong!
Well, let us start this beautifully, cold (in Denmark at least) but beautiful morning with a little tune, what do you think of this one:
https://youtu.be/lO7tXwZsqPo?si=zGbz6_Ik1FydN0M9
I guess you have a lot of comments re the bassist 😂
And not to forget this little cute song about the incident at the Coldplay concert 🤣🤣
https://youtu.be/j1n3FGupLRM?si=UOP6PVTxzWK-XDyU
Have a lovely day everybody ☕️
August 6th, 2025 at 05:12#44 Karin:
you’re doing well as a lawyer!
August 6th, 2025 at 07:05Objection, State Prosecutoress on Morals Verndal, Halford would have NEVER commented on something as personal at a Priest gig, let me tell you. He’s a deeply private man – especially as regards relationships. He didn’t strike a first relationship with another gay man until well into his mid-30s and he went out of his way to find someone who was not part of the rock or heavy metal circus nor knew who he (Halford) was. His significant other (for decades) is an ex-soldier with a dislike/complete non-understanding for rock music.
You were the one to say Chris Martin shows “vulnerability”, I fail to see how he took into account other people’s potential vulnerability in that moment. And I don’t share your view that a couple like those two “deserve” to be uncovered, that is a medieval stance. It’s their business and their – literally – fucking business alone.
Chris Martin can’t be blamed for where the kiss cam zoomed in but he was not thinking on his feet when he made the “affair” remark/jest. The responsible reaction would have been to leave it at the “someone’s shy”-remark and quickly move on, if you’re up on stage you do have a responsibility.
His comment destroyed two professional careers, likely two marriages (already damaged, but still) and possibly an unmarried, budding relationship which Karin of Denmark deems somehow illicit and deserving of public shaming and Schadenfreude (“Isn’t it funny how the two got caught!”).
Chris Martin fed two fans who had paid good money to see his saccharine abomination of a phonily emotive, lame pop-combo to the wolves of social media for a laugh. “Vulnerable” my ass, callous more like.
Yikes.
August 6th, 2025 at 19:11#46Uwe
in fact saccharine abomination gives a good idea of Coldplay’s music, and even for me it remains a mystery how such a poor band could have had such enormous success…
August 6th, 2025 at 22:48That kisscam and everything that goes with it is completely unbearable for my liking. Just like forcing people to.participate on astage show like some comedians do. You don’t pay a lit of money for tickets to get exposed or made fun of. I could well handle that now but my younger self for example would have been deeply embarrassed. Shame can cause suicide.
August 7th, 2025 at 05:45@46
Woah!
Hold your horses there… 😃
I never said, and nor did I mean that anyone deserve to be outed like that ☺️
What I said was: two adults with high profile jobs (I do need to stress that I had no idea who they were!) ought to be able to think in consequences.
When anyone wanna cheat like that, then keep it private.
And Uwe, come on, you cannot really convince me that a public concert is a ‘private’ occasion.
It might be if it was a nobody’, but if it’s a ‘well-known’ persona in the public, then you can’t blame paparazzi, social media etc for being nosey…
And if you do blame those institutions, then please remember how often they are used by known (or semi-known) persons for their own benefit. (Sorry I do not have the time to dig out numerous examples 😉)
And the only reason it developed like it did (losing their jobs) was the couple’s foolishly way of handling the situation, or at least how the guy reacted, hiding like a little boy, leaving his woman alone in the spotlight…
I do believe he should have smiled, waved and maybe kissed the woman on the cheek. Because had he reacted like that, he had been signaling: ‘nothing of your concern is going on here.’
It’s not immoral to hold a woman in your arms, and at a concert people may tend to feel a bit more free and confident 😃
But reacting like he did, no no no, so stupid.
And re the ‘vulnerable’ Chris Martin, I didn’t comment on that because of the ‘outing’ incident. As you very well know 😊
I don’t know the guy, (do you btw?) but he has never seemed like an evil person.
I never engage in people’s personal lives, because that is exactly what it is: personal ☺️
But I really, REALLY can’t see it’s anyone’s faults what happened, than the two involved. And yes, thinking of their high-profile lives (still I have no idea who they are) they ought to know better.
Think about it Uwe, if you had some clandestine affair with a woman at your law firm, would you go to a concert knowing that anyone would be able to see you?
I would not!
Well, this was indeed a refreshing way of getting started in the morning 😃
I do need to link to a nice song:
https://youtu.be/UtvmTu4zAMg?si=D5dyX8kcsJALHH0S
And this:
https://youtu.be/4cia_v4vxfE?si=mFUl0Wawlwt–1xt
😄
August 7th, 2025 at 06:16Very late to this thread but if Gillian’s “acting” in the Call Of The Wild video is anything to go by it’s a good job he’s a singer. Sorry Karin! 😉
August 7th, 2025 at 13:35I like both the Fine Young Cannibals and BTO, you know how catholic my music tastes are.
“Think about it Uwe, if you had some clandestine affair with a woman at your law firm, would you go to a concert knowing that anyone would be able to see you?”
Now that you mention it, Edith and I were both still in our old marriages when I held her like that at a Snow Patrol gig in Offenbach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GemKqzILV4w&list=RDGemKqzILV4w&start_radio=1
Not sure whether we would have liked some dick on stage yell out to us whether we were having an affair – we were.
But I get it, in Denmark people having an affair better not go out together (motels alongside motorvejen are ok I presume if you check in as Mr & Mrs Smith?) OR ELSE! Very Viking I have to say.
August 7th, 2025 at 18:16@50
😂😂
Thank you David!
I am also very thrilled he chose the way as a singer, because ohh man he has been doing a terrific job 💜
August 7th, 2025 at 18:46@51
Oh I like Snow Patrol too, especially this one:
https://youtu.be/C8AQPGKcZOk?si=OJklUhwAzHdzmmDC
So energetic!
Dear Uwe, I really don’t care what people do or don’t do! I just don’t think all the blame is on some singer in some band…
Mr and Mrs Smith? What a great idea 😃
Weren’t they assassins?
And weren’t they supposed to kill each other?
What an exiting affair that could be…😄
https://youtu.be/xeXqtzusIU0?si=t35MFzH1aLR5U-Kr
August 7th, 2025 at 22:04😂😂
@51
“you know how catholic my music tastes are.”
– ohh I have been meaning to ask you: how is one’s music taste catholic?
I don’t get it…🤔
I almost don’t wanna hear your answer, but what is my music taste then?
Unless of course you listen a lot to these guys:
https://youtu.be/c79SszUBZUE?si=fiMo2z36kyro8HXW
Or the Pope’s new hit:
https://youtu.be/_dfySxyifkk?si=Q80zi1shrFhK1NQv
(And somehow I really can’t picture you in my head rocking on to that 😄)
Isn’t a taste in music personal and not dictated by some religion?
Wasn’t it Ian that once said your religion is determined of where you’re born or live?
Well, never mind, next week the summer will indeed return to Denmark, at least for a few days, so I’m HAPPY 😃
August 8th, 2025 at 09:29Liebe Karin, you poor little heretic of pagan ancestry, coming from a Nordic country culturally disfigured and ravaged by centuries of raging Protestantism, you are excused for not knowing the difference between Catholic and catholic:
1a (capitalized): ROMAN CATHOLIC
Her son goes to a Catholic school.
1b (often capitalized): of, relating to, or forming the church universal
1c (often capitalized): of, relating to, or forming the ancient undivided Christian church or a church claiming historical continuity from it
2: COMPREHENSIVE, UNIVERSAL
especially : broad in sympathies, tastes, or interests
a catholic taste in music
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So you are not a Catholic, but you have catholic music tastes, Karin. So catholic that even Ronan Keating (a Catholic from Ireland) is mentioned in one sentence with Glenn Hughes (an Anglican turned spiritual voodoo master from England) by you, but then you faith-erring Protestants have never quite understood the concept of sanctity, have you? 😈😂
August 8th, 2025 at 14:24@51
Btw Uwe, the song ‘Perfect Strangers’, there is this official video, I guess it’s called:
https://youtu.be/gZ_kez7WVUU?si=ljoHK0LEHxTQhdiZ
Well, I do have a question, because this video seems to be a part of a story of some kind, about Purple and their reunion.
But I cannot find it.
Uwe, you did find ‘The dark side of the sun’, can you please do your magic again and find this for me, does it exist 😊
With deep and respectful thanks,
August 8th, 2025 at 14:37Karin
@ 54, Karin according to Uwe he, like myself, we were both raised as Catholics. Hence we both have a habit of waffling on at times passionately, whilst ramming our opinions down unsuspecting peoples throats. Old habits die hard. However, the other ‘catholic’ is a word meaning diverse, broader, universal etc etc. Uwe often looks at things this way, like we all try to at times. Alas not always though, that is where a few of us here have to drag him over the coals occasionally, reminding him of other scenarios, depending on the subject matter. Some of us do that occasionally too, look at things from a personal or dare I say it, a ‘bias’ point of view. We are all human, well at least I hope we all are, he he he. Cheers.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catholic.
August 8th, 2025 at 23:08@ 55 & 57
Thank you so much 🙏🏼
No I had no idea that even though I’m certainly not Roman Catholic, nor Catholic or even catholic, my taste in music indeed can be catholic 😄
“but then you faith-erring Protestants have never quite understood the concept of sanctity, have you? 😈😂”
– 😃 you’re right there Uwe!
“Alas not always though, that is where a few of us here have to drag him over the coals occasionally,”
August 9th, 2025 at 03:55– MacGregor, I know you mean figuratively, but should it ever be literal please make some footage of it for me 😜😄
I like both the active administration and the passive reception of a little pain if it is skillfully done and the setting is right! Coals are a bit messy though …
https://www.biochroma.co.uk/dominix2468/candletongue.gif
Where were we? I know that the Perfect Strangers vid looks like it is made from scraps of a documentary, Karin, and the source material must exist, but I’m not aware of it ever having been compiled into a documentary.
It would have certainly been interesting, especially the very early, tentative discussions. My understanding today is that the idea was first born with Big Ian and Jon though Jon would then drag his feet and was actually the last one to commit. But the others rightfully assumed that if everyone else is on board, Jon will jump the Whitesnake ship too. There must have been quite some haggling over who gets what until the record company took a heart and gave everyone more than they could rightfully expect.
August 9th, 2025 at 13:20@59
“but I’m not aware of it ever having been compiled into a documentary.”
– I have to write a danish word here: øv!
I would so much have loved to see a documentary from that period..
August 9th, 2025 at 23:48But thanks anyway 😊