‘Till she said “burn!”
Glenn Hughes has played a gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on October 18, 2025, and was joined on stage by Sophie Lloyd for an earth-scorching twin guitar performance of Burn.
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up.
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Glenn Hughes has played a gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London on October 18, 2025, and was joined on stage by Sophie Lloyd for an earth-scorching twin guitar performance of Burn.
Thanks to BraveWords for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
the girl is good and beautiful, and also a metalhead, but I don’t think even Yngwie Malmsteen ever ruined the Burn solo with a double tapping!
October 26th, 2025 at 20:08Both musically and visually more exciting than what Reunionbow did to that song a while back if you ask me.
https://youtu.be/jCU2yvTl0Rk
Epilated female bare legs beat male hairy ones in dark tights too, Ritchie, it must be said. Such is life.
Well, at least something is tight then, because the boys in Malaga obviously aren‘t, every ten seconds or so someone fluffs something big time including der Herr Gitarrero himself. Painful to watch. That drummer is totally out of his depth on that song, he might be able to occasionally ape the Stargazer intro, but finds his master here. Horrible.
October 26th, 2025 at 22:03😅😀🤣😂
October 27th, 2025 at 07:47It’s all so ridiculous, who do we have to thank? 😂🤣😀😅
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October 27th, 2025 at 08:09Very nice to watch and a lot of fun. I’m not a fan of double tapping either, but this girl comes from a completely different era. Reb Beach & Joel Hoekstra had similar elements in their Burn solos, so I don’t blame her for showing what she can do and what she’s got.
October 27th, 2025 at 09:10@2 As for the master, it’s sad to watch how he struggles through certain passages and the solo. Better backing musicians certainly could have supported him more. But I can also imagine that Ritchie deliberately chose his fellow musicians so that his drop in performance wouldn’t be even more noticeable. Jens is no Jon Lord or Don Airey, who can use their freedom and even demand it. The MK IV Last Concert in Japan is a good example of this, when Jon brilliantly supported Tommy Bolin, who has a disabled arm, and saved the performance.
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October 27th, 2025 at 09:58Yes, I agree with you but I think that Jens has done some great and relevant things with Stratovarius.
Well, sure it is ridiculous but that goes with GH look anyway.
I absolutely agree with you #5 : I’ve said before that RB should have called Rondinelli, Daisley, Greg Smith or Burgi but then his own decline would have been even more obvious for sure.
October 27th, 2025 at 11:02Burn …without keyboards…. is like Mercedes without its logo or MJ without Nike .
October 27th, 2025 at 11:45If tapping had been de rigueur in the early sixties, does anybody believe that Ritchie would have done less than his darndest to learn and incorporate it into his playing style? It would have been right up his flashy alley.
So leave poor Sophie alone, tapping has become an integral part of modern day heavy metal guitar playing (and Burn is certainly proto-metal).
And playing parts of the Burn solo tapped is nothing new, Beach and Hoekstra do it here from 02:50 to 04:30
https://youtu.be/A2i9Jwt331k
with Beach even playing it both Blackmore‘s original way as a tribute and then following it with a tapped variation.
Songs aren‘t museum pieces that half a century after their first performance need to be played in the exact same way.
Re Reunionbow, that is a very astute observation, Crocco, how Mk IV were a safety net for Tommy at Budokan, but Ritchie‘s hired hands at Malaga were not (just imagine how a 30-year-old Blackmore in the audience would have scoffed at their collective mis-performance, he would have been livid and scathing). Had Ritchie been embedded in a tight band with sympathetic ears (instead of being overawed by his legend and the fact that he is their paymaster), things might have looked very different and many of his blunders could have been shrugged off or even deemed charming.
The fact that Mk IV at Budokan were a collective battling against the odds and supporting their ailing guitarist without any hard feelings/grudges along the lines of “that idiot Bolin brought us into this situation with his reckless behavior” apparent, always took me in for that performance, warts and all. The Japanese audience must have felt the same way because DP went down well that night. I really like Last Concert, always have, it is a determined and spirited gig, professionalism in less than optimal circumstances at its admirable peak.
October 27th, 2025 at 13:54@5, @6: Don’t forget Jens’s work with Yngwie in the early days. That early Rising Force was a bunch of kids that didn’t want anything else but being the guys in DP. There is a cool picture somewhere of a very young Jens in a basement somewhere playing a Hammond under a Rainbow poster on the wall.
In a good version of Rainbow, with all members of the band being on par with any member of Rainbow 1975-1995, Jens would have been a perfect choice. But with the lame backing of the last Rainbow, even Lord or Airey wouldn’t have stood out as particularly good. These guys need a proper band, good backing and people to feed off on on stage.
There is no doubt in my mind that Johansson is in the same league as Lord and Airey.
October 27th, 2025 at 17:10What happened to the keyboard player that was in the band on earlier dates?
October 27th, 2025 at 17:11I wonder why all Brits from that black country age in the same way. On that video Glenn looks like Ozzy with a bass.
October 27th, 2025 at 19:22I’m sure Jens could have done more and played better, yet there he stood, overawed by Ritchie and disappointed at the same time by what he must have perceived as a lackadaisical attitude towards being properly rehearsed. I can feel for him, you’re standing on stage with Blackmore and you can’t even play you’re best because there was not enough preparation. I’d die a thousand deaths in a situation like that.
As someone who has played with Yngwie, Jens must be accustomed to a rigorous rehearsal schedule.
That the rhythm section was so weak and hardly stable exacerbated things – a shaky foundation indeed. David Keith is not really the drummer holding down a beat, in Blackmore’s Night he unobtrusively plays along to whatever Ritchie does who is to all intents and purposes the rhythm motor of the little Renaissance outfit. In Reunionbow he did not change that habit and fatefully still played along where he should have grounded.
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❤️ IN MATTERS OF THE HEART ❤️ ( Or: The Strange Case of the Missing Keyboard Damsel )
Re Svante’s romantic quest for the missing keyboarderess (on those Scandinavian dates I think she was the same young woman Glenn had met earlier this year as the keyboarderess of Rock Meets Classic, she’s German I believe), I think the riddle can be solved as follows: In Scandinavia, Glenn was still under contractual obligation to do the Mk III set – for that he needed a keyboarder(ess). But that was just a handful of gigs, in Old Blighty he reverted back to the Chosen set which just features the trio line-up and relies on a member of the road crew to manfully trigger sequencer keyboards from his laptop where needed. So no keyboarder(ess) was required and hence Burn was performed without one as Glenn regularly does when he tours in a trio.
Lookee here, I found her: Her name is Lisa Müller, she is in her early 40s (but looking much younger of course) and I had already noticed at the Rock Meets Classic gig that the septuagenarian ex-DP bassist – is Gabi reading any of this? 🤨 – had taken a, well, noticeable shine to her, she is the musical director of the backing band there:
https://www.instagram.com/the.lisa.mueller/
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQZDWa9E5DjvRD0kGWrFTUyckFWQUYMZNq4QQ&usqp=CAU
(in an eagerly supportive tone) Lieber Svante, in all confidence, would you like me to tell Lisa how good you are with your hands not only on drum skins and maybe arrange for a dinner date? 🥰
My selflessness really knows no bounds. 🙂↕️ The usual rates for my services apply. 😎
PS: Now if Glenn decided to do his next tour with Sophie on guitar and Lisa on keyboards – he would then of course be the third blonde in the band -, might that not sell a few extra tickets? 😎
October 27th, 2025 at 20:10@10 Svante
October 27th, 2025 at 20:54Oh yes, I am agree with you.
The first two of Rising Force with Jens are really great.
You are not wrong Svante with the Rising Force and Jens appreciation. I still have my cd after buying the vinyl before that as new release from the new kids on the block, Malmsteen and company, Barrie Barlow excepted was an old fella by then. It stands the test of time, a cracking band. A shame Barlow was on the electric drums, but still, the band delivers. Regarding the image of Jens with a Rainbow in the back ground, good to hear. Now we have just seen a rather young Uwe with a Rainbow on the wall behind him too. What is it with these young guys being influenced by Rainbow back then. Particularly one Mr Uwe Hornung, he just seems to keep banging on about them still to this day. A thorn in Uwe’s side perhaps. Hopefully it never is removed, he he he. One of those thorns that keeps working its way deeper and deeper and deeper…………Cheers.
https://movingtheriver.com/2024/03/13/yngwie-j-malmsteen-rising-force-40-years-on/
October 27th, 2025 at 21:19#10 Svante:
Jens is a monstrous keyboard player, with a neoclassical influence.
and not only with Malmsteen, but also as a soloist in the 90s Jens recorded some great solo albums, when Guitar Hero and Keyboard Kings were all the rage thanks to the fox Mike Varney!
#5 Crocco:
October 27th, 2025 at 22:15even the double tapping of Reb Beach and Joel Hoekstra left me indifferent
@ 9 & 13 – “Had Ritchie been embedded in a tight band with sympathetic ears (instead of being overawed by his legend and the fact that he is their paymaster), things might have looked very different and many of his blunders could have been shrugged off or even deemed charming.” What a load of crap that comment is. Blackmore overawed by his legend, ha ha ha ha. “Their paymaster” oh dear oh dear, do you seriously think money had anything to do with it? Take a pill Uwe, you need one and perhaps a few more eh? The fact that you placed that link says it all. Which I didn’t fall for knowing very well what the negative connotations would be. You were burnt old son, Ritchie nailed you a beauty, admit it, you were the one placing Ritchie into the Legend realm telling your friends, family etc how great the gig was going to be. Burned by the fire we make eh? Why didn’t you place a California Jam clip of Burn there anyway? Thirty years of age (or thereabouts) as you stated. Well we know why, don’t we! Keep digging that grave ole son, there is no way out of it. Regarding Jens allegedly ‘dying a thousand deaths’ up there. I am sure he could have pulled out of rehearsals, unless he was on a contract of sorts. Being a nice and easy going chap he obviously felt obliged to continue on with the gigging. We must be over the Rainbow, Rainbow, Rainbow……..Cheers.
October 27th, 2025 at 22:37#11 During this tour from day one there was no keyboard player
October 27th, 2025 at 22:47To squash those tall Tasmanian tales once and for all: That Rainbow was an innocent wall painting at the venue we played! And I was wearing a Farrah Fawcett,
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hbz.h-cdn.co/assets/16/05/hbz-farrah-fawcett-1975-gettyimages-93763506.jpg?crop=1.0xw:1xh;center,top
not a Rainbow T-Shirt for chrissakes!
October 27th, 2025 at 23:02Man in his 70’s fails to play burn like the firey demon he was 40 years before, SHOCK!
And this post wasn’t about him
October 28th, 2025 at 09:31Jens was great on the Silver Mountain album with his brother back in the 80″s
October 28th, 2025 at 12:22Herr MacGregor, how could you misunderstand me thus? 😂 Has my English deteriorated overnight?
Blackmore is of course not overawed by his legend, he always had a realistic assessment of himself. But the people in Reuninbow must have been or they would have told him: This is not working, Ritchie, we need to rehearse a lot more to be only nearly as good as the Rainbow line-ups before us.
Do I seriously think money had anything to do with it? Definitely, why else would someone like Jens – who did visibly not enjoy the gigs, but seemed under constant pressure – risk his reputation as a musician by playing in an underrehearsed outfit? Other than perhaps also being overawed by Ritchie, I can‘t think of a better reason.
So you didn‘t look at the link with Reunionbow massacring Burn in Malaga “because of the negative connotations”. Maybe you should have. Because then you would have died a thousand deaths too and likely have made the same observations I did. Lest we forget: I saw Reunionbow four times live, so my recollections are perhaps a bit more present and intense than someone’s who doesn’t even bother to look at the provided Malaga link before loud-hailing his learned opinion, just sayin’. But then again: knowledge is the enemy of all faith. 😈
Theo @11, not quite accurate, while announced as a trio tour, a few gigs, inter alia in Finland, were played with Svante’s new heartthrob, the blond-maned Lisa on keyboards due to a Purple set being rendered:
https://youtu.be/HeWFTuV0dMs
https://youtu.be/ME4XXhGPwR0
Luckily, we have not reached the stage yet where an ex-member of DP would perform a whole evening of Purple songs sans a keyboard … good Lord!!!
October 28th, 2025 at 13:29Lieber Rubber H, there is natural aging and there is not being used to playing rock anymore and being out of exercise and underrehearsed. I can name you plenty of people in their 70s who do not play as sloppy and toothless as Ritchie did during the Reunionbow gigs several years ago when he was the age Glenn Hughes is now whose playing has not deteriorated and who plays even more fiery bass than he used to. (I know, I know, anybody can play bass, but Glenn‘s attack in playing is either something you have or don‘t have.)
Ritchie already didn‘t have the fire and attack of his peak period in the 70s anymore when he was part of the Mk II reunion in 1984, I never held that against him, we all change over time. But the lackluster and wobbly Malaga performance cannot be explained away with age or arthritis. Nor can Ritchie‘s lack of timing and how unfamiliar he is with his own parts. We should be objective here and not fall into breathless adulation just because it‘s Ritchie and he was once one of the hottest hard rock guitarists on earth. No one forced him to retire from rock to play folk songs with his fiancée and likewise no one forced him to take a break from minstreling about and return to playing DP and Rainbow chestnuts again in an underrehearsed fashion with a lead vocalist with limited English capabilities, a rhythm section totally unaccustomed to harder music and a keyboarder wishing night for night to be somewhere else because the delivery wasn‘t up to his own professional standards. I remember an interview where Jens said that the amount and length of rehearsal time was “all down to Ritchie” and he didn’t sound happy about it.
Sophie plays/jams the complete riff (not leaving notes out like Ritchie) with swagger in an encore she is invited to and – shock, gasp, horror! – dares tap a few notes (as you would expect someone to do in the genre of heavy music born post EvH), and it’s apparently a crime and heresy, but when Ritchie consistently fluffs his parts I am supposed to melt in rapt admiration and marvel at his nonexistent royal regalia? I paid good money for those Reunionbow tickets.
October 28th, 2025 at 18:58@ 22- why would I bother to lower myself into a negative abyss of repetitive put downs, that had nothing to do with the original link in the first place. I don’t dwell in negativity Uwe, simple really. You are possessed by the failing of your expectations, that is your problem. The Rainbow gigs in certain aspects for some fans were a shambles, so what. Everyone has moved on long ago, except you it seems. Why do any of us here have to repeatedly put up with it? We don’t click on your links and ignore (to a point) your comments, that is how we deal with it. Other than constantly rolling our eyes and thinking, why? You deliberately placed that link there for a reason. Cheers.
October 28th, 2025 at 20:52Doesn’t sound like Jens was doing the ‘Rainbow’ gigs just for money. The third link is a 2022 interview where Jen talks about the concerts etc. At 18.35 minutes. He doesn’t sound pissed off or delusional at all about it. About five minutes of ‘Rainbow’ talk. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8jr1L-rqW0&t=337s
https://blabbermouth.net/news/jens-johansson-is-very-honored-to-be-part-of-reactivated-rainbow
https://www.metal-rules.com/2022/07/23/stratovarius-keyboardist-jens-johansson-talks-about-the-bands-upcoming-survive-album-joining-the-band-the-future-of-ritchie-blackmores-rainbow-and-also-a-bit-about-yngwie-malmsteen/
October 28th, 2025 at 21:22Yes, I deliberately placed that link for a reason. Actually, most of my links are there for a reason, duh! I found it ironic that Sophie who plays the riff as it should be played with wild abandon and real swagger is criticized for her version when it is more in line with the excitement Ritchie projected with the song in 1974/75 than the lame and struggling version of Reuninbow a few years ago. You’re perfectly right, four concerts in a row that were so substandard that I will never get over them. It felt good to me to hear the riff like Sophie played it and not perfunctorily rendered.
Thanks for the Jens J interviews, the man is diplomatic and doesn’t diss Ritchie. He was also rightfully chuffed to be asked to be part of the resurrection project just like you and I would
have been. Hell, even Glenn was up for it initially. Playing with Ritchie is something after all. But something you really look forward to can still suck in its outcome, is that so hard to understand? Jens’ laughing comment that Reunionbow is “a terrible tribute” and cannot really emulate the old Rainbow sound (which, if it was nothing else, was at least POWERFUL and played with determination) kinda says it all, doesn’t it?
Re the Carole Stevens torn up signed DP sleeve incident: I believe every word of it. I was personally there at a BN gig in Fulda when someone in the row before me was intimidated by two stage hands at the behest of Ritchie to take off his Purple Mk II T-shirt “because Ritchie feels offended by it, otherwise you have to leave the gig, but you can wear anything from the merchandise stall for free”. Imagine the fucking nerve …
October 29th, 2025 at 00:23And what happens when Whitesnake and Rainbow members get together to cover an old Purple chestnut?
https://youtu.be/u1ujFPZ6ALE
It’s not only hotpants-, but also apparently tapping-free for those of you for whom such things are important
PUBLIC SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT:
This link was posted from the notorious “negative abyss of repetitive putdowns” (only recently discovered by fearless Tasmanian explorers), but not for much of a reason at all, except a whimsical one of course. God forbid I had any intent, geht gar nicht!
October 29th, 2025 at 14:34The ‘Rainbow’ gigs were only ever going to be a ‘tribute’ to what has been before. Jens is a very laid back dude, so yes, we can hear and expect a laid back approach to any interview from him, tongue in cheek or not. Good on him for that. To be honest Uwe, I tried to listen to this current Burn clip here but only managed getting about half way, I couldn’t get into it. Too much showing off for my liking, if you know what I mean. Even Glenn Hughes looked a little taken aback at the beginning of it. Maybe he wasn’t and it just looked like that, but that ‘bloody hell, who is this’ look at the start, we have to laugh. Yes Ritchie not playing the Burn riff the same as the original back in 2016 and 2017 made me wonder why. Anyway it is what it is. Regarding Ritchie’s management, don’t tell me Carole has a little bit of Sharon in her, he he he. Cheers
October 29th, 2025 at 20:11Sophie
https://youtu.be/L_dktp84FxI
just turned only 3o a few days ago – she‘s at an age where you‘re allowed to be a little over-excited playing Burn with a former Mk III member as an encore to his regular set.
I have long learned to not interfere if a curvaceous tall blonde with hair down to her butt and scantily (your term!) dressed in black PVC is enjoying something to the hilt. I just enjoy. In the ‘ere ‘n now as Glenn always puts it. 😎
Søren btw is a perfect Scandinavian gentleman for giving her so much room to shine during the performance. He’s extremely likable and a real strength in Glenn‘s line-up.
October 30th, 2025 at 01:01@ 27 – I prefer the ‘hot pants’ and I just keep the volume turned down to the barest minimum. Cheers.
October 30th, 2025 at 03:40Well Miss Sophie and the boys in that clip remind me of the old saying “Rock’nRoll is the most fun you can have with your clothes on!” Nothing wrong with it for my liking. Glenn is singing like a man possessed, great playing all around and obviously some fun had by all involved. I couldn’t get that stupid grin off my face while watching it. And oh yes, the lady maybe a bit showing off – but like in, you know, show-business.
October 30th, 2025 at 07:27And to think that DC was prophetic when he penned the lyrics to Burn all these years ago:
People are sayin’ the woman is damned
She taps the notes with a wave of her ha-and!!!
Driving Miss Sophie’s point home: I don’t find her any more show-offy than that slightly balding black-dressed guitarist of DP, name escapes me for a moment, who in the 70s would constantly throw shapes on stage in his platforms, smash his guitars and blow up his amps with too much gasoline. A shrinking violet in a Purple flower field the man was not.
Moreover, whatever Sophie flaunts doesn’t rub me the wrong way, I’m actually reminded of Lita Ford in her The Runaways days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIaeVzDgYMQ
And Lita was so much a DP and Blackmore fan, she drove everyone nuts with it in The Runaways (Cherie Currie was into Ziggy Stardust era Bowie and Joan Jett into Punk & Glam), so it’s all full circle really.
October 30th, 2025 at 09:56“The most fun you can have with your clothes on” – not that Sophie really wears that much of it, our Tassie curmudgeon would no doubt observe – is the exact phrase occasional keyboarderess Lisa Müller (the one whose presence Svante missed so much) used on her instagram page to describe her experience playing with Glenn.
Us bassists have a way with wimmin, nuff said.
October 30th, 2025 at 13:44@23 comparing Hughes on bass to Ritchie on guitar? Apples and oranges.
Did you attend any of the Rainbow shows?
I attended both Birmingham shows, 2016 and 2017. There was likely 15k fans at both events and everyone had a great time.
Don’t spend your life putting things down because you don’t like it and use this site as a continoius outlet for your ego. Get some therapy, be kind and try to let others enjoy what they want. Herr Hornung the Dictator
October 30th, 2025 at 15:02@34 Oh…so this site isn’t about discussing music and taste in music and stuff? We need a handout then so we know what can be suplied here and what should better be left unsaid…
October 30th, 2025 at 17:41@ 32 -monkey see, monkey do…………..These days and I mean the last few decades too, holds no originality at all Uwe. As soon as I seen a total android replica of what we have had rammed down our throats for decades, I switch off. We know the market loves it, the fans (well most of them) also. Showbiz eh, keep it spinning. It is in everything, sport is even worse for it. At least back in the day there wasn’t so many monkey’s. Cheers.
October 30th, 2025 at 20:32>i>Did you attend any of the Rainbow shows?
Yes Sir! Four of them, is that enough? Lorelei, Bissingen, Glasgow & Berlin. And I had a ticket for Munich, but couldn’t make it, gave it away to a cancer patient who wanted to see Ritchie one more time (“be kind”) – btw he came away disappointed. Prior to that I saw the real Rainbow as follows:
2x w Dio (including the legendary Munich gig in 1977)
1x w Bonnet
2x w Turner
2x w Doogie
Comparing Hughes on bass to Ritchie on guitar? Apples and oranges.
I politely beg to differ. You either have bite in your playing or you don’t. Ritchie didn’t have it anymore come Reunionbow and his past achievements – which I do not deny – cannot hide that fact.
There were likely 15k fans at both events and everyone had a great time … Herr Hornung the Dictator …
You juxtaposed that nicely. The people at the Nürnberg party rallies in the 30s were even more numerous and a splendid time was had by all they say. Great light show by all accounts too, expertly shot by Leni, but do I really have to share the surging enthusiasm of the masses there?
Re putting things down, that is an inaccurate, dare I say even superficial observation. My music taste is wide-ranging and I put at least as many things “up” – even ones unpopular here – as I put them “down” in my, uhum, cavernous abyss of dark negativity. But I have bought so much product from Herr Blackmore over half a century and thereby had the honor to contribute a minuscule part to his – deserved – personal wealth that I am also at liberty to say when he sucked the big one – especially in comparison to how he was in 1976 when Rainbow was my first rock concert ever. To quote Little Ian from the WDWTWA inner sleeve press clipping when criticized for kicking his own drum kit about on stage: “I bought it so I’ll bloody well boot it!” ☝️😇
In the meantime, lieber Rubber, you are of course free to hold the geriatric events you witnessed in 2016 and 2017 in highest regard, more power to you, that’s how I dictatorial I am. You liking the Reunionbow gigs doesn’t offend me in the least. May I however coyly ask how many times you saw the real Rainbow live in the 70s, 80s and 90s so I can evaluate your points of reference?
Zu guter Letzt: The Dictstors were a great band, featuring later members of Manowar (Ross the Boss) and Twisted Sister (Mark “the Animal” Mendoza ≠ the Ted Nugent, Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Dead Daisies and Journey bassist of the same name).
https://youtu.be/pE12qenJMt8
You should listen to them. To gain an impression of an energetic performance. Apples and oranges indeed, what can I say?!
October 30th, 2025 at 20:40#34: Rather than introducing a ban on posts you don’t agree with, please elaborate on what made the 2016 Rainbow gigs so great?
October 31st, 2025 at 03:48@37 Invoking Nürnberg in the ’30s and stuff was uncalled for, Uwe, wasn’t it? Uncalled for, and a bit petty. What started as a thread about a modern day version of ‘Burn’ degenerated into Ritchie bashing and now this… This is a free platform and we can discuss different things at once, alright. But shouldn’t we use some judgment and moderation?
October 31st, 2025 at 09:38Sigh, admittedly, invoking Nürnberg was a bit snappy and simply trying to make a point, Georgivs, you’re right. I rate your opinion and listen to your voice of reason: I apologize, Rubber!
I don’t bash Ritchie, I’ve been to more BN gigs than most people here and you will never hear me say that he doesn’t play that type of music – which I might like or nor like – anything but well. He’s committed to it, silly as some of the stuff seems to me.
But his return to rock was neither committed nor was it expertly executed. Those four Reunionbow gigs I saw were the nadir I have experienced with anything from the Purple Family. It simply wasn’t good enough and it had no swagger (Sophie’s orgiastic treatment of the Burn riff oozed swagger in comparison, that is why I made the comparison). Purple’s charm relies very much on the fact that the individual abilities of the members exceed what the – let’s face it: not that hugely complex – music requires. That always made them different from bands like, say, AC/DC, Status Quo or ZZ Top. Ritchie committed the ultimate sin by ignoring that when he began playing rock again – after decades of soaring above the music, he was now having a hard time keeping up. It pained me to witness that and it has nothing to do with fast playing or getting triplets right at old age, it has to do with him feeling comfortable and at ease with the music rather than challenged or even overwhelmed.
PS: Last I heard the riff Sophie played was also written and made popular by
October 31st, 2025 at 10:16George Gershwin… excuse me Ritchie so juxtaposing his most recent performance of it against what she did does not strike me as that utterly far-fetched … Or are we only allowed to make reference to the Reunionbow raspberry of an enterprise in breathless adoration and worship? As an agnostic, I was never really good at that. 😎@39
You’ve got to take some of the stuff that Uwe says with a grain of salt (or sometimes a valium)…
That being said; I personally, find nothing wrong with his Nürnberg reference. He used it to illustrate a point. In that context it was perfectly acceptable. It’s not like he’s lauding National Socialism or that goofy looking guy with the cheesy mustache.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH0Qda32IKM
October 31st, 2025 at 10:35@34
Sorry, but this is not right!
Uwe is a very very VERY dear man, and don’t put him down!
He has as much right to write his opinions in here as the rest of us!
And if there is anything we don’t know, he goes out of his way to help and inform, so stop hating, I won’t have it!
@35 – Max, I agree completely! 😊
This site wouldn’t be what it is if Uwe wasn’t here, so please stop!
October 31st, 2025 at 12:10Now I finally had time to see the video with GH and Sophie Lloyd!
Woah! What a woman she is! I am so impressed 😃
Thanks for posting it here Nick 😊🙏🏼🙏🏼
October 31st, 2025 at 12:36#34 I saw Rainbow with Dio 76/77, Bonnet 80 twice, JLT 81 twice and 83. 2016/7 – went with managed expectations and had a great time. A nostalgia trip. I didn’t got to see the original Ritchie.
Hughes plays bass, rarely improvising and sticks to a script. Ritchie is not that, he also plays a guitar.
#35 that’s not the point, the article is about Glenn and guest but someone used it as an opportunity to flex and throw stones unnecessarily. Discussion is fine, and even better on topic.
October 31st, 2025 at 14:25I think the invoking of Nürnberg in the 30s was a humorous respond to being called a dictator.
October 31st, 2025 at 15:05Oh and btw: I was at the Reunionbow show in Bietigheim-Bissingen and did I have a great time?
Yes, because I saw my hero RB for the first and only time in a rock setting, under a giant Rainbow, playing Spotlight Kid, Highway Star and Stargazer.
Was it a good played, well rehearsed, musically impressive show?
Absolutely not. I don’t think there’s another album by Ritchie that I have listened to that seldom (okay, maybe BN’s Christmas CD) as the Memories in Rock one. My biggest problem was and is with the singing, but the rest of the music is no moment of glory either.
@40 thanks but no need to apologise for the Nurnberg (umlat withheld) reference, no offence was taken
@38 Try to not get too petty over a bit of sarcasm or satire. Uwe went off topic, stick need to be given
@42 The answer to the great question. Plato warned that those who seek to control others are often the ones who most need to be controlled, suggesting that the desire for dominance reveals inner chaos and a lack of self-mastery
October 31st, 2025 at 15:06Lieber Rubber, to clarify, his improvisational prowess is actually the thing that has suffered the least with Ritchie! He’s a gifted improviser, you can wake him up from deep sleep in the middle of the night (or considering his nocturnal habits: early noon!), put a Strat in his hands, tell him the key and given a little time he will solo something nicely to whatever you’re playing to him before he’s had his first coffee.
It’s everything else that showed issues in his playing with Reunionbow, His rhythm playing (with a tendency to the erratic at the best of times, but that was also his charm) was all over and insecure, you can’t play an electric guitar like an acoustic and the other way around, he was extremely stiff with riffs and no longer nimble (that showed especially on Burn because that riff has to elegantly flow and be slightly ahead of the beat), he didn’t have the arrangements down pat, his timing was insecure (likely because with BN he leads the timing and the whole band including the drums follow, an approach that doesn#t work with Rainbow).
You mention “managed expectations” – so were mine. I was expecting a Ritchie that would no longer be able to play the really fast stuff AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE. Kick out Highway Star because he can’t do the fast solo as effortless as he used to? Fine, I have no issue with that – just like Big Ian kicked Child in Time out of the set. Miss a note here and there or slip off a string? Perfectly ok.
I once wrote to the derision of Herr MacGregor – that I would have had absolutely no issue had Ritchie taken along a youngish guitarist (like Sophie!) to play the rhythm parts and riffs for him, with Ritchie circling over the melee like a condor over the (silver) mountains
https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-27-2016/y3myi6.gif
and just swooping down for fills and solos. There is no shame in that (Eric Clapton has admitted that he can’t perform Layla without another guitarist playing the riff because he can’t do the riff himself and sing at the same time). I wasn’t joking either, I would have defended a set-up like that as something that is good for the music. Ritchie’s extended solos on a track like say Catch the Rainbow suffered the least in my ears and I have always appreciated his slow playing more than his ultra-fast stuff, I’m a guy who favors his lyrical solo on the When A Blind Man Cries studio version over what he does in the shuffle part of Child in Time which was always a bit “Look what I can do!” to me. A septuagenarian Ritchie did not have to impress me with speed is what I’m saying. I lap up his choice of notes and phrasing, whether he is still the fastes gunslinger in town is irrelevant to me.
Re Glenn, as a bassist he of course has to stick somewhat to a framework. But within that framework he is very free, he hardly ever plays two verses in the same way, his little fills are always somewhere else, his solos change from song rendition to song rendition, all his deliberately noisy and gung-ho slides, trills, bendings and high note excursions are spontaneous or as his whim strikes him. As a bassist myself, I’d say that not more than 75% of Glenn’s playing is predetermined. He’s a very organic player and always shifts little things around. Ritchie rates him as a bass player (if not as a singer) for good reason. (But it was Ritchie who said in a 1976 NME interview to the question whether the dual lead vocals of Mk III were in hindsight a mistake: “It worked very well on record; on stage it left much to be desired.“
October 31st, 2025 at 16:25@41
“You’ve got to take some of the stuff that Uwe says with a grain of salt (or sometimes a valium)…”
– 😄
Well, I use to drink an extra cup of coffee when I read Uwe’s brilliant posts!
October 31st, 2025 at 16:26(And no! It’s not to keep me awake)
Comparing two versions of Burn is exactly on topic here.
October 31st, 2025 at 18:04@ 42- this site existed no problem at all Karin well before the Uwe Hornung entity emerged from the abyss. However we do like to keep him on a lead as such. There was plenty of argy bargy before Uwe turned up, we all survived, well most of us and we will continue to do so, until……………..Cheers.
October 31st, 2025 at 21:21You can’t play the electric like an acoustic and expect the same results. RB left the hard rock world in 1997 and went back twenty years later, with the addition of advanced age and arthritis, and bore little resemblance to the player he was on the SIUA tour.
Should he have gone through with the reunion nevertheless? Artistically, of course not. It added nothing to his legacy, only showed the world he’d lost nearly all his chops. Why do that unless you really need the money?
It didn’t help that he surrounded himself with players who had no feel for Rainbow’s music and played it like a wedding band. Even with the Spanish accent, Romero was the only saving grace. He’s no Dio but at least he delivered to some extent.
Essentially, an empty stage with the Rainbow intro tape playing on repeat would have been as memorable and rewarding in terms of nostalgia.
November 1st, 2025 at 05:04@50
Uwe hasn’t been here all the time???
It wasn’t Uwe that started this lovely site???
NOW I’m confused 😄
Well, what I meant was: I have said some pretty stupid things in here, and when this site has room enough for, well, me, then there is no reason to harass Uwe 😊
November 1st, 2025 at 05:50The artistically value may have been close to not existant, Daniel. And I agree with you as with Uwe that those shows had nothing in common with what you may have witnessed in the 70s, 80s or even 90s. But not everyone was lucky enough (die Gnade der frühen Geburt) to see Blackmore in his prime. My son – feel free to set things straight here, Tillythemax – enjoyed having those classics played live for once in his life. And most folks seemef to enjoy the shows for nostalgic reasons. I didn’t regret attending, I was happy that night though I could see Ritchie was a shadow of the player he had been. But they all seemed devoted to the job and ,es, it sounded like a coverband. But after all, the man in black was there. Maybe he taught us a lesson… there is no escaping age, time marches on even for magicans… I enjoyed it for what it was…Klassentreffen. But I sure don’t go back to the recordings of it.
November 1st, 2025 at 12:58It‘s all good, I don‘t feel harassed, I can take as good as I give. Rubber prefers how Reunionbow played Burn for largely legacy reasons (Ritchie as the main composer etc) and I find the raucous spirit off the song better represented by that Glenn Hughes version with Sophie guesting as she pretty much makes you forget there is a keyboard missing! And in my book, Glenn is as much Mk III as Ritchie was (and all the others were), he is perfectly entitled to play that song and he does it justice.
I joined this site belatedly – I was an occasional lurker a long time before – for purely selfish reasons! 😎 As a bassist I felt honor-bound to finally see to it that Glenn‘s excellent bass playing gets its due here because I was under the impression that his vocals and his – essentially harmless if a bit tasking for others – persona were always being sharply criticized, yet nobody ever mentioned how his bass playing co-shaped the sound of Mk III and more specifically the way Litte Ian began to play with the advent of the new line-up. From frequent posts here, it seemed like Mk III consisted of only Ritchie, Jon and Little Ian as instrumentalists with DC singing and Glenn only interfering vocally in a bad way with his bass playing being ignored as something somewhere between nonexistent and irrelevant. Bollocks to that! When Glenn tackles the song Burn it sounds more like the Mk III days of yore than when 4/5 of Mk II + JoLT did it in the early 90s (not that their version was awful, but it wasn’t Mk III). That is how much his bass playing swagger shapes the music!
Daniel, that description of Reunionbow as a “wedding band“ is totally apt – it puts all my concerns in two words. Brilliant!
November 1st, 2025 at 14:05“Uwe hasn’t been here all the time???”
I have, you just didn’t know …
Always in focus
You can’t feel my stare
I zoom into you
But you don’t know I’m there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
https://youtu.be/UMJF37BVGTA
November 1st, 2025 at 15:22Ok, now a little question: (from my sofa, drinking coffee..)
Is GH as good a bassist as RG?
In my inexperienced ears RG is way better, but what say you Your Honour?
November 1st, 2025 at 19:19(Yes Uwe, I mean you 😊)
Uwe, the Melo drama Queen, he he he. I have always said it, well for quite a while now, oh the drama of it all. Poor Glenn, getting no representation here, well if any according to Uwe, not in the positive light apparently or should that be ‘allegedly’ (a very common legal term these days). Turn on, tune in and drop out. Get those online streaming sites into action NOW. As Ritchie, Glenn and ole Cove’s all reside over in the USA, surely we can get them together for a good ole soap drama, sitting around like old queens, spitting at each other, pulling each others hair, oops. Better be careful and then we can throw in JLT just for good measure. Oh hang on, he doesn’t reside there anymore. Anyway it makes for a grand box office record breaking smash hit of sorts. And that is before we throw in the Rainuinbow (damn auto correct, I have to get that right) circus. Although that was in Europe and the UK only wasn’t it?. Maybe the Yanks dodged a bullet there. Anyway get the popcorn out everyone. Cheers.
November 1st, 2025 at 21:05Haven’t we discussed RG and GH here ample times before, Karin?
– In a technical sense, there is hardly a difference between them. Roger is nimble and so is Glenn. They are both bassists whose style was shaped in the 60s and 70s, so they are not as nimble and flashy as, say, John Myung of Dream Theater who is a different generation with different influences.
– Glenn will forgive me for observing that Roger is likely the cleaner, smoother and more precise bassist, Roger will have to live with the fact that Glenn has more grit and drama in his playing.
– People often mistakenly say – Ian Paice among them – that Glenn plays “more notes” than Roger. He doesn‘t, he plays less. He just plays what he plays more conspicuously. Glenn sometimes fires off these flurries of notes that catch attention, similar to a lead guitarist throwing in a quick lick, but in his default mode he’s actually the more sparse player compared to Roger who tends to be inconspicuously busy throughout.
– Roger provides this metronomic carpet in his playing that is neither simplistic nor brainless, it is just very steady and therefore less dynamic than Glenn‘s sometimes explosive playing. Roger provides a bed of notes for Paicey to both rest upon and shine with his little tricks – and Roger does that reliably, unobtrusively and with immaculate taste. Glenn otoh is more spiky in his playing and yanks the beat around, he’s sometimes before, sometimes on top and sometimes behind the beat, Roger is more like a steady pulse.
– So Glenn is more the attention-grabber and has the quality of always sounding upfront with his bass playing (in so far it mirrors his singing!) whereas Roger works more from behind. That doesn‘t make him a worse bassist in any way and he has admirers like Ian Hill of Judas Priest in the bass world. Mk II’s signature sound had a whole lot to do with how Roger played bass. Glenn otoh is the kind of bassist guitarists take notice of (Blackmore, Bonamassa, Satriani), I believe they are like moths to a flame attracted to the attitude showing in his bass playing.
https://youtu.be/sLWSRgvXrfM
https://youtu.be/55CBXBI5M7s
I guess this here is also quite instructive for discerning Roger’s and Glenn’s respective bass styles from each other, it is originally (mostly) a Roger Glover composition
https://youtu.be/QKdqKRnUonU
but Glenn and his boys really take it to the funk cleaners … 😎
https://youtu.be/0sfhRrSusHE
November 1st, 2025 at 22:58PS: This is Glenn putting his stamp on DP: Stormbringer is a Blackmore/Cocerdale composition and a very straightforward rocker at that. Glenn initially follows Ritchie’s signature riff one octave lower, but then in the bridge leaves that blueprint, gets more melodic and arriving at the chorus plays these (for that type of a song) in 1974 totally unusual syncopated funk licks at 00:50, 01:46 and 02:54.
https://youtu.be/vTPRoYEtmGI
In 1974, you simply didn’t hear stuff like that on an Uriah Heep, Status Quo, Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin album. And it’s also not something Roger would have ever come up with. No offense meant, but he doesn’t think that way.
Honorary mention where credit’s due: Paicey’s bass drum work on this ace, the thinking man’s hard rock drummer, nuff said.
November 1st, 2025 at 23:26@46
🤣🤣
Who wanna control??!
November 2nd, 2025 at 06:03Ohh Uwe, forgot:
The bassist in Status Quo, the cute one that always look so sleepy, this guy:
https://youtu.be/a7mVI-cWeKU
Is he any good?
You see I have no idea whatsoever 😃😄
November 2nd, 2025 at 07:09@53
Max, this expression:
“But after all, the man in black was there.”
Reminds me of a post at Facebook, where I called Ritchie ‘the dark one’- and it made some people shiver and threw curses at me 🤣🤣
How could I know ‘the dark one’ is a euphemism of the devil 😆
I never meant Ritchie reminded me of satan! Actually I hold Ritchie in very high regards 🥰
I just giggle now and then because of all the misunderstandings we can make when English isn’t our mother tongue!
(Not thinking of you, your English is perfect, just like your neighbour!)
So by this: so so sorry if I now and then make mistakes that seem to insult you! That I (almost) never do 😃
Have a wonderful and peaceful Sunday everybody 🤗🤗
November 2nd, 2025 at 08:56@58
“Haven’t we discussed RG and GH here ample times before, Karin?”
– 😄 if you say we have, I believe it! (A couple of months ago I got a tree on my head and back (5 meters! – the tree!) and my memory is a bit, ahem, erratic 😄)
“Roger is likely the cleaner, smoother and more precise bassist,”
– that’s why I like Roger’s style so much 😃
“So Glenn is more the attention-grabber”
– I agree completely!
Ohh thank you Uwe 🙏🏼
So, compared to the two, the clean bassist and the attention-grabber, where are your style?
November 2nd, 2025 at 10:39I know you send me an example of your brilliant work once, but I’m not in any way able to hear the diff. 😊
The Man in Black… that’s just a common phrase for RB. On the other hand it was used for Johnny Cash before.
November 2nd, 2025 at 11:27@64
Yeah Max, but can you imagine how the worshippers of RB was choking when I assumed Ritchie was devilish, and not in the handsome way!
Well, if anything can be laughed at, I’m all for that 😄😄
November 2nd, 2025 at 13:06RG is an important part of the Mk 2 sound, whereas it’s hard to imagine Made in Europe and CTTB without GH.
GH is the more improvisational one of the two, by far. RG left the improvisation to RB and JL.
GH throws in slap bass very tastefully when he does First Step of Love live on the current tour. No stranger to soloing when there is a guitar solo, which is something RG would never do.
I would say they are quite different.
November 2nd, 2025 at 14:39I’m equally influenced by Roger and Glenn (and even some Nick Simper alongside people like John McCoy, Jim Lea of Slade, Martin Turner of Wishbone Ash and Alan Lancaster of Status Quo). I’ve copped some of Glenn’s flashy tricks and gung-honess (people have called my bass playing “assertive”, something Rubber in his analytic Plato school of thinking will no doubt attribute to my, wait for it, inborn desire for dominance revealing inner chaos and a lack of self-mastery 😂), but I’m not as naturally funky as Hughes and don’t yank the beat around as much as he does, rather playing more smoothly and metronomic so people will likely hear more Glover than Hughes in me. I can ape Glenn and I admire how he plays, but I’m likely more a Glover boy —> lack of self-mastery , there we have it again! 😱
Re your question pertaining to the Quo bassist, there is no way I could answer that objectively! My brain tells me that Rhino Edwards (Quo’s longstanding second bassist who plays in the vid you linked to) can play circles around Alan Lancaster (the original bassist),
https://youtu.be/sOvaMd5jbnM
but my heart will forever belong to Alan who was a pivotal bass role model in my youth. Alan had technical limits (like not a really proper alternate picking technique, he often used just downstrokes hitting the string), but these limits shaped his style in an idiosyncratic manner. Rhino has force and power plus surprising chops when he plays with Quo, but Alan had … pulse and throb and a lovely talent to sometimes play introspective things, just listen to him here at 03:25 until all the way up to the end of the song, his bass playing is simply beautiful. 🥰❤️
https://youtu.be/d1gYJDQXPOk
When he left/was squeezed out of the band by Francis Rossi in 1983, Quo never sounded the same to me again. He was also a great songwriter and singer:
https://youtu.be/F-lwEANyI3I
Most people only know Francis Rossi’s
https://youtu.be/82_jIzWHPUY
or Rick Parfitt’s voice
https://youtu.be/lAyk2VnueZY
from the Status Quo singles (they were both more poppy than Alan’s gruffer vocals), but in the mid 70s Alan actually sang the lion’s share of their live material, especially all the rockier stuff:
https://youtu.be/aqmXoK93_NY
November 2nd, 2025 at 16:22@67
“When he left/was squeezed out of the band by Francis Rossi in 1983”
– ok, the gossip-girl in me demands to know why Mr.Rossi did that???
I will of course go through the links later on, (don’t have the time now….)
But please enlighten me!
To me Francis Rossi seems to be the perfect gentleman…. (But what do I really know?)
November 2nd, 2025 at 18:12There were several schisms in the band: a cocaine party (Rossi & Parfitt) and a drink party (Coghlan & Lancaster), a rock side (Lancaster), a pop side (Rossi) and a pragmatic “Why don’t we continue to do both as long as we make money with it?”-side (Parfitt).
Rossi is an amiable, witty and self-deprecating, chatty interview partner plus can be disarmingly frank to the point of scathingly blunt, but he can also be distant, aloof and cold-hearted plus has a long memory. Lancaster was an emotional macho man, less controlled, but no match for Rossi’s machinations. Parfitt mostly just wanted to have a good time, party, be a rock star and have blond girlfriends/wives, call it escapism after tragically losing his little daughter Heidi and his first marriage collapsing in the aftermath.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jul/05/rick-parfitt-status-quo-family-values
Musically more on the side of Lancaster’s rock taste, he eventually jumped ship and sided with Rossi’s vision of the band (something he would later on admit regretting). Rossi was never really a heavy rock man and became wary of Parfitt and Lancaster starting to go to Deep Purple gigs and listen to Purple albums in the early 70s, “that’s not us” he said to them.
There was probably more strife within Quo – that band with the “we’re all good mates and never do drugs”-smiling image – than there ever was within Deep Purple. That is why I am sometimes bemused by people here being aghast how some DP departures were handled/came about. It’s nothing compared to Quo’s inner turmoil. Quo were just better at hiding it with a positive image, but it was all a facade. Inside, people were seething. Lancaster saw Rossi as someone staging a coup to take over control of the very band he (Lancaster) had founded. Parfitt thought he really had the looks and the voice that entitled him to front the band, something Rossi did not take kindly too. And Coghlan, who despised cocaine, one day just left after a cocaine-fueled dress-down from Rossi in a recording studio for not getting a drum part right. He threw down his sticks, bought a ticket from I think Switzerland (where the studio was) to England and never returned nor was he asked back. Mind you, John Coghlan was no Ian Paice, more a Charlie Watts, but no subsequent drummer in Quo ever matched his groove.
November 2nd, 2025 at 20:39“No stranger to soloing when there is a guitar (Uwe’s edit: or organ!) solo, which is something RG would never do.>/i>”
Quite! 😂
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EwxSeHnHqUw
Nor would he duel with Ritchie, Steve or Simon!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AeptxSZ8FLI
November 2nd, 2025 at 20:57Miss Sophie rehearsing. Good girl.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8YcxGaqsj9M
And letting it all sink in, I get all whimsical in the ‘ere ‘n’ now: Who wouldn’t like to be the upper cutaway of an electric guitar sometimes? It’s in moments like these that I wanna believe in reincarnation. Blessed girl.
Back to music. Bad girl.
https://youtu.be/BQ–etp0xMg
November 2nd, 2025 at 21:12@ 68 -simple really Karin, Alan Lancaster finally realised that it was much better to become an Australian and move to paradise. Cheers.
November 2nd, 2025 at 21:39@54 don’t put words into someone else’s mouth, I never said I preferred anything. This is indeed a big issue entering into discourse with someone’s ego
November 2nd, 2025 at 22:57There has to be some money to be made by mentioning Status Quo whatever the topic at hand may be (even something as offtopic as the greatest live albums of all time!) … Or is this just for Ruhm und Ehre? Thinking about it … and being a copy writer I find it a nice idea for a kind of creative outwork to keep them braincells healthy and busy: From any given subject to Status Quo within 3 sentences.
November 3rd, 2025 at 09:43@ 71 -oh dear oh dear, I KNEW I shouldn’t have looked at Sophie. Still, it was better than looking at those Ozzy images I just posted links too. My my my, there is no doubt about it. Attention, attention, attention everybody. It must be have been a cold morning. For Sophie, not me, he he he. Uwe, you should be ashamed of yourself. I have NO doubt that Edith would have given up hope many years ago as to what her husband may be up to on the internet. Cheers.
November 3rd, 2025 at 21:43Rubber @73: Don’t be so forebodingly dramatic, jeez!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xTOUMbNwE30
Max @74: One man’s Smokie is another man’s … But while I can’t deny my emotional attachment to Status Quo and Alan Lancaster especially,
https://www.rollingstone.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/27/10/alan-lancaster-gettyimages-1277102849-scaled.jpg
it was Dame Karin – you know, that nice mature lady from Denmark – who asked about Quo bassists!
Again again again again again again again again … why dontcha do it … why dontcha do it again? 😎
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0rhWwcl28Y
November 3rd, 2025 at 23:32Talking about Alan Lancaster moving to Australia with his Oz partner and apparently his parents and brother and sister did too. How is that for a little patriotic flag waving. And to add to that, we currently have Metallica and Oasis out here at the same time. The agony of choice eh? Regarding one Gallagher brother (guess which one) mouthing off the other day, did anyone notice what he was going off about? Yes you are right in ignoring it, but it was a little harder living out here to not hear about his ‘ranting’. Apparently some eager concert goer fired a flare into the sky. Well at least the gig wasn’t indoors. Imagine Oasis trying to write a song about that? I cannot either. Anyway it all the fun of the fair out here at present. Cheers.
https://consequence.net/2025/11/oasis-liam-gallagher-calls-out-flare-launching-fan/
November 4th, 2025 at 09:52@76
“was Dame Karin – you know, that nice mature lady from Denmark –“
– Uwe, let Max of the hook! I’ve done ages ago 😃
Being 58 I am a mature lady, I just wasn’t used to men commenting on me at all, and when it happened for the first time in decades, when Max called me out, I was flabbergasted 😄
But I am alright now 😊 so let bygones be bygones and let me mature in peace 😜
Btw: thanks for the insight on Status Quo!
I had no idea what dramas went behind the, well, curtain.
And here I thought Francis Rossi was such a gentleman….
Really I thought Rick was the bad boy of them all.
I hadn’t heard “Again and again” before, nice tune 😊
November 4th, 2025 at 14:45