The Last Bass Outpost

It always exasperrated Steve Morse who didn't become a real touring musician until he was in his forties (and joined DP, his first band that really toured internationally), but Purple have always been a touring engine. Even in the 70ies they played way more gigs than Led Zep (Zep just played to larger crowds, but less often). It's the only life they know since adolescence. At this point they have resigned themselves to the realization that one of them dying on stage or not waking up in a hotel room one morning is well a realistic possibility. But if that is how you wanna go, then that is how you should.

Touring life did in the end become both too much for Ritchie Blackmore (who only does mini tours with Blackmore's Night) and Jon Lord (who stopped touring with DP after the millenium because travel ate too much of his remaining time) as well as for Steve Morse (who had his wife to attend to, but had been moaning about the length and the density of DP's worldwide trecking for many years, he has a hay farm to take care of in Florida), but Paice, Gillan, Glover and Airey are cut from a different, more resilient gypsy cloth. And for McBride, who's in his mid-40ies, it's still a new and exciting thing.

Those guys are great! 

To the defense of the recently deceased, calling the film Teenage Caveman wasn't his idea, he was dead against it, it was the film company's do. Corman did not cast Robert Vaugh as a "teenager" and he wanted the film to be titled "Prehistoric World".



Actually, the twist in the movie (not spoiling it!) isn't so bad, a bit like Planet of the Apes, but 10 years earlier (oops, I did spoil it now!).

Two further important observations:

- If cavewomen who knew no shame (at 00:04 and 01:11) really looked like the highly appealing Miss Darah Marshall,



I wanna go back, pleeeeeze! Anthropologically speaking, I could bolster their evolutionary development in my own selfless way.

- Using a real monitor to play a dinosaur (at 00:08 and 01:34) and then not even naming it in the movie credits is callous & despicable + should have rightfully been taken up by the Monitor Lizard Motion Picture Extra's Scaly Union! Let's not talk about the baby alligator (introduced at 00:01 and mock-battling with the monitor at 01:34) doubling as a sail-backed dimetrodon! I don't even want to speculate about how they go that fake sail fixed on that poor creature's back.  What's worse, in the battle as the alligator/dimetrodon is spinning around its axis (something they don't do on land), there is obviously someone grabbing the silently suffering critter's tail twisting it around manually - ouch! And they have somehow attached the likewise poor monitor's head to the alligator snout to make it appear he's being swallowed. Yes, animals were definitely harmed in the making of this movie, did perhaps someone from Kristi 'gravel pit of doom' Noem's family co-produce?

A lot of Corman’s stuff had that “so bad, it’s good”-factor, that is no mean feat. The eyes-plucked-out scene stuck with me forever and made me a fan of that particular bible quote. The Raven was good, true.

I know, I know, after a revival in the 80ies, sax playing became all of the sudden uncool again, something best left to lounge music and 80ies porn flick muzak. No matter, I continue to like it, blow your alluring horn up there, David!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/14/david-sanborn-jazz-saxophonist-dies-aged-78

But how could they not mention Nena? He plays the magnificent sax solo at the end of ‘?’ (the song was indeed called question mark or Fragezeichen in German) although the guy miming is of course not David.



He’s on here as well (no, not the hottie with the jet black pixie cut at 02:04, but he played it!):



Yeah, porn sax alright, but I STILL LIKE IT !!!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2024/may/12/roger-corman-a-career-in-pictures



Unrest wherever, thou King of B Movies!

Thanks, I never saw that movie, so your info fell on barren earth!

I'm not even remotely applying that to me!

For those, innocent like me, who did not know the meaning of Ken’s deviant behavior lingo …

I am abhorred and repulsed.