The Last Bass Outpost

These sorts of institutions seem to be perfect environments for industrial-scale abuse, be it physical or sexual, as well. Weird, rigorously enforced power hierarchies, codes of silence etc.

Whether religious, political or sports-related - as a teenager I avoided situations like that like the plague. Ok, school was something you had to do, but other than that I had an abhorrence for any kind of activity that involved adults or other figures or respect. It was nothing my parents had ingrained in me, but I simply thought of adults as a different species that shouldn't have a say over my life and that could not relate to anything in my life in any case. I was wary of them without any real reason. (Members of Deep Purple and Status Quo excepted of course!  ) I didn't even aspire adulthood, I could have stayed 16 for the rest of my life.

I guess that is why my music tastes are kinda stunted!

And creepy. There is nothing more unsettling than ordained joy and happiness. It reminded me of The Book of Mormon musical somehow ... and lool & behold:

The creators of The Book of Mormon, a musical that satirizes the latter-day saint movement, cited Up with People as an inspiration for the cartoonishly joyous style of several of the songs in their musical performance, which sends up the clean-cut image of Mormon culture.

These sorts of institutions seem to be perfect environments for industrial-scale abuse, be it physical or sexual, as well. Weird, rigorously enforced power hierarchies, codes of silence etc.

When did Deep Purple turn into old women?



"Go on Paicey, give them the Fireball intro again!"

That is Little Simon from Belfast, a spring chicken born 1979!

He used to like Joe Satriani a lot ...



"I'm gonna be with Deep Purple some day!"

Time for some unabashed nepotism: This is one of my son‘s Californian buddies who invited him to play guitar and pedal steel on this track. Lamentably though, I don‘t hear much of a Ritchie Blackmore influence on this, uhum, country-tinged track, it sounds more like the poor kid had to grow up listening to Bernie Leadon and Don Felder all day!



I swear we didn‘t hear THAT MUCH Eagles at home!