2017 will be a good year ...

Started by uwe, November 25, 2016, 11:19:18 AM

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uwe



:mrgreen: ;D :mrgreen: :) ;D :mrgreen: :) ;D :mrgreen: :) ;D

I could already kill for that drum intro and that snarling organ ...  8)
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...


uwe

#2
I'm at peace with that, they don't have to die on a tour bus for me. 50th anniversary is a good time to close the book - when they were basically "casted"/put together by a bunch of semi-wealthy business men that hoped to be the next Brian Epsteins and Andrew Loog Oldhams in 1968, who would have thought that they would exist for 50 years (minus the 8 year hibernation from 1976 to 1984)? They've had a great run and only 2 out of 13 members have left us.

Alas!, with DP ending, 'tis time for me too then ...

We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

Pilgrim

Chief Dan George in Little Big Man: it's a good day to die...

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."

Highlander

The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

ilan

With Gillan and Glover at Ian's south Portugal villa during their lyrics writing sessions for the new album.


Highlander

The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

uwe

New teaser - such a splendid racket!

We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

gearHed289

Well that sounded almost proggy! I'm a sucker for the B3. I might have to pick this one up.

uwe

#9
They've been sounding this progggy for a while. It's Don Airey's prog roots (he played in Jon Hiseman's Colosseum II before earning proper money as everybody's favorite heavy rock keyboard sideman) coming through, he's unleashed with DP and Steve Morse (himself no stranger to prog) is gracious enough to give him all that room. These days, DP is an organ-driven band (more so than they were in Deep Purple line ups of yore with the possible exception of Mk I - Hush era) with a very good guitarist playing contently second fiddle. Deep Purple's sound was always shaped by a Hammond loud in the mix, but Don Airey has upped the ante.

And Gillan's vocal lines which have always avoided the obvious and ear-friendly (to the chagrin of Blackmore) only add to the prog flavor because he only writes them after the band has finished recording its instrumental work completely. They don't "make room" for him. He only recently repeated that DP is essentially an instrumental band and that he "gets to sing a little over their music". He drove Sabbath nuts during the recording of Born Again as they were unused to his process. They would play parts to him and ask him whether he regarded it as a verse or a chorus and he'd say: "I dunno, finish the song, and then I'll decide what to sing."

This song here owes more to ELP once it starts (around 1:40) than traditional DP:



Or this here:




We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

gearHed289

Quote from: uwe on December 06, 2016, 01:10:31 PM
They've been sounding this progggy for a while. It's Don Airey's prog roots (he played in Jon Hiseman's Colosseum II before earning proper money as everybody's favorite heavy rock keyboard sideman) coming through, he's unleashed with DP and Steve Morse (himself no stranger to prog) is gracious enough to give him all that room.

Didn't really know Airey's history. But DUH - Steve Morse! Makes a lot of sense now.

Uncommon Man - Cool, now I want a brass section!

uwe

#11
Colosseum II were sort of a white boy's wet dream of jazz fusion prog metal - King Crimson fans will probably approve.



Dave W? Not so much.  ;D

Don's next band was somewhat less demanding on the ears, the drummer would later on get him a job in Rainbow.



And then there is always this:

We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

uwe

Ian Paice is a great shuffle player ...

We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

uwe

We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

amptech