Deep Purple at Montreux

nofi · July 13, 2014, 07:12:42 PM

my wife's sister send her this link.

http://focus.tv5monde.com/mjf2014/archive-deep-purple-orchestra/

a thunderous performance i must admit.

Basvarken · July 14, 2014, 02:30:30 AM

Quite different from this version

uwe · July 14, 2014, 04:11:24 AM

I like the second one better - heard the first one too often!!!

The second version also shows that they are not the numb-skulled heavy metal behemoths people sometimes like to paint them as. And that the current line-up has its own charm as both Morse and Airey play things vastly differently from Blackmore and Lord. Roger Glover once said that "the only similarity I hear between Jon and Don is that they both sometimes play the organ, but their approach to the instrument is totally different". That sums up Blackmore vs. Morse too. To me the difference between the two is: Blackers sounded like he was sulking even when he played major lines, Morse sounds like he is smiling even when he plays the darkest, doomiest minor/chromatic riffs. Blackmore's choice of notes is as Yuropean as a vampire movie, Morse is playfully-athletic American to the bone.

A rock critic wrote comparatively recently that with the advent of Morse and Airey and Gillan's more experimental influence on the music (now unbridled by Blackmore simply refusing to play such things), DP is in fact today more of a prog band than a heavy rock one. That is not too far from the truth if you listen to their new stuff:

Or this here which owes more to ELP via the intro than anything DP ever did:

westen44 · July 14, 2014, 09:32:30 AM

I would loved to have been at this concert. At this point in time, it wasn't easy getting recluse George Harrison on stage for much of anything--with a few exceptions, of course.

uwe · July 15, 2014, 07:02:22 AM

Jon Lord and "Arnold from Liverpool" (as Gillan introduced Harrison on stage) were next-door neighbors (I use the term loosely, more like "several miles apart gated private driveway"-neighbors) in Henley-on-Thames where British rock royalty tends to have its mansions to recuperate from those lengthy tours. Their wives befriended each other, introduced their hubbies to another and Jon guested on a handful of recordings of George.

Blackmore, who tends to be disdainful of the Stones, has always appreciated The Beatles, he is fond of their British Music Hall tradition and always keen on a good melody anyway. He has also been complimentary on Harrison's terse slide playing for "sounding like him, not sounding like all the others".

westen44 · July 16, 2014, 05:52:59 AM

I had noticed that Jon Lord played on George Harrison's "Gone Troppo" album. The term means "gone mad/crazy" in Australian English. George had a house in Australia for a while. I suspect he was still living there at the time of that concert, although I'm not sure. I do know that he asked Gillan to introduce him as Arnold from Liverpool. I think there is also a Sydney suburb named Liverpool and this probably made things even more confusing for the people there.

gweimer · July 16, 2014, 07:13:33 AM

So....
Lord worked with Harrison, and Harrison joined the band onstage.
Paice worked with McCartney on Run Devil Run.

It's a small world.

uwe · July 16, 2014, 02:24:32 PM

And Ian Paice thinks that Ringo is a great, underrated drummer - he stole some of his rolls! Plus was genuinely flattered and flustered to have been asked by Macca to play on his post-Linda's-passing live comeback. He said after the experience: "Paul is the only bass player I know who plays alternate bass and it doesn't sound like country, it sounds like him."

Ha, and John Lennon liked this version of Help!

Did anybody dare say Vanilla Fudge?!!!