Richie Blackmore - when he wasn't acting like a prick
Posted on 07/18/2006 2:36:33 PM PDT by Shermy
WESTPORT, CN, USA -- Despite the fighting in Lebanon, English rock band Deep Purple says that it plans to perform at the Baalbek Music Festival outside of Beirut later this year.
A press release from the band confirmed that Deep Purple would indeed honor its July 28 performance near the war-torn city, also promising an immediate makeup date should the festival's promoter choose to cancel the show.
Deep Purple is currently one-quarter of the way through a planned two-year world tour and to date has not canceled a single show, a trend that it hopes to continue.
Ian Gillan, lead singer of the legendary band, said that the band's commitment is driven by the idea that music is the universal language of the world and through its hopes to honor the loyalty of its fans through performing.
"There is a moment that begins on stage, when there are no managers, no journalists, no outside distractions - just the band and the audience," Gillan said in the release. "This is the time when there is an unspoken exchange of energy between the fans and us that words can not describe. That makes all the other parts of the job worth it."
Smoke on the Water
Fire in the sky!
Ought to be a great fireworks show with this concert. It's been a long slide downhill since the days of "Hush."
Smoke on the water
Words & music by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice
We all came out to Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile - We didn't have much time
Frank Zappa & the Mothers were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water - A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
They burned down the gambling house - It died with an awful sound
Funky & Claude was running in and out, pulling kids out of the ground
When it all was over, we had to find another place
Swiss time was running out - It seemed that we would lose the race
Smoke on the water - A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
We ended up at the Grand Hotel - It was empty, cold and bare
But with the Rolling Truck Stones Thing just outside making our music there
With a few red lights an' a few old beds, we made a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this, I know... I know we'll never forget
Smoke on the water - A fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
Is Richie Blackmore with them (again)?
"Not to mention our bloody mortgage payments, mate."
Perhaps the opening number should be "Under the Gun."
I love those guys and "Perfect Strangers" was a great album.
Ian Gillan is, what, a hundred and ninety-eleven?
But I'll bet he lays it down better than anyone out there new or old (expecially whiskey-voice one-note Jagger).
Anyone heard DP lately?
Well, not because of this article. I recently developed a new appreciation for them, once I found out Smoke on the Water wasn't their only song ;)
It will be a Black Night and much will Burn if they get caught in a Fireball from all the shelling.
Highway Star!! Play that song while driving and try to keep your car under 100 MPH!
They're still around and touring? Who'da thunk it.
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I was wondering how a Hard Rock band sets up in a place with no electricity.
They had a lot of fun on Venus, they always have a ball on Mars.
I 'found' them after my brother learned "Smoke" on his keyboard. I thought they kicked a$$. But then when I 'found' them they had already broken up the band- I was in high school.
They came out with Prfect Strangers and I finally got my opportunity to see them in concert! Yeah it was cool.
Love Perfect Stranger. What a great song.
I always thought that many Deep Purple songs were good driving tunes.
Can't do it, when I have headphones in on my motorbike, I just can't do it!
I love Deep Purple.. anyone that only knows them because of Smoke on the Water is missing a trick.
But I wish Blackmore was still with them. Steve Morse is a fantastic guitar player but doesn't have the chemistry with DP that Ritchie had.
Richie Blackmore - when he wasn't acting like a prick
"smoke on the water, fire in the sky"
How is that possible?
"some stupid with a flare gun"
Stupid what?
"pulling kids out the ground"
Huh?
"Swiss time was running out"
As opposed to Austrian time, or Zimbabwean time?
"But with the Rolling Truck Stones thing"
WHAT?
I saw them in 85 at Merriweather, touring for that album. Great show..
He's always been quite the narcissist. I think he's back with Ronnie James Dio in yet another version of "Rainbow".
It's been a few years, though.
"Lazy" is one of my Favorite Deep Purple tunes.
IN ROCk..Great album..I doubt they will do the show..No electricity for one.
Hadn't thought of that possibility. Good one.
Richie's scalloped fretboard.
Back with Rainbow?
Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio has to be one of my top 3 Rock bands of all time.
I hope you are right, then that must mean that DP is without Blackmore.
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It's just a little bit of the old poetic licence, my friend.
We used to drive around and listen to Made In Japan all the time. Use to love Child in Time, Strange Kind of Woman, Lazy...They have a couple of good videos of the group from the Gillan/Blackmore era on YouTube.com.
I saw that tour too and also one more time at Radio City Music Hall with Ritchie Blackmore in the early 90s. But they are really the last dinosaurs I like.
Everything they did after "Burn" was bubble-gum music to me, but I live for killer guitar chops.
Come Taste The Band is one of my favorite albums!
Jon Lord and the production dominated all their albums after the first "reunion". Great stuff.
Freakin great riff on Perfect Strangers. How do you say, yeah it was perfect.
Not this year. Blackmore quit Purple for something like the 682nd time a few years back and now concentrates on his Renaissance themed Blackmore's Night
He has replaced his Stratocaster with a lute.
Purple's current axe-slinger is the incredibly talented Steve Morse.
No...he formed his own band known as 'Blackmore's Night' with vocalist/wife Candace Night a few years back...the music is a far cry from Raibow and Deep Purple, although they do perform variations of some DP/Rainbow songs.
Thanks! I'll give it a look, probably on iTunes, as it sounds a little weird.
howdy, catch ya at the lounge!!!
I've seen Steve Morse too while still in high school at "The Ritz" in New York City when he was with "the Dregs."
Very talented guy. But he's not really a hard rocker.
Headed over right now. Wanna share a cab?
JohnnyZ, look up the original recording of, "A Concerto for Group and Orchestra" by Deep purple. Recording date was in 1973. Don't be fooled by the CD that's out there right now. It's not a copy of the original recording and is far inferior to the original.
It's THE best mixture of Rock and Classical I have ever heard, bar none.
I cannot stomach the "Blackmore's Night" stuff.
Smoke on the Water was the first song I learned. I was an eighth grader.
Yup who can't identify with seeing "one too many sunsets, one too many for the road."
And of course the classic line, "I found some money in an old black jacket.... I'm gonna go out and find me a woman or twoooooo."
:)
They may end up in something deeper than purple...
going to the Far Beast....yes ..beast... Jake
Since Lebanon is also the site of a major battle between Jews and Muslims, I could point out that Ian Gillan also performed the role of Jesus in the original London Cast Album of Jesus Christ Superstar.
-PJ
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