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."
Neither, he was with Rainbow, which included RJD.
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So YOU'RE the one who bought the other copy of that album. Bolin plays GREAT guitar on that album, which I still play in the car to this day...one of the most overlooked albums ever.
While waiting in line, I noticed that the backup band was a group called "The Eric Johnson Band". Never heard of them.
My first thought was it sounded country. A scrawny looking guy, with a guitar that looked like it was bigger then him was strapped around it. I thought, "surely a guy who looks like this cannot even fret a note".
Man was I WRONG!
Good one PJ. Amazing that it took so long for someone to mention it.
Not sure how old they are, but I've got two of their albums dated 1968.
No Blackmore
No Stratocaster
No Sale!
Jeesh, I thought everybody knew that!
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LOL! You're right.
Yeah, that was me. I also bought (gulp) the Miami album. The guitar solo at the end of Alexis is awesome...Come From Another Time had some kick to it, too.
Bolin was a real, real good guitarist. Such a waste...
Billy Cobham's Spectrum - w/ Tommy Bolin and Jan Hammer
Killer Fusion album...must have if you like fusion.
LOL!
-PJ
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Feh. You've got no soul.
That's it! That album smokes. From there it was easy to pick up on Jeff Beck when he went fusion (boy did he!).
I lent out my copy (of Spectrum) some years ago and haven't seen/heard it since (though, as soon as I saw the cover I began to enjoy some nice flashbacks).
Spectrum...wow...
In the early 1980s MTV used to play regularly an hour long "Rainbow Live" program back when Joe Lynn Turner was Rainbow's lead singer. Blackmore's guitar acrobatics at that concert inspired me greatly to pick up the instrument.
For Christmas in 1984 I opened up a large rectangular gift from my parents and was speechless as the wrapping gave way to the "Fender" logo on a guitar case.
I had in my possesion an Olympic White Stratocaster with a large headstock and a rosewood fretboard pretty much identical to this one:
Needless to say, it wasn't long before my buddy and I broke out a file and proceeded to scallop the fretboard (much to my parents' dismay). It was a great guitar. Unfortunately, I did not have the skill to tame those single-coil pickups at the volume I wanted to play at. After a while I had become discouraged so I routed out the wood and dropped a humbucker into the lead position.
Deep Purple?! Thought they died somewhere around the mid-1970`s.
"It goes to 11! It's ONE MORE!"
They play a lot of Cobham's Specrum album, and other Tommy Bolin stuff too, as well as Beck, Holdsworth, DiMeola, etc.
I think "Smoke on the Water" is the first song everybody learns! :-)
LOL!
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