Deep Purple plans Lebanon performance

UPI ^ | July 18, 2006

[lormand]

"...but was he with DP or RJD ?"

Neither, he was with Rainbow, which included RJD.

[Kramster]

Thanks

[who knows what evil?]

Bang had a lot of very listenable tunes...

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.

[lormand]

I remember driving 200 miles to Houston to see the Dixie Dregs in the late 70's or early 80's (too much Columbian to remember).

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!

[Mike K]

Good one PJ. Amazing that it took so long for someone to mention it.

[Roccus]

Not sure how old they are, but I've got two of their albums dated 1968.

[BallyBill]

No Blackmore
No Stratocaster
No Sale!

[trisham]

You're not supposed to know all the words. You just make them up as you go along.

Jeesh, I thought everybody knew that!

**************

LOL! You're right.

[MarDav]

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...

[lormand]

"He was on a jazz-fusion album with drummer Billy Cobham (can't remember the title)...excellent, excellent playing."

Billy Cobham's Spectrum - w/ Tommy Bolin and Jan Hammer

Killer Fusion album...must have if you like fusion.

[Aquinasfan]

Smoke on the Water! Fire in the sky!

LOL!

[Political Junkie Too]

Lots of irony there.

-PJ

[trisham]

And some licenses are meant to be revoked.

*************

Feh. You've got no soul.

[MarDav]

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...

[Drew68]

Richie's scalloped fretboard.

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.

[Reagan Man]

Deep Purple?! Thought they died somewhere around the mid-1970`s.

[Aquinasfan]

They are a bunch of Maroons, to have ever scheduled a concert in Baalbeck. That's almost smack in center of the Bekaa Valley, heart of the Hezbollah infestation.

"It goes to 11! It's ONE MORE!"

[lormand]

I often listen to www.1dot4.fm on the "Fusion" link.

They play a lot of Cobham's Specrum album, and other Tommy Bolin stuff too, as well as Beck, Holdsworth, DiMeola, etc.

[Drew68]

Smoke on the Water was the first song I learned. I was an eighth grader.

I think "Smoke on the Water" is the first song everybody learns! :-)

[Roccus]

LOL!