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kissfan1976
04-16-2010, 12:43 PM
Man, I loves me some Mark II & Mark III Purple albums.
I don't think DP gets the props they deserve.
I saw then twice on the Perfect Strangers reunion tour back in 1985.

Diamondjimi
04-16-2010, 01:09 PM
Seen 'em 14 times. One of Rock's greatest.
Not big on the Joe Lynn Turner era, but the rest of it is stellar.

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Mr Walker
04-16-2010, 01:27 PM
That's funny... I queued up some Deep Purple on my ipod and have been listening to them all day here at work... Machine Head, Who Do We Think We Are, Burn, Stormbringer, Come Taste The Band, Perfect Strangers and now I'm on House of Blue Light.

kissfan1976
04-16-2010, 01:34 PM
Blackmore dosen't get as much credit as Jimmy Page does as a guitar player and that ain't right!

Ian Paice is my hero.

Kristy
04-16-2010, 01:38 PM
They did a tune called 'Rat Bat Blue' (or similar sounding) that I used to work out to. Other than 'Smoke On The Water' being butchered by every drunken air guitar player in America's deep south, I know little about them.

Diamondjimi
04-16-2010, 01:38 PM
Blackmore is a legend who can play circles around Page and Clapton.

And Paice is up there with Bonham and Peart, imo...

kwame k
04-16-2010, 01:39 PM
Lazy......one of my all time favorite songs. Never gets old.

Ian Paice is a bad ass drummer!

Diamondjimi
04-16-2010, 01:47 PM
BAD ASS!!!

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Mr Walker
04-16-2010, 01:49 PM
They did a tune called 'Rat Bat Blue' (or similar sounding) that I used to work out to. Other than 'Smoke On The Water' being butchered by every drunken air guitar player in America's deep south, I know little about them.

I've always claimed that Whitesnake's 'Still of the Night' was more of a rip-off of 'Rat Bat Blue' than it was of any Zeppelin song I ever heard.

Kristy
04-16-2010, 01:51 PM
Ah, here we go (and the drumming on this song is fantastic)

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Used to listen to this constantly on a work put tape that would motivate me into practicing my inside to outside kicks when I more involved in Tang Soo Doo. Really felt like wailing on somebody hearing this being played for some reason.

Mr Walker
04-16-2010, 01:52 PM
As I sing along, I've been changing 'Mitzi Dupree' to 'Ashley Dupre'... given the new issue of Playboy magazine and all.

ThrillsNSpills
04-16-2010, 01:53 PM
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the break in this is bad asssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss
Rat Bat Blue, You Fool No one, Burn, Ted the Mechanic, Perfect Strangers . yeah they had good ones

ThrillsNSpills
04-16-2010, 01:54 PM
worth hearing twice maybe., lol

Diamondjimi
04-16-2010, 01:57 PM
I love DP with Steve Morse. He is a perfect replacement to move forward with.

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kissfan1976
04-16-2010, 02:00 PM
When A Blind Man Cries,Demon's Eye, Highway Star,Strange Kind Of Woman(Made In Japan Version),Fireball, Space Truckin', Stormbringer,
Sail Away, Soldier Of Fortune,Flight Of The Rat, Nobody's Home,& Burn are my faves.

Diamondjimi
04-16-2010, 02:01 PM
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The amazing thing with Ian Gillan is the fact that he never uses vocal monitors. If anything just a bit of sidewash....

kissfan1976
04-16-2010, 02:03 PM
Seen 'em 14 times. One of Rock's greatest.
Not big on the Joe Lynn Turner era, but the rest of it is stellar.

Yeah, the song KING OF DREAMS sounded like JLT Era Rainbow(like the song though).

Kristy
04-16-2010, 02:06 PM
'My Woman From Tokyo' wasn't a bad tune, either.

kissfan1976
04-16-2010, 02:13 PM
I received my very first traffic ticket back in 2001, had Highway Star cranking.
I was a 2000 Dodge Intrepid doing 55 in a 35 speed zone in Pasadena,Tx.

tojoro
04-16-2010, 05:22 PM
Definitely like me some Purple...Glover and Paice make for a fierce rythym section, and Lord is just downright scary on the keys.
'Highway Star' is never a good choice for driving, as it's inevitable you're gonna get a ticket...one is helpless against mashing the accelerator!

sonrisa salvaje
04-16-2010, 07:37 PM
They did a tune called 'Rat Bat Blue' (or similar sounding) that I used to work out to. Other than 'Smoke On The Water' being butchered by every drunken air guitar player in America's deep south, I know little about them.

I'll have you know i have never played air guitar to Smoke On The Water. We here in the deep south play air keyboards to this song. So there. :tongue0011:

sonrisa salvaje
04-16-2010, 07:41 PM
Yeah, the song KING OF DREAMS sounded like JLT Era Rainbow(like the song though).

Fortuneteller was a kick ass song off that record though. I kind of wanted to see what their second album would have been like after they got a chance to gel a bit, but of course then we wouldn't have gotten Battle Rages On, which i really enjoyed.

Terry
04-16-2010, 10:24 PM
Great fucking band.

Kinda let 'em go a bit around the point of House of the Blue Light...just really weren't cutting it for me anymore.

Recently picked up Come Taste The Band on cd...started getting into the Mark 3 stuff, mostly because I've listened to the Mark 2 stuff a billion times over.

I really don't care for Glenn Hughes, but Bolin was pretty good.

Cato
04-17-2010, 07:56 AM
I love DP with Steve Morse. He is a perfect replacement to move forward with.

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who's that wigged keyboard player?

thome
04-17-2010, 08:56 AM
I bought the Machine Head re-issue master thingie like 5 years ago new posted some love before the big shake up last time around here, yes i luv that stuff.
Aniversary CD edition unnisued guitar solos..some remix and a little book

Yes I recomend having cut teeth on this band..

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Deeppurple-machinehead-anniversary.jpg

Ps. The RA screen looks fine in letterbox format, but the 1/4 of your vid is off screen..too big, it still plays though..

VanHalenFan5150
04-17-2010, 09:05 AM
I love Deep Purple. Never really listened to them though.

Panamark
04-17-2010, 10:19 AM
Bring on the flames but I never really dug em post Blackmore.

But I would never say no to listening to any tracks that had
the name Deep Purple attached..

Agree with others here that Ritchie Blackmore should have equal
cred with Page and Iommi.. He was neo classical before anyone even
coined the phrase.. A big influence on Yngwie R Malmsteen, or was it
his brother Yngwie J Malmsteen ??? So many freaking Yngwie Malmsteens
out there, thankgod for that middle initial....

Diamondjimi
04-17-2010, 10:23 AM
who's that wigged keyboard player?

You mean you don't recognize the great Don Airey?

vaijuju
04-17-2010, 11:41 AM
I took this vid with my camera in France (09.12.2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahrm4rczaA

78/84 guy
04-17-2010, 11:46 AM
Machine Head, In Rock, Perfect Strangers & Come Taste The Band with Tommy Bolin are all must have's if you like classic rock. Coverdale still isn't that great of a singer in my mind but he did some cool stuff in that band. Still love Made In Japan. Morse does a good job for them. Blackmore is a great player. Would love a new Rainbow cd from him.

lesfunk
04-17-2010, 01:01 PM
Whoop! Deep Purple is one of my favorite bands.
Don't discount the Coverdale era. Burn and Come Taste the Band are great albums

thome
04-17-2010, 01:48 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody%27s_Perfect_(album)

I was real high, saw what was to me, just like the old days back in the 70's ..

Some have said this tour sukked .I saw it here in KC and was so down with the scene, they were untouchably fan fukk'n tastic...maybe just a good night..?

or the ones who complained were assholes just finding Metallica and G&R and bailing on what, brung em, to that point.. it was wierd in the late 80's... cause the KC show was unbelievable...

The vocals were just ubelievable I know I caught a highschool contact trippendiqular high durring child in time

decent audience shot stuff from tour...there is no real good stuff from this tour on vid

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Cato
04-17-2010, 07:26 PM
You mean you don't recognize the great Don Airey?
I knew it was him. just tried to turn your eyes to his hair...

I think he's kinda average. not great.
he can play everything, but he lacks individuality. Deep Purple is just one of his jobs

lesfunk
04-18-2010, 12:25 AM
well put, Cato san

Diamondjimi
04-18-2010, 12:50 AM
I knew it was him. just tried to turn your eyes to his hair...

I think he's kinda average. not great.
he can play everything, but he lacks individuality. Deep Purple is just one of his jobs

True. Good point. ;)
He's had an enviable career though...
Lord and Manzarek are probably the most recognizable keyboardists... Airey gets the best gigs.

I don't think he wears a wig. Does he?
Now if we're talkin Paice or Blackmore.........

Cato
04-18-2010, 09:48 AM
watch his hairline!
apparently his wig is the same type as Blackmore's...

Panamark
04-18-2010, 10:03 AM
Magical Medieval Minstrel Wig ??

tojoro
04-18-2010, 10:51 AM
Hard to tell if he wears a wig. I don't envy anyone who would step in and try to play Lord's complex pieces. Don may be an average keys player, but, he does have an outstanding resume.

FORD
04-18-2010, 02:44 PM
As long as Gillan AND Blackmore are both present, I'll listen. The original lineup (the "Hush" era) was OK too, but Rod Evans will forever be a dick for that Scam Purple tour he did in the late 70's. Never liked Covercheeseball, Joe Lynn Foreigner or any of the other scabs over the years.

Gonna have to hunt down a copy of that "Deluxe" Machine Head though. Even though the original CD still sounds great.

Cato
04-18-2010, 05:36 PM
so here's a reason Rod will forever be a dick

http://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/1980/media.html

I love Captain Beyond's 1st album, though.

Diamondjimi
04-18-2010, 09:36 PM
so here's a reason Rod will forever be a dick

http://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/1980/media.html

I love Captain Beyond's 1st album, though.

Agreed. Captain Beyond was a good band, borrowed from the Purple sound, big time.

Rather pathetic of Evans billing himself as Deep Purple. If I recall it was that alone that sparked the beginnings of the MKII reunion.

In regards to FORD's comments, I recommend you go see them live. I think you might enjoy them today.
Sure Blackmore and Lord aren't in the picture, but at least they weren't replaced by guys pretending to clone their predecessors. (Ala KI$$)
I think Morse and Airey are monster talentsin their own right who do justice to the trademark Purple sound while putting their own stamp on it.

Now if you remove Paice and Glover from the picture, I doubt I would buy a ticket to see them again...

lesfunk
04-18-2010, 09:41 PM
I saw them last in 2004 in NYC and enjoyed their show very much. I was able to chat with Paice, Glover and Gillan and they signed my "Made in Japan: CD cover which I thought was pretty cool.

Diamondjimi
04-18-2010, 10:20 PM
I saw them last in 2004 in NYC and enjoyed their show very much. I was able to chat with Paice, Glover and Gillan and they signed my "Made in Japan: CD cover which I thought was pretty cool.

F*%kin awesome.

Hung out with Glenn Hughes for about 40 minutes shootin the shit years ago. One of the nicest "Rock Stars" I've had the pleasure of meeting...

Mr Badguy
04-19-2010, 07:58 AM
Why has noone mentioned "Deep Purple In Rock"?

I know they`ve got other great albums but that one is up there for inventing Heavy Metal along with "Black Sabbath" and "Led Zeppelin".

God knows what it must have been like hearing "Speed king" or "Hard Loving Man" in 1970.

Hardrock69
04-19-2010, 12:49 PM
Been a fan of DP since their heyday in the early 70s. You could not go anywhere without hearing Smoke On The Water blasting out of someone's radio.

Finally got to see them on the Perfect Strangers tour in 1985. Below is the recording I made in FLAC format:

Deep Purple - Wichita, KS 1/20/85
The Third show of the Perfect Strangers US Tour in 1985.

Lineage: Shure 57---> Maxell LN-90 cassette---> Sound Forge--->FLAC--->Your Hard Drive.

Stupid me....I only brought the one tape when I taped this, and as a result, wound up with an incomplete show.

Here is the setlist:

Disc 1:

Highway Star
Nobody's Home
Strange Kind Of Woman
A Gypsy's Kiss
Perfect Strangers
Under The Gun
Lazy
Child In Time (Incomplete due to tape flip) - Part 1

Disc 2:

Child In Time (Incomplete due to tape flip) - Part 2
Knocking At Your Back Door
Difficult To Cure
Space Truckin'
Black Knight (incomplete)

Encores not Included:

Speed King
Smoke On The Water

Enjoy!

Disc 1 - Covers Included

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2HUEAA0M

Disc 2

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G6DBC9FA



Did not get to see them again until about 7-8 years ago on the tour they did with Scorpions and Dio.

Saw Rainbow several times in the 80s.

Saw Ian Paice play with Gary Moore at a club in Dallas.

First band I went overboard on collecting live LPs, just because there were so many available. Always loved the fact that in many cases, they did not play songs the same way twice, EVER.

chefcraig
04-19-2010, 01:12 PM
I saw them with Tommy Bolin sometime in the mid-seventies, and they were fairly ghastly. They were literally falling apart on stage, and Bolin was a mess. It's a shame, as Come Taste The Band was a terrific album. Incidentally, Bolin would be dead here within a year, after opening for a Jeff Beck show in Miami.

Diamondjimi
04-19-2010, 05:08 PM
I saw them with Tommy Bolin sometime in the mid-seventies, and they were fairly ghastly. They were literally falling apart on stage, and Bolin was a mess. It's a shame, as Come Taste The Band was a terrific album. Incidentally, Bolin would be dead here within a year, after opening for a Jeff Beck show in Miami.

Wow, you were lucky to see Bolin. It's a shame the drugs ruined him, he was a great talent. I;m a big fan of his. Such a waste.
When speaking to Hughes about the DP Rises over Japan video I have. He politely asked me to burn it. (with a bit of a chuckle) That era was rock bottom for all participants...
And I agree, C.T.T.B. is a classic... ;)

SparkieD
04-19-2010, 05:18 PM
F*%kin awesome.

Hung out with Glenn Hughes for about 40 minutes shootin the shit years ago. One of the nicest "Rock Stars" I've had the pleasure of meeting...

Glenn is amazing. Though I hate Twitter, I follow him on it (and only him.) He tweets from the dentist chair, the lounge at the airport, his parents' house, etc. sometimes ten or more times a day. He's into his fans, that's for sure. I've had a few personal conversations with him, and he is very down to Earth.

Cato
04-20-2010, 12:18 AM
this is the video that DJ mentioned in his post. it was captured from the edited version of "Rises Over Japan".

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filmed at Budokan on December 15th, 1975. Tommy's guitar is YAMAHA SX prototype. it looks cool but plays like shit.

lesfunk
04-20-2010, 12:35 AM
Wow, What a fucking mess they were at the end...

Diamondjimi
04-20-2010, 12:37 AM
Cato,do you know of any other pro-shots of the Bolin lineup?

Cato
04-20-2010, 12:50 AM
as for the Rises Over Japan vid, a couple of versions exist. non-edited version includes some extra scenes. track order is different from the edited version. I own both.

there's no other pro-shot of Bolin lineup as far as I know.

chefcraig
04-20-2010, 11:09 AM
as for the Rises Over Japan vid, a couple of versions exist. non-edited version includes some extra scenes. track order is different from the edited version. I own both.

there's no other pro-shot of Bolin lineup as far as I know.

Cato, who filmed the Japanese shows, which reveal several different camera angles? Granted, the footage comes from the photographer's pit and some shots are from the back of the hall, yet it's unlikely the Japanese promoters (and by extension, their security detail) would allow fans to lug videotaping equipment (that at the time was as compact as BBQ grill) into the hall. After all, in 1975 people were not strolling into concerts with cellphone cameras in their pockets. :biggrin:

Was the footage captured by the Warners label (with hopes of a sequel to Made In Japan), or as was known to happen during this era, a Japanese tv station?

Mr Walker
04-20-2010, 01:16 PM
Glenn is amazing.

I really hope he finds great success in the US with his new 'Black Country' (or whatever they are going to call it) project.

Cato
04-20-2010, 07:24 PM
Cato, who filmed the Japanese shows, which reveal several different camera angles? Granted, the footage comes from the photographer's pit and some shots are from the back of the hall, yet it's unlikely the Japanese promoters (and by extension, their security detail) would allow fans to lug videotaping equipment (that at the time was as compact as BBQ grill) into the hall. After all, in 1975 people were not strolling into concerts with cellphone cameras in their pockets. :biggrin:

Was the footage captured by the Warners label (with hopes of a sequel to Made In Japan), or as was known to happen during this era, a Japanese tv station?
I heard the Budokan '75 show was filmed by DP's tour manager or someone who came to Japan along with DP at the time. watch the original version anyway. I just uploaded it. you can find some differences between it and the one I posted first.
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chefcraig
04-20-2010, 07:45 PM
I heard the Budokan '75 show was filmed by DP's tour manager or someone who came to Japan along with DP at the time. watch the original version anyway. I just uploaded it. you can find some differences between it and the one I posted first.


Thanks for the info and the clip! This might interest you, as well. When I was a teenager, Circus magazine did a feature on the disastrous tour of the Far East that Purple and Bolin undertook, including some very carefully worded and thinly veiled remarks about Bolin's drug issues. (The truth about the hand is Bolin fell asleep on it during a drug induced stupor.) Here is a reprint from that article.


Bolin's Purple: Re-made in Japan

Circus Magazine March 23, 1976

By Peter Crescenti

The first concert was a bit hairy, I must admit," says Jon Lord of Deep Purple. "It came off all right, but there was this mad whispering running across the stage. "What the hell's next? How does that go? "We opened with "Burn"," and we were just going onstage. The lights go down and the audience is applauding, and Tommy says "How the fuck does that riff go?'"

The Purple you have seen on American stages this month went through a period of intensive training under fire in the Far East before they even set foot in an American areana. Tommy Bolin had been a member or Deep Purple less than six months when the band began their 1975-76 Amerasian tour, but he was anxious to get out on the road and confront the legions of Ritchie Blackmore fans head on.

Purple had recorded "Come Taste the Band" with Bolin two months before the tour, and as they watched the LP jump up the international record charts, they knew that Purple fans had at least welcomed Bolin's arrival on record. A tour would be the final test. Would Purple people everywhere accept this young American onstage? And more importantly, would the chemistry established in the studio and in the rehearsal hall between Bolin and Purple carry over into the concert hall?

Japan, where Purple has achieved immortality in the Japanese Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, would be the first big challenge of the tour. Purple had last played Japan two years earlier, when singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover were still with the band, so they weren't only debuting Tommy Bolin, they were also bringing David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes to Japan for the first time.

The support and approval of the Japanese rockers, at this point in the band's evolving career, was obviously crucial to the future of Deep Purple. But when the band arrived in Tokyo on a Saturday night, for their opening concert in Nagoya on Monday, an aura of impending doom surrounded the group and their entourage. They had all just experience two night marish days in Jakarta, Indonesia, and mental and physical exhaustion clutched at everyone like a monster from the Oriental deep.

JAKARTA NIGHTMARE

In Jakarata on Thursday night, one of the Purple's hired bodyguards, Patsy Collins, had been killed when he tumbled down an elevator shaft. A somewhat tipsy Collins had gotten locked inside a hotel stair well after an argument with two roadies, and when he finally found an unlocked door it turned out to be the wrong one. The ill-starred bodyguard stepped into the darkness and plunged six floors down, crashing through a scalding maze of hot water pipes to his death.

Later that night, the two roadies Collins had fought with and Purple's manager Rob Cooksey found themselves languishing in the a fetid Indonesian jail under suspicion of murder. The police releaseed them the next morning but not before extracting a $500 "fee" for photostating their passports.

Several weeks later, when Deep Purple returned to America, Jon Lord expressed a fear that others had only brooded over at the time - that Collins might actually have been murdered by local residents.

With their manager in jail, Deep Purple went back into the 100,000 seat outdoor stadium the Russians built in Jakarta 10 years ago. The National police, in a foul mood after having battled off the 20,000 fans who had crashed the first night's show, had warned any Europeans in the audience to leave their seats and congregate near the side of the stage for safety.

Purple was only a few minutes into their set when the police went berserk, firing rubber bullets into the dancing crown, cracking skulls and ribs with rifle butts and truncheons, and losing a vicious pack of Doberman pinschers on the kids. Jon Lord saw one of the killer dogs dragging a helpess long hair across the ground in his teeth as blood spurted from the boy's ruptured veins. Lord was appalled.

To compound the misery, Tommy Bolin had pinched a nerve in his left hand after the second concert. With Bolin's hand numb and lifeless, Purple was suddenly faced with the real possiblity of having to cancel some or all of their Japanese tour – or at best, having to play the gigs with a handicapped artist who'd never proven himself onstage in Japan before.

Bolin had only two days to mend before the first concert, so everyone was hoping for a miraculous recovery. The first signs of encouragement came in Nagoya on Sunday. Bolin went out for a stroll near the group's hotel about midnight and passed three fortune tellers along the way. Bolin hesitated , they decided to chance a glimpse into the future. The palm-reader didn't speak English, so one of Bolin's Japanese friends translated for him.

The woman immediately identified Bolin as an "artist" of some kind and told him he had recently assumed a big responsibility. Then Bolin quizzed her about his hand. She caressed his hand and forearm lightly touching his skin, and told him it would heal but not very soon. But Tommy forgot all about his hand a minute later, when the old woman told him he would be a star with Deep Purple but an even bigger star as a solo performer. Bolin who was planing to follow Purple American tour with his own solo tour, didn't even seem surprised . "I totally believe it," he insisted.

Meanwhile, spirits were picking up back at the hotel as well. Bolin and friends arrived back at the bar just in time to hear Jon Lord, a master story teller, recount a meeting David Coverdale had once had with big John Wayne in a bar in Los Angeles. Coverdale, sitting in the bar with some other members of Purple, had noticed Wayne seated nearby, and after a few stiff drinks the singer went over to Wayne. "My mother's a big fan of yours, Mr. Wayne, and she'd be thrilled to have your autograph," Coverdale had told him. "Who are you, kid?" Wayne had asked as he began to sign his name. Coverdale told him he was the singer in a rock group called Deep Purple. Wayne sat up, a look of surprise flushing his face. "My daughter thinks the such shines outta your asshole," Duke told the amazed vocalist. "Can I have your autograph for her?"

VALENTINE NOOKIE

Early the next morning, Tommy Bolin sat, the object of a score of stares, in the hotel coffee shop, impatiently waiting for the vegetable sandwich he‘d ordered 20 minutes ago. The sandwich and one of the gigglers who'd been staring starry-eyed at Bolin arrived at the table simultaneously. The Nagoyan teenybopper, her blushing face looking like a crimson ball against her silky, jet-black hair, gave Bolin a box of candy and a single red rose. "Today is Valentine Day," she giggled in broken english. "Will you be my Valentine?" Bolin asked as he stuck the rose in his water glass. The girl kissed Bolin and, giggling, returned to her envous friends in the corner booth. "I'll save this in case I don't get any nookie tonight," said Bolin as he bit into his vegetable sandwich.

The brief encounter shifted Bolin's fevered memory into reverse, sending him back to a night weeks earlier in Australia, at The Stormy Summer night club. Tommy had had a ring side seat for the floor show. "This chick comes over and starts wiggling in front of me, and every body's yelling "Tear'em off with your teeth!" But she was so high up I couldn't reach her. She didn't bend down so finally I took my hands and ripped ‘em off.

After the show, two strippers had been invited over to Purple's hotel to perform at a party in Tommy's room. "There was like 25 people at the party. Between the 25 of us, we got together only $16 for this chick to do a show. She was thrilled. Sixteen bucks for here was like a zillion dollars. She did her strip show, and then Glenn did one. We didn't have to pay him."

The next morning Bolin had awakened to find himself sandwiched between the two strippers. "I had to do an interview, and we're all in bed naked, and this guy calls and says "You got an interview in two minutes." There was really nothing I could do, so I said "Okay, send him up." He came up and he was wearing these annoying Bermuda shorts and high socks and half-beaten Beatle boots and a madras shirt that wasn't quite bleeding. So he comes in, and I said "Sit down," and he sat down but he would not look at me. He just kept glancing over, like every ten seconds."

Bolin's appetite for revelry is equalled only by his ability to retell the event in vivid streams of narrative. He is a candid raconteur who has learned to field as many as 20 interviews a day since his ascendancy to Purple. Sometimes, however, it gets to be a bit much even for him

NEEDLES AND PINS

The next morning, in desperation, Bolin saw an acupuncturist. "The dude had, like this cardboard piece of electronic stuff went ‘bzzzzz' all over my arm," he said that evening sitting in Trader Vic's as he waited for the "Suffering Bastard" he had ordered from the exotic drinks list. When the doctor's detector had located the damaged nerve, he explained, the doctor had grabbed his needle hand moved in for the pinch. "I think he missed. In fact I know he missed. It was stuck in the old main vein. I said "Forget it, I can do it myself." Then he stuck me with a piece of electricity with clamps on it and said "Okay, I'll be back in five minutes."

The needle was just spinning around and spinning around. It looked really strange with just a needle sticking outta your arm, and nobody else around. It was really stupid looking at it." That was the evening of the opening show, and the left hand was still a lifeless tentacle. Bolin struggled through the first half of the set, but in "Owed To 'G'," his solo spot, the hand failed him. It quickly became apparent that his guitar was no longer under his control.

"I saw him," recalled Jon Lord the next afternoon. "He was trying and I'm going, "Can it, Tommy." Paice put it best. He said he thinks Tommy panicked. He was out there on his own, spotlights all over him , and he thought "I've got to do something." "That made me angry, but it's so easy to get angry onstage. All your reactions and emotions are multiplied by a hundred. Glenn can play one bum note, and even though he's played a beautiful set, he'll come off and say "I played shitty," because of the one bad thing he did."

Disappointed in the medical treatment he'd received in Nagoya, Tommy decided to buy an electric heating pad for his arm when the band got to Osaka for the second gig. The Japanese don't make heating pads, though, so he settled for an electric blanket instead. He sat with it wrapped around his arm in the hectic dressing room before the show. "Are all my guitars tuned?" he asked his roadie, who nodded yes. "You're a prince," laughed Jon Lord, "and you better watch out, because I'm a princess."

Bolin played better that night, and better still the next night in Fukuoka. The big Tokyo concert, which was to be filmed for European television and recorded for European television and recorded for a possible live LP, loomed only three days ahead, so Bolin decided to visit a doctor who had been recommended by the promoter of the tour.

"The Professor," as Bolin called him, twisted and massaged the guitarist's left hand back to near-perfect health by the day of the final concert. "He really looked mad," Bolin explained. "Like insane."

Nearly 12,000 rock fans filled the Budokan concert hall to see the new Deep Purple. The band had flown their producer, Martin Birch, in to supervise the recording of the album, and two film crews, one stationary and one mobile, were there to record the excitement on celluloid. Purple opened to pandemonium with "Burn" and with Tommy Bolin healthy again, they played their most explosive set of the tour. Jon Lord and Ian Paice dazzled the rock & roll ravers with an impromptu jam of "Woman From Tokyo."

Tommy Bolin mesmerized them with his echophex during "Owed to 'G'". (The device repeats a riff Bolin had been playing while he claps his hands over his head.) Glenn Hughes, one of rock's funkiest bassists, had the girls screaming during his soulful rendition of "Georgia on my Mind", and David Coverdale was fully in command as he sang "Smoke on the Water," the song that made Ian Gillan.

"This tour had to prove whether it could work or not," said Ian Paice, shirtless and sweating after the show. "This proved that it can work." "I think we can afford to relax a little bit," refected Jon Lord, as he peeled off his custom-made, hand-painted leather suit. "We know that it works . We should be able to get into some really nice things, and experiment a bit with what we are. "With Tommy, people didn't know what to expect, so we were able to be free again. What's come out of it, to me, is a good extension of what we were. It proves that the band will always be this kind of band but we're trying to extend the variety of the things the band is capable of doing. And with Tommy," Lord concluded , smiling "the contribution is also a personal thing as well. He's a much more happy, outgoing person than Ritchie was. It's made the band a different place to be."

Source: http://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/liverpool-76/japan.html

Anonymous
04-20-2010, 07:50 PM
Thanks for the info and the clip! This might interest you, as well. When I was a teenager

Wow. Outstanding memory, Chef.

Cheers! :bottle:

chefcraig
04-20-2010, 08:03 PM
Wow. Outstanding memory, Chef.

Cheers! :bottle:

Thanks, but it's not really all that true. For one reason or another, I can't seem to remember much of anything that happened between 1985 and sometime in 1998. http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/smileys/free-confused-smileys-718.gif (http://www.easyfreesmileys.com/facebook-smileys.html)

Terry
04-21-2010, 09:54 PM
Man, I loves me some Mark II & Mark III Purple albums.
I don't think DP gets the props they deserve.
I saw then twice on the Perfect Strangers reunion tour back in 1985.

Saw them on that same tour: they WERE fucking loud! Almost TOO loud. Particularly Lord and Blackmore. At one point Blackmore started doing some soloing, unaccompanied by the rest of the band, and as he reached the top notes on the neck the P.A. volume was significantly boosted, boosted to the point where I thought my head was gonna cave in. My ears were literally ringing for 2 days after that concert. Loudest one I'd ever seen besides Black Sabbath with Ian Gillan in 1983.

78/84 guy
04-21-2010, 10:00 PM
If you want to hear Tommy play well with Purple pick up the C.D. Days My Come And Days My Go. The California Rehearsals 1975. Bolin is great on this. He stays in the pocket of the tune's they are going over but he lets loose in spots and is fantastic. You can hear what Purple was looking for out of Tommy when they nabbed him but his drug problems got the best of him on tour. Alot of people think he was shooting up so much it was paralizing his arm. Is it true ?? I don't know. But he was not up too the task at the end of that tour. I will defend him on one thing. He said he didn't want to play Blackmore's parts the same way and through the general bad play I can hear what he was trying too do. Anyone who thinks the guy just sucked live can fuck off !!! Go get Tommy Bolin & Friends Live At Ebbets Field 1974. Not a super great recording but fantastic playing. Some of the most amazing solo's ever !!! He could pull some amazing shit out of his hat !!! The James Gang Bang (GET IT) disc is great Bolin also along with Teaser. Teaser is more of a song album than guitar stuff but still sounds good today.

Diamondjimi
04-21-2010, 10:58 PM
If you want to hear Tommy play well with Purple pick up the C.D. Days My Come And Days My Go. The California Rehearsals 1975. Bolin is great on this. He stays in the pocket of the tune's they are going over but he lets loose in spots and is fantastic. You can hear what Purple was looking for out of Tommy when they nabbed him but his drug problems got the best of him on tour. Alot of people think he was shooting up so much it was paralizing his arm. Is it true ?? I don't know. But he was not up too the task at the end of that tour. I will defend him on one thing. He said he didn't want to play Blackmore's parts the same way and through the general bad play I can hear what he was trying too do. Anyone who thinks the guy just sucked live can fuck off !!! Go get Tommy Bolin & Friends Live At Ebbets Field 1974. Not a super great recording but fantastic playing. Some of the most amazing solo's ever !!! He could pull some amazing shit out of his hat !!! The James Gang Bang (GET IT) disc is great Bolin also along with Teaser. Teaser is more of a song album than guitar stuff but still sounds good today.

Agreed. Good post! :baaa:

Diamondjimi
04-21-2010, 11:00 PM
I heard the Budokan '75 show was filmed by DP's tour manager or someone who came to Japan along with DP at the time. watch the original version anyway. I just uploaded it. you can find some differences between it and the one I posted first.
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I like the quality of this one much better. Been watching the other one for years, nice to finally see a different version, even though it can't change the fact that it was a lacking performance...

Cato
04-22-2010, 12:18 AM
opening song from the original Rises Over Japan.

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GreenBayLA
04-27-2010, 05:37 AM
I like Mk I "Lelana" Mk II "Child In Tme" and Mk III "The Gypsy" and even Tommy Bolin era, but they lost me w/ Joe Lynn Turner. I like Steve Morse but don't really follow em anymore. Saw em on Perfect Strangers tour- stellar!

Chomp on this! Classic Blackmore riffage.
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Golden AWe
12-08-2011, 05:25 AM
I saw Deep Purple with Orchestra playing in Helsinki last night.

Much more positive than negative. Never seen them before, and I'm a Pro Blackmore -type of a fan, but really enjoyed the gig.

Now a song like "Space Truckin'" was nowhere near as raging and outrageous as it has been, when Gillan was able to hit the highest notes and scream like hell, but overall they played dahm well, the orchestra brought a lot of excitement to the pack on songs like "Perfect Strangers" and "Black Night", and Gillan sounded great on songs like "Strange Kind of Woman" and "Blind Man Cries" that fit his current range...I even enjoyed Steve Morse quite a bit, his sound on quite a different version of "Woman from Tokyo" was awesome. Actually he added something very Zakk Wylde to the song, which was very positive this time!

Oh yeah, Roger Clover, Ian Pace and Don Airey...they've still got it. "Highway Star" started the gig, and they played the intro quite differently from the original version...but you can recognize the vibe of the song from the first notes anyway. And I heard they haven't played "The Mule" too much for ages before this tour.

I'm a haaaard lovin' maaan! Fookin' hell I larve that song.

Hardrock69
12-08-2011, 06:14 AM
Kickass man! Glad you got to see them! Hope I get to see them again someday. At least I have seen them twice. Never thought I would get to see them at all, much less the classic MKIII lineup, so I count myself lucky.

Golden AWe
12-08-2011, 07:38 AM
Yeah, I'm a bit short on money at the moment and slept 3 hours the previous night, but these classic rock grates always pay off...here's the setlist btw

Deep Purple Overture
Highway Star
Hard Lovin' Man
Maybe I'm a Leo
Strange Kind of Woman
Rapture of the Deep
Woman From Tokyo
Contact Lost
Guitar Solo
When a Blind Man Cries
The Well Dressed Guitar
The Mule (with Drum Solo)
Lazy
No One Came
Keyboard Solo
Perfect Strangers
Space Truckin'
Smoke on the Water
Encore:
I Can't Turn Your Loose (Tease)
Hush (Billy Joe Royal cover)
Bass Solo
Black Night

Golden AWe
12-08-2011, 08:30 AM
Here's the interesting version of Woman From Tokyo:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmBW4wSz4xw

78/84 guy
12-10-2011, 04:20 PM
Purple is a great band. They did alot of cool stuff with many different lineups. Wow I didnt have the internet for the last few months. Wierd to be back online !

Cato
12-10-2011, 05:14 PM
  Wow I didnt have the internet for the last few months.  
didn't notice that.

78/84 guy
12-11-2011, 12:45 AM
didn't notice that.

Well that is the one thing I didn't miss. Some of the aholes with nothing better too do then wait too smart off because they have nothing better to do !! Get a life !

PETE'S BROTHER
07-28-2013, 12:39 AM
they said purple

binnie
07-31-2013, 03:30 PM
I'd be intrigued to hear what people make of the material that Purple made in the '80s.

Coyote
07-31-2013, 03:55 PM
"Perfect Strangers" is a classic.

78/84 guy
08-01-2013, 06:19 PM
Enough said. Great album. Great comeback for them. Too bad they didn't really follow it up with another classic. I did like the first album with Morse. Purpendicular ? And they last one with Blackmore was cool. Not sure of the name of it. 1994 ? Got too see them once with Morse about 2001. Good show.

78/84 guy
08-01-2013, 06:35 PM
I like the quality of this one much better. Been watching the other one for years, nice to finally see a different version, even though it can't change the fact that it was a lacking performance...

The original film was release in a documentary about this tour last year. Called Phoenix Rising. Great stuff. Jon Lord & Hughes do most of it. Interesting for sure. It is a shame Bolin didn't last long. One of my favorite artists.

Coyote
08-01-2013, 06:43 PM
And they last one with Blackmore was cool. Not sure of the name of it. 1994 ?.

Battle Rages On? I'll have to revisit that one...

78/84 guy
08-01-2013, 07:00 PM
That's it. I need too do the same. I enjoyed that one.

ThrillsNSpills
08-04-2013, 11:56 AM
low volume is unacceptable

ace diamond
08-09-2013, 12:47 PM
Child in time
need i say more?

ace diamond
08-09-2013, 12:50 PM
as for the Rises Over Japan vid, a couple of versions exist. non-edited version includes some extra scenes. track order is different from the edited version. I own both.

there's no other pro-shot of Bolin lineup as far as I know.
there is pro-shot footage from indonesia when the roadie was killed.......

Kristy
08-19-2013, 06:54 PM
Perfect Strangers - best shit about that album? The drummer. Everything else sucks. But the drummer.