Deep Purple - Unmatched Dexterity
Discussion
A colleague loaned me a DVD of this bunch of self-confessed Jurassic rockers.
Filmed at a live venue somewhere in 1993, even then with a combined age totalling several millenia, I was quite blown away.
For sure, popular music, in all it's forms, has spawned some memorable toons over the last decade or three.
But yet to witness technical mastery on this scale. Improvisation and variation that unmasks most pretenders as just that.
Genius is rare but it ain't half nice when you bath in it's radiance.
Utterly fabulous stuff.
Filmed at a live venue somewhere in 1993, even then with a combined age totalling several millenia, I was quite blown away.
For sure, popular music, in all it's forms, has spawned some memorable toons over the last decade or three.
But yet to witness technical mastery on this scale. Improvisation and variation that unmasks most pretenders as just that.
Genius is rare but it ain't half nice when you bath in it's radiance.
Utterly fabulous stuff.
I'm glad you care, gentlemen.
You know, I reckon there's more than a passing similarity between the dumbing down of musical presentation and the compromises we keen motorists are forced to endure these days.
You COULD have Tommy Vance re-presenting a quality broadcast like The (old) Friday Rock Show - instead, we get a string of 'streetwise' and immensely talentless bimbos armed with Technics 1210s 'larging it up' and hooting 'wikkid' and 'innit?' at every perceivable opportunity and then being asked to hail this latest, fabulous r'n'b sensation. (My arse!)
You COULD have sensational roads with minimal traffic that zonked along at mildly sub-sonic rates of progress - alas, we are told the only choice is increasingly expensive retardation with the alternative being subjegation to a bunch of unwashed Guardian reading brothel creepers, pilchard class on a smelly bus or filthy train.
You COULD have a country with a sense of strong identity, pride and vitality - yet we are brainwashed by an unelected, liberal intelligentsia, largely media based who have more hidden agendas that the most machiaevellian Roman senator ever did; we must apologize for our disgraceful past during which we abused, enslaved and generally raped the outlying world for our own pernicious gratification and now, we must atone by bastardising ourselves on the lowest common denominator of this and every other measure, be it culture, defence, education, law and order or transport.
Dire.
You know, I reckon there's more than a passing similarity between the dumbing down of musical presentation and the compromises we keen motorists are forced to endure these days.
You COULD have Tommy Vance re-presenting a quality broadcast like The (old) Friday Rock Show - instead, we get a string of 'streetwise' and immensely talentless bimbos armed with Technics 1210s 'larging it up' and hooting 'wikkid' and 'innit?' at every perceivable opportunity and then being asked to hail this latest, fabulous r'n'b sensation. (My arse!)
You COULD have sensational roads with minimal traffic that zonked along at mildly sub-sonic rates of progress - alas, we are told the only choice is increasingly expensive retardation with the alternative being subjegation to a bunch of unwashed Guardian reading brothel creepers, pilchard class on a smelly bus or filthy train.
You COULD have a country with a sense of strong identity, pride and vitality - yet we are brainwashed by an unelected, liberal intelligentsia, largely media based who have more hidden agendas that the most machiaevellian Roman senator ever did; we must apologize for our disgraceful past during which we abused, enslaved and generally raped the outlying world for our own pernicious gratification and now, we must atone by bastardising ourselves on the lowest common denominator of this and every other measure, be it culture, defence, education, law and order or transport.
Dire.
I think that, as in everything, money is the cause of this decline, record companies make more money out of an instant one hit wonder that sells at number one first time out. These days they pick a yoof who will appeal to little girls (and boys)train him/her to sing a song (two if your lucky)saturate the media about 'the new sensation' and watch the money flood in. Talent doesn't make money but brainwashed kids lusting after a pop idol does
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Saw them live in Bournemouth earlier in the year and they were truly brilliant, despite Ian Gillan having a bad dose of the flu. Saw them again in Pompey in September and again they were outstanding, especially Steve Morse on guitar.
I've been a fan of Purple for years, ever since I was six and my dad took me to see them at Long Beach in 1976, the gig immortalised on the Live on the Wings of a Russian Foxbat CD. Tommy Bolin .... what a waste .....
I've been a fan of Purple for years, ever since I was six and my dad took me to see them at Long Beach in 1976, the gig immortalised on the Live on the Wings of a Russian Foxbat CD. Tommy Bolin .... what a waste .....
In a battle of the bands Zeppelin would blow Purple off the stage
In a battle of the bands Zeppelin would blow Purple off the stage
I'm showing my age here but I have to agree with you on this one - Deep Purple top band..but Led Zeppelin the best bar none!
All this talk of '70s music has got me in the mood for dancin'
>> Edited by cazzo on Saturday 19th October 22:22
You lot know nothing. DP are great LZ fantastic but the greatest band of the era.... (and after, of course)
RUSH!
Red Barchetta....oh yes. Pretty much describes where we are now.
"A brilliant Red Barchetta from a better vanished time. I fire up the willing engine and commit my weekly crime."
Sad but oh so very nearly true...
RUSH!
Red Barchetta....oh yes. Pretty much describes where we are now.
"A brilliant Red Barchetta from a better vanished time. I fire up the willing engine and commit my weekly crime."
Sad but oh so very nearly true...
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