Re: Unreleased pro-shot footage of Deep Purple TBRO Tour 1993
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Perfectly Strange wrote:
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leelyt wrote:
Exactly the same as every other 93 recording we have.
Excellent playing, wretched singing. This will be another release that IG will block and I don't blame him at all, embarrassing.
But not as embarrassing as RB's guitar playing from 85-87!
Ritchie has said himself in recent years that he just did it for the money and that he should have left right after the PS record and continue with Rainbow. On the 2 albums PS and HOBL his playing was fine, but live it was not good. I think due to the fact that the whole reunion was just a money thing he didn't put a lot of effort into the whole thing. He just didn't care.
When JLT joined the band, he had something to proof again, so I think that's why his playing was so great again. 2 years later at the TBRO shows his playing was also fantastic. When there's tension, Ritchie is inspired. When everybody is happy, he isn't inspired. That's how Ritchie's mind works I think.
Re: Unreleased pro-shot footage of Deep Purple TBRO Tour 1993
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Perfectly Strange wrote:
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leelyt wrote:
Exactly the same as every other 93 recording we have.
Excellent playing, wretched singing. This will be another release that IG will block and I don't blame him at all, embarrassing.
But not as embarrassing as RB's guitar playing from 85-87!
Wow, what a strange comment. We could discuss the abilities of every member of the band for every other tour if you wanted, but the clip was from 93 which is what I commented on.
Re: Unreleased pro-shot footage of Deep Purple TBRO Tour 1993
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lightintheblack0 wrote:
Instrumentally brilliant just how the whole reunion could and should have been if Blackers could have been bothered. Vocally bloody awful
Gillan was pretty grim here, but it seems more passable than some of the other recordings that are out there.
It is amazing how Gillan seems to ruin his voice whenever he gets it sounding OK. Check out 'Gut Reaction' on youtube. He is in very good form. He gets back in DP and just seems to beat his voice into nothing. Maybe it was the style of tunes that DP played with Ritchie, which he wasn't capable of anymore. The arrival of Morse helped him out, vocally, but, really, the damage had been done. The totally unnecessary Sabbath stint and then the reunion way too soon afterwards. What could have been in 1979-80 we'll never know.
Re: Unreleased pro-shot footage of Deep Purple TBRO Tour 1993 I can't deny that the vocals are wretched but it was due to the fact that they played Child in Time and Anya back to back. Gillan wasn't happy doing CIT and pushed too hard. The result was that Anya was often ragged. Sometimes he recovered later sometimes not.
Re: Unreleased pro-shot footage of Deep Purple TBRO Tour 1993
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dodoa64 wrote:
Gillan wasn't happy doing CIT and pushed too hard.
There's one thing I never understood: Gillan was able to rule out any Mk III material (they did Burn in 1991 with JLT but didn't do it any more in 1993), but he wasn't able to rule out CIT. He refused to do Burn, why didn't he simply refuse to do CIT as well?
Re: My gut feeling is that Ritchie likes the song and was upset IG could not handle it anymore and, as he became more annoyed by IG's antics, he insisted on doing it to prove a point. I think that, had they gotten along better, Ritchie would have agreed to drop the song. Just my feeling.
Plus, IG vetoed the MKIII songs not on the ground he could not sing them, but because he did not recognize MKIII as "real" DP, so he may have been unable to realize himself that he was ridiculing himself. I can understand them doing it on the PS tour, but by 87 I would have dropped it.
My gut feeling is that Ritchie likes the song and was upset IG could not handle it anymore and, as he became more annoyed by IG's antics, he insisted on doing it to prove a point. I think that, had they gotten along better, Ritchie would have agreed to drop the song. Just my feeling.
My gut feeling is that Ritchie likes the song and was upset IG could not handle it anymore and, as he became more annoyed by IG's antics, he insisted on doing it to prove a point. I think that, had they gotten along better, Ritchie would have agreed to drop the song. Just my feeling.
Plus, IG vetoed the MKIII songs not on the ground he could not sing them, but because he did not recognize MKIII as "real" DP, so he may have been unable to realize himself that he was ridiculing himself. I can understand them doing it on the PS tour, but by 87 I would have dropped it.
And yet in 1995, when RB was no longer in the band, they were still playing CIT and Anya back to back...
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