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Atle
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Re: Deep Purple without Ritchie and Jon
quote: Glorious Bristols wrote:
The animating spirit and artistic vision driving DP is what is important, not a particular lineup. There are very few musicians who can play and write to the DP standard, and we are extremely fortunate that Morse and Airey, both absolutely brilliant musicians, more than meet that standard and are helping keep the flame alive along with Gillan, Glover and Paice.
The Morse/Airey lineup is as much DP - and playing as well as, if not better than - any previous DP lineup.
Oh well... yeah, agree Deep Purple is still a great band, by all means. But the standards to live up to is also extraordinary high. The playfullness of mk 2a and the power of mk 3 is not kept on the same level. Not that it would have been a fair thing to expect, but anyway.
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7/5/2005, 4:58
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Re: Deep Purple without Ritchie and Jon
quote: Glorious Bristols wrote:
Some of you twits really don't get it, do you?
The animating spirit and artistic vision driving DP is what is important, not a particular lineup. There are very few musicians who can play and write to the DP standard, and we are extremely fortunate that Morse and Airey, both absolutely brilliant musicians, more than meet that standard and are helping keep the flame alive along with Gillan, Glover and Paice.
The Morse/Airey lineup is as much DP - and playing as well as, if not better than - any previous DP lineup.
Oh, I was expecting someone to offer that "Deep Purple is bigger than the sum of its parts, no matter who is in the band" drivel. Cheers for that.
Yours truly,
a twit
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7/5/2005, 11:16
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Re: Deep Purple without Ritchie and Jon
quote: Glorious Bristols wrote:
a) Some of you twits really don't get it, do you?
b) The animating spirit and artistic vision driving DP is what is important, not a particular lineup.
c) There are very few musicians who can play and write to the DP standard
d)...we are extremely fortunate that Morse and Airey, both absolutely brilliant musicians, more than meet that standard and are helping keep the flame alive along with Gillan, Glover and Paice.
e) The Morse/Airey lineup is as much DP - and playing as well as, if not better than - any previous DP lineup.
a) Addressing the posters on this topic/thread - and by extension, the forum members in general - as "twits" is hardly the way to generate respectful responses, Glorious Bristol. For a person's 3rd post, yours is perhaps not augering well for the future. I suggest a much more civil approach.
b) True - in parts. How that 'animating spirit' + artisitic vision' is expressed and to what degree of satisfaction that it's expressed to each listener is what's important. Each lineup had done that to varying degrees for me, some to a hugher degree, some to a lower.
c) Only 14 have been granted the opportunity to try over the last 30 years, so that can seem like an extremely self-fulfilling prophecy, can't it?
d) Debatable - so get behind your podium. I'm sure someone will oblige ya!
e) I don't think there's any question that the current line-up is as much Deep Purple as any past line-up(s). The rest of the statement, is again, debatable.
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7/5/2005, 13:57
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Re: Deep Purple without Ritchie and Jon
It's a notch down from MKII, but still a great band. "Banana's" was pretty good. Of course, Blackmore/Lord are the most powerful
Guitar/Keyboard combo of all time!
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8/5/2005, 0:09
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Glorious Bristols
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Re: Deep Purple without Ritchie and Jon
Ok, MrEd45, you've got me. You're the twit I'm referring to, OK? Happy now?
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8/5/2005, 2:09
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Re: Deep Purple without Ritchie and Jon
quote: Glorious Bristols wrote:
a) Ok, MrEd45, you've got me.
b) You're the twit I'm referring to
c) OK?
d) Happy now?
a) Oh boy.
b) Thanks for the specificity.
c) Nope.
d) Yup. Are you?
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8/5/2005, 2:12
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Re: Deep Purple without Ritchie and Jon
In my opinion, no band in the world (except maybe Led Z at the same time) has reached the heights like Mk2 did 1971-1972. Ok? Apart from that, Perfect Strangers is a great record, and Anya a great song etc. The Mk Morse/Airey lives up great to the DP standard, in fact I think it´s the best line-up since the original 1971-72 Mk2.
Bananas and Purpendicular are two of the maybe 7 greatest records ever made. What is that to complain about? Ritchie doesn´t even play electric guitar any more, not much anyway.
If you are not happy with the way people play or what they do to feel happy you can always form your own band and play what you like... or be a politician and decide what other ought to do!
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10/5/2005, 8:18
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Re: Deep Purple without Ritchie and Jon
Yawn!
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10/5/2005, 19:24
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Re: Deep Purple without Ritchie and Jon
quote: Namnikufecin wrote:
Ritchie doesn´t even play electric guitar any more, not much anyway.
Not much with BN, but when he do, he tends to put down the finest solo's of his career.
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10/5/2005, 21:10
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Re: Deep Purple without Ritchie and Jon
There's a Simpsons episode where Homer, after a bad trip, is asked to find his twin soul. He always thought Marge was but comes to the point where he's doubtful after an argument. He takes refuge in the lighthouse with the hope to provoke a shipwreck. Finally Marge finds him and tells him she knew she would find him here because as Springfield is sloping, he would go down the town and would go in the lighthouse because he likes when the light appears and disappears.
She concludes by saying that there is a "perfect mutual comprehension" between them.
All that to say that I think a perfect musical mutual comprehension was existing between Lord and Blackmore. In a way, they were musical twin souls
I hope those who at least once had the chance to witness these moments on stage where you could hear and see the perfect exchange won't contradict me.
The absence of Lord is what has always Rainbow lacked of to be as big as DP70s whatever Carey, Stone or Airey's abilities.
In MY mind, DP was a balance with a fabulous musicien on the right of the stage and a fabulous one on the right. The day one of them left, DP became woobly.
Don't blame me Gillans fans, but we remember Munich, Stuttgart, Paris, London, Oslo, Stockholm to just quote 93 tour because of the perfect musical show.
Two incredible soloists, helped by a a very good rhytmical section, knowing each other so well. You could have put almost any other guy behind the mike that it would not have changed much things (besides, I don't think Gillan did his best on this tour, though he had special circumstances).
That's why you will understand that without both of them, DP is no longer the band I dream of
Since 93 Gillan improved a lot (that is what saved the band as much as Morse's contribution) and I am very happy for them they carry on (as said elsewhere, after all, it's better DP than no DP)but I know I'll never do again the efforts I did until 2000 to see them on stage. I'll wait they come close enough of my home.
So DP without Ritchie and Jon ? Yes of course, no problems, but not the same thrills anymore
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10/5/2005, 22:02
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