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Is DICK CLARK a real Deep Purple fan?
Last year, someone on the THS forum asked, why the upstate New York concert footage that appears on the "Making of Machine Head" DVD, could not be shown in its entirety?
I believe someone else responded that Dick Clark owns the rights to the footage, and quite possibly other Deep Purple video material, and he would only grant "small clips" to the makers of the Machine Head Documentary DVD.
If this is true, then I wonder if he's a real fan of the band? If the "never aging", "new years rockin' eve", "king of top 40", actually has a special appreciation for "REAL MUSIC", in his own private life, then I applaude that. To know that Dick Clark, of all people, likes Deep Purple gives me great satisfaction!! Maybe the uppity-ups in the American Music Industry aren't going to hell in a handbasket afterall.
However, if his only reason for owning the rights to DP video footage, is so that he can hoard it away from everyone else, then I think that's chicken sh**!
It would be like Michael Jackson owning the rights to the Beatles songs. Not that Michael necessarily likes The Beatles, persay, he just likes the idea of owning what no one else can have.
I always thought that was a pretty selfish way of using ones money, and yet another reason why Michael Jackson is not my top pick for "citizen of the year".
I wonder if Dick Clark can be thrown in the same category, or for him, the interest is genuine?
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1/12/2003, 0:22
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RitchiesHair
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Re: Is DICK CLARK a real Deep Purple fan?
I seem to remember reading that he wasn't actually a fan and he was just being a Clarkhead by owning that footage so she could charge for it...might be wrong though.
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1/12/2003, 0:24
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Re: Is DICK CLARK a real Deep Purple fan?
You see? Now that's the kind of CRAP that really gets my Irish up!! 
Dick Clark doesn't care about music, he cares about making $ in music!
I understand the object of survival is to make a buck in life, but why at the expense of people who would listen to Deep Purple for the pure love of the music, whether they stand to make one thin dime off the experience, or not?!
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1/12/2003, 0:34
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Randys
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Re: Is DICK CLARK a real Deep Purple fan?
All I know is Dick Clark is a fan of old time rock and roll, the 1950s and the 1960s.
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Re: Is DICK CLARK a real Deep Purple fan?
quote:
Randys wrote:
All I know is Dick Clark is a fan of old time rock and roll, the 1950s and the 1960s.
It would make me feel better to know that you're right, but so far the jury is out deliberating, in my mind.
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1/12/2003, 0:38
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Re: Is DICK CLARK a real Deep Purple fan?
Fan or not, he's teasing us with those "clips" and that's friggin irritating! 
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1/12/2003, 0:40
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Re: Is DICK CLARK a real Deep Purple fan?
Doesn't Dick already make enough residual income pimping life insurance with his ol' pal Ed MacMahon?
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1/12/2003, 0:56
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Re: Is DICK CLARK a real Deep Purple fan?
I doubt Clark is a Deep Purple fan, John. But you never can be absolutely certain in this world...
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Re: Is DICK CLARK a real Deep Purple fan?
I have 20 minutes of the Hofstra footage,it's damn good
and I agree something shoud be done about this.
But were talking about a very ritch man here,that probably doesen't know much about alot of the footage he own's.
I'm sure he's proud of his collection but it's probably so large that it rarely get's completely evaluated.
He must have found out that the Hofstra footage was highly
saught after through someone,most likely Isis production's
or some other TV company and he's hording it because he know's it's very rare.He's a rock tycoon and that's how most of them are.
Dj Casey Kasem has given Purple their do,on his old radio program called The Continuos History Of Rock An Roll.
He highly complimented them,told their story and mentioned
the eternal strife between Blackmore and Gillan.
While playing WFT he pointed out "notice how beautiful
the singer Ian Gillan's voice is,this was serious Rock at it's finest" 
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Re: Is DICK CLARK a real Deep Purple fan?
I would think that Clark, being the head of his own production company, a huge one at that, probably has no idea what he has and it's in the hands of his own hired management. Maybe the original full show has been lost or stolen and what's left was probably some edited footage that was kept for commercial use.
I had a friend tell me one time back in 1975 that he heard Man On The Silver Mountain on DC's (not David Coverdales) American Bandstand show and labeled Rainbow an up and coming band. Took pure genius to say that I assume.
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