Milan Fahrnholz
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Re: Deep Purple unplugged
Yeah the song is great overall, they did a pretty good job making for the missing outro doing the best possible intro they could do(which is really very good). Still it lacks the greatness of the original, and by the time that song starts on Hell Freezes Over I have fallen asleep anyway.
Yeah, and Layla acoustic has really lost everything, but some people don´t want to belive that it seems.
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29/8/2004, 13:00
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Re: Deep Purple unplugged
It may lack the greatness of the original but I can't think of many unplugged tracks that are better than the original. I don't think that's the intention. It's just a different way of doing it.
Hey, that could be another topic!
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29/8/2004, 14:05
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Milan Fahrnholz
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Yeah and sometimes the different thing just ends up being plain bad, get my point?
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29/8/2004, 14:23
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I prefer the unplugged Layla to the original, which I think is ok, much thanks to the piano break in the end, makes the song interesting. Unplugged Clapton adds tons of feeling and a lot more sophisticated rythm. Since Cream heydays, with the exception of one or two plain blues albums, I find Clapton all over incredible boring. The unplugged session is a Clapton-highlight to me.
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Re: Deep Purple unplugged
Yardbirds, Cream, John Mayall´s Bluesbreakers, Derek & The Dominos, Blind Faith all that is Clapton at his best...but then?
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29/8/2004, 17:06
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Well to get back to the point.... I'd really enjoy an unplugged set, especially if it were mostly Mk Morse material. I believ that lends itself to more of an unpluged set than most of the back catalog.
In fact I wouldn't add anything from the back catalog unless they could rearrange it ala "Wring that Neck" from LSO 99.
I'd really enjoy these songs acoustically:
Haunted
A Touch Away
The Aviator
Somtimes I feel like screaming
Fingers to the Bone
Never A Word
Razzle Dazzle
something to rearrange from the back catalog might be
Place in Line
Anyone's Daughter
Lazy
Wasted Sunsets
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31/8/2004, 14:23
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quote: Ritchies Strat wrote:
Deep Purples classic tunes HAVE to be played loud and heavy. Everything about them is heavy. The progressions, riffs and lyrics were all written with electric instruments in mind and from jams.
As Jon Lord said "You can't come up with those type of songs sitting at home on a piano."
If you were to try to play some of the songs with an acoustic, you would have to come up with completely different arrangements, and while it might be interesting for a nano-second to some of DP's diehards, you'll find yourself putting on the proper album in no time and the un-plugged set would just, for the most part, go Un-Heard. All of the songs would lose that DP attitude that once prevailed. I don't think it would make much difference with the Travelin, Widdlin, Wibblin Woobedas tunes though, since non of it is memorable enough to spoil anyway.
The acoustic guitar can be a very emotional and great sounding instrument, when played as a melodic or lead instrument on it's own, but as a lead instrument playing electric riffs, it sounds pretty lame and would have to be used mainly to accompany the rhythm.
That said, Blackmores Night did a pretty good job of re-arranging Self Portrait to acoustic and making it a totally new song, rather than just disguising it as an un-plugged catastrophy.
Don't you only find the Blackmore's Night version of Self Portrait interesting for a nano-second, then you put on the proper album and the Blackmore's Night album goes unheard?
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1/9/2004, 15:03
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Milan Fahrnholz
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Re: Deep Purple unplugged
I also find the acoustic version of 16th Century Greensleeves that was done at the early 1997 BN gigs pretty boring. The electric version however...wow!!!
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1/9/2004, 15:35
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Re: Deep Purple unplugged
quote: Milan Fahrnholz wrote:
I also find the acoustic version of 16th Century Greensleeves that was done at the early 1997 BN gigs pretty boring. The electric version however...wow!!!
And that's the perfect illustration of why you can't do the classic DP tunes unplugged.
However in the case of Self Portrait, it was a totally different arrangement behind the melody lines and not an acoustic trying to emulate the electric parts.
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1/9/2004, 16:14
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quote: David Meadows wrote:
Don't you only find the Blackmore's Night version of Self Portrait interesting for a nano-second, then you put on the proper album and the Blackmore's Night album goes unheard?
Ahhh...interesting point. Let me ponder that for a bit
ponder.........
ponder........
still pondering.........
pondering a bit more...........
ponderponderponder
almost done pondering.....
getting there...
aaaannnnddddddd
NO!!!
That's my answer and I'm sticking to it.
Basically because if I'm listening to UAVM already, I'd be too lazy to change the fancy record and would be looking forward to Now and Then.
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I wiggle in my chair"- excerpt from the book 'Things a Grown Man Should Never Say'.
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1/9/2004, 16:18
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