73 - Tampa Stadium, great showSo how was Now What? I had no clue they were even still alive!!!
And their last great albums were Machine Head and Live in Japan, both from '72.
Saw them live back in the early 70’s - blew the roof off the building. They were nearly as loud as Blue Cheer.
I have been a Deep Purple fan since I was 9 or so.
I’ll watch for this. The most recent album I bought was Motörhead’s Bad Magic. The most memorable “recent” big show I saw was Heaven And Hell (A.K.A. Ronnie Dio singing with Black Sabbath (Bill Ward got totally screwed) in Tokyo 10 months before Ronnie died.
The last Deep Purple album I bought must have been Perfect Strangers.
I’m listening to Oysterhead at the moment.
“Still Alive?”
Those are the first words that come to mind for me too.
Well, if they can come back in some workable form, maybe King Crimson can also come back. I don’t care about Pink Floyd being revived, because I’m disgusted with member Roger Water’s hatred of all things Jewish.
Steve Morse is a fantastic guitarist but, for me, any new release without Ritchie Blackmore loses its luster.
What’s Deep Purple without Tommy Bolin?
73 - Tampa Stadium, great showThe library is pretty well known up to “Slaves and Masters” (With Joe Lynn Turner) to “The Battle Rages On” (TBRO)
Blackmore left the band during the TBRO tour and Purple scrambled to replace him with Joe Satriani.
He finished the tour, but could not join the band or do studio albums due to contractual Obligations.
Enter Steve Morse. “Purpendicular” was their first album as a unit. Followed by “Abandon” “Bananas” “Rapture of the Deep and finally “Now What?”
The only one that really made a stir was Purpendicular, the others has flashes of brilliance, overall technically well done, but nothing significant. (This last statement is hard as I am a true fan)
Will see how this one does. Hopeful, but have a realistic attitude.
Blackmore has been doing some very nice Medieval music under the banner of “Blackmores Night” He recently did a four date European tour with a reformed “Rainbow” The lead singer (Ronnie Romero) did well, even with the songs done by
Ronnie James Dio.
Saw Purple twice live, both later efforts with Steve Morse. Worth seeing. The second concert was opened by Joe Satriani. As hoped he came out to play with Morse during an instrumental tribute to the Columbia catastrophe. Damn fine display of guitar work
Ritchie Blackmore just did a few rock shows in Europe with a thrown together ‘Rainbow’ line-up. The show I saw on YouTube opened with ‘Highway Star’. Blackmore is 71, and still kicked ass.