What are you listening to, right now................
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 to be fair, most people would battle to name another Deep Purple song (I personally love Highway Star, but that's hardly an obscure choice)
I certainly don't agree with that, "Black Night" "Women from Tokyo" "Speed King" "Hush" "Space Truckin"......every one a staple on rock radio.
Definitely not in the Led Zep stratosphere but they were a fucken massive group.
Richies guitar work in "Highway Star" is absolutely exceptional.
Just skimming through this thread.
Highway Star used to be my ringtone. Deep Purple's best song is Child In Time but they have a ton of great songs. Their post 2000 releases are decent too.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Excellent guitarist, excellent rhythm section, so so vocalist, some classic numbers.
I want you to want me (live at the Budokan) is on my all time playlist.
Maybe I should listen to deeper tracks.Heaven Tonight and Dream Police would be a good place to start. These are the albums released either side of Budokan. Robin Zander is an excellent lead singer.
I was listening to Cheap Trick's most recent album (We're All Alright!) this week. Plenty of catchy tunes.
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 to be fair, most people would battle to name another Deep Purple song (I personally love Highway Star, but that's hardly an obscure choice)
I certainly don't agree with that, "Black Night" "Women from Tokyo" "Speed King" "Hush" "Space Truckin"......every one a staple on rock radio.
Definitely not in the Led Zep stratosphere but they were a fucken massive group.
Richies guitar work in "Highway Star" is absolutely exceptional.
Just skimming through this thread.
Highway Star used to be my ringtone. Deep Purple's best song is Child In Time but they have a ton of great songs. Their post 2000 releases are decent too.
Child in time would be their November Rain/Stairway to Heaven in an ideal world but its one that most casual rock fans haven’t heard. Others of theirs I love in no particular order are Flight of the Rat ( love Richies work in this ), Living Wreck, You fool no one, Burn, Mandrake Root, Bird has flown, Demons Eye, Fireball, Never Before, Perfect Strangers and No one Came.
I haven’t heard much post 1993 let alone 2000 that has impressed me much to be honest but Steve Morse has lasted ages and is obviously doing a great job.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I haven’t heard much post 1993 let alone 2000 that has impressed me much to be honest but Steve Morse has lasted ages and is obviously doing a great job.
Morse is a stud on the guitar. "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" is one of my favourite DP songs. Melodic and a killer tone.
Check out this song from their 2017 album "Infinite". The video is full of historical references to DP albums.
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I haven’t heard much post 1993 let alone 2000 that has impressed me much to be honest but Steve Morse has lasted ages and is obviously doing a great job.
Morse is a stud on the guitar. "Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming" is one of my favourite DP songs. Melodic and a killer tone.
Check out this song from their 2017 album "Infinite". The video is full of historical references to DP albums.
Had a listen, nicely done and those visual references are pretty cool. Great work for a bunch of blokes who almost all 70+
Morse was their guitarist when I saw them in welly in 2006. Whilst he did a fantastic job technically to me he just doesn't quite have that X factor that RB has ( well....had ) in aplomb. Obviously by all accounts being a bit of a cock and deciding he wanted to be a modern day minstrel ( seriously Richie what the actual fuck ? ) meant him and Purple had to part ways.
Not Purple but this is probably THE coolest guitar lead Richie ever committed to record in my opinion. Makes an otherwise ordinary song pretty damn cool I reckon. Roger Glover showed some nice touches on Bass too.....what a weird story....Richie personally fired him from Deep Purple then hired him for Rainbow years later ?!?!
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Morse was their guitarist when I saw them in welly in 2006. Whilst he did a fantastic job technically to me he just doesn't quite have that X factor that RB has ( well....had ) in aplomb.
I saw DP in Auckland on that tour, and again in 2013. Morse has actually been in the band for 25 years, much longer than Blackmore was.
Not Purple but this is probably THE coolest guitar lead Richie ever committed to record in my opinion. Makes an otherwise ordinary song pretty damn cool I reckon. Roger Glover showed some nice touches on Bass too.....what a weird story....Richie personally fired him from Deep Purple then hired him for Rainbow years later ?!?!
I hadn't seen that video before. Joe Lynn Turner would later join DP for one album.
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Garden, Gin and 90s anthems... Music doesn't feel like it used to!
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Any of you Purple fans listened to the execrable Last Concert in Japan? It was hilariously bad, so much so that the band never wanted it released but the record company was adamant. It would only be released in Japan, so nobody would hear it etc. Well they did hear it, and the record company made it worse by actually releasing it the next year in the UK and Europe.
Guitarist at the time Tommy Bolin, who I had a lot of time for, got so off his face the night before the concert that he fell asleep on his left arm for 8 hours or something and couldn’t move it when he woke up, the dumb prick. He could only play a couple of bar chords every so often then let his arm drop to recover, so Jon Lord had to play most of the guitar parts on keyboards. Glenn Hughes was embarrassed by it and said it shouldn’t have gone ahead, but I’m not sure how reliable a narrator he is cause he was in the middle of his phase of getting way stoned, chugging a bottle of Jack and eating all of the pies, so was pretty much part of the problem himself.
DP have some of the best stories.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Any of you Purple fans listened to the execrable Last Concert in Japan? It was hilariously bad, so much so that the band never wanted it released but the record company was adamant. It would only be released in Japan, so nobody would hear it etc. Well they did hear it, and the record company made it worse by actually releasing it the next year in the UK and Europe.
Guitarist at the time Tommy Bolin, who I had a lot of time for, got so off his face the night before the concert that he fell asleep on his left arm for 8 hours or something and couldn’t move it when he woke up, the dumb prick. He could only play a couple of bar chords every so often then let his arm drop to recover, so Jon Lord had to play most of the guitar parts on keyboards. Glenn Hughes was embarrassed by it and said it shouldn’t have gone ahead, but I’m not sure how reliable a narrator he is cause he was in the middle of his phase of getting way stoned, chugging a bottle of Jack and eating all of the pies, so was pretty much part of the problem himself.
DP have some of the best stories.
Easy to forget Bolin was briefly their guitarist after RB threw his toys.
I did enjoy the Coverdale/Hughes vocal stylings but in one sense they were a completely different band during that period.
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Good song. Glenn Hughes played that when I saw him in 2017, along with many other Mk III and IV songs. The man can still sing once he sorted himself out.
Glenn Hughes Setlist at ASB Theatre, Auckland
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Good song. Glenn Hughes played that when I saw him in 2017, along with many other Mk III and IV songs. The man can still sing once he sorted himself out.
Get the Glenn Hughes Setlist of the concert at ASB Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand on October 3, 2017 from the Classic Deep Purple Live Tour and other Glenn Hughes Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
Yep heard good things about that tour but I cringed a bit when they referred to him as ‘the voice of rock’
He’s not exactly a superstar.
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Yesterday
Danny Boyle film about a pub musician, struggling to make it, who has an accident during a worldwide incident called The Blackout.
He wakes up and is the only one who can remember The Beatles. He starts playing their songs and everyone is freaking out about how good he is.
Really enjoyed this with the family. There are some great and unexpected twists, and let me tell you the world hasn't forgotten only the Beatles - keep your eyes and ears open for that stuff.
Ed Sheeran is fucking great, as is Robert Carlyle. The American agent character is a little OTT tho.
5 Judes out of 5 Dudes.
Beatles are bad enough but Ed Sheeran ?!?! I'll pass thanks.
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 you're just pissed off that he's a successful ranga and you're just a ranga.
I know having hair is a distant memory for you and I understand how it's confusing that many of us do but my lid is brown with the odd grey. It's only the facial hair that is a few shades of red.
But enough about me, Ed's music is fucken diabolical. No two ways about it.
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@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 you're just pissed off that he's a successful ranga and you're just a ranga.
Seeeeerve
Ed Sheeran can get fucked though
Also I hate the Beatles, so will avoid this like the plague. Already told my son straight up I wasn't taking him.
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@mariner4life said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@NTA said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 you're just pissed off that he's a successful ranga and you're just a ranga.
Seeeeerve
Ed Sheeran can get fucked though
Also I hate the Beatles, so will avoid this like the plague. Already told my son straight up I wasn't taking him.
Well um no.
I'm glad we agree on the "merits" of the music in question though. I put the Beatles success down to the amount of LSD their fans took.
Ed Sheeran songs are played by dorky suburban Mums who drive big SUVs and their hubby's who only feign interest in the desperate hope of getting a root once a month.
