Deep Purple in Glasgow
David Meadows
Wrong! ;-)
It was:
Highway Star
Things I Never Said
Not Responsible
Strange Kind Of Woman
Wasted Sunsets
Rapture Of The Deep
Fireball
Contact Lost / Steve Morse solo / Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
The Well-Dressed Guitar
Wring That Neck
No One Came
Don Airey solo / The Battle Rages On
Space Truckin'
Steve Morse solo / Smoke On The Water
Hush
Black Night
The band played in top form, Steve and Don especially seeming to click
together better than ever. Steve's solos reminded me of his early years with
the band when he convinced me that he was worthy of joining the greatest
rock band in the world. Don's solo was both playful and technically
stunning. The omission of a drum solo was noted -- when Ian Paice does
"that" break in the middle of Space Truckin' there's a huge roar from the
crowd as we think he's going to do a proper solo... then he doesn't. Ah
well. Ian Gillan was struggling a bit but entertains us with his banter and
improvisations so that we don't care when when he can't quite make the
notes.
Same old songs? I don't think so! Not enough new songs? Well... maybe, but
Deep Purple have always been about more than the songs -- it's the
improvisations, the solos, the way they play around with the songs so you're
hearing something different every time. All that was there, making
everything sound fresh.
I know some people say the magic has gone and the band has become
predictable and lost its edge. I don't feel that when I'm in a gig. I didn't
feel that for any of the hour and 40-odd minutes the band was on stage last
night. And you people won't believe this when you're watching the crappy
Youtube bootlegs, but when you're there in the hall and feeling the power
vibrating through your kneecaps or marvelling at the dazzling light show or
laughing at some new twist on an old song or just swept up in the emotion of
the thing, you know the magic hasn't gone anywhere.
When I say a Deep Purple gig is the best I've ever seen, I always mean it.
Nothing else comes close. No matter what I may occasionally say about other
bands, Deep Purple are still the best there is, the best there ever was and
the best there ever will be.
--
David Meadows
http://www.heroes.force9.co.uk
Peter
I just hope we get to see them in OZ one last time before they call it
quits.
Pete
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> Onya Dave,
>
> I just hope we get to see them in OZ one last time before they call it
> quits.
>
> Pete