Live in London intro

[Gnoos]

The speech form intro on "LiL" always wonders me.
Someone (who was it?) says something like that:

-------------------------------------------------------
...OK.
This band's been called "The loudest band in the World".
Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, please.
Burn with Deep Purple!
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What does it mean "The loudest band in the World"?
Who gave this title to DP? Why?

Or maybe I didn't quite catch what he said?

Gnoos.

[Mash]

Gnoos wrote:

> The speech form intro on "LiL" always wonders me.
> Someone (who was it?) says something like that:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> ...OK.
> This band's been called "The loudest band in the World".
> Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, please.
> Burn with Deep Purple!
> -------------------------------------------------------

They were awarded the title officially after the Guinness Book Of
Records certified them as the loudest band in the world-A title they
held until The Who performed at (I think ) Charlton Athletic Football
Ground.
The bloke was just a compere who introduced the band that night.

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[Brad DeMoranville]

Gnoos wrote:

> The speech form intro on "LiL" always wonders me.
> Someone (who was it?) says something like that:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> ...OK.
> This band's been called "The loudest band in the World".
> Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, please.
> Burn with Deep Purple!
> -------------------------------------------------------
>

> What does it mean "The loudest band in the World"?
> Who gave this title to DP? Why?

The Guinness Book of Worlds Records at least one time had Deep Purple
officially cited as the world's loudest band, based on
officially-measured decibel levels. It was usually The Who, but DP took
it once or twice.

Bye!

Brad

[D. P. Roberts]

> The speech form intro on "LiL" always wonders me.
> Someone (who was it?) says something like that:

It was not the "everything louder than everything else" guy from Made
In Japan, that's for sure.

> -------------------------------------------------------
> ...OK.
> This band's been called "The loudest band in the World".
> Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, please.
> Burn with Deep Purple!
> -------------------------------------------------------

Now if Judy Garland had just said, "I want to burn down this damn
farm" they could have used "I want to burn. . .burn. . .burn" and
introduced them that way.

I think DP was once clocked in the area of 115 to 117 dB. That's
pretty loud. A chainsaw is around 99 dB and a jet engine running at
full throttle is around 135 dB. A nuclear device being detonated is,
of course, assumed to be infinite dB because it's so hard to measure,
and no bloke wants to volunteer for the yob. The job.

[Glen King]

If you listen to the unedited, bootleg LP you get:

"...OK.... This band's been called "The loudest band in the World" - by
the Guiness Book of Records. They Didn't say they're the BEST band in
the world. Put your hands together, please.
Burn with DEEP PURPLE !! "

Gnoos wrote:

> The speech form intro on "LiL" always wonders me.
> Someone (who was it?) says something like that:
>

> -------------------------------------------------------
> ...OK.
> This band's been called "The loudest band in the World".
> Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, please.
> Burn with Deep Purple!
> -------------------------------------------------------
>

> What does it mean "The loudest band in the World"?
> Who gave this title to DP? Why?
>

[NigelYoung]

Gnoos wrote:

>Someone (who was it?)

Mike Harding, though not the "Rochdale Cowboy" of that same name.

> says,
>This band's been called "The loudest band in the World"......

Nigel

[Steve]

purple was once the offical loudest band in the world according to the
guiness book of records..can't quite remember the exact amonut but 128db
rings a bell haha to coin a phrase
Gnoos <gn...@hotmail.com> wrote in article >

[RONALD HARPER]

They actually cut out a few words of that intro, too. 'They didn't say
they were the BEST band in the world' is missing from the non-bootleg
LP.

Cheers,
Ron H.

[JGibbes]

In article <615872...@caleyjag.demon.co.uk>, ga...@caleyjag.demon.co.uk
(Garry Smith) writes:

>The original said "This band's been called the loudest band in the
>world - in the Guinness Book of Records. They didn't say they were the
>BEST band in the world. Ladies & gentlemen...."
>

At the time,Simon Robinson said that the record company was afraid that people
might take the bit about not being the best seriously,so decided to edit it
out!

[Gnoos]

Ok, thanks for replyings...

Let's continue the "speeches theme" on this LP.
What about B side, when Lord introduces the members of the band. He asks
crowd to welcome Coverdale, Hughes, Paice, Blackmore...
Then he tells: "...and my name is Rick Emerson". What is this?
Maybe, that was really Rick Emerson?
If Lord was kidding, why did he choose Rick Emerson to laugh at?
And finally, who the hell is Rick Emerson?

Gnoos.

[Antonides]

Lord was joking! Rick Emerson does not exist, it was a name combined from
Rick Wakeman (YES) and Keith Emerson (ELP).

Johan Antonides
--
The world is full of kings and queens who will
blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
It's heaven and hell.

Gnoos <gn...@hotmail.com> schreef in artikel
<35EA64A1...@hotmail.com>...

[Trond]

Mash <martin....@fairmount.co.uk> wrote:

>
>
>Gnoos wrote:
>
>> The speech form intro on "LiL" always wonders me.
>> Someone (who was it?) says something like that:
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> ...OK.
>> This band's been called "The loudest band in the World".
>> Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, please.
>> Burn with Deep Purple!
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>

>They were awarded the title officially after the Guinness Book Of
>Records certified them as the loudest band in the world-A title they
>held until The Who performed at (I think ) Charlton Athletic Football
>Ground.
>The bloke was just a compere who introduced the band that night.

Btw, the full intro, edited off by EMI, was:

"This band's been called the loudest band in the world - they never
said they were the best band in the world! Put your hands together,.."

;-)

Cheers,
--
Trond

[Trond]

Gnoos <gn...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Let's continue the "speeches theme" on this LP.
>What about B side, when Lord introduces the members of the band. He asks
>crowd to welcome Coverdale, Hughes, Paice, Blackmore...
>Then he tells: "...and my name is Rick Emerson". What is this?
>Maybe, that was really Rick Emerson?
>If Lord was kidding, why did he choose Rick Emerson to laugh at?
>And finally, who the hell is Rick Emerson?

Its a joke. Two of the keyboard heroes at the time were Rick Wakeman
(Yes) and Keith Emerson (ELP), so...

Cheers,
--
Trond

[Gnoos]

Trond wrote:

> Its a joke. Two of the keyboard heroes at the time were Rick Wakeman
> (Yes) and Keith Emerson (ELP), so...

...so Lord wanted to tell that he is as cool as these two taken
together? :)

Hm... I've heard no reaction from the crowd. Maybe, people didn't
understand the joke, maybe they didn't know Wakeman and Emerson?

And finally, why did Hughes, when introducing a new number, always say:
"This is the blues song..." I agree, "Mistreated" is a blues, but "Lay
Down..."? 8-0 Probably, Hughes is a fan of word "blues"? :)

Gnoos.

[Brad DeMoranville]

My guess is he was putting together Rick [Wakeman] and [Keith] Emerson as a
little joke on the leading rock keyboard players of the day: Jon Lord, Rick
Wakeman, Keith Emerson, and Craig Frost of Grand Funk.

:-)

Bye!

Brad

Gnoos wrote:

> Ok, thanks for replyings...

>
> Let's continue the "speeches theme" on this LP.
> What about B side, when Lord introduces the members of the band. He asks
> crowd to welcome Coverdale, Hughes, Paice, Blackmore...
> Then he tells: "...and my name is Rick Emerson". What is this?
> Maybe, that was really Rick Emerson?
> If Lord was kidding, why did he choose Rick Emerson to laugh at?
> And finally, who the hell is Rick Emerson?
>

> Gnoos.

[NigelYoung]

Gnoos wrote:

>Maybe, people didn't
>understand the joke, maybe they didn't know Wakeman and Emerson?

You must be joking?

From Sounds magazine's 1973 Pop Poll, British section:

1. Keith Emerson
2. Rick Wakeman
3. Jon Lord

>And finally, why did Hughes, when introducing a new number, always say:
>"This is the blues song..." I agree, "Mistreated" is a blues, but "Lay
>Down..."?

Listen again, he says its a *rude* song ;-)

Nigel

[Antonides]

Nigel,

This is a huge eyeopener. Always thought Glenn said it was a "blues song".

Johan

--
The world is full of kings and queens who will
blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
It's heaven and hell.

NigelYoung <nigel...@aol.com> schreef in artikel
<199808311156...@ladder01.news.aol.com>...

[RONALD HARPER]

I've always thought that he was just combining the names of Rick Wakeman
and Keith Emerson.

Cheers,
Ron H.

[Svante]

Gnoos <gn...@hotmail.com> vrute-a:

>Then he tells: "...and my name is Rick Emerson". What is this?
>Maybe, that was really Rick Emerson?

Of course it was. Keef's younger brother Rick didn't do too well on
the piano but Keef helped him get a job as "band announcer" on several
rock concerts in Great Britain in the 70's. The actual job "band
announcer" was taken away in 1979 by the Musician's Union. Probably
after a complaint from a "J. Lord, Pianist and member" (thought you'd
find a mention of "organ" there, but no) who said "the only bloody
time they've let me near a mike and they take that job from me? We
can't have that!". Rick is now caddy and fishing rod tech to none
other than Martin Birch Esq.

--
Svante Pettersson
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Another site - http://deep-purple.family-tree.org/
(C) 1998 The Deep Purple Can Do No Wrong Society

[Daniele Purrone]

Mash wrote:

> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > ...OK.
> > This band's been called "The loudest band in the World".
> > Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, please.
> > Burn with Deep Purple!
> > -------------------------------------------------------
>
> They were awarded the title officially after the Guinness Book Of
> Records certified them as the loudest band in the world-A title they
> held until The Who performed at (I think ) Charlton Athletic Football
> Ground.
> The bloke was just a compere who introduced the band that night.

BTW the intro on Live in London has been cut: the original one, still
avalaible on some boots was:

This band's been called "The loudest band in the World" in the Guinness
Book of Records, but THEY DIDN'T SAY they are the BEST band in the
World...
So, put your hands together, please.
Burn with Deep Purple!"

The original speech was probably meant (by the promoter) to be some kind
of cutting remark against Zeppelin, who actually acted like they were
"The best Band" (but they weren't! ^___^)...

Bye,

Daniele

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[D. P. Roberts]

>The original said "This band's been called the loudest band in the

>world - in the Guinness Book of Records. They didn't say they were the
>BEST band in the world. Ladies & gentlemen...."

To my knowledge, KISS still is introduced as "the hottest band in the
land."