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One thing beforhead... would I
receive 10 Euros for every time I've seen Deep Purple live in my life, I'd
probably could go on a nice little holiday. And I certainly don't belong
to those people, who are going to see a band 5 or 10 times within one
tour. But it is a fact, that good old Purple are still a well going and
tour active classic act and they are still very popular in Germany. Over
all those years, whether in the original line up with Jon Lord and Ritchie
Blackmore, or inbetween with Glenn Hughes without Gillan, or with Joe Lynn
Turner, the mothership survived every hurricane. New records ain't that
important anymore, as they get only noticed in the album rocktrack charts,
and not in the single charts, like it used to in the past. And maybe, if
Ian Gillan and Ritchie Blackmore had not this a constant battle with their
egos and other problems..... who knows, maybe the band would still consist
of the original line up.
Well, meanwhile the current band has established itselves for quite a few years now. And old Purple freaks from then as well as the new
generation, who know the original band only from video and tales, have
accepted Deep Purple as it is now.
And our Olympiahalle with 12.000 seats is sold out which proves once again
- this is Germany who kept the faith to their heroes over so many years.
Our Swiss Rockexport Nr. 1 ‚Gotthard’ is handling the Supportslot.
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Yes well it's a bit unusual
for the band, as they are touring as headliners troughout the world for
quite a bit now and enjoy their privileges. On the other side Gotthard are
still a young band, who is honoured to open up for rockicons like Deep
Purple. And let's get it straight, even Gotthard didn't have 12.000
audiance yet at their gigs, despite their success. So this move of the
swiss rockers is surely not the worst one, as the icing on their
cake has already been gone. And they are no icons - not yet.
The average mood within
this overdimensional living room here is a good one,no doubt about that,
And Gotthard, most of all Steve Lee know exactly how to draw the fans out
of their nutshells. Apart from that, there is nothing special within
their straight decent set, apart from some tiny irritations. But those
don't get noticed anyway. So who cares. Oh one song, which is usually
always on their setlist, is left out this time, which is 'Hush' - how
come???!!!! :-)))))
http://www.gotthard.com/
yiipppieehh and once again Steve Morse & Ba.... - ähhh sorry, Deep
Purple of course, are inviting us for a nostalgic Rock'n'Roll Trip.
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And we all don't get any younger, do we?
But we still luv our rock dinos dearly. Exspecially frontfigaro Ian Gillan,
who's whole expression is celebrating his third spring. He tripples
on stage - barefoot, slim and cool and is still forcing his voice into
higher grounds. Yeah well, as good as possible, because singing in the
same key as 30 years ago is a little difficult, ain't it. So he performs
the classic tunes in a little deeper key, and songs like 'Child In Time'
are missed out on setlists nowadays. The slogan is clearly - rather
not singing the tune at all, then maybe getting into trouble.
Apart from that guitarist Steve Morse is still dominating the scenery,
like
last time. He is a brilliant musician indeed, but stylistically he is as
far away from Blackmore like our globe is from the Andromeda Galaxy. And
over all it's not only the performing art, but also the generell aura,
which is a happy and positve light one, and not dead serious and dark like
Blackmore used to be. I presume two musicians couldn't be more different
than those two.
And it is probably the combination of the difficult guitar playing and the
constant and obvious good mood of Steve, which makes him so loveable.
Also Don Airey has a different way of
approach than the grey eminence Jon Lord had in the past. He shows some
great jamming solos, very light and easy and not the heavy classic way.
Roger Glover on bass and Ian Paice on drums make the foursome complete,
and the give the whole event a nostalgic touch of past days but in a more
modern aproach. During the last song of the official set, which is Deep
Purples biggest hit 'Smoke On The Water', Gotthard guitarist Leo comes on
stage again to play along with Steve Morse, whereby Leo obviously shows a
lot of respect .
There are three encore songs including 'Hush' (and I still bet many of you
don't know immidiately who wrote this piece of music - but now at least we know
why Gotthard didn't play their version tonight) And the magic comes to an
end with 'Black Night'.
What else shall I say.... Deep Purple for the 150th time, 12.000 fans show
a lot of enthusiasm despite some little weak spots and a few changes. But
we got used to both, that's why nobody really bothers. The Euro is rolling
again, the legend is still kept alive. And some 60 year old youthful and
still cool Hardrock fans shade some tears and promise themselves to be
back again for sure next time. So what.... Rock'n'Roll keeps us alive...
whether is was in the past or it is now... You just gotta believe in
it.....
http://www.deep-purple.com/
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