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No, J-Haley....THIS is how you rrrrock!!
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:10 amby t-Roy and The Smoking Section
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:17 amby t-Roy and The Smoking Section
I realize it's blasphemy to a true Purple fan, but I liked this version of the band even more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8YU-FcmGA0
Really it was a totally different band only with Deep Purples drummer and organ player.
Coverdale, Tommy Bolin, and Glenn Hughes freakin' rocked!!!
I was so upset that I couldn't go to California Jam that year. Caught the Purple tour that year in Houston at the Summit instead. Nazareth opened for them and it's still my all time favorite concert.
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:28 amby J-HALEY
I stand corrected! Had my ass handed to me Brother!
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:31 amby t-Roy and The Smoking Section
J-HALEY wrote:I stand corrected! Had my ass handed to me Brother!
LOL
Except for a few blues-based rock bands like Aerosmith & ZZ Top, it seems like every great rock band came from England in the 70s.
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:40 amby J-HALEY
yod wrote:J-HALEY wrote:I stand corrected! Had my ass handed to me Brother!
LOL
Except for a few blues-based rock bands like Aerosmith & ZZ Top, it seems like every great rock band came from England in the 70s.
Dang Yod those amps were CRAZY back then Richie Blackmore had 3 full Plexi stacks!
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:46 amby Mike Nobody
J-HALEY wrote:yod wrote:J-HALEY wrote:I stand corrected! Had my ass handed to me Brother!
LOL
Except for a few blues-based rock bands like Aerosmith & ZZ Top, it seems like every great rock band came from England in the 70s.
Dang Yod those amps were CRAZY back then Richie Blackmore had 3 full Plexi stacks!
I'm kinda grinning at the thought that 3 plexis were a LOT back then.
Jucifer tours nonstop with dozens of amps in small clubs, just a f*cking WALL of amps, reminiscent of the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound.
Black Flag did the same thing on their final tour.
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 7:43 amby t-Roy and The Smoking Section
Blackmore would use a wall of Marshalls in Deep Purple sometimes, but I doubt they were all hooked up actually.
Big Bob has a demonstration for ya...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGy0pPll ... _embedded#!
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:42 pmby jimmydanger
The first time I saw Deep Purple was in 1972 with Uriah Heep opening. What a fantastic show! It was basically the "Made in Japan" album. I snuck a little cassette recorder in a recorded the whole thing. I still remember Blackmore going crazy on "Wring That Neck", dancing on the poor Strat at the end.
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 3:15 pmby J-HALEY
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 3:51 pmby t-Roy and The Smoking Section
jimmydanger wrote:The first time I saw Deep Purple was in 1972 with Uriah Heep opening. What a fantastic show! It was basically the "Made in Japan" album. I snuck a little cassette recorder in a recorded the whole thing. I still remember Blackmore going crazy on "Wring That Neck", dancing on the poor Strat at the end.
Oh man...always wanted to see Uriah Heep, too.
You still have the recording? My ears rang for a couple of weeks after seeing Deep Purple, so I'd bet that tape was a bit distorted, eh?
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:16 pmby jimmydanger
This was Uriah Heep's first tour of the US, and they did 3 encores. But amazingly Deep Purple was even better. The tape actually turned out pretty good, but I loaned it to a friend who never returned it.
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:24 pmby t-Roy and The Smoking Section
As much as I loved Led Zepplin, NO ONE rocked like Deep Purple so that doesn't surprise me a bit.
Those guys could flat jam!
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:27 pmby J-HALEY
yod wrote:jimmydanger wrote:The first time I saw Deep Purple was in 1972 with Uriah Heep opening. What a fantastic show! It was basically the "Made in Japan" album. I snuck a little cassette recorder in a recorded the whole thing. I still remember Blackmore going crazy on "Wring That Neck", dancing on the poor Strat at the end.
Oh man...always wanted to see Uriah Heep, too.
You still have the recording? My ears rang for a couple of weeks after seeing Deep Purple, so I'd bet that tape was a bit distorted, eh?
In the early 70's maybe 74 or so Deep Purple had a concert at the Astrodome. It was rumored that Deep Purple was the loudest band in the world and could drown out a 747! As a result the local television station had reported that the volume could cause structural damage to the Dome. As a result some parents started panicing and went to try and get their kids out of the concert in fear it might collapse LMAO! How does crap like that get started? It must of been the old foggies didn't want the show to go on!
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:30 pmby t-Roy and The Smoking Section
I was at that show....don't remember anything except my ears rang forever.
Then saw the later version of the band about 77 at the Summit (Now Lakewood church) with Coverdale/Hughes/Bolin.
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Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:36 pmby J-HALEY
yod wrote:I was at that show....don't remember anything except my ears rang forever.
Then saw the later version of the band about 77 at the Summit (Now Lakewood church) with Coverdale/Hughes/Bolin.
Yod, how many shows did you see at the Sam Houston Colliseum?
