Month: April 2020

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Episode #53 – One Year Anniversary Extravaganza

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Show Updates:

  • Comments from social media.
    • Lionel_Hutz_, 04/10/2020 – FIVE STARS!
      • Unbelievably Researched Deep Dives
      • On some timeless classic albums, and some pretty terrible ones. It’s been great to hear the backstories on some of my alltime favorites, like “Machine Head” and “Burn”. But even better, hearing 7+ hours of indepth analysis of a talking animal concept album is what has kept me sane through quarantine.
    • Dubbleagle , 04/17/2020 – FIVE STARS!
      • 1st listen
      • I saw this show when it first aired , 14 years old I was .
      • Huge impact on my rock n roll sensibilities.
      • Great to hear your thoughts !

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Top Episodes

Peter Gardow – written

Top Rated Albums

Ryan M

Apple Podcast Rankings

Kev Roberts – Video

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Followers

  • Stats for each

Mark Roback – written

Top Patrons and Patron Moments

Ry from Sabbath Bloody Podcast

Ry – video

Highlights of the past year

Interactions with Glenn and Coverdale

Nick Jones – audio

Goals for next year

Anton Glaving – written

Album you’re looking forward to reviewing the most

Mike Knowles

Champions of the Show

  • Michael Eriksson
  • Pod of Thunder
  • Terry
  • Scott Haskin
  • Ry
  • The Simple Man
  • Jorg

The Simple Man – audio

All 5’s – All our perfectly ranked songs (spaced throughout episode)

Steve Seaborg – written

Social Media Stats

  • Twitter followers
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Apple Podcast Reviews
Ian Desrosiers wishes the Deep Purple Podcast a happy anniversary.

Podcast Listeners in 81 countries!

Top 10 countries

Frank Thielgaard-Martensen

Stats and play graph

Top 10 episodes by plays

Leaky Mausoleum

Q&A: If you could do a band podcast about any other band, what would it be?

Jonatan Hedlin

Jen (Nate’s Wife)

Peter Gardow’s Year in Review

From The Providence Journal Bulletin – June 16, 1997 by Cristy DeAuraujo
From The Providence Journal Bulletin – June 16, 1997 by Cristy DeAuraujo

A review of the 1997 Providence Journal slang article by Cristy DeAuraujo

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Episode #52 – Captain Beyond – Dawn Explosion with Nick Jones of Pod of Thunder

Link to video on Cocoscope:
https://www.cocoscope.com/watch?v=55421

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Lead up to the Album:

  • The Captain Beyond Story researched by Hartmut Kreckel
    • Reformation:
    • Lee Dorman: “Warner and Capricorn had a deal and contacted us in 1976 to do another album. In the interim I was working as a engineer/producer for demo bands for Warner Bros. We started to audition singers and were quite happy with Willy Daffern. We have a outtake of “Icarus” and a studio version of the song “Dawn Explosion” that wasn´t used for that album. We did like 15 to 20 gigs with that line-up.”
    • Rhino: “… I first met Willy in a liquor store…”

Personnel

  • Producer – Captain Beyond, John Stronach
    • Stronach worked with R.E.O. Speedwagon, Dan Fogelberg, Diana Ross, Keith Moon, and Joe Walsh
  • Engineer – John Stronach, Rick Sanchez
    • Al Kooper’s “Act Like Nothing’s Wrong album, The Outlaws (not the Ritchie Blackmore version), Tower of Power, UFO

Album Art & Booklet Review

  • Design [Album] – Pacific Eye And Ear*
    • Discussed on previous episodes, did Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Grand Funk, The Doors, Billion Dollar Babies, Aerosmith’s Toys in th eAttic, and the previous Captain Beyond album Sufficiently Breathless
  • Illustration – Carl Ramsey (2)

Album Tracks:

Side one:

  1. Do or Die (Caldwell, Daffern, Reinhardt)
  2. Icarus (Caldwell, Dorman, Reinhardt)
    1. Written by previous keyboardist (Lewie Gold) but he didn’t get credit, previously  recorded with Rod Evans
    2. Not played Live
    3. “Icarus” studio recording in 1972 with Rod Evans and Lewie Gold from Lost & Found 
  3. Sweet Dreams (Caldwell, Dorman, Reinhardt)
    1. Played a beginning version of this with Rod on ‘72 tour “Lonely Feeling” or “Lovely Feeling.”
  4. Fantasy (Caldwell, Daffern, Reinhardt)

Side two:

  1. Breath of Fire, Part 1 & 2 (Caldwell, Daffern, Reinhardt)
    1. The CD reissue separated these into two tracks:
      1. Breath of Fire, Pt. 1 (A Speck Within a Sphere)
      2. Breath of Fire, Pt. 2 (Alone in the Cosmos)
  2. If You Please (Caldwell, Daffern, Dorman, Reinhardt)
    1. Not played live
  3. Midnight Memories (Reinhardt)
    1. Not played live.
  4. Oblivion (Caldwell, Dorman, Reinhardt)
    1. The CD reissue separated this into three tracks: “Space Interlude” followed by “Oblivion” and ending with “Space Reprise”

Live they played the song “Dawn Explosion” which was not included on the album.

Reception and Review

  • The Captain Beyond Story researched by Hartmut Kreckel
    • Lee Dorman: “Looking back, we lacked of proper management. I think if we´d gone out doing 150 gigs a year it would have done much better. Our management did nothing for us, it was like “we´ll get back to you” and they never did a thing, so what could you do about it… They should have bought us into a tour to open up for someone who would really draw some people, but it never happened… There were several attempts of reforming Captain Beyond over the years, but it never got beyond talking about it, and the only chance to do it seemed, if I was going to do anything… I´m now with Iron Butterfly and surely I can do one thing at the time only, but THERE´LL ALWAYS BE A PLACE IN MY HEART FOR CAPTAIN BEYOND…´CAUSE THIS WAS REALLY A LABOUR OF LOVE…”
    • Bobby Caldwell: “… after Willy left, we tried out Jimmy Henderson for a time in 1978…”
    • Rhino: “… and then Jimmy went with me in my band named “Rhino”, we were managed by the manager of Styx and toured for six months in 1979…”

This Week in Purple History . . .

April 20 through April 26

  • April 20, 1968 – Roundabout plays their first show
    • *Date: 1968-04-20
    • *Venue: Parkskolen-Vestpoppen   
    • *City: Tastrup   
    • *Country: Denmark
  • April 22, 1997 – Blackmore’s Night releases “Shadow of the Moon”
  • April 26, 2013 – Deep Purple releases “Now What?!”

For Further Information:

  • Album Liner Notes

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Episode #51 – California Jam (Part 2)

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Lead up to the Album:

  • Deep Purple Bios

Additional Audio/Video from Show:

  1. Burn – 8:00 version
  2. Lay Down, Stay Down from California Jamming CD – 14:20 on DVD rip video
  3. Extended plays and camera angles

Controversy:

Mike Stark on Rock 50 with Don Branker

  • 1:34 minute mark starts to describe the show

Reception and Review

  • Allen Pamplin
  • Letter from Don Hearston to Sandy Feldman (TV executive who promoted the show and sadly passed away in 1996) – https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-07-mn-33346-story.html
  • Letter from City of Ontario Fire Department to Sandy Feldman
  • Deep Purple – Lets celebrate the California Jam from April 1974 – short documentary that reviews how the show ran with some clips of the acts
    • 5:30 – “Mad John” and Simon interviewed about DP’s exploding amps
  • 19740402 – BIllboard discusses money Deep Purple are making
  • 19740404 Santa Ana Register gets it all wrong!
  • 19740406 – ‘Salbuquerque Tribune – ‘California Jam’ rock fans jam up traffic for 13 miles
  • 19740408 Connellsville Daily Courier – “Police Surprised at Quiet Nature of Rock Concer”
  • 19740408 Huntingdon Daily News – “caused no trouble and few arrests.”
  • TV: ‘California Jam’ Simulates Live Rock Session – NY Times, scanned, some of text garbled

This Week in Purple History . . .


  • April 14, 1945 – Ritchie Blackmore is born
  • April 15, 1977 – Ian Gillan Band releases Clear Air Turbulence
  • April 14, 1978 – Ritchie Blackmore Rainbow releases Long Live Rock 

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Episode #50 – California Jam (Part 1)

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Show Updates:

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  • Apple Podcast new reviews!
    • 5 STARS! – Sgt. Rock 24 , 03/05/2020
      • The best (not just because it’s the only)
      • Great podcast! These are not experts flexing their knowledge of facts and trivia. It’s two friends having casual and entertaining discussions about all things Deep Purple related. It reminds me of hanging out and talking music with my friends. I consider myself a die hard Deep Purple fan but these guys have opened my eyes up to things I never noticed and given me a fresh perspective on things I know by heart.
    • 5 STARS! – deep blackmore , 03/07/2020
      • Great podcast!!!
      • They are just regular fans just like me of the greatest band of all time!!
    • 5 STARS! – MikeOfTheTerribleOpinion , 03/09/2020
      • What’s not to like?
      • Two old friends investigating and discussing the fascinating music and history of Deep Purple. Hard to think of anything better, in my opinion.
    • 3 STARS! – assdf Fhh hhj I’ll l , 03/09/2020
      • Volume
      • Please turn up the music level, it is barely audible.
      • It would make this much harder more listenable.
      • Content great!

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Congratulations on 50 Episodes!

Set list:

  1. Burn
  2. Might Just Take Your Life
  3. Mistreated
  4. Smoke on the Water
  5. You Fool No One/The Mule
  6. Space Truckin’

This Week in Purple History . . .

April 6 through April 12

  • April 6, 1974 – The California Jam
  • April 7, 1975 – Made in Europe live performance
  • April 7, 1987 – Whitesnake releases self titled album

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