Month: August 2026

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• Deep Purple 2026 dates announced! Meetups potentially at the Mansfield, MA show and the Chicago (Highland Park), IL show! Indianapolis is tentative!
  • DEEP PURPLE ANNOUNCE 2026 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUEST KANSAS
• Potential show meet ups:
  • August 13 – Mansfield, MA
    • https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/010064728A6D76FA
  • August 24 – Indianapolis, IN (Tentative)
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  • August 25 – Highland Park, IL
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This Week’s PurplePuter 3000™ Random Song Pick:

• Song: Watching The Sky
• Album: Abandon
• Year: 1998
• Lineup: Mark 6
• Originally Covered  on Episode #220 – Deep Purple – Abandon (Part 1).
  • Working title of “Wah Wah.”
  • Retitled to “Moth to the Flame.”
  • While finalizing the arrangement for this song they went out 
  • September 25 they finalize an arrangement for “Wah Wah.” Ian Paice and Roger Glover drive to see a shuttle launch from Cape Canaveral.  “… but it is still impressive, lighting up the night sky. Amazing to think of those courageous souls sitting on top of that tower of flame, being blasted off the planet. A bit like one of our gigs.”
    • Video of the shuttle launch here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?91753-1/space-shuttle-atlantis-launch
      • Shuttle launched on September 27, 1997.
    • http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9709/25/shuttle.mir/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis
    • https://www.spaceline.org/united-states-manned-space-flight/space-shuttle-mission-program-fact-sheets/sts-86/

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Lyrics:

http://www.deep-purple.net/lyrics/lyrics.htm

http://www.deep-purple.net/lyrics/abandon.htm#5

Watching The Sky

(Gillan/Glover/Morse/Lord/Paice)

I sit here alone
I sit here alone
I look at the walls
Look at the walls
Look at the walls
I look at the walls

You shouldn’t be out on your
own oh no not with
a condition like that
oh no sir constant care
A condition like that
a condition so rare a penny
for the guy a penny for your
thoughts one a penny
two a penny penny in
your pocket ding dong bell, who
can tell Wild Man Fischer
got nothing on me

I sit by the water
I sit by the water
Watch it go by
Clouds going by
I’m watching the sky

I left my luggage at the station
Didn’t know how to
say goodbye
I walked away from all the fury
and the madness and the fury
and the madness and the fury
and the madness

I smile to myself
I smile to myself

You’re on the blind side I’m on
the other side now I’m on the
outside looking for another side
upside down side I’m still lucid I
may be crazy but I’m not stupid
try to get out the parking lot’s
full no matter no matter what’s
a man going to do one two
buckle my shoe zip my lip

Ian Gillan’s Wordography:

https://www.gillan.com/wordography-dex.html

Not available at Ian Gillan’s Wordography page.

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