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Episode #285 – Deep Purple – In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra (Part 2)

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Setlist

  1. Concerto for Group and Orchestra Mov. 1 (Lord)
  2. Concerto for Group and Orchestra Mov. 2 (Gillan, Lord)
  3. Concerto for Group and Orchestra Mov. 3 (Lord)
  4. Ted the Mechanic (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice)
  5. Watching the Sky (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice)
    • Swapped with Sometimes on programme
  6. Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming (Gillan, Morse, Glover, Lord, Paice)
  7. Pictures of Home (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice)
  8. Smoke on the Water (Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Paice)

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Episode #284 – Deep Purple – In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra (Part 1)

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  • Dutch composer Marco de Goiej discovered Deep Purple in his brother’s record collection. One day his brother came home with “Concerto For Group and Orchestra.” Marco was very interested in this release and decided that he wanted to track down the score but learned that it was never for sale.
  • He thought about transcribing it for a while then decided to try to track the score down.  Wrote a letter to Malcolm Arnold and reached out to The Hollywood Bowl and a few other things.
  • Finally decided to do it himself. Left a note at the reception desk with 30 pages of the most difficult bit.  Jon’s name was not on the guest list so he left it to attention to Colin Hart.
  • When he left the hotel a car pulled up and Ian Gillan and Jon Lord were getting out.  He approached Jon Lord and told him that he’d just left a note.  Jon was in a very bad mood after a rough trip from the airport and not in the mood until he heard the purpose of Marco’s visit.
  • Deep Purple played Rotterdam on October 12, 1998 on the Abandon tour.
  • He finished about 60% of the score and decided to track down Jon Lord.  Went to Rotterdam in 1998.  
  • Press Release Announcing Concerto
    • 21 September 1999
      PRESS RELEASE
      DUTCH COMPOSER REVIVES LOST CONCERTO
    • On the 25 and 26 September 1999 the London Symphony Orchestra (L.S.O) together with British rockband Deep Purple will perform the “Concerto for Group and Orchestra” in the Royal Albert Hall in London. These concerts are organised because of the 30th anniversary of the piece. It is the first performance since 30 years. Reason for this 30 years of silence: the score had disappeared.
    • Jon Lord, organist with Deep Purple, composed his “Concerto for Group and Orchestra” in 1969. Thanks to the efforts made by the Dutch composer Marco de Goeij, the “Concerto” will be performed again. De Goeij who knew that the score had been missing, decided to make a full transcription of the piece by listening to the CD. It took him two years to finish the transcription, which clocks in at a staggering 300 pages of manuscript. Jon Lord, impressed with De Goeij’s work made some revisions to the score and updated the instrumentation.
    • At the concerts, organised by the Nordoff Robbins Therapy Charity not only the revised “Concerto for Group and Orchestra will be performed, but also several old pieces from band members are planned. The hope is to close the show with a couple of Deep Purple songs featuring the band accompanied by the L.S.O..
    • Have a look at some photos showing Marco de Goeij together with Jon Lord and Ian Paice. The photos were taken recently in Pistoia, Italy.
    • © photos: Jan Willem Bakker
  • FAQ Leading Up to Performances
  • https://www.thehighwaystar.com/specials/RAH99/faq.html
  • Marco de Goeij discusses reconstructing the lost musical score for Jon Lord’s Concerto in 2011
  • Differences Between The 1969 Concerto and the 1999 Concerto:

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  1. Four Scottish Dances, Op. 59 (Malcolm Arnold)
  2. Pictured Within (Lord)
  3. Wait a While (Lord, Brown)
  4. Sitting in a Dream (Glover)
  5. Love is All (Glover, Hardin)
  6. Via Miami (Gillan, Glover)
    • From “Accidentally on Purpose” 1987
  7. That’s Why God Is Singing the Blues (Dave Corbett)
  8. Night Meets Light (Morse)
    • From the Dixie Dregs Album “What If” 1978
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    • Paul Mann: The earliest releases of the CD contained, as was fashionable at the time, a video playable on a computer of Smoke on the Water, and in order to make space for this they had to jump through hoops with the audio order. We did try to tell them it was stupid because people would buy both formats anyway,  but they didn’t listen until they released the so called Tour Edition, the following year which restored Night Meets Light after protests from Steve and myself, and I think tried to make more sense of it.
  9. Take It Off the Top (Morse)
    • From the Dixie Dregs Album “What If” 1978
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If_(Dixie_Dregs_album)
  10. Wring That Neck (Blackmore, Simper, Lord, Paice)

Paul Mann writes: I do remember though that the cd and dvd had different running orders which don’t necessarily reflect the order of the night. I would imagine that the set lists stored on places like The Highway Star website are likely to be more reliable.   I think both nights were the same, but can’t be sure about that either…!

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Episode #280 – Deep Purple – = 1 More Time Tour Recap

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First Night in Detroit (Thursday, August 22, 2024)

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Episode #265 – Ian Gillan -Naked Thunder (Part 2)

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All songs written by Ian Gillan and Steve Morris except where noted

  1. Nothing to Lose
  2. Moonshine (Gillan, Morris, Mark Buckle)
  3. Long and Lonely Ride
  4. Love Gun
  5. No More Cane on the Brazos (Traditional)
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Bustin’ Out The Spreadsheet

Reception and Charts:

  • Released on July 28, 1990.
  • Peaked at #63, was in charts for 1 week in the UK.
  • Peaked at #27 in Sweden.
  • Gillan describes the process of finding a new record company as knocking on doors and playing tapes to a new generation of record people.
  • When asked about the album by Metal Hammer Ian Gillan said, “Better than I expected in most countries. In the U.K. well, it’s been years since I did anything myself and the last Purple album didn’t sell shit there, so I guess I’ve got to start all over again. Internationally speaking the response has been better than expected, but England’s a funny old country.”
  • Gillan says in “Child in Time” of the album: “And so Steve would come down and work with me, or we’d send stuff by post, building up a project I’d decided to finance myself. Looking back on that, it was a mistake, and, as far as the album’s concerned, there’s a lot of things we could have done better.
  • Gillan goes on to say “I should have come out on Naked Thunder with both fists fling, but I didn’t want to be undignified nor appear to be in a corner. Having said this, what I was dealing with was the equivalent to a traumatic divorce, in which the parties should have been able to tay together. The first divorce had been bad enough, but at least I’d walked out. This time I’d been thrown out, and my band was continuing without me, and it was hurting.
  • Gillan describes the album as trying to push Deep Purple from his mind and do different material which may have disappointed some people.
  • They arranged a band for the tour. Gustafson, unfortunately, had a falling out with Gillan when they met to discuss.  Phillips and Robinson as Gilland said “could have earned more in a few hours in the States than they’d take home in months on tour with us.”
  • The tour began right after the album was done. “We left for the vastness of Russia, where everybody seemed to be called Sasha.”

Reviews

  • Darker Than Blue Issue 40  November / December 1990
    • Production wise it’s very up to date but somewhat sparse, at times there is almost nothing happening. I think this has perhaps shown up weaknesses in some tracks. That’s the downside of it all for me. On the other hand some of the tracks are so catchy it’s practically a crime they aren’t hit singles. The two opening cuts, GUT REACTION and TALKING TO YOU really seem to hit the mark, as hard hitting as any stadium rockers, even if the latter does come over as Son of Living For The City on first hearing. The following two numbers fail to really capitalise on the opening salvo, NO GOOD LUCK has promise despite horrible keyboards. NOTHING BUT THE BEST has survived the journey from Garth Rockett but comes aver a little on the corny side lyric wise and soon runs out of steam. LIVING ON BORROWED TIME has some cracking vocals, which ought to have dominated the track. Instead the rather bombastic sections tend to overpower it.
    • LOLITA has a weary chorus line and comes from the Coverdale song book – pass! The second side also has its ups and downs. NOTHING TO LOSE just fails to make it, very empty sounding in places. LONG & LONELY RIDE is, despite some more annoying synth work, one of my favourites. Surely a likelier single choice than those used? The vocals are way ahead of the backing in places. LOVE GUN finally sees them letting rip a little, a real touch of Gillan magic. BRAZOS? Think I’ll stick with the Moonshiners video version. They’ve been unable to resist tinkering with it, losing the essence of the early version I heard in the studio. On the whole most people’s reactions have been very positive.
  • MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 323.
    • 1 out of 5
  • Naked Thunder Review by Gary Hill
    • The term “rock legend” certainly applies to Ian Gillan. Fronting such bands as Deep Purple and Black Sabbath over the years, he has proved that he has an incredible voice and has been a very influential force in the rock genre. This solo album features both his incredible vocal talents and some fine songwriting. The material varies from hard rock that feels a bit like Deep Purple to more balladic sort of works. In fact, one of the ballads on the disc is an incredibly emotional piece that is one of the best cuts on the CD.
    • 3 of 5
  • Collector’s Guide to Heavy Metal vol 3 The Nineties
    • 4 out of 10
  • Select Magazine
    • 2 out of 5

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Episode #259 – Machine Head (Super Deluxe)

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CD1: 2024 REMIX

  • 1. Highway Star (6.05)
  • 2. Maybe I’m A Leo (4.51)
  • 3. Pictures Of Home (5.04)
  • 4. Never Before (3.58)
  • 5. Smoke On The Water (5.39)
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  • 8. When A Blind Man Cries (B-Side)

2024 REMASTER

  • 9. Highway Star (6.05)
  • 10. Maybe I’m A Leo (4.51)
  • 11. Pictures Of Home (5.04)
  • 12. Never Before (3.58)
  • 13. Smoke On The Water (5.39)
  • 14. Lazy (7.21)
  • 15. Space Truckin’ (4.33)

CD2: IN CONCERT ’72

  • 1. Introduction (0.16)
  • 2. Highway Star (7.41)
  • 3. Strange Kind Of Woman (9.32)
  • 4. Maybe I’m A Leo (5.35)
  • 5. Smoke On The Water (7.32)
  • 6. Never Before (5.18)
  • 7. Lazy (9.21)
  • 8. Space Truckin’ (22.11)
  • 9. Lucille (7.30)
  • 10. Maybe I’m A Leo (sound-check) (4.32)

CD3: MONTREUX ’71

  • 1. Swiss Yodel (1.14)
  • 2. Speed King (8.52)
  • 3. Strange Kind Of Woman (8.21)
  • 4. Into The Fire (4.19)
  • 5. Child In Time (20.11)
  • 6. Paint It Black (5.17)
  • 7. Wring That Neck (Hard Road) (17.09)
  • 8. Black Night (7.48)
  • 9. Lucille (5.49)

BLU-RAY

  • 2024 ATMOS REMIX
    • 1. Highway Star (6.05)
    • 2. Maybe I’m A Leo (4.51)
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    • 4. Never Before (3.58)
    • 5. Smoke On The Water (5.39)
    • 6. Lazy (7.21)
    • 7. Space Truckin’ (4.33)
  • B-SIDE
    • 8. When A Blind Man Cries (3.29)
  • QUAD MIX
    • 9. Highway Star (6.05)
    • 10. Maybe I’m A Leo (4.51)
    • 11. Pictures Of Home (5.04)
    • 12. Never Before (3.58)
    • 13. Smoke On The Water (5.39)
    • 14. Lazy (7.21)
    • 15. Space Truckin’ (4.33)
  • 5.1 MIXES
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    • 17. Maybe I’m A Leo (4.51)
    • 18. Lazy (7.21)

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Episode #253 – Rainbow – Live Between The Eyes (with Chris L from Pod of Thunder)

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    • Also known as Lin Robinson
    • Same Rainbow live releases, and two other credits

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Episode #252 – Bernie Marsden – And About Time Too (with Jonatan Hedlin)

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Episode #248 – Gary Moore – Back on the Streets (with Rich Shailor)

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  • Moore had been in a band called Skid Row. It was in that band he met Phil Lynott and they formed a friendship. They shared an apartment in Ballsbridge, a neighborhood in Dublin at the time.
  • The band was not related to the American band of the same name but there have been refuted claims that Gary Moore sold the name to Sebastian Bach, a claim others deny.
  • Phil left the band to start Thin Lizzy. In 1974 when guitarist Eric Bell left the band Gary Moore joined briefly, recording a few songs.  He left after a few months.
  • Moore went on to work on many other projects but rejoined Thin Lizzy in 1977 when Brian injured his hand in a bar fight. He recorded the album Black Rose: A Rock Legend with Thin Lizzy before leaving again, declining an offer to join permanently.
  • In 1978 Gary got a deal to do a solo album, his second after his 1973 album “Grinding Stone” billed as The Gary Moore Band.  At the same time he was recording with Phil on his solo album “Solo in Soho.”

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  • Bass – John Mole (tracks: A2, A3, A4)
    • Worked with Colosseum II
  • Bass, Vocals – Phil Lynott (tracks: B1, B2, B3, B4)
  • Drums – Brian Downey (tracks: B1, B2, B3, B4)
  • Simon Phillips (tracks: A1, A2, A3, A4)
    • Tsangarides: “Gary asked me if I knew any drummers so I got Simon Phillilps in, who was only a young kid at the time, but who I had worked with on a Jack Bruce album, and we did the bulk of the album in a week, all jazz instrumentals. Then Gary came in with this ghetto blaster and played me a song done with a drum machine, keyboards and a guitar solo. ‘What do you think of this?’”
    • The track he played was “Parisienne Walkways,” and he said Phil and Brian were coming to the studio to record it.
  • Guitar, Vocals – Gary Moore
  • Keyboards, Organ, Piano – Don Airey (tracks: A1, A2 A3, A4)

Technical:

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Album Tracks:

All songs written by Gary Moore except where noted.

Side One:

  1. Back on the Streets (Moore)
  2. Don’t Believe a Word (Lynott)
    • Drums – Brian Downey
    • Lead Vocals, Bass – Phil Lynott
    • Lead Vocals, Guitar – Gary Moore
    • Written-By – Lynott*
    • This song was a bit of an issue in Thin Lizzy. It was originally a 12-bar blues song and Brian Downey and Robertson did not like it and added a bit more to the song.  On this version it is simplified and Chris said in Sound on Sound, “I loved the simplicity and emptiness of it . . . it was a sort of Peter Green/Santana “Black Magic Woman”-type vibe.”
  3. Fanatical Fascists (Lynott)
  4. Flight of the Snow Moose (Instrumental) (Moore)

Side Two:

  1. Hurricane (Instrumental) (Moore)
  2. Song for Donna (Moore)
    • Bass – John Mole
    • Drums – Simon Phillips
    • Keyboards – Don Airey
    • Lead Vocals, Guitar – Gary Moore
    • Written-By – Campbell*, Moore*
    • Donna Campbell was Gary Moore’s girlfriend of about five years. Also romantically linked to Mick Jagger. Jimmy Phantom of the Stray Cats, and even pre-Sharon Ozzy Osbourne. Was even once paid £1,000 to give a lap dance to Sylvester Stallone.
    • https://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/news/10638845.former-bridgwater-girl-was-model-muse-and-partied-with-mick-jagger-now-she-turns-60/
    • During the mixing of the track Tsangarides said he was at the desk and Ozzy Osbourne walked in with Bill Ward and Geezer Butler.  They were really interested in the track and asked him to play parts back to him.  He said Bill Ward then threw up in the garbage can and Ozzy pulled his pants down and chasing the tape op, Vic, around the room then ran straight into a wall. He went off to the hospital and Tony Iommi called asking what they’d done to Ozzy.  Apparently Ozzy had done so much cocaine that he couldn’t feel anything. He ended up showing back up at the studio later and while Tsangarides was trying to mix the song Ozzy tapped him on the shoulder and when Chris looked over Ozzy’s dick was on it. Tsangarides said that this was a “famous Ozzy trick.”
  3. What Would You Rather Bee or a Wasp (Instrumental) (Moore)
  4. Parisienne Walkways (Lynott, Moore)
    • Double Bass, Bass, Lead Vocals – Phil Lynott
    • Drums – Brian Downey
    • Guitar, Guitar Synthesizer, Mandolin, Accordion, Backing Vocals – Gary Moore
    • Written-By – Lynott*
    • This song had been something Don Airey and Moore had worked on in Colosseum II called “Biscayne Blues” which had been based on a Kenny Dorham song called “Blue Bossa.” a bossa nova style song.
    • The song had been intended to be an instrumental.
    • Tsangarides brought the demo of this to Phil’s house to play for him. Phil said it sounded “really French” and then began writing lyrics to it.
    • The opening line is “I remember Paris in ‘49.” Phil’s father’s name was Parris and Phil was born in 1949.
    • The whole track was recorded live in just a few takes. There was no click track and Gary played the solo in perfect time.  Phil overdubbed an accordion and the upright bass.Gary played a Solina string synth and a 12-string guitar on this track.

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  • https://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/mcf2853
    • kimbozw
      • For what the information may be worth, it charted in the UK on 03 Feb 1979 for one week at the princely position of No. 70. His highest album charter was the No. 4 peaked AFTER HOURS from 1992. This is according to the Virgin Books issued HIT ALBUMS covering the period 1956 to 2008 which I acquired on 13 June 2011 on a visit to London Town. The book cost me 6 quid which was a promotional price reduced from the previously priced 16 quid.
    • MicSmith
      • Although this album is given a 1978 release date I believe it was released in January 1979, with the Back in the Streets single (a faded version of the album track) issued in December 1978.
      • The single was originally to appear in October 1978 as per its listing on the 45cat page but I believe it was delayed until the December release.(See Martin C. Strong The Great Rock Discography).
      • I was a big GM fan at this point and was eagerly awaiting the appearance of this record after the dissolution of Colosseum II and my strong recollection of knowing about the release of the album was seeing Gary and his Thin Lizzy friends appear on OGWT early in 1979. My brother bought the album on the back of this appearance and I taped it from his vinyl shortly after but before Parisienne Walkways was issued as a single. Also full page adverts for the album didn’t start to appear in the UK music papers until January 1979 another indication that it appeared that month.
    • Tsangarides says of the album: “It was a strange album . . . Colosseum II, Thin Lizzy and a bit of punk coming in because Paul Cook and Steve Jones shipped up and we did a few songs with them, which never came out.”

Reviews

  • https://www.allmusic.com/album/back-on-the-streets-mw0000654670
    • Back on the Streets Review by Eduardo Rivadavia
    • 1979 was a busy year for Irish guitarist Gary Moore, who after years of seemingly aimless wandering across the musical landscape (including a flirtation with jazz-rock fusion while fronting G-Force) simultaneously re-launched his long-dormant solo career and became a full-time member of Thin Lizzy. Moore had originally agreed to help his old partner in crime Phil Lynott only temporarily, while longtime Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson recovered from a broken hand incurred in a barroom brawl. But due to Robbo’s increasing unreliability, Moore was persuaded to stay on and record Lizzy’s Black Rose album in exchange for Lynott‘s help in shaping his own solo effort, Back on the Streets. And a good trade it was, too, as with the exception of the title track’s gutsy hard rock, Lynott‘s singing and songwriting contributions wound up providing the album with its most coherent and satisfying moments. These included the highly amusing “Fanatical Fascists,” a mellow reworking of Lizzy’s “Don’t Believe a Word,” a whimsical acoustic ballad called “Spanish Guitar,” and the simply exquisite Moore tour de force “Parisienne Walkways.” Unfortunately, these are rudely interrupted by a number of misplaced instrumental fusion workouts (no doubt G-Force leftovers) and a terribly saccharine ballad called “Song for Donna.” Half winner, half dud, the album would at least serve notice of Moore’s rebirth as a solo artist, and he would show marked improvement on his next album, Corridors of Power.

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