Deep Purple plans Lebanon performance

[Jeanette in FL]

Deep Purple plans Lebanon performance
UPI

July 18, 2006

WESTPORT, CN, USA -- Despite the fighting in Lebanon, English rock band Deep Purple says that it plans to perform at the Baalbek Music Festival outside of Beirut later this year.

A press release from the band confirmed that Deep Purple would indeed honor its July 28 performance near the war-torn city, also promising an immediate makeup date should the festival's promoter choose to cancel the show.

Deep Purple is currently one-quarter of the way through a planned two-year world tour and to date has not canceled a single show, a trend that it hopes to continue.

Ian Gillan, lead singer of the legendary band, said that the band's commitment is driven by the idea that music is the universal language of the world and through its hopes to honor the loyalty of its fans through performing.

"There is a moment that begins on stage, when there are no managers, no journalists, no outside distractions - just the band and the audience," Gillan said in the release. "This is the time when there is an unspoken exchange of energy between the fans and us that words can not describe. That makes all the other parts of the job worth it."

http://metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060718-104709-9340r

That is pretty damn cool, music being the universal language of the world. Best of Luck to them.

[TX-RAT]

1. Gives "Smoke on the water" a whole new meaning

[Jeanette in FL]

2. Sure Does

Fire in the sky.

[Ezlivin]

3. Will they play "Burn"?

The sky is red, I don't understand,
Past midnight I still see the land.
People are sayin' the woman is damned,
She makes you burn with a wave of her hand.
The city's a blaze, the town's on fire.
The womans flames are reaching higher.
We were fools, we called her liar.
All I hear is burn!

I didn't believe she was devil's sperm.
She said, curse you all, you'll never learn!
When I leave there's no return.
The people laughed 'till she said, burn!
Warning came, no one cared.
Earth was shakin', we stood and stared.
When it came no one was spared.
Still I hear burn!

You know we had no time,
We could not even try.
You know we had no time.

You know we had no time,
We could not even try.
You know we had no time.

The sky is red, I don't understand,
Past midnight I still see the land.
People are sayin' the woman is damned,
She makes you burn with a wave of her hand.
Warning came, no one cared.
Earth was shakin', we stood and stared.
When it came no one was spared.
Still I hear burn!

[livetohike]

4. "Child in Time"

Sweet child in time, you'll see the line
Line that's drawn between good and bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying taking toll
If you been bad - Oh Lord I bet you have
And you've not been hit oh by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes aahouh bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
Ooh ooh ooh...


Sweet child in time, you'll see the line
Line that's drawn between good and bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying taking toll
If you've been bad - Lord I bet you have
And you've not been hit by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes aahaah bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
Ooh ooh ooh...

[bananas]

5. "My Woman From Tokyo"

"She makes me see..."

[VegasWolf]

6. Wow, the Deep Purple are still around? I loved them in my formative

hippie years!!!

[jonnyblitz]

7. "machine head" was one of the first albums I ever bought

along with Black Sabbath, Master of Reality. not sure at the time if they were even "current" when I bought them.

[VegasWolf]

8. I had a couple of Deep Purple 8-Tracks that I owned. nt

[MGD]

9. I saw them a couple of years ago. it was a good show but not loud enough

they were opening for Lynard Skinnard along with Ted Nugent and Cheap trick. The MC madman stole the show though IMO.

[Norton]

10. F.Y.I.

The "Motor City Madman" goes by "Right Wing Asshole" around here these days.
Thank you, carry on.

[MGD]

11. Yeah, but he can still play the hell out of a guitar

and at the end of the day, that's more important in my book.

[Bluzmann57]

12. Not to worry

A lot of people around here don't like Skynyrd either simply (I guess) because they are Southern and proud of it.I love 'em. Nugent is a helluva guitar player but I cannot see paying to get into a show where he is playing, especially since he babbles on about his extremist viewpoint. I just don't agree with him. But it's your money, so do what you want to.

[Nevernose]

13. I never understood the anti-Skynyrd thing

At best, they were moderately liberal, and at worst they were populists. There were quite a few songs against racism, as I recall. Yeah, Watergate didn't bother them too much (as it didn't bother most people when it began), but who knows where they's stand today on Nixon? And despite their opinion of the opening days of Watergate, they sure as hell didn't like the governor of Alabama, now did they?

Mostly they were just into playing good old-fashioned rock and roll and rhythym and blues.

A lot of people here still have some kind of fantasy grudge against the South, as if conservatism or racism started and stopped at the Mason-Dixon line or the Rio Grande. California spawned Nixon and Reagan, neo-Nazis dominate headlines in Ohio, and Boston has historically had the most segregated schools in the nation. The South is far from perfect, granted unconditionally, but it's not incorrigible; it's just slow to change.

[MGD]

15. Nuge never said anything political at the show I saw.

Incidentally, I thought his only right-wing conviction was the sanctity of the second amendment. I wasn't aware that he held deeper wing nut philosophies. "Great White Buffalo" was the shit and, for what it's worth, is a song with a noticeable slant to the left. As for Skynard, they were OK but they lacked the energy that they once possesed I think. By the way, as a general guideline, I don't let politics influence my listening tastes. None of this has anything to do with Deep Purple of course. I would definitely go see Deep purple again but I would prefer to see them headlining even if it were a smaller venue (especially if it were a smaller venue actually).

[Stardust]

14. Hope they sing "Help." One of those rare Beatles' covers that *almost*

outshines the original.

[Norton]

16. Poor Skynyrd...

I can't help comparing them to the founders of the "southern rock" sound, The Allman Brothers. Of course, there is no comparison, as those boys were beyond great and the true originals. Dwayne was the "other" truly amazing American
guitarist, (Jimi being number one of course), I can't even think of another lead guitarist that Clapton took on as a band-mate besides Dwayne? I guess I always thought of Skynyrd as a "poor man's Allman Bros.Band". And there's this... I'm a huge Neil Young fan. He sang a few songs about the south's trouble with racism and Lynyrd Skynard attacked him for it.
I guess it seemed to me that they were defending their history of racist behaviour which, got my hackles up against them.
Though things have slowly but surely gotten better since the sixties, the south will always be the undisputed home of racism... sorry, it was earned. Just like America has recently earned the current title of "the world's biggest bully". I was
born and raised in Dallas Texas, we're not much better, historically, as far as racism. And JFK's assasination didn't help
my fair city one damn bit! We will truly never live that down, nor will we live down the fact that we spawned this horrid
president. (Though, of course, I conveniently blame that one on New Haven Connecticut where he was actually born!)

[MGD]

17. It's hard to call Skynard racist after "the Ballad of Curtis Lowe"

Which is my favorite Skynard song BTW.
"the Ballad of Curtis Lowe"

Well I used to wake the morning before the rooster crowed
Searching for soda bottles to get myself some dough
Brought 'em down to the corner, down to the country store
Cash 'em in and give my money to a man named Curtis Loew

Old Curt was a black man with white curly hair
When he had a fifth of wine he did not have a care
He used to own an old dobro, used to play it across his knee
I'd give old Curt my money, he'd play all day for me

(Chorus)
Play me a song Curtis Loew, Curtis Loew
I got your drinking money, tune up your dobro
People said he was useless, them people are the fools
'Cause Curtis Loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues

He looked to be sixty, and maybe I was ten
Mama used to whip me but I'd go see him again
I'd clap my hands, stomp my feets, try to stay in time
He'd play me a song or two
Then take another drink of wine.

Chorus

Yes sir

On the day old Curtis died, nobody came to pray
Ol' preacher said some words, and they chunked him in the clay
But he lived a lifetime playin' the black man's blues
And on the day he lost his life, that's all he had to lose

Play me a song Curtis Loew, Hey Curtis Loew
I wish that you was here so everyone would know
People said he was useless, them people all are fools
'Cause Curtis you're the finest picker to ever play the blues
http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/126101.html

[RebelOne]

18. I saw them in concert many years ago

in Dania, Florida. They were awesome.