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Reading through this I thought there was a glaring contradiction in the discussion about songs played at gigs. Apparently Flight of the Rat would be horribly dated but that statement is then followed up with how the bands strength is improvisation.....so change it then! a song with a great driving riff at the start, chance for keyboard and guitar to play off of each other? its your song, do something with it. Cranking out SOTW, HS et al over and over gets dangerously close to being a Cabaret act - 'heres one you all remember " We all came out to....."'. Wheres the actual musical challenge?
 

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"Gillan: I think we always try to. When you’ve been near death you value every second of your life and Deep Purple was approaching death in 1993. Audiences were falling off, we were playing 4,000-seaters with barely 1,200 / 1,500 people in them. That was definitely going to be last tour. Then, fortunately, Ritchie walked out, the sun shone again and we all said: “OK, we’ll give it one more shot”. So, yes, we are grateful for that chance."

I guess he has some problems with dates. He were probably thinking of 1996, there they were playing in swimmingpools.

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"Gillan: I think we always try to. When you’ve been near death you value every second of your life and Deep Purple was approaching death in 1993. Audiences were falling off, we were playing 4,000-seaters with barely 1,200 / 1,500 people in them. That was definitely going to be last tour. Then, fortunately, Ritchie walked out, the sun shone again and we all said: “OK, we’ll give it one more shot”. So, yes, we are grateful for that chance."

I guess he has some problems with dates. He were probably thinking of 1996, there they were playing in swimmingpools.

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I don't know about 1996, but it seems strange he has to repeat that nonsense about 1993 tour not selling. I understand he said that ten years ago, because he probably felt a need to justify a Blackmore-less DP to the public. But why keep saying that? No one (well...) questions the current line-up's right to do what they wish.

Oh well, I suppose the myth has by now turned into truth in his mind.

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MrSnip wrote:

"Gillan: I think we always try to. When you’ve been near death you value every second of your life and Deep Purple was approaching death in 1993. Audiences were falling off, we were playing 4,000-seaters with barely 1,200 / 1,500 people in them. That was definitely going to be last tour. Then, fortunately, Ritchie walked out, the sun shone again and we all said: “OK, we’ll give it one more shot”. So, yes, we are grateful for that chance."

I guess he has some problems with dates. He were probably thinking of 1996, there they were playing in swimmingpools.

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I don't know about 1996, but it seems strange he has to repeat that nonsense about 1993 tour not selling. I understand he said that ten years ago, because he probably felt a need to justify a Blackmore-less DP to the public. But why keep saying that? No one (well...) questions the current line-up's right to do what they wish.

Oh well, I suppose the myth has by now turned into truth in his mind.

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I was at 4 shows in 1993, all 4 sold out. And that was not 4000 seaters, maybe with the exception KB-hallen in Copenhagen. The same place Scandinavian Nights were recorded.

I was at 11 shows in 1996, all of them in small venues, and only 1 sold out. But, I don't complain about the small venues, I like them better than the big ones, but Gillan is a liar when trying to change the historical facts!

The worst thing DP can be called is a "Classic Rock Band", but they are a Classic Rock Band! They asked for the tag, and it sticks on them.

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Al Erikson wrote:

Just for the fun and bearing in mind it doesn't really mean a thing, when you google

"rap", you get 135 million results
"rap music", 48.1 million results
"hip hop", 92,4 million results
"classic rock", 77,5 million results
"hard rock", 149 million results
"heavy metal", 71,4 million results...

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