That particular ship has sailed. They’ve just passed through Florida before coming to NYC.
While we are on the topic, have you noticed, too, how everyone uses current photos of Deep Purple and decades-old photos of Blackmore for their news about this - undeniably giganticly important - event?
Kind of reminds me when they advertised Deep Purple concerts in the 2000’s on local rock radio by playing Child In Time in the background.
Julio, you know why you are my soulmate! 
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My man, your vote was the best!
Awww, Nick, I was fearing that this might have been the case… Damn, that’s no good. This is the opportunity that, IMO, should not have been missed.
FYI
Reconciliation times involving English people usually average 3 +/- 1 decades.
Best, J.-
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I always felt turbocharged when Ritchie threw Burn in for a number of reasons - not only because it’s my favourite Deep Purple track ever - but for the joy it gave Ritchie, Jon and small Ian to bounce off on. And if it pissed Gillan off - all the better for it!
Mk II never had a monopoly on creating legendary Purple tracks. And I don’t care if IG likes it or not. He’s not the centre of the universe. If you’re jealous of the fact that other members did a music as good as your line-up, go to the therapy instead of re-writting history. Therapy yourself if you can’t stand the fact that gems like Burn, Mistreated, Gypsy, Soldier of Fortune, Drifter or You Keep On Moving are not yours. But they ARE Deep Purple’s. And each of those is a fabulous milestone in the band’s catalogue, like every other era. End of story.
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Apparently so, Brother, apparently so, but they don’t have that much time for Steve now.
Indeed we are having a solar eclipse 
I’m ready with lots of coffee and my camera
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They behave like gentlemen AND RB sets fire to SMcB’s amps 
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I remember that day in April 1972—in the car, a yellow FIAT 128 Rally Sport, with my father… as we were on our way to pick up Mom and my new baby brother from the hospital, the radio was playing “Smoke on the Water”…
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I hope if they do a second song besides Smoke, that song will be Perfect Strangers!
This way both relevant periods of MKII would be covered.
So here it is, Merry Christmas!
- Smoke on the Water (with Ritchie Blackmore)
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This was one of those things that are relevant for happening, and whatever musical content is secondary. Like Ian says in the end, “it was a great pleasure, I’ll see you at the bar”.
Oh dear. I don’t know what to say, it’s beautiful and it’s tragic at the same time. Time is relentless. Thank you and good night.
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Come on guys, was I the only one with a tear in the eyes? 
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Ok, there was some rust film with Ritchie and he would have likely benefited from warming up a little more over another (or two) song(s), but I didn’t really expect anything else - it’s not like he could have spent the last years of failing health with a tight rehearsal regime for rock guitar. You try practicing on your Strat with a heart attack, gout, arthritis, constant back ache, migraine attacks and vertigo. What we heard, was still signature Blackmore in the choice of notes if not executed with the fervor of yore. Still, a good thing that it happened at all. I’m fine with it.
Not tears, Karin, but I was moved.
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Yes it is moving, deeply human. I am glad they finally got together and buried the hatchet
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I couldn’t help it, I got weepy. Performance itself was what was rather expected. It would take him a few long days of warming up to get beyond that. Gotta say, Don has totally ruined the chance to give Ritchie space to solo a bit more, pushing in with his acrobatics… But, oh dear, it was moving. A bit surprised they didn’t chug RB in on Perfect Strangers. They could have sounded great together with Simon on that. That’s it, as Hiberno said Thank you, good night.
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