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Hello, I am Marcelo Soares. I live in São Paulo, Brazil; lived down in Porto Alegre when amd-p was a thing, ceased to be a thing and the original forum replaced it. I’m glad to have met in real life, around the world, many people from this corner of geekland – and even attended a gig in Berlin with some of you, a high point in life.
My name is Karin, and I have been at THS in a couple of years.
I have absolutely no music understanding like so many of you here, that’ll say I cannot play any instrument, and when I try to sing… well, no need to go there.
But I LOVE the music of Deep Purple, Whitesnake and of course the solo trips with the two singers, that’ll be Ian Gillan and David Coverdale!
Apparently I have a tendency to drift off topic, sorry for that, try to be better
Hopefully this will be a nice place to read and discuss the Purple experience
I was born in 1968 and first listened to DP in 1981 with *Made in Japan*. I was hooked in 1984 and haven’t stopped following them since. Eternal love for DP and the extended family (It’s amazing to see how Gillan, Rainbow, and Whitesnake could play rock genres that were completely different from one another!).
PS
Is there really no link to this forum on the thehighwaystar.com homepage?
A fan and THS lurker for almost 30 years, I finally crawled out to post on a new-fangled forum. I’m not too keen on expanding my digital footprint, but I could talk about music forever. Especially good music, a disproportionate amount of which is within the Deep Purple family tree, with Deep Purple itself being the main attraction. This week my five favourite Purple songs (in alphabetical order) are All The Time In The World, Doing It Tonight, Not Responsible, Smooth Dancer and You Keep On Moving.
Hello. George in Ohio here. I’ve been a keyboard player for 70+ years, more piano but also some organ. I go all the way back to MKI and their pop/psychedelic phase of the first 3 albums. But I became a certifiable Purple freak when Gillan and Glover joined for In Rock, which was world changing for me. First saw them live in Cleveland 1971 when they opened for the Faces, who had Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart at the time. Absolutely jaw dropping, phenomenal hard rock virtuosity which clearly stole the show, where crowd gave them a 7 minute standing O. Being a keyboard player, I am a gigantic fan of Jon Lord (and I love Don Airey), so I generally comment/post on keyboard-related topics. Glad to have an additional way to read/share my lifelong love of all things Deep Purple.
“Ich bin der Geist, der stets verneint!
Und das mit Recht; denn alles was entsteht
Ist wert, dass es zu Grunde geht;
Drum besser wär’s, dass nichts entstünde.
So ist denn alles was ihr Sünde,
Zerstörung, kurz das Böse nennt,
Mein eigentliches Element.”
I’m only joining to later on claim I had nothing to do with it and was against the whole thing from day one. That’s a very German thing to do.
Plus to read about the most beautiful dog on Earth: Karin’s Anton!
Hi all
Janbl from Denmark here. I’ve followed THS since the beginning, and before that a.m.d-p in the 90s, back before a couple of fools ran it completely into the ground.
I was the one (and apparently the only one, so you have to live with that) who recorded that first Coverdale/Hughes concert back in the day on my, not exactly portable, cassette recorder. It was actually my very first concert ever, too (I was 16 at the time).
Cool! Since it was your first concert, what made you think about bringing a recorder? Was it just something you thought you did at concerts? My first concert was Whitesnake in the 80’s, at around same age as you. It was only a bunch of years later I realised some people actually recorded shows!
I don’t know—I just thought it might be fun to have a recording.
DP was the band for me, after all, and since I had this recorder thing, I thought, why not try bringing it along?
You and I actually met once—I think it was at KB-Hallen—and I recognized you from a photo in THS (all that hair) and said hello.
Greetings from Texas. Been a fan since the mid-70s, growing up in Europe. Still buy the albums (not formed a real opinion on Splat yet) and glad to find a place for like-minded folks to converse on matters Purple.
Hiberno, I look forward to hear your thoughts about
I’ve had difficulties re some of the songs. Sounded cold to me, he he but they’re warming up the more I listen to that album
Joining the round about myself late, but still. Martin here. I was hooked on the Hammond organ sound at the age of 5, listening like crazy to a Polish rock record that no one knows, BUT it was very heavily influenced by Deep Purple (I didn’t know it yet then, but I wore the LP to the tatters - I could already operate a turntable then). The track responsible for the damage is here:
Time passed, by the end of primary school - from Queen, via Led Zeppelin - I landed on Deep Purple, sadly exactly few weeks after Ritchie just left the band. By early 1994, I was completely hooked. And so it goes - I am still today - as you well know. What Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore do together is just my musical sense and DNA’s vocabulary.
From there - it was a fabulous journey into DPF Tree first - and most everything else afterwards.
Along the way there was always an urge to review the things I was hooked on - hence polishing (sic!) my English and by now bothering you with reviews and opinions no end.
I noticed that with passing time I’m falling more and more into “progressivisation” of my musical taste - hence last decade is heavily marked by my falling into King Crimson, Yes, Jethro Tull and recently being totally bonkers for Rush. British and American legacy of music played live and often improvised also means a lot, but I’m basically a sound animal, I can get hooked on everything from baroque, sung poetry and plethora of jazz to electronic and film music. Everything that involves a real talent of gifted players and composers.
Fate made me unable to use my both hands in full spectrum, so I can’t be your new Ritchie Blackmore and I don’t play guitar as I’d like to (probably much in RB’s fierce vein), but thanks to our beloved Jon Lord I learned to use available fingers and I am completely self taught keyboardist / composer, enjoying some level of ability and creativity, albeit in not too expanded circles.
Great to see you all here, and even better to be here among so many of you whom I adore to talk to and bounce opinions or crack stingy ripostas. This really makes a life better!
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