JUST A FEW RANDOM thoughts on Deep Purple's gig at Leicester to add to Graeme Miller's spot-on review:
Steve Morse's treatment of the riff to SotW, especially in the first eight bars, was very neat; it can't be easy to make one of the best-known riffs in the world sound like your own, but he managed it.
kudos to Jon Lord for throwing some different quotes into his solo and for daring to finish on a quiet, slow note - but he's *still* doing Fur Elise! Arrgh! Now they've dropped 'Difficult to Cure', couldn't they ban *all* Beethoven? ;-)
The lasers, at Leicester anyway, are gone; there's green spots during PS and a glitter-ball (!) during 'Highway Star'. Funny, I never really thought of DP as a glitter-ball kind of band.
Nice to hear JL throwing in some piano solos ('Maybe I'm a Leo', 'Woman from Tokyo') as well as the usual amazing hammond.
I was sorry not to hear 'The Aviator'. It's an unusual sound for DP - very melodious - and I think it'd be good live.
Loved the organ/guitar intro to 'When a blind man cries'; beautiful harmonies. But the pyrotechnic guitar solo in the middle of it seemed to have wandered in from a different song entirely.
John Dale
Newsgroups: alt.music.deep-purple Subject: Re: Leicester/UK 25/02/96 From: johnd@cix.compulink.co.uk (John Dale)
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