Newsgroups: alt.music.deep-purple
Subject: Deep Purple in Chicago
From: Kouros Owzar 
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 08:53:11 GMT

I just got home from the Chicago show. I have good news and bad news.

Let us start with the bad news. The audience was extremely passive. Allow me to exemplify: The couple behind me started complaining about the fact that I was standing up, while everybody else is seated. They both kept nagging me and nagging me about it. Finally they gave up. Five minutes later, I sat down.

I believe that at a rock concert one should be able to stand up and try to sing along as long as there is no pushing or shoving involved. This is not a high school recital.

The more pathetic part, in my opinion was that there were more people standing up during Woman from Tokyo than during Speed King.

Now to the good news: The performance was great. It was a good mix of songs. I was also impressed by Steve Morse. He felt comfortable playing with the band and there seemed to be good chemistry between him, Glover and Gillan. Unfortunately, I was unable to see Lord from where I was sitting. I loved his solo.

It appeared that Gillan is no longer able to scream the way he did on Child in time and Born Again (Sabbath). I think however that despite this, he did a great job singing. I was kind of glad that they skipped Child in Time. I like to remember it the way it was done on DP in Japan and Live and Rare.

I give the band an A and the quite audience an F.

The openening act was MArtial Law, a local Chicago band. I was not impressed by their music. I am not saying it was bad, since I do not like that style of music. It could be worse (e.g. Fear Factory for Iron Maiden)

Kouros.

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