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From: rainbow@image.dk (Otto Poulsen)
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 96 09:06:39 GMT
Subject: Rewiev: Esbjerg 31/5-96

Hej all fans, here you have my review:

The DP concert 31. May, on Esbjerg Rockfestival was a good concert, all in the band was in good mood. Thursday before the concert, a big danish newspaper called me to write a article and some pictures, I did and they printed my article monday.

DP entered the stage 22:15 as announced, i think there where 12-15.000 people. In another place at the festival, The Sweet should give a concert at the same time, but people where in the front at the DP concert.

The DP set-up was not changed, Jon Lord uses his old Hammond B3 and some "Korg" keyboard and a Yamaha keyboard. The Hammond XB-2 keyboard-modul was not at the stage.

Problems to put accoustic guitars to the stagebox/mixer, before "Feels Like Screaming", so Steve played the intro on his electric guitar.
I have a good tape from the concert :-))

  • Fireball
  • Vavoom! Ted The Mechanic
  • Pictures Of Home
  • Black Night
  • Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover
  • Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming
  • Woman From Tokyo
  • Bloodsucker
  • Purpendicular Waltz
  • Smoke On The Water
  • Solo - Organ
  • When A Blind Man Cries
  • Speed King
    Encores:
  • Perfect Strangers
  • Hey Cisco
  • Highway Star

Steve Morse did a great solo in the end of "Cascades: I'm Not Your Lover".
They don't play Rosa's Cantina, i think that was because of the short time.
Jon Lord's solo was very different from what i ever had heard from him, no "Für Elise", "Bolero" or something, and i think his solo on Esbjerg was _to_ different from his earlier solos.

My article was printed in "Det Fri Aktuelt", on the cultural front side, a newspaper who is read all over Denmark.

DEEP PURPLE WAS ROCKIN ESBJERG!

The greatest band of the 70's played rock directly from the heart on Esbjerg Rock Festival

ROCK
With: Otto Poulsen

Everything was okay and in the right place, the youngest in the front of the stage, the older people back, but thereafter you couldn't know what's happened, when the 27 year old band Deep Purple was playing.

All generations needed have some extra fresh air, and the air across Esbjerg was full of "Beton-rock" ["concrete rock" Ed.].

The old generations who remember Radio Luxenburgs rocknews and the younger generation, normally, with heavy metal and punk in their digital "child-bottles", was rockin' together under the concert.

The records Fireball, Machine Head and In Rock, who send Deep Purple to the top of the list in the 70's and made Deep Purple to a rock gigant, filled up the festival place with numbers: Fireball, Black Night, Smoke On the Water etc. Music from that time when father was a child, and now his boy take off his headphones and listen to some real liverock - directly straight from the real rock-hearts.

An good mooded Ian Gillan run across the stage and was singing from every place. Deep Purple is a long away from Ritchie Blackmore now, and the replacement Steve Morse does a great job, and in Steve Morse, the organist Jon Lord have got a great "musical-fellow" to do improvisations with.

I had very big problems with translating, but i hope you understand. My article was very longer, but another event in Denmark should have some place to...

Med Venlig Hilsen/Regards
Otto Poulsen

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