Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Deep Purple Goes To War
8/4/10 Update: The link to the article no longer works.
It must've been a slow week over at the "Grapevine" section of the Fairfield
County Business Journal. They had two references to rock bands in the same
column!
Oh, if you guys are reading this, that's fine by me.
Deep Purple, the British rock band with managers at Thames Talent
Ltd. in Westport, has announced that, no, it has no intention of canceling its
performance scheduled for Thursday, July 28 just outside Beirut at the Baalbeck
Music Festival. Whether there will be a Baalbeck Music Festival as of July 28
is another story.
According to the band's website, the
show is actually Thursday, the 27th.
With all of the coverage the news
networks are pouring into the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon (what
happened to Iraq? Dare I even ask about Afghanistan?), I'm surprised we haven't
heard anything about this. If the show goes on, Deep Purple might finally become
a household name again (albeit for 15 minutes).
Deep Purple has been
given the proverbial shaft by classic rock and AOR radio since 1987's The
House of Blue Light. The band, which has made a couple lineup changes (Steve
Morse took over for Blackmore and Jon Lord retired giving Don Airey a chance to
fill his keyboard) has continued on anyway. I confess, I haven't heard any of
their new material. Since classic rock stations are loathe to play new music by
even classic rock artists, except for the most faithful of fans, who has?
Should the show go on, an appropriate song for Deep Purple to play would be
"Under The Gun" from Perfect Strangers. That's a song that should
resonate with the crowd.
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DED
2 Comments:
 Alan P. said...
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Deep Purple and blueberry ale. Shades of violet week to be sure. I know, that's
a reach. I heard Humanitarian aid is arriving in Beirut in limited quantities,
Condi's there too. Whirled peas all the way around.
- 7/25/2006 9:57 PM
 Mike said...-
Smoke On The Water, too, may be all too appropriate.
I'm gonna file a
concert in a war zone under the "Act of Desperation" heading.
- 7/26/2006 6:29 AM
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