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Smoke on the water... a fire in the sky!
Jul. 25th, 2006 12:38 am...I can't even begin to describe what being in the Deep Purple concert felt like.
It's more than adjectives such as 'fantastic' and 'unbelievable', as Ian Gillan kept saying. At least for me. It's something magical, listening to songs that were written 16 years before I was born and today, 34 years later, they still manage to make the crowd go wild. Me being part of that crowd.
And what can one say about these people? Ian Gillan's 61 years old, and his voice probably can't carry out what it used to when he was young, yet the things he can still do put to shame many young artists. He can do such a high-pitched scream you doubt you're listening to a human voice; he can jump through high and low notes and awkward spaces without his voice breaking at all; he knows how to sing without his breath intakes ruining the sound of the music... he was awesome, really. Unfortunately, the guitar and the bass sometimes didn't let it show - I kept hoping they'd turn up his microphone volume and turn down the guitar and the bass a little, but they didn't. But that doesn't make him any less awesome.
As for the others? What can I say about their onstage liveliness, their ability to play their instruments with such speed and dexterity - my eyes goggled when I saw Steve Morse doing his solo. The way his fingers were sliding on the guitar...
It might not seem as that big of a deal - I mean, when you're going to a concert, you expect to see people performing, and you expect them to be professionals and perform well. But just the idea of people of that age, of a group with such a history, of songs that go back when my dad, who was sitting next to me tonight, was 13 years old (they played more recent songs too, of course, but the oldest ones were the ones that made the people go crazy)... and seeing them up there performing with all the talent they had back then... this is a big deal indeed.
This music will never die.
And, because I'm a geek, the FoLC moment of the concert: Don Airey (the keyboardist), while doing his solo, he played, among other things... the Superman theme! LOL!
If you haven't listened to any Deep Purple songs yet, a) shame on you and b) download Smoke On The Water and Highway Star NOW. Their biggest hit and one of their other great hits respectively, taken from Machine Head (1972), their most classic album and a must-have for every knowledgable rock fan.
Bye, y'all. And have fun. I had :D
It's more than adjectives such as 'fantastic' and 'unbelievable', as Ian Gillan kept saying. At least for me. It's something magical, listening to songs that were written 16 years before I was born and today, 34 years later, they still manage to make the crowd go wild. Me being part of that crowd.
And what can one say about these people? Ian Gillan's 61 years old, and his voice probably can't carry out what it used to when he was young, yet the things he can still do put to shame many young artists. He can do such a high-pitched scream you doubt you're listening to a human voice; he can jump through high and low notes and awkward spaces without his voice breaking at all; he knows how to sing without his breath intakes ruining the sound of the music... he was awesome, really. Unfortunately, the guitar and the bass sometimes didn't let it show - I kept hoping they'd turn up his microphone volume and turn down the guitar and the bass a little, but they didn't. But that doesn't make him any less awesome.
As for the others? What can I say about their onstage liveliness, their ability to play their instruments with such speed and dexterity - my eyes goggled when I saw Steve Morse doing his solo. The way his fingers were sliding on the guitar...
It might not seem as that big of a deal - I mean, when you're going to a concert, you expect to see people performing, and you expect them to be professionals and perform well. But just the idea of people of that age, of a group with such a history, of songs that go back when my dad, who was sitting next to me tonight, was 13 years old (they played more recent songs too, of course, but the oldest ones were the ones that made the people go crazy)... and seeing them up there performing with all the talent they had back then... this is a big deal indeed.
This music will never die.
And, because I'm a geek, the FoLC moment of the concert: Don Airey (the keyboardist), while doing his solo, he played, among other things... the Superman theme! LOL!
If you haven't listened to any Deep Purple songs yet, a) shame on you and b) download Smoke On The Water and Highway Star NOW. Their biggest hit and one of their other great hits respectively, taken from Machine Head (1972), their most classic album and a must-have for every knowledgable rock fan.
Bye, y'all. And have fun. I had :D
