BOC: Review in a Deep Purple review

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On 6/19/05, Jason Scruton <js3619 at acmenet.net> wrote:
>  From the deep-purple.net website...
>
> What saddens me is the thought that BOC "opened' for Kenny Wayne Sheppard.
> ---------------------------

Motorhead always seems to open for less respectable bands*, like
Scorpion, and Dio, I forget who else. I'd rather make it to Dio's set
by a long shot even though Dio is Dio. At one time I owned two elf
albums, every rainbow album up till the one from 1995 dont know if
there are more. And every Dio album of course, and I know the lyrics
to every Dio song by heart.

Saw BOC at the middle east in boston I think in 99 or 2000, they
weren't playing too hot or bad either, drew in as many people as the
Dresden Dolls (PURE DREK this band) who are touring with NIN this
summer... I wonder if they paid money to do this. They're from Jamaica
plain where the Milky way is along with a phony arts community that
sprang up whenever a bunch of bourgeouis photographers and graphic
designers ganged up with people who buy up property for loft
conversions. None of them went to see Nik Turner & Spaceseed but they
were all there in force for the Dresden Dolls and got a disgusting
picture of them onto the cover of the boston globe magazine that week,
left out on the kitchen table of one of my bourgeoisie neighbors, I
would have liked to know how long they left it there, probably two
weeks. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum opened at that show too.  Oh yeah it
was great more than half the audience left after motorhead finished
opening for scorpion. I don't listen to BOC that much but I really
like Fire of Unknown Origin and Veteran of 1000 Psychic wars is an all
time favorite song.

*KWS NOT implied disrespectable by correlation





>
> DEEP PURPLE
> Ionia Free Fairground
> June 17th 2005
>
> Musically, one of the better concerts I've ever been to was the FoxFest
> bash at the Ionia Fairgrounds in Ionia, Michigan, on June 17th, headlined
> by Deep Purple. Nearly 100,000 were in attendance, a mini-Woodstock.
>
> Broken Sunday, a local band, played a surprisingly (first time I'd heard of
> them) good set from about 5:15pm-6pm under cloudy skies and 65 degrees. The
> crowd started to build for Blue Oyster Cult, who played an excellent gig
> that included a monster bass solo in the middle of Godzilla. I was
> disappointed B.O.C. only played for an hour, because they're one of my
> favorite bands. They played, in no particular order: The Red & The Black,
> Don't Fear (The Reaper), I'm Burning for You, E.T.I., Buck's Boogie and
> Dominance & Submission, among others. It was superb, as always.
>
> Then Kenny Wayne Shepherd took the stage. I didn't figure I'd be into that
> band much, because I'm not really into Southern blues rock, although
> Southern hard rock like Lynyrd Skynrd, .38 Special, the Allman Brothers,
> Outlaws, et al., I love. But Shepherd was extremely good. Shepherd may be
> the best young blues rock guitarist out there, and that's no hyperbole. The
> singer's was kind of like a Southern-flavored Paul Rodgers, if you can
> imagine that. They covered a lot of vintage tunes, including a sizzling
> rendition of Jimi Hendrix' Voodoo Chile. I will definitely buy their
> albums, now that I've been indoctrinated.
>
> Then, on came Deep Purple. The crowd was so huge I couldn't even see the
> back of it from up front, stage right. Ian Gillan recognized me right off
> and waved. The crowd went gaga. The set list was pretty much the same as in
> Pittsburgh earlier in the tour. Gillan and Morse seemed impressed by the
> tremendous size and enthusiasm of the crowd, based on their giggling early
> on. Or, perhaps it was the shenanigans in the crowd, what with an amazing
> amount of moshing and breast-baring, all of it, going on. Gillan joked that
> the breast-baring was what got him into rock 'n' roll. He did some Tai
> Chi-like hand movements and screamed his bloody head off. I'm just amazed
> that if you listened to Gillan circa 1988, his voice sounded roached, and
> now it sounds scintillating like the early '70s, but he can't scream or hit
> the high notes quite as consistently as back then. But, that's no
> criticism: he still sounds phenomenal.
>
> Don Airey played better than I've seen him play before, and that's pretty
> darn good. He was extremely creative, especially on the solo stuff, and the
> variations from classical to piano and sound effects. Amazing. Purple has
> to get more creative at promoting itself in the U.S. (or their record
> company does). I've never heard one song off Bananas played on the radio,
> anywhere, in this country. The last time the band got any real airplay at
> all was with Ted the Mechanic ten years ago. DP has not really charted in
> the U.S. since the mid-to-late 1980's, but is actually playing better than
> then. Fans know the old hits, of course, and that's what brought them out
> to Ionia. But I think the trick is to get on network television, like
> Saturday Night Live, the Late Show with David Letterman or The Tonight Show
> with Jay Leno.
>


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