Check out the new album by Deep Purple, titled Bananas.
Deep Purple have been rocking for 35 years now, and can still rock your
ASS OFF.
ZZZrich
Jarrod Vrazel Executive Producer
Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 1695
Location: Houston, Texas
Posted:
Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:59 pm
Deep Purple Announces North American Tour Dates for 2004
Deep Purple has announced its winter 2004 North American tour dates promoting its latest studio album Bananas on Sanctuary Records. The month-long tour covers major markets in the United States and Canada in February 2004. Deep Purple helped invent hard rock more than three decades ago and did it with a distinctive style that no other band dared try to imitate.
Bananas is the first studio album from the current lineup of vocalist Ian Gillan, guitarist Steve Morse, bass guitarist Roger Glover, drummer Ian Paice and new keyboardist Don Airey, who replaced retired original keyboardist Jon Lord in 2001. Airey is well-known for his previous work with Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Jethro Tull, Brian May, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker Group, Cozy Powell and countless others.
Gillan, Morse, Glover, Paice and Airey toured extensively prior to recording Bananas and that galvanized their cohesiveness before entering the studio. The 12 songs on Bananas include: "House of Pain," "Sun Goes Down," "Haunted," "Razzle Dazzle," "Silver Tongue," "Walk On," "Picture of Innocence," "I Got Your Number," "Never a Word," "Bananas," "Doing It Tonight" and "Contact Lost." The instrumental track "Contact Lost," the bittersweet finale of Bananas, was inspired by the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia. It was written by Morse. The band was in the midst of recording Bananas when the disaster occurred.
Columbia broke up over Texas upon re-entry on February 1, 2003, after a successful 16-day scientific research mission. The accident claimed the lives of its seven crew members: Commander Rick Husband, pilot Willie McCool, mission specialist Michael Anderson, mission specialist Dave Brown, mission specialist Laurel Clark, mission specialist Kalpana Chawla and payload specialist Ilan Ramon.
Chawla, a native of India where Deep Purple is extremely popular, loved the band. She traded e-mails with the band for several days while in space. Chawla took three CDs on board Columbia: Deep Purple's landmark 1972 album Machine Head and 1996's Purpendicular and Rainbow's 1978 album Down to Earth (Glover and Airey were both members of Rainbow at the time). While in space, Chawla liked to wake up to Deep Purple's "Space Truckin' " from Machine Head.
The band members were horrified and deeply saddened by Columbia's fate, and Morse immediately channeled his emotions into composing "Contact Lost" within one hour of the accident. Morse is donating his "Contact Lost" songwriting royalties to the families of the astronauts.
The CD copies of Machine Head, Purpendicular and Down to Earth were found among the Columbia debris. NASA used them as part of special commemorative plaques honoring the seven astronauts. Chawla's widower, Jean-Pierre Harrison, has kept in touch with Morse and he presented the three plaques to Deep Purple on stage at a concert on September 23, 2003, in Mexico City, Mexico. The plan is to donate the Machine Head and Down to Earth plaques to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; the Purpendicular plaque is being kept privately.
Deep Purple first emerged in the late 1960s with psychedelic-flavored pop hit covers of Joe South's "Hush" and Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman" and then, after a lineup change, emerged as a leading force in the development of hard rock thanks to albums such as Deep Purple In Rock, Machine Head and Burn. The band's vast catalog of immortal songs from this fruitful period in the 1970s includes classics such as "Smoke on the Water," "Highway Star," "Black Night," "Child in Time," "Woman From Tokyo" and "Burn."
The February 2004 tour dates include:
Sunday, February 8th ....... Vancouver, BC - Orpheum
Monday, February 9th ....... Seattle, WA - Paramount
Wednesday, February 11th ....... San Francisco, CA - Warfield
Friday, February 13th ....... Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theatre
Saturday, February 14th ....... Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern
Sunday, February 15th ....... Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues
Tuesday, February 17th ....... Albuquerque, NM - Kiva Auditorium
Friday, February 20th ....... San Antonio, TX - Majestic Theatre
Saturday, February 21st ....... Galveston, TX - Mardi Gras
Tuesday, February 24th ....... Chicago, IL - Chicago Theater
Wednesday, February 25th ....... Detroit, MI - State Theatre
Thursday, February 26th ....... Toronto, ON - Massey Theatre
Saturday, February 28th ....... Atlantic City, NJ - Trump Marina
Sunday, February 29th ....... New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
trekman
Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 23
Location: Jackson, Michigan
Posted:
Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:06 am
As per my DEEP PURPLE Post. I Love Deep Purple!! And "Bananas" is a Great CD. If your a fan, you have to get this one!!!
theloudestrock
Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 62
Location: West Orange, NJ
Posted:
Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:48 pm
"Haunted" & "House Of Pain" are really good tracks. I don't have much to say past those 2 tracks, and I am nowhere near a Deep Purple expert, but they are very strong and enjoyable tracks!
