Deep Purple - Black Night

Deep Purple was in town!
With a whole orchestra, Frankfurt's new Philharmonic Orchestra.

Last time I saw Deep Purple, Ian Gillans vocals didnt measured up with what I remembered from my youth :)

But this day....Wow he got some of it back. I loved it, danced and sang like a maniac, their tour manager looked at me and said....u really love em huh? Yeap! Indeed!!!! They playd all of the known tunes and a bit more. The sound with the big orchestra was thick and juicy and wery awesome!!!

Took some tunes before I was used to Don Airey although I saw him before... I like Jon Lord better. Don is damn good at this as well :D

We took some pics on the show, here they are:

The members of today is:
Ian Paice on drums, percussion (1968–1976, 1984–present)
Roger Glover on bass (1969–1973, 1984–present)
Ian Gillan on lead vocals, harmonica, congas (1969–1973, 1984–1989, 1992–present)
Steve Morse on guitar (1994–present)
Don Airey on keyboards, organ (2001–present)

Their former members is quite known as well:
Jon Lord – keyboards, organ, backing vocals (1968–1976, 1984–2002)
Ritchie Blackmore – guitar (1968–1975, 1984–1993)
Rod Evans – lead vocals (1968–1969)
Nick Simper – bass, backing vocals (1968–1969)
David Coverdale – lead vocals (1973–1976)
Glenn Hughes – bass, vocals (1973–1976)
Tommy Bolin – guitar, vocals (1975–1976)
Joe Lynn Turner – lead vocals (1989–1991)
Joe Satriani – guitar (1993–1994)

Deep Purple Tours a lot, right now they are out on a vast tour which begun in July today they play in Oslo and on the 15 December Horsens Denmark Forum Horsens

North America 2012
2 February 2012 St. John's, Newfou. and Lab. Canada Mile One Stadium
3 February Corner Brook, Newfoundland Pepsi Centre
5 February Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax Metro Centre
6 February Moncton, New Brunswick Moncton Casino
8 February Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa Civic Centre
9 February Kingston, Ontario K-Rock Centre
11 February London, Ontario John Labatt Centre
12 February Toronto, Ontario Massey Hall
13 February Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton Place Theatre
15 February Winnipeg, Manitoba MTS Centre
16 February Regina, Saskatchewan Brandt Centre
17 February Saskatoon, Saskatchewan TCU Place
19 February Calgary, Alberta Southen Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
21 February Edmonton, Alberta Rexall Place
23 February Prince George, British Columbia CN Centre
25 February Victoria, British Columbia Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
26 February Vancouver, British Columbia Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Europe 2012
8 November Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg Rockhal
9 November Grenoble France Palais des Sports
11 November Nantes Le Zénith
12 November Caen Le Zénith
13 November Paris Zénith de Paris
15 November Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena
16 November Bremen Halle 7
17 November Hanover AWD Hall
20 November Kiel Sparkassen-Arena
22 November Frankfurt Festhalle Frankfurt
23 November Oberhausen Konigspilsner Arena
24 November Hamburg O2 World
26 November Leipzig Arena Leipzig
27 November 2012 Berlin O2 World
29 November Augsburg Schwabenhalle
30 November Munich Olympiahalle
1 December Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
3 December Brussels Belgium Forest National
5 December Clermont-Ferrand France Le Zénith
6 December Toulouse Le Zénith


The tune of today, was first released 1970 on a singlethen later on the album "In Rock". "Black Night" made its way into the setlist soon after release, generally as the first encore. The song was not played in full after Ian Gillan and Roger Glover left the band in 1973, but snippets were often played by Ritchie Blackmore as part of his improvisations. On the reformation of Deep Purple in 1984 "Black Night" returned as part of the main set list. There are many versions of the song available on Deep Purple live albums.

Ladys and Gents is Deep Purple!

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Yusuf Islam - Father & Son

Yusuf Islam originally and commonly known by his former artist name Cat Stevens. Is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, convert to Islam. On April 1, 2011, Yusuf launched a new tour website (yusufinconcert.com) to commemorate his first European tour in over 36 years scheduled from May 7 to June 2, 2011. The ten-date tour will visit Germany, France, Austria & Belgium and cities such as Stockholm, Hamburg, Oberhausen, Berlin, Munich, Rotterdam, Paris, Mannheim, Vienna and Brussels.

Steven Georgiou, born in 21 July 1948, Marylebone, London, England), was the third child of a Greek-Cypriot father, Stavros Georgiou (b. 1900), and a Swedish mother, Ingrid Wickman (b. 1915). He actually lived in Gävle, Sweden until he was eight years old, and attended a local school for six months. He has an older sister, Anita, and brother, David. The family lived above Moulin Rouge, the restaurant that his parents operated, on the north end of Shaftesbury Avenue, a short walk from Piccadilly Circus in the Soho theatre district of London. All family members worked in the restaurant. His parents divorced when he was about 8 years old, but they continued to maintain the family restaurant and live above it.

Songs such as ‘Matthew and Son’ and ‘I Love My Dog’ gained attention internationally, and within a year he was on tour with Jimi Hendrix, arguing over which of them would close the sets each night. Over the next three years he took the world by storm with the multi-platinum albums ‘Tea for the Tillerman', 'Teaser and the Firecat', and 'Catch a Bull at Four’. These included such classic songs as ‘Peace Train’, ‘Morning Has Broken’, and ‘Father and Son', helping make Stevens into the voice of a generation.

Stevens converted to Islam in December 1977 and adopted his Muslim name, Yusuf Islam, the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars for charity and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. Yusuf married Fauzia Mubarak Ali on 7 September 1979. He has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including 2003's World Award, the 2004 Man for Peace Award, and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace. In 2006, he returned to pop music with his first album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup. He now goes professionally by the single name Yusuf. His newest album, Roadsinger, was released on 5 May 2009.

At first glance, one may wonder why Yusuf, would choose the Swedish capital to launch a comeback after more than three decades. As it turns out, however, Yusuf has had a long relationship with Sweden on account of his mother, who is born in the town of Gävle, located about 150 kilometres north of Stockholm in eastern Sweden.

Well the first idea was to kick off in Denmark with a few days of rehearsals but it got changed and Sweden was the next option. Yusuf and his band arrived few days before the show day to get a chance to go thru everything, you know, to get a feeling of all the songs and tune all the gears for the tour. The set up was done on thursday 5th of May. First soundcheck was done the same afternoon took around 6 hrs and continued the following day on friday for almost the hole day/evening. I was very busy during these days so I have no pictures from the rehearsals, but it sounded very good the little I heard.

The fact that the show was sold out was expected, Yusuf made ​​a visit to Skvalan (Swedish talk show) which made ​​the tickets ran out the day after. I can not remember when I saw that the stage was so far back in the end as this.

Yusuf did a really good show, the voice sounded very good, although he is a bit older, maybe sometimes a bit soft-hearted and not like old times but he delivers what he should, mixing new with old, see set list below, then you will understand what I mean.

Here is some pictures that i took during the show.

Todays tune "Father and Son" is a very popular tune written and performed by Yusuf Islam (then known as Cat Stevens) on his 1970 album "Tea for the Tillerman”.

The song frames an exchange between a father that not understands a son's desire to break away and shape a new life, and the son who cannot really explain himself but knows that it is time for him to seek his own destiny. To echo this, Stevens sings in a deeper register for the father's lines, while using a higher, more emotive one for those of the son. Additionally, there are backing vocals provided by Stevens' guitarist and friend, Alun Davies, singing an unusual chorus of simple words, and sentences such as, "No", "Why must you go and make this decision?", beginning mid-song, so softly, they are only perceptible with a slight increase in volume towards the end of the song.


Yusuf Islam Sings Father & Son On BBC.


Cat Stevens during - Earth Tour 1976


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