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08 Mar 91Brussel
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My second Purple gig (I sadly missed the Brussel 87 show, due to sold out). I found recently (Oct 2000) the notes I made during this concert, and with the help of the videotape: Again a sold out.But this time I was learned: I only had one beer before the show and one after the Support(Vixen: women and loud). On the drumset there was a Belgian flag. The first thing where we noticed that there was another singer in da band, was when we heard the first notes: "Burn". JLT playing the macho type with his mike standard. Despite the fact that I was far way from Ritchie (I was in front of Jon Lord, a few meters away), one could see and wonder about the fastness of his fingers. I didn't like the look of Roger's new bassguitar. This was a nice long 6 minutes version of this song. Followed by "Black Night" interpolating "Child in Time". I was close enough to the stage that it seemed like JLT was miming the high notes of Child. But I think that was only my impression. The medley finished with "LL'R'n'R" Joe's voice didn't match with Black Night. He asked something to Ritchie, who pointed at his watch, nodding his head, saying something like "it's to soon, or too late"? "How are you feeling tonight? We are here to rock your ass off! We have a new album out, it's called Slaves & Masters. Here is something from it. Help us out! Help us out!" Lasers started twinkling around. Blackmore played some Turkish scales. This was a nice intro to "Truth Hurts". Joe's voice suited more to this new stuff. I kinda like him, I liked him in Rainbow too. Mind you, I am not fond of his gestures and attitude on stage. During the quiet bit, Blackmore and Joe were sitting in front of the drumkit. "Super, thank you! Something else from S&M! You are allright?! Shit, don't be so polite! This is something about backstabbing. Things went wilder with "The Cut Runs Deep" J.L.T. played on a cowbell. I don't like the plain backdropping. I like this song with it's nice rhythm and great drumming by Paice. The interpolated "Hush" fitted in nicely, only the singer was more a shouter than a singer. Roger helped him singing the title of the song. Liked this one. "Thank you very much! Merci! Ha ha. Just something that could only happen here in Brussels. I'd like to turn it over to mister Jon Lord!" Who started the intro for "Perfect Strangers" I love the lasershow during Jon's orchestral part. I still miss this lasers every time I am at a Purple gig.) I must admit that Joe sang this one quite well. Paice had some troubles with his snare drum. "This song is about SEX! (lot's of cheering in the wild audience) Do you like sex?! Then you will love this one! It is about the first time you ever had sex! Made love, or whatever you wanna fuck call it!" Fire in the basement" Blackmore played a real fast solo, followed by one by Jon and it ended with Roger's nice bass, played like a guitar. I don't like the song very much, but it contains a few tastefull instrumental parts. "Are you alright?! Louder! This was our first single of the S&M record!" Jon played some funny-known-classic music. "King of Dreams". Another one I am not very fond of. "Well it is time to slow down a little bit. We have a brand new single out". Then it was Ritchies turn to play a nice funny tune, and received a lot of applause. Joe was given an acoustic black guitar and played a few bars and asked us if we could hear that. "Over to Jon!" who played something cosy on the small organ on top of his Hammond. Suddenly, after a few seconds, this machine stopped making any music and Jon walked away from his spot; which cause a lot of noise by the crowd. He walked around with his hands on his back, came back and tried 1 note on this little organ and continued his intro to "Love Conquers All". A nice mellow song, with a nice -too short - mellow solo by Ritchie. After this song, again that funny tune played by Ritchie, followed by a wilder solo. The laser former the head of Beethoven. Again that funny tune and the intro to "Difficult to Cure" Which was great. Jon answered with a Hammond solo, piano, boogie woogie and some "Für Elise". This solo changed into the intro of (one they may re-introduce in their shows): "Knockin' At Your Back Door". Jon was clapping his hands during Ritchie's solo. A bit of "Hey Joe" followed by a fast Blackmore intro to "Lazy". Roger was doing Big Ian's harmonica part. "You guys are a great crowd! This is the last night of our European tour, so it is only fitting that it is happening in Vorst Nationaal! I am glad you could all make it!" The first part ended with "Highway Star" The lasers now formed the DP logo. This was another faster version of an older song. Most of the Mark II stuff was played faster than in the good old days. I do prefer the old versions. But I must say that Joe in not as bad, as everyone tells. He grabbed a drumstick during Ritchie's solo and started drumming on one of the white speakers on stage. The crowd really was excited (all evening). After a few minutes the riff of "Smoke". The crowd wents nuts, as far as they were not nuts already. Joe tossed his towell in the raving audience, while Jon was wearing a yellow one around his neck. This song was also played a little faster than we are used to hear. The lasers during the fast drumsolo added a lot to the atmosphere. Jon played the smoke tune on his piano and changed it into Peer Gynt's song; followed by the chorus of "Woman From Tokyo" . What an awesome finale this was! Ritchie just tossed his guitar in the public (without distroying it); of course provoking a fight. Joe's performance was good with the songs of S & M, but during the older songs I did missed Gillan though.
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