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Well, how did
it all start for me ?
Before I was about 12 – in 1970
– I did not like music. My parents were watching all those music programs on
the tele, while I was going: "oh no, not that singing again!" Some
time after
that, I kinda started to become a music fan. But, The Rolling Stones - with their
"Brown Sugar" - was way too heavy for me.I was quite into Elvis then.
From the norwegian comic magazine "Pondus":
The first records I bought
were "Yellow river" by Christie and "Pour un flirt" by
Michel Delpech. Next was an LP: "Slade Alive". Quite a difference. I
remember my mother telling me this was a rip-off because there were only 7 songs
on this LP.
In 72, my 11-months-younger-sister of 13 had a boyfriend of 17 and he invited
us, together with some older friends of him, to join them on a 2-day party in
Hulst – Holland. My father, though he was known as very severe, agreed. So off
we went, hitch-hiking.
At one moment the DJ played some real nice music, everybody started to dance a
slow. But the music got faster and heavier and heavier; so no one could keep
pace. Then another heavy track followed and another
one... He played the entire
LP! I think he did that a few more times in those two days –
well, if I remember it well: after all, this happened 28 years ago! But I do
remember that when we woke up the next morning – with a beer for breakfast –
the first thing we heard was ChildInTime
and I really was hooked on that music.
(tab Song "Deep Purple")
A bit later a friend of mine –who I am still thankful for that – introduced
me to "The Concerto". Then I borrowed – and taped - their earlier
LP’s from the discotheque. After "Burn" I kind lost interest in Deep
Purple; not for any special reason, but it just happened. I don’t even
remember if I knew they split in 76.
The concerts I have seen in those days were
very few: I remember the Pebbles (a Belgian band) with a very long solo spot
from the bassplayer and the drummer. I went to the "First Heavy Sound
Festival" in Brugge, especially to see Uriah Heep and Golden Earring. I was
the only one on the ground with a red vest; all the others wore black leather
jackets or jeans. When Gary Moore started his gig I left. I did not know that
Paice (who?) was in his band. I think the headliners were Motörhead. I am
afraid that was about it for my "real" concerts.
(Deep Purple in a Belgian comicstrip "Nero")
One time I saw a
concert on ITV which I liked very much (luckily I taped it), a band called
Rainbow; did I know who the guitarist was? Noooooooooooooooooooo, but I sure
liked it!
When I read in the newspaper that Deep Purple started again in 1984, I had to
tell everybody, and most of them did not bother!
My first Purple concert was June 1985; I must admit the things I remember most
were: the hall was full (13 000), I had too much to drink (but was not drunk),
so I spend more time to go to – and fro - the toilet (to piss) than to be in
the overcrowded hall. Also I was wondering if I had missed "Child in
Time" due to my toilet visits; or they did not perform it? (Later I found
out they did not play it). And when the concert was over, the
surroundings were filled with police; horses and dogs included.
The '87 concert I missed because it was sold out. Nowadays I would not care; and
try my luck at the entrance. The next one was in 91 with JLT. Around that time I discovered on
one of my records the DPAS address, to which I subscribed. In DTB I then
discovered the existence of the Belgian fanclub, with one of the earliest and
most hardcore members living in my own neighbourhood. Then everything went into
overdrive. My backcatalogue was almost complete, so I
started to collect tapes (I still have my first "list"
which I mailed to Sweden in '95 - Hi Matz). Well, one can hardly call it a
list - 7 (!) items hand-written. Followed by a typed one; then I bought a
wordprocessor (who needed a computer? Not me). Six months later I bought a
heavier and faster wordprocessor. Again a few months later: my computer; then
Internet, next was Internet via cable (very interesting with those high phone
rates in Belgium, and much faster!) and now this homepage.
All this for
Now, I think, you can call my
trading lists real ones (brooded on the one used by Helmut, danke!).
Therefor this homepage.
(that's me, in Oslo 2000,
wearing my Korean DP T shirt)
Michel
De Pourcq
Lange
Molenstraat 181
8200 Sint
Andries
Belgium
00.32.50.67.04.82
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