Woohoooooo! And so I finally get the chance to see Deep Purple, who I keep missing every time they do a gig. They're doing 2 dates, 14th (Sat) and 15th (Sun) November, £38 a ticket. I'll probably go to the Saturday one. Who the bloody goodness is coming with me?

What's their line-up these days?

Ian Gillan, me on bass, Jamie on guitar, and Radioactive Rik on keyboards. And Donny on drums.

Ian Gillan? Who?

man..weregona be on tour. fucks.

wheres fucking blackmore ay? stupid cunt, stop dressing up like guy fawkes and get out there and play !!!!!

After a bit of Wikipedi-ing, the current Mark VIII line-up is thus:

* Ian Gillan – vocals, harmonica, congas (1969–1973, 1984–1989, 1992–present)
* Steve Morse – guitar (1994–present)
* Roger Glover – bass guitar, synthesizer (1969–1973, 1984–present)
* Don Airey – keyboards (2002–present)
* Ian Paice – drums, percussion (1968–1976, 1984–present)

I knew Jon Lord wasn't in it anymore, but I had forgotten, so that's shame to be reminded of this.

don airey is good though!

man, where are they playing? might have to check this out, worth seeing purple i bet

Oh yeah, I didn't say. It's at Hammersmith Apollo, and there are standing tickets, which are amazing. They're doing a whole tour, not just London, so check it out on their site or something.

sa weet

good news man

I was playing Machine Head yesterday. Pictures of Home has a lovely riff.

Lazy is my favourite song on that album, it rocks me up and down so hard.

also, April is (i believe) the first song ever with actual sweep picking in... the outro solo.... immense! that was 40 years ago aswell