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1. Dezember 2012

Deep Purple / Edguy @ O2 World – Hamburg – 24.11.2012

Deep Purple as Hard-Rock-Dinosaurs being on the road; a must for lovers of good old energetic, hard-drivin‘ music. As DP were indicating that this might be their last tour it was no wonder that the O2 World in Hamburg was nearly sold-out. This beautiful arena was again a pleasure by the atmosphere and specially acoustics for a visit and to enjoy this event. Vow, what a long time of band career since their foundation in 1968. So in 2012 are they still alive and kickin‘? Everybody was excited!

It was Edguy, one of the bands in Germany which you can call a metal-institution and possible successors of the Scorpions, if these guy really retire one day… By ‚Nobody’s Fool‘ from their current cd „Age Of The Joker“ they were starting very energetic and by introducing drum-thunders by  Felix Bohnke. Tobias Sammet their lead-singer was really a great shouter and his maniacas gave him a big hand as support. They were relatively a lot by numbers. But still it was rather calm by total view. The intermediary announcements  by Tobias were again a horror. He is a great mastermind, also specially by his famous project Avantasia, but this blabbermouth should be damn better quiet and leave talking such shit.  ‚Pandora’s Box‘ was definitely the song-highlight, specially also by Jens Ludwig playing dobro-guitar. ‚Save Me‘ was the relaxing ballad with hooky melodies. By ‚King Of Fools‘ the boys were speeding up again as final song and they gained by the majoity of the crowd a  nice end-applause as thank-you.

9.15 p.m. it was Deep Purple showtime. They started by ‚Firefall‘ and the house was rockin‘. The band-guys playing an instrument were in most excellent condition. And Mister Ian Gillan on voice? He mostly had a smile in his face and was very keen to be an excellent animator, but his voice has really weakened and weakened by the years. Ok it was clear that he would not sing the anthem ‚Child In Time‘ again as he can not cope anymore with the high passages, but his singing was poor and rather frustrating. He was often retiring in the stage- background during the song-intros out of these reasons probably and just returning in time when his part was on duty. But the rest of the bunch was making to forget this as their plays were most splendid. If you watched specially Roger Glover on bass and Ian Paice on drums this was a delight how theses old guys played, being young in their hearts and by passion.  ‚Strange Kind Of Woman‘ was the first sparkle and storms of gratitude by the freaks raised. When Neal Morse was to commemorate his guitar-solo he was certifying what excellent guitar-dervish he is. But the old purple-heads were still missing their god Ritchie Blackmore. It was flying-stick-time again by ‚The Mule‘ when Ian was performing in the spotlight bright as daylight. When Don Airey started his keyboard solo there were definitely some tears in the eyes of many admirers for the unforgettable Jon Lord –  R.I.P. He definitely conducts now God’s symphonic orchestra in heaven. Don was most virtuoso, but not as shiny as the Lord Of The Hammond Organ. The O2 World was a house of storm when ‚Smoke On The Water‘ was celebrated. Everybody was out of control and rockin‘. This was the only song which Gillan was singing really well. Thy wanted more so they got more value for money by the first encore ‚Speed King‘. And the crowd was in fever for some nanana’s to sing along  by ‚Hush‘. Hamburg was trembling and shaky when Roger dominated by his bass-solo in the follow. DP could have played on for hours in the name of their fans and by applause; establishing  a new world-record for duration of a live-gig, but by ‚Black Night‘ the end was to come. Some good old tracks  like ‚Woman From Tokyo‘ were missing but for the fans this night was not  gloomy at all. They were happy to have been witness of this Deep Purple memorandum.

Setlist:

Fireball

Into the Fire

Hard Lovin‘ Man

Maybe I’m a Leo

Strange Kind of Woman

The Battle Rages On

Contact Lost

Guitar Solo

Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming

The Well-Dressed Guitar

The Mule (featuring Drum Solo by Ian Paice)

Lazy

No One Came

Keyboard Solo

Perfect Strangers

Space Truckin‘

Smoke on the Water

Encore:

Speed King

Hush  (Billy Joe Royal cover)

Bass Solo

Black Night

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