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Welcome
to our Looking Back section, where we are following the progress
of the Deep Purple reunion as it happened month by month twenty
years ago. The Deep Purple Appreciation Society was following
events at the time, and with the help of news cuttings, interviews
and pictures, we hope to stir some memories. If you have any recollections
to add for the next issue of Darker Than Blue, do
get
in touch.
JUNE
1984: June saw a lull in the reunion proceedings. Rehearsals ended
at the start of the month, and it had been planned to carry straight
on and record the album in the same place, The Base Lodge, using
a mobile studio. However they had to apply to do so, and the Vermont
authorities turned the application down (possibly worried by ideas
Ritchie was bandying about of placing speakers around the valley
and recording the results!). So the band had a couple of weeks
r'n'r while another venue was organised.
Meanwhile
the band were starting to talk to the press. "Deep Purple never
actually broke up," Jon Lord explained to one (clearly puzzled!)
reporter, before going on to explain that he saw this as a long-term
project. "We're all totally committed to this band, this is not
a one-time arrangement. We plan on recording and touring regularly."
Ritchie
too was very positive. "I am totally committed to this project,
and I'm determined to make Purple as successful as we once were."
Pushed on his previous band however, he added "Rainbow is simply
on hiatus. There may be additional efforts with the band, there
may not. At this point I cannot say."
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The Von Trapp Lodge, Stowe |
Rehearsing
at The Lodge |
View
of the mountains from the Lodge |
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