New Deep Purple - Mexico City, Estadio Inde (Ciudad de los Deportes), 28 June 1980
wav rip from DVD (source audio was Dolby Digital (AC3) 384 Kbps
The show lasted for about one hour and it rained out. Black Oak Arkansas was playing before DP.
Set List: (all that was broadcast?)
Intro (in Spanish)
Smoke On The Water
Gerardo Liedo, who attented the show, reports "...They played as the last group that day, the opening group was "dugs dugs" a local group from the late 60s. They were introduced by Charlie Hauptvogel a friend from elementary school (Instituto Zumarraga) and former member of "three souls inmy mind" now only "el tri" the best rock group in Mexico City. the second group was Black Oak Arkansas, they played wild and I enjoyed that part of the show. Then it started to rain and after a long delay the so-called Deep Purple with Rod Evans took the stage, by that time the audience was not as enthusiastic as at the beginning, the people started to complain and shout heavily asking for Deep Purple, or at least a member of the line up for the last record. Before the concert the media were referring to Smoke on the Water and Burn, so everyone thought it would be DP Mark II or III, or at least some of these guys playing... I remember also the people shouting "hey come out to play, the drug effect will finish"... The audience became nuts, it didn't help Rod Evans and his band to make the things happen. It was a sad concert, a lot of people were injured, the crowd rioted (as usual by that time). The American football goals and the doors in the stadium were destroyed... Drugs (as well as alcohol, of course) were present everywhere.
The main reason was the rain, the delay and that nobody from DP Mark II or III was on stage. The audience was really upset, and this was transmitted to the musicians so they did a real bad performance. Also it was too short: 40 minutes and no encore..."
Rod Evans (Vocals)
Tony Flynn (Guitar)
Tom De Rivera (Bass)
Geoff Emery (Keyboards)
Dick Juergens (Drums)
facinating, MUST read website: http://www.cream-revival-band.com/Bogus_Deep_Purple_1980.html
rar files packed with a recovery record - links require copy and paste to browser
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Comments welcome.
2 comments:
Many Thanks for uploading this strange and bizarre item.
I don´t know if there´s a complete broadcast somewhere. For now we only have the two songs that were broadcasted by mexican television. You should see the dvd...the looks are as bad as the music, and seeing a mediocre keyboard player with a mustache, pretending to look like Jon Lord, is just hilarious!
I hope someday a tape witha complete concert surfaces...don´t care if it´s soundboard or audience, i just wanna hear a complete "show" of these guys, just to give myself a good laugh
I always been a bit curious about that line-up:I remember having read about them when they played in Quebec City:they mentionned the band was called Steppenwolf before Evans joined them (!)
Too bad evans joined them:the legal problems following probably ended his artistic career:I wish he joined back the reunited Captain Beyond...
There was a flurry of more or less bogus bands around that time:I remember Mike Piniera fronting some Iron Butterfly with a 16 years-old drummer...
Personnally,I wish there was a tape of the 1970 Deep Purple concert when Randy California replaced Blackmore for a one shot...
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