The reconciliation years , late 80's with 2 albums Perfect Strangers & House of the Blue Light. I still have both those albums being 40 + years old now.
This is a very under-appreciated album. There are a lot of great songs on this one! Wasted Sunsets is a deep cut. Under the Gun, Knocking at Your Back Door, Mean Streak...and others. Basically, the whole album. I had this on cassette in the 80s.
Got to see Deep Purple twice in a weekend on this tour, including during a raging blizzard in Providence, R.I.. Had to drive from Southern New Hampshire to Providence, and then home again so I could go to work the next day. Brutal, but totally worth it. Oh the memories.
Tacoma Dome, still to this day the loudest concert ever held there. One of my friend's brothers buddies literally lived across I-5 from it and they could clearly hear every song from that show.
@@joelhoulette3244 Damn I paid $15.00 in 84' when I first saw them. Now they were just here 8 months ago and the tickets were going for $80.00-$120.00 a ticket, man how prices went up massively over the last 40+ years. Heck my friend bought tickets for the Taylor Swift concert a couple of months ago for his granddaughter they were $3,000.00 a piece talk about getting ripped off.
I think the lyrics may be about the inter-band relationships. This version of Purple, the best one IMO, had broken up a few years earlier, and this album was a reunion, so they were trying to mend broken fences.
No mistaking that bombastic distorted Hammond organ intro! Nobody but Jon Lord sounds like that. I was 16 when this album came out. Talk about an album that came out of nowhere and just blindsided the world of hard rock and metal. For an old 70's band to come along in '84 and drop this bomb of an album was nothing short of amazing. The original lineup was written off as finished,but they got back together (if only for a little while) and just blew everyone's doors,proving they still had it. I personally consider it to be the greatest comeback album ever! Give the whole record a listen! There's not a single bad or weak track at all!
Great song and album, I saw them live on this tour in New Haven, they did most of this album, plus a generous helping of their best tunes of the 70s. Magnificent band, in my top 10, one of the all time powerhouses and looked up to by generations of Rockers. For more from the same album, do Knocking at Your Back Door, another all time banger. Enjoy. 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶🔥
I think it's Gillan towards Blackmore. They got back together after a few years and when they toured for this album they were 'nt sure how they'd be accepted by fans. They found out cause they had to add 2 and 3 dates to alot of stops. And when they were in Cleveland they played the Djays from the big radio station in soccor. And kicked their ass. Peace
a lot of fans from earlier DEEP PURPLE seem to dislike this album but i think it represents the fact that they are such good musicians they don t need to try to reproduce what they did
Great song, great band! Saw them live at the Philly Spectrum in 87 during their House of Blue Light tour, Bad Company (unfortunately, without Paul Rogers) opened for them. I wasn’t a huge fan of DP from 80s on, love their 60s/70s stuff the best! ✌️
Got to see them bout 85 at the texxas jam with the scorpions, ted nugent, bon jovi, and night ranger (sucked). Me and 5 buddies left from Fayetteville, Arkansas and drove in a mini truck to Dallas, texas with 2 cases of schafer beer and 37 joints. Ahh, good times.
Not a bad tune, but most may not guess that was Deep Purple. Not much like their early stuff that sounds very distinctive with vocals and Hammond B3 Organ leads.
