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Name: Keno
E-Mail: keno@fairpoint.net
Subject: Bleed polls/Tour tickets/Aerosmith/Deep Purple
Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009
Time: 10:37:26 PM
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vs. In last week’s Stones’ poll we held the last week of the Bleed polls and asked: Let It Bleed vs Goat’s Head Soup, which album do you like best? Let It Bleed won again (as it did in all six weeks that we asked this ’bloody’ question) by a very large margin with 81.4% of the vote.
So that does it for placing the great Let It Bleed up against a bunch of their other LPs. Sometime soon we get back to this line of questions when we will put Beggars Banquet up to the test.
Remember that the final results from our ‘album vs album’ polls are listed at the Stones Fans Picks Page 2, where you can also see how some of the other Stone’s LPs that we have voted on stacked up against each other.
So now for week 529 of our Stones poll, we go in an entire different direction for our poll and ask: Are you willing to keep paying top ticket prices to see the Stones, when the next tour takes place? No, it isn’t too soon to ask this question since more than likely around this time next year, the Boys will be touring again (we sure hope!). But with the current US depression/recession and things not that much better over in Europe, just how much will the Stones charge us fans to see this next tour? More important, will fans be able – or willing to pay top dollar this time around? It isn’t just a lack of money issue, either, as many fans believe that the band doesn’t play live as well as they used to, especially with Keith seeming to be less active with his guitar, and Ronnie always questionable as to what shape he will be in for the start of the next tour. The shrinking song/set list is of concern to fans, too. Our wish that they would play around 30 songs a show is long dead, and we have to be happy with about 17 or 18 songs a show. But at what price are so few songs worth it?
You will have three choices to make with this poll question. Yes, no, and maybe. The “maybe” is for those of us low on funds who are still willing but perhaps not likely to be able to afford the high prices, no matter how willing we might be.
To make your choice in this poll, just click on this link: Stones Weekly Poll. Should be interesting after the week is up to compare the results from this poll to when we last asked this question back in the first week of January of 2007. The options this time around are not worded exactly the same as that old poll, but they still mean the same thing.
Now let’s head over to the Classic Rock poll.
For week 180 of this poll, we ask: What is your favorite song recorded by Deep Purple? We been talking here this past week about bands who play on after a few of their key members leave or die, and if the current band (like the Who) should still use the original name or not, since in truth they are not that band any longer. We agreed in some rare cases, like Pink Floyd, it was still cool and with this week’s band which we will feature in our Rock Poll, Deep Purple, I think that it also applies to them, too. Deep Purple started out in 1968 but changes (especially with who their lead singer was), always seemed to be a part of their group; well, for the first 25 years or so anyway. For the last 15 years their lineup has remained stable.
Normally when a band loses its lead singer - and its lead guitarist, well that usually means the end of the band. In Deep Purple’s case, they kept going. They have had several different lead singers and the current one – Ian Gillan, I think would have to be counted as their main lead singer over time, even if he wasn’t the original singer (Rod Evans was). Gillan may not have sung all of their hits songs, but he sang on most of them. He came and left the band several times, being their second, fourth and sixth singer, and of course he is the current one – since 1992.
Deep Purple also lost their founder and main guitar player years ago, that being Richie Blackmore. Like Gillan, he left the band more than once (first time in 1975), being replaced by Tommy Bolin. But as great a player Bolin was, he had deep drug problems and would die of a heroin overdose less than a year later. Deep Purple broke up that year (in ’76) and was inactive until early 1984 when they gave it another go with Blackmore back on board (and Gillan too, who replaced their third singer David Coverdale, who had replaced Gillan for two years) . But Gillan, at odds with Blackmore, would leave again in ’88 (replaced by singer Joe Lynn Turner), only to return in ’92 for good after Blackmore himself departed the band for a final time. Gillan and Blackmore stopped talking to each other after ’88 (never to speak to each other again) and according to all of the other band members, it was Blackmore’s fault. He supposedly isn’t the nicest of guys, very bossy, and impossible to get along with. Still, he is a great guitar player, the one who came up with perhaps the most famous guitar riff in the history of Rock n Roll -the riff from “Smoke on the Water”. A simple riff, yes, heck, even I can play it! But still, the most catchy guitar riff ever.
Joe Satriani would be the band’s next guitarist (in ’93), but after just a year, former Dixie Dregs’ lead guitarist, Steve Moss, took over for him (in ’94) and to this day Moss, a big talent and another great player, has been doing a nice job for them in that department.
Of the other two original band members, Jon Lord, who is one of rock’s better (and heavy metal’s best) keyboardists, stayed in the band until his retirement in ’02, and Ian Paice has been their only drummer. Most think that bassist Roger Glover, who has been in the band the second longest, was an original member, but he wasn’t. He joined up in ’69, at the same time when Gillan first joined, and he also left the band for a couple of years in the early ’70s.
Deep Purple has had a lot of songs recorded through the years and we will have 40 of them listed in this week’s poll. Most of these songs are from the earlier years, but if a song you like best is missing, please let me know by Tuesday the latest and I’ll add it for you. Let me tell ya, picking just 40 songs out of a few hundred that they have recorded listed isn’t easy, but I think I got most of their best on this list.
So which one is your favorite song? To make your pick and vote, just click on this link: Classic Rock Poll.
Now let’s look at the final results from last week’s Rock poll
The question was: What is your favorite song recorded by Aerosmith? I guess some will be surprised by the final outcome, as I was. Still, the song I voted for and I figured would come in second or third - won, that being “Sweet Emotion” picking up 11.1% of the vote.
Remember, you can check out where songs like “Walk This Way” and “Dream On” ended up in the voting over at the Rock Poll Archive page. Or you can check out the poll’s top ten finish only at the new Top Ten lists, page 5 over at the Classic Rock site, where you can also view other such lists.
After this week we will take a break from this popular line of questions. There are still a lot of great artists and their songs to vote on and early next year we will pick up with this question again, for sure. Meanwhile for the this poll, I got a ton of other great questions to ask that I would like to get to, and will (unlike the Stones poll where I can use some more suggestions after some 529 weeks [10 plus years]).
Thanks again to all of you who take part in both of our weekly polls!
Keno
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