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Post by Pina on Oct 5, 2004 15:57:55 GMT
Hi Jools, I bought the magazine yesterday and briefly glanced at it. It's quite a long article and I can't wait to read it all. The postman was very good to me today and I got the new Burn CD! The inside booklet looks fantastic (I have to find time to read it in detail) and there are some great early photos of David. My favourite is his first magazine cover (Dutch magazine Muziek Expres, October 1974).
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Post by conrad on Oct 5, 2004 22:06:39 GMT
Hey Pina!
Can you give a review of the remixes of the four tracks? I am curious if the specific remixes of You Fool No One and Mistreated actually improved the originals. I always preferred the live versions of these two songs to the LP versions because the studio tracks sounded too weak and tinny compared to the full energy of live performance. Blackmore's guitar sounded more powerful on concert recordings than the studio takes.
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Post by Cherokee on Oct 6, 2004 13:40:30 GMT
Amazons expensive ... Try www.play.com Lot cheaper with no postage costs in the UK!! ;D
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Post by Pina on Nov 15, 2004 10:44:06 GMT
A very interesting article in the December 2004 issue of Classic Rock, page 9. Here is an excerpt: Meanwhile, in further Deep Purple-realted news, David Coverdale - who sang in the Mk III and Mk IV line-ups of the band - has criticised the quality of the reissues that are coming out under Purple banner.
Talking to Classic Rock about 'Purple Rainbows' - a recent compilation album featuring tracks from Deep Purple, Rainbow, Whitesnake, Dio and even Graham Bonnet - the Whitesnake singer said: "I actually saw a copy of that CD the other day in Tower Records in Reno [Nevada, USA]. How exotic. I put it straight back. I didn't buy it. I don't know where they get the balls to do all this stuff. I really don't."
Coverdale said he also has misgivings about the remastered version of Purple's 'Burn' album, which has just gone on sale. He wrote some lengthy sleeve notes for use with the record, only to decide to withdraw them at the last minute. Instead, Coverdale posted his 'Burn' reminiscences on his website at www.whitesnake.com
"I heard some of the early remixes of 'Burn' and I wasn't happy with them," Coverdale commented, sounding disappointed. "The songs were really quiet and soft and polite. Purple were in the Guinness Book of Records for being loud, after all! But when I made my feelings known, I was told I had no say in it. So I said: 'Fine, I'll withdraw my liner notes. I don't want to be part of a project that I can't approve.' Bugger it, I thought, and I put the 'Burn' stuff I wrote up on my own website."
Coverdale continued: "It's alienated me what [ex-Purple manager] Tony Edwards and those guys have been doing - you know, scraping the barrel and stuff, with absolutely no involvement of the musicians whatsoever. But presumably, contractually, they can do this. They put people in place to supervise remixes or whatever who have no cachet as industry professionals. I think one of them runs the Deep Purple fan club, for God's sake."
As far as Whitesnake are concerned, Coverdale says he works "with mostly faceless executives for my back catalogue at Universal/Geffen. I don't know anybody now at Geffen, even though I still generate significant incomes from the big Whitesnake albums. And I've also had minimal dialogue with EMI, who put out my early albums. I just basically read about their trials and tribulations in the international press. The industry is uncharted waters now."
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Post by Rosangela on Nov 18, 2004 11:18:03 GMT
Thanks, Pina! I tried to find this magazine here, with no success and...here it is! ;D
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Post by Pina on Nov 29, 2004 18:40:08 GMT
Hey Pina! Can you give a review of the remixes of the four tracks? I am curious if the specific remixes of You Fool No One and Mistreated actually improved the originals. I always preferred the live versions of these two songs to the LP versions because the studio tracks sounded too weak and tinny compared to the full energy of live performance. Blackmore's guitar sounded more powerful on concert recordings than the studio takes. Hi Conrad, Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. The bonus tracks are 2004 remixes of Coronarias Redig, Burn, Mistreated, You Fool No One and Sail Away. The only really worthwhile bonus track is Coronarias Redig. It is an extended remix of the original, which was only available as a rare B-side. As for the other songs, there is really nothing new in the remixes. They are already rock classics and, in my opinion, not worth remixing. They don't sound very different anyway. I think you can hear more bass, especially in Sail Away. And the Mistreated remix has a very brief spoken intro, which I assume is Ritchie Blackmore's voice (I can't be sure but it's definitely not David's) and the person seems to say (I can't quite make it out), "Feel it for me". Then the song starts. I do tend to agree with David, it should have been louder! ;D This is really a CD that only avid collectors would want. The detailed liner notes alone are worth the price. It is mentioned in the notes to consult whitesnake.com for David's Burn Reflections. The November 2004 issue of Classic Rock has a great section with David's comments on each track in the Burn album. When I have time I will transcribe them and post here.
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