Deep Purple - Brighton last night

[DaveB]

On the way back from my sons rugby tour of the Isle of Wight I dropped in at the Brighton Centre on Sunday night to take in the DP tour.

Three bands......

First up - Thin Lizzy - classic stuff, great line up (Sykes, Gorham, Mendoza, Aldridge).

Styx - not really my cup of tea but very good at what they did. When they played "Sailing Away" I was just pissing myself laughing because all I could think about was Cartman's version from South Park!

Deep Purple were awesome. More so than before when I have seen them they seem to concentrate on Steve Morse a lot more. He was totally on fire - played a bit of Sweet Child Of Mine before going into Well Dressed Guitar and was on the nail with everything all night.

He played his No 1 for the solo spot, played the Y2D prototype (with white pickups) the most and a second Y2D which had one of the silver toggles near the neck pickup like the original guitar. Anyone know what that one does?

All in all a great night and highly recommended.

Dave

 

[Beth]

Sounds like you had a blast, Dave! I heard LGS was pretty rockin too. Wish you could have snapped off some shots of the S&T booth for me!

 

[DaveB]

Sounds like you had a blast, Dave! I heard LGS was pretty rockin too. Wish you could have snapped off some shots of the S&T booth for me!

I hope someone else took some shots - I didnt actually go because I was away on tour with my son.

Dave

 

[banjoplayer]

you lucky!

I´m not sure, but I think the 3-way lever in combination with the 2-way-switch does the same like the 5-way-lever in the stock-Y2D http://www.ernieball.com/mmonline/techinfo/controls/cfd_Morse_Y2D.gif

 

[Purple ASS]

First up - Thin Lizzy - classic stuff, great line up (Sykes, Gorham, Mendoza, Aldridge).

What were Lizzy like ? I picked up a DVD of the 1983 Thunder and Lightning tour , dirt cheap in Asda's over the weekend. Saw them during that tour at the Brighton Centre. The footage certainly brought back some memories.

 

[Junior]

Ooooooooooooh!!! Deep Purple is great as it is, I believe they've put on a great show.

But, hey ho! I'd love to have seen Thin Lizzy in that line-up! Of course, nothing will be the same as it was with Mr. Lynott , but this line-up really consist of ace musicians! Some of my favourites!

 

[banjoplayer]

you lucky!

I´m not sure, but I think the 3-way lever in combination with the 2-way-switch does the same like the 5-way-lever in the stock-Y2D http://www.ernieball.com/mmonline/techinfo/controls/cfd_Morse_Y2D.gif

So it is on the regular Morse. "Not sure" because I don´t know what it does on his proto. But I consider it´s the same than on the old morse

 

[Bungo]

I was at the Deep Purple show on Saturday at Wembley.

Pretty much agree with DaveB although I managed to arrive late enough to miss all of Thin Lizzy and most of Styx!

Was it me or were Purple extremely loud, or am I just getting old???

PS: I am a veteran of 10+ Motorhead gigs!!!

 

[Junior]

The 2-way switch on the Y2D is used to add the bridge pickup to whatever is selected on the lever.

 

[JSX]

Sounds like it was good time!