Did any of you see the fake Deep Purple back in 1980?

[Modern Saint]

I kind of remember DP coming to Hawaii that year but didn't bother. I also recall Tony Flynn on guitar but IIRC, Blackmore's Rainbow came in '81 which I did see at the UH Amphitheater.

While searching for the concert date, I found this....

 

[deepest70]

I kind of remember DP coming to Hawaii that year but didn't bother. I also recall Tony Flynn on guitar but IIRC, Blackmore's Rainbow came in '81 which I did see at the UH Amphitheater.

While searching for the concert date, I found this....

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Four Deep Purple shows in Hawaii in 1980, on July 12 and 13 at the Campus Center Ballroom, University of Hawaii in Oahu.

 

[deepest70]

This photo of Deep Purple in Hawaii in 1980 has recently surfaced. Showing f.l.t.r. drummer Dick Jurgens, guitarist Tony Flynn, unknown, keyboardist Geoff Emery, unknown, Rod Evans, bassist Tom De Rivera and a woman on the far right who got married that day and met the group. It looks like Rod is writing something in her little white book. I wonder if the book still exists?

 

[Modern Saint]

Four Deep Purple shows in Hawaii in 1980, on July 12 and 13 at the Campus Center Ballroom, University of Hawaii in Oahu.

With respect, I only was interested in seeing original members hence me only going to Blackmore's Rainbow. If DP had everyone Paice and Lord, would have probably gone. FWIW, Alkatrazz played in the Campus Center Ballroom in '84.

 

[Dexter Inferno]

Iirc Rod is still doing tours promoting himself as the original DP singer, mainly in tiny pubs across Europe. Anything to get an audience I guess.
Same thing with Dave Evans who was in AC/DC for a few months and never actually released anything with the band. Must be something about that last name I guess.

Sort of pathetic really. No career to speak of for about 40 years and then do tours doing material you've actually never done to begin with bar the odd song or two.

I don't think John Rutsey did tours playing all of Moving Pictures.

 

[deepest70]

Iirc Rod is still doing tours promoting himself as the original DP singer, mainly in tiny pubs across Europe. Anything to get an audience I guess.
Same thing with Dave Evans who was in AC/DC for a few months and never actually released anything with the band. Must be something about that last name I guess.

Sort of pathetic really. No career to speak of for about 40 years and then do tours doing material you've actually never done to begin with bar the odd song or two.

I don't think John Rutsey did tours playing all of Moving Pictures.

Well, it's not Rod Evans, it's original Deep Purple bassist Nicky Simper who keeps the Mk1 spirit alive. Great band, they played at Crocus City Hall in Moscow in 2015.

 

[Andrew Sak]

Well, it's not Rod Evans, it's original Deep Purple bassist Nicky Simper who keeps the Mk1 spirit alive. Great band, they played at Crocus City Hall in Moscow in 2015.

Surely these guys didn't perform any post The Book Of Taliesyn DP songs?

 

[deepest70]

Surely these guys didn't perform any post The Book Of Taliesyn DP songs?

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Here's Chasing Shadows, from the third album "Deep Purple", same place

 

[deepest70]

Everything we found from the Deep Purple 1980 tour and the individual shows can be seen on Dirk Kahler's great Deep Purple 1980 Tour Page. My website dpac.at has already been mentioned.

Here is the link:

=== Deep Purple Tour Page === | concert dates - tour diary

Deep Purple Tour Page, complete tourdates history, gigography, ticket and poster archive, gig list, all concerts from 1968 - 2024

www.purple.de

 

[Andrew Sak]

Everything we found from the Deep Purple 1980 tour and the individual shows can be seen on Dirk Kahler's great Deep Purple 1980 Tour Page. My website dpac.at has already been mentioned.

Here is the link:

=== Deep Purple Tour Page === | concert dates - tour diary

Deep Purple Tour Page, complete tourdates history, gigography, ticket and poster archive, gig list, all concerts from 1968 - 2024

www.purple.de

If Wikipedia calls these guys Bogus Deep Purple, I have to follow suit. I will take a hard pass on checking out BDP.

Here's a Wik snipet:

 

[deepest70]

If Wikipedia calls these guys Bogus Deep Purple, I have to follow suit. I will take a hard pass on checking out BDP.

Here's a Wik snipet:
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Ultimately, the court made the decision. Rod was convinced until the end that he had done nothing wrong.

Rod Evans, October 1980: "It's unbelievable that as soon as they see one is earning a few dollars honorably with a product that I formed, and which I have not only refused royalties from record sales but any involvement, now leave the bush and cut us into pieces. They have the money and we do not, and I wonder, now as they won the lawsuit, what the hell will they do with the name?"

 

[Andrew Sak]

Ultimately, the court made the decision. Rod was convinced until the end that he had done nothing wrong.

Rod Evans, October 1980: "It's unbelievable that as soon as they see one is earning a few dollars honorably with a product that I formed, and which I have not only refused royalties from record sales but any involvement, now leave the bush and cut us into pieces. They have the money and we do not, and I wonder, now as they won the lawsuit, what the hell will they do with the name?"

From everything I've checked out, the fans felt duped and ripped off. Rod Evans isn't who I think of when I hear the name Deep Purple.
But hey, he was the original singer. They can't take that from him. Unfortunately, the 1980 lawsuit took the DP royalties from him. That's a shame. Wikipedia says he became a respiratory therapist after his life in rock. So was his wife.
I do enjoy the song Hush. I don't know too many pre-Gillan DP songs. That was a good one though.

 

[deepest70]

From everything I've checked out, the fans felt duped and ripped off. Rod Evans isn't who I think of when I hear the name Deep Purple.
But hey, he was the original singer. They can't take that from him. Unfortunately, the 1980 lawsuit took the DP royalties from him. That's a shame. Wikipedia says he became a respiratory therapist after his life in rock. So was his wife.
I do enjoy the song Hush. I don't know too many pre-Gillan DP songs. That was a good one though.

Yes, that's a nice video, funny fashion and haircut I think one of the main problems in 1980 was that nobody knew who was really in the band. Some promoters mentioned Rod in the announcements, others didn't. The rest of the musicians weren't mentioned at all. A big mistake. People could only speculate who they would see, and if there is NO familiar face on stage, I'm disappointed too, and feel cheated somehow. And the musical performance probably did the rest in many cases...

Even though it wasn't legal in the end, that period in Deep Purple's history has always fascinated me. I like Rod, so I started to research the story. At the time, maybe ten or twelve concerts were known, now we're at almost 60. And there's still something to find, the internet is great.

So come on, you keepers of "Deep Purple" 1980 tickets and concert info, get in touch!

 

[deepest70]

Some of my 1980 tour stuff, the T-shirt is also the original one and pretty rare I think