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I've always thought he would have been a much better permanent replacement for Blackmore than Morse was. Morse is a great player but it's never sounded 'like Deep Purple' with him to me, whereas it did with Satriani - even though Satriani was obviously subbing for Blackmore rather than writing new material.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
And I guess I'm biassed by their choice of set list - they dug out lots of my favourite album tracks or b-sides - things like anyone's daughter, when a blind man cries, pictures of home.
I also saw them around 87 with Blackmore, and somehow that just seemed drab - they did not seem to be enjoying it, and then Blackmore stormed off and refused to encore, which at least made for a very memorable guitar-less SOTW.
It would've been interesting to see what Satriani might have done. I think he'd have certainly made his presence felt, and not just in an OTT guitar hero way.
It's interesting how variable that House Of Blue Light tour seems to have been - I saw them at the Edinburgh Playhouse and they were really very good. Blackmore was a grumpy bugger as seems to be normal, and he almost refused to play Woman From Tokyo (which he apparently hates, although it's one of my favourite Purple tracks), but the others actually seemed to be having a good time and played very well.
I've actually just bought the album again on CD, I had almost forgotten how good it is - I think it's better than Perfect Strangers, and is the last proper Deep Purple album, for me... The Battle Rages On doesn't really count, even though Blackmore and Gillan are both on it. The title probably reflects the atmosphere in the studio .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein