Comments on: Mark 3 reunion: Hot air and wild speculations

By: Chris Stobart

Chris Stobart — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:21:10 +0000

Although I often think a one-off reunion for a short tour could go out under another name like Stormbringer.

Instead of Ritchie and Paicey they could have Joe Satriani on guitar and on drums… Johnny Bolin to keep the links with Tommy alive.

By: Chris Stobart

Chris Stobart — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:16:58 +0000

Thanks for updating me Rasmus. Obviously a fair amount of water’s gone under the bridge since the Deep Purple People documentary in 1995 (“It’s always back to Ritchie. Ritchie Ritchie Ritchie. His presence looms over everything. I always imagine him up there on a perch…”).

But I guess RB just wasn’t a team player unless he was in charge like with Rainbow (even then though I don’t like what I’ve heard).

If Jon were to rebuild any bridges with Ritchie it would probably make his continuing friendship with Gillan/Glover/Paice very difficult indeed…

By: Rasmus Heide

Rasmus Heide — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:01:47 +0000

Chris, with regards to Jon’s feelings for Ritchie, please see his comments made in Lichfield this July:
http://jonlord.org/2009/07/17/in-conversation-at-lichfield/

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:05:05 +0000

Don, your idea is a beautiful dream…an amazing event…but it’ll never happen. Even for those of us who cling to hope that some form of reunion will happen, there are several reasons why the scenario you’ve described won’t/can’t happen:

1) Based on what happened in 1980, there’s NO WAY Rod Evans would be invited (and I don’t think he’s sung in front of a crowd since then anyway)
2) That’s an awful lot of people who would need to clear their busy schedules. I don’t see Joe Satriani or Don Airey participating in a whole tour where they’re sitting backstage sipping coffee for 85% of the night). One night maybe, but how could you find one night where EVERYONE was available (have you seen their tour dates on their web pages?)
3) Even if all these folks agreed to be part of the event (and it would have to be a ONE-TIME event, not a tour), how much $$ would it cost? That’s nearly a dozen musicians (most of whom still play in front of decent sized crowds) who’d command some salary. Who could afford tickets to such a show?

One last note on Paice’s participation in a Mark 3 reunion: IF a one-off show were to take place, Ian wouldn’t be leaving anyone behind. All members of the current DP have been able to do side projects and still be in the band. This would be no different. They’d just need to schedule it in between DP tours.

By: Chris Stobart

Chris Stobart — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:14:45 +0000

Don – the words “over”, “freezes”, and “hell” come to mind.

No-one knows where Rod Evans is.
Nick Simper has no interest in Purple post Mark I
And Gillan and Lord hate Blackmore’s guts (sorry Jon if that’s an exaggeration) and Gillan has said personally he will never speak to Blackmore again.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:47:05 +0000

I really like Mark III Deep Purple. They are my favorite version of Purple, even topping Mark II in my book. But I also like Mark VIII and I really don’t see Ian Paice leaving the other 4 guys behind. And if Gillan, Morse,Glover, and Airey went on without Paice it wouldn’t be Deep Purple because there would be no original members left. So here’s my idea…
The biggest most elaborate tour in rock and roll history featuring perforamces by all the versions of Deep Purple. Start the show off with a few numbers from Mark I. Then have Rod Evans and Nick Simper take a bow and leave the stage. On comes Gillan and Glover. Let them do a few tunes and have Gillan and Glover leave the stage. On comes Coverdale and Hughes. They perform a couple of tunes and every member in the bands history comes on stage to play a tribute to the late Tommy Bolin. The lights go down, on comes the reunited Mark II. Gillan leaves the stage and on comes Joe Lynn Turner. Turner leaves the stage and on comes Gillan again. Blackmore leaves the stage and on comes Joe Satriani. Satriani leaves and on comes Steve Morse. Then Jon Lord leaves the stage and is replaced by Don Airey. Then after a few more number there is an encore performace of every member in Deep Purple history. What do you all think?

By: Paul Orchard

Paul Orchard — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:29:33 +0000

There will be no MKIII Reunion.
This morning I was in Lichfield to watch Jon in conversation in the Garrick Theatre. He is hoping to write some stuff and maybe perform with Richie, and they have been discussin this, but he does not want to reform MKIII. Which is great.
Cant wait for the concert tonight.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:00:55 +0000

As we all saw on the 15th of April in Tokyo, those who want something do not speculate. They just do it

By: Eugenio

Eugenio — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:18:08 +0000

It is not a good idea, I prefer the Mark II they throw(add) in lack(mistake) to Jon and to Ritchie, especially Jon. though Ritchie is very good, a genius, but his(its) egocentrismo ruined what it(he,she) created.

By: Felippe F. Caso

Felippe F. Caso — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:06:07 +0000

Jon, first, congratulations for your music since ’68 (Shades Of Deep Purple), really. I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Unfortunately, i didn’t had the chance to watch your show at the ‘Virada Cultural’, but I heard it was excellent.
Back to the post, there is no MkIII without Ian Paice, he’s the only member that didn’t leave DP since the beginning, and he’s an awesome drummer.
I’m Sorry for the bad english, and congratulations one more time!

Felippe, Brazil