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This might be my favorite Deep Purple song.

What are you guys hoping they will play on the upcoming tour?

I was happy they played around 5 songs off of =1 in 2024. I preferred the new songs they played in the US: Show Me, A Bit on the Side, Portable Door, Lazy Sod, and Bleeding Obvious.

I do hope they play Pictures of You from =1 on this tour. They released it as a single but never played it live. I totally think it’s a rocking, standout song that deserves to be played live.

They seem really excited about Splat so I’m guessing we’ll get about 4-5 songs off of the new album but there’s a few older songs I wouldn’t mind if they shelve like Hard Lovin’ Man.

Curious what you guys want to hear…

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what do you think about this album ?

I love learning about the personalities of musicians and I've been watching a lot of documentaries and interviews with the band but I wanted to ask other fans this question. What were the guys like personally, like what was their personalities like?

So far I'm getting the idea that Ritchie was kind of a loner and a control freak and a jealous person. It seems that Ian Gillan was very likeable, funny, and charming and wouldn't let anybody treat him badly. Jon seemed like he had a good sense of humor and liked to be the spokesman for the band.  Paicey seems like the shy one, or at least the most quiet one but I don't know much about him since he rarely talks. I don't know much about Roger either, even though he does seem to talk a lot in interviews but I'm not picking up on any personality traits from him.

Has anybody ever met them and can attest to how their personalities are compared to how they come across in interviews?

Anyone has any experience in the Meet and Greet sessions?

I'm excited to be able to be up close to Ian Paice as he is the reason why I started listening to Deep Purple more than 40 years ago, and I had been listening to them almost every day since.

I had been a drummer since 1986 and also used to be a drum teacher and it all began with Deep Purple. So this is like getting to meet my idol and I do want to have my expectations levelled and not get disappointed.

I had seen a number of DP concerts since the 90s but this is really the first time getting the Meet and Greet tickets and it really means so much to me.

People who actually listen to Deep Purple, search up More Than Abstract Hip-Hop by Degiheugi and skip to 1:26 and tell me what song it sounds like. When you figure it out here is a question I have to ask. Do you think they knew what they did sampling the song or not at all and it just so happened to be very similar?
Lmk

There's a clip from this show on YouTube (containing Fools, 69, Perfect Strangers, When a Blind Man Cries, Lazy, and Highway Star) but I've already seen other clips in lower quality (Long Time Gone and Smoke on the Water where a child participates, but those are videos that have already been deleted from YouTube). Does anyone have the full show?

Has anyone heard rumors of when the new album would be officially announced? For =1 in 2024, they announced a mid July release in April of that year. Two weeks after the North American tour announcement. We’re already May 1st with no official announcement, and this was supposedly going to be released in June. I’m a little bummed out but wondering if anyone has heard anything.