That day was fantastic we also had mountain , UFO ,and Alaska remember them and Blackfoot meat loaf was really out of place and the scorpions were very good and mama's boys but Deep purple were just brilliant well worth the wait a cold wet day but brilliant.
I was stationed at RAF Alconbury at the time and a bunch of my friends and myself had an absolute blast at this concert. The weather totally sucked but the music was incredible.
I was there but I was only interested in Deep Purple. I arrived at about 2pm and was too scared to venture out of the car, apart from buying a program, because there were a lot of scary people about. I discovered DP weren't due on until 9.30pm so stayed in my car until then. I was so far back the stage was very small but they sounded great.
Machine Head is still a awesome LP , Space Truckin , Highway Star and Lazy to name a few off it are so good that if You listen to the songs while driving You will get a ticket !
Interesting clip. Never understood why DP only played Knebworth in the UK, they toured pretty much the known world and elsewhere after Perfect Strangers was released. There is a CD of this concert but the mix/sound is pretty horrible - I think it was culled from a radio broadcast. Jon Lord funny @ 2:32 - miss that guy.
Ah fond memories of the mud! and the coke bottles filled with piss being flung about. some idiot shouting out "Klaus" at the top of his voice when the Scorpions were on, but most of all the magic moment when Purple took the stage the rain and the mud faded away and the music took over. Good times
was this pro-shot? would love to see the Scorpions and Deep Purple sets again, overriding memory was the smell of alcohol, urine and mud that got up to the knees on my jeans oh and Ritchie Blackmore coming onstage in wellies.
Went there stayed overnight in a hotel, meatloaf were shitegot bottled off, my brotherissed most of it, in the tent asleep with ambulace nurses, first time drinking cider, but great concert he missed. Old how silly!!@ blew everyone else off stage.
I was probably in the next camp bed to your brother as somehow I got knocked out, I missed meat loaf which I wasn't bothered about as we were there for purple, luckily I came around and saw them great gig disappointed Ritchie played bass on sotw but as soon as they came on all that misery melted away, I will always remember that day.
@@pauldavies8638 Were you really! Wow,we came from Reading, so we stayed over, doubt we will see the like again, I did meet Ritchie a few years after at Hammer Oden, I won his signed guitar!😁
@@pauldavies8638 Yes I do, I dont play no! Lol, Actually just wanted to meet him, he was exactly how I expected him to be, no light just candles in his dressing room.
DP split in 1974...? what a load of old tosh..these interviewers know nothing. Gillan and Glover left in 1973..to be replaced by Coverdale and Hughes..and the band finally split in 1976, Mk2 reformed in 1984.
Worst weather at a gig ever..... coach stuck in the mud til 10am next day! We had to push it! Great to see Purple that day, but Blackmore was a shadow of what he was the year before in Australia ..... worse still on the HOBL tour a couple of years later.... and as for the Birmingham show in 93, never forgave him after that.... complete spoon. Scorpions were superb!
Happy days - didn't Tommy Vance come over the PA asking people to stop chucking mud at the roadies as they were trying to set up for Purple? Mama's Boys and Blackfoot were also on the bill earlier.
I remember just before Deep Purple were due on stage he came on and asked people to stop throwing bottles, then immediately had to run off under a barrage of bottles 😄
in the end of the story , we can quite say : Ian Gillan was the ruin of DP. Everyone can see where he leads the band now. A lot of people consider Blackmore as too nevrotic man,musician , but mostly Blackmore created the DP sound with his composition, Gillan only conceited singer who thought that no one else was not able to replace him after 73 departure. The story shows us totally different; Coverdale-Hughes are the History. the best reunion in 84, in my opinion was line up markIII ,with Coverdale Hughes , more modern and fresh musicians in that time , still to give more and more instead of totally boiled Gillan Glover. But maybe someone wanted , commercial reason , of course, the markII, someone who paid a lot of money. Clear that Gillan wanted to take again his place in DP,thinking he can be again the leader. Now he is happy, but DP , from 76 with last masterpiece (Come taste the band with incrdible Tommy Bolin , not Steve Morse now) doesn't exist no more.
I totally agree with you, Ritchie has always been and always will be THE leader, I also agree with you about Tommy Bolin and Come Taste The Band, a phenomenal LP and brilliant guitarist, I don't think about Morse he's just another faceless boring player shredding Blackmore's solos, you don't shred all over Deep Purple songs
Brilliant.....and I still don't feel too old to listen to them, just got to turn it up a bit louder
Deep Purple is my all time favorite rock band. Glad i seen them 5 times on the
perfect strangers and house of blue light tour.
Sadly enough, Lord will never become 76....
Blackmore is 76, Gillan and Glover will be 76 very soon, and Lord will never be 76. R.I.P. Jon Lord.
That day was fantastic we also had mountain , UFO ,and Alaska remember them and Blackfoot meat loaf was really out of place and the scorpions were very good and mama's boys but Deep purple were just brilliant well worth the wait a cold wet day but brilliant.
Big Dave Kilbride I thought it funny she mentioned heavy metal and cue Meatloaf.
I was stationed at RAF Alconbury at the time and a bunch of my friends and myself had an absolute blast at this concert. The weather totally sucked but the music was incredible.
Knebworth '85, man I thought rock n' roll would never die!
I was there. I was wet cold and very drunk, I thot of giving up on DP. but when they came on it blew my mind......
that's a great clip all the way through!
fantastic archive footage. Can't quite spot myself amongst the few others in the crowd though ........ great memories. Thanks for posting.
I was there, drove down from Glasgow . I was 20yrs old.
Great! Thanks!
I was there but I was only interested in Deep Purple. I arrived at about 2pm and was too scared to venture out of the car, apart from buying a program, because there were a lot of scary people about. I discovered DP weren't due on until 9.30pm so stayed in my car until then. I was so far back the stage was very small but they sounded great.
You missed the Scorpions!
Too scared?!! WTF!
@@MrMatthiasSchneider Never heard of them.
@@garyunsworth726 Yes, so what?
@@petermetcalfe6722 Scared of what???
great to look back at this.The band had a bit of fire in their bellies on the show.
I was there but I was way back and the stage looked so small. I remember the mud too.
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God, local TV News was insufferable.... and still bloody is.
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Красавцы! 👍💜
Machine Head is still a awesome LP , Space Truckin , Highway Star and Lazy to name a few off it are so good that if You listen to the songs while driving You will get a ticket !
Que simpaticos y comicos los Deep Purple
Superbe! Les meilleurs!❤
"I stay clear of that sort of thing.....i'm more at home drying the skins of children in my attic"
Nice
Interesting clip. Never understood why DP only played Knebworth in the UK, they toured pretty much the known world and elsewhere after Perfect Strangers was released. There is a CD of this concert but the mix/sound is pretty horrible - I think it was culled from a radio broadcast. Jon Lord funny @ 2:32 - miss that guy.
Great!
Ah fond memories of the mud! and the coke bottles filled with piss being flung about.
some idiot shouting out "Klaus" at the top of his voice when the Scorpions were on, but most of all the magic moment when Purple took the stage the rain and the mud faded away and the music took over. Good times
tnx
There's a bootleg audio recording, so might as well be this whole thing :) Let's hope.
Hiccups continued for another year, and the LP ws released 2 years after this XD
was this pro-shot? would love to see the Scorpions and Deep Purple sets again, overriding memory was the smell of alcohol, urine and mud that got up to the knees on my jeans oh and Ritchie Blackmore coming onstage in wellies.
"Oh I...well, I stay clear of that sort of thing"
Went there stayed overnight in a hotel, meatloaf were shitegot bottled off, my brotherissed most of it, in the tent asleep with ambulace nurses, first time drinking cider, but great concert he missed. Old how silly!!@ blew everyone else off stage.
I was probably in the next camp bed to your brother as somehow I got knocked out, I missed meat loaf which I wasn't bothered about as we were there for purple, luckily I came around and saw them great gig disappointed Ritchie played bass on sotw but as soon as they came on all that misery melted away, I will always remember that day.
@@pauldavies8638 Were you really! Wow,we came from Reading, so we stayed over, doubt we will see the like again, I did meet Ritchie a few years after at Hammer Oden, I won his signed guitar!😁
@@dianewallace8206 wow, that's great do you still have the guitar and do you play?
@@pauldavies8638 Yes I do, I dont play no! Lol, Actually just wanted to meet him, he was exactly how I expected him to be, no light just candles in his dressing room.
DP split in 1974...? what a load of old tosh..these interviewers know nothing.
Gillan and Glover left in 1973..to be replaced by Coverdale and Hughes..and the band finally split in 1976, Mk2 reformed in 1984.
Worst weather at a gig ever..... coach stuck in the mud til 10am next day! We had to push it! Great to see Purple that day, but Blackmore was a shadow of what he was the year before in Australia ..... worse still on the HOBL tour a couple of years later.... and as for the Birmingham show in 93, never forgave him after that.... complete spoon. Scorpions were superb!
Who remembers, “This way to the pop concert”? 😂
0:36 I like to think it's the crazy dude from Police Academy :D
LMAO at 3:03...RIP Mr. Lord!
Commentator said they split in 1974, it was you 1976 silly cow
To be fair, the MKII lineup did brake up in 73/74
Yes I think she is referring to the mk2 lineup
She means Mk2.
Who was the bald guitarist for Meatloaf back in 1985?
Bob Kulick, Bruce's older brother.
Yep, was just coming here to say that. Also cool to see the Scorpions.
Happy days - didn't Tommy Vance come over the PA asking people to stop chucking mud at the roadies as they were trying to set up for Purple? Mama's Boys and Blackfoot were also on the bill earlier.
Yes, he did. It must be quite an experience to have 85,000 people tell you to F**K **F
I think Tommy Vance was warning the biker boys at the back of the audience not to light fires using rubber tyres witch smoked out the stage.
I remember just before Deep Purple were due on stage he came on and asked people to stop throwing bottles, then immediately had to run off under a barrage of bottles 😄
Jesus I remember going to that concert with friends wearing my bin liner to try and keep dry watching bottles of piss flying through the air
Yes, they really don't know anything.
But surely rock fans must be vandals?! :) Lol @ the posh bird!
in the end of the story , we can quite say : Ian Gillan was the ruin of DP. Everyone can see where he leads the band now. A lot of people consider Blackmore as too nevrotic man,musician , but mostly Blackmore created the DP sound with his composition, Gillan only conceited singer who thought that no one else was not able to replace him after 73 departure. The story shows us totally different; Coverdale-Hughes are the History. the best reunion in 84, in my opinion was line up markIII ,with Coverdale Hughes , more modern and fresh musicians in that time , still to give more and more instead of totally boiled Gillan Glover. But maybe someone wanted , commercial reason , of course, the markII, someone who paid a lot of money. Clear that Gillan wanted to take again his place in DP,thinking he can be again the leader. Now he is happy, but DP , from 76 with last masterpiece (Come taste the band with incrdible Tommy Bolin , not Steve Morse now) doesn't exist no more.
I totally agree with you, Ritchie has always been and always will be THE leader, I also agree with you about Tommy Bolin and Come Taste The Band, a phenomenal LP and brilliant guitarist, I don't think about Morse he's just another faceless boring player shredding Blackmore's solos, you don't shred all over Deep Purple songs
I disagree. No one else could do the real high notes in Child In Time like Gillan did, and certainly not Coverdale lol
Blackmore un uomo di Carattere e determinazione.
Rip Tommy 🙏 and Jon
right great band but Scorpions are awesome too.
Deep Purple is Rock..they can play any style of music period..light years ahead of any band..since 1968 till today still ROCKING at 76yrs old..wow!!