What REALLY happened

I've just had a really good shit...

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isn't that what Queen would've called Hot Space?

Lol!

Wow.. still top of the pile.... if people stopped adding to this thread it would go away for good....

i like the way it's evolved into talking about why it still exists, rather than the actualy discussion per se.

be nice if it could string out to 20 pages, then retire (dis)gracefully

People eat significantly more eggs around Easter.

As JSS has withdrawn all of his posts, As far as I'm concerned my apologies to him are now withdrawn, as I don't see the point of apologizing for coments I've made in answer to posts that no longer exist.

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way to go. get the thread back to what nobody wants to talk about.

in an effort to refocus our need to achieve 20 pages for this thread, can i ask two questions?

1. does anyone know if the Deep Purple - Machine Head 40 CD is due out soon?
2. same question for Rainbow - Long Live Rock N Roll (deluxe edition)

thanks

If the Rainbow one is imminent, I hope it's better than the other two Rainbow 'Deluxe' editions. They seemed to be struggling for extra content. I'd hope for a full album remix, this time including some bass.

i know what you mean about the previous deluxes - i had all of the rough mixes previously available before DTE and Rising were "deluxed" - but it was nice to hear those tracks cleaned up properly. and those three DTE, Rising and LLRNR are personal favourites of mine.

I have the Cozy rough mix of LLRNR - hope they do do something with the bass. although as blackmore played most of the bass on that album, i think it wasn't a bad effort all told.

really anticipating the machine head 40. there are rumoured to be some special things due in this

The new Dio deluxes of the first three albums are quite good. Some live stuff I didn't have. There seems very little unreleased studio material about though.

i think dio was one for getting it all out there initially. he had loads of post-rainbow/sabbs ideas and his own vehicle to accomodate it

bit like harrison after the breakup of the fab four.

he depended on the pixie/elf lyric a little too heavily, but good nonetheless

[QUOTE] [b]Lord Fickle wrote:[/b]
The new Dio deluxes of the first three albums are quite good. Some live stuff I didn't have. There seems very little unreleased studio material about though. [/QUOTE]

from a number of interviews, both concerning sabbath/dio, and initally, Heaven and Hell, I get the impression that Ronnie wrote what he needed to write and shaped the songs into what he wanted. in other words - if the album needed 10 tracks, he wrote 10 and that was it.
I doubt there's alot of unused stuff around, certainly from the later years.

the new deluxe version are very good indeed - I like them alot

RIP RJD

thanks for confirming my thoughts. pity there's not much unused...cos there's always room for more stuff with his vocals on it

suppose anything "extra" on the rainbow LLRnR deluxe would be nice

I knew this thread was going to get interesting.

But of all the options I considered, Dio was probably the last thing on the list.

Carry on .. this is great.