Deep Purple (Official Thread)

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Rod Evans was the prime mover behind forming a 'new Deep Purple' back in 1980 that basically included himself and four other unknown American musicians all of whom had a slight resemblance to the four members in Mk.2 Deep Purple and they even performed about four gigs in the states before Deep Purple management took out an injunction stopping the band from using the Deep Purple name. Anyway some Deep Purple fans 'walked out' during the gigs when they realised 'the scam that was going down' and apparently Rod Evans even introduced one number from the stage as "This ones off our Burn album!!."

 

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Rod Evans was the prime mover behind forming a 'new Deep Purple' back in 1980 that basically included himself and four other unknown American musicians all of whom had a resemblance to the early four members in Mk.1 Deep Purple and they even performed about four gigs in the states before Deep Purple management took out an injunction stopping the band from using the Deep Purple name. Anyway some Deep Purple fans 'walked out' during the gigs when they realised 'the scam going down' and apparently Rod Evans even introduced one number from the stage as "This ones off our Burn album!!."

Never understood why Evans just didnt stick with the other 3 guys and continue with Captain Beyond which were a solid band imho.....their first 2 lps were very good ...then Evans left...the third was with an unknown singer...then the band quit.
Pretending to be DP was a big mistake and shortly after that fiasco he quit music all together.