ROCK BAND #69 - DEEP PURPLE Traditional Geocache
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ROCK BAND #69 - DEEP PURPLE
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Also remember that this is a hiking or cycling trail. Cachers should not be pulling over on Dam Neck road to try and make these caches P&G's.
This is a new cache series we are starting that will be named after some of our favorite bands.
PLEASE DO NOT GO INTO THE WOODS PAST THE TREELINE! That is private property. There is no need to "go into" the woods to get this cache.
Deep Purple was one of the first rock bands I was introduced to as a young lad. Never saw them in concert until a few years ago when they came to the Virginia Beach amphitheater.
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre. They were once listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as "the loudest pop group", and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide. Deep Purple were ranked #22 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme.
Here is an interesting excerpt from the bands biography:
Within weeks of Fireball's release, the band were already performing songs planned for the next album. One song (which later became "Highway Star") was performed at the first gig of the Fireball tour, having been written on the bus to a show in Portsmouth, in answer to a journalist's question: "How do you go about writing songs?" Three months later, in December 1971, the band traveled to Switzerland to record Machine Head. The album was due to be recorded at a casino in Montreux, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, but a fire during a Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention gig, caused by a man firing a flare gun into the ceiling, burned down the casino. This incident famously inspired the song "Smoke on the Water." The album was later recorded in a corridor at the nearby empty Grand Hotel.
Continuing from where both previous albums left off, Machine Head has since become the band's most famous album. It reached #1 in the UK, #7 in the U.S., and included tracks that became live classics, such as "Highway Star", "Space Truckin'", "Lazy" and "Smoke on the Water", for which Deep Purple is most famous. Deep Purple continued to tour and record at a rate that would be rare thirty years on; when Machine Head was recorded, the group had only been together three and a half years, yet the album was their seventh LP. Meanwhile, the band undertook four North America tours in 1972, and a Japan tour that led to a double-vinyl live release, Made in Japan. Originally intended as a Japan-only record, its worldwide release saw the double LP become an instant hit. It remains one of rock music's most popular and highest selling live-concert recordings (although at the time it was perhaps seen as less important, as only Glover and Paice turned up to mix it).
The band has gone through many line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus (1976–84). The 1968–76 line-ups are commonly labelled Mark I, II, III and IV. Their second and most commercially successful line-up featured Ian Gillan (vocals), Jon Lord (keyboards), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums) and Ritchie Blackmore (guitar). This line-up was active from 1969 to 1973, and was revived from 1984 to 1989, and again in 1993, before the rift between Blackmore and other members became unbridgeable. The current line-up (including guitarist Steve Morse) has been much more stable, although Lord's retirement in 2002 has left Paice as the only original member never to have left the band.
Here are a couple of YOU-TUBE links for two of their songs:
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About the cache:
Nothing difficult here. Just your standard hide along a stretch of road/bike path that doesn't have many caches. This is the first in this series. Why don't you just get out that I-pod and listen to "smoke on the water", "Highway star", "Hush",or "Knocking at your back door" while you look for this one. Hope you enjoy.
This cache is part of what we are calling the B&C (Bike and Cache) trail we are putting together to give cachers a nice streach along a established cycling path to get some cycling & caching in. There will be more caches to come as we work to complete this over the next couple of months. Please give us some constructive feedback, if you have any, to help make this better. Please use caution when crossing the street for this cache.
Congrats to Booshaka .....and son on the FTF!
"....and son" is forgiven for not being a Deep purple fan. I realize this band is a bit before his time. :-)
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