[lisa_spyder]

Amazing that Billy Thorpe was still organizing benefit concerts for the likes of Lobby Lloyd (another great Aussie muso) who is dying of cancer...and now Billy is gone.

The radio stations here in Melbourne are all playing tributes, old interviews, loads of songs (yey!)....and there is already talk of a "goodbye Billy" concert. That's one I will not miss, no matter what.

At the Sunbury Music Festival (1972 I think) Deep Purple was the BIG act...promoted as the loudest band in the world; that is until the Aztecs took the stage and blew them away. Rumour is The Purple were truly *****ty about that....

When they played at Melbourne Town Hall, they were given permission to use the massive pipe organ; as long as they didn't crank it up and use the full range. Well, this was the era of LOUD so they cranked it up all right and cracked the foundations of the Melbourne Town Hall in the process (I have a live recording - it's on the 3 CD set 'Lock Up Your Mothers' which my 14yo son won't give back to me!).