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Just a big kid really...
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Gippsland Gourmet Country, Australia
Posts: 1,233
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Paul,
Thorpie was a musical genius - Children of The Sun was probably the biggest album in the States for him, but he did so much more...and was working on an amazing project to record in the Palace in Algiers with the 72 piece Morrocan orchestra. This was soon to happen...
He played some of his "Algier" stuff at the Deep Purple concert. There were 5 of us together and we all turned and looked at each other wide-eyed; it was so different to hear Thorpie do acoustic stuff and the piece he played (and sang) was complex, original and extraordinarily beautiful. Such a shame this album won't be completed.
He was an 'adopted Melbourne boy' and the unofficial Melbourne anthem is definitely "Most People I Know Think That I'm Crazy" - nothing gets a crowd going down here like that one!
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