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Deep Purple June 28th, 1980 Estadio Mexico City, Mexico

Deep Purple Estadio Mexico City June 28th, 1980 Taken from our DVD clone of the Mexican TV broadcast of the fake Deep Purple THE BAND Rod Evans vocals Tony Flynn guitar Tom de Rivera bass Dick Jurgens III drums Geoff Emery keyboards Performing: Smoke On The Water The backstory of the fake Deep Purple: In 1980, Evans was approached by a management company that specialized in the unscrupulous and frequently legally actionable practice of reforming groups with a minimum of original members, often in violation of trademark and contractual law. They offered him a chance to sing again under the Deep Purple name and he accepted. This "bogus Deep Purple", comprising no former Deep Purple members apart from Evans, played a number of shows in Canada, Mexico, and the US. After several shows ended in near-riots, The real Deep Purple were contacted about the fake Deep Purple, and their management sued Evans, given that he was the only member of the band who received booking royalties and who had any rights to the name "Deep Purple". Evans was sued for damages of $672,000 for using the band name without permission, which included $168,000 in actual damages and $504,000 in punitive damages. Being unable to pay this amount, Evans was required to forfeit all future royalties from the albums and singles recorded by the Mark I lineup of Deep Purple. This effectively ended Evans' career as a performing musician, as any future earnings he made from performing would have to be paid toward the lawsuit and since then, he no longer receives royalties for his work with Deep Purple. Both Ian Paice and Jon Lord remarked it was not about money, but about saving the good name of Deep Purple. Paice stated, "We didn't make that money, it all went to the lawyers involved. [But] the only chance to stop that band was to sue Rod." Lord acknowledged that he did not enjoy having to testify in court against Evans and blamed him for being silly. Los Angeles Times - Thursday, August 21, 1980 The New Deep Purple band, which includes only one musician ever associated with the famous British rock group, drew enough curious and confused fans Tuesday night to fill two-thirds of the 9.000 available seats at the Long Beach Arena. The audience response wavered between docile acceptance and enthusiasm during the 55-minute set. While Purple fans accorded the group the traditional match-held-high greeting and cheered (however weakly) for an encore, there were no cries for more at the end. Even this degree of support seemed surprising, however, in view of the composition of the band and its atrocious playing. The concert became something of a cause celebre Monday when Deep Purple (Overseas) Ltd. took out an ad in the Times stating that Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale, and other noted Purple alumni would not be appearing at the Arena. The lineup on stage Tuesday night included Rod Evans, who was Purple's lead singer from 1968 to 1970, and four little-known musicians: guitarist Tony Flynn, pianist Jeff Emery, drummer Dick Jurgens and bassist Tom DeRivera. Some members of the audience Tuesday seemed unaware of the pre-concert controversy about the band's makeup. "This is ridiculous," cried one young man. "That's not Deep Purple up there." A woman who gave up on the show after only 10 minutes had been better informed but bought tickets anyway. "I wanted to see if they at least sounded something like Deep Purple. They're not even close - it smears the name of the group." The band's playing was so sloppy that, though I believe it performed nothing but old Purple songs, I can't be sure. The group got halfway through one of my favorites "Woman From Tokyo," before I realized what it was. I couldn't even identify a couple of others, though "Highway Star" (the first song), "Space Truckin'" and "Burn" were (barely) recognizable. Tempos constantly went awry, all sense of dynamics was absent, and the long guitar, organ, and drum solos were pathetic. On top of everything, Evans has a flat, leaden voice that doesn't do justice to the material. With his black tank top, tight black pants and short hair, he didn't even look the part. Flashy laser light effects couldn't hide the fact that the whole thing was a sham. Terry Atkinson