von Urszula Bal und Agnieszka Ogrodowczyk

Review from DP show in Szczecin (Poland)

Everything started, when in April we came into contact with the promoter and started to help him in organization this show. For example: we've sent the informations about this concert to the European DP fan clubs and told him about Ian Paice's birthday. We had a idea to give Ian a complement of the drum sticks as a birthday gift. The promoter agreed, so we ordered in the name of DP Fan-Club Poland and the promoter the drum sticks with a specially engraved inscriptions. We ordered one complement, but the drum sticks' producer, Mr. Zbigniew Gladek made for Ian Paice 15 complements, which were pack in a special bag for professional drummers( with inscriptions, too). We gave them the promoter on Monday(28th of June), before a press conference.

First time, we met Ian Gillan, Steve Morse and Roger Glover in a hotel, the day before the concert, on Sunday and gave them a little gift from us and our friend from DP Fan-Club Poland, Artur Nowosielski, who came from Warsaw to see DP show in Szczecin. We took a few photos with Ian, Steve and Roger, and took the backstage passes, about we asked some time before.

On Monday afternoon was a press conference, where we were, too and took all group many photos. After the press conference, all group went to the hospital and visited children, which have a neoplasm. Next, Steve Morse played a short concert with the guitarists from Szczecin at the Boguslawa Promenade. They played "Smoke On The Water" and later all group planted a magnolia little tree for a keepsake of their visit in Szczecin, as is customary, when our town visiting somebody famous.

On the Monday evening, at 9pm, they started to play a concert. It was a really great show!!! We had a very good time and we saw that the group, too. We don't know, how many people came at this concert, but Polish TV said about 10 thousands people.

DP played some stuff from "Bananas" and their greatest hits as "Highway Star", "smoke On The Water", "When The Blind Man Cries", etc. Fans, as usually in Poland, sang with them almost all songs. It was great, heard again, as thousands fans sang together with the group. Ian Gillan was in very good vocal's form, sang a few times with the Steve's guitar. We saw first time, as "Papa G" dancing on stage. It was very fun Steve Morse, as usually with a nice smile on his face, played unbelievable guitar solos. In our opinion, Steve is a great guitarist and we've never missed for Ritchie Blackmore's playing. What we could to say about Roger Glover playing. He was uncommon!!! He always was one of the bass guitar masters, and he still is. And Paicey - he played as in the old, happy days!!! Magnificent!!!

After the show, we were at the small Ian Paice's birthday party, so we had a possibility to express him our bithday wishes. He received the drum sticks, about which we wrote before. There was a big birthday layer cake, too. And again, we've taken the photos. It was a great event for us.

Unfortunatelly, we didn't meet anybody from Aviator, but frankly speaking, we had no time looking for them. Even. we had no time to eat something during all Monday, except hot-dogs about 7pm (on the run)

Kind regards from Szczecin
for all Aviators and all DP
Fans from Germany

Urszula Bal and Agnieszka Ogrodowczyk
Deep Purple Fan-club Poland