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Deep Purple visited the Finnish capital performing together with the Frankfurt Philarmonich Orchestra, a pre-Christmas gift that no real rock fan could miss (Hartwall Areena Helsinki 7nd of December 2011). Seeing Deep Purple with an orcherstra however gave a sort of mixed feelings. The name of the tour was Songs That Built Rock, and certainly, when the band starts to play tunes that have forged the history of rock like Highway Star, Woman From Tokyo or Strange Kind Of Woman, you fully realize that you are facing a piece of music history live. About the interaction with the philarmonic orchestra, it left some epic moments like when guitarist Steve Morse makes a duel with his guitar against the director of the orchestra holding his violin, or when the string section fully supported the classic Perfect Strangers it sounds extra powerful. But in some other moments, the show turned to be too slow and lacking rythm. All in all, I have to praise the attitude of the members of the orchestra, that for some moments seemed to be having more fun onstage sharing moments with Deep Purple than the audience of the concert themselves. Of course, another peak of the night is when Steve Morse started to tease the audience playing some famous riffs to finally start the archifamous one for Smoke On The Water, undoubtedly one of the riffs that is forever inserted in rock history. Deep Purple came back to the stage to perform a short bis including more classics like Hush and Black Night. Its fun to experience Deep Purple performing together with an orchestra but you will probably miss that chaotic and wild feeling that a rock concert should be about…

Track list:
1. Perfect Strangers
2. Space Truckin
3. Smoke On The Water
4. Going Down
5. Hush
6. Bass Solo-Roger Glover
7. Black Night