DEEP PURPLE DIGEST #10
In this issue:
Roger Glover and Judas Priest
Gillan CD releases and related stuff
Lord's new solo album
Lord and David Gilmour
Rap on the Water
We have a winner!
Elf and "LA 59"
Re: Fireworks
Mk3/4 on the Water
Pink Deep Floyd Purple
Blackmore's secret love for Agnetha
Grabsplatter Defined
Lord's Solo album and DP Does Denver...
Rhino CD question.
Down to Earth lyrics, please
John's Hammond
Rainbow Keyboardists
Jesper Almen reviews every studio album in 90 seconds
Live and Blue review
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-----Original Message-----
From: IluvGillan(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Tuesday, September 08, 1998 9:10 AM
Subject: Roger Glover/Judas Priest
Hi I hope this isn't to much off the beaton track.But I was looking at the
Sin
after Sin CD (Priest) and noticed Roger Glover helped produce it .Does any
one know if he did any other work with Priest? Txs Sue Rose,
[Ed- Not that I know of. RG was producing several other albums around that
time, including the highly recommendable Rory Gallagher work, Calling Card.]
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-----Original Message-----
From: John LaRocque
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 4:11 PM
Subject: Gillan CeeDee Releases, and Perfect Strangers
The Gillan "Smoke on the Water" CD, well, that's interesting. I just
viewed the GillaNet website at
http://hem1.passagen.se/gillan/gillan.html and they do have the "rap" CD
listed, but it's only three tracks! I have a full-length version with
several versions of both Smoke on the Water, and Black Night. Features
Ian Gillan, Ray Slijngaard, with the Bolland Brothers. My copy is from
Japan, of course. One of these days I will have to send Jouni Maho my
latest updates to his discography...
Now, the Garth Rockett LP is actually a Chris Tetley interview disc,
with three live tracks. I managed to pick up a copy about a year ago.
Most discographies treat it as an EP, not listing the interview. Now, if
only I could track down the video.
Also, there's a new Ian Gillan Band CD from Angel Air entitled "Live at
the Rainbow", from the same show as the home video. (What a crap label
Angel Air is.) They've put out a dozen or so DP-related pieces,
including some Gillan/IGB stuff, and works from Gillan/IGB
second-stringers Ray Fenwick, Bernie Torme and John McCoy. Eddie Hardin
has a couple of CD's as well, and they just rereleased "Wind in the
Willows" (with Hardin, Lord and Graham Bonnet) with some bonus tracks.
All the IGB stuff seems to have been rereleased from Eagle records,
along with some RPM discs. It's all "remastered", but then again, so
were the original Virgin and RPM releases when they came out a few years
ago. Why upgrade when they are the same? At least I finally found
Scarabus, which has been out of print for some time.
Now, here's a question for the boys - why does Gillan never seem to get
"Perfect Strangers" lyrics right. I'm thinking the end of the first
verse - "All my life, I am the echo of your past." He flubbed it on Live
at the Olympia, I think, and I'm pretty sure he didn't get it right at
the recent Toronto show I attended, either. However he did seem to get
it right on "Come Hell or High Water", the last live release with The
Man in Black.
John LaRocque
"And if you hear me talking on the wind
You've got to understand
We must remain perfect strangers."
--Perfect Strangers (Blackmore/Glover/Gillan)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Svante Pettersson
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 4:20 PM
Subject: Lord's new solo album
>From: Chris Poustie
>Does anybody have any information on the new Jon Lord solo album "Pictured
Within" ? The last I heard it was due to be released on September 15th. Can
anyone confirm this date ?
No, but Jon Lord told me a couple of weeks ago that it was scheduled for
release "at the end of September". The album release has just been
transferred from one record company to another as far as I understand, so
maybe that will cause another minor delay.
>Also does anyone know if this will be a classical affair or along the lines
>of "Before I Forget" ?
It was not classical enough for EMI Classics but it's not like "Before I
Forget". Jon mostly plays piano on this album and a little bit of
synthesizers, no Hammond organ. Sam Brown sing on a couple of tracks and
you get a little bit of horns and strings. It's a very soft album very much
affected by Jon's feelings after his parents died lasst year.
The album is very different from Deep Purple, and pretty different from
Jon's other solo stuff as well. It is a very soft and beautiful album.
>Also is the main man Tony Ashton featured. I very much hope so.
No, sorry. Tony Ashton is not on this album.
Take care,
/Svante Pettersson,
Editor, The Highway Star - http://www.deep-purple.com/
Deep Purple Family Tree Website - http://deep-purple.family-tree.org/
[Ed- BTW, there are some updates at The Highway Star. If you're not getting
updates about the updates and would like an email notification of changes at
that site, go there and sign up for the email update. Svante does a great
job at that site and keeps it nice and current. Now go there and check it
out i you haven't already! :-) ]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Svante Pettersson
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 4:23 PM
Subject: Lord, Gilmour and Brown
>There is a more direct connection, since Jon Lord played on the second Solo
>album of David Gilmour (which name escapes me right now).
The name of that album is "About Face".
>There is one more connection I'm aware of: On Jon Lord's "Before I forget"
>is Sam Brown singing, which can also found singing as background singer on
>PF "Pulse".
Sam Brown is also on Jon's new solo album, to be released at the end of
September. Jon also played on Sam Brown's second album "April Moon".
Take care,
/Svante Pettersson,
Editor, The Highway Star - http://www.deep-purple.com/
Deep Purple Family Tree Website - http://deep-purple.family-tree.org/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Svante Pettersson
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 4:25 PM
Subject: Rap
><< "Rap album?". "The one you did with the Ray
>Sillengaard and the Bolland brothers." "It's out? I haven't even heard
>the demo tapes. How is it?" "They released it in Japan last year >>
>
>Tell me more,please.
I think Ray was a member of the Euro Techno band/project "2 Unlimited".
This rap version of SOTW isn't on an album AFAIK but is released on a CD
single in Japan. Ian Gillan has recorded new vocals for this version. Those
of you who saw the US _|_ tour heard this song as they played a tape of it
after the concerts.
Take care,
/Svante Pettersson,
Editor, The Highway Star - http://www.deep-purple.com/
Deep Purple Family Tree Website - http://deep-purple.family-tree.org/
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-----Original Message-----
From: CTripodi1(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 6:08 PM
Subject: Ritchie Blackmore Pic.
The middle character is the real Ritchie Blackmore. The white shoes/boots
are
the dead give away.
[Ed- 100% correct! And a very good reason, too. I must say that I had to
look twice myself after I did the retouching, as Blackmore's face fits ever
so snugly on Paice's head. (shudder!) The trick was to find a picture where
the whole band was facing the camera in the same way and in roughly the same
light. Anyway, check it out at the art page on the DPD site if you haven't
already. If you get inspired to do a little fun yourself, keep it clean and
send it on in.]
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Heald/Darlene Heald
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: Elf
Didn't the band Elf also have a release titled "L.A. 59"? I remember
playing it while working at a college radio station in 1975 (...it's
cover is also hanging in a local store, signed by RJD). I've seen many
titles discussed, but that one hasn't surfaced yet.
Cheers,
John
[Ed- (These comments are easier than emailing in my responses...) "LA 59" is
a track off Carolina County Ball. Was that sleeve for a promo single?]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Kelty
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 11:44 PM
Subject: re question in DPD#9
-----Original Message-----
From: Ilija Gospodinov
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 7:58 AM
Subject: Phantom Edition??!!
Hey just a question: Has anyone heard or seen a DP edition called
"Fireworks"??
Reply
The vinyl version (I'm not sure if there is a CD) of Fireworks is an
Italian "Best Of" collection done in 1985 (EMI/Harvest 64 2604681).
It contains:
Smoke On The Water
Fireball
Woman From Tokyo
Child In Time
Never Before
Highway Star
Burn
Speed King
Space Truckin'
Black Night
Soldier Of Fortune.
The cover is fairly poor artwork of a tiger snorting flames from its
nostrils.
All the songs are the standard versions to be found on the studio
albums.
All in all, a pretty crappy collection and one best avoided.
Cheers
Brian Kelty
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-----Original Message-----
From: Trond
To: dplist
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 3:45 AM
Subject: Smoke on the Water with Coverdale/Hughes
>>>
From: STONE967(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
Why is it that in Mk III Coverdale never sang the last verse of Smoke on the
Water? (We ended up at the grand hotel...) Coverdale would sing verse one
and Hughes verse two and they would repeat verse one together after the
solo. This continued with Mk IV. Anybody know the reasons behind that?
<<<
Well, given that neither of them were in Montreux in December 1971, you
probably have noticed that they changed the lyrics to "they" instead of
"we": "They all came out to Montreux", etc.
Now, try applying the same to the third verse, and you get:
They ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty cold and bare
But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making their music there
With a few red lights and a few old beds
They make a place to sweat
No matter what they get out of this
He knows they'll never forget
Smoke on the water, fire in the sky
Try singing this without folding double over from laughter. ;-) I think
this is the explanation - it would just sound too stupid.
>>>
Also did Glen Hughes ever sing Child in Time live? Just wondering.
<<<
Not Glenn Hughes, but Dave would slip in a verse during the heavily
extended versions of "Space Truckin'" they did in 1974-75. This is included
on the version on "Mk3 - The Final Concerts", the official CD from
Connoisseur released in 1996. (Also released in the States, I believe.)
This was just one verse, and they wisely stopped before the screaming,
although I guess Glenn could have handled the screams.
Actually, even Joe Lynn Turner would have a go at "Child in Time" on some
of the 1991 gigs, again in a medley that consisted of Black Night,
Rainbow's Long LIve Rock'n'Roll and god knows what else. Nearly brought me
to tears the first time I heard a recording of it, I've seldom been so
ashamed of anything DP's done.
Cheers,
--
Trond
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-----Original Message-----
From: Trond
To: dplist
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 3:45 AM
Subject: DP/Floyd
>>>
From: Christian Rutz
There is a more direct connection, since Jon Lord played on the second Solo
album of David Gilmour (which name escapes me right now).
There is one more connection I'm aware of: On Jon Lord's "Before I forget"
is Sam Brown singing, which can also found singing as background singer on
PF "Pulse".
<<<
And both Jon and David Gilmour are guests on Sam Brown's second album,
"April Moon". Furthermore, Sam Brown sings two tracks on Jon's upcoming
classical album, "Pictured Within". (Release date late September on Virgin
Classics, was the last I heard.)
Cheers,
--
Trond
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-----Original Message-----
From: Trond
To: dplist
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 3:45 AM
Subject: DP-ABBA-connection
You've all missed the obvious one: ABBA is Ritchie's fave band, and he's
expressed his love for Agnetha in numerous interviews over the years. ;-)
Btw, Leif Masses who produced Ian Gillan's "Naked Thunder", wasn't he from
ABBA's Polar Studios stall? (He also produced Zep's "In through the
Outdoor", recorded at Polar Studios, if I'm not mistaken. I could, however,
well be.;-)
Cheers,
--
Trond
[Ed- Mases does have a credit on that LZ album, but it is for engineering,
not producing. Pagey always took producer's credits.]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Currin
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 5:47 AM
Subject: re:DPD #9
Hi Dean
Jesper Almén wrote on Sunday, September 06, 1998 4:45 PM
Subject: Purple-Abba, return of the bellbottoms..
>>>Finally, what on earth does Grabsplatter mean??????
Well I don't know what it means, but here's everything else I know about
it....
Grabsplatter is an uptempo instrumental guitar / organ work-out with a
varied and confusing history.
What follows is the history I've tried to piece together.
A track known as John's Stew (3:50 minutes long) was recorded on the 31st
October 1969 for the Stuart Henry BBC radio show broadcast on the 9th
November 1969. It was probably also featured on other BBC radio broadcasts
around this time, but this is unconfirmed. John's Stew had some improvised
vocals about "a mean-eyed woman".
An instrumental song entitled Grabsplatter (4:32 minutes long and sounding
very similar to John's Stew) was released as a track on the New, Live and
Rare Volume 3 EP (extended play single) in October 1980. It was stated as
being a BBC recording from between September 1969 and February 1970. Some
references state: autumn or late 1969 (autumn in Europe is September /
October). The Deep Purple Diary website has the recording date for this
track as the 23rd September 1970. This same track was later released on The
Anthology album in 1985. When this album was re-issued on CD in 1990 the
track listing was changed and all rare tracks including Grabsplatter were
omitted.
An instrumental track entitled Bullfrog (7:17) and credited to the band
Green Bullfrog was released as an album track in 1971. Green Bullfrog was a
on-off jam session band consisting of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Paice, Jeff
Beck, Albert Lee, Big Jim Sullivan, Chas Hodges, Rod Alexander, Earl Jordan,
Tony Ashton, Matthew Fisher and produced by Derek Lawrence. The liner notes
from Ritchie's solo retrospective CD "Rock Profile Volume 2" state that this
track is based on a riff originally entitled John or Jam Stew. It also
sounds very similar to Grabsplatter!
A track titled Jam Stew (2:30) was released on the 25th anniversary CD
re-issue of In Rock. It was stated as being a previously unreleased
instrumental track. The sleeve notes indicate that this track was recorded
in November 1969 and was also sometimes known as John's Stew. (Are you still
keeping up?)
I'm Alone released as the b-side to Strange Kind Of Woman in 1971 owes it's
basic song structure to Grabsplatter. I'm Alone was also released on the
Deep Purple Singles A's and B's compilation album and as a bonus track on
the 25th anniversary edition of Fireball.
Slow Train released as a bonus track on the 25th anniversary edition of
Fireball also owes a lot of it's basic song structure to Grabsplatter.
Grabsplatter itself remains unavailable on any official CD release.
So there you have it, I'm surprised you managed to read this far - thanks!
Next...
-----Original Message-----
From: Ilija Gospodinov
To: Deep Purple Digest
Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 7:58 AM
Subject: Phantom Edition??!!
Hey just a question: Has anyone heard or seen a DP edition called
"Fireworks"?? I got it on a poster, although I've never heard anything
about it, even if it exists at all. So some help would be highly
appreciated...
Brian's reply:
I've never seen it, but this is some info from Jouni Maho at the Highway
Star:
Fireworks was a compilation of material by Mks II & III, released in Italy
in 1986 on EMI/Harvest. Catalogue number: 64-260481
Tracks
1.. Smoke on the water
2.. Fireball
3.. Woman from Tokyo
4.. Child in time
5.. Never before
6.. Highway star
7.. Burn
8.. Speed king
9.. Space truckin'
10.. Black night
11.. Soldier of fortune
OK, now I have a question:
What song(s) does Glenn Hughes quote from on the Live In London version of
Smoke On The Water???
The lyrics are:
So we stepped ashore hmmm...
And I looked behind...I did
Woman, y'now I need your help
Black woman, y'now I need your help
To help me make it home
You got to listen...
Please help!!!
Cheers
Brian
---------Brian Currin--------
Vagabond Of The Website World
www.new.co.za/~currin
The Deep Purple Web Index
www.new.co.za/~currin/dpwebdefault.html
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-----Original Message-----
From: Woody78264(at-a-domain-named)aol.com
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 9:55 AM
Subject: Jon Lord's New Album
In reference to Chris Poustie's question regarding Lord's new solo album,
"Pictured Within", the release date has been pushed back to sometime after
the new year. The scoop that I heard was that he didn't want any conflict
between the release of his new album and the band's current tour.
To all of you purple heads out there, a friend of mine drove the band's limo
while they were in Denver. The band was very pleased with the reception
that
the fans gave them in Denver and said that they were planning on coming back
in the next year or two! If that's not good news, what is?
My review of "Abandon" is a solid 8.5. While I never see any e-mail
references
to "The Battle Rages On", this album is a better effort in my opinion.
See ya all-Woody
[Ed- This is the 7th review on Abandon and it has a very official-looking
7.87 rating right now. Now if we could just get some of those off-beat live
releases covered this well, we'll be well on our way to a good DP buyer's
guide. Well done, list!]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee McKee <"lee.mckee"(at-a-domain-named)ingrambook.co>; > <>>
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 8:17 AM
Subject: new 4 cd set from Rhino
Does anyone have any info on the new 4 CD set offered by Rhino in
their latest Rhino Direct Catalog?
Please e-mail me at lee.mckee(at-a-domain-named)ingrambook.com
Thanks,
Lee McKee
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-----Original Message-----
From: AlexandroTalamini
To: 'Deep Purple Digest'
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 12:27 PM
Subject: RES: Deep Purple Digest #7
Hello!
I just wanted to know if anyone can send me the lyrics for the
Rainbow album DOWN TO EARTH. I've been looking for those lyrics quite a
while and have been not successful. Thanks in advance.
Alexandro
Curitiba, Brazil
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo Avello
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 10:32 AM
Subject: Jon Lord's Hammond Organs.
REgarding the following:
>
>Burn is a great album. The title track has one of the cleanest organ
>solo's from Mr Lord. This album highlight's the way that the band took a
>more bluesy approach when joined by Coverdale and Hughes. A nice blen
of rock, blues, and weirdness (A"200")
I also think Jon Lord's organ solo in "Burn" is spectacular. One
highlight of the solo are those thundering sound effects, which I guess
Jon achieves by rocking his Hammond Organ in order to shake the reverb
unit built inside his C-3.
I was wondering if anyone out there would be as much a Jon Lord die-hard
fan as me, as much as for doing some research on all Hammond Organs
owned and played by The Master, Mr. Lord.
If you have put through with me this far, this is what I've found.
1) A Hammond L-100, played by Jon before the Purple years.
2) A Hammond C-3, used for the recording of the SODP album, and up to
1973.
3) Another Hammond C-3, that Jon bought from Christine McVie (I love
her, she still carries Hammond onstage) in order to replace the previous
one.
4) Probably a Hammond B-3, used in the recording of the S&M album. My
guess is that this is a different organ, due to the "clean" sound in the
record. I think probably this is the Hammond B-3 organ we saw on the
"King of Dreams" video.
5) A "cut-down" Hammond B-3 used by Jon during the tour for the TBRO
album. This is a special organ, since it was the one used for the
classic recording of the Rainbow "On Stage" album, and it was used by
all Rainbow keyboardists from then on. My guess is this organ belongs to
Ritchie Blackmore, and that Jon had to give it back after Ritchie left
the band.
6) A rental Hammond B-3 used for (at least) the House of Blues club
dates early this year in L.A.
Anyone interested in these kind of topics?
Eduardo Avello
Concepción
Chile
[Ed- a note on rocking the keyboard: Jerry Lee Lewis used that technique,
which he called his "pumping piano." Getting that upright piano to go back
and forth got all the strings vibrating and making noise. If you listen
carefully to his original releases, the only instruments you'll hear will be
the drums and the piano. What sounds like a full backup band is actually the
piano going back and forth. In a quote given in Chris Charlesworth's bio of
the band, Lord says, "The first four bars of 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On'
totally turned my head around. I tried like hell to make the old piano at
home sound like that but it wouldn't. That's when I realised there was more
to rock and roll than meets the ear." Looks like Lord got the Hammond to do
what the family piano couldn't. Well done, Jon!]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo Avello
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 10:48 AM
Subject: Rainbow keyboardists.
On the following issue:
>There were some rumours that Elf was re-uniting. If they do, I strongly
>support it. Not least because it's about time Mickey Lee Soule leaves
>his job as Jon Lord's keyboard technician and starts playing again!
>
I also think it would be great! I was also impressed to realize that
Mickey Lee Soule is now part of Deep Purple's road crew.
But what happened to Mickey Lee Soule in between the recording of
Rainbow's first album and Deep Purple's Abandon Tour?
Any chance of an interview, Dean? [Yes, as soon as somebody interviews him!
:-) I'd be happy to put in such a piece.]
On the other hand, other former Rainbow keyboardists, David Rosenthal
and Don Airey, followed musical trends known by most of us. But what
happend to Tony Carey? And David Stone? Hey, I guess many people aren´t
even familiar with the name of David Stone.
I'd love to hear some more about these musicians.
Eduardo Avello
Concepción
Chile
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jesper Almén
To: dplist(at-a-domain-named)geocities.com
Date: Sunday, September 13, 1998 7:58 AM
Subject: A short run-through of the DP studio albums
Here's a quick review of ALL the Deep Purple Studio albums starting at the
Top (what did You thought this was? an MTV video countdown???).
1. Fireball (score 10)- Dangerous, adventurous, great all over, not one bad
tune.
2. In Rock (score 9,5) The first Hard Rock album ever. Sheer energy.
3. Machine Head (score 9) Best songs on any DP album. Boring production
though.
4. Purpendicular (score 9)Fresh, happy, adventurous, Back at last!
5. Burn (score 8)- Gillan & Glover gone and still great songs!
6. Who do we think we are (score 8)-Mainly great songs, a few crappy.
7. Come taste the Band (score 7) Ok, so Ritchie's gone, but Bolin was great!
8.Abandon (score 7) Best production ever. No really big surprises..
9.Perfect Strangers (score 6) First reunion album. Better safe than sorry..
Good tunes, a pretty happy album.
10.Stormbringer (score 6) A little too funky. Still great songs. Hate Holy
Man and Hold on...
11. Deep Purple- the 3rd album (score 5,5) Not there yet, Gillan/Glover is
missing, but the songs are getting rougher...and better.
12. The Battle Rages on ( score 5) Too much Gillan sings Rainbow. Still no
really bad songs. Better than..
13. The House of Blue Light( score 5) A struggle. Too much 80:ies.
14. Shades of Deep Purple (score 5)A taste of things to come. Evans is
boring and they hadn't found their style yet
15. Book of Taliesyn (Score 4,5) Misses the hits from first album. Only
really good song is Wring that Neck..
16. Slaves and Masters (score 2) Yeuch!!! Rainbow with Lord/Paice. No
heart, no guts, no nothing. Lukewarm soup.
If i should bring in the Live albums, it would be a TOTALLY different list..
"I said, what is this Queen of the Ping pong business,
She smiled-What do you think?
It has no conection with china,
I said Oow have another drink"
Jesper Almen
[Ed- for the statistics wonks out there, a few notes: Every review of
Fireball has been a 10 so far. Every review of Purpendicular has been a 9 so
far. And I have to admit that CTTB is a damn sight better than Slaves &
Masters, but that I keep forgetting that SM is a Deep Purple release, so I
always think CTTB is my least-listened to DP record. Time for me to do some
revisiting of my collection...
A side note: ANYBODY out there like Slaves & Masters? I'll put the "2" up
for its rating, but would love to hear any of its apologists give it a
better rating. Or is it doomed to be the Richard III of Deep Purple albums?
Stay tuned...]
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Deep Purple - Live And Blue (Out Of The Mists Of Time)
A review by Brian Currin, September 1998
This CD is a compilation of live tracks (and one studio release) released in
1996 in South Africa only. There are a number of mistakes in track timings,
cover art and general info, but don't let this distract you from a great
listening experience.This CD is compiled from 3 Connoisseur Collection live
CDs, plus the studio outtake (and b-side) "When A Blind Man Cries".
All the live tracks are taken from:
Scandinavian Nights (recorded in 1970)
Mk 3: The Final Concerts (recorded in 1975)
Live In California (1976, also known as On The Wings Of A Russian Foxbat)
According to the album cover, Glenn Hughes and Tommy Bolin are both
left-handed guitarists (wait till Jimi hears about this!). This is the same
photo as on Foxbat, just reversed and with a different logo style. The title
on the cover is Live And Blue, but on the spine it says Out Of The Mists Of
Time (and on the actual disc the title is The Deep Purple Connection!).
OK, let's talk about the music which is why I wrote this review in the first
place and why I listen to this CD so often. I bought this CD after already
having all the other albums mentioned above, but I really liked the idea of
a live compilation.
The CD opens with Black Night, which was the encore from Stockholm on the
12th of November 1970. A wonderful version especially considering this song
wasn't even a year old at the time. Great guitar/vocal interplay near the
end.
This is followed by Speed King from the same show. This track "speeds" along
and includes Ian Gillan telling us what a Speed King is. (Some-one who can
sing at 100 miles an hour!)
Next up is Smoke On The Water from the Long Beach Arena, 27th of February
1976. Whose says Tommy can't play SOTW? (not me, anymore!). A superb version
until Glenn Hughes starts his warbling, barely-recognisable version of
Georgia On My Mind. Why did he bother?
Highway Star is the the encore from the Long Beach show. A thundering track
that includes a snippet from Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away. Listed on CD cover
as Goin' Down/Highway Star, but Goin' Down has gone!
Burn, the fast-paced show-opener from Graz in Austria on the 4th April 1975
with an excellent organ solo from Jon Lord.
The last Deep Purple performance with Ritchie until 1984 included this
majestic version of Mistreated from Paris on the 7th April 1975. This
powerful blues song still gives me cold shivers when I hear it and you would
never guess that this was Ritchie's last show. The snippet from BB King's
Rock Me Baby is handled well by David Coverdale.
Last live track is a long (17 minute) version of Child In Time from
Stockholm in 1970. Meanders in places, but overall a great version.
The last track on the CD is the Machine Head outtake When A Blind Man Cries,
originally only available as a b-side in 1972. However in South Africa this
track became a big radio hit and was (and still is) extremely popular, hence
it's inclusion here, I guess. South African DP fans were thrilled that this
track was included on their 1995 "Masters Of Rock" tour (A double bill with
Uriah Heep). This song was also played "unplugged" in the studios of SA
radio station 5FM by The Deep Purple Trio (Jon, Steve and Roger) as part of
the same tour.
Well, there you have it, a great collection of live tracks and one of my
favourite DP compilation albums.
Sometimes I program my CD player in this order for a better flow:
Speed King
Child In Time
Burn
Mistreated
Smoke On The Water
Highway Star
Black Night
When A Blind Man Cries (or leave out)
My overall rating is a very big 9 (Including Strange Kind Of Woman would
have got it a 10!)
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