Deep Purple (Official Thread)

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Rod Evans was the prime mover behind forming a 'new Deep Purple' back in 1980 that basically included himself and four other unknown American musicians all of whom had a slight resemblance to the four members in Mk.2 Deep Purple and they even performed about four gigs in the states before Deep Purple management took out an injunction stopping the band from using the Deep Purple name. Anyway some Deep Purple fans 'walked out' during the gigs when they realised 'the scam that was going down' and apparently Rod Evans even introduced one number from the stage as "This ones off our Burn album!!."

 

[dr wu]

Rod Evans was the prime mover behind forming a 'new Deep Purple' back in 1980 that basically included himself and four other unknown American musicians all of whom had a resemblance to the early four members in Mk.1 Deep Purple and they even performed about four gigs in the states before Deep Purple management took out an injunction stopping the band from using the Deep Purple name. Anyway some Deep Purple fans 'walked out' during the gigs when they realised 'the scam going down' and apparently Rod Evans even introduced one number from the stage as "This ones off our Burn album!!."

Never understood why Evans just didnt stick with the other 3 guys and continue with Captain Beyond which were a solid band imho.....their first 2 lps were very good ...then Evans left...the third was with an unknown singer...then the band quit.
Pretending to be DP was a big mistake and shortly after that fiasco he quit music all together.

 

[dr wu]

Several people have listed Machine Head from '72 as the best that year.
I have always thought they were perhaps a bit overrated hard rock band though there are enough decent tracks for a 'best of'. Blackmore was a great guitarist (Lord a decent keyboard man) but I always felt he didnt get that many great songs to play on....I felt their songs were too often just basic hard rock ...not bad ,just not that interesting.
Lets hear from all the DP fans why they should be rated so highly.
Time for a good brouhaha?

 

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For the last 3 or 4 days I keep wondering if I should buy the new 50th Anniversary re-mixed MADE IN JAPAN on x5 cds plus a 40-page booklet costing £75 pounds in HMV London?.

The reason for the hesitation is that I already have two copies of the 1993 EMI released box set of LIVE IN JAPAN consisting of x3 cds plus also the 1997 EMI re-released MADE IN JAPAN with the bonus disc featuring the x3 encores of SPEED KING, BLACK NIGHT & LUCILE

Stuff it I'm on my way to HMV now!!

 

[dr wu]

For the last 3 or 4 days I keep wondering if I should buy the new 50th Anniversary re-mixed MADE IN JAPAN on x5 cds plus a 40-page booklet costing £75 pounds in HMV London?.

The reason for the hesitation is that I already have two copies of the 1993 EMI released box set of LIVE IN JAPAN consisting of x3 cds plus also the 1997 EMI re-released MADE IN JAPAN with the bonus disc featuring the x3 encores of SPEED KING, BLACK NIGHT & LUCILE

Stuff it I'm on my way to HMV now!!

Regarding money.....u can't take it with you....go for it.
I have the original vinyl of Made In Japan.....haven't played it in a long time....maybe I'll dig it out.


Always wanted to visit London but now I'm too darn old...

 

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Regarding money.....u can't take it with you....go for it.
I have the original vinyl of Made In Japan.....haven't played it in a long time....maybe I'll dig it out.


Always wanted to visit London but now I'm too darn old...

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Dr wu the other HMV store on Oxford Street in London's west end and which closed back in 2014 was on reflection a great store back in the 1990s and early 2000s because they had 'tons of cds' and even pre-recorded music cassettes remember them plus many 'import cds' mainly from the USA and Germany but good things never last because Napster (remember them also?) and 'free downloading' killed all that from the in the late 1990s onwards. The current HMV next to Bond Street Underground station is ok but nowhere as good as the old HMV.

Yeah I bought the 50th Anniversary box set of MADE IN JAPAN yesterday costing £75 pounds and the two cds that I have already played the originally released vinyl version (cd-1) in a new remix form and the 'encores' (cd-5) also in a new remix form with about two of the six tracks previously unreleased I believe all sounding FANTASTIC to my ears!!

Also of interest and unknown to me after nearly 50 years of occasionally listening to MADE IN JAPAN was in the booklet that accompanies the box set the front cover picture on the vinyl & cd WASN'T taken in Japan but at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park in north London in 1972 and also the back cover of a close up picture of Ritchie on stage holding his Strat straight upwards with Ian Gillan in the far background on stage that picture was taken at the Brixton Sundown later renamed the Brixton Academy in south London also in 1972 although the inside separate pictures of all the band members were taken in Japan.

 

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Been re-listening to WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE the final Mk.II album for the last 3-4 days and its actually a lot better than it is regarded by DP fans in my humble opinion.

Back in the middle 1970s when I first played it I didn't rate it much after hearing MACHINE HEAD & MADE IN JAPAN but maybe about 10-years ago I started to reappraise it and to be honest the album is the equal of MACHINE HEAD I believe with mostly all 'strong rock numbers' on the entire album. The track that most DP fans associate with the album is Woman From Tokyo which is understandable but the rest are really very good considering under the difficult circumstances that the album was recorded when one half the band wasn't talking to the other half!!. Ritchie is on a dvd saying WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE was a strange album because I didn't speak to Ian Gillian at all during the making of that album and in fact Ritchie & Ian Paice recorded apart from Jon Lord, Roger Glover & Ian Gillian.

The album tracks are-

1.Woman From Tokyo
2.Mary Long
3.Super Trouper
4.Smooth Dancer (Black Suede)
5.Rat Bat Blue
6.Place in Line
7.Our Lady
8.Painted Horse (outtake included on the remastered cd)

The only track that may fall slightly below the rest in my humble opinion is Place in Line which starts off slowly and then turns into a kind of 'jam' for the other half of the song.

My favourite tracks are-

Woman From Tokyo
Mary Long
Smooth Dancer
Rat Bat Blue
Painted Horse

Both Super trouper & Our Lady are still two good tracks.

Apparently during the early part of 1973 Mary Long was played live at a few gigs and was suppose to have been quite a 'heavy sounding number' when played live!!.