E-Z
Senior Member
The track Place In Line from memory a rather long'ish track starts off at a 'normal' slow'ish pace then picks up the tempo and eventually 'explodes' into a big workout by the whole band and I suppose on reflection it is a ok number but maybe because it is sequenced in front of another rather long track in Our Lady that it doesn't quite work somehow?.I often wondered why Painted Horse wasn't included since there is only seven songs on the album. Anyway, it's my least favorite of the Mark II albums. I was never a fan of Our Lady or Mary Long. Rat Bat Blue is one of Blackmore's coolest riffs but I think he should laid down a guitar solo for the song. I actually like Place In Line because, although he claims blues is limiting, Blackmore is a monster blues player when he wants to be and that solo is great the way it builds.
As for Mary Long I personally like that song and I believe the band did included it in some of there 1973 shows before dropping it. The song Mary Long is a up tempo song all the way through from start to finish and was a topical song for it's time referring to as it does to Mary Whitehouse television 'clean up' campaigner and Lord Longford a reverend/Bishop in the church of England I believe who amongst other things campaigned for Mara Hindley one of the 1960s 'Moors murderers' to be released from prison in England. The song name Mary Long is taken from both halves of the two names Mary Whitehouse & Lord Longford.
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