Deep purple live

[EL34]

saw this clip on Facebook
supposedly from an old 8mm film

https://www.facebook.com/deeppurple6876/videos/1154797174540821/

The clip might have come from this facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/deeppurple6876/

[Ritchie200]

Parts of this movie were released a few years ago on "The Making of Made in Japan", but not it's entirety.  Two years ago they took all the MIJ tapes and released all three shows in their entirety as well as this video.  The deal with Ritchie flubbing the intro has various stories.  It would seem Ritchie muffed it during a sound check.  They gave him so much trouble about it, it was an inside joke and only one show was played right.  That version made the album and the live single, but even that has a "dropped" open D string intentional muff.

The end of this movie shows what was left after a riot at the Tokyo Budokan in, I think, June of 1973.  This happened a year after the MIJ recordings.  This was the last MK2 show.  Ritchie had left the stage before they even hit the final notes of Space Trucken.  As the rest of the band was waving and thanking the crowd, Gillan saw that Ritchie was gone and knew there would be no encore.  So he told the crowd that Deep Purple was breaking up and this would be the last show.  By the time they walked back stage, Ritchie was already on his way to the hotel.  The crowd went ballistic.  All the bands equipment was damaged beyond repair, except for Jon's C3.  The roadies barely escaped.

What a great snapshot of the band at their peak.  Lars said it...

Thanks for posting that Doug!  I was starting the feel a little depressed!

Jim

[SILVERGUN]

Thanks for posting that Doug!  I was starting the feel a little depressed!

Yeah...I was actually starting to feel bad for him.
 
That was a great, powerful performance of a song that has been taken for granted due to the simplicity of the opening riff...it's became a bit of a joke like Stairway to Heaven and other phenomenal rock songs that will never be duplicated or matched in our lifetime.
 
The wall of keyboards mixed with RB's cutting riffage is a recipe for true rock magic.
Great to see someone captured it that clearly.
 
I'll give ya this one.
 

[EL34]

Hiway Star is the best driving song ever, IMO


Get in a car and start that song up and my brain switches gears

[SILVERGUN]

Alrighty then...let the good times roll
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zKAS7XOWaQ

[Ed_Chambley]

Thanks for posting that Doug!  I was starting the feel a little depressed!

Yeah...I was actually starting to feel bad for him.
 
That was a great, powerful performance of a song that has been taken for granted due to the simplicity of the opening riff...it's became a bit of a joke like Stairway to Heaven and other phenomenal rock songs that will never be duplicated or matched in our lifetime.
 
The wall of keyboards mixed with RB's cutting riffage is a recipe for true rock magic.
Great to see someone captured it that clearly.
 
I'll give ya this one.
 

First I would like to say the damn riff is not played on open strings.  I have argued this to so many guitar players knowing as I have watched.  Simple Riff, the good ones are.  Just like Satisfaction by the Stones or Walk This Way by Aerosmith.  And while I am at it, during the verse the guitar plays an arpeggio from G to F and and only plays f once.


It is a simple song, until you break it down and listen to what each member plays.  During the main solo there is one portion that changed the way I play forever when I was young.  There is the perfect chord change to C and Blackmore changes his note selection and instantly you are carried in a new direction and the phrasing changes up to the point where he bends and holds to what seems like forever.  Incredible tension to finally a release and resolve.


Neal Schon does the same idea during the main solo in lights.


I have heard a lot of people laugh at Smoke on the Water and its simplicity, but I can assure you if you took the time to learn it correctly you wouldn't feel it simplistic.


I am using the word you as a general term.  I not rebutting Silvergun.


Most of old rock is a derivative of Blues, but I have to say Deep Purple sort of doesn't fit within the blues.


Keep on SPACE TRUCKING"

[SILVERGUN]

First I would like to say the damn riff is not played on open strings.

I never wudda thought to play that riff up in the 8th to 10th fret box...when I saw him start the song I was thinking "what's he doing all the way up there"
You can't get it to sound right in open position, but that's where I learned it.
 
A couple years ago I was gonna try to get the lead note for note, but I realized I was wasting my time just to impress Jimbo.
And I wasn't impressing my dogs by sitting there hitting rewind over and over.
There's much easier ways to post an amp tone demo. So Jimbo never got that out of me.
I'll do it next time I build a Major...I promise.
 
 

[Ritchie200]

Ok, I don't know who you are, but it would appear you have the REAL Sivergun locked up under the stairs....  I am calling the authorities right now!

Ed, I was talking about the muff was an open D string, not the song itself.  Live, Ritchie would play the first run in a minor something (I'm not a note guy...), then when Jon kicked in he would play on key.  This first part was always finger picked or up stroked until they got into the verse, then Ritchie would play using a pick on his octave counterpoints that he did a lot of back then.  You can really hear the finger picked fingernail harmonics on the studio album.  Ritchie was notorious for not playing the lead the same every night.  The only ones he "claims" he partially memorized was Highway Star, Burn, Kill the King, and the resolve on Wring that Neck (later the jam at the end of Space when they played it live).

What a great time in history!
Jim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ZF2xaNhyw

[SILVERGUN]

Most of old rock is a derivative of Blues, but I have to say Deep Purple sort of doesn't fit within the blues.

Here's the 1% exception.
I had to do it.
I'm not rebuking Mr. Chambley...the other 99% doesn't fit.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0mc5TX_Fo4

[Ed_Chambley]

Sure and Lazy is Blues oriented as well.  Most of the Brits began with rehashing blues, especially the Stones and early Beatles as well.  Something different in Deep Purple tho, you must admit.  Listen to this and see if you think Coverdale was hanging around with Paul Rogers, who along with Free were very much blues.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DsNk2h8bYU

[Ritchie200]

Funny you mention Paul Rogers.  The only reason (so he says) that Glenn Hughes joined the band was he was told they were getting Paul Rogers.  Actually Ritchie did pursue Paul. Peter Grant paid a personal visit to Ritchie, who claimed Peter threatened to break his arm unless he gave it a rest.  Coverdale was in a pop band and worked at a department store selling suits.  His band had opened for Purple but they had to dig his audition tape out of the trash.  Ritchie immediately said he's the guy, he sounds like Paul Rogers.  The others were not so sure, until he came in for a live audition.  The rest is history.

I think Deep Purple Mk2 blurred the lines between blues, rock, classical, country, and quite a lot of jazz.  They got very jazzy live during their jams.

Jim

[Ritchie200]

Sorry Ed, this is a better version with Coverdale singing his guts out and the mighty mighty Major on pipe!

Jim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TOcfPNNAKE

[Ritchie200]

Count all the "styles" in this one.  Bonus - great Jon Lord solo and Ritchie solo.

Jim

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f8RNi7t9og

[Ed_Chambley]

Jim, you forget that I am a huge Purple fan and have seen them more than 10 times, even with the overplaying, pinch harmonic Dixie Dreggs who I have met and said to him Steve Morse.  A live show is a different animal and while I was living in Germany they released Perfect Strangers which I thought to be a great collection.


Everywhere you went in Germany they were playing something off this album.  Then they headlined the Monsters of Rock in Munich over Van-Halen.  I had thought the were a resurgence, but when I got back to the states there was no promotion for Purple.  No one was listening to the Perfect Strangers.


If course I have seen Rainbow with Cozy and Blackmore.  I know their tendency to break out in a jam.  The mention of Paul Rogers was intentional.


Here is a good one.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFu5seGMWbw

[sluckey]

Ouch!

[Ritchie200]

Ok, I cant let this thread end with such a crappy cover like that!

This is a buddy of mine from down tejas way.  He is in a DP tribute band called Fireball.  Super talented guy and with a name like Steve Steele, he HAS to be a rock god!!!  Also check out his solo album called Expat.  This is probably the most "freeform" I've heard him play.  I've heard other steller live recordings where he absolutely nails Blackmore.  The guy is good!

Jim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aqftC0s0W4