Listening and loving this. Related/unrelated: DP is kind of my litmus test for BS… if you tell me you love rock/music, we’re going to talk a little purple. Just like if you tell me you love the dead, we’re talking about your favorite keyboardist right off the bat. Guides me on how much to invest in the conversation. If someone can talk purple, you know you can dig in for a good chat.
Got this for Christmas in 1985. This is a fantastic set. It has my favourite version of Space Trucking. The Wring That Neck/ Mandrake Root made me a fan of improvisation in live music. I think the BBC 72 is much more lose than the Japan shows. It is one of those albums that makes you a major fan!!!
This is great. LP was honestly in my trade-in bin as I try to consolidate. Keeping it now. Deep Purple most underrated band from that first wave of hard rock? I wish I had more bands with the dueling leads between guitar and organ. I guess the doors and maybe Uriah heep. Any other standouts come to mind?
The “dueling” aspect seems much stronger in DP than those other two, though. BUT I am not that knowledgeable on the Uriah Heep front so maybe I have the wrong idea of their music….
The trouble with this is the 1970 set - the two famous long ones are shorter, and yet far more aimlessly self-indulgent, than their counterparts on the Stockholm 1970 show which remains THE greatest Deep Purple live release IMHO.
I think this is the definitive Strange Kind - Gillan doesn't forget any words, and we get the trade-offs - sounding well-rehearsed - but not sounding like it's become a chore (unlike the mid-1973 versions). Also we get a a tighter and groovier Lucille than the one from Japan. Btw - Carrots? Are we in Germany with Frank?
Funnily enough I picked up cheap the 2012 remaster/mix of the ‘72 show this week, having had the original double for years. Played it last night after a ‘99 QotSA show and also heard the influence (high strangeness!) It’s a great set but the new version has more of the stage presenter - possibly the most irritating compère on any release ever?? Amazing sound and performance though!
I bought this album many years ago. I remember the soloing was out of this world. Blackmore was in another universe.
Listening and loving this.
Related/unrelated: DP is kind of my litmus test for BS… if you tell me you love rock/music, we’re going to talk a little purple. Just like if you tell me you love the dead, we’re talking about your favorite keyboardist right off the bat. Guides me on how much to invest in the conversation. If someone can talk purple, you know you can dig in for a good chat.
I bought this in 1982 when it was released.
In some ways it's my favourite live Purple album because of the 2 extended Mark 1 tracks.
Got this for Christmas in 1985. This is a fantastic set. It has my favourite version of Space Trucking. The Wring That Neck/ Mandrake Root made me a fan of improvisation in live music. I think the BBC 72 is much more lose than the Japan shows.
It is one of those albums that makes you a major fan!!!
Also, did you hear Gillan say off-mike ‘Break a leg Frank’ during one of the jams?
Smoke, of course. It was already an old joke.
This is great. LP was honestly in my trade-in bin as I try to consolidate. Keeping it now.
Deep Purple most underrated band from that first wave of hard rock? I wish I had more bands with the dueling leads between guitar and organ. I guess the doors and maybe Uriah heep. Any other standouts come to mind?
The “dueling” aspect seems much stronger in DP than those other two, though. BUT I am not that knowledgeable on the Uriah Heep front so maybe I have the wrong idea of their music….
Can you think of anyone that comes close to purple with that original organ/guitar hard rock combo? I cannot. Such a great sound.
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The trouble with this is the 1970 set - the two famous long ones are shorter, and yet far more aimlessly self-indulgent, than their counterparts on the Stockholm 1970 show which remains THE greatest Deep Purple live release IMHO.
I think this is the definitive Strange Kind - Gillan doesn't forget any words, and we get the trade-offs - sounding well-rehearsed - but not sounding like it's become a chore (unlike the mid-1973 versions). Also we get a a tighter and groovier Lucille than the one from Japan.
Btw - Carrots? Are we in Germany with Frank?
Funnily enough I picked up cheap the 2012 remaster/mix of the ‘72 show this week, having had the original double for years. Played it last night after a ‘99 QotSA show and also heard the influence (high strangeness!) It’s a great set but the new version has more of the stage presenter - possibly the most irritating compère on any release ever?? Amazing sound and performance though!
I disagree. Harding may be unctuous but, the irritancy factor, no, he's hardly Symphony Sid or Bubbles Whitman.