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Deep Purple ‎– The Friends And Relatives Album / Smoke On The Water, Wring That Neck, Love Is All and many more... / Elap Audio CD 2006

Name: Deep Purple ‎– The Friends And Relatives Album / Smoke On The Water, Wring That Neck, Love Is All and many more... / Elap Audio CD 2006 / 5706238332542
SKU: 5706238332542
Price: 19.99 USD
Availability: InStock

UPC 5706238332542

Product Details:

Label: Elap ‎– 5706238332542

Format: CD, Compilation

Country: Europe

Released: 2006

Genre: Rock

Style: Hard Rock

Editorial Review:

One could fill a box set, and write a book, about the Deep Purple family tree -- and still have people complaining that you've missed a sizable limb. From the bandmembers' early days with such legends of the English minor leagues as Episode Six and the Outlaws through to latter-day giants Gillan, Rainbow, and Whitesnake, Deep Purple has stamped a monstrous footprint into the landscape of modern rock -- one that this two-disc compilation tries hard to map out. In terms of exploring the band's least-known avenues, this compilation is no more than adequate. Where it triumphs is in ensuring that the links it does pursue are actually worth chasing in the first place. Too many Purple offshoots have little more in common with the parent band than the presence of a member or two. Friends & Relatives concentrates on the links that actually sound like they belong. In other words, it's LOUD. Deep Purple itself is represented by four tracks: Mark II live recordings of "Black Night" and the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black," Mark III renderings of "Smoke on the Water" and "Stormbringer." Elsewhere, there are solo shots by Glenn Hughes, Nick Simper, and Tommy Bolin, and, by way of their respective contributions to Gillan and Rainbow, Bernie Marsden and Ronnie James Dio offer up fine indications of why Purple fans continue to hold them in such high regard. Simper's early-'70s Warhorse and Hughes' pre-Purple Trapeze also make a mark, with cuts that may well encourage first-time listeners to seek out more in a similar vein. Indeed, there's a continuity running through the 26 songs here that readily justifies the album's familial linkage, something that other albums of this ilk often struggle to achieve. One final point: The liner notes (by Spahn Ranch main man Matt Green) do seem to have suffered from an overly literal spell checker. It's bad enough to find Glenn Hughes renamed Glenn Huges once, but Ian Gillan becomes Gillian every single time he's mentioned. It's a shoddy error that could leave you wondering that if they can't get that right, what else have they got wrong? The answer is -- very little. Another couple of discs' worth of bands, and this would have been perfect.

Tracklist:

1	–Deep Purple	Smoke On The Water	5:59
2	–Deep Purple	Wring That Neck	4:28
3	–Ian Gillan	No More Cane On The Brazos	8:12
4	–Roger Glover	Burn Me Up Slowly	4:00
5	–Deep Purple	Ted The Mechanic	4:13
6	–Ronnie Dio & Eddie Hardin	Love Is All	4:06
7	–Gillan* & Glover	The Purple People Eater	2:33
8	–Ian Gillan Band	Scarabus	4:51
9	–Steve Morse	Take It Off The Top	4:24
10	–Deep Purple & London Symphony Orchestra	Concerto For The Group And Orchestra - Movement I	16:45
11	–Deep Purple & London Symphony Orchestra	Concerto For The Group And Orchestra - Movement II	19:17

About the Band:

Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. The band is considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock although their musical approach changed over the years. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies". They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre and have sold over 100 million copies of their albums worldwide.

Deep Purple have had several line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus (1976–1984). The 1968–1976 line-ups are commonly labelled Mark I, II, III and IV. Their second and most commercially successful line-up consisted of Ian Gillan (vocals), Jon Lord (keyboards), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums), and Ritchie Blackmore (guitar). This line-up was active from 1969 to 1973 and was revived from 1984 to 1989 and again from 1992 to 1993. The band achieved more modest success in the intervening periods between 1968 and 1969 with the line-up including Rod Evans (lead vocals) and Nick Simper (bass, backing vocals), between 1974 and 1976 with the line-up including David Coverdale (lead vocals) and Glenn Hughes (bass, vocals) (and Tommy Bolin replacing Blackmore in 1975), and between 1989 and 1992 with the line-up including Joe Lynn Turner (vocals). The band's line-up (currently including Ian Gillan, and guitarist Steve Morse from 1994) has been much more stable in recent years, although keyboardist Jon Lord's retirement from the band in 2002 (being succeeded by Don Airey) left Ian Paice as the only original Deep Purple member still in the band.

Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme, and a poll on radio station Planet Rock ranked them 5th among the "most influential bands ever". The band received the Legend Award at the 2008 World Music Awards. Deep Purple (specifically Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Gillan, Glover, Coverdale, Evans, and Hughes) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.

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