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The Offical Deep Purple (Overseas) Live Series – Copenhagen 1972 / Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice / Deep Purple / Ear Music 2x Audio CD 2013 / 0208369ERE
UPC 4029759083696
Product Details:
Imagine a world without Machine Head. Imagine a Deep Purple set-list without Smoke On The Water. Imagine a time when the music business had yet to become a vast multi-national conglomerate. This was the primordial landscape on March 1, 1972 when Deep Purple took to the stage at the Kobenhavns Boldklub (KB) Hallen in Copenhagen. It was a time of no boundaries or restrictions, no blueprints or formulas. Rock music wasnt exactly in its infancy, but there were still plenty of new territories to explore, mountains to climb, peaks to conquer. It was a time when anything was possible. Purple were on a mission to prove it. They had completed their Machine Head album at the tail-end of 1971 but at the time of this recording it hadnt arrived in the shops yet. Nevertheless, their show contained three songs Highway Star, Lazy and Space Truckin from that legendary release. It must have been a mindboggling hang on a minute, make that life-changing experience, to be part of the Danish audience this stellar night. Everything about this recording is spontaneous and un-choreographed, loose and lethal, teetering and tempestuous. An explosive combination of brinkmanship and barely controlled chaos. Which, in a lip-synched and auto-tuned modern-day music world, comes as a breath of fresh air. The high spots just keep on coming. Jon Lords heroic keyboard playing on Lazy, the mischievous guitar-vocal sparring between Blackmore and Gillan on Strange Kind Of Woman, the positively progressive vibe of The Mule, before Ian Paices epic drum solo kicks in, Gillan showing exactly why he gained the proud title of silver-throated screamer on Child In Time and Glovers often under-acknowledged bass-lines underpinning each song like a network of steel girders. The list goes on..
Tracklist:
| 1-1 | Highway Star | 8:26 |
| 1-2 | Strange Kind Of Woman | 9:33 |
| 1-3 | Child In Time | 17:27 |
| 1-4 | The Mule | 9:24 |
| 1-5 | Lazy | 11:16 |
| 1-6 | Space Truckin' | 22:11 |
| 2-1 | Fireball | 5:12 |
| 2-2 | Lucille
Written-By – Albert Collins (2), Penniman |
5:55 |
| 2-3 | Black Night | 6:15 |
| Bonus | ||
| 2-4 | Strange Kind Of Woman (Live New York 1973) | 6:18 |
| 2-5 |
Smoke On The Water (Live New York 1973) | 5:25 |
| 2-6 | Space Truckin' (Live New York 1973) | 10:42 |
| 2-7 | 1971 Australian Interview | 5:44 |
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.
More Details:
- Bass, Tambourine – Roger Glover
- Coordinator [Product Coordination For earMUSIC] – Isabelle Albrecht
- Design – Alexander Mertsch
- Drums, Percussion – Ian Paice
- Executive-Producer – Drew Thompson, Tony Edwards (9)
- Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore
- Liner Notes – Geoff Barton
- Mastered By, Restoration [2013 Audio Restoration By] – Martin Pullan
- Organ, Keyboards – Jon Lord
- Photography By – Jørgen Angel
- Producer – Martin Birch
- Vocals, Harmonica, Percussion – Ian Gillan
- Written-By – Ian Gillan (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6, 2-1, 2-3 to 2-6), Ian Paice (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6, 2-1, 2-3 to 2-6), Jon Lord (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6, 2-1, 2-3 to 2-6), Ritchie Blackmore (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6, 2-1, 2-3 to 2-6), Roger Glover (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6, 2-1, 2-3 to 2-6)
