Best ,live album of all time!

@GormlyKeep

12 күн бұрын

Given your profile pic, surely Live After Death?

@johnmorris8799

9 күн бұрын

Double album priced as a single album at the time. I bought the vinyl in ‘73. Rendered the studio versions of these songs redundant at a stroke. It and Yessongs are joint best ever live sets.

@FrankAHuser

8 күн бұрын

Other ‘best’ albums: Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74 Ten Years After - Recorded Live Grand Funk Railroad - Live Album Deep Purple - Made in Japan These four are for me ‘the best’ live rock albums.

Ian Gillan at his screaming peak. Magnificent.

@giuliogrifi7739

13 күн бұрын

Never liked this "entertainment".

@somebloke13

13 күн бұрын

@@giuliogrifi7739 Don't listen to it then. Duh...

The two Blackmore solos leading up to the dual with Gillan are simply stunning. But it's not just his guitar that makes them brilliant, it is the way, Glover, Lord and Paice cradle the solo into a sublime silk and honey hard Rock orgasm. Incredible.

The most talented line-up in any band ever. Ian Paice was insane.

@SopranoPizzaJMFNJ

14 күн бұрын

Ummm... As a drummer, I LOVE Ian Paice. However, I find Glover boring and Blackmore annoying. Jon Lord was amazing and the vocals are awesome as usual.

@josephvanalstyne4049

13 күн бұрын

absolutely right.

@emjem99

13 күн бұрын

Still is :)

@edmonddp

13 күн бұрын

@@emjem99 Yeah of course, i mean in his prime.

@edmonddp

13 күн бұрын

@@SopranoPizzaJMFNJ I can accept that Glover is the least talented of the 5, but Blackmore annoying? Well, its your taste.

This album is a masterpiece, I used to play all of those songs live for a while. Really good music.

@AncientGranules

14 күн бұрын

Yep, even though it is years I have not listened to, I still remember it by memory. Great albums!

Jon Lord needs a concert hall named after him.

@somebloke13

13 күн бұрын

Word 😎

@xyz-md2mv

8 күн бұрын

Absolutely!

The sounds that Jon Lord got out of his Hammond C3 organ were ridiculous. He starts out with other worldly sounds then goes into Oscar Peterson!

@ljdellar

14 күн бұрын

"There's no place for keyboards in rock music"... Jon Lord - "Hold my beer..."

@electricladyguitarsdevonuk1414

14 күн бұрын

He would often play "Bach goes to Town"

@SopranoPizzaJMFNJ

14 күн бұрын

Jon Lord was a brilliant player and from ALL accounts and even better human. God bless him and the music he shared with all of us.

@zebo-the-fat

13 күн бұрын

I think he used the Hammond through a ring modulator for the first part. Jon Lord of the Hammond!

@louise_rose

13 күн бұрын

The call-and-response between Blackmore and Gillan at 10:10 is insane and so much fun!

We rocked out so much to this album back in the 70's! Still listening today, 65 years young!

@josephsoap2698

13 күн бұрын

Same here , we were only young kids and couldn't afford the double album so two of us chucked in and duly received one half each , i got the first ie Highway star , child in time ,smoke on the water , the mule . My mate got the other half . [ We swapped after about 6months] Great days .

"Sounds like he's calling long distance!" I lost it 🤣 introducing the Deep Purple dial up modem! Brilliant as always Doug, one of my all time favourite bands and records.

Deep Purple still play these 2 songs every night... 2024

No idea if this has been covered, but the "synth" sounds of Jon's at the start of Lazy, is Jon playing around with the ring modulator he'd just aquired at that time. It remained a part of his organ set-up through the House Of Blue Light tour in the late eighties...

These tracks are absolute masterclasses on how to trust your band mates to know where you are all going. One of the three best live albums ever, along with Live and Dangerous (Thin Lizzy) and Strangers in the Night (UFO).

@MartinJessop-bi4yt

14 күн бұрын

Those last two albums came out during my adolescence and i still own and love them both. UFO really had a revival in 79 when the NWOBHM started in the UK. Love lights out side.

@ljdellar

14 күн бұрын

@@MartinJessop-bi4yt I absolutely agree with you. Strangers in the Night has, in my opinion, the best work Michael Schenker ever did. Lights Out, Rock Bottom and Doctor Doctor are just incredible. Live and Dangerous perfectly captures Thin Lizzy at the height of their powers. I still play it weekly and I keep a guitar tuned down half a step so I can play along. Guilty pleasures ;-)

@delorangeade

14 күн бұрын

Those would be my picks as well.

@CB-xr1eg

14 күн бұрын

@@ljdellar Live and Dangerous was heavily overdubbed and edited in the studio, so not 100% Live. Made In Japan has no overdubs or editing. What you hear is what the crowd hear at the concerts.

@ljdellar

14 күн бұрын

@@CB-xr1eg Oh, I know, and I really do not care! I still love it. It is the crowd interaction and energy which does most of the heavy lifting.

That was the thing with Blackmore. You never knew what the mad bastard was going to do next. Staggeringly talented, one of the greatest of his generation. He and Lord had a very long and deep respect for each other and were equally capable of blowing each other off the stage which was what kept that creative friction going.

Hi Doug, the guitar solo section in Lazy that you felt sounded familiar was Ritchie’s rendition of Swedish Rhapsody (Midsummer vigil) by the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén. Both Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord often mixed pieces of different classical music in their live performances. They were both hugely influenced by and brought up with classical music. In fact Jon focused on writing classical music after he retired from Deep Purple in 2002.

As always, credit to Roger Glover and Ian Paice. As good as the other three are, that muscular rhythm section meant they could fly and know they were covered.

@marknieuweboer8099

14 күн бұрын

Yes, the tightest rhythm section ever.

My all time favourite band.

Does my heart good to see a classical music composer appreciate and groove to great rock and roll!🎶🎶🎶

I believe the "calling long distance" sound is generated by running the Hammond through a ring modulator.

The greatest live album ever, the thing is that it is exactly as recorded on the night, there are no overdubs or cleaning up in post-production, Blackmore and Gillan had as far as I am aware never even listened to the album and only Glover and Paice were involved in its mixing and production along with Martin Birch.

@AugustoCarvalho-db1kk

5 күн бұрын

O diretor da Sony também esteve envolvido neste caso pois os purple não queriam nada de gravar Au vivo 😮 os walkmans Sony tinham de sair da linha de produção e na época eram o melhor 😂 daí o êxito da Sony music

greatest live album ever made. period.

Anyone's daughter was a surprise song that always made me smile!

@underwoodvoice9077

13 күн бұрын

I always crack up at the line "Cause I made the judge's daughter (yes I did. It was nice)"

@kasperkjrsgaard1447

5 күн бұрын

For some peculiar reason Blackmore refused to do it live and that laster until Joe Satriani joined the band for the rest of the tour in ....’92 I think. When he got the gig they gave him a setlist and a stack of cd’s. Two weeks later he calls to say he was ready, and at the same time suggesting ten more songs from the catalog, including Anyones daughter which became a part of the Purple / Satriani setlist.

@MakoyUnggoy

5 күн бұрын

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 Thanks for the info!

@andreabarbieri5156

2 күн бұрын

@@kasperkjrsgaard1447they played it live with Blackmore in the “come hell or high water” live. Last show before Blackmore’s departure

@kasperkjrsgaard1447

2 күн бұрын

@@andreabarbieri5156 Sorry. Wasn’t aware of that. The only tour I had to skip in the 90’s. 😔

Love the playfullness of Purple live

To watch JL physically rock his hammond whilst playing always stays with me

Thanks Doug for the reminder why this band is one of the G.O.A.T.

The live version on Made in Japan features a theme from Hugo Alfvén's "Swedish Rhapsody #1", played by Ritchie Blackmore as a part of his solo. A

This is all my childhood. Dad is a big purple fan and I’m here for it

@JohnSmith-mx8wp

6 күн бұрын

Your dad...you make me feel old lol. Been grooving on Made In Japan since it was released in 73.

@aaron199

6 күн бұрын

@@JohnSmith-mx8wp i cant help I was born in 92 and prefer music from before my birth year lol 🤷🏻‍♂️ I appreciate all the fans before me who have been on bands like this over the years. It almost forces them to crank out masterpieces like this

Space truckin’ is unbelievable

@MrDanilop45

14 күн бұрын

I think the piece cited by Ritchie Blackmore that you recognise was a classical piece of music. Need to listen to it again to find out

@MrDanilop45

14 күн бұрын

Swedish Rhapsody Nº1 by Hugo Alfvén

@pookiemartinez1745

13 күн бұрын

@@MrDanilop45 Ritchie

@JohnSmith-mx8wp

6 күн бұрын

Can't wait for side 4 of MIJ here. Doug is bout to have his face melted off.

One of the best sides of vinyl ever released. My favourite from this album because I think it shows the band interactions at their best, even if Blackmore and Gillan were no longer on speaking terms by this time.

Side 3 is the best side on the album. Off the scale.

The part of Ritchie's solo you couldn't place was Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf that the 3 little pigs sang in that children's story! Always enjoy your reactions!

@eugenek7043

13 күн бұрын

Sound similar but it actually is Swedish Rhapsody (Midsummer vigil) by the Swedish composer Hugo Alfvén.

@larteonceagain

12 күн бұрын

It is Swedish Rhapsody, Jon has said that he was very moved and glad that Ritchie played it.

DOUG!!! You ain't seen notting yet, untill you see Deep Purple California Jam '74 Boy, are you in for a treat!

A fun thing is that maiden recorded too a live show in japan, they called it "Maiden Japan" (obvious reference) 😂

@jasperdevries1726

14 күн бұрын

I blame Martin.

Ritchie saying he's the "Big Bad Wolf"

@davorzmaj753

14 күн бұрын

I couldn't place it, but yup, this is right. "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf", from Disney (YT has a 2;13 version that has Ritchie's quote right near the start). EDIT: But another commenter says it's Swedish Rhapsody Nº1 by Hugo Alfvén -- which yup, it is! So I guess Disney used that for the cartoon... The (or an?) other quote is "Louie Louie", at 16:34.

Doug... a reaction to 1969's "Deep Purple with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra in London". Jon Lord work in there is awesome harmonically speaking.

@kasperkjrsgaard1447

5 күн бұрын

The whole band was on fire. Blackmore was even filmed while smiling. 😮

Keyboard intro to 'Lazy' features the I-IV-V that is clearly a quick quote of 'Wild Thing'...a few bars later he's quoting 'Duke Ellington's 'Take The 'A' Train', all after bringing in a spaceship to land at the start. DP of this era were always throwing in nods to their broad frame of musical reference, all over the heads of the audience, one suspects...The song itself is revved up-metalled up R&B. Those were the days. Metal from the 80s onwards lost the blues/R&B/jazz tripleted swing that bands like Purple and Zep had and this has been to the detriment of the genre altogether, descending into into Spinal Tap stuff...Blackmore's little quot is also from some light operetta style or Broadway musical style music. 'Cheeky' as much as 'Lazy'!

@TechnicalBard

14 күн бұрын

I think the piece in the intro is Louie, Louie!

@Dibbdroid

13 күн бұрын

It's not Take the A Train. It is C Jam Blues and more likely the Oscar Peterson version.

@PedrSion

11 күн бұрын

There was a bit of Louie Louie by the Kingsmen in the keyboard intro.

Unbelievable musicians, Blackmore and Lord at their greatest!

Now your getting to the really good part of this album. Best for last is the 20 minute version of Space Trucken. Best live album, really haunts you this type of music is in the distant past.

@MrDanilop45

14 күн бұрын

There is a special version of made in Japan (the encores) that has additional tracks: black night, speed king and Lucille. Also There is a non authorised DVD and even if the audio quality isn’t great, it is cool to see them playing live. Great energy.

@MrDanilop45

14 күн бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKhlstqSg5bVhJM.htmlsi=tmXQIeh-Hsq7c0Dg

I never tire of this album and I bought it the day it came out. Why? All the solos are improvised by musicians at the absolute peak of their powers. It never gets old. As Lars of Metallica said at their hall of fame induction “Deep Purple were just better than everyone else” … and he was right. Their last 3 albums went to No 1 and the next “= 1” is out in mid July 2024 and has already got a 10/10 review.

I think this song is on their live playlist even today, although the combination of Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore is unbeatable. Great reaction for great music !

BEST live album of alll time, hands down.

1. Deep Purple Mk2 & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Concero For Group & Orchestra Live At The Royal Albert Hall (1969); 2. Deep Purple Mk2 & The Orchestra Of The Light Music Society - Gemini Suite Live (1970). Both composed and scored by Jon Lord.

To fully understand Space Trucking live you've gotta hear Mandrake Root from the debut album first. It's the coda of that song they extended and placed after ST.

@JohnSmith-mx8wp

6 күн бұрын

And the song "Fools" from *Fireball*, with RB imitating a cello using volume swells.

Strange Kind Of Woman is a great track! because of the lyric. Lazy is basically just mucking about, but what "mucking" talent they are having fun and the crowd gets their moneys worth. Keep Reacting!

just.... Just..... what more can you add......... one the best blues chooons ever...

"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf," Doug, that's the little ditty Ritchie was playing.

@larteonceagain

12 күн бұрын

It isn't Big Bad Wolf, it the Swedish composer Hugo Álfven's Swedish Rhapsody.

Now you really know why this is such a great album.

Jon Lord got sounds from a Hammond that Hammond never put in there.

@latheofheaven1017

14 күн бұрын

I've never heard a good run down of how Lord got those sounds. I've heard references to a ring modulator, but that doesn't explain much!

@latheofheaven1017

14 күн бұрын

I remember seeing them live shortly after Made In Japan and he had a thing that looked like a rheostat like we had in physics class on the top of his Hammond, but again, never seen anything about what he was actually doing.

@paulspalace

14 күн бұрын

@@latheofheaven1017 A lot of it stemmed from the fact he run them direct into Marshall amps and speakers generating a raw powerful sound, can never understand him going back to a Leslie system during the Mk III line up. I love the massive sound he gots from tipping the organ backward to almost tipping over then slamming it down.

@Miwna

14 күн бұрын

As others mentioned, he used Marshall amps but also a Maestro (Gibson) Ring Modulator. A quote from around 1989: "The ring modulator operates as the central volume for the whole organ. There’s volume, pitch and modulation controls on it. If I really want to crank it up, the ring modulator gives me the overdrive sound". The organ also has a spring reverb which makes the crashing sounds he gets from slamming the organ.

@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa

13 күн бұрын

@@paulspalace He went back to the Leslie because with Mk III, it was a return to a more bluesy sound which running the Hammond thru leslies would attain that sound.

We played this last night ha ha! I hope we do it justice. The bass drum is not easy in the duel, relentless triplets.

Spankin’ the Shaker…🤣😂🤣😂

Best live album ever. Been listening to it for over 20 years, still find new elements when I listen. Deep Purple at its peak. Blackmore his improvising and guitar tone is off record, Lords hammond composing over and around it. Gillan screaming in between, jealously. While drums and bass surround and support all those harmonies. Its an absolute masterpiece.

Crown of the jewel on this album is definitely Space Truckin'.

Doug, you are forgetting two things with Lazy track. 1. This is a Japanese crowd, they are respectful and 2. It is Ritchie Blackmore on guitar, he could play a different riff each time he plays it. Lazy is one of my personal best tracks by them. ❤️🤘🎸🎻🦘

The classical piece you tried to place during lazy is swedish rhapsody number 1 by hugo alfven

My dad has this on Vinyl. The original Vinyl! Im am a Swed to. And I love this Lp! 🇸🇪🤘

If you liked this very cool live performance of early Purple, check out their epic historical performance at Cal Jam 1974

It's Jon's ''beast'' Hammond !

Made In Japan is also one of the few live albums that are totally live. 99,9 % of all live albums are always fixed in the studio and some albums aren't even played live.

@lehtjug

12 күн бұрын

There is also live album from Deep Purple which was recorded in Stockholm 1970. It sounds that it's also totally live. That concert is released at least with two different titles Scandinavian Nights and Live and Rare. But as you said most of live albums are fixed in the studio.

@larteonceagain

12 күн бұрын

@@lehtjug Yes, luckily the music program "Tonkraft" decided to record them that night. Live In Stockholm that was released several years after Scandinavian Nights, is titled Live In Stockholm. And here they have put the songs in the order they were played. I guess the record company thought it suited better that way. But of course it's also released as Live and Rare.

Strange Kind of Stereo: Ian, Jon, Roger and Ian are in the right speaker, a lonely Ritchie in the left.

My late uncle saw DP around this time. He always said it was completely overwhelming.

The 2 solos that Ritchie puts down on SKOW are some of my favorites by him. The tone, phrasing, note selection, melodic nature are just simply a thing of beauty. Extremely tasteful solos and appropriate for the song.

It's been a few decades since I've heard this. Forgot how good it was

My favorite side of the album. Wish I'd have made it for the premier.

I love that you're half-cut listening to this all time masterpiece!! cheers Doug!!!

NO Doug, the drum beat is NOT STEADY...I know you like to sit there and air drum away, but GO back and listen to the foot/bass beat from 09:30 onwards all over again!!! There is some CLASSIC footwork there changing up constantly man!!!!

My favorite live LP still to this day.

Hi Doug! Great reaction as always! You wondered why a small portion in Lazy sounded familiar to you. The part at the end where Ritchie is by himself on the guitar and Ian Paice joins in for a moment. What they play is actually a short snippet from Hugo Alfvén's "Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Opus 19: Midsummer Vigil". I learned that from my cantor in church, who happened to also be a huge fan of Deep Purple and Jon Lord (and actually also Frank Zappa funny enough... the Smoke on the Water connection... 🙂). So it's no surprise you recognized the tune, being a classical musician and composer! As a swede I'm glad a piece of Swedish Rhapsody ended up on Made in Japan! 🙂 I will post a link to it below... kzread.info/dash/bejne/eIJh0I-OqqrFlMo.htmlsi=zeVwjNOsu1vaYeIr

@RushfanUK

14 күн бұрын

Better known to me as "Who's afraid of the big bad wolf" I think Disney nicked it.

@gustaf0902

13 күн бұрын

As a fellow swede I have always wondered how Alfvén ended up on this record 😂

@Kaj_Selin

13 күн бұрын

​@@gustaf0902And fitting this is released at Midsommar!

@ThinPicks

13 күн бұрын

​@@RushfanUKThey sound like two completely different tunes to me.🤔

@RushfanUK

13 күн бұрын

@@ThinPicks I can’t help your hearing issues.

This has been my favorite album for over 40 years ! Does Rock n Roll get any better ?? I first heard this when I was 7 or 8 years old ! Loved it !!

Marillion Misplaced Childhood in your background - definitely a record to review by side 1 & then side 2! All songs segue.

This was my favourite side 😊. My first ever audition for school rock band in ‘73 was Lazy. The others had learned from the studio version, I only had ever heard this version! That was fun ..😂

That ol' I-IV-V standard progression is/can be any number of songs from Louie Louie to 'Summer Lovin'' form Grease...and yes it's 'C-Jam Blues' rather than 'Take The A Train' my bad. The point is that these guys are true musicians in that they have eclectic influences and interests, which was what 'progressive' was all about putting together elements of all sorts of genres in new ways with the new musical tools available, at a time when we still used technology, rather than it using us...

Just FYI, the 'spaceship' sounds Jon Lord gets at the beginning of "Lazy" are done by running his Hammond organ through a ring modulator. It's a device that's borrowed from radio circuitry that takes two signals and puts out a tone that is the sum and difference of the two inputs. Most ring modulators designed as musical effects have a built-in oscillator to provide one of the signals. By changing the frequency of the internal oscillator, you get those weird sweeping tones with tons of weird 'non-musical' harmonics moving around. On this tour, Lord actually didn't have any synthesizers, although he'd add an ARP Odyssey a few years later.

@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa

11 күн бұрын

Exactly right about the ring modulator. If you look at the cover to MIJ, it's that little box that's taped down on top of the left side of Jon's Hammond (appears on the right for us viewers). Jon did add 2 ARP synths during the Who Do We Think We Are tour which was 1973 which he used for the rest of the original run of Purple until 1976.

@godzillahaiku6036

11 күн бұрын

@@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa The only problem with a ring modulator is that I hear it in my head in the Marvin the Martian voice where he pronounces it "Ring mod-u-lay-TOR." Then again, I'm weird like that. :) Thanks for the info on the added synths to Lord's setup.

my neighbors love this cd too

I remember buying this album in 1973. Still sounds good today. "Who is afraid of the big bad wolf" is the song tickling the back of your mind. 🤔

If you get 5 mins Doug listen to Strange Kind of Woman from the 3rd night in Tokyo. Ritchies solos are even better. Definitely aliens in the next one. 😁

Space Truckin will take you on a long journey through the Atmosphere reminiscent of Mandrake Root and Fools sammich. 🚀

Ritchie plays Hugo Alfvén (1872-1962), Misommarvaka (Swedish Rhapsody) kzread.info/dash/bejne/eIJh0I-OqqrFlMo.html

The guy that sold me my record player gave me a copy of this record and said it was essential, he wasn’t lying. Space truckin is a wild ride

During the last guitar solo, the tune that you recognised but couldn't place was Swedish Rhapsody.

With only one song left after side three because there’s no encore on the vinyl. But they did two of three numbers as encores Black Night, Speed King or Little Richards Lucille. Black Night has a story. The band had just done Deep Purple in Rock and was very pleased with it. But the record company said “There’s no single here”. The band said “We don’t do singles”. But the record company said that they did and booked time in a studio the next day and told them “Go and write a hit single”. Very easy. They tried for a couple of hours but couldn’t come up with anything, so they went to a pub instead. And had a beer or 20 and got really, really drunk. Later they came back to the studio. Ritchie was sitting on the floor playing Rick Nelsons Summertime. They all joined in and they jammed for a while. Gillan wrote down anything anyone said and used that as lyrics. Roger said “I don’t feel so bright”, before throwing up. That’s line two of the lyrics. They went home without a song or so they thought. The next day the record company called and said “What a great single you made yesterday”. The band “Single? What single? Did we make a single last night?” They had no idea. So if anyone can understand the lyrics and what they mean please tell Gillan because he hasn’t got a clue. The single, Black Night, went to #4 on the top 100 list.

not a synth, it's a Hammond Organ through a ring modulator... and of course there's a quote from Louie Louie in the intro

Please react to the encores which are included on the bonus CD which was released later on. It is as good as the other 4 sides and includes Black Night, Speed King and Lucille. This version of Speed King is amazing.

Doug, my drink recipe: Hendricks, tonic, grapefruit juice, pomegranate juice, lime

I'm watching, watching...then Doug blazes...nice 🤘✌️ Good summer drink choice too!

“Where’d that come from?”…..Buffalo girl won’t you come out tonight, come out tonight, come out to-night…..I only know it from Its a wonderful life..Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed sing to each other on a date.

Hi Dr. Doug. The UK version of Fireball had Demon's Eye as a track whereas the American release included Strange Kind of Woman on the album in lieu of Demon's Eye. You should check out the entire Fireball album. It is Ian Gillan's favorite.

Loved the reaction to the 6+ minute intro to "Lazy", one of the highlights of this massive LP. The version of "Space Truckin" you're going to play is without question my favorite recording ever, by anybody. Listen to it and tell me you're not being taken on a trip through space.

I have two more you need react to, Deep Purple in concert (1972) Mandrake root and Wring that neck. Absolute solos and improves there❤

Great version of lazy in you fool no one live at california jam in 74.also done for blues on rainbow on stage. Great comparison in evolution of the track.

🎶 I’m not afraid of the big bad wolf .. the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf”🎶 Is the fun section that Ritchie plays in the middle down tempo part of lazy.

Hello I’m here😊

Hey Doug! great video as always, so interesting, this is my favorite albm! The bit that sounded familiar to you in Lazy (the part that Ritchie plays a lick towards the end) is "Swedish Rhapsody No.1" from Hugo Alfvén.

Maybe I am wrong, but it may be the first time I noticed the last attack from Blackmore was harmonically OK, but wrong chords, just the attack. I never noticed it before, maybe because this is the remastered version I got vynil , but I also have CD set. I will check it out. Time to relisten to it! Just a strange thing, I love Ritchie, I play guitar. Loved it❤

@seabud6408

10 күн бұрын

You were .. wrong. 😀

The classical snippet played by Richie is from Alfven’s Swedish Rhapsody No. 1

The rock world was lucky then, I am convinced that if this album had been recorded elsewhere, the results would not have been the same, a thank you to the capable Japanese engineers who made this recording masterpiece.

Wonderful content as usual, and this time one of the greatest live albums ever. I listened too much to it in the 80s so no longer on a short list for me, but such a classic.

Side 3 is the blues side of Deep Purple

Mr. Dough , don't care if you will read this comment or not but we have to pay attention of these two bands and their albums on metal mandy : 1) Psychotic Waltz , 2) Fates Warnning ; Albums : 1) Into the Everfwol , 2) Perfect Symmetry 😉

In the intro Jon Lord plays "Bach Goes to Town" and "C Jam Blues". It's really interesting to listen to all three nights. They are completely different.

The old Hammond C3 organs had a start/run switch that would ramp up the voltage to get the tubes going almost like starting a car. That's how Jon Lord would do the weird pitch shifting. There are even some live examples of John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin and Keith Emerson using the same technique.

Have you seen the new version of Lazy with Jimmy Barnes on vocal, Joe Bonamassa on guitar. It is outstanding.