Lazy - Deep Purple In Concert Live BBC March 9th 1972
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This is an extremely rare recording of Deep Purple's song ''Lazy''.
The recording originally came from the very first released album print in 1980 titled ''Deep Purple In Concert'' which was a double LP vinyl release of two recordings from 1970 and 1972, the second recording from 1972 comprises of only 5 of the band's songs played live at the Paris Theatre in London on March 9th 1972 and recorded for BBC radio. ''Smoke On The Water'' and ''Maybe I'm A Leo'' were left off the album for unknown reasons and DJ Mike Harding's speech and introduction between the tracks were omitted.
The album was originally made available on double LP vinyl in 1980 but a later single album release was re-issued on CD of only the Paris Theatre live show on 9th of March 1972 which is where this recording comes from.
Years later EMI record company released the same album again as a double LP release on CD comprising of two live concerts on each CD, one from 1970 and the other from 1972 just like the original LP vinyl release.
The double released LP years later on CD had all the edited bits and pieces from the Paris Theatre show on March 9th 1972 put back in including ''Smoke On The Water'' and ''Maybe I'm A Leo'' running in the show's original set list.
For those that have both releases of this album, if you listen carefully you can notice little differences in the produced sound on CD. The original 1980 single album release on CD as heard here has a more polished live sound added into it, Ian Paice's drums are more harder, Jon Lord's keyboards are louder, Ritchie Blackmore's guitar is softer sounding, Roger Glover's bass is more heavier and Ian Gillan's vocals produce more of an echo effect like he was singing on a large open stage, the audience and their clapping also sounds like they were more in the background and not heard so much up front like in the later double album release, and of course Blackmore's guitar and Lord's keyboards are now on the opposite sides.
Bit different sounding to the later released, re-issued double LP of ''In Concert'' on CD where this same show sounds like it was played in a smaller venue (as i'm sure the Paris Theatre was small), Ian Paice's drums are more in the background, Roger Glover's bass is not as heavier, Jon Lord's keyboards are softer but Ritchie Blackmore's guitar is alot more powerful producing louder sound, and of course Blackmore's guitar and Lord's keyboards are on their original sides of the show.
I actually don't own a copy of the original 1980 ''In Concert'' release, only the later double album release, this track ''Lazy'' was recorded and mastered from a TDK cassette tape made by my father in 1990 where he borrowed the CD from somebody he used to know and then recorded it on cassette tape. I took the tape and using an equalizer I added more treble to the upload as tapes suffer from lots of treble loss and hissing noises, so what you're hearing actually sounds of higher quality than the original cassette tape from where I got it from.
This has to be the band's best recorded version of the song as it sounds more fuller and rawrer than the Machine Head studio LP version recorded in Switzerland in 1971. Plus this live version is longer with an extra Ritchie Blackmore guitar solo added.
On the later re-issued CD release of ''In Concert'' BBC DJ Mike Harding can be heard just before Lazy starts up saying in his own words ''Lazy is next, which might mean it's a slow one, I hope not, it's not well here you are, Deep Purple and Lazy.'' Ian Gillan then grabs the microphone and adds ''Actually it's not a slow one, a bit of silence please for a bit of authentic rhythm and blues here we go''.
Enjoy!