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| Deep Purple – Hallelujah Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The decision to fire Evans & Simper had already been finalized by the time this track was recorded, just Evans & Simper hadn't been informed that they were out yet! I'm not sure if the MkI lineup ever recorded a version of this track (I know that studio time was booked for MkI to reportedly try and put together a version of "Hallelujah") or not - I lean toward 'not', but have no irrefutable evidence either way - but there's absolutely no doubt that the then-fledgling MkII lineup certainly did! Despite both Gillan's & Glover's reservations reagrding the song, after it had received the 'Blackmore/Lord' treatment it took on a whole new dynamic that the original composers probably never envisioned, let alone intended!
Gillan's scream, approximately a minute-and-a-half into the track, was a monumental moment in Deep Purple's musical history - a signpost at the beginning of a whole new era for Deep Purple! |
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| Deep Purple – Comin' Home Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I'm just wondering how many folks here are aware that the bass guitar in this stellar track was played by Tommy Bolin? |
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| Deep Purple – When a Blind Man Cries Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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One of the best rock/blues songs ever recorded...sublime & beautiful.
As was already said, Blackmore's guitar seems to be crying the blues itself.
I strongly suggest that anyone who's interested should definitely check out the "Anniversary Edition" of "Machine Head", which contains a remastered disc of the original album, and a remastered/remixed version of the album as done by Roger Glover. The version of "When A Blind Man Cries" on that is - believe it or not! - superior to the one most folks are used to! Lord's organ work in the remix has been brought more to the fore 7 it only enhances & betters an already classic song. |
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| Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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(or Perfect St. Rangers as it is sometimes known)
Can you recapture the past? Will the flames burn again so fiercely? These were the questions we asked ourselves as we stood, together again for the first time in over ten years, somewhat shakily in the mid-eighties. Deep Purple. We were a family, albeit a troubled one, and the spirit of what had gone before was drawing us together again; unlikely as that may have seemed just a year earlier. We had each of us been on great Odysseys and that meant that we were not the raw individuals that had made things work in '69.
The song refers to uncertainties about ourselves and about the reaction from the public, about our music and our integrity. A recognition that the days of gay abandon had passed and that a new phase was being entered. And so, from my point of view, the loneliness and singularity of all these vulnerabilities being put under a spotlight, a strand of silver, for the first time. - Ian Gillan. |
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| Deep Purple – I'm Alone Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The music for the track had been bouncing around for a couple of years, surfacing under various names on various recordings. It began life as an instrumental jam called "Jam Stew" or "John's Stew", them morphed into a bit more 'finished', less impromptu product titled "Grabsplatter" (A Gillan title, as he said the music on the track was a "...grabsplatter of ideas & concepts").
The lyrics - once again - were ones that Gillan had brought to the band from his days with Episode Six. More about Gillan's self-doubts about his career choice and what the possible repercussions would or could be...seeing as he's in his 40th year in the business this year, maybe it'd be worth dropping him a line at his website and asking him about it! |
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| Deep Purple – Highway Star Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Actually, "Highway Star" came about as DP were bussing toa gig in England along with a slew of media types & one of them asked Gillan and Blackmore how DP went about their songwriting process. Blackmore began strumming the basic riff of the song & Gillan began improvising lyrics on the spot. "We're a rock 'n roll band, we're on the road all day...we're a rock'n roll band, we really come to slay". The track was worked on during the soundcheck and was used in the set that very night!As you can tell, the lyrics underwent some changes over the next couple of months during live performances before the track was recorded at the Grand Hotel in Montreaux as part of the legendary "Machine Head" album.
As pointed out by Dream Deceiver, more memorable for the excellent Hammond organ solo & Blackmore's magnificent Bach (or is it Mozart?) based guitar solo than the lyrics. Still, a classic and it remained Deep Purple MkII's concert opener 'til that lineup fragmented in June of 1973, then returned as the opener for at least another decade or so - off 'n on - after the 1984 MkII reunion. |
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| Deep Purple – Child In Time Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Bizter, whomever told you that had it or got it given to them wrong, I assure you.
The track is based on a slowed down version of a song by an old band called It's A Beautiful Day titled "Bombay Calling". The story goes that Lord liked to tinker around with the basic structure of this song and came up with the slow, haunting riff over which Ian Gillan improvised some lyrics that he'd been fooling with since his days with Episode Six (the band he left to join DP in June of 1969). Given the anti-war sentiments of the day, the track has certainly garnered it's fair share of attention in that regard through the years. Gillan's operatic singing on this track is simply unmatchable and I can't imagine any other vocalist in the world at that time - hell, maybe even still! - delivering the performance Gillan did. Blackmore's solo in the middle of the song is one of his all time best, the magicis that he plays it on his old Gibson - not the legendary Strat!
An All-Time Rock Classic! |
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| Deep Purple – Burn Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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What does this song mean to me? Well, it marked a whole new era in Deep Purple was all! And what a helluva debut! Right from the killer opening riff (based - accidentally, according to Blackmore - on "Fascinating Rythym", to Paice's energetic drumming (he drops fills in all over the place) throughout, to Jon Lord's 'signature' Hammond song - this track absolutely lit up the old turntable back in '74!
Lyrically, it's a bit silly in retrospect, but no more or no less silly than what had been being churned out for years already at that point by any # of other artists, and what's been churned out since. Blackmore was looking for castles & damsels/ dungeons & dragons/devil's daughters & demons type lyrics for the track anyway (like the majority of DP's music back then, the music was usaully created first, then the lyrics would get written) and Coverdale, being brand new in the band & eager to please, provided 4 different sets of lyrics. The alternative that finished 2nd in the selection process was titled "The Road". |
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| Deep Purple – Black Night Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Allegedly written in a drunken stupor...the music has tinges of both "We Ain't) Got Nothin' Yet" by the Blue Magoos (as RR mentioned) & Ricky Nelson's "Summertime". Created only because the record company insisted on one more song that could be released as a single, as the record company deemed that not much else from "In Rock" was really very marketable as a single - from their standpoint.
Musically it holds together quite well, lyrically it's pretty inane & banal...not reflective at all of Gillan & Glover's better efforts. |
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| Ted Nugent – Stranglehold Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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A true rock classic! One of Terrible Ted's absolute best. The feeling of the song, the attitude, mak the lyrics stronger than they actually read. |
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