Deep Purple - Rock Masters (Remastered SATRip)
Recorded at Granada Studios, Castlefield, Manchester, U.K
RFM-TV (Canal Satellite France) 2004 Digital Satellite Broadcast (pro-shot)
The intro consists of a one-minute fifty-second composite of the show. Video and audio quality are excellent.
Rare Deep Purple performing for the TV cameras in Europe during the early seventies.
Included here are the songs that propelled the band to greatness.
This is Deep Purple putting new material through it's paces that would ultimately surface on the legendary first
album Deep Purple In Rock, including the earliest versions of the all time classics "Speed King" and "Child in Time".
A unique feature of the material is the time and space allocated to Ritchie Blackmore to stretch out and demonstrate
the amazing virtuoso technique.
Genre: Hard Rock
Source: DVD PAL
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Video Format: AVI
Resolution: 640×480
Video Bitrate: 1350 KB/s
Frames per second: 25
Pixel Depth: 8 bits
Writing Library: XviD 1.3.0.dev55
Audio Format: AC3
Channels: 2.0
Audio Bitrate: 256 KB/s
Sampling Rate: 48 KHz
Bit Depth: 16 bits
Language: English
Subtitles: None
Recorded: July 14, 1970
Runtime: 0:25:07
File Size: 290 MB
Line-Up
Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar
Jon Lord - Keyboards
Ian Paice - Drums
Ian Gillan - Lead Vocals
Roger Glover - Bass
Tracklist
01 Intro
02 Speed King (joined in progress)
03 Child in Time
04 Wring That Neck
05 Mandrake Root (closing section)
Screens
You have to wonder what might have gone through Ritchie Blackmore's head as he listened to Alvin Lee's finger blistering take of
"I'm Going Home" on the Woodstock soundtrack.
The idea of taking Chicago blues and playing it so fast that it sounds as if something has flipped the record player to 45 rpm seems
gimmicky now, but it made Ten Years After hugely famous and sold a shitload of records.
And in 1970, no musician in England wanted more to sell a shitload of records and get famous than Ritchie Blackmore. Except David Bowie.
"Rock The Rough Guide" -as good an encyclopedia of rock as you're ever going to find- figures that the key to Deep Purple's success
was "the flash and heat generated by the musical antagonism between the classically trained organist Jon Lord and philistine guitarist
Ritchie Blackmore". On "Speed King" it's the philistine who wins out.
Inspired by Hendrix's "Fire", Speed King predates the approach of ACDC and Motorhead by five years and packs in about as much humour and
vitality as either of them.
Singer Ian Gillan's reverent rehash or rock n roll's best one liners came two years before Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" too.
But these facts are consequential only to rock nerds like me.
This performance certainly delivers the goods, without frills or subtlety. They blast out "Speed King" with a glee that's pretty awesome.
And while it would be only natural to assume the song promotes amphetamine use, the band says it isn’t so. It's not about drugs/speed etc.
In fact it is quite simply about fast singing.
On his website, Gillan describes the method of improvisational songwriting required of him while the band pounded out the chords.
"There was no time to think, so I yelled back at them, screaming extracts from the first things that came to mind".
