Classical Composer Reacts to Deep Purple (Child in Time) | The Daily Doug (Episode 384) 

Absolute perfection indeed and the greatest live band ever in my humble opinion!

Paice is a monster one of the best ever.

He is my favorite drummer for sure, though of course Bonzo is great, among others, and Moonie is hilarious to watch.

The very best imo

Even coming out of my Dad's cheesy Sanyo component system back in the '70's this album's sound of raw power was astonishing. And the virtuosity was a bonus.

a funny story is how on interviews the members of DP used to say that jon lord knew he should never improvise for too long on a song because the longer he did it, the worse he got.

Indeed!

Amen

That's a big argument among (true) rock fans forever. But even people that are not Purpleheads like us tend to concede that it is a masterpiece. But this, together with Live in London and Real to Reel (a criminally underrated live album from Marillion) compose my top 3.

It’s defiantly one of my favorites, along with humble pie live album.

i guess everyone who has any knowladge in rock music and rock history agrees on your statement. Made in Japan was and still is insane

In my opinion it´s "Deep Purple - In Concert" from 1980, German Pressing.

UFO strangers in the night is also one if the best live records ever

Can't believe he's never listened to Deep Purple. :\

He ends up hitting an A5….waaaay up there

_"B-b-b-b-baby you just ain't heard nothing yet..."_No, wait, that wasn't Deep Purple, that was Bachman Turner Overdrive.

Exactly what I said at the same point in the video!

I was like... yeah, you just wait...

Best rock album ever. Saw me through many years of youth. Still have the vinyl.

That is the best live álbum rock ever produced .

Here's something to consider: On the double Made in Japan album's four sides, there are 7 songs. So for the first three sides you have two songs per side, about 10 minutes per song. The 4th side is nearly 20 minutes of Space Truckin', the last couple minutes of which ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S4m11zVGYEo.html ) sounds like a teenaged valet who's never operated hyperdrive trying to park the band's very large and cumbersome rocket ship. ;- )

DOUG MUST REVIEW THE WHOLE ALBUM... ! "Space-Trucking" for 20 minutes... "Strange Kinda Woman", "Lazy" is off the hook too... The whole Album, one of the first 10 LP's I purchased. "Smoke on the Water" Live was the only tune that got air-time on the radio. Sadly the other songs rate much higher and never got air-play. (Except WBCN)

@@alldayadventures5418 Lazy, for whatever reason, was my psych up song when I played hockey. One of my first albums too.

You should listen to "It's a Beautiful Day - Bombay Calling" the original riff.

Lord was a beast!

Underrated? Lol

yup - what amazing introduction to this man!!!

Thank you. Gillan’s performance of the song “Gethsemane” from the original Jesus Christ Superstar is probably my favorite song of all time. His voice is perfection on it. Absolute perfection.

One of the greatest albums of all time! I know every note and word by heart since I was about ten!

FYI for the JCS mega fans, there's a 50th anniversary edition that has a bonus disc with some interesting outtakes and overseas singles that had different lyrics. Check it out! Enjoy.

@@maggieshevelew7579 I've heard other versions of Gethsemane.....none of them come close. Every song on the original recording beats any updated versions I've heard and seen.

Yes Ian Paice is a Thunderbolt like nobody more

q tips on sale, isle 6, walmart......how dare you minimize Bonham with a 'but'.....???????.....yea Ian was old school and one of...........

Totally agree, Paice was more of an all-rounder, not just a thumper like Bonham.

@@snowboardinpassout 'just a thumper'? total fake news....you oughta be ashamed of yourself....or deaf

I agree, I like the studio version better sounds more dynamic.

Agreed, but hoping for "Lazy" as my choice for next Purple song

Made in Japan is the best version to me.

@@davethomas1641 Amen, & Amen!

YES When a Blind Man Cries. A Child in Time sounds more jazz like

Deep Purple, The Who and Led Zeppelin are probably the most talented groups of individual musicians we're ever going to get

Agree with you there 🤘

Ian is my favorite hard rock singer. He's stated he was influenced by Arthur Brown. (See Fire, Carl Palmer on drums)

Totally agree

AGREED! Best lineup period 👍👍👍

Ian "has" and DP "were" ? or Ian "had" and DP "are". Mark II 1969-73 best ever

That was actually Ritchie, then Gillan repeats it

@@Dibbdroid exactly

Spacetruckin too

Second the Burn recommendation.

The whole machine head album is awesome!

@@williamsporing1500 Also Who Do We Think We Are, "Woman from T-kay-o"

Agreed

Indeed, some very strong guitar work on these tunes. 'Lazy' is also fantastic. The band was at their best live, imo, so it's great that Deep Purple were open to doing live albums.

@@guitarchannel5676 and when you look at the "big three" Deep Purple was head and shoulders above Zeppelin and Ozzy era Sabbath live. Way more consistent and powerful. Purple had it all. Classical knowledge. Unlimited technical facility. Jazz and improvisational brilliance. They could solo all night and do such creative and remarkable things. And no two nights ever being the same. And Gillan...well all the proof you need is right here.

@@pjones8404 well, I like all of those bands. Those bands all released great live albums too, during that time. I do appreciate their live sounds and their ideas. They are all great bands and contributers to hard rock. Innovative bands.

What a concept; record the musicians playing their instruments as they play. No studio tricks. Goes to show what amazing musicians these guys all were...

Soooooooooo right, mate 🎉❤!! BERNIE GERMANY 😊

Don’t forget Manzarek and especially Jordan Ruddess, the best of them all! For a little taste check out The dance of eternity by Dream Theater. It’s an instrumental piece that’ll blow yer mind!

Without Lord there would be no Ruddess and while Ruddess is amating, Lords improvisation ability puts him on top for me.

@@scottlaughlin9897 I’m very familiar with Rudess. The man is a great player. I was into DT for a bit. Great players, but sometimes too mechanical for my tastes. For instance, there are guitarists, say Al DiMeloa that can play lightening fast arpeggios. Brilliant stuff. But I’d rather hear someone like Derek Trucks or Warren Haynes. Way more feeling. And Ray….yea, he made the doors if ya ask me lol That’s the beauty of music. So many genres for so many different tastes.

Tony Banks too.

@@williamsporing1500 oh I hear ya. Love Al. And I like the guys you mentioned. I like Duane Allman and Stevie Ray too. And with Di Meola yer spot on. Watched a video just 2-3 weeks ago doing his Race with the Devil on Spanish Highway w/ Steve Vai. Some good stuff. But would rather listen to Santana for that Latin vibe. ✌️

Everything is louder than everything else! 🤣 👍 Love it! 👌

@@ScottyKirk1 one the the first record I ever bought. I have it here and there is no way I would sell it. One day my son is gonna get it - an unvalueable memory of my life with hard rock and heavy metal music.

The live from the BBC sessions is possibly even better than MIJ if such was possible.Hear what they do with 'Mandrake Root'-'Wring that Neck' and 'Space Truckin'.Unfathomably awesome soundscapes.

the mule and space trucking are tedious crap.

Space trucking and the mule are tedious beyond compare. As a single album it would be supurb but as a double album it fails badly. Why they didn't put black night on it is beyond me

That's sad about Ritchie.They could've continued recording and performing all these years.Thanks for what we did get to hear.

I also think this is one of the bands that was a model for This Is Spinal Tap.

@@Paul_Halicki except they only had one drummer LOL

@@stpnwlf9 Correct. That doesn't quite fit the narrative. But the sound of the band to me evokes kind of a Deep Purple/Uriah Heep vibe.

Jan Wenner was too busy inducting rap artists. Hell, big e smalls got into rock hall before jethro tull, who are still not in and Eminem is.. a joke of an establishment. What started out as a wonderful idea, has been ruined and made a mockery of rock and roll bands that wrote, recorded and toured their butts off.

The version off the 3rd concert off the made in japan record is sensational.

That song rules and there’s a couple of different mixes. The best non live version is on a deep purple best of from around 1980. Also has a slightly different mix of speed king which I prefer.

The trade-off between Ritchie and Ian live is just ear candy

Yes, yes, yes.

Fuck yeah, love that song! 👊

Sarabande is a masterpiece

April is a true masterpiece

+1

Agreed

So glad this comment has a lot of likes. I'd love an April reaction by Doug!

LOOK A MAN OF TASTE

The latest studio recording (2012) is also amazing. Jon Lord has recorded it just before is passing. Including three different guitarist and it is also a masterpiece recording

Jon Lord's "Sarabande" :D

I was fortunate to see them a couple years ago at the Woodstock site (Bethel NY) with their latest lineup of Steve Morse on guitar and Don Airy on keys (as suggested by Jon Lord before his passing). They were INCREDIBLE even in their age 70s. Did many of the classic early songs.

Child in Time live in Denmark and live in Stockholm both have organ solos during the song which this version didn't, which is a shame.

Another vote for the 'in rock' studio version from me.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice went to go see Deep Purple to hear Ian sing this song, and Webber knew instantly that he had found his "Jesus Christ".

Hell yeah to April

No No No may be my all-time favourite Purple song on my favourite Purple album, Fireball. It starts off so mild and relaxed ... almost meek. But by the end it's like a runaway freight train. And incredible musicianship from everyone. Kicks my ass!!!

Used to play No No No and Highway Star in a band I was in. It always went down really well.

'Fools' from Fireball is a hidden gem often overlooked in their extensive repetoire.

Absolutely!

When I learned this several years ago I was flummoxed. Absolutely flummoxed. And bear in mind, that was released the same year the music in this video was recorded.

Nobody can hope to match that performance. Jaw dropping excellence.

@@pmar27 Ted Neeley owns the role.

Gillan in Dutch gillen means screaming👍😁👍

Yeah Doug, you've GOT to give Gillan's Gethsemane a spin! Something for Good Friday next year.

RIP 🙏

А Манфред мен?!

Not sure it was the first, depending on your interpretation of 'combined'. The Moody Blues released 'Days of Future Passed' a couple of years before Purple's concerto for group and orchestra. Although most of the orchestral pieces on the Moodys' album are interludes, both band and orchestra do come together during 'Nights in White Satin'.

@@arbonne1805 April was released in 1969 part of the album DeepPurple. Days of Future … was released in 1968, therefore I must admit it is not the first combined song. This album slipped through my memories. But release dates few months from each other’s. Both outstanding bands with in those days experimental music.

@@AJ_NL_1963 This really got me thinking, and I had to do some digging to check a few dates. Could we throw The Beatles into the mix? George Martin included a wonderful string arrangement in Eleanor Rigby, and of course you have the score at the end of A Day in the Life. Beyond the orchestration on their albums, the band played live with an orchestra in June '67 when they introduced 'All You Need is Love' to a global TV audience. Must have been a bit nerve-wracking, even for the Fab Four. That would have been around the time that the Moodys were in the studio, recording Days of Future Passed. The album was released in November '67. Some notable others: One I didn't know about... the Siegel-Schwall Band performed William Russo’s Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in July '68. The Nice performed Keith Emerson’s Five Bridges Suite with the Sinfonia of London in October '69 - a couple of weeks after Deep Purple's concert with the Royal Philharmonic. Jethro Tull did a TV performance with an orchestra in '70. Procul Harem played live with an orchestra in Canada, but that turned out to be 1971 (it was recorded and released as an album the following year).

@@arbonne1805 Those where the days indeed. And all of these bands are (where) incredible musicians. I really hope that a classical composer takes time to get in to this music. The concerto for Group and Orchestra has very memorable footage on RU-vid. Recorded and performed live at Royal Alberthall 1969 and again thirty years after that debut 1999 with DeepPurple. Latest version is the studio recording that late mr. Jon Lord has made with several artists just before his illness and passing. Therefore I think the Concerto will be the best one to review

Uriah Heep is indeed the other band that needs introduction on this channel. Underrated out of Europe. But with very strong songs. A true pioneer in combination of rock with flute. And a long lasting decades filling career. Juli morning in the life in Moscow edition is awesome. Also a compare of acoustical and motor driven songs (two life albums) live and acoustic live with mostly the same songs is awesome to compare in a review

Salisbury is my favourite UH.album. The title track is a masterpiece. I hope Doug.hears it soon!

Yes, I think Uriah Heep and Deep Purple are very close for the being the inspiration for the sound of the band in This Is Spinal Tap.

@@Paul_Halicki Here's the performance I think of when I think of Uriah Heep: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kLwCEJNZDoc.html (Spoiler: It's horrible.)

@@jackal59 It's safe to assume they were stoned out of their gourds for that. :-D

I thought I was alone in preferring studio versions (mostly). I'm glad you said it. I find myself listening for the perfection of the original which is ingrained in my mind. I really wish Doug had reacted to the studio version although, in fairness, this is a damn good performance!

@@Just-a-Thought. I kinda have it a bit the same way, and then not. I like the perfection of a skillfull made Studio Album, but in the Live recordings you get the honesty and how well these sublime musicians play together (with or without drugs) and without 50 retakes of a solo. Especial music from this era in time where the Quality of studio recording was far from todays often too clean sound. No matter what music Style your listening too and wether you like it or not how much experimenting with various kind of drugs influenced many of the biggest Rock icons that we have had, most of them actually WAS on another plane of existence when they made and performed some of their most iconic songs and shows 😂

​@@mrdali67 thanks for your thoughts. I agree with everything you've said. But when I watch these reaction videos I want them to hear the perfection that totally entranced me, hooked me, the first time I listened in a mate's bedroom in the early 70s. The organ intro on the album causes a physical reaction that I feel inside. It couldn't have been written better. I need to hear it that way to recreate that same magic every time and I wanted Doug to feel that instead of similar notes kind of played in the wrong order. Nice sound, but I expect the sequence of notes that's imprinted in my brain. I'm probably not explaining this well and have alienated anybody who reads it but this song is an all time favourite, something unique actually. I feel the same about the guitar solo but I've said enough 😄

@@Just-a-Thought. I am a keyboardist myself and learned th organ from the mid 70's the classic way, reading notation and it surely wasn't rock I was braught up with in my early youth .. (mostly german Sclager music that my parrents braught home from Germany. I have always had like a photographic memory for music and even I can hardly play a 4 chord Rhythm on a guitar I can play a guitar solo perfectly in my head after a couple times listening which has always given me problems when trying to learn the guitaris to play the correct solo like heard on the studio recording. After all it IS a Solo .. It's not supposed to be exact the same every time 😆I was mostly inspired by Jazz and "Swing" music from my youth, but when I grow up and much to late introduced to "the dark side" .. these 60's and 70's bands like Deep Purple and Allman brothers I was totally blown away with both the music and how brilliant musicians they are(were), and learning about all the tragic histories about many of them. John Lord was absolutely phenomenal with a Hammond, and imagine how the world would have been if Duane Allman hadn't died at such a young age. Perhaps one of the best guitarist that never got to show his true potential. But all of these guys were true equilibrists on their instruments

no he didn't he was way past it in 1984. I saw them at Knebworth and it was mediocre at best.The sound was awful, Blackmore was just not interested and Gillan struggled all night and didn't event attempt child in time. Perfect strangers was okay but nothing special

I love the Concerto, but usually people haven't made it even as far as "April" so it's usually a solo jam session for me 🤷🏽‍♂️😆

I can never permanently make up my mind on that. I love both, and possibly the studio version is slightly better 'arranged', but the live version is just full of the incredible fire Blackmore had on stage. I prefer Lord's keyboard parts in the studio version also, but again, his live performance, and the rest of the band's has that fire that wins it for me. (Today. Tomorrow I may have changed my mind again 😉).

Same!

Ian’s “…and bow your head” in the studio version is far superior too

I agree, the guitar solo on the studio version is just awesome. I've never been as disappointed as when I bought the "Greatest Hits" compilation on CD to have some driving music in my car, only to find out that they had cut Child in Time down to 3 minutes. It f-ing faded out just as Ritchie takes off!

And Made in Japan is better too.

Agreed! :-)

I agree 💯👍

Me too

It is a truly great live recording, but there is one that is even better that you've probably never even heard of: "Playing the Fool," by Gentle Giant. It's difficult to compare because Giant is so unusual, so outside of genre, etc, and their music is a bit of an acquired taste for many rock fans, but I'm pretty sure that the Purple lads themselves would concede this one, even though there is no other Ian Gillan. Jon Lord would have been very happy to be considered in Kerry Minnear's league.

The first Captain Beyond album rivals anything Purple ever did, pretty huge feat.

@@sixbladeknife44 Great album indeed.

You meant to say that It's A Beautiful Day stole/borrowed/were inspired by Deep Purple's Mandrake Root. I have read that the bands were on amicable terms. How about Dr D reacting to White Bird?

Neil Peart of Rush was the greatest rock drummer ever, he also jammed with blues players. Geddy Lee also of Rush the most creative bass player. Outstanding. Alex Lifeson honourable mention as in the top 5 best melodic & technical player of the rock & prog/rock genre.

Unlike some, Deep Purple was always open about their "borrowing" some inspiration. I'd love to hear Doug's reaction to It's a Beautiful Day's "White Bird."

The riff at the end of the guitar solo is also very similar to a guitar part on the 1970 Wishbone Ash album, (can't remember what song). Wishbone Ash also used Derek Lawrence as their producer, same on the first 3 Purple albums.

Beautiful Day eventually did a version of 'Wring That Neck.' Lifted the exact melody over blues changes, lol.

@@daviddequasie6816 It's the song Phoenix.

Dio not a patch on gillan

,... dear bro! DIO (RIP) was kinda opera singer ~ doesn't fit for rockbands ~ but his voice was good ~ but DAVID BYRON (RIP) of incredible URIAH HEEP (RIP) M U CH BETTER❤🎉😊!! BERNIE GERMANY 😊

@@bernhardherrmann9230 That is s your opinion of course but I love the tones of David Byron especially on July Morning

Too bad Ritchie is a Diva though.

Ritchie top 3 I'm the world easy. So is Lord Gillan and Pace. Roger great musician and producer and lyrics.

I agree. Ian realised many years ago he wasn't able to reach the heights he used to - and good on him for making that decision. One of the most brilliant heavy rock bands ever. I also saw Glenn Hughes a few years ago doing Deep Purple songs. He's still got the vocal range but he didn't do Child in Time.

I love Burn, the whole album is great. Mistreated is my fav.

I love the Burn album but Gillan is a legend and probably did at least a thousand more professional gigs than Glen! I think Glen and David are great but Ian is in a class by himself....

Me too - his first reaction to Ian's vocals, and then I thought "Oh....wait for it!"

In those days, and in this kind of music, repeating the same solo was frowned upon and considered a severe lack of imagination and creativity