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.
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.
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.
Ditch the keys and shaker PLEASE, It is so distracting to listening to the song being played. Anyway..... So how do they turn Space Truckin into a 20 min song? You play ‘Space Truckin’ pretty much as per the original studio recording, you then switch gears and tack on ‘Mandrake Root’ as the vehicle for a Jon Lord solo, you then switch gears again to ‘Fools’ as a vehicle for a Ritchie Blackmore solo. That’s how you do it, simple! Cheers,
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.
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.
"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.
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.
Ah, so that's what it is. I knew it was a swedish folk tune (I'm swedish) and remember how I and my best pal both bolted when we heard this because we knew it was something swedish, but I never been able to figure out what exactly it was.
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.
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
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...
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'!
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!!!!
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).
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.
@@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 ;-)
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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. ❤️🤘🎸🎻🦘
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.
A llittle critique to your way of "listening". You fill in too much for my taste. I've loved this album since its release and having to listen to your rainstick, piano(not in tune with the music) and your trying to anticipate the next note is just too much. That simply ruined it for me. i'm out.
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.
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.
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. 😁
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!
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.
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... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FN-n-UzG_dg.htmlsi=zeVwjNOsu1vaYeIr
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.
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...
Con diferencia el mejor album en directo de todos los tiempos ,todos los.miembros de la banda estaban espectaculares una maravilla de álbum inigualables
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.
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.
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!
Need to consider giving a listen to their best album, imho, "Who do we think we are?" - only single from the album that I recall was "My Woman from Tokyo" but every song on that album is great... please check it out. Would love to see it on the channel.
Just one thing, it wasn't an expensive recorder. Quite the oppos🎉ite. Martin Burch the technician/producer was shocked when he saw the mixer, and they all thought this is gonna be unrecordable. So they were very surprised listening to it back in England. Only Paice and Glover ( maybe Jon did also ) has listened to the album. Ritchie never, Gillan some when he visits Roger. But Glover and Paice are producers also, especially Glover.
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 !
Good midsummer timing.Blackmore's part is from Hugo Alfvén - Swedish Rhapsody No. 1: "Midsommarvaka". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FN-n-UzG_dg.html&ab_channel=miljkmi
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 ..😂
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.
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.
@@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.
The thing with playing the melody from Swedish Rhapsody was obviously a joke, Instead of playing the riff, he surprised everyone by playing this instead. He didn’t do it the other two nights that was recorded, so that’s why I assume he did this spontaneous to surprise the others in the band.
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.
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.
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 😉
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❤
