Come back to this regularly - this song is just pure carnage, brilliant. As a teenage drummer growing up with the album just made me think, nope - I can never do that.
A bit late to this on YT, but it's one of my favorite tracks. Especially, around 11:30 and onwards. Ritchie's playing is pure jazz. Along with Paicey and Roger.
The heavy rock song they strecht out as long they could, classic lords distorted organ and blackmores arabic scale metal playing... compined vs paiceys and glovers tight rythm section, bongo playing falsetto screaming gillan... an ultimate masterpiece... nobody beat mk2 by their improvisation and experimental work... they werea great in the 70s.
I don't think this is Ritchie here, or is it? I know he didn't play on this album in studio, but I guess he might've been with the band by the time they played this version live
You're damned right! Back then, no one could touch them. Purple was the only hard-progressive band that knew how to let loose and improvise like a jazz band. And, to be honest, no one has been able to do that since. I mean... later, hard rock evolved into the theatrical act that we now know as metal... Early Purple, on the other had... Pure, fuckin' , unadulterated... MAGIC!
After that awesome little lick at 8-57 Richie's strat cunjures some monstrous,vaguely demonically charged beast emerging from the firmament,unleashed spitting flame.They surely must have partook of said herbal-remedy to channel this level of sonic wizardry ? Breathtaking.
