Deep Purple covers “Help”

[CrusaderFrank]

I liked DP mark I version, shown here covering the Beatles Help

They also covered We Can Work it Out

Some FANTASTIC guitar playing that you never heard with Emeretta and Wring that neck just 2 of them

Loved Ritchie’s fingerpicking at the end

 

[toobfreak]

Deep Purple. A band which should have risen to super-group status but never got the marketing support of the record labels.

 

[Leo123]

Deep Purple. A band which should have risen to super-group status but never got the marketing support of the record labels.

Agreed!! Smoke On The Water.....a classic. Highway Star........Prequel to Zepphelin and Boston.........That keyboard sound!

 

[toobfreak]

Agreed!! Smoke On The Water.....a classic. Highway Star........Prequel to Zepphelin and Boston.........That keyboard sound!

I thought Who Do We Think We Are and Made In Japan were among their best albums. My biggest complaint for the band: too many of their songs were all 5 minute packaged tunes seemingly all made for airplay on FM radio. Too little extended improvisation. One of their exceptions, and my favorite song of theirs:

Turn it up LOUD

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Well, they covered "Hush" by Billy Joe Royal. Why not another song?

God bless you and the members always!!!

Holly (a girl who forever misses Billy Joe)

 

[CosmicRocker]

that opening bass, Blackmore's blistering throughout..The whole dang band

 

[toobfreak]

Well, they covered "Hush" by Billy Joe Royal.

Hush was probably their biggest commercial hit which also oddly was also one of their best songs. Usually doesn't work that way.

And packaged ideally for airplay.

Still, for a band with five people, I was always left wanting more. Heavy on the organ, there just was never any extended guitar riffs or solos which stood out, few distinctive bass lines, no real vocalist excursions, every song always a deep, bassy, bluesy rocker with a lot of throbbing organ punctuated with vocal lines in the background, and a lot of repetition in every song set to a fixed rhythm whose timing never varied or switched up.

It was that lack of inventiveness and compositional risk that did the band in from ever achieving stardom.

 

[CosmicRocker]

Deep Purple. A band which should have risen to super-group status but never got the marketing support of the record labels.

they were around a long time..think some incarnation still is

 

[CrusaderFrank]

they were around a long time..think some incarnation still is

The released a new album that's pretty good.



Made in Japan still one of the best live albums anyone ever released