Deep Purple
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
...and the other day, popular music was given a colour. Not just a colour, but yet
with an emphasis.
Deep Purple
This is the name of a band, which coined the music, and still does, like very
few others else. First of all, to get a brief impression, what Deep Purple represents, here
be some quickly joted notes:
*Pioneers in bringing together a classic orchestra and a rock band
*Big smash hit of their era
*Most selling Rock band
*Legendary live performances
*Powerful music
*Influencing band, trend setting, without following the market
It's dificult to maintain an objective perspective especially with the band you like, trying to tell why they are so special. However, let's go into some details:
Leaving the shades
The event, which caught some public attention was, for the first time ever, a musical joint venture of a classic orchestra and a beat emitting combo. Until then it was considered to better keep them seperated. This opinion then forced the members of the Royal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Arnold, in the Royal Albert Hall to give a rather unmaotivated performance. In the "Concerto for Group and Orchestra" itself from September of 1969, the one group does not cover the otherone's music, like it's been a commercially beneficient fashion in the late 90s, but playing a score together, that was composed as such. This was realised by Jon Lord, who successfully has been spreading his talent and interest especially at this approach towards music.
Exactly 30 years later, this opus received an impressive revitalization. Now, the "Concerto" was played with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Mann, the nephew of Malcolm Arnold. Additionally some guests like Ronnie James Dio and Sam Brown participated in this celebration of the Music of Deep Purple. Finally they lauched a world tour with this program. A celebration of music, by bringing together of those who are simply affected by it. To play music for those, who like to listen to it. Nobody shan't be excluded. Every musician on stage brought his talent to perform together. One of the most atentative followers expressed, what most of the audience in the Concerto-Tour felt about this recent success: "This is what Deep Purple is all about"
The launching song
Like many well known bands, Deep Purple has a so "called smash" hit. A song, which is considered, some time after its release, to be sticking to them for all time.
It's called "Smoke On The Water". Furthermore it is said this song launched the era of (Hard) Rock, right in the beginning of the 70s. In addition, the song has been helping many guitar learners to a first achievement in covering a famous song intro.
Legendary concerts
Deep Purple is playing a lineup of five: drums, bass, Hammond organ (and keyboards), guitar and vocals. This for itself has not been sometihng new, but they turned it into their ownership in their play.
A powerful, rocking, riffy, melodic music is the reason, for more than three decades now, they are known for gathering barely countable concert audiences.
When they'd appeared on stage on their first larger tour, they were hired as the opening act at the US-tour for the band Cream, including Eric Clapton. What happened is that after a few gigs, Deep Purple was kicked out, because the crowds went crazy for them and were tired of the constantly doped musicians of Cream, who weren't able to impress their fans any more... In those times, there have been some musical battles on stage (guitar vs. Hammond), 'sometimes' with a broken guitar, amplifier, fire on stage... and all that from a wild time (70s). Most of the songs they performed in those days turned into a larger happening of about 20 minutes. Nowadays, the fire hasn't expired in the music, but there are more 'mature' shows on stage. Songs are fine at about 6 minutes, without any feeling of missing the inprovisation part.
One thing they've found out for themselves is that they now use to enter the stage in a relaxed mood, happy to see the fans. This joy is directly transmitted into the music and as auch a hearable enduring property of their events. With the result that the fans like to see them again, as soon as possible. Consequently there is a high demand of their live recordings. By now they have more official live albumes released than studio albums.
The musicians
In its history, the lineup of the band has changed a lot of times. The actual Mark
represents the nineth period and the seventh lineup. Through the variation within the group, the sound and the style did so as well. Coming to the staff, only two of them have been playing from the first day on in this band: Ian Paice and Jon Lord.
Ian Paice, on the left-handed drumkit, is the engine of this band. The spanish word for
drums "la batería" describes him, brilliantly being this permanent power supply. However, in the less triumphant part of the band in the early 90s, he felt himself like missing some energy.
Jon Lord, the senior and gentle member of the band stands for its music. He's the one who sets the colour with his playing. Like Paicey, he had a lack of inspiration around the early 90s. It can be considered as not too odd, that exactly those two felt bad at those days, in the band's most severe transition time since the split in 1976.
Roger Glover, the welsh bassist, is the good heart of the band. He knows all about making music and he is living it: the production part, mixing, sound engineering. He followed Nick Simper in 1969 and was followed by Glenn Hughes in '73/'74. He entered the band again in the reunion of '84.
Ian Gillan, the voice of Deep Purple. He writes the lyrics, performs his 'Gillanisms', being a clownish show-master on stage. Hates interviews. He came into the band for Rod Evans, passed the microphone to David Coverdale, took it again in '84, was replaced by Joe Lyn Turner in '91/'92, finally got back in '94.
Steve Morse, the one in the most watched and listened position. It's a truely impressing
hand- and artwork he's delivering to the sound of this band. He holds a big variety, from a heavy and strong brushing to a fine, tender and decent spotting a his tones. He took over this band position from Joe Satriani, who was helping the band, when the classic Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore left the band (like in 75 when he was followed by Tommy Bolin in '76; came back in '84) right in the middle of world tour in 1995. He truely brought into the band some fresh air, inspriation, a team new spirit.
Albums
They've been working a very creative career. Until now, they produced 16 studio
albums in a good 30 years time range (with a break of 8 years). Many of them were originally released on an vinyl-LP, and some of these older recordings are being remastered and reissued to their 25th aniversiary.
Reportedly they are the top selling Rock band with 150 millions of albums.
By the large number of line-up changes they went through it makes sense to divide the records up to the referring actual Mark.
Here the actual list:
Mark I (Blackmore, Evans, Lord, Pace, Simper; 1967-1970)
Shades Of Deep Purple ('68) , The Book of Taliesyn ('68), Deep Purple ('69)
Mark IIa (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Pace; 1970-1973)
Concerto for group and Orchestra (Live '69), In Concert (Live '70/72), Gemini Suite ('70) Deep Purple In Rock ('70), Fireball ('71), Machine Head ('72), Made In Japan (Live '72) Who Do We Think We Are, ('73)
Mark III (Blackmore, Coverdale, Hughes, Lord, Paice; 1973-1975)
Burn ('74), California Jam [=Live at the California Jammming] (Live, '74), Stormbringer
('74), Live In London (Live, '74), Made In Europe (Live '75), Mark III-The final concerts [=Archive Alive] (Live '75)
Mark IV (Bolin, Coverdale, Hughes, Lord, Paice; 1975-1976)
Come Taste The Band ('75), Last Concert In Japan (Live '75), King Biscuit Flower Hour [= On the Wings of a Russian Foxbat] (Live '76)
Mark IIb (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Pace; 1984-1990)
Perfect Strangers ('84) The House Of Blue Light ('87), In the Absence of Pink [=Live at
Knebworth] (Live '85), Nobody's Perfect (Live '87/'88)
Mark V (Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Pace, Turner; 1990-1992)
Slaves and Masters ('90)
Mark IIc (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Pace; 1993-1995)
The Battle Rages On ('93), Come Hell Or High Water (Live '93)
Mark VI (Gillan, Glover, Lord, Pace, Satriani; 1995)
no studio albums, neither official live recordings
Mark VII (Gillan, Glover, Lord, Morse, Pace; since 1995)
Purpendicular ('96), Live At The Olympia (Live '96), ABandOn ('98)
Total ABandOn - Live in Australia (Live '99), Live at the Royal Albert Hall [In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra] (Live '99)
with an emphasis.
Deep Purple
This is the name of a band, which coined the music, and still does, like very
few others else. First of all, to get a brief impression, what Deep Purple represents, here
be some quickly joted notes:
*Pioneers in bringing together a classic orchestra and a rock band
*Big smash hit of their era
*Most selling Rock band
*Legendary live performances
*Powerful music
*Influencing band, trend setting, without following the market
It's dificult to maintain an objective perspective especially with the band you like, trying to tell why they are so special. However, let's go into some details:
Leaving the shades
The event, which caught some public attention was, for the first time ever, a musical joint venture of a classic orchestra and a beat emitting combo. Until then it was considered to better keep them seperated. This opinion then forced the members of the Royal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Arnold, in the Royal Albert Hall to give a rather unmaotivated performance. In the "Concerto for Group and Orchestra" itself from September of 1969, the one group does not cover the otherone's music, like it's been a commercially beneficient fashion in the late 90s, but playing a score together, that was composed as such. This was realised by Jon Lord, who successfully has been spreading his talent and interest especially at this approach towards music.
Exactly 30 years later, this opus received an impressive revitalization. Now, the "Concerto" was played with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Mann, the nephew of Malcolm Arnold. Additionally some guests like Ronnie James Dio and Sam Brown participated in this celebration of the Music of Deep Purple. Finally they lauched a world tour with this program. A celebration of music, by bringing together of those who are simply affected by it. To play music for those, who like to listen to it. Nobody shan't be excluded. Every musician on stage brought his talent to perform together. One of the most atentative followers expressed, what most of the audience in the Concerto-Tour felt about this recent success: "This is what Deep Purple is all about"
The launching song
Like many well known bands, Deep Purple has a so "called smash" hit. A song, which is considered, some time after its release, to be sticking to them for all time.
It's called "Smoke On The Water". Furthermore it is said this song launched the era of (Hard) Rock, right in the beginning of the 70s. In addition, the song has been helping many guitar learners to a first achievement in covering a famous song intro.
Legendary concerts
Deep Purple is playing a lineup of five: drums, bass, Hammond organ (and keyboards), guitar and vocals. This for itself has not been sometihng new, but they turned it into their ownership in their play.
A powerful, rocking, riffy, melodic music is the reason, for more than three decades now, they are known for gathering barely countable concert audiences.
When they'd appeared on stage on their first larger tour, they were hired as the opening act at the US-tour for the band Cream, including Eric Clapton. What happened is that after a few gigs, Deep Purple was kicked out, because the crowds went crazy for them and were tired of the constantly doped musicians of Cream, who weren't able to impress their fans any more... In those times, there have been some musical battles on stage (guitar vs. Hammond), 'sometimes' with a broken guitar, amplifier, fire on stage... and all that from a wild time (70s). Most of the songs they performed in those days turned into a larger happening of about 20 minutes. Nowadays, the fire hasn't expired in the music, but there are more 'mature' shows on stage. Songs are fine at about 6 minutes, without any feeling of missing the inprovisation part.
One thing they've found out for themselves is that they now use to enter the stage in a relaxed mood, happy to see the fans. This joy is directly transmitted into the music and as auch a hearable enduring property of their events. With the result that the fans like to see them again, as soon as possible. Consequently there is a high demand of their live recordings. By now they have more official live albumes released than studio albums.
The musicians
In its history, the lineup of the band has changed a lot of times. The actual Mark
represents the nineth period and the seventh lineup. Through the variation within the group, the sound and the style did so as well. Coming to the staff, only two of them have been playing from the first day on in this band: Ian Paice and Jon Lord.
Ian Paice, on the left-handed drumkit, is the engine of this band. The spanish word for
drums "la batería" describes him, brilliantly being this permanent power supply. However, in the less triumphant part of the band in the early 90s, he felt himself like missing some energy.
Jon Lord, the senior and gentle member of the band stands for its music. He's the one who sets the colour with his playing. Like Paicey, he had a lack of inspiration around the early 90s. It can be considered as not too odd, that exactly those two felt bad at those days, in the band's most severe transition time since the split in 1976.
Roger Glover, the welsh bassist, is the good heart of the band. He knows all about making music and he is living it: the production part, mixing, sound engineering. He followed Nick Simper in 1969 and was followed by Glenn Hughes in '73/'74. He entered the band again in the reunion of '84.
Ian Gillan, the voice of Deep Purple. He writes the lyrics, performs his 'Gillanisms', being a clownish show-master on stage. Hates interviews. He came into the band for Rod Evans, passed the microphone to David Coverdale, took it again in '84, was replaced by Joe Lyn Turner in '91/'92, finally got back in '94.
Steve Morse, the one in the most watched and listened position. It's a truely impressing
hand- and artwork he's delivering to the sound of this band. He holds a big variety, from a heavy and strong brushing to a fine, tender and decent spotting a his tones. He took over this band position from Joe Satriani, who was helping the band, when the classic Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore left the band (like in 75 when he was followed by Tommy Bolin in '76; came back in '84) right in the middle of world tour in 1995. He truely brought into the band some fresh air, inspriation, a team new spirit.
Albums
They've been working a very creative career. Until now, they produced 16 studio
albums in a good 30 years time range (with a break of 8 years). Many of them were originally released on an vinyl-LP, and some of these older recordings are being remastered and reissued to their 25th aniversiary.
Reportedly they are the top selling Rock band with 150 millions of albums.
By the large number of line-up changes they went through it makes sense to divide the records up to the referring actual Mark.
Here the actual list:
Mark I (Blackmore, Evans, Lord, Pace, Simper; 1967-1970)
Shades Of Deep Purple ('68) , The Book of Taliesyn ('68), Deep Purple ('69)
Mark IIa (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Pace; 1970-1973)
Concerto for group and Orchestra (Live '69), In Concert (Live '70/72), Gemini Suite ('70) Deep Purple In Rock ('70), Fireball ('71), Machine Head ('72), Made In Japan (Live '72) Who Do We Think We Are, ('73)
Mark III (Blackmore, Coverdale, Hughes, Lord, Paice; 1973-1975)
Burn ('74), California Jam [=Live at the California Jammming] (Live, '74), Stormbringer
('74), Live In London (Live, '74), Made In Europe (Live '75), Mark III-The final concerts [=Archive Alive] (Live '75)
Mark IV (Bolin, Coverdale, Hughes, Lord, Paice; 1975-1976)
Come Taste The Band ('75), Last Concert In Japan (Live '75), King Biscuit Flower Hour [= On the Wings of a Russian Foxbat] (Live '76)
Mark IIb (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Pace; 1984-1990)
Perfect Strangers ('84) The House Of Blue Light ('87), In the Absence of Pink [=Live at
Knebworth] (Live '85), Nobody's Perfect (Live '87/'88)
Mark V (Blackmore, Glover, Lord, Pace, Turner; 1990-1992)
Slaves and Masters ('90)
Mark IIc (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Pace; 1993-1995)
The Battle Rages On ('93), Come Hell Or High Water (Live '93)
Mark VI (Gillan, Glover, Lord, Pace, Satriani; 1995)
no studio albums, neither official live recordings
Mark VII (Gillan, Glover, Lord, Morse, Pace; since 1995)
Purpendicular ('96), Live At The Olympia (Live '96), ABandOn ('98)
Total ABandOn - Live in Australia (Live '99), Live at the Royal Albert Hall [In Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra] (Live '99)
