Posts by The Wailin' Wonder

Now THERE's a collaboration I'd like to see!

I've gotta vote for BOC. I think Hughes Thrall (well either with anybody) would be pretty cool! But then there are a lot of tours we don't get in Canada as it is!

Still gives a nice perspective on just how BIG Purple was in 1974.

The DVD is sensational--I have it on a little undercabinet DVD player in the kitchen all the time.

Blue Oyster Cult's 'On Your Feet or On You Knees' is one of my favourite albums EVER! Their studio material is almost unrecognizable if you hear these versions first--just an outstanding band on the top of their game. I wore out two LPs and have had the CD in my car for about 20 years!
Get Your Ya-Yas Out--the Stones show how to rock, including Mick Taylor's remarkable work on Sympathy for the Devil, far more of a rock song than the studio version.
Johnny Winter And Live--WOW! The cover of Jumpin' Jack Flash is scary! You can hear where SRV and Kenny Wayne Shepherd got their chops!

This concert was proof that live versions are better than studio versions: Mistreated, Burn, You Fool No One...not a bad performance.

I think sometimes MKII gets too defined by Machine Head and Made in Japan; two of my favourite Purp tracks are Anyone's Daughter and Fireball (Paice giving a tutorial!), the former far more whimsical than almost anything in the catalog, and a real clue to the range. If you've see the Classic Albums show about Machine Head, you get a little more perspective on the band as well.

Makes me think about the progression through the cleaner funkier sound here to some mixed metal/blues on Stormbringer, then MK IV doing Come Taste the Band...which I think in Phoenix Rising someone says is a good record but not a Deep Purple Record.

Any word on a video of this? For us poor colonials on the wrong side of the pond?

I too had the Hendrix cover. I had sort of figured out pentatonic--the black keys thing, being in a musical household--one night trying to play along with 'Hide your Love' by the Stones, but this systematized it. Then learning to shift modes, and how E pentatonic became G major--some of that via Mick Taylor's solo on Sympathy for the Devil--Get your Ya Yas out. But this book made me a guitarist in many ways.

One of my teenage collaborators loved come taste the band. To know the tragic end of Tommy Bolin (and Paul Kossoff, and so many others) and then to see the video put it in a different context. That business about falling asleep on his arm and not being able to play just gave me chills.

I've usually got the California Jam DVD in my kitchen undercounter radio/dvd unit, when I'm cooking; one of my faves is the harmonies on the final verse of Smoke on the Water.

I find if a band is any good, their live performances are usually an improvement on the studio versions--if they have adequate players to recreate the basis of the track from the album.

Some of my faves include Sympathy for the Devil on "Get Your Ya Yas Out", anything on Blue Oyster Cult's "On Your Feet or On Your Knees", and of course the whole Deep Purple California Jam performance featuring GH on Bass and Vox.

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