Deep Purple: archives DVD

[Everflow]

Un vieux concert complet qui dormait dans les tiroirs va sortir en DVD, tournée Machine Head :

Eagle Rock Entertainment, the leading independent source for high-quality music audio/visual programming, this fall will release "Deep Purple: Live in Concert 72/73". This historically significant collection of vintage live footage of the classic lineup of one of the greatest heavy metal bands in rock history is now available on DVD.

The greater portion of "Live in Concert 72/73" is a performance from March 1, 1972, at Copenhagen's Boldklub in 1972, hot on the heels of the release of "Machine Head", the album that introduced "Smoke on the Water", "Space Truckin'" and "Highway Star". Recorded for Danmark Radio, Denmark's national radio and television station, the show had lain dormant in their archives for 15 years. "Live..." is the only known full-length concert ever to be filmed of the "Mark II" version of the band in the 1970s: vocalist Ian Gillan, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, bassist Roger Glover, keyboardist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice.

A year later (May 1973), the same roster played a concert at Hofstra University in New York. Shown here are three songs from that show, which was filmed for "Don Kirschner's Rock Concert" TV program and includes the only known footage of PURPLE performing "Smoke on the Water" during that era. At this time, Gillan had already served notice to the rest of the band that he would be quitting — he and Blackmore had never gotten along very well.

It was ever thus for DEEP PURPLE: since their inception in 1968, there was always much coming and going. The "Mark II" lineup had formed in 1970, and its fractious nature renders the band the clearest influence on SPINAL TAP. Nonetheless, "Live in Concert 72/73" is absolutely devastating. From Gillan's berserk shrieking in "Child in Time", to the mind-melting, reckless improvisation in "Highway Star" and "Space Truckin'", to Blackmore's still startling six-string virtuosity, to the brutal pounding the band gives "Fireball", this is the kind of rock they don't make anymore.

"Live..." also includes a bonus song, "Burn", from a performance at the 1974 Cal Jam in California courtesy of the "Mark III" edition of the band, featuring Gillan's replacement David Coverdale, who would go on to lead WHITESNAKE. Additionally, "Live..." includes a commentary track from PURPLE fan Jon Kirkman, and is in stereo, 5.1 and digital DTS surround. Run time is 127 minutes and the list price is $14.98.

Track listing:

Copenhagen, March 1972 (black and white) (90 minutes):

01. Highway Star
02. Strange Kind of Woman
03. Child in Time
04. The Mule
05. Lazy
06. Space Truckin'
07. Fireball
08. Lucille
09. Black Night

New York, May 1973 (color) (27 minutes):

01. Strange Kind of Woman
02. Smoke on the Water
03. Space Truckin'

Archive Collection Preview:

01. Burn (bonus live track from Live At California Jam, 1974)

[Gandalf]

Auun commentaire la dessus depuis le temps ?

[lelite]

C'est clair un monument

[Everflow]

Et en voiloù un autre avec des documents plus ou moins rares de 1968 à 1976
Sortie je sais pas quand...



Disc 1

Help (5:21 - Danish TV)
Hush (3:30 - Playboy After Dark)
Wring That Neck (3:20 - Canadian TV)
Hallelujah (3:42 - Beat Club)
Mandrake Root (12:08 - Southbank)
Speed King (4:13 - WDR Vicky Leandros)
Black Night (3:10 - Top Of The Pops)
Child In Time (9:36 - Doing Their Thing)
Lazy (11:06 - Copenhagen 1972)
Strange Kind Of Woman (3:55 - Top Of The Pops) *updated
Fireball writing session (silent) (3:58 - ABC TV Australia)
Fireball (3:26 - Disco ZDF)
Demon’s Eye (10:09 - RBB Germany)
No No No (7:15 - Beat Club)
Into The Fire (3:57 - RBB Germany)
Never Before (3:29 - promo) *updated
Highway Star (6:04 - Beat Club)
Smoke On The Water (4:47 - Hofstra)
Burn (6:35 - London 74 / Polytechnic Project)
Mistreated (10:24 - California Jam)
Love Child (4:20 - Tokyo 75)
You Keep On Moving (5:42 - Tokyo 75)


Disc 2

And The Address (2:55 - Playboy After Dark)
Wring That Neck (24:19 - Bilzen Jazz Festival 1969)
Wring That Neck (11:19 - Pop Deux’ Paris 1970)
Mandrake Root (15:01 - Pop Deux’ Paris 1970)
Black Night . (3:15 - Promo clip)
No No No (rehearsals) (15:00 - Beat Club) *updated
Jt Nuit’ French TV 1974 (3:08 - INA France)
Burn (6:35 - Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)
Interview (Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)
Space Truckin’ (10:00 - Leeds Polytechnic Project 1974)
New Zealand TV Doc Nov 1975 (23:06 - New Zealand TV 1975)
Smoke On The Water (3:00 - New Zealand TV 1975)
Tony Edwards (DP manager) interview (2:11 - French TV 1976)

[Nathagnôle]

cool

[Mars Eye]

Enorme...
Purple est le groupe qui m'a converti au rock.
Difficile pour moi d'avoir un oeil objectif sur eux.
In Rock et la voix de Gillan m'ont mis la claque de ma vie, dont je ne me suis jamais remis...
Je viens de m'offrir "One Eye to Morrocco", le dernier Gillan, qui se situe quelque part entre "Naked Thunder" et "Accidentally on Purpose".
Moi, j'aime bien...

[Everflow]

Yeah d'ailleurs j'avais créé un sujet pour parler du nouvel album de Gillan (où je suis tout seul ) :

http://defender.metal-live.com/viewtopi ... lit=gillan

Mais toute l'actu Purple est un peu dur à suivre, entre les lives, les DVD et les albums solo...

[Everflow]

ça sortira le 2 juin, voici le détail complet :

DEEP PURPLE are easily one of the most influential and dynamic British rock bands of the 20th century. On June 2, eager fans will have the opportunity to experience highlights from the early days of this legendary band, when Eagle Rock Entertainment releases "History, Hits, & Highlights", a special 2DVD set that hits stores June 2 (pre-book date May 13, MSRP $24.98).

A vivid compilation of rare and unreleased material, live performances, archival interviews and studio/television footage, "History, Hits & Highlights" chronicles the years 1968-1976 when the band survived four line-up changes and produced such classic albums as "In Rock", "Fireball", "Burn", and "Machine Head". It was at this time that essential tracks like "Hush", "Speed King", "Black Night", and, of course, "Smoke On The Water", were produced. These solid rock staples, plus many more, are prominently displayed on this set. As a bonus, a photo gallery is included on the second disc.

Hot on the heels of front man Ian Gillan's new CD, "One Eye To Morocco" (March 31, Eagle Rock), this 2DVD set is a revealing look at the band. It also follows a grand tradition of great DEEP PURPLE releases from Eagle Rock, such as "Around The World Live" 5DVD set (June 2008), and "They All Came Down To Montreux" DVD (June 2007).

Disc 1:

History - 20-minute history of DEEP PURPLE from 1968 to 1976

Hits - full performances:

Mark One Lineup (March 1968 - July 1969)

Ritchie Blackmore (guitar)
Rod Evans (vocals)
Jon Lord (keyboards)
Ian Paice (drums)
Nick Simper (bass)

01. Help
02. Hush
03. Wring That Neck

Mark Two Lineup (July 1969 - June 1973)

Ritchie Blackmore (guitar)
Ian Gillan (vocals)
Roger Glover (bass)
Jon Lord (keyboards)
Ian Paice (drums)

04. Hallelujah
05. Mandrake Root
06. Speed King
07. Black Night
08. Child In Time
09. Lazy
10. Strange Kind Of Woman
11. Fireball Writing Session
12. Fireball
13. Demon's Eyes
14. No No No
15. Into The Fire
16. Never Before
17. Highway Star
18. Smoke On The Water

Mark Three Lineup (July 1973-1975)

Ritchie Blackmore (guitar)
David Coverdale (vocals)
Glenn Hughes (bass/vocals)
Jon Lord (keyboards)
Ian Paice (drums)

19. Burn
20. Mistreated

Mark Four Lineup (June 1975-March 1976)

Tommy Bolin (guitar)
David Coverdale (vocals)
Glenn Hughes (bass/vocals)
Jon Lord (keyboards)
Ian Paice (drums)

21. Love Child
22. You Keep On Moving

Disc 2:

Highlights - bonus performances and interviews

Mark One Lineup

01. And The Address (Playboy TV)

Mark Two Lineup

02. Wring That Neck (Bilzen Jazz Festival 1969)
04. Wring That Neck ("Pop Deux" Paris Concert 1970)
03. Mandrake Root ("Pop Deux" Paris Concert 1970)
05. Black Night (Promo Clip)
06. No No No (Take 1 - Rockpalast Rehearsal Session)
07. No No No (Take 2 - Rockpalast Rehearsal Session)

Mark Three Lineup

08. Jt. Nuit (French TV 1974)
09. Leeds Polytechnic Student Project 1974 - featuring "Burn"/"Space Truckin'"

Mark Four Lineup

10. New Zealand TV Documentary (November 1975)
11. Smoke On The Water (New Zealand TV)
12. Tony Edwards (DEEP PURPLE's manager) - French TV Interview 1976

[Everflow]

Une chronique très détaillée de ce double DVD d'archives :


New DVD: Priceless content poorly presented

I bought my copy of the new Deep Purple DVD History, Hits and Highlights 3 weeks ago. This is my review. The title – odd as it sounds – has some justification after seeing it a couple of times.

There is a great number of highlights indeed which easily justify this purchase – incredible live performances from various dates. Some of them songs that weren’t played live very often and up to now unobtainable even on audio releases, such as “Demon’s Eye” – which gets a creative treatment here and somehow transforms into the vocal-guitar battle of “Strange Kind of Woman” - or the “Musikladen” appearance of “No, No, No”, which may not catch the band in their tightest moment, but nicely displays the daring approach of those days: always urging to depart from the original, improvising and searching for the magic moment.

There is truckloads of those magic moments in the previously unreleased footage of the more familiar MK I tunes, “Wring That Neck” and “Mandrake Root” from late 1969 and 1970. It’s hard to find words for the energy level contained here: a band in a creative frenzy, an almost desperate determination to create sounds that nobody heard before, to turn the concert into an extraordinary experience for audience and band. Unbelievable!!!

All right , there are the hits as well. Inevitable as they are with regard to the bands history, the form in which they are presented on the DVD isn’t quite up to the mark. More often than not they combine the familiar album tracks with some more or less imaginative video. At best, this presents mildly amusing contemporary ideas of artsiness (Help, Speed King) or is at least funny when Ritchie takes the playback in Fireball all too seriously and plays his guitar on its backside. But sometimes it’s only stupid, like the pathetic video to “Strange Kind of Woman” or the blurred snippets from various live performances that flicker over the screen during “Never Before”. Thank god, there’s a “skip” button on my remote control.

The History aspect is a mixed bag. Of course every clip is a strong document of the history of the band as well as of the time period in general. [see report on Made In Japan footage included. Ed] The transformation of band, music, appearances, styles, venues and audiences in those 8 years is astonishing: The MK I days with a slightly uneasy, almost self-conscious band contrasting nicely with their own stylised fashion and the somewhat forced party atmosphere in Hefner’s Playboy Mansion.

The MK II period in an often raw, almost puristic setting: One of the venues literally looks like a lecture hall of a university (guessing from the booklet of “Scandinavian Nights” it actually IS Leeds University), in which apart from setting the stage no effort whatsoever has been made to accommodate for the special atmosphere of a rock concert: No backdrops, no lights, nothing! Audiences are mostly seated (in bright light!!!), with a weird mix of long-faced poofs “seriously listening to the music” and a few exalted hippies freaking out and emulating the mayhem on stage.

Musicwise it’s surely annoying to have the audience comments dubbed over “Demon’s Eye”, just because it’s such a rarely performed song. But the comments as such are revealing – nerdy guys complaining about Purple not improvising and merely going through the motions, when you can actually hear them jamming their heads off! Hilarious!
Come Mk III and it’s all proper rock’n’roll shows, with a huge lightshow, clouds of dry ice and the proverbial sweaty crowd of hardrock fans – and before long the stereotypical rockstar poses kick in.

Apart from the strength of the original material there’s not much in this release that does justice to the term “history”. The initial twenty minutes are nice, but have a somewhat “rushed” feel to it – the snippets used are all too short to be really informative, and some of them must have been longer! As it is presented here, the history doesn’t contain anything the informed fan wouldn’t know anyway but I doubt that any uninitiated viewer can make something out of those very condensed and sometimes rather allusive than outspoken minutes. But the decision as such to tag the history on at the beginning and leave the rest of the material to speak for itself can’t be criticised.

More critical is the way this material is presented. The division on two discs is irritating to say the least – if disc 2 isn’t what is usually called a “bonus CD” it’s a somewhat poor excuse to include the same material twice.

From a historical point of view, it’s sad, that the MK II songs aren’t presented in chronological order. After “Child in Time” you get “Lazy” from Denmark which was recorded in 1972 shortly before “Machine Head” was released. Then it’s back to the Fireball-period with “Strange Kind of Woman” and then even further back to Winter 1970/71 to the writing sessions of Fireball. It’s also hard to understand, why “Demon’s Eye” and “Into the Fire”, which originate from the same concert, are interrupted by “No No No”. Very unhistorical if you ask me!

The same - somehow careless - approach shows in the missing information about the origin of the footage on Disc 1. How can something that bears the word “history” in its title not name the sources? Inexplicable and inexcusable is of course the complete omission of the “Stormbringer” album, all the more so, as you see some 10 seconds from a live performance of the title track in the “history”-part. Why don’t we get to see more?

That such a number of questions remains unanswered is also due to the quality of the booklet – which is rich in visual material but poor in text. Geoff Barton doesn’t contribute much more than the predictable blabla. As such, the booklet falls way short of the standard that Simon Robinson has set with the Sonic Zoom releases in which he went out of his way to explain the special circumstances of the respective release, where they found the footage, how much it contained, what choices had to be made, which drawbacks had to be accepted etc. etc. With the booklet of the HHH release, the fan is left to his own devices, which may also raise unfair criticism.

A bit annoying is also the selection or rather restriction of the material. As much as I value the effort to bring in material from a wide range of sources, sometimes it seems that several tracks have been left out on purpose in order to maintain the interest level for other releases. The “Doing their Thing”-video, from which “Child in Time” has been taken, isn’t very easy to get and with only 3 songs not the best value for money either, but it contains a blistering rendition of “Speed King” which I would have loved to see on this DVD.

The same goes for “Fireball”, which is on the “Live in Denmark Video”. This on the other hand, wouldn’t have killed the market for the full video. And for a good extra, they might have as well thrown in the remaining three titles of the obscure “Rises over Japan” video – I doubt many people will buy this one.

So is it worth the money? As always with those releases - yes. Does it have its drawbacks? Again - yes. Unfortunately they always manage to get their fair share of incomprehensible blurs on their releases.

Compared to the Led Zeppelin DVD, which is immaculate in every respect, this is a shame. But as someone put it – that’s what happens if you hire pencilheads.

Crazy Horst