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Deep Purple - Masters From The Vault DVD (special)

SKU INTENSE 1508
Here is the earliest known video footage of Deep Purple Mk II (Richie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Ian Gillian, Roger Glover), performing live on European TV in the early 1970's, one of the great progressive hard rock bands of the very early 70s. Includes Mandrake Root/Speed King/Wring That Neck/Child In Time/No No No/Hallelujah/Highway Star + bonus material from much later. But the main part of this program is quite thrilling.

"Deep Purple's Masters from the Vaults contains material from three different sources: 1)Live Performance from Granada Television Studios in England from 1970, 2)Live Performances on German TV from 1971 and/or 72, 3)Live Concert Performance of the Ian Gillan Band from 1989. The Granada footage is the same as Deep Purple Doing Their Thing. There is no additional footage from Doing Their Thing, however, the sound/picture quality is much better than the old videotape that I have. There are 4 songs from this show: Speed King, Child in Time, Wring That Neck, and Mandrake Root. Good Points: The band is scintillating! Ritchie tears it up!!! No doubt about it. Everyone else is so good. To me, this is the best video material of old Deep Purple excluding Smoke On The Water from the Machine Head DVD that was taken from a 1973 TV special. Bad Points: Excluding Child in Time, all the songs were cut down in order to fit into a 30 minute TV program about Deep Purple. It's just too bad that the rest of the songs weren't preserved for future release. The German TV material is the Deep Purple Special Edition EP. The 3 songs are No No No, Highway Star and Hallelujah. No No No is the best. Singing and playing are right on, with Ritchie wearing his Witches hat and looking like a possessed Warlock. Highway Star is pretty good, a song that hadn't been fully conceived yet. No Bach arpeggios from Ritchie here. Hallelujah is lipsynced but is fantastic. The Ian Gillan Band material is much better than I thought it would be. I have always loved Ian's singing and he really delivers the goods here. The band is good but not Deep Purple. Songs are When a Blind Man Cries, Demon's Eye, Lucille and Smoke on the Water. Conclusion: I loved the Granada footage; loved the German TV footage, and though I liked the IGB, they aren't Purple. Also, credits list Hush but it isn't on the DVD. Buy this DVD if you want the best performances from DP Mark II that you can purchase as of this moment."-Patrick Michels



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  • Format TypeNTSC
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  • LabelIntense
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