New DEEP PURPLE album!

[Mister Triscuits]

Mark II stopped doing covers.

Sort of.

[progmatist]

They did some live, though.

Early Mark II relied more heavily on Mark I material playing live. There are many live versions of Wring That Neck/Hard Road. Being highly improvisational, the song was never played the same way twice. And Gillan's "silver throated screaming" made quite the impact on Mandrake Root.

[ronmac]

Early Mark II relied more heavily on Mark I material playing live. There are many live versions of Wring That Neck/Hard Road. Being highly improvisational, the song was never played the same way twice. And Gillan's "silver throated screaming" made quite the impact on Mandrake Root.

"Hush" and "Kentucky Woman" were also played in early MKII shows. And, as you likely know, the "Mandrake Root" improv ended up as the "Space Truckin"" improv.

[progmatist]

^^ There's a recompilation titled In Concert. Disc 2 is from the Machine Head tour. It closes with a cover of Little Richard's Lucille. There was a long intro with Gillan giving a long speech, while Jon, Paicey and Roger played in the background. Meanwhile Blackmood was re-tuning his guitar. He knocked it way out of tune going crazy with the whammy bar.......during that long Space Truckin' improv.

[ronmac]

^^ There's a recompilation titled In Concert. Disc 2 is from the Machine Head tour. It closes with a cover of Little Richard's Lucille. There was a long intro with Gillan giving a long speech, while Jon, Paicey and Roger played in the background. Meanwhile Blackmood was re-tuning his guitar. He knocked it way out of tune going crazy with the whammy bar.......during that long Space Truckin' improv.

Yep, I have that.

[polmico]

50th anniversary edition of Machine Head arrived today. It was not on my radar. That viddy with Dweezil convinced me to grab this.

By the way, whenever I hear Dweezil’s name, the words “The Dweez” in Ike Willis’ voice immediately pop into my head. Every time.