Thursday, August 20, 2009

Deep Purple


8-20-09 Deep Purple


Looks like we’re havin’ “Classic Rock” week!


7" CALL OF THE WILD MERCURY US 885617.7

1987 2 TRKS with pic sleeve

LP FIREBALL WARNER US BS 2564

1971 7 TRKS insert

CD FIREBALL (Anniversary edition) WARNER JPN WPCR-1140

1971 16 TRKS ('97 re-mastered issue)

CD HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT POLYDOR DE 831318.2

1987 10 TRKS

LP HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT POLYDOR US 831318.1

1987 10 TRKS

7" HUSH TETRAGRAMMA T-1503

1968? 2 TRKS no pic sleeve

LPx2 IN CONCERT TRIO JPN TRSH-3001/2

1980 10 TRKS Live '72, insert

LP IN ROCK WARNER US WS 1877

1970 7 TRKS

CD IN ROCK (Anniversary edition) EMI UK 834019.2

1970 20 TRKS ('95 issue) (13 x bonus tracks )

CD IN ROCK (kami) WARNER JPN WPCR-12253

1970 7 TRKS kami sleeve ('06 issue) counterfeit?

12" KNOCKING AT YOUR BACK DOOR POLYDOR UK POSPX 749

1984 7 TRK EP; with pic sleeve

7" KNOCKING AT YOUR BACK DOOR MERCURY US 880477.7

1984 2 TRKS with pic sleeve

LPx2 LIVE IN JAPAN WARNER JPN P-4401/2

1972 7 TRKS Live, re-issue

LP MACHINE HEAD PURPLE DE SHZE 344

1972 7 TRKS poster

CDx2 MACHINE HEAD (Deluxe edition) RHINO US R2 75622

1972 18 TRKS ('98 issue) (11 x bonus tracks)

LP MARK 2 PURPLE SINGLES, THE PURPLE UK TPS 3514

1977 7 TRK Collection, purple vinyl

CD MILLENNIUM COLLECTION MERCURY US 63067.2

2002 9 TRK Collection

12" PERFECT STRANGERS POLYDOR DE 881605.1

1984 2 TRKS with pic sleeve

CD PERFECT STRANGERS POLYDOR DE 823777.2

1984 9 TRKS (1 x bonus track)

LP PERFECT STRANGERS POLYDOR JPN 25MM 0401

1984 8 TRKS insert

CD SHADES OF DEEP PURPLE WARNER JPN 20P2-2601

1968 8 TRKS

LP SINGLES A'S & B'S HARVEST UK SHSM 2026

1978 12 TRK Collection

CD WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE EMI UK CZ 6

1973 7 TRKS ('87 issue)


Ritchie Blackmore


CD ROCK PROFILE Vol. 1 CONNOISSEUR RPVSOPCD 143

1989 22 TRKS Joe Meek productions etc. (60's & 70’s recordings)

CD ROCK PROFILE Vol. 2 CONNOISSEUR RPVSOPCD 157

1991 15 TRKS Joe Meek productions etc. (60's & 70’s recordings)

CD TAKE IT! SESSIONS '63 - '68 RPM UK RPM 120

1994 24 TRKS Joe Meek (60's recordings)


Ian Gillan Band


LP CHILD IN TIME OYSTER US OY-1-1602

1976 7 TRKS

LP CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE ISLAND UK ILPS 9500

1977 6 TRKS

LP SCARABUS ISLAND UK ILPS 9511

1977 10 TRKS


Purple Records sampler


CD PURPLE PEOPLE RPM/PURPLE UK PUR 326

2004 20 TRK Compilation (70's recordings)


I heard Deep Purple “Hush” on the radio as a child. I heard “Into The Fire” playing in a record store when I was about 12 or 13. When “Smoke On The Water” walked down the pike, I thought it was the best rock guitar riff since “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida”! Saw ‘em live in New Zealand (of all places), at the time of the Mk. II reformation.


I have “Deluxe” or “Anniversary” issues of “In Rock”, “Fireball” and “Machine Head” – and they all sound truly mighty 35 years hence. I think those classic Mk. II albums coincide with the studio technology in the UK finally catching up with how to record loud music effectively. That’s why those records sound so good! I love the original albums, but I do appreciate the 90’s remixes, as some of that material now sounds really… mighty!


I have the 3 x Ritchie Blackmore CD’s that I do because all of them feature material produced by Joe Meek that Mr. Blackmore plays on (Heinz, The Outlaws etc.) – I never went for Rainbow – something about the vocalist(s). And I always thought that I should check out the 3 x Ian Gillan solo albums – before he started calling his band “Gillan” – so I found clean LP’s and I am awaiting the time for me to give to these mid-70’s works.


No surprise to me at all that Deep Purple were huge in Japan. The double live LP “Live In Japan” is quite spirited. One of these days, I will find the 3CD version from Japan, which has as much of those shows as they originally recorded.


And I always thought it was cool that Roger Glover produced Judas Priest!


It’s true, classic rock FM radio did over-do “Smoke On The Water” and “Highway Star”. In Europe, “Black Knight” and “Strange Kind Of Woman” are also over-played. I wonder, do they over-play “Woman From Tokyo” in Tokyo?


The “Millennium Collection” could’ve cleaned up all the 80’s studio tracks, but it does not – I keep a burned copy of their Mk. II 80’s re-make of “Hush” somewhere.


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I got my car back! yeah!


- Ron


2 comments:

chas_m said...

Ritchie is now a completely p-whipped medieval-folkie guy in a duo called "Blackmore’s Night” -- I actually like that kind of stuff so I don’t mind a bit, but oh how the mighty have fallen. Very Spinal-Tapish if you get my drift and I think you do.

Ron Kane said...

DP were always a really loud band, thanks to Mr. Blackmore; I imagine that his current folkie phase is largely due to his being totally stone deaf - at least with an acoustic guitar...he can perhaps still hear?

Always so sad to see great bands try and carry on, with a missing component (Sabbath without Ozzy, anyone?)