3 lp DEEP PURPLE

Copenhagen 1972

( Live at Kobenhavns Boldklub (KB Hallen), Copenhagen , Denmark, 01. 03. 1972)

Mispressing with Blackmore/COVERDALE/HUGHES/Lord/ Paice On Cover

Country of release: Germany, 2014

Label: EDEL / EAR MUSIC

Catalog number: 0209633ERE

Barcode: 4029759096337

Gatefold cover / gatefold sleeve: Yes/Yes

Includes inner sleeves

 Condition Records: mint

lp is still welded / lp IS STILL SEALED !!!

(Photo from my own lp / Photo taken From my own copy)

Tracks Side 1:

1. Highway Star (8:25)

2. STRANGE Kind of Woman (9:33)

 

Tracks Side 2:

1. Child In Time (17:26)

Tracks Side 3:

1. The MULE (9:23)

2. Lazy (11:16)

Tracks Side 4:

1. SPACE Truckin' (22:10)

Tracks Side 5:

1. Fireball (5:11)

2. Lucille (5:55)

3. Black Night (6:15)

Tracks Side 6:

1. Smoke On The Water (5:22) ( Live at Hofstra University, New York May 29, 1973)

2. SPACE Truckin' (10:39( Live at Hofstra University, New York May 29, 1973)

3. 1971 Australian Interview (5:44)

Listen At YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZOfaZ92AXE&list=PL4cFJtUcmjZlYa-5UlJiqI4ljmOoAiZmQ

( ) "Highway Star" has The slightly chaotic freshness that made The track such an exhilaratingLive tune. powered along On A wallof bass guitar and thundering drums and, beforeYouKnow it, they're into "STRANGE childofWoman ", chugging along nicely. Apparently, they're "just doing The One tonight" according toTo Mr Gillan, so what's all that about then?!
Next up, A stunning version of "Child InTime ", and after spending so muchTimeLISTENINGTo recent bootlegs it's amazingTo recall just how much more powerful Ian's voice was back then,HIS controlled articulation in The quiet parts as sublime asHIS pitched screams are, well, ridiculously upfront. Odd again, To lurch FromTheFirst chorus intoA keyboard soloYouCan actually hear before Blackers takes over. I've always been an advocate of The Morse eraband , butLISTENINGTo stuff like this servesTo remind me why some consider thatThe subtletyof The keyboard work these days is buried beneath punishingly loud guitar/bass work. Here, though, Blackers backs off, just The bass maintaining A hypnotic rumble while Jon doodles overThe top. Weighing in at nearly 17 and A half minutes, You get a lotofMUSICFOR your song here. I've not listened To anything much From '72FOR quite someTime and it's definitely goosebumpsTime asThe volume gets rolled offTo exposeThe delicate rhythm work and measured (rather than full On ) approachofThe protagonists.
Before You Know it, we're into ( ) "Lazy" (One thingYouCan 't accuse Jonof being duringThe intro), some truly marvelous, dischordant keyboard drone,A quick rock ofThe HammondTo setThe Leslie speakers explode and then it's intoThe familiar groove which has had me tapping my feetToThe tuneFOR The last 25 years, Ritchie sparring with Jon beforeThe riff kicks in, tentatively picking away at The riff and teasingUs before Theband launch intoThe song proper, again shuffling alongOnThe rhythm section. Spolit these days as we are by better mixing desks and Live Sound , Ian Paice's snare and bass drumsSound likeA cornflakeBox and tea chest respectively (as they doOn pretty much all recordingsFrom this era), but with no multitracksTo work From , whateverCan we possibly expect?! Jon really lets fly On HIS solo here, Roger going up and downThe scale until he threatensTo run outof frets before it's back intoThe main riff and Ian wagglingA tambourine intoThe mic before finally ripping The harmonica passage. Magic.
" SPACE Truckin" is another drawn out version, 24 minutes bits of Kachachurian's Saber Dance (I think that's howYou spellThe name!) being crafted in, almost dropped in effortlessly, by Jon before things get taken downA notchFORA few minutesof serious Strat abuse and GENERAL trem waggling. Possibly One ofThe best versionsofThe song I've heard, withThe obvious bonusofThe Sound laying bareThe more quiet partsof Ritchie and Jon's work which are normally inaudible or drowned out by moronic drunkardsOn bootsofThe era.
So we get "Fireball" Live by Mk II, too - folding into The song with guitar problems,The track eventually picks up impetus and gets going properly inA full flurry again carried along by Roger's often underacknowledged bass work. The version itself is taken at A fair pace that leaves You thinkingTheband areOnThe forgetof collapse, before winding down into "Lucille", again faster thanThe BBC In Concert version - Perhaps motivated byThe "proper"Live environment? An off-key " Black Night " (Blackmore's strat seems never To have quite recoveredFrom th abuseofSPACE Truckin) finishes offThe ( ) set,The track being quite closeTo The Maggotin japan versions in structure and pace. Again, it's nice To hear this now after so much Time concentratingOnTheLive versions.versionsofThe last few years.
( ) So, overall, well worth grabbing-Another great slice of Mk II and A pretty much essential additionToThe catalogue. ( ) Cheers! (Martin Ashberry/deep-purple.net)



RITCHIE BLACKMORE -Guitar
IAN GILLAN - Vocals, congas, tambourine, harmonica
Roger Glover - bass, tambourine 
Jon Lord - Hammond Organ, Electric Piano
Ian Paice - drums

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