Classical Composer Reacts to SPACE TRUCKIN' (Deep Purple) Live from Made in Japan | The Daily Doug

[@thetruthhurts6652]

You young guys have no idea how much we loved this album back in the 70s. A lot of bands did this but NO ONE did it like Purple. Sorry Zep fans.

[@edmonddp]

@@thetruthhurts6652 I was born in 87' and i loved this album in whole 2000-2002. Almost listening it everyday. I was 13-15 years old. This album doesnt understand generations

[@CSchaefer1960]

You are right. I bought it when it came out and I was just short of my 13th birthday. Listened to it Saturday and Sunday mornings on my parents' stereo before they and my brother got up. I will NEVER forget the sensation of sitting there and listening to this monster of an album. The effect was so profound it's still with me now that I'm 64.

[@Paul_Halicki]

One of the first albums I ever bought. I still have the vinyl.

[@xyz-md2mv]

Absolutely!

[@graemestroud2768]

You are right .Deep Purple freaked out like no one else !

[@andymacdonald7126]

You have to llsten to Ian Paice. He's the only band member who, throughout this song, never stops playing. He leads the whole band. He's just incredible. Please listen as they start jamming. Ian Paice is just incredible.

[@grahamnunn8998]

Gillan joins on congas for a bit but obviously got a better offer! 😅

[@ingridgabelo2934]

​@@grahamnunn8998. Ian Gillan está todo el tiempo tocando las cogas!!!

[@cobrasys]

The man is a machine (head 😉).

[@dannylgriffin]

Paice is a monster! And has never left DP as a member.

[@zdenkonouzovsky6947]

The GOAT of drums imo

[@cutterslaw]

Arguably the best live album of all time. Captured Deep Purple at their Zenith.

[@mikedown3219]

Yes, the bit where Ritchie sounds like he’s using a bow, he’s actually just using the volume knob whilst playing, it’s amazing to watch live.

[@RushfanUK]

Yep, it's actually called bowing because it sounds like that but just using the volume control, Strats are good for this as there is only one volume control across all pickup configurations though Ritchie has only ever used the bridge and neck pickups, he never uses the middle pickup or any blends of it.

[@alekhidell]

Yes. Why Jimmy Page is revered as much as he is while Ritchie is never treated quite the same I will never understand.I know who I think is the most talented player.

[@RushfanUK]

@@alekhidell Agree

[@gerryvandyk5551]

Alex Lifeson does it with a volume pedal on the opening notes of Xanadu. Pretty common method for that era.

[@thetruthhurts6652]

The original Bowing part can be heard on the song Fools off the Fireball album.

[@Miwna]

Deep Purple are among the greatest rock bands there ever was.

[@o.g.mudbone7597]

So glad you're finally hearing the most epic Deep Purple song ever recorded live. Strap in. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.

[@gingerbaker_toad696]

Difficult to say, I LOVE Lazy from their tour in Sweden, Burn in California Jam and that one Child in Time version, which is just perfection They got so much good stuff

[@γιωργοςροδιτης-σ9ε]

Could not agree more with your coment.!

[@edmonddp]

@@o.g.mudbone7597 I think Space Truckin from California Jam its even more epic. Blackmore becomes arsonist

[@donquixote3927]

Uptick but I prefer the song on which this instrumental section is based, Mandrake Root, from the 1970 BBC session.

[@marknieuweboer8099]

As others already remarked this song is taken from three studio recordings: 1. The actual song from Machine Head; 2. The mid section of Fools, Fireball; 3. The coda of Mandrake Root, debut album. To understand how they arrived at this version you must listen to live versions of Mandrake Root and to earlier live versions of Space Trucking. You'll find that they systematically looked to improve what didn't work entirely (including the part inspired by The Nice's Rondo). The result is a perfect combination of the spontanity of improvisation and a solidly structured composition. I think it tells the story of space travelling. It ends with a crash - that chaos mirrors the chaotic start of the opener Highway Star. This gives the album a sensevof unity. DP Mark II are often seen as simple compared to Yes and ELP, but actually their songs are cleverly and well constructed, obeying one binding principle: every single note (and there are truckloads of them) has to entertain the audience. That's what makes MiJ the standard for every live record done ever. You mention Dream Theater - a highly skilled band. But when covering MiJ they failed, because they couldn't match this standard. DP Mark II was thát good on stage.

[@gordy3714]

One of the finest organ solos ever recorded.

[@MartinJessop-bi4yt]

Pleased they gave Jon a decent length solo here, magnificent. Ian had his moment on the mule and Jon got his here.

[@2giantmonsters]

Always thought this was more Lords band than Blackmore's.

[@zdenkonouzovsky6947]

It was a band of both of them. Thay had massive respect for each other.

[@jamesharper3933]

Brutal is more like it 👍

[@michaeljozwiak25]

@@2giantmonsters When the band began, Ritchie Blackmore was 22 years-old and lacked confidence to take the lead on the guitar. Jon Lord would write songs for lead guitar, but Blackmore would shy away. Do Lord began writing keyboard driven rock songs instead.

[@daveswallow8351]

Ian Paice is a beast of a player!

[@petermeijers6319]

Ian Paice is a machinegun!

[@williamnewton5182]

I was blessed to see this line up three times in 70-71. You think there's stuff going on here? You should have seen it. Organ rocking back and forth, guitar flying. Just awesome.....🇬🇧

[@bennyventura4286]

lucky you saw them in person during their younger days!

[@leopolitan1914]

Yes, you certainly were blessed. I used to read the reviews. Strobe lights, dry ice, wrecked gear. My first concert with them was `74 Just a bit `toned down´by that time. But still blown away.

[@plamenhalachev5446]

Fantastic review! I've listened to this version hundreds of times and I think it just shows these guys musical prowess. At that time no other band could touch them, really.

[@louise_rose]

Yep, I'm a lifelong fan of the band and the album too. First heard their records in the 1970s - I was a couple years too young to get to see them live at the time, and then they split up of course - but their skills as musicians and improvisers were always obvious to me. This live version of ST has a real feeling of a long journey into the unknown, the sense of confrontation with, or discovery of, interstellar space and some strange new worlds within it, is compelling in these instrumentals and solos. Blackmore and Lord sound otherworldly, really sci-fi in the best sense. like 2001, while Paice's masterful drumming suggests the endless forward journey of the spaceship

[@plamenhalachev5446]

Spot on!

[@chuckgraf8141]

Deep Purple was my first concert. I was in high school and the year was 1984, i believe. Perfect Strangers tour. They played this one and i thought it was the best song of their set that night. Incredible! John Lord was rocking his organ to and fro, i was afraid it was going to fall over! What a first concert it was.

[@Jimi-ld2vw]

Me too, though it was 1974 for me.

[@boolsson4639]

There’s no encore on the vinyl. But they did two of three numbers as encores Black Night, Speed King or Little Richards Lucille. Black Night has a story. The band had just done Deep Purple in Rock and was very pleased with it. But the record company said “There’s no single here”. The band said “We don’t do singles”. But the record company said that they did and booked time in a studio the next day and told them “Go and write a hit single”. Very easy. They tried for a couple of hours but couldn’t come up with anything, so they went to a pub instead. And had a beer or 20 and got really, really drunk. Later they came back to the studio. Ritchie was sitting on the floor playing Rick Nelsons Summertime. They all joined in and they jammed for a while. Gillan wrote down anything anyone said and used that as lyrics. Roger said “I don’t feel so bright”, before throwing up. That’s line two of the lyrics. They went home without a song or so they thought. The next day the record company called and said “What a great single you made yesterday”. The band “Single? What single? Did we make a single last night?” They had no idea. So if anyone can understand the lyrics and what they mean please tell Gillan because he hasn’t got a clue. The single, Black Night, went to #4 on the top 100 list.

[@78r0ckarolla]

The Live in Japan 3 CD álbum encompasses the 3 nights where these songs were taken from ,and it is amazing how even each version does not deviate that much of the running time of the songs ,what they do in each one is quite different . Best live álbum rock has ever produced.No contest .

[@Sam-cv6un]

It's funny to me when you said you wonder when they're going to get back to Space Truckin'. I know you meant the song itself, but for me, the instrumental section of this is the actual Space Truckin' part of Space Truckin'. The song proper is like, "Hey guys, let's go Space Truckin'!" and then this instrumental is the actual trekking around the stars, with the random encounters of exploration in the music, the alien keyboards and spacey sections, etc. It's one of my favorite pieces of music of all time, and it was really fun to see you enjoy it as well. Peace!

[@plamenhalachev5446]

Well said! Couldn't have put it better myself.

[@davebinnie4257]

Yes! I’ve always thought that! ST was used as a path to the jam. When purple came back in 84, I went to concerts and immediately realized the jam part of the band was gone….

[@gustaf0902]

I always like the long silence after the piece ends. The audience just can't belive what they just heard and dont remember to clap their hands

[@grahamnunn8998]

As a kid, I took a while to figure out what was guitar and what was organ. Watching John Lord with Whitesnake (two Leslies and a Marshall Stack!) made me realise a Hammond Organ could feedback too. Once again, total respect for Glover and Paice - they are one of the best rhythm sections ever. They think on their feet and respond to wherever Lord and Blackmore and Lord go.

[@nevmanning4263]

The long instrumental section which comes after the main song ends is actually a song called “Mandrake Root” from Deep Purple’s first album.

[@raymondhartmeijer9300]

Yes, well, the extended jamming part was originally added to that song on stage, although it seems they nicked the drum and bassparts from The Nice's version of Brubeck's "Rondo", because that's different on the Mandrake Root- studio version. ELP also kept playing 'Rondo' live in the early 70s, so that was something that was around as a jamming vehicle

[@edmonddp]

@@nevmanning4263 And "cello" part is from "Fools" from Fireball album. One of my fav songs

[@michaelkarlsson5966]

@@edmonddp *cello :)

[@frankh9600]

Exactly, the wonderful In Concert 2LP features an excellent version of Mandrake Root. One of my favourite albums as a teenager.

[@edmonddp]

@@michaelkarlsson5966 sorry! and thanks!

[@richardgoldin2639]

The long instrumental section is actually a combination of Fools, Mandrake Root and quotations from several classical pieces. It's not as "freeform" as you think. Some of that terrifying chord structure from Blackmore 21:42 is always part of this instrumental. So is the "arpeggiation" that closes each section. The Hammond Organ tones at the end are generated by turning the instrument on/off allowing the tone wheel to slow down and speed up. The Hammand B3 does uses a tone wheel to create the notes.

[@bobschenkel7921]

Back in the day, early 70's, one day I rode my bicycle to the Mall and bought Grand Funk "We're An American Band", Alice Cooper "Billion Dollar Babies" and Deep Purple "Made In Japan". It was a dangerous ride home with my hands full, but I made it. Of all the great songs on those three albums, but "Space Truckin' " was by far my favorite. So long and jammy.

[@VladfishTheMagnificent]

Saw these guys last week, and they STILL rock. Caught a drumstick from Ian Paice, too!!

[@EssArrB]

11:49 that sound is the Hammond organ through an F/X box called The Maestro ring modulator. It included an oscillator as well as the ring modulator, hence the sweep noisee as JL cranked it up

[@TheB3Nut]

Designed by none other than Tom Oberheim! He did the Maestro Phase Shifter as well.

[@araaaraa9765]

Upon leaving Deep Purple, Jon Lord concentrated on composing classical music and became successful within that world. Thank you for spending time on this album. It shows the band in full glory at the absolute pinnacle of their art. Improvised free flowing music. Thank you

[@Rocknroll73]

I have been listening to Made In Japan probably once/week in my car for about two years now. In my opinion, the best live rock album ever. I'm very much looking forward to your reaction to this last one Doug. BTW, Space Truckin' is really a little over 5 minutes long. The rest is an instrumental that will blow you away (I think, at least, lol). Cheers from Kingston, Canada

[@R2Zmedia]

Wait until you've been playing it for 50 years! It never gets old. You're right though, best live album ever bar none!

[@drmarine1771]

Had the pleasure of seeing them live. Sound live no different to record. Amazing.

[@alanthorne3921]

That instrumental section was part of an earlier tune called Mandrake Root.The studio version recorded by MK 1 Purple was rudimentary until MK2 did it live.Then when Space Trucking came along they discarded the first vocal section of Mandrake Root and tacked on Space Trucking.Also Blackmore’s solo is the middle section of Fools from Fireball.Just saying😅

[@FVD]

​@@alanthorne3921I think it was the Scandinavian Nights Live CD where they played Paint It Black live where I had a similar vibe and Paicey was going wild on that one too.

[@MrLtia1234]

The Space Truckin' jam (or the jam after Space Truckin) is essentially Mandrake Root, but should be pointed out they took out the chord change for the key solo and took out all the stuff they added to MR over the years they played it. They changed it a bit again the following year, too.

[@henryurbach7973]

Hey Doug, I just love that you finally got a chance to complete MIJ, the album I heard when I was 13, and which literally made me a fan for life. Many people here made comments about what Jon and Ritchie were using and playing, so I won't rehash that. I did want to let you know a bit what was happening on stage. Ian Gillan did not go for a smoke, drink or bj. He was on stage knocking the crap out of bongos. You need to check out Copenhagen 1972 video/DVD. It was recorded on March 1, 1972, during the early part of the Machine Head tour, when Smoke On the Water wasn't part of the set, Child in Time was extended to 17 minutes and a long solo from Jon. Getting back to Space Trucking, the coda featured Ritchie going nuts scraping the Strat on anything he can find including his butt while strobe lights swirl all around. Unfortunately the DVD is in black and white as it was a live TV broadcast from KB Hallen

[@Dibbdroid]

Ritchie's solo includes improv based on the Mandrake Root solo and the volume swells solo from Fools. Jon Lord's solo starts of as per Mandrake Root

[@Jimi-ld2vw]

Yers indeed. You know your Deep Purple.

[@marie_andreeplante]

Purple was like an extrasensoriel experimentation...solid! A five genious musicians insane making Rock history! They were just...one word comes to mind, incredible!🙌🏻💯 It doesn't exist anymore that kind of bands live today,sadly...😔

[@Jimi-ld2vw]

Playing piano during Blackmore's playing at the end?! To the dungeon with you!

[@FuturePast2019]

The instrumental part was originally part of their 1968 recording Mandrake Root. Live versions of MR used to be 30 minutes... 1968-1970.

[@kevinlundgren1169]

On my 10th birthday , back in 1980 , this is what I asked for , and one of my sisters got it for me ! I don't know of any other 10 year olds that love Deep Purple , but I did and I still do !

[@chrismartin6370]

I’m one of them. Best live album ever!

[@TamaDrummer4263]

I was 10 when my brother brought home a copy of In Rock he borrowed from a friend because I used to try and drum along to songs and he thought I'd like the drumming. He was right! I've been a huge purple and Ian Paice fan ever since. As for the drumming, it took me another 35 years to get a drum kit, but now in my 60s I tour with a band. Some dreams can come true, although in this instance it took awhile 😊

[@rickjohnson2165]

I couldn’t ask me this album for my 10 birthday as the album hadn’t been recorded nor had any of the songs. That was back in the Concerto days.

[@forformgamer]

They're my first musical memories. Must have been around 4 years old when my parents played this at home. Was in '95 for me

[@seabud6408]

I was 13 and had been a fan since the age of 12 when I heard that I’d missed them playing my small local town hall in Scotland just before “In Rock” came out 2 years before. So upset, that I made sure I got a ticket to see them next time. It was six weeks after they recorded MI Japan. It’s still the best musical experience of my life .. for so many reasons. No rock band were better than Purple live .. for me they were the best.

[@scottmessenger8639]

This was my first rock album, a 11:21 11:22 Christmas present when I was 11 in 1973! Ended up seeing them 5 times during the 70s and 80s! Definitely my favorite live band! Thanks for the reactions, makes me feel young again!!

[@SteveJ0966]

Some of Jon's work on the Hammond in the second phase of the song really brought to mind elements of Van der Graaf to me. It's such an organic instrument compared with the more digital keyboard sounds you get nowadays.

[@keithshapland903]

I've listened to this live album more than any others since I bought it in early 1973. Space Truckin is the pinnacle of Deep Purples improvisations. Ian Paice is awesome on this track. The guitar sound Ritchie uses is called the violin technique using the volume control. Jan Akkerman was an absolute master of it.

[@Robert-wn2cw]

The last part of the song after the very brief silence is ment to be the re-entry into the Earths atmosphere after all that space truckin". A truly amazing live album! Love your channel Doug. Cheers.

[@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa]

I like how they create a space trip with spacey sounds commonly heard from 1950s sci-fi films. The whole instrumental basically depicts a space trip. Yes Doug, Jon threw in some quotes from Holst's Jupiter from The Planets. I don't know if you caught it. As the band starts in again after the first break, Ritchie plays the opening notes from Mars several times. Jon used to throw in bits from Jupiter, Saturn, sometimes from Dvorak's New World Symphony during his extended solos. "Jon could play a toaster!" That made me laugh!! Good one! You're right. Jon really had his Hammond overloaded. He ran it through Marshalls so he could be as loud as Ritchie and keep up. If you look on the album cover. To Jon's left on top of the Hammond, you will notice a little box. That was his ring modulator/oscillator device that he used a lot of during the opening to Lazy and in his Space Truckin' solo. He didn't need synthesizers (though in 1973, he did start using 2 ARP Synthesizers). Dream Theater did their version of Made in Japan - all 7 songs. Roger Glover produced it. A friend of mine back in the day could not get through the day unless he listened to Space Truckin'. He had to listen to this every day. It's only fitting that Captain Kirk himself go Space Truckin'! Thanks for doing this Doug))

[@Jimi-ld2vw]

Indeed re Mars.

[@malcolmfield6677]

Simply some of the best music ever.

[@norbertocristobal3841]

Blackmore plays part of the song "Fools" from the Fireball album, it sounds like a cello

[@TonyBailey-xf5tn]

The best live album ever made. You really need to find the CD with the encores. Speed King is awesome!

[@LogicalQ]

I have loved this song since I was 7 years old.

[@louise_rose]

Yep, I first heard it when I was eleven and absolutely loved it. Recorded it on to a cassette tape from my cousin's copy of the album. Along with "Echoes" it was the first time I saw a rock song filling an entire LP album side. :)

[@nodaysback1]

Hello Doug, excellent and informative reaction, as always! Thank you! At 7:33 you commented that Blackmore's guitar was panned left. And later, at 11:36 , you commented that the overdriven tone of Jon Lord's C3 was hard to distinguish from the guitar. If you listen to that keyboard/drum section closely, you'll notice the keys are panned right. This separation allows for a better hearing of the two independantly and provides for clarity in such a dense mix like this.

[@nikosalmpanis-ty3jt]

Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin,Deep Purple the holy triad of rock music🤘

[@brolinofvandar]

From my mid-teens into early 20s, I bounced between Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple as my "favorite" band. One thing I loved about both bands was that the studio versions of their songs were usually just a starting point. Or a documentation of the state of the song at that time. Live, they didn't bother with trying to duplicate the studio version. They jammed. They improvised. They extended. You didn't know what to expect. Often, even from one show to the next. It's one of the things that made their live recordings of value, they were inevitably different takes on the songs. Like the extended jam here. Or the different guitar solo in *each* live version of Stairway to Heaven. Most of the time, the live versions were more interesting than the studio version. Oh, and Led Zeppelin ultimately won. 🙂Though if Deep Purple MKII could have held together it likely would have been different.

[@thetruthhurts6652]

For sure. Except I chose Deep Purple Mark 2 over Zep. Mainly because of Jon Lord and I thought they were better musicians. But up to 1976 nobody composed studio songs better than Zep. For me LZ4 and Machine head are the two best studio albums of the 70s.

[@seanmorgan5661]

This album was my music of choice when revising for my A levels back in 1975. Hearing it again now I’m amazed I passed any of them!😊

[@pstholm]

When I was a kid listening to ST I always thought Blackmore played the cello during his solo section on this track. Years later I found out he used the volume knob on the guitar. 🎸

[@jasperdevries1726]

True. Although he did learn the cello later on - he has mentioned in interviews that he used the cello to compose for Rainbow.

[@lunixcaptain]

Listening to Suicidal Tendencies? Sweet 🤘

[@jasperdevries1726]

@@lunixcaptain you know what would make it sweeter? A Pepsi.

[@bobschenkel7921]

Mark II Deep Purple is, IMVHO, the best Deep Purple. Jon, Ritchie, Roger and the two Ian's just have more of everything than the other phases of the Purple. Seen them three times, always satisfy.

[@JohnSmith-mx8wp]

Been waiting for this one, so thanks, Doug! This is my favorite recording of all time. Must have listened to it hundreds of times over the years. The greatest praise I can possibly give it is that it's become a part of me. 💜

[@alldayadventures5418]

Best Live Album: Side 4 20 minute version of Space Truckin, the best tune on this album. The 8-track version of this had a Track Change in the middle of the song.

[@Jimi-ld2vw]

I remember that.

[@TonyKorycki]

Tues 3rd Dec ‘24 - utterly awesome - this has to be one of the ultimate live rock tracks of all time - a mind-blowing listen every time!

[@quadrophenius5379]

Yeah they really do a space truckin' there. But just to mention it: not everything is improvised there. They include a lot of their earlyer song Mandrake Root (from Shades Of Deep Purple) in the instrumental part of Space Truckin', it's almost a medley. And on their song Hell To Pay from 2013 they also play with one of the motives wich is quite funny for fans. When I'm not wrong Dream Theater covered (or lets say played again) the whole Made In Japan-album as they also did with Dark Side Of The Moon, I think. So thank you for sharing Made In Japan with us here on youtube. It was absolutely amazing. bytheway: glad to see "Quadrophenia" in the back🙃

[@JohandeHakkelaar]

The masterpiece “ Space Truckin” wow… what a performance

[@Becausent7]

That moment before the audience claps, is the pure definition of a Pregnant Pause. I wish I could sample that!! Thanks for going through this album. Your reaction was special to watch.

[@Paul_Halicki]

"Maybe that's what it sounds like when they go to Park" at the end.... That's EXACTLY they way I interpreted that- it's as if a teenage valet is trying to park a hyperdrive-equipped spacecraft but he's only trained on conventional drive. 😁

[@oldguymetal]

Can't tell you how many times I listened to this album back in college when the album was released. There is a lot of their song Mandrake Root in this improvisation. There is also a section form their song Fools that sounds like Ritchie playing a bow, but he does not. This is when people took the time to listen to music, albeit in a slightly altered state lol.

[@alericksonof1967]

Blackmore was doing volume swells live in the 60s …first studio recording with Purple doing volume swells was Lalena 1969

[@iainblack7549]

Fantastic Doug, thanks for this. More classic live albums please.

[@ingridgabelo2934]

Por cierto, me gusta mucho tu reacción!! Amo a Deep Purple. Mil gracias por deleitarnos con ésta música inmortal. Tengo 70 años y los escucho hace más de 50 años 💜

[@zedcharlie]

First heard this as a newly horizon broadened 12yr old at school. 1973 I think. Been listening ever since. Brought up on pop music. Quite an education hearing this and zeppelin 2 and 3

[@thunderspike1892]

Deep Purple In Concert with live recordings from 1970 and 1972 was a double album. Side 4 had a 22.14 version of Space Truckin' and finished of with a cover of Lucille. The only two songs on side 4 😎 Try checking out Paice, Ashton Lord (PAL) - Silas & Jerome from the Malice In Wonderland album. Phenomenal song

[@galtsghost4454]

I’m partial to the Space Trucking from the ‘72 BBC recording. I remember when the 1970/72 album came out in ‘80. That was a mind blower.

[@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA]

The "playing a toaster" sound is a ring modulator.

[@HENJAM48]

One of the highlights of my life was seeing this DP lineup. Jon Lord was a god... Rocking the organ back and forth to make the spring reverb explode...He played his organ through a Marshall.

[@19genesis70]

Ist was my First Album! It changed my Life! I was 12 years old! Today I‘m 56 and a drummer! I still think it’s The best live Album! Lord paice and blackmore what a Trio! Gillan was Great too!

[@isitrealgood]

What is crazy is that this particular Deep Purple band only lasted about another year before the exhaustion of completing the next album and then going out on yet another international tour, and inner disagreements, got the best of them. Of course, they reformed about 11 years later, but the chemistry that you hear here, while they were still young....

[@mikejbjones]

Some interesting comments here about Jon Lord's keyboard sound, and how they were made. Having stood about 6' from him at one concert, he did as some of it by 'playing' the feedback on the Hammond B3 by physically rotating it on one end moving closer and away from the speaker (Marshall stacks as far as I can remember). It was amazing to see! As some have said, he also used a ring modulator. That same gig he had a new synth (ARP Odyssey), that must have been that new to him as it was placed on a table and box. Halfway through the end of Space Trucking, with all the synched strobes going full (they ran for minutes - would not be allowed to these days!) he somehow managed to blow the synth up. Watching the bits fly up and then down in 'steps' in the strobes was a surreal experience!

[@satorimystic]

Perhaps THE Best, or close enuff to it, LIVE! recorded (mixed?) performances EVER!! A Classic, EPIC Masterpiece of Rock History!

[@richpeltier9519]

Jon Lord's section on this has always fascinated me. My buddy Dave (who had musical training way before me) pointed out the Holst passages to me, because he knew how much this album meant to me. It may have been when I first shared it with him, from my brother's old warped vinyl that skipped in all the right places LOL My earliest childhood memories are Ian's vocals on this track, those high screeching Yeah Yeah Yeahs hit me hard as a kid.

[@ianmorrison554]

Every time I play this great live double it catches me off guard every time just how creative, free-flowing and intensely enjoyable it is. I'm only sad it isn't a triple album!

[@MusicLover-rt4bs]

Great review as always. Would love to see you review April from their 3rd album. It will tingle your Classical senses. Would love to get your take on how they did.

[@delorangeade]

I think the BBC In Concert performances of these songs are even better in some cases. Side 3 is probably my favourite here, for the interplay between Gillan and Blackmore, and the improvisation. Ian Gillan does come back for the encores, and there is a great version of Black Night available.

[@louise_rose]

"Wring That Neck" and "Mandrake Root" from the first disc of the In Concert album (taped live at the BBC in 1970 and first released on record in 1980) are absolutely epic tracks with incredible solos (and just like here, amazing drumming by Paice), and before Space Truckin' and Lazy came along in 1972, "Mandarake Root" had a similar role in their live set, as a platform for extended free improvisations and solos. Definitely two must-hear tracks, and I would agree that "In Concert" is on a par with Made in Japan as a live document, though it's never been quite as famous.

[@JeanAlainXavier-ze9jc]

Yes àn incredible performance, all of them at the top of their game.

[@lesliedavis2185]

Great band. Was a long time fan. Got all the albums on vinyl.Sadly never got to see them live. All of them excellent musicians.

[@stevenlineberger3333]

Ian Gillan is playing bongos during the long extemporaneous sections. See the album cover

[@DaedalusRaistlin]

Aww man kicking myself for not catching your other reviews on this album, but I've got more stuff to watch now. This was the album I had playing in my car the most over the last few years. Love it! That Hammond organ has been my dream to own, I've owned a few organs but not that one. The draw bars let you change the entire sound as you're playing. I think John might also have used a Marshall amp to add more sound to it, he often would try to match Ritchie on the guitar - you can see it on some live performances. They did that in Ritchie's next band too, having an entire room dedicated to the guitar amp the keyboards were run through so they could capture it with multiple mics. Ritchie's quiet section was probably just him muting with the volume when he picked and holding the vibrato as he turned it back up. It makes quite a nice sound. Have enough reverb and the tape delay Ritchie loved and you can't really tell.

[@Codex7777]

The second album I ever bought! :) My first was 'Sergeant Pepper'. I played this album to death, in my teens and early twenties! Still love it today. Regularly tops lists of the greatest live albums of all-time and deservedly so! :)

[@frankpentangeli7945]

Pretty sure Blackmore didn't use a string bow ... I think he used the volume knob on his Strat to get that spacy effect.

[@sonmercury2497]

the bow is not a bow. It's a volume knob technique on the electric guitar called "Volume Swell" which resembles a violin sound. it's done by swiftly moving the volume knob back and forth.

[@hartmutpeter215]

That's absolute right. No volume pedal.

[@Silber7]

Basically hit the string(s) while quiet, turn up loud while they vibrate

[@XRailModel]

the solo of Ritchie in the mid is present in Fools from Fireball album. He emulated the violoncello sound with volume of his guitar

[@therabbits168]

I'm having flashbacks to the last time I heard this. On a very loud stereo, in the backyard of a house I shared in 1981. And on some 'erb for sure. Thanks

[@bobsteele9581]

Brilliant reaction Doug. A lot of people rave about Jimmy Page making funny screeching noises on his guitar with a violin bow, while Ritchie Blackmore could make his guitar sound like a cello using nothing more than his fingers and the volume knob. A true genius.

[@stephendennis5911]

Love this live version of space truckin

[@raymondhartmeijer9300]

Gillan never left the stage during this one, he is the one on the Conga's and maracas

[@2giantmonsters]

Got to love that first wave of British heavy metal

[@Ziko1962]

Ian Paice is like a metronome, imagine Deep Purple without him...

[@kvstrevettmusic5140]

There is also another Holst The Planets quote on this track, which is made by Ritchie from about 20.25 on your video. He plays the 3 notes E, B and Bb several times. Which of course is ???????? Does anyone else recognise this ?

[@brianvernon249]

This song embodies all of the good memories of my father. The week before cirrhosis took him, he was blabbing on amount how much he loved this song.

[@HENJAM48]

I love how you hear the music differently to me... I hear the production and effects, you hear the key, the time signature and the musical technicalities.

[@frankpentangeli7945]

Gillan is often playing congas while all that soloing is going on.

[@JohnSmith-mx8wp]

For decades I never heard those congas. Then, thanks to a remastered version on youtube, they were very apparent.

[@jameslowe8190]

That's not a bow - he's using the horn/horning technique. Little pinky wrapped around the volume knob on the guitar - volume turned totally down when he picks the note, then swell it up. Also, that section is a live rendition of a part of a song called Fools from their earlier album Fireball.

[@charlesmarkley220]

Space Age baby, born in 65 and named after an astronaut. The were a lot of space themed songs back then. Might want to a space theme series of reactions. Even the Stones did one, 10 Thousand Light Years from Home. Very cool song, sure you will en.

[@garyh.238]

The Maestro Jon Lord running his Hammond through a Marshall stack....he dubbed it "The Beast". Ritchie Blackmore is using volume swells to create the cello like effect. He played that same piece on "Fools" on the Fireball album.

[@louiegallardo7562]

IMHO Mistreated is Purple's best studio song ever. I've seen Purple and Rainbow several times. They are a completely different band live and so disciplined in the studio. Bob Ezrin has tamed them in the studio to perfection. I'm looking forward to see them do the new album in a few weeks. Cheers! To all who came to taste the band.

[@seabud6408]

Yes agree it’s great . Hard lovin’ man from In Rock .. is possibly their best emulation in a studio of a live performance. It still grabs me all these years later.

[@caramanico1]

Hey Doug - no synths, Lord used to put his Hammond B3 through a Marshall. FYI - a drummer buddy in high school used to refer to Paice's drum roll at 8:27 as "ripping sandpaper." Ritchie didn't use a bow - sounds like volume swelling using the pinky on the volume control while still holding the pick between the fingers. Also, a lot of the "jams" that the best live bands of the era - Purple and Zeppelin in particular - had a "format" to their jamming. I've listened to Zeppelin concerts from every tour they've ever done, and you can hear how they came up with ideas, kept them, and just continured to expand on them. Not free form jazz at all. But the overall length of a song - and the length of each segment - would vary.

[@williamwallace5857]

You may enjoy a Deep Purple song entitled 'When A Blind Man Cries.'

[@JunkerOnDrums]

Yeah beautiful - it was made during the Machine Head recordings :D

[@rockroll575]

The best of Ritchie Blackmore and we never had the chance to see it 😢

[@dezmilad]

Fantastic 👏👏👏 now it's time to listen to the other two nights and see how different each night is 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@nick28476]

To get that swell effect, like a bow, Blackmore used the volume knob which was later added to, technically, by players like Eddie Van Halen. Check out Cathedral off Diver Down; a lessen in brilliant volume knob-led guitar playing.

[@paulwolf2789]

brilliant. Album and band heard this when I was 16 in 1979 still incredible at night strong German beer headphones etc .peace from ireland

[@BlackersMTV99]

Another thing is Blackmore had the most powerful amp in the world at that time. The Marshall Major. He had Jim Marshall make it for him. He almost had no effects pedals. Just power and his hands.

[@christiantaylor4027]

What sounded like a bow was done by using the vol knob on the guitar to control the attack. This teqnk is also used by alex in Rush and Steve in yes. Some of the keybd effect was done by jon dropping the keybd on the floor and triggering the reverb spring. Wild. You're the best Doug. Great show you do. Rock on!

[@adrianmorris5546]

This is an absolute masterpiece and a true classic

[@marksawyer6095]

Ian Paice must feel like his arms are going to fall off after that.

[@JunkerOnDrums]

No I don't think so :D Ian Paice has a really good technique so he could go on forever.

[@Yupppi]

When I hear Space Truckin' mentioned, I just hear "yeaa yeaa yeaaa" in my head. There's nobody like Jon Lord.

[@larteonceagain]

Dream Theater actually made the whole MIJ as a cover and in Japan. And the album cover is quite similar. Ritchie actually plays the guitar when Shatner is doing his cover. But what a beast Paicy is!

[@seabud6408]

That cover of MIJ by DT shows how great Purple were. I couldn’t listen to it. Had to take the CD out. There is no comparison.