Deep Purple - Swiss Doco 'The Revolution' (1971)

A documentary for Swiss TV from April 1971 when the band visited Montreux Switzerland. Interviews with the band members and Claud Nobs (name checked in Smoke on the Water), asking them questions about the consumption of their music and whether rock and pop is just another consumer product, to some interesting replies!
I was after this trip to Montreux that the band decided to return there to record in December that year at Claud's casino, but 'some stupid with a flare gun.....' well, you know the rest!

[@nobodyaskedbut]

Mark 2 was simply the greatest group of pure rock musicians of all-time. They created their own genre with their monumental "In Rock" album. A genre of which only they ever played. However, they were not together long enough to understand what they might be doing and where they were going with their music. They were just incredibly talented and were individually pulling in many directions without any kind of objective guidance which led to their premature breakup. They were both the greatest and saddest story in rock.

[@mehrsam4938]

To me, Deep Purple just was active music band during late 1969 to mid 1973, before and after that RIP. But because of those 3 years of Mark ii, lives forever.

[@maxwellfan55]

This is the short period when the flowers of the 1960's bore fruit, rich fruit of amazing colours, feelings of love and music of all genres, Purple being one of the best among many. To anybody not around then and curious now, it was as good as this film appears.

[@thomasherron5809]

It looked like a such a rich and magical time to be a young person or to be a musician, like anything was possible. You can see it in the faces and body language of those kids in the streets. like a renaissance. So bright and inquisitive. Cool looking times. Genuine and fresh. Must have been magnificent to see and experience. I don't get that same vibe in todays scene. How groundbreaking was Purple anyway? Incredibly important and timeless band.

[@user-mj8sm3kx9z]

Историческая хроника. Загнивающий Запад! Величайшая группа! Лучший голос всех времен! The Best of The Best! Люблю!

[@xerxes450]

a great time with a legendary band ever...

[@fortiterinresuaviterinmodo5549]

La migliore hard rock band di tutti i tempi

[@SADDLTRAMPKeith]

Brings me back to my generation, A magical time in history that will not ever repeat

[@StephenMerchant-up8sg]

Raw music made by genuine talents. When just a few foot pedal effects were enough. And a wall of Marshall cabs!!

[@mgodoy-br]

Awesome documentary. Would be great if others like this one came in extra material of Deep Purple show footage.

[@felipepimentel2570]

the best group of the world

[@TheFlightsimNerd]

+Felipe Pimentel no RUSH is. But yes Deep Purple is the top 3 for sure.

[@theodorus45]

+Nolan the Simmer Rush ??? Don`t make me laugh !

[@Kris.G]

+Nolan the Simmer that's really stupid

[@MrHongsangjin]

Black sabbath was one of opening bands of california jam. But Deep purple was california jam headliner

[@laurenzgraffilpenstein8117]

@@TheFlightsimNerd what's Rush. An overrated one

[@Napoleon4778]

Really insightful video. What the journalist did not realize is that music is like viewing an art exhibition. Although you view a painting or a sculpture with everybody else, it is a very personal and individualistic experience.

[@Roggiedodgie]

Seriously? I thought she was trying to sound brilliant and came off as trying to find an angle, with a political bent, and SHE made no sense with the questions. Especially as to asking what Jon Lord's goal was. I'm glad he let her know they don't do it for free. She grew up in the wrong era- she is probably enjoying all the free music she can get now and then wonders why there are so few groups that sound as good or put as much heart into their music now. Capitalism works a HELL of a lot better than socialism.

[@juangallardo4178]

El auténtico arte siempre tiene algo de diversión y experiencia espiritual....Qué gran banda de rock....

[@flummi-Berlin]

Nice old documentary. It was a completely different time back then. But one of the best for rock, pop, funk & soul!

[@andymann11Amann1]

this era of purple was the best.great musicians.

[@tariksba]

Ha ha ha ha , Paicey at 03:16 ( the drumstick) ...

[@MikeGgeetar]

Its easy to forget that Europe was divided with the Cold War and communism in the aftermath of WWII, this is fascinating stuff.

[@mysticalmargaret6105]

I was too young to see them in concert. Born too late. :(

[@elkavasileva7381]

"What ambitions you had???" "Well,let's see...." hahahahahahahaha,Jon was brilliant...

[@9CaratPurple]

"Erm, let me see.... Communication is all it is ... yes, that's all". There will be no prizes for guessing what Jon was trying to communicate to the Reporter on this occasion .....

[@vitalygoji]

I also had a laugh. Brilliant !

[@cornchipsnovemberland3565]

Nifty period piece...Great live footage of DP in their prime. Funny interviews...Cool to see the Claude Nobs interview. Thanks for sharing!

[@marcosdiaz8508]

Deep Purple, el rock clasico por siempre....

[@narasimhanms8822]

Nice VDO...Start of Deep Purple times..............

[@betofogo17]

perfectly timing, showing them before fame struck. It is a shame the interviews did not cover too much ground nor the live pieces were longer, but definitely more inspiring than a lot of DP videos on sale.

[@7777Scion]

Deep Purple's "fame" struck when the Concerto aired on BBC (then European) television in 1969. By this time, IN ROCK had blasted across the western world. Fame had already struck.

[@samebar]

They were given ample opportunity to cover a lot of ground but they blew it. Ian's being too cool for school and Roger's being a 'like what he said'. They all make the mistake that a lot of Brits make about 'politics' only applying to the electoral governing system.......when that's only officiating what we take for granted on a daily basis.......our attitudes towards sexes, racial groups, marriage, our children's education and ambitions, violence. How can their songs not be political? How is a love song not political? She left you for another guy because he was more financially viable, he was more interested in committing to a mortgage and investing in a family than you were.......he's a little more perceptive than you are you stupid fuck?! How is Mary Long not political? It's about Lord Longford and Mary Whitehouse with the censorship laws. How is Anyone's Daughter not political.......Ian sings about screwing various people's daughters and ends up being happy about getting a rich girl pregnant.....social inequality and social climbing there. In the early 80's when they reformed they claimed to be more politically astute than the 'youngsters' of the era.......Well.....they weren't talking about politics they were talking about anti-war songs.......something that they wouldn't recognize as politics because it's not pimping a political party.

[@7777Scion]

Deep Purple were one of the greatest of rock groups. Going to have to face the facts, Vasantha.

[@samebar]

7777Scion It's my favourite band.........go figure. I'm talking about comprehension, not musical ability. Learn the difference.

[@mateogavela6143]

:3 :3 :3 :3 :3 :3 Purplee!.. FAVORITE BAND!..

[@Hughes1973Brasil]

Sensational! Great!!!

[@susyd2776]

Excellent video, well done thank you

[@JohnProph]

she was asking basically "is music just a product to be consumed like CocaCola?" She asked about 30 years too soon

[@victorhugolatronico4218]

Thanks!!!!!!

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love it!!

[@9CaratPurple]

Interesting quote from Gillan ... "We're not making a fantastic profit ....". Give it a few more months though eh?

[@user-cx6ef7uh4s]

Отлично!!!!

[@Cl4rendon]

No wonder Blackmore got pissed of with the press & journalists after listening to such stupid question this girl is asking the band......

[@crackingthesky]

как же прекрасен даже обычный разговорный голос иэна. честно я бы слушала deep purple и была бы фэном даже если бы их записи были чисто голосом иэна который болтает о всякой мелочи (типа как подкаст лол)

[@xerxes450]

Funky claude ,they talk about him in Child in time's lyrics, speaking german ..in Montreux died in 2013 RIP , it was a german report - when old generation goes to ski ...

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

funky claude!!

[@mateogavela6143]

They Made more than 1, 2, 5, 7, or even 13 Great Songs!!: Smoke, Strange Kind, Hush, Burn, Child in Time, Demons Eye, No no no, Speed King, When a Blind man, The Gypsy, Soldier of Fortune, Higway Star,...

[@joseenocalmendra4066]

Tremendo documental !

[@juanpepe7904]

Los viejos romeros nunca muere jamás siempre en mi corazón

[@user-vi4wp8rn1o]

❤🤘

[@pinball1970]

great MK 2 footage

[@walkinginbeautyandlawofrec9416]

I was ten years old in 1970

[@What_Fred_Said]

I was 7. they are my fav band of all time.

[@orange70383]

I remember that time, people looked so much cooler and dangerous.

[@samebar]

Someone put the lights on guys.

[@djgforce11]

DP in their prime.

[@johnwalker9125]

R&R ain’t no thing. Easy does it. Live and let live. And all the other good Johan Rottenno.

[@Mr01081960]

SPETTACOLO PORPORA

[@yellingelk]

The girl interviewing them is trying ever so hard to intellectualise it all... and they're not having any of it! If she asked say... Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Pete Townsend or Rodger Waters from Floyd she may have gotten something... but really Purple were hardly a politically motivated band. With them it was more about the unhinged emotion of their music's delivery... it was about spontaneity and the building and releasing of tension... it was more about shifting air than starting a revolution.

[@diamondog99]

well said ... i find it strange that deep purple can write political lyrics but have no attachment to them.. Gillan always said he was a cunning linguist .. he also said Purple were mainly an instrumental band with some guy singing ..so i guess for the musicians in deep purple it really was just about the music

[@progger53]

I didn't know Frank Zappa spoke French.

[@RCAvhstape]

Fun to watch, but the interviewer doesn't really get any definitive answers. She only talked to one band. Had she asked the same questions to Roger Waters I'm sure she would've gotten a very different answer. Waters takes his music very seriously compared to Ian Gillan. The latter likes being a rock star, the former uses music as a means of self-expression and is very conscious of it. (And both of them give interviewers a hard time)

[@jonblackers4339]

Waters is a vile anti semite

[@robax]

hahah that interviewer... what a party pooper personality

[@Stratamania]

Brilliant faux pas of consumed.

[@kikiu2619]

The female journalist...lol. Do they have the full concert? Would be fantastic.

[@ramonajackikz]

they were so done with that interviewer

[@edoardodefilippo1196]

3:10

[@n5ifi]

Rock and Roll was the start of a revolution but the the revolution was not true to its ideals or itself. It told stories of lies, terrible wrongs and bad people all the while supporting lies, terrible wrongs and bad people. That's why Rock is dead. A lie never holds up to the truth. While I love the music of the era and always will, it turned out to be a wasted movement in the end because the movement became the same thing that it originally set out to fight against. In fact, it became much worse than that which it set out to fight in the beginning. Rock and Roll is dead. Long Live Rock and Roll.

[@reggiekrager5411]

Rock n Roll never dies. And today it s anything but dead, Silpknot just got The number 1 album în The states.

[@sabbaseleftheriadis5601]

pop!?!?

[@heinzstalder8624]

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[@samebar]

What do you wanna communicate Jon........."Fun"? Love the guy but after banging on how he has nothing to bang on about........what's the message, man? Everyone's got the right to be young of course.

[@aphrodiac]

ads sucks

[@naturesound2963]

Well, it disappoints me a lot, when I hear Deep Purple saying, that their music *isn't* also political. At that time.. *of course* rock-music *was* political, if it was a good and true one... : / Musicians and artists cannot escape the political stage, they become to puppets of the system, if they think, they aren't "political".. So or so: *they are* ..

[@johnwalker9125]

Old new shit. Or ONS. What are You On? Get off it, or get out. It don’t make sense in English less you are in the no of the ons. GOD AND DEEP PURPLE FOREVER.

[@samebar]

O.K Ian, if the protesters went away you'd give a 50% discount on tickets. Who's laughing.....?

[@MOBProduktion]

What he said was they could cut the ticketprices if the protesters outside who caused trouble wasn´t there. Now Deep Purple had to hire more security for themselves and their audience.