Looking for a Deep Purple song

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It was on the radio a few weeks back, round my girlfriend's parents place.

It had a wicked guitar solo and a name that was 'new age', is the only way I can describe it. Almost space-y sound perhaps.

That's all I've got I'm afraid. :o Been checking Spotify but I can't see it, though I'm not sure all their stuff is on there (there's loads, but still).

It might be a more recent track of theirs.
 
What a horrible song by one of my all time heroes.

Alex, there are only 3 Deep Purple albums worth listening to and all were MK2 Deep Purple:
In Rock
Fireball
Machine Head

Actually Perfect Strangers is OK and that was a reformed MK2 Deep Purple.
 
Dimple said:
What a horrible song by one of my all time heroes.

Alex, there are only 3 Deep Purple albums worth listening to and all were MK2 Deep Purple:
In Rock
Fireball
Machine Head

Actually Perfect Strangers is OK and that was a reformed MK2 Deep Purple.
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I thought Burn & Stormbringer had some decent songs, but those 3 are definitely the most consistent.
 
Very good Dimple! especially you 3 out front.:cool:

Drummer is too tippity tappity for me though and his drum sound is tinny(could be the recording). A good rock drummer should be producing a force 10 gale and shaking the freaking foundations!:eek: (give him some red meat and butter before the next gig!) Also needs more headbanging.
 
smit101 said:
Very good Dimple! especially you 3 out front.:cool:

Drummer is too tippity tappity for me though and his drum sound is tinny(could be the recording). A good rock drummer should be producing a force 10 gale and shaking the freaking foundations!:eek: (give him some red meat and butter before the next gig!) Also needs more headbanging.
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Sorry to derail OP but it is music after all :D

It's funny you pick up on that Smit because the drummer is about 62 and comes from a background of Cream & Hendrix. He has had to learn every song we do from scratch because he has never heard them before. All I can say is that on stage he is force 10 gale and we find it comforting playing along with him and often look at each other for some of the amazing things he does also knowing his background. It was only when I had recorded the full gig that I rang my guitarist up and we discussed how he looks on film as though he isn't playing but this huge sound comes out (it was an in house PA on the film BTW). it really is amazing because you can watch some of the videos and listen to his drums but watching him it doesn't look like he's playing it and all we've put it down to is that he has amazing technique. We also had another drummer a few years ago in the other band who sounded like thunder on stage but when you watched him he was doing nothing.

Here is an example of how brilliant the drummer is. Somebody in the audience shouted out a song so we looked at each other, ran through the chords, nodded to each other and then turned to Jeff and explained what we were going to do. I told him to keep an eye on the bass player because he will give him cues and this was the result :eek:


Another thing, put your headphones on and turn it right up and watch him playing - tippity tappity tippity tappity but listen to what's coming out. It's got us stumped.
There was another number on the night we did exactly the same thing with - Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath, we ran over it and explained what we were going to do and he basically played it flawlessly without ever hearing it before (there was a big cock up at the start of the 2nd main riff around 3.50). Even the ending he was using ESP between us all.

 
Good renditions again Dimple.:cool:

The drummer comes across much better. Now that you've mentioned his playing background I can see why he's got more of a subtle/laid back style than a lot of rock drummers. No denying he has skill, quite like his interpretation of Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath, he puts his own slant on it but manages to stay true to the original, not the easiest song to play from a drumming perspective.

I wish we had a few local bands around here like you lads, any live music in our locals seems to be one man, his guitar and a drum machine type crap. (well.. not all crap, some is passable but you know what I mean).

Good luck with your next gig!
 
smit101 said:
quite like his interpretation of Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath, he puts his own slant on it but manages to stay true to the original, not the easiest song to play from a drumming perspective.
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But he didn't even know what the original was so couldn't stay true to the original :confused:
We literally had 2 minutes talking/demonstrating to him on stage telling him how it goes (with some of the audience getting restless, bit unprofessional), telling him to watch us for cues and then he just plays it :eek:
Of course when I got home I emailed the original to him and at the next gig he knew what he was doing.
I can't tell you how amazing it is to have a drummer that will just play along and jam on stage without being embarrassed if he messes up.
For instance the drummer in the other band will not play along to a riff unless he knows the song from A to Z. Last night the 3 guitarists went into a riff so I turned to him and said 'just play a 4/4' and he sat there with his arms crossed :(
 
Dimple said:
But he didn't even know what the original was so couldn't stay true to the original :confused:
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Like I say, it's his interpretation but IMO quite true to the original (albeit unintentionally), pretty amazing that he'd never heard it before!:eek: I thought all musicians whether they're jazz, blues, hip-hop (you name it) knew of Black Sabbath's - Black Sabbath.

Dimple said:
We literally had 2 minutes talking/demonstrating to him on stage telling him how it goes (with some of the audience getting restless, bit unprofessional), telling him to watch us for cues and then he just plays it
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:eek:

Pretty clever that!


Dimple said:
Of course when I got home I emailed the original to him and at the next gig he knew what he was doing.
I can't tell you how amazing it is to have a drummer that will just play along and jam on stage without being embarrassed if he messes up.
For instance the drummer in the other band will not play along to a riff unless he knows the song from A to Z. Last night the 3 guitarists went into a riff so I turned to him and said 'just play a 4/4' and he sat there with his arms crossed :(
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He sounds like a bit of a spoil sport, when I was playing I used to love to just jam out, being tied rigidly to the original if you're doing a cover gets boring fast.
 
smit101 said:
He sounds like a bit of a spoil sport, when I was playing I used to love to just jam out, being tied rigidly to the original if you're doing a cover gets boring fast.
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Absolutely not.
I was going to make a thread titled "What very skilled people do you know that have strange quirks' or something along those lines.
For instance the drummer can't play a song unless he knows it and won't jam anything. The rhythm guitarist is always counting bars, he doesn't hear anything else around him but just counts. Both of these quirks means that we can never change a song eg Run to the Hills : I once let the intro play for an extra 2 bars and then started singing the verse but exactly halfway through the verse both of them change into the chorus :eek: I'm serious. My lead guitarist will sometimes get lost in a solo but those 2 will still go into the next part without listening to what he's doing. The other week I forgot to sing 'Now I lay thee down to sleep' in Enter Sandman and the bass player gave me a dirty look because we knew those two will change bang on cue.
Two weeks ago I asked a singer to get up who sings in an ACDC tribute but he refused because he knows we play in Eb. I said that he would fall straight into it but he says before a song he knows the exact note and starts to singing in that key :eek: Anyway we eventually got him up for Hell Ain't A BAd Place To Be and he was true to his word, he sang all the way through in the wrong key.
 
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