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From Chris Curtis to Hush
A pretty well put together 20-minute documentary about the formation of Deep Purple. For whatever reason, the channel that published it does not allow us to post it here, so you’ll have to head to YouTube to watch it.
Thanks to Tobias Janaschke and HR for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Thanks for that wonderful documentary on the glorious 1960’s & Deep Purple’s formation. Those British guitarists were a mile ahead any others in the early to mid 60’s weren’t they. Hendrix, who is he? Have to laugh at the St Valentine’s Day Massacre as a band name, a terrible choice for a name. Cheers.
August 30th, 2024 at 21:37Bobby Woodman /Clarke & his double kick drum playing. Surely that is the first or at least one of the first, metal to the floor indeed in 1964 & Cozy (where ever you are) eat your heart out. Also the Ginger Baker & Keith Moon scenario. Bobby, a character indeed by the sound of it & he certainly travelled the world back then playing with so many of the greats including Zappa according to what I read. A champion drummer. RIP. Cheers
August 30th, 2024 at 23:00Yo,
@1 asked…
qt.”Hendrix, who is he”? …
Jimi is the man that even today, no-one has surpassed in musicality, as an all-rounder singer / song writer / guitarist…Not to mention his ground-breaking stagecraft.
Jimi invented Rock, & everyone else will always be following in the wake that he left.
That’s who Jimi Hendrix is.
Peace !
August 31st, 2024 at 05:45Nothing new in that vid, but nicely done.
And you always tell me Purple wasn’t “manufactured”! They were a drawing board creation by business men: “If we stick talent together and have one sane/adult person (= Jon Lord) in the middle of it as our liaison, there is a sensible chance that it might all turn into something commercially viable!” is what they thought.
Of course fate intervened: Jon and Nick are impressed by a Brit guitarist and experienced Joe Meek sessioneer who was marooned in Germany in an unhappy shotgun marriage with a young son,
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doing fuck all other than worrying whether he – at 28 hardly a spring chicken anymore in the Swinging 60s – had missed the boat for a viable musical career. And this guy then becomes both the musical driving force in DP and its chief engineer of the many line-up “adjustments” to follow.
And the rest is history, as they say.
August 31st, 2024 at 16:53🤣 Nick was merciless in his – just – criticism of my bad math, yes, I’ve unwittingly made Ritchie 5 years older
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than he actually was in 1968. To my defense: Ritchie is one of those people who always looked older than they were when they were young – until one day they don’t and all of the sudden proceeded to look younger than their meanwhile progressed age! It’s called the ‘never look your age’-anomaly!!
Still, a 23 year old Ritchie sitting in Hamburg (“living off immoral earnings” as he himself once put it without going into specifics) without a band or a recording contract was a far cry from the position of say, George Harrison, who at only 20 looked back at already five years of playing with The Beatles when Beatlemania struck in 1963.
September 1st, 2024 at 01:08Ritchie when he had the Brian Setzer hairdo lol!
September 1st, 2024 at 10:37Psychoanalytically, I would say that Ritchie always wishes to return to his childhood safe haven days with his hair. Violet (his mom, now that does raise psychological questions about the name Deep Purple too given that violet as a spectral color is one of the origin colors of the non-spectral purple …) did allow her Richard Hugh to grow it inordinately long for a boy in the late 40ies/early 50s …
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I bet Violet was hoping for a girl after already having given birth to one son (Ritchie’s late elder brother). I’ve been there, my mom was hoping for me to be a girl too, but – alas! – my dad only bestowed three sons on her.
September 1st, 2024 at 16:13very fast and well made documentary
September 3rd, 2024 at 12:46