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Speaking of newly restored classic videos, here’s Wring That Neck from the French TV show Chorus on November 14th, 1970.
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Speaking of newly restored classic videos, here’s Wring That Neck from the French TV show Chorus on November 14th, 1970.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Excellent and thank you for posting this wonderful footage. Everyone happy and smiling, those were the days my friend etc etc. Cheers.
February 28th, 2025 at 22:30Freakin’ awesome.
Wonder if Blackmore ever watches these..or is made aware and declines to watch.
Also would Mark McBride ever be as loose and as raw as this. I doubt it.
March 1st, 2025 at 00:09Camera was too close to Ritchie…this camera and cameraman was lucky.
March 1st, 2025 at 06:32And Roger playing without a pick.
March 1st, 2025 at 07:29Great stuff! But this was already released on the wonderful “History, Hits & Highlights ’68-’76” collection.
March 1st, 2025 at 15:2455 years ago!! Makes me feel old!
March 1st, 2025 at 15:29the spirit of rock had come down from the sky to enter their souls in those early days, you can feel and see the magic around them
March 1st, 2025 at 20:31He did that initially with Purple (and had done so with Episode Six), but it wasn‘t great for audibility in a band as instrumentally dense as DP, exacerbated by Roger’s habit of playing close to the neck side where attack of individual notes gets indistinct (the closer you play to the bridge, the more articulate the individual notes). It was Ritchie who asked him to switch to pick playing.
These days, modern amplification, speaker horns, equalizers and bass pre-amps would enable Roger to be better heard even when playing finger-style, but none of that was available back then. That said, I still find that whenever Roger switches to finger style live (as he increasingly does in more recent times, it’s his old love …) even today the overall tell-tale Purple sound suffers. The crisp hifi‘sh sound of an active circuit Vigier alleviates that somewhat, but can‘t compensate it fully.
Roger‘s finger-to-pick development wasn‘t unusual in the late 60s and 70s. John Paul Jones and Ian Hill of JP underwent the same transformation, dedicated (and able) finger players once, they switched to pick playing for better attack and audibility especially in live settings.
Ritchie is in tremendously fluid form in that vid.
March 1st, 2025 at 20:48Am I the only one who is so terrible nostalgic who wish the MK II still existed?
I am happy, really grateful actually, that Purple has SMcB, because he is amazing!
But when I think about Beatles, would they have been THE Beatles if Paul had been replaced, or Ringo?
My foolish heart would have enjoyed the Mk ll to exist, even though I know it is indeed stupid.
René has played Metallica with ‘When a blind man cries’ for me, I had no idea they have made that as a cover. And Hetfield is NOT the right vocal! Not at all 😄
March 2nd, 2025 at 17:59Shouldn’t you be in bed, Karin? Less screen time during reconvalescence! ☝️😎
The Metallica cover of WABMC has integrity. Hetfield is a very limited singer, but he sort of gives it a Jeff Bridges/True Grit treatment which has emotional impact. Ian Gillan he is not, but there is something sincere in his delivery in that song. (I‘m no Metallica fan at all, I just respect them for their longevity.)
Mk II has never existed for long. The first and second time roughly for only four years each (and Blackmore wanted Big Ian out earlier both times), the third and final time for not even a year. With diminishing returns in every phase: four studio albums the first, only two the second and just one studio album the final time. Of the seven studio albums he recorded with Mk II, Blackmore likes exactly two: In Rock and Machine Head (both recorded more than 50 years ago with a young IG in his prime) being dismissive of all others.
It doesn’t stop there: Rainbow is probably the only band in the world that has recorded seven consecutive studio albums in eight years, each one with a different line up. Blackmore couldn‘t even hold a stable line-up together when he was calling the shots and surrounded by employees only – that much for having the skills of a great band leader.
Blackmore doesn‘t believe in intra-band democracy and he doesn‘t believe in the benefits of a stable line-up. He doesn‘t even believe in conflict being inspirational, he wants things his way without any pushback and cannot stomach losing a single battle. The only way he would ever stay with DP for good was if he died before leaving again.
Add to that how the power centers in the band have shifted. Jon Lord (respected and valued by Ritchie as an instrumentalist, but not taken seriously as a creative force in the songwriting dept) has left us, Don Airey is to Blackmore just a former Rainbow employee, does anybody really think he would accept him now as an equal partner? Plus the two Ians and Roger have by now experienced that there is a long and happy life in DP even post-Blackmore, they would today tolerate even less shit from him than in the past.
A return of Blackmore to DP today (assuming his rock guitar capabilities got back into shape which I don‘t see happening) would be the death knell for the band within another 12 months. Blackmore doesn‘t know how to compromise and the other four don‘t want to be led anymore.
Plus: Blackmore‘s last rock studio output was Stranger In Us All thirty years ago, a mediocre product. As a rock guitarist he has been living in retirement (and off his DP laurels) since then. He doesn‘t like to tour lengthily or large venues anymore and eschews extensive tours with BN (= a Long Island cottage industry), yet DP today are if anything still an international touring locomotive. Blackmore doesn‘t want that life anymore and has two teenage kids he wants to see grow up.
March 2nd, 2025 at 21:44Metallica’s take on WABMC is a crime in my book. They butcher it.
March 2nd, 2025 at 22:25No they don‘t, in their heavy-handed treatment of it lies something sincere. I think James, Kirk and Lars are devout in their love for DP.
https://youtu.be/pjo-qOcyeKQ
Hetfield is not a great singer, but he‘s not emotionless, especially on ballads. There is something tortured in his gruff voice I like.
March 2nd, 2025 at 23:03@ 10 – Obviously Uwe has never heard the expression ‘short and sweet’ or others in a similar vein or perhaps he just doesn’t believe in that. So what if a bands lineup only lasts so long……………….. better than dragging on through the mud etc. Nothing worse than something over staying it’s welcome. And maybe Blackmore never wanted the lineups to last that long. Remember the Roundabout conundrum or idea, depending which way we could look at that. How many other acts have done similar, what is the point of only looking at DP or more to the point Blackmore. The creativity required by an artist or artists and depending on the core of any ensemble is a much sort after one. Find the right people to gel with and participate and contribute, for however long that may last. “Add to that how the power centers in the band have shifted. Jon Lord (respected and valued by Ritchie as an instrumentalist, but not taken seriously as a creative force in the songwriting dept) has left us” Uhhmmmmmm, Jon Lord was never into rock music composition was he? He has clearly stated that many times years ago and we never really needed Jon to say that as it was more than obvious, wasn’t it. Another sad attempt from Uwe to put the boot into Ritchie. It must be all that pre minstrel tension eh Uwe? What has Don Airey to do with this hypothetical dig at Blackmore, a made up soap drama is it? Airey has repeatedly said he had no issues with Ritchie, he did get writing credits on the Difficult to Cure album didn’t he? Airey and Blackmore together in DP just doesn’t exist and never will. People move on with their respective careers. “Plus the two Ians and Roger have by now experienced that there is a long and happy life in DP even post-Blackmore, they would today tolerate even less shit from him than in the past.” Aww shucks, a happy family after all, ‘the living breathing DP”. Such a fuzzy warm glowing feeling experienced by one and all. Forget all the soap opera rubbish Uwe, I notice that you do put a lot of emphasis on all that, why I cannot fathom. The music is all that matters, nothing more, nothing less. Until we meet again. Cheers.
March 3rd, 2025 at 00:04@10
Thanks for the concern, but I’m well again!
Normally I get over the flu within 4 hours, but this one was nasty, a Streptococ+Staphylococ combo! But after I figured out what was going on, it didn’t take long to be ok again 🥰
“ Ian Gillan he is not, but there is something sincere in his delivery in that song.” – no he certainly is no Ian G 😊
I have never before noticed Hetfield as a limited vocal, but after listening to WABMC I must say it dawned on me once again how magnetic Ian’s voice is!
This one:
https://youtu.be/1ieqHL15yEw?si=y24u9lEPxTXNPHLO
And at 6:15 – woah! 😍 Hetfield would never be able to do that ☺️
“Blackmore doesn‘t believe in intra-band democracy and he doesn‘t believe in the benefits of a stable line-up. He doesn‘t even believe in conflict being inspirational, he wants things his way without any pushback and cannot stomach losing a single battle.” – you are completely right here 😊
I know it’s a stupid and foolish wish to have, it would have required a lobotomy very early in RB’s career, and who could have predicted whether he could continue to be the brilliant guitarist he is?!😉
“He doesn‘t like to tour lengthily or large venues anymore” – what a difference between RB and IG!
March 3rd, 2025 at 00:39@11
March 3rd, 2025 at 00:40Indeed they did Max 😊
Coincido totalmente con Uwe..Blackmore era insoportable ya para el grupo,,Lord siempre dijo es una falta de respeto al público no salir a un bis,,,,Paice lo acaba de decir se fue pensando q lo ´´ibamos a llamar para ser el lider y nadie lo llamó,,además hace tiempo q no toca rock su última encarnación de Rainbow en vivo fue patética
March 3rd, 2025 at 02:31Believe it or not, but I like continuity, Herr MacGregor. That doesn’t mean I don’t give new members a chance, but Blackmore’s personnel hire & fire politics did in my ears for the most part not improve the music noticeably. It was change for the heck of it, mirroring Blackmore’s own discontent with his past artistic work and/or its commercial success.
I thought Mk II peaked only with MH – 18 months later that line-up was dead. And Mk III never got the chance to spread their wings fully – they recorded their only two albums in a 12 month period.
Jon was a diplomat, I believe at an early stage he simply gave up that Ritchie would play his songs. That doesn’t mean that he never wrote in a rock vein, he did so with Tony Anton/PAL and on Before I Forget too. And since we’re at it, what spoke against Jon’s melodic ideas such as the Arabic tune of Bouree
https://youtu.be/SnYMXzgpHn4
finding a place in a Purple instrumental part? Instead Blackmore preferred banally hamfisted renditions of Beethoven chestnuts. Riffs in Arabic scales were fine if he wrote them (Gates of Babylon) , but dismissed if Jon did. Both Ian’s have been on record that Blackmore would boycott the ideas of others and actively disrupt if the three other instrumentalists rehearsed on something he had not participated in writing.When Stormbringer featured a few numbers he had not co-written, his reaction was to throw the toys out of the pram and record an album with his own stuff with hired minions at his mercy.
I don’t “put the boot in Ritchie”, I’m not Gregster (lamentably absent here), but you sure like to whitewash the man in black. I just take the view that he was as much inspirational as he was destructive and subjugating other people’s artistic expression. And unlike Blackmore vs Gillan, Gillan never tried to row Blackmore out, he simply didn’t want to follow orders which Blackers couldn’t take.
But I take your point. Mk II couldn’t have recorded another good album after WDWTWA, Mk III were washed out after already Stormbringer, the Rainbow Rising line-up couldn’t have possibly recorded another half-decent studio album and the Bonnet line-up was at the end of its creativity after just one album. Blackers terminated them all just in time before they recorded real junk and the rot set in, we have to thank him. Why argue. On that basis, LZ should have called it a day by Led Zep IV which would have spared the world from Physical Graffiti, that by all accounts terrible and musically worthless 1975 crap work of theirs, recorded as their sixth studio album and in the eighth year of their existence. 🙄
March 3rd, 2025 at 19:28It is obvious from where any of us stand that Ritchie is or was a difficult character and he is probably like that also with himself we would think. Is he ever contented, there are people like that Uwe. They always seem to be looking for something else, never or rarely happy with what they are doing and if so, not for very long. I bet he is or was just as hard on himself as others. The unfortunate side to a character like that is that other people can also ‘suffer’ at times. Humans and their interactions with each other eh? Regarding the continuity of certain things in life, yes when we are young we want the good times to last forever. However we soon realise nothing lasts forever, so hence my thoughts on that matter. I keep coming across this little comment from Blackmore often, if it is true. “In an interview with Sounds in 1979,[15] Blackmore said: “I have so much respect for classical musicians that when I listen to myself I think, oh, that’s nonsense. I can put down other people’s music because the fact is I put down my own music and say it’s rubbish. A lot of it is- not all of it- “No Time to Lose” definitely is but “Eyes of the World” is OK. But a good deal of it is a waste of time.”
March 3rd, 2025 at 20:57Cheers.
Ha, Claudio supports me, hasta la victoria, siempre!
March 4th, 2025 at 06:23@12 Sure, Uwe… aber gut gemeint ist nicht immer gut gemacht as they say…
March 4th, 2025 at 08:33True, Blackmore is impatient and demanding with himself too. And that does at times create a drive for change that can have beneficial aspects for whatever band he plays in at any given time. No Mk II or III without Blackmore. No Ronnie Dio lifted from Elf obscurity or Graham Bonnet freed from pop shackles.
But I’m also a fan of seeing a band progress from something as primal as Sabbath’s debut to something as sophisticated as their fifth album, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Except with Mk II, Blackmore never let that type of development happen. It was too often: “Let’s go back to square one and try something different, I don’t like doing this anymore.” Down To Earth is a case in point. I like that album for Bonnet’s unbridled energy, but is it really a ‘development’ over LLRnR with refined compositions such as Gates of Babylon and Rainbow Eyes? Me think not.
March 4th, 2025 at 14:38Max @20: Granted, there are limits, it’s Metallica after all. They aren’t Toto.
March 4th, 2025 at 21:12It is a fine line, a band changing for better or worse. I suppose for myself with the bands that I enjoy, many of them had changes throughout, some good to very good, some not so. Down to Earth is a good example as an album and there are also many others by different artists. On the staying with a stable lineup scenario, I have mentioned Rush before in this regard. I have alway thought that from about the late 1980’s, they needed to change something, adding a keyboard player perhaps, (I think from my memory they or at least Geddy possibly briefly thought about that) something to break up that very similar repetitive trio sound. They never really wanted to break that up of course, but as they ventured further on, for me they became more boring and too predictable, lacking some extra panache etc. ELP could very well be another example, but that is those trio bands unique sound and style so why not stick with it. Some of us may have loathed it if those bands diversified into another format. So yes a stable lineup creatively producing wonderful music and live performance can be grand, however…………for how long? Cheers.
March 4th, 2025 at 21:34the fact that Ritchie was primarily more demanding and critical of himself is something that influenced his entire career.
I think he never went “beyond” Rainbow simply because being always on tour and loving to do concerts (rather than recording in the studio) he never had time to explore other territories until he started with Blackmore’ night.
Lord in comparison had more free time for his solo projects.
Ritchie was the best guitarist of the 70s, but in relation to a classical musician everything is put into perspective, as he rightly said with humility.
I agree that Physical Graffiti was a shitty album, from a band that had lost its way.
March 5th, 2025 at 14:27Purple MK II MKIII and MK IV have never made such a weak record
I was being ironic, Fla76, Physical Graffiti (it’s so diverse) is actually my favorite Zep album, it’s the typical, slightly decadent and no longer hungry mid-career album of a saturated band. I like those types of albums because then bands begin to experiment and stretch their wings.
It was also the first Zep album I ever heard in 1975, maybe that rubbed off too. I love(d) Boogie with Stu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wCZOm0k8WQ
March 5th, 2025 at 20:16@ 25
Thanks for posting that… great way to start my day. Love how well the video synchs up with the music.
Physical Graffiti & especially Presence are the only 2 Zeppelin albums that really do it for me. Probably, as you noted, ’cause they’re more experimental.
March 5th, 2025 at 22:58#25 Uwe
for a moment I thought I had found someone who had the courage to say that Physical Graffiti was self-referential soft shit
March 6th, 2025 at 00:24@ 25 – “I love(d) Boogie with Stu:” I am hallucinating surely, can anyone else see that comment from Uwe. He loves a Zeppelin tune, well a sort of cover tune, but still Led Zeppelin performing it with Ian Stewart on the piano. I might go for a little down. Is this the very first time that we have witnessed this sort of proclamation from Uwe? Regarding the video, that is Bonzo’s and Paicey’s kick drum in that video isn’t it? Although it could be even bigger than theirs, so perhaps not. Thanks for the clip Uwe, and your comment. I am having that comment framed, this is GOLD indeed. Cheers.
March 6th, 2025 at 08:04“… for a moment I thought I had found someone who had the courage to say that Physical Graffiti was self-referential soft shit …”
I’m so sorry to disappoint, Flavius! Actually it is both, namely “self-referential soft shit” 😁 by a bunch of multi-millionaires AND a daringly diverse piece of work. Unlike Sabbath or even Purple, Zep were never as narrowed down by their audiences to perform just heavy music. If you look at their total oeuvre, the really heavy numbers are in a striking minority. I never listened to a Zep album in the expectation that it would “outheavy” a Sabbath, DP, Grand Funk Railroad, 70s Status Quo, UFO, Ted Nugent, Scorpions or Nazareth album.
PS: Tasmanian Led Zep floozy, I also love In My Time Of Dying and Fool In The Rain (to which Toto’s Rosanna owes a considerable debt), duh!
March 6th, 2025 at 14:52@ 29 – I have often noticed in earlier posts here Uwe that you do like some Zeppelin, especially the mighty Physical Graffiti album. It is just the word ‘love’ that I don’t recall, ‘like’ yes, ‘enjoy’ also, however the word love has me wondering how long before we will see a selfie of you wearing flowers in your hair, he he he. Seriously though the Toto song Rosanna and it’s drummer Jeff Porcaro influenced by Bernard Purdie in regards to his shuffle drum pattern, as he also was influenced from John Bonham’s drumming on Fool in the Rain. Purdie had that feel down on Steely Dan’s ‘Aja’ album and also ‘Gaucho’ on the track Babylon Sisters. Some comments on that from the late Jeff Porcaro.
March 6th, 2025 at 21:37“#JeffPorcaro: “I did a clinic a couple or years ago (late 80s) at the Dick Grove School. The students brought CD of my stuff to play and ask me questions about. I knew what would happen; they’d ask about the ‘Rosanna’ beat, which is probably the most unoriginal thing I’ve ever done, yet I got all this credit for it. Stupid.
So I brought along the CDs of the records I stole the beat from–“Fool In The Rain” from Led Zeppelin’s “In Through The Out Door”, and Bernard Purdie’s ‘Home At Last’ and ‘Babylon Sisters’ with Steely. Without saying anything, I put on the CD and played ‘Babylon Sisters.’ Half the class knew the song, but none of them knew who the drummer was. This is a class of 18 to 33-year-olds. Then I played ‘Home At Last,’ which I copped all the shit for ‘Rosanna’ from. Once again, no one knew the drummer. I said, ‘Guys, it’s Bernard Purdie. Who in this room has heard of Steve Gadd?’ All the hands went up. ‘Aja?’ All hands up. ‘I’m sure you all know Steve won Performance Of The Year for that in Modern Drummer. Well, you’re all fucked up! I just played you ‘Home At Last’ with Bernard Purdie, and that’s on the same record. What do you do, listen to ‘Aja’ and then take the needle off?
As musicians you should know everything I just played for you. Some of the best drum shit ever is on that record. Each track has subtleties.”
No matter, Jeff P played that drum rhythm brilliantly and perfect for the song. Even someone as otherwise great as Simon Phillips never got it quite right.
Toto often met derision for not looking the part and not being really “RAWK!!!”, but man were they good as musicians.
Zep have written good songs, I just don’t consider either Whole Lotta Love (too minimalistic for me) or Stairway to Heaven (too contrived and twee) among them.
I even liked In Through The Out Door, I thought they were reinventing themselves a bit, whereas Presence left me cold.
March 8th, 2025 at 02:42@30
MacGregor you mention Steely Dan! I love that music! Especially Babylon Sisters!
I haven’t met lots of people who like that!
Do you like this:
https://youtu.be/5J7IrPVLc4U?si=uR3nc1D4Iq9i199R
I was very young when presented of this by a young man, and he really opened my eyes for this kind of music! But ever since, when I have mentioned it for others, they are more like ‘huh?!’
March 8th, 2025 at 14:18So I’m pleased to see you know it 😊
@ 32 -yes Karin, love the Dan big time. Went to a concert in 2009, brilliant, sophisticated, witty, clever, melodic, funky, even ‘bouncy’ at times and it is all there with Steely Dan. I used to own Gaucho on vinyl, the early 1980’s, plenty of wonderful memories with that album. I have replaced my vinyl albums with cd’s for Aja, Can’t Buy a Thrill, Pretzel Logic and the sublime The Royal Scam. Masters at their craft with all the superb musicians that have been involved with them. Hell, they even make Deep Purple sound like a garage band, wayyyyy to go, that should shake the tree here a little don’t you think? Cheers and thanks for the memory and my coffee enjoyed that too, a very nice way to start the day. I also have the live concert DVD of the Two Against Nature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAoYeKonM7s
March 8th, 2025 at 21:33@ 31- Toto are a very good band and superb musicians all-round. I have the cd of that album with Rosanna on it, Toto IV I think it is. Jeff Porcaro was a superb drummer and no doubt with those comments he was a little frustrated with some of those students not recognising the difference in the drummers and wondering how good their ears were, whether they are paying attention or not etc. Porcaro is the drummer on David Gilmour’s ‘About Face’ album from 1984, superb he is. He is also the drummer on Pink Floyd’s ‘Mother’ song from The Wall album. A sad loss when he passed away all those years ago. Simon Phillips then found a ‘home’ too. Another one of those superb and very busy ‘session’ musicians who are on so many artists recordings and performances, who deservedly joined a successful established band for an extended period of time. Cheers.
March 8th, 2025 at 21:54Yacht ‘Rock’ by a sex toy-named band if I may insert myself here. With very few exceptions like Do It Again, their charm has always eluded me. Skillfully made though, but I prefer my West Coast rock a bit more lively:
https://youtu.be/d8uCryLHnt4
March 8th, 2025 at 22:32@33
“Hell, they even make Deep Purple sound like a garage band, wayyyyy to go, that should shake the tree here a little don’t you think?“
Well well well! I love the music of Purple 😄😄
March 9th, 2025 at 01:10One wonders where the manifold purposes of this contraption might lie?
https://www.booksie.com/files/postings/63/633640_steely-dan-iii-from-yokohama_230x230.jpg
March 9th, 2025 at 02:20@ 35 – “Yacht ‘Rock’ by a sex toy-named band if I may insert myself here. With very few exceptions like Do It Again, their charm has always eluded me”. You are getting worse Uwe, he he he.
‘Yacht’ rock is a term I only noticed mentioned here recently for the first time. I wonder what other ‘rock’ bands fit into that ‘genre’. Cheers.
https://www.theringer.com/2024/11/27/music/yacht-rock-documentary-dictionary-steely-dan-michael-mcdonald
March 9th, 2025 at 04:56@ 35
RE: “…by a sex toy-named band” I’ve got a head full of facts like that but didn’t know that one. Thanks for the “Oti-fact”.
March 13th, 2025 at 09:33Other Yacht Rock acts you asked?
Hall & Oates …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Xccal5bYE
Kenny Loggins …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS52sEUqxMo
Christopher Cross …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpBi1-ts_0k
Firefall …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCDQ9EABNtQ
Pablo Cruise …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87eq53LkVrU
You get the drift?
Glenn was a little late to catch the boat/yacht, but he flirted with it …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-N7H7wFHwI
I don’t have issues with that kind of music. It is not “rawk” as we know it,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHOFt0axxdk
(that early Nugent line-up was shit-hot, I saw them in 1977 with Daisley’s Widowmaker opening, Uncle Ted’s sense of rhythm as a guitarist was immaculate, you could tell that black Detroit was his hometown)
but it is entertaining in its lavish arrangements, jazz’ish augmented chords and meticulous harmony vocals plus very well played – all with a good dose of blue-eyed soul at its core. The term “Yacht Rock” is controversial, but I find nothing dismissive about it and it sums up the feel that type of music tried to evoke with the listener.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ
And since the image of my musical tastes is beyond repair here by now anyhow, I’m a sucker for this here as well, I really am:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ
“I’m never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm”
one of the most brilliant lines ever?
Always had a penchant for that “upmarket LA porn flick soundtrack” sax-/sexophone too! 😂
March 13th, 2025 at 20:26https://youtu.be/oSEMcMwvoBw?si=IhAvuAA1I1-KBOeA
Another premiere at YouTube
Great tune 💜
March 21st, 2025 at 16:13Unfortunately one of my least liked Purple numbers ever, it sorta lumbers along and that endless two chord middle part later on resurrected for Space Trucking is yawn …
Didn‘t even like the Rod Evans version on Shades Of. Embryonic songwriting.
Songwriting wasn‘t Mk I‘s forte. They did get very gradually better at it but no one would have mistaken them for Lennon-McCartney.
March 21st, 2025 at 19:32https://youtu.be/6fPM9JrbL18?si=qzq1B2MCQ0_WN96L
Also not Purple 😟
March 23rd, 2025 at 00:30