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A systematical run down of the best bits, the interesting bits and the weird bits.

For heavy metal fans:
Special 1, Song 1: Cozy Powell: Dance With The Devil (his single hit from the early 70s)
Special 1, Song 8: Ian Paice: Ian's Shuffle
Special 2, Song 10: Nicko McBrain: R.U.N. (with Jon Lord - the cult-song of the series for me)

For fans of 80s clothing mistakes:
Special 1, Song 2: Collapso, Calypso (Pete with yellow shirt and pink jacket - beating even Nippy's shoes)
Special 1, Song 7: Train Smash (Pete's jacket probably should have fit with Cozy's shirt and Peter's guitar - it does not)
In Special 2 you don't find too much horrible stuff, Bill Bruford's green shirt in combination with a pink tie and Jon Lord's fading-into-grey-hairspray-hairdo coupled with enormous sun glasses and shoulder pads of his jacket are the worst examples.

For fans of proper video clips:
Special 1, Song 4: Life On The Road (with scenes of life on tour cut into it)
Special 2, Songs 11-14: Amazonas Suite (you can't describe that - at the end they used everything they found). I will always be grateful to the camera man that had the great idea of filming into Jon's sun glasses in a way that Jon's hands on the keyboard mirror in them.

For fans of open fire:
Special 2, Song 5: Sarabande (mistakenly credited as "Sarabande Suite" - in contrast to the TV version this is only the part of Sarabande): the complete hall is equipped with burning candles. In Song 6: Gigue (in the TV / LP version this is the third part of "Sarabande Suite") the candles are still there but not burning any more.
Special 2, Song 7: Firebird Suite: the location of filming is the "gas blowing hall" - and now we have dozents of burning gas torches. Pretty impressive.

Photo from the filming of Super Drumming

The bonus DVD
This contains an approx. 30-minute TV documentary about the closing down of the steelworks and the filming of the second series - 'Tatort Stahlwerk' (~ "Scene of Crime: Steelworks"). This is pretty nice, but you don't miss much if you don't understand German (as it is in German only). The makers of this must have been pretty impressed by Jon Lord - or he's the only person they know... In the beginning he is the only famous guest credited - later Bill Bruford, Nicko McBrain and Jon Lord are named. The song played as an example consequently is "Sarabande".

The (back then) fantastic new camera technique is introduced as well. The second track 'Klangverbesserung' (~ "Improvement of Sound") describes the -quote- "adavanced digital technique" first and then turns into an commercial for in-akustik-cables. Well, not worse than those spots for other releases of the same company you usually find on DVDs - probably even more informative.

Catrin Wiegand

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