DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK

Well here we jump into history. Maybe not prog history but certainly in ROCK history. What a superb album this is regardless of it being prog or not! Groundbreaking would be the best adjective I can think of about the time this album was released! Gone were Evans and Glover, Blackmore taking over the musical direction along with Screaming Ian Gillan.

For years , North American youths were stolen the first minutes or so of this masterpiece. I believe this is still the case , the North American CD issue is still missing the first musically chaotic minute. I can hardly forgive the record company for having pulled such a stunt and to think that American youth could not hear such a great start. Anyway Speed King (almost 6 min in its entirity) is the one track that I can single out to describe best the second Purple line-up (known as Mk II) and was the first crack at superstardom for them. Bloodsuckers actually depicts the recording industry (maybe to protest the suppression of the intro of the previous track) but goes a little un-noticed as we reach Child In Time. OK , the tracks is plagiated from It's A Beautiful Day's Bombay Calling , but man , would we miss this if track if they had not done it. Among all of the version I heard , this studio track is still the best, IMHO and the guitar solo the most audible. Thje tracks ends in another musical chaos to book end the first Vinyl Side.

All of the four tracks on side 2 can be considered classic hard rock tracks of their own and Flight being my fave among them. The special 25th Anniversary version comes also with the superb non-album single Black Night, indispensible companion of the album. The rest of the bonus tracks are of interest to fans (I am one of them) . Beware of buying a non_us pressing because of the missing minutes I mentioned above.

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