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Poll Question: what do you think of "Concerto for Group & Orchestra"
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Points: 4828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2005 at 07:16

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

live at Edmonton

That is truly very good! Much better than Purple's set.

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Points: 130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2005 at 12:15
4 Stars for me. As an orchestral piece Im more into Wagner or Tchakovsky - Grandious Sound - Epic - Jon Lord didnt took this road and things get a little mellow, but nice. As a group probably 3/5. Gillans voice would be the cherry on top of the (not so sweet) cake.
Blackmore's solos tend to get boring. I prefer Morse's version.
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Points: 2771 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2005 at 23:46

I know it doesn't change the quality of the music, but to those who complained about the rock band and orchestra confronting each other instead of complementing each other ... it was Lord's intention part of the way ... although you guys will obviously disagree with the "unexpected allies" description

From the original liner notes by Jon Lord

"The problem of putting together two widely different fields of music, 'classical' and 'beat' music (to label but a few) has interested me for a long time. In fact, doing away with 'labels' altogether has interested me for a long time.

The idea is, then, simply to present, in the First Movement, the group and the orchestra as you would expect to hear them as antagonists, and in the Second and Third Movements, as unexpected allies."
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Points: 132 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2005 at 04:47
I don't like it. This very mix of group and orchestra was innatural and superfluous. The only excuse is a relatively early date of release - 1969 (or 1970 ?).
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Points: 3491 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 05 2005 at 06:20

Since i hate deep purple i am not intrested in hearing it, i yust hate thire sound, its the sound of an old man farting

I will not say i hate everything they have done "Child in time" is amazing but as a whole i think they sucked and i have only heard thier classic period, not the later and probobly worse crap.

Thank god for Sabbath and Zeppelin

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Points: 1484 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 09 2005 at 11:56

Seems I'm the first one to rate it a masterpiece...

Not only for the great music, but also for the very original idea (no one dare to do the "exact" thing before, Moody Blues album does not count, because the orchestra did not accompany the band...)

Hail Deep Purple!
and Jon Lord for this amazing work!

both versions are stunning, but for prog lovers I recommend the latter version with Steve Morse (I like his style better than Blackmore btw)

I insist DP is prog. Just listen to Fireball album carefully once!
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Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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Points: 545 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2005 at 02:25
I've always been fond of deeo purple
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2005 at 18:48

That album is so bad that hi fis have been known to spontaneously combust rather than allow it to be played on them.

Deep Purple were responsible for some of the finest hard rock anthems of the early 70s, but that was a classical/rock crossover that set the whole concept of rock band plus orchestra back by about 50 years.

I'd have to concur with Sean Trane about Caravan and Procol Harum, though I'd add Renaissance's Scheherezade to the exccedingly short list of successful experiments in this area.
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