Live in Copenhagen 1972
Imagine a world without Machine Head. Imagine a Deep Purple set-list without Smoke On The Water. Imagine a time when the music business had yet to become a vast multi-national conglomerate. This was the primordial landscape on March 1, 1972 when Deep Purple took to the stage at the Kobenhavns Boldklub (KB) Hallen in Copenhagen. It was a time of no boundaries or restrictions, no blueprints or formulas. Rock music wasnt exactly in its infancy, but there were still plenty of new territories to explore, mountains to climb, peaks to conquer. It was a time when anything was possible. Purple were on a mission to prove it. They had completed their Machine Head album at the tail-end of 1971 but at the time of this recording it hadnt arrived in the shops yet. Nevertheless, their show contained three songs Highway Star, Lazy and Space Truckin from that legendary release. It must have been a mindboggling hang on a minute, make that life-changing experience, to be part of the Danish audience this stellar night. Everything about this recording is spontaneous and un-choreographed, loose and lethal, teetering and tempestuous. An explosive combination of brinkmanship and barely controlled chaos. Which, in a lip-synched and auto-tuned modern-day music world, comes as a breath of fresh air. The high spots just keep on coming. Jon Lords heroic keyboard playing on Lazy, the mischievous guitar-vocal sparring between Blackmore and Gillan on Strange Kind Of Woman, the positively progressive vibe of The Mule, before Ian Paices epic drum solo kicks in, Gillan showing exactly why he gained the proud title of silver-throated screamer on Child In Time and Glovers often under-acknowledged bass-lines underpinning each song like a network of steel girders. The list goes on..
Deep Purple   Format: Audio CD
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