Shades of Deep Purple

Artist: Deep Purple
Label: Spitfire
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 670211506228
EAN: 0670211506228
ASIN: B00004KD11

Release Date: 2000-03-21

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Tracks:

And The Address
Hush
One More Rainy Day
Prelude: Happiness/I'm So Glad
Mandrake Root
Help
Love Help Me
Hey Joe
Shadows (Album Out Take)
Love Help Me (Instrumental Version)
Help (Alternate Take)
Hey Joe (BBC Top Gear Session)
Hush (Live US TV)

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Customer Reviews:

Vanilla Fudge clones.......2006-12-04

Deep Purple started out in early '68 as Vanilla Fudge clones. John Lord caught the Fudge in fall '67 when they played London and were one of the hottest bands around. Ritchie Blackmore was more into Hendrix after making a living as a session player and in bands like Jerry Lee Lewis' back-up band. When Lord and Blackmore came together in early '68 they agreed they wanted to become a British Vanilla Fudge with Hendrix overtones. This is what they came up with......"Hush" and "Hey Joe" are the best tracks here. They were still finding their direction, and only became "heavier" when Zeppelin's first album came out in '69. For a start, not a bad album......but nothing like what they would become later.

Deep Purple's First Album.......2006-11-30

This isn't very good and it's not the Deep Purple that came out with...In Rock.
There's maybe three somewhat decent songs and the rest are a boreing overload.
The singer sounds dated and so do the band.
I'd say Hush, Help and Hey Joe are the best tracks.
And either one did the band write.
However if your a big Deep Purple fan and want all there stuff.
Buy this one because it's got the bonus tracks.
Which are basically OK.
DON'T PAY MUCH! BECAUSE THE BAND AND ALBUM SOUNDS LIKE THERE STUCK IN 1968.
SOME RECORDS ALWAYS SEEM FRESH...NOT THIS ONE.

Shades of Deep Purple.......2006-09-23

Band Personnell:
Rod Evans - Vocals
Ritchie Blackmore - Guitars
Nick Simper - Bass and Backing Vocals
Ian Paice - Drums
Jon Lord - Organs and Backing Vocals

This was the time right after they changed name from "Roundabout" to "Deep Purple", in this period they tried to find their sound, because of this 50% of the album contains cover songs from Joe South, Skip James, The Beatles and Billy Roberts, they only used a couple of days to complete the whole album.
The cover song "Hush" by Joe South was their most successful song from the poineering lineup, "Help" was a slower version than the original version by The Beatles, and the final song "Hey Joe" was earler covered by Jimi Hendrix also became very popular from this lineup.
All in all this album is a very good beginning of new Deep Purple fans, just to get the feel of how it all began.

Plus 1/2--------- "Spitfire Records???????".......2006-07-20

Spitfire Records is a subdivision of Eagle Rock Entertainment located in New York, United States.
So now that we know that, let's talk about Deep Purples' Shades Of Deep Purple. It took the industry long enough but they finally got it right for the earlier Deep Purple. These guys did it right. First of all this CD was digitized from the original master tapes. Before this CD the recordings where very bad, definitely not from first generation tapes, if from tape at all. The second thing, they did the remastering at Abbey Road. The sound is really great. They also did a great job with the liner notes. If you buy "Shades Of Deep Purple", "The Book of Taliesyn" and "Deep Purple" these liner notes pretty much all together tell you the early story of the Deep Purple. I am very glad I purchased this CD. I only wished I would have done this earlier. I highly recommend this whole Spitfire series. I don't believe this will ever get any better. By the way for all of you who believe that this band didn't contributed to the hard rock era. Living through it I can remember the actions of people when Hush came out. The older generation of the time S#?t a brick.. The fuzz the rawness and the harshness. This was definitely a group that contributed to Hard Rock. It may not match what happened after these guys MK1 broke up but they did help shape it.

"Shades of Boredom" is more like it.......2005-11-19

I bought this album out of a bargain bin a few years ago thinking it would be good, but it was definately NOT worth the $5.99 I payed for it! There is only one song on here that is even remotely listenable, and that's Hush. The rest of the album is dull, dull, dull. So boring it would make the bowling tournaments on TSN look like brilliant entertainment. I'm a big Deep Purple fan, but not of the Mark I albums. In fact, I'd even say I HATE that lineup. Deep Purple might have done great things later on, but that psychadelic pop they did in the 60s was truely awful! An embarrasment to Deep Purple's musical legacy.

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