Deep Purple with Royal Philarmonic Orchestra

Rabs

Not seen this before today..   Fascinating...

bazxkr

Yep, brilliant pc of work, especially for 1969 when music attitudes varied across disciplines

Love the bit where Ritchie goes into an unplanned extended solo & the premier conductor of the day is flicking through his score trying to figure out where they are LOL

I was too young when this came out but went to the 30th anniversary 1999 performance at Albert hall

Fretwired

Richie Blackmore hated it and at the time people just laughed ... I'm a Deep Purple fan but I never liked this ...

Placidcasual79

The most interesting thing about this is trying to determine wether Blackmore or the conductor is the most over blown, pompous, self indulgent w*nker, 

Its just b*llocks isn't it.....

fandango

Another band on their farewell tour this year. Was debating with myself whether to go, but got too many other commitments.

prowla

The two highlights for me are Ian Gillan's singing and Ian Paice's drum solo.

impmann

Its interesting, as Blackmore is using an AC30... and his 335... and still sounds like Richie.

mudslide73

Ritchie was smiling at the end too. They all look incredibly relieved. Some great playing all round.

prowla

impmann said:

Its interesting, as Blackmore is using an AC30... and his 335... and still sounds like Richie.

Yes - he'd started using the Strat in DP, but used the 335 for this.

Fretwired

prowla said:

impmann said:

Its interesting, as Blackmore is using an AC30... and his 335... and still sounds like Richie.

Yes - he'd started using the Strat in DP, but used the 335 for this.

Not strictly true. He played the 335 on all the early DP albums and was often seen with a Strat and 335 when playing live. Check out this video. He plays both a Strat and the 335 on early DP songs.

scrumhalf

When Blackmore moved from the 335 to the Strat he started all of that nonsense of mucking about with the guitar rather than playing it.

He would never have abused a 335 in the same way that he did a Strat, and to an extent I think that the live show suffered as a result. I'd certainly be hacked off if I was at a live gig and he spent half the time chucking the guitar around rather than playing it.