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Deep Purple: Shades of Deep Purple

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Artist: Deep Purple
Title: Shades of Deep Purple
Released: 1968
Label: EMI Records
Time: 64:01
Producer(s): Derek Lawrence
Appears with: Ritchie Blackmoore
Category: Rock
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2002.10.21
Price in €: 6,99
Web address: www.deep-purple.com

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[1] And the Address (Blackmore/Lord) - 4:38
[2] Hush (South) - 4:24
[3] One More Rainy Day (Evans/Lord) - 3:39
[4] Prelude: Happiness I'm So Glad (Blackmore/Evans/Lord/Simper) - 7:19
[5] Mandrake Root (Blackmore/Evans) - 6:09
[6] Help (Lennon/McCartney) - 6:01
[7] Love Help Me (Blackmore/Evans) - 3:49
[8] Hey Joe (Roberts) - 7:33

Bonus Tracks:
[9] Shadows (Blackmore/Evans/Lord/Simper) - 3:38
[10] Love Help Me (Blackmore/Evans) - 3:29
[11] Help (Lennon/McCartney) - 5:23
[12] Hey Joe (Roberts) - 4:05
[13] Hush (South) - 3:53

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


RITCHIE BLACKMORE - Guitar, Composer
JON LORD - Composer, Keyboards, Vocals
IAN PAICE - Composer, Drums
ROD EVANS - Composer, Vocals
NICK SIMPER - Bass, Composer, Vocals

BARRY AINSWORTH - Engineer
SIMON ROBINSON - Sleeve Notes

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1968 LP Tetragrammaton 102
1968 LP Nems 6021
1973 CS Tetragrammaton T-102
1992 CD Tetragrammaton 22762
1998 CD EMI 92407
2000 CD Spitfire 15062

Remastered reissue of 1968 album with 5 bonus tracks 'Shadows' (Album Out Take), 'Love Help Me' (Instrumental Version) first time on CD for both & 'Help' (Alternate take), 'Hey Joe' (BBC Top Gear Session) & 'Hush' (Live US TV) all 3 previously unissued. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.



The usual perception of early Deep Purple is that it was a band with a lot of potential in search of a direction. And that might be true of their debut LP, put together in three days of sessions in May of 1968, but it's still a hell of an album. From the opening bars of "And the Address," it's clear that they'd got down the fundamentals of heavy metal from day one, and at various points the electricity and the beat just surge forth in ways that were startlingly new in the summer of 1968. Ritchie Blackmore never sounded less at ease as a guitarist than he does on this album, and the sound mix doesn't exactly favor the heavier side of his playing, but the rhythm section of Nicky Simper and Ian Paice rumble forward, and Jon Lord's organ flourishes, weaving classical riffs, and unexpected arabesques into "I'm So Glad," which sounds rather majestic here. "Hush" was the number that most people knew at the time, as a hit single in America, and it is a smooth, crunchy interpretation of the Joe South song. But nobody could have been disappointed with the rest of this record — one can even hear the very distant origins of "Smoke on the Water" in "Mandrake Root," once one gets past the similarities to Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady"; by the song's extended finale, they sound more like the Nice. Their version of "Help" is one of the more interesting reinterpretations of a Beatles song, as a slow, rough-textured dirge. "Hey Joe" is a bit overblown, and the group clearly had to work a bit at both songwriting and its presentation, but one key attribute that runs through most of this record — even more so than the very pronounced heaviness of the playing — is a spirit of fun; these guys are obviously having the time of their lives rushing through their limited repertory, and it's infectious to the listener; and it gives this record much more of a '60s feel than we're accustomed to thinking of from this band. The EMI/Spitfire re-release from 2000 is notably superior to any prior version of the CD, made from the original master tape (which had been sent directly to the group's American label, Tetragrammaton, leaving EMI with a vinyl dub, astonishingly enough), with textures far closer and crisper than we've ever heard before — there are also five bonus tracks, two very early outtakes from their earliest sessions, an alternate version of "Help," a BBC recording of "Hey Joe," and a searing live U.S. television performance of "Hush."

Bruce Eder - All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2002 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Die "Schattierungen von dunklem Purpur" hatten alles andere als klare Konturen, als Deep Purple 1968 an den Start gingen. Ihr Longplayer-Debüt eröffneten die britischen Rocker mit dem R&B-infizierten Instrumental "And The Address", das vom Sound-prägenden Widerstreit zwischen Jon Lords voluminöser Orgel und Ritchie Blackmores schnittiger Gitarre lebt. Noch prominenter präsentiert ihre vitale Coverversion von Joe Souths "Hush" das Kontrastgespann. Der erste Mini-Hit ist auch insofern typisch fürs erste Album, als er eine von insgesamt vier Coverversionen ist: Neben "Hush" taucht in "Prelude" der Bluesklassiker "I‘m So Glad" auf, überdies "Help" von den Beatles und Jimi Hendrix' blässlich überarbeitetes "Hey Joe". Weiter in die Zukunft weist da schon "Mandrake Root", das zwischendrin Drummer Ian Paice durcheinander wirbeln darf. Ein, na ja, netter Popsong wie "One More Rainy Day" nimmt sich in diesem Umfeld wie ein Fremdkörper aus und offenbart --- wie das schwächelnde "Help" --- das Faible des eher romantisch veranlagten Vokalisten Rod Evans, der neben Bassist Nick Simper das zweite Ur-Mitglied auf Abruf von Deep Purple "Mark I" war. Und "Love Help Me" kommt bis auf Blackmores bissige Gitarren-Einwürfe als reinrassiger Sixties-Pop daher. Keine Frage: Es hat seine Reize, mit Shades Od Deep Purple Quellenstudien zu betreiben. Doch sind bei diesem eher durchwachsenen Repertoire auch für Fans der deutlich verbesserte Klang der Remastered Collection, das höchst informative Booklet und fünf Bonustracks ein willkommener Anreiz, vor allem Blackmores Instrumental "Love Help Me".

Claus Böhm - Aus der Amazon.de-Redaktion



"You've got to understand that some people just want to rock," writes time-honored, Los Angeles radio personality Jim Ladd, in the liner notes to this colossal four-disc box set of heavy metal. Well, ain't that the truth, and Deep Purple has served every last one of those rockers over the course of 30 years and seven (!) different lineups. It's high time that the band's leaden rock 'n' roll gets the deluxe treatment. Shades 1968-1998 does just that, featuring 62 tracks, copious liner notes, detailed listings of lineup changes, a full discography, lots of photos and a few essential, Spinal Tap-like shots of the band in the early '70s with its monstrous private jet. But behind the stone-faced manliness of the bandmembers is a whole lotta stone-faced, manly rock, from which they never once blinked in three decades and through countless musical fads. Shades is awesome, if you're metal enough to take four hours of relentless heavy riffs and arena-filling, headbanging classics. And if you're not, then it's time to beef up!

Cheryl Botchick: CMJ New Music Report Issue: 613 - Apr 12, 1999
© 1978-2002 College Media, Inc., Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 

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AND THE ADDRESS

(Instrumental)


HUSH

I got a certan little girl she's on my mind
No doubt about it she looks so fine
She's the best girl that I ever had
Sometimes she's gonna make me feel so bad

Hush, hush
I thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
She broke my heart but I love her just the same now
Hush, hush
Thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
I need her loving and I'm not to blame now

(Love, love)
They got it early in the morning
(Love, love)
They got it late in the evening
(Love, love)
Well, I want that, need it
(Love, love)
Oh, I gotta gotta have it

She's got loving like quicksand
Only took one touch of her hand
To blow my mind and I'm in so deep
That I can't eat and I can't sleep

Listen
Hush, hush
Thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
She broke my heart but I love her just the same now
Hush, hush
Thought I heard her calling my name now
Hush, hush
I need her loving and I'm not to blame now

(Love, love)
They got it early in the morning
(Love, love)
They got it late in the evening
(Love, love)
Well, I want that, need it
(Love, love)
Oh, I gotta gotta have it


ONE MORE RAINY DAY

Changes, visible changes
Sky looking so forlorn
It looks like the world's been born
On one more rainy day

Trying to see the sunlight
My heart's crying out loud
I try to see through the clouds
On one more rainy day

One more rainy day
Once again my mind is grey
This is what a rainy day can do
One more rainy day
One more rainy day

Sun starts shining on through
New day a day with you
It's strange what sun can do
On one more rainy day

One more rainy day
Once again my mind is grey
This is what a rainy day can do
One more rainy day
One more rainy day


PRELUDE: HAPPINESS

(Instrumental)


I'M SO GLAD

I'm so glad
I'm so glad
I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad
I'm so glad
I'm so glad
I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad

Don't know what to do
Don't know what to do
Don't know what I'm gonna do
Another week in
Telephoning
Tired of groaning for you

I'm so glad
I'm so glad
I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad
I'm so glad
I'm so glad
I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad


MANDRAKE ROOT

I've got a Mandrake Root
It's some thunder in my brain
I feed it to my babe
She thunders just the same
Food of love sets her flame
Ah, stick it up

I've got the Mandrake Root
Baby's just the same
She still feels a quiver
She's still got the flame
She slows down, slows right down
I've got the power


HELP

When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now these days are gone I'm not so self assured
Now I find I've changed my mind, opened up the door

Help if you can I'm feeling down
But I do appreciate you being round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please help me

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways
My independence seems to vanish in the haze
But every now and then I feel so insecure
Now I know I need you like I've never done before

Help if you can I'm feeling down
But I do appreciate you being round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please help me

Help
I need somebody
Help
Not just anybody
Help
You know I need someone
Help


LOVE HELP ME

Vibrant flashes in my mind
Remind me of a foregone time
Blackened faces, broken romance
Blackened faces

My broken heart has bled
With memories of a love that's dead
Sometimes happy then sad
I need love, love help me

[Passing by the grounds of time]
Memories that are only mine
Looking for love, a brand new love
Looking for love

Dreams that are hard to see
Finding a new love for me
Someday she must come along
I need love, love help me

I need love to come home
Somewhere there must be one

Hoping someday for good news
Waiting for that girl to choose
Only hoping, all I can do
Only hoping

One day she must come along
A girl as pretty as a song
A woman just there for me
I need love, love help me

Vibrant flashes in my mind
Remind me of a foregone time
Blackened faces, broken romance
Blackened faces

My broken heart has bled
With memories of a love that's dead
Sometimes happy then sad
I need love, love help me
I need love, love help me
I need love, love help me


HEY JOE

Hey Joe
Where you going with that gun in your hand
Hey Joe
Now tell me where you going with that gun in your hand
I'm gonna shoot my lady
Cos I caught her messing around with another man
Yes, I'm going down to shoot my lady
Cos I caught her messing around with another man

Hey Joe
I heard you shot your woman down
Hey Joe
I heard you shot your woman down
Right down to the ground
Yes I did I shot her
You know I shot her cos I caught her messing 'round town
Yes I did I shot her
I shot my woman cos she was messing 'round town
I gave her the gun - I shot her!

Hey Joe
Tell me where you gonna run to now?
Hey Joe
C'mon tell me where you gonna run to?
Don't you worry about me
I'm going way down South
Way down South where I'm gonna be free
I'm going way down South
Way down South maybe outside Mexico Way
I'm gonna run, oh yeah

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