Shades of Deep Purple
Occupation
- Vocals: Rod Evans
- Guitar: Ritchie Blackmore
- Hammond Organ: Jon Lord
- Bass: Nick Simper
- Drums: Ian Paice
Shades of Deep Purple (English for " shades of deep purple " ) is the first studio album by the English hard rock band Deep Purple, and was with the first occupation ( Mk I) recorded. It appeared in 1968 as a record and is now available on CD in various editions. An edition with bonus tracks containing five additional tracks.
The album was recorded in May 1968: The weekend of 11 and 12. It reached the top 24 in the U.S. album charts Billboard 200
Music style
The band Deep Purple showed up in their early days by groups such as the U.S. psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge and Keith Emerson's classical -rock combo The Nice influenced, initially seemed to outweigh the former influence.
So coverte the young band, accompanied by psychedelic sounds that corresponded to the current zeitgeist, the famous Beatles piece Help! at a rate that suggested, a single will be played instead of 45 revolutions per minute mistake at 33. Rocking, but - as is typical already for The Nice - also escalating was the cover version of Jimi Hendrix became known by Hey Joe.
While the single release Hush - a cover version of a song by Joe South - only in the 1980s again found its way to the live program of the band, Mandrake Root long time was the typical basis for escalating "Live duels " between Jon Lord, then still the real head of the band, and Ritchie Blackmore. Only in 1972 it was replaced in this function by Space Truckin ' from the album Machine Head - while retaining a major portion of the improvisations.