{"id":3687,"date":"2011-10-09T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:26:07","slug":"deep-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/deep-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"DEEP PURPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DEEP<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

REISSUE REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a><\/h2>\n

D<\/strong>EEP PURPLE <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Scandinavian Nights In Concert 1970-1972\u00a0 Live in London MKIII: The Final Concerts <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Eagle Rock Entertainment]<\/p>\n

By the time Deep Purple hit the 1970 show captured on Scandinavian Nights<\/em>\u2014one of four new double-CD re-releases of live material from that decade\u2014the band had already seen a few changes, having enjoyed a pop hit (\u201cHush\u201d), shuffled members and experimented with orchestral pieces. But the group\u2019s classic \u201cMark II\u201d lineup of singer Ian Gillan, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, keyboardist Jon Lord, bass player Roger Glover and drummer Ian Paice had finally figured out its true purpose: to rock till they could rock no more. Nights<\/em> finds the group spreading a mere seven songs across almost two hours, Blackmore and Lord dueling for supremacy over endlessly churning grooves. The two sets on In Concert<\/em> found Purple tightening things up for BBC broadcast while still delivering the goods.<\/p>\n

By 1974, when Live in London <\/em>and MKIII: The Final Concerts<\/em> were captured, Gillian and Glover had been replaced by less aggressive singer David Coverdale and bass player Glenn Hughes\u2014leaving more room for Blackmore\u2019s blistering six-string work. MKIII: The Final Concerts<\/em>, as its title suggests, marks the last days of the \u201cMark III\u201d edition of the group (currently on \u201cMark VIII,\u201d including Gillian, Glover, Paice, guitarist Steve Morse and keyboardist Don Airey). Blackmore acquits himself well for a man with one foot out the door\u2014at tour\u2019s end he quit, just one more of many changes to come. These live releases find the Purple raging together with fierce power at full volume, if only for a little while. \u2013Chris Neal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

REISSUE REVIEW DEEP PURPLE Scandinavian Nights In Concert 1970-1972\u00a0 Live in London MKIII: The Final Concerts [Eagle Rock Entertainment] By the time Deep Purple hit the 1970 show captured on Scandinavian Nights\u2014one of four new double-CD re-releases of live material from that decade\u2014the band had already seen a few changes, having enjoyed a pop hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2530,2528,2482,2589,2529],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3796,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}