Found this great cover of Highway Star by Deep Purple on You Tube. Don't know this group but they are pretty great (vocals could be a little better). Anyway, I've always considered the solo in this song to be one of the greatest ever (just my opinion), these guys play it note for note. 8)
If you know something better than Rock and Roll, I'd like to hear it - Jerry Lee Lewis
great vid wes, ya know when ritchie blackmores on, you cant count him out of the list of the best, he was always one of my idols 8)
even god loves rock-n-roll
Awesome cover of a great song! My first 8-track tape (yeah, I know I'm old) was Deep Purple Machine Head. I wore that tape out.
Jim-Bone
My first 8 track was Led Zeppelin II 8) but I had Machine Head on a cassette ..... :P
"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard,
grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em."
-- The Webb Wilder Credo --
First record was "Meet The Beatles"!
Yeah, First eight track was "Machine Head", I still have it and the matchbook cover for underneath it! :lol:
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming......
like the passengers in his car.
That's a pretty great cover. I love Deep Purple.
Machine Head is definetly one of the best albums from that period. I love the later stuff he did in Rainbow with Ronnie Dio.
Thanks, Wes.
Highway Star is my favorite DP tune. I love everything about it -- vocals, organ, guitar, drumming, arrangement ...
DP still seems to be very popular in Asia. Last year, I was in Korea on biz, and did Karaoke for the first time there. This quiet little Korean engineer who speaks broken English (but 10,000 times better than my Korean!) belts out a perfect rendition of ... you guessed it: Highway Star!!! Perfect castrati rock vocals and "everything" -- it really was awesome. Me, I could barely croak out Evil Ways (Baaaaybeeee!)
-=tension & release=-
My intro to Deep Purple was "Kentucky Woman". But what really hooked me was "Child in Time"
BTW, I just got tickets for them at the House of Blues in Orlando, FL 07-13!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's this legend. Back in 1972, Pink Floyd played in Columbia, SC on the same night that Deep Purple played in Charleston, SC. The bands decided to play a pratical joke on South Carolina. The story goes that Deep Purple opened with a Pink Floyd song (One of These Days) and Pink Floyd opened with a Deep Purple song (Child in Time). The question is, which concert would you have rather attended?
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This is the "Made in Japan" version, no? :wink:
Seriously, great song Wes!
And also I find this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keisuke_Kuwata
