As producer Martin Birch said ... and he would “know” .... “Deep Purple were the best at what they did .... without a shadow of a doubt”. They broke up in the year they were the biggest selling band on the planet ... 1973.

Find me a critic who knows what they're talking about and I'll kiss your feet (or not if you don't like it).

Yes the best live band ever

That was fucking beautiful bro I couldn't say better myself I've been trying to tell people for years the same thing they could go out on stage tanked up on alcohol n still kick ass on most groups they were the Vikings of rock there's a famous Ritchie qoute he once said there's a misconception that I refuse to play with other guitarist it's not me it's because they know I will blow them off the stage 🎸

To add to the vastly underrated underplayed fusion of hard rock, classical, jazz, baroque JL big Bach fan, Medieval-RB, psychedelic, blues tunes romantic of course these guys put out, they must have met Salvador Dali and smoked out with him cuz the Mandrake Root performance is Surreal.

chriskoz99 wow fkin stellar performance

Made in Japan.. that one is unbeatable

And they say led Zep better lol nowhere near 🎸🎹🥁

Actually it was the way he set the bridge up so it couldn't go sharp or pull up. It usually worked, most of the time. I did it with my Strats. Nothing like a Floyd though.

@@jamesalllan7806ummm, then why do many 70’s videos show Blackmore literally pulling UP on the tremolo arm if it’s set up NOT to go up?

​@georgeprice4212 he definitely had the trem floating somewhere in the middle so he was able to do dive bombs as well as upward yanks, not sure what the other guy is talking about where Blackmore would deck the trem only to do divebombs. It also probably helped he would get replace the stock tremolos with custom made ones as I recall, he would destroy the trem and had to get heavier duty arms and systems.

And Blues

@@thetruthhurts6652 yes, how to forget this.....😊 And maybe also a little funky music....

They played psychodelic, progressive, jazz, blues, funk, classic, acid and of course hard rock music. After listening to all known band of that time, there is no doubt for me who was the most talented and creative. These guys. And faked musical critics can go to hell.

ΤΟΥς '΄΄ειδα΄΄ το 1975 Στοκχολμη επαθα πλακα αΛλη διασταση οσο για τον Ριτσι ΕΠΑΥΞΑΝΩ !!! σαν χαρακτηρας 000 κλοτσουσε οποιος προσπαθουσε να τον πλησιαση ?κανε π[ισω βρε υπαρχουν αλλοι γιαυτη την δουλεια τι να πω

Jon Lord too!!!

@@kevinz8930 maybe he talks about the guitar players .

Also in mine

@@elpablosky6300 Jesi li ti bosanac...?

I'll take Paice any day over these runaway freight train drummers with no dynamics.

Every musician was inspired by someone and used parts of music of his inspiration. So did DP, LZ, BS, Metallica and even classic composers. It's normal. After all, what makes a musician good musician is an improvisation. And Deep Purple were the best in improvisations among other hard rock bands at that time, there is no doubt.

You just don't understand his English sense of humor.😂. Do not trust a word Ritchie says. He likes to fool journalists.

Of Page, Hendrix, Clapton, Iommi....Ritchie is the true virtuoso.

@@SpeedyCanuck iommi is very skillfull too, can play classic and jazz and mpb a lot of different styles

That guitar is so missed for me , he would play anything on it , rock , classic , blues , the sound of it is just fantastic 😊

я тебя приветствую друг.ты говоришь тебе 55 .а мне 68.и я слушаю deep purple c утра до ночи каждый день. приблизительно с 15 лет.при этом обожаю разную музыку.и классику и народную.желаю тебе здоровья

Мне 58, а услышал в 17 (Тульский политех). И не перестаю слушать...)))

Дипапэл лучший ансамбль: виртуозы исполнения, а композиции рядом с бахом, Моцартом, Чайковским...

The Lord Jon

Good question, easy answer. He never courted the press. He never "played the game," and whatever u think of him ,that deserves respect, IMO. Also, most of the UK press hated hard rock in favour of wimpy talentless crap

Probably the most underrated British guitarist

Blackmore es mejor que los 3 mencionados. Saludos!

Cause he is way better them all.

As much talent as them? No: so MUCH MORE talent than all of them!

not one but the greatest

He still is the greatest.

All of these guys are great. Even Glover who is considered by some so called critics as not a top bassist. They don't have any right to call themselves critics after this.

@@divineinspiration3342 cant agree more Best of the Best long live Ritchie

@@Eneus1 LOL! ABSO-ROCKIN'-LUTELY!

Im sure you know Jim Sullivan was Ritchie’s first rock guitar teacher. 😀

Richie is geniusss...happy bithday master ilove great skill on made in japan

Sweep picking before any of the sweep pickers of today were even born. Wow!

Ritchie did use effects: a tape delay and a Hornsby Skewes treble booster, but you wouldn’t know it just from looking at these live performances.

@@TealScarab didn't he use a reel to reel for echo?

@@elinino5275 searched around, An Aiwa TP-1011 tape deck he used originally for both the delay and the preamp, later just the preamp though.

@@TealScarab I think during the California jam at the end when he was destroying everything he also destroyed the tape deck lol

This is mark II mate not mark IV , mark II Gillian , Glover , Lord , Paice and Blackmore was the best for me

I recall reading an interview with one of his girlfriends of the early to mid '70s, and she claimed he played the as a sort of a "tribute" to her. I do not know how true this is, I'll try to find the interview and link it here.

And in Blackmore's Night:)

It was best time of group...And after 2 years - Inrock and Machine head...

Still sounds like Ritchie even without a Strat

Cierto quien se lo puede negar !!

Я каждый раз слушаю как в первый!

@@user-dr1pf5py5j а ТАМ ЕСТЬ ЧТО УСЛЫШАТЬ!

@@user-du1qy6if6k для меня это несколько больше чем рок

@@user-dr1pf5py5j И это правильно!

No lo está reparando, está moviendo los resortes del reverb con una baqueta

Where did you hear about this?

@@ItsRyan265 have read about it 2-3 times...

Yeah and Clapton is such a snowflake he couldn't take it lol

Stepping on other peoples feet and trying, that's what makes a good rock band.

Clapton and Blackmore was friends matter of fact Clapton gave Blackmore his first Stratocaster

Mark II for me also mate ! By miles