Nest session: Halloween Special (Sunday 29 October)ĭavid Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 GMT, repeated on Mondays and Fridays), when he invites listeners to ‘Assume The Position’. He recently signed a recording deal with Sony in Canada and releases a new single on 15 September. Since early 2020 Josh has been entertaining us with exclusive monthly live sessions, streamed via Facebook. And Purple were one of its premier exponents – an unstoppable force of nature. Modern day, note perfect, shows may be great, but California Jam is a suitable reminder of what made rock great -organic unpredictability. It seems to me that the older we get, the more rose tinted our spectacles become in looking back at the days of our youth. For once, the result is as different as chalk and cheese. Sceptics would say ‘… and just in time for Christmas’.īut in this case, it would seem that some loving attention has indeed been paid to the recordings – the screen format may still be largely 4:3, but the picture quality is noticeably sharper, the footage has been significantly re-edited, including some highly effective multi angle layering, and, in places dual angle stitching into widescreen format. ![]() We’re told that this re-issue has been ‘restored and newly ‘edited’ for hi-def viewing, and the packaging adorned with brand new artwork and liner notes. Tensions – never far below the surface – smoulder and the gig culminates with Blackmore – in a fit of rage with the promoters’ broken promises – trashing his kit, and creating mayhem with an impromptu stunt that saw petrol drenched speaker cabs create an onstage fireball. It remains the premier documentation of the Mark III line up in full flow, shortly after the release of Burn. It was one of the early Mark III performances and part of the California Jam Festival that attracted upwards of a quarter of a million people, featured the loudest PA ever installed and a bill including ELP, Black Sabbath, Eagles and Earth Wind and Fire. Recorded and aired live by ABC-TV, it was one of the first concerts released on video in 1981, and given a fresh lick of paint on its DVD release in 2005 with the addition of the previously omitted ‘Lay Down, Stay Down’. After all, is it really possible to make a sow’s purse out of a pig’s ear – even in this digital age?Īnyway, what we have here is a re-release of Mark III Purple’s legendary performance from April 1974 at the Ontario Motor Speedway in California. I was beginning to think that ‘remastering’ is a marketing ‘con’ and not about bringing consumers a truly superior product. Share the post "DVD review: DEEP PURPLE – California Jam 1974"
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