Deep Purple/ Earthwood

[nofi]

you don't see this everyday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwhut-22G6s

[Granny Gremlin]

I hate being reminded of how much I want one of those considering how hard to find they are.

[uwe]

I played one once in a shop. It had an authority in tone no other acoustic bass I've played has ever matched. It probably didn't amp that well (did it have electronics at all? I don't remember), but the acoustic sound was much better than what you can hear in that vid.

As for the riff ... Ritchie says he was drunk at the session where they were forced by their record label to "write a single, we don't hear one on this new In Rock record you have" and feels real guilty towards Ricky ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSngzjqMF38

Unlike that other Brit band, Deep Purple always admitted it when they stole.

[the mojo hobo]

I heard it first here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hclPPseW93o

[Droombolus]

Same here    Love that song and love the band. Played the ol ' 45 to shreds back when and their Kaleidoscopic Compendium comp is one of my fave garage CDs.

[Highlander]

Brit bands, Uwe...? borrowing material...? never...!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd8AVbwB_6E

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4uFuwnDw4o

Well go t' foot of our stair (way) s ... 

[rahock]

you don't see this everyday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwhut-22G6s

Damn it, seeing this reminds me that mine needs to go in the shop. I've developed a rattle inside the body and it's going to need opening it up to make it go away. I haven't even touched it in a couple years .
Rick

[uwe]

Blackers always said he stole the Black Night riff from Rickie Nelson, but I guess only because that sounded somewhat cooler (the Nelson version of Summertime was relatively obscure) than admitting what he had might have heard in 1967 from this little band here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AsLVm2zEnQ

Was the Blues Magoos version even earlier? Most likely, because formative Quo hardly ever did anything they hadn't heard from other people before (that is of course going to invite comment that that didn't change much in their later years either!  )

I won't even start on Led Zep. They should have called themselves The Thieving Magpies. I believe Houses of the Holy was their first album with all-original material.  But they reverted to form on Physical Graffiti (but at least giving credit to others there).

[uwe]

I just googled, Blues Magoos came first in 1966:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOWOdKs6KUo

But the songwriters of that song, Ron Gilbert, Ralph Scala and Mike Esposito, lifted the riff off the 1962 Summertime version of Nelson (whose guitarist - James Burton - had probably swiped it before from some poor black guy!).

So Blackmore was a 4th generation thief!  Purple encore with that song to this day.

[rahock]

Back when I was in Junior High I thought  the Blues Magoos were the coolest thing that ever happened .
Rick

[uwe]

For 1966 and for an American band to boot, they certainly were!

[Highlander]

As it has that name as a header... stumbled on this fairly early #2 live video from a 1970 UK TV show... to me, an interesting transition set as that man is playing a Fender and a Gibson...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwzq52iNaaM

[uwe]

Sigh!!! Those were the days ... I hear he now makes music with his wife from the colonies and is managed by her mother - all to alleviate those pre-minstrel tensions.

[Highlander]

That most comely wench with the silken tongue was adept at weaving the thatch and also at plucking his black-a-more heart-strings...

[uwe]

Those sunglasses do kind of ruin the minstrel cycle for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxjpLiiis_0

But darn he can still play. Nobody else gets an eerie sound like this playing slide (very Renaissance!) on an acoustic guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ1Ep5vXh1Y