DEEP PURPLE: Smoke on the Water and The Mule (Made in Japan - Side 2) | The Daily Doug Ep. 773
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In this edition of #thedailydoug, I'm continuing my journey through the classic double live album Made in Japan by Deep Purple. Today, we're listening to side 2 directly from my vinyl copy, including the songs Smoke on the Water and The Mule. I had heard Smoke on the Water before...but not this live version! And, this was my first time hearing The Mule...and I really grooved to Ian's great drumming in that track. Come along for the ride for an enjoyable Masterpiece Friday!
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straight from Ian Paice. Ian got the inspiration for his drum track on the Mule from Ringo Starr on Tomorrow Never Knows and just added his rolls which is on the studio version. Ringo is one of Ian's favorite drummers. cheers
The greatest live album ever and no overdubs at all, recorded by Martin Birch just as it happened. Five outstanding musicians at the top of their game all at the same time.
The end of "Smoke....." is a great battle between Blackmore and Lord. More than 50 years have passed and it is still the best live album in the history of hard-rock.
I love Ritchie's savage guitar sound on this.😃
Made in Japan quite possibly the best live album of all time
Bruce Dickinson said that. "And it was recorded on an 8 track or something"
Definitely in my top 4
@@FuturePast2019Yes it was! Just on small, portable device. 👍
Absolutely!
Overrated
Fireball, one of the most underrated albums.
Fools is on that album one of the best songs ever written and recorded by Deep Purple.
Highly recommended for a first listen.
You’ve just got to love Ian Paice’s work on the hi hat, on Smoke on the Water
Not bad for a left - hander!
With how many times I have heard the song, the hi hats are almost the only reason I don't skip it. Just so great and dynamic. Roger's bass tone here also helps.
You can hear how much Ian respects the classic jazz drummers like Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa - this is not a 'typical' rock drum solo, but far more complex and rich. The absolute master.
Ian Paice is extremely rudimental. He is very jazzy in his approach. But full of power. Plenty of single and double paradiddles, double stroke rolls,
IMO, there is no contest. This live version blows away the studio album version. It’s the greatest live song ever recorded!
A simple guitar intro but nobody does it better than Ritchie
The best LP ever. All Songs are great. The Mule is a masterpiece by Ian Paice. Great
Shout out to the legend Claude Nobs.
One of the best live albums ever
I remember hearing this version on FM stations in the early 70’s. Smoke on the water is best represented on this live album.
I love that intro to "The Mule". It's so symphonic, it seems almost like an overture.
My best mate & I listen & listened AND listened again..... on cassette - we were around 14/15 - fabulous!
Great recording.. That drum sound. Rock Forever
All the big bands of the seventies had very long drum solos. It was indeed the smoking, drinking part of the show for the rest of the band. This also worked for radio DJs. John Bonham's Moby Dick was famous for this.
Fireball is also a classic album, it's position between In Rock & Machine Head means it's often overlooked.
Really glad you're gradually doing the whole album Doug. My favourite side (3) is coming next! I don't think they're are many live albums that give a genuine impression of just how ridiculously loud it would've been. This one does. This was Deep Purple at their best. Now if only I could get a time machine...
Yeeeeiiiii Deep Purple... and masterpiece Made in Japan.... very good reactions and comments... I want to see the reaction on space trucking.... Last Part, maybe 4th
Can't wait for "Strange kind of Woman"...
Nice to see with some one with musical education taking in and appreciating classic music from some of rocks beginnings. Hard to believe that all people have not heard all of what you have been reacting to. Im a 59 year old having been born in '65 who, as long as i can remember has never not heard any of this. Glad to see you discovering all of this. Gives me a very emotional feeling seeing people find and love it just as i and many others do. Whats amazing even more is that alot of the musicians you react to have had little or no training and some cant read or write music properly like a schooled person such as yourself.
This is such a simple song, and what really makes it is the raw vocals and the great story.
Ian Gillan was actually suffering from a heavy cold at the time.
Fun facts! Jon Lord played his Hammond organ through Hi-Watt amps and his RMI electric piano through Leslies. It certainly gave him a unique sound! Also, Ian Paice is a left-handed drummer. So technically, all of your air drumming was going in the wrong direction this time! 😉 Great fun, Doug. Thanks! Hope you get your shaker back in working order soon!
my first concert was deep purple in 1972 prior to recording this in Japan... have seen them 12 times since, never without Ian Gillian
Thanx Doug for reacting and analyzing side two of Made In Japan by Deep Purple!!!! One of my fave live albums along with Yessongs and Frampton Comes Alive. This great album showed that Deep Purple were not just very loud and noisy ruffians but were very talented musicians.
With all due respect to all the fine musicians who have gone through DP through the years, DP mark 2 is the one who set my teenage loins aflame. And still does, though the song "Burn" scorches as well. God, listen to Ian's interpolations; he's what David Lee Roth wanted to be (IMHO).
9:00 "kind of bluesie" about the guitar solo? Whole song is blusie! 😁
Oh, man. I still have my "Made In Japan" LP that I bought a lifetime ago.
As I said previously, Ian Paice and The Mule is just plane amazing!
Paicey always had a small drum kit. Fireball was the seecond album I bought back in 1971, of course the studio version doesn't have the drum solo. It's a brilliant solo from such a small kit. One of the best drum solos ever, yes there are other brilliant solos of the time until Neil Peart took things in a whole different direction
You could totally dub in Money for Nothing for about the first 2-3 minutes and keep it rolling! Love your stuff, Doug!
The CD released later has the encores on it and you should react to them as well. It's incredible, especially Black Night and Speed King.
"The Mule" is my favourite early Deep Purple Song. The Studio version (without the drum solo) i prefer even more, because it is more concentrated on tha great proggy-psychedelic harmonies. But anyway that song (maybe the entire album album fireball) shows the huge variety of Deep Purple. They are not just hard rock. They are like Led Zeppelin or Jethro Tull so much more than that, maybe concentrated on hard rock. But when you listen to songs like "The Mule", or "Fools" or "Anyone's Daughter" you have three different styles of music and all great.
To say something about "Smoke on the Water" in these early times: It is quite interesting wich role that song played in the setlists. It is included not as a final song, not as the geratest hit, wich is everyone waiting for like nowadays. It is played just somewere in the show!
I have another record from 1972 (from Denmark) at home. I think "Machine Head" was not out at that time, but they played "Highway Star" as opener and they also included "Lazy" and "Space Truckin'", so they definitely wanted to promote the album. But the one track that's missing... yeah "Smoke On The Water". They didn't even include it to the setlist!
So it's interesting how Deep Purple didn't believe in that song.
please also give commentaries on Genesis in their early years, when Peter Gabriel is their vocalist. Thank you!
Ever since custom ringtones became possible I made this my default. I have never had anything other than smiles at all of my business meetings for about 20 years. Everyone knows it and everyone likes it.
After sitting through the Eurovision Song Contest last night. It's good to get back into the grove with Deep Purple. Cheers Doug. :)
Oh this brings back memories of buying this in the early 80's, one of the best live albums of all time. There playing this autumn and if I can afford it I will be going to the Manchester gig. Seeing Nick Mason next month and saw Mr R Plant last month so turning into a year of grates still going. A band I hoped you would come back to are Babymetal but I'm going to suggest something up to date, Monochrome live at the PIA and BxMxC (live). There all grown up now. Love the stuff you've done on Zappa as well, if you don't know it try Joe's Garage (have to listen to it all in order for even a semblance of sense to come out of it but a true master piece).
I'm envious of your keyboard skills
We need Side 1 and Side 2 of Fireball eventually. That's a really fun album to explore.
First, if you’re going to play along with Deep Purple on keyboards, grab a B3 patch and play parallel fifths.
Second, analyze the syncopation of the melody. The first phase is on the beat, the second is syncopated, 3rd is on, and the final phrase is syncopated again. It’s almost like a Latin rhythm in that way.
And yes, this is THE version of the song.
I have VIP, and backstage passes, and front row center for their DFW show in August. Yes is also playing (my favorite). I. CANNOT. WAIT!
C'est le premier riff qu'on apprend en guitare 😏
Ian gets the last word
!!!!!!!!!!IAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doug I think that when you are so outclassed as with these guys - don't play just listen!
🤘
Another great review Doug! If you can review Rare Earth Get Ready long version you won’t be disappointed especially with the drum solo at the end of the track, it’s my favorite solo of All Time!!!🥁 I think the Mule’s drummer was inspired by it!
Swiss time was used in the Olympics when Smoke on the Water was written.
The dtum. Solo is to show how great drummerhee is
This is the definite version of Smoke on the Water indeed. However both the studio version of The Mule and the live version recorded in Copenhagen a few months before are superior. Specifically Roger Glover's antics on bass are way better audible.
But yeah - it was Deep Purple who set the standards for what a live album should be. To get a full understanding how they managed it you'll have to listen to previous live recordings.
Next Metal Monday you should do Maiden Japan...
Made a pilgrimage to Montreaux from Geneva by train just to see the Casino , the Grand Hotel and the lake shoreline where this iconic song conceptualized 😇
Still brilliant. I bought the album on release and still have it. I also bought a 180g release a few years ago but the original still sounds great. Look after your vinyl folks!
Interesting to see what Doug is gonna like about space truckin on that Made in Japan album, it’s nearly a 20min long. Drum solos are almost always included in Deep Purple concert. Nor for sure was there drum solos in 1968 but at least 1969 it was and probably since then it’s been included almost every concert.
This may have been mentioned by someone else, but Ian Paice won the National Snare Drum Championship several years in a row as a teenager. Great hands....AND feet!
Black Sabbath,Led Zeppelin,Deep Purple the holy triad of rock music🤘
Blackmore GOAT
If you want to do the DP album Fireball, please include the song "Anyone's Daughter", which is an atypical song for the band. I was lucky enough to see their live performance of this song during Ritchie Blackmore's last tour with the band.
What most guitarists miss is that Richie is playing 4ths for the riff. He does it fairly often
DEEP PURPLE LEYENDAS VIVAS ,LA MEJOR BANDA DEL MUNDO!!💜💜🎸🎸🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻
Brilliant
WORTHY! 🤟🏼
I can still enjoy a drum solo, but they have to be few and far between. This one is really good.
Deep Purple's Jon Lord developed The Beast! a Hammond organ played through Marshal stacks, so that it had as fast and aggressive an attack as a guitar. So with DP it is not so easy to know who is actually playing what. I have seen a video about that.
The drum solo has some heavy Louie Bellson, Buddy Rich style solo with a little Max Roach thrown in. A quick drum teacher comment on your 'air drumming" Almost everyone has the tendency to tighten up their muscles as they play faster. When in reality the faster you play the more relaxed your muscle should be. This will give you greater speed and more control. Carl Palmer is probably the best example of this principle. Also, spend the big bucks and get an LP shaker I've had one for over 30 years and it has never lost a bead. Keep up the great work.
Recommendation : John Lords album Sarabande
Great reaction video as always Doug. I also think that this version of Smoke is the best I've heard. Cheers
Hey Doug, I've always wondered who it was that played the shaker half-way through Purple's track "Fools" off of the Fireball album! Absolutely perfect rendition!!
Ian Paice is one of the most tragically underrated percussionists in Rock and Roll.
He's not underrated at all. That word is tragically *over* rated
This live version of Smoke on the water is THE VERSION “ , like many Deep Purple songs ,the live versions were so much better than the studio recordings and not many bands can do that, wait until you get to Strange kind of woman not just the song but the call and response “thing “ between Gillan and Blackmore
In terms of the out -of-tune guitar sound during the smoke on the water,
I think it was Ritchie's intentional fun.
I have got to say that the intro music reminds me of Kenny Everett.
Beans everywhere got me laughing
I’ll be seeing them AGAIN for a second time in September. Of course only 3 original members, but still a great band.
Actually only one original member - Roger Glover and Ian Gillan replaced Nick Simper and Rod Evans, who recorded the first three albums.
Hi Dough,
Everything with Deep Purple is alright, I came across DP with the age of 14 even before the major success with 'Deep Purple in Rock' , I loved ' The Book of Taliesyn' from the Mark 1of Deep purple.
But I would like to point your interesest to another great Band from this area. It's Manfred Man's Earth Band - wonder you didn't had an Episode so far.
You should at least Listen to 'Father of night' from the 'Solar fire' album (73). with the Fantasie Guitar solo from Mick Rogers ( Studio version is the best.
But ther's so much more from Manfred Man...
That rickenbacker bass guitar. Roger Glover is playing eights to give it that deep groove.130 million lps sold 1973 biggest band in the world in gate receipts and lps sold. Also did it again in 1984.
Now ... turn everything up louder than everything else.
As far as I know the mule refers to the second book of Asimov's Foundation trilogy.
Fireball is an excellent album..to purple fans it’s as good as in rock and machine Head.
Ritchie has talked about the riff being structured in something he called "parallel fourths". Could you explain that to a non-musical guy? Cheers 🍻
I'll try: you know the scale do, re, mi, fa etc? Count up four steps from do to fa, it's those two notes together, that's a fourth interval from (in this case) D to G, which is the upper note and the key (or root note) of the song. He then moves the same two-note shape up and down to different frets to create the riff. Phew, hope all that helped a bit!👍
Hi Doug , try Deep Purple Stormbringer album. It is a very different kind of purple with beautiful vorgotten songs. like Van Halen 2 songs it’s very different mood.
Allegedly Ian Gillan hooked up with a young lady under the piano during the drum solo at one of their gigs.
Why all their studio albums just don't do it for me... Best live album ever, from start to finish.
My dad always said, "Son, if you play with it long enough, you will break it" LOL
May I suggest to you some songs that I would recommend for reacting?
It would be great if you reacted to all four live symphony performances of the game you know as Genshin Impact. They are fully instrumental and around 10 minutes each. Here are the names of them on CZcams:
Inazuma (Japanese inspired): Realm of Tranquil Eternity：Inazuma Live Symphony Performance | Genshin Impact
Sumeru (Middle Eastern inspired): Sumeru Live Symphony Performance | Genshin Impact
Fontaine (French/European inspired): Fontaine Live Symphony Performance | Genshin Impact
Liyue (Chinese inspired): Producing the Sounds of Liyue | Genshin Impact: Behind the Scenes
The best drum solo in history from the greatest drummer of all time. His drumming throughout this recording was not matched yet.
status que live next i hope
You should really have a listen to Fireball. It's one of the best albums out there in my opinion.
CARLOS LYRA - Maria Moita (1964)
Trivia time Doug. Which two DP members have played on solo Beatles albums? (PS Fireball is in my top couple DP albums.)
Need to listen to the Black Sabbath album BORN AGAIN.
Did they go out for a snack? Probably not, though Denny's is a pretty big chain in Japan. Did they nip backstage for a smoke? Oh heck yeah.
You should react to Utopia Theme and also The Ikon, both from Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Doug, great reaction. The version of Smoke on the Water is IMHO better than the studio version. Now we come to The Mule, that version is why Ian is called the 'Chief'. My top three Drummers from this era are. In no order as they are the Holy Trinity of rock drummers John (Bonzo) Bonham, Ian (the chief) Paice & Bill Ward. looking forward to side 3.
Yes, for many classic rock acts the drum solo spot was time for the rest of the band to take a break 😅.
You should check out Casiopea and listen to a song from there first album casiopea, swallow is probably one of the best songs ever written
Actually, I believe 'The Mule' also refers to the character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation stories. So the story tells, as the legends goes,...
I always equated the two, as it was around the same time that I first heard this and read the Trilogy in the late 70s when I was still in middle school.
lmao at the shaker