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Deep Purple - "Help" (Beatles Cover) Denmark 1968

Deep Purple doing the Beatles hit "HELP!"

Deep Purple is sounding more like the Doors instrumentally here, yet vocally not Doors like at all, but a in a softer ballad singing style. I am at a loss for a belter description. Can anyone help me out on a description of the vocals influence here? It is definitely Doors influenced instrumentally/compositionally, yet nothing like the Doors at all vocally.

In any case enjoy this is a most awesome & frickin' excellent very rare & obscure slice of Rock History from from Deep Purple! (Performed & Filmed in Denmark in 1968)

Link >> https://youtu.be/WBugcmKpO2o

Although the performance of the above song is instrumentally mostly Doors influenced, the guitar solo at 3:48 min is totally Richie Blackmore's famous guitar playing style' doing his thing with his signature style, sound, and Marshall Amplifier tone.

Deep Purple doing HELP!, Who'd a thunk?

Love the hair styles.

That was interesting. It reminded me a little bit of early Pink Floyd, but mostly, it reminded me of Richard Harris and MacArthur Park.

Mind blowing, Nomomo. Thanks for posting it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc01xHh9crg

this somehow got tangled up .I was going to post John Fogerty in a Troy Oregon bar. the above link is a different rock music I might dream of on occasion.

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lets see if this reaches John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKrwnZ17Gtw

Troy is town of some 25 residents located out of the way from cities used by people for steelhead fishing or elk hunting . there are a few ranches in the area which used the bar along with visiting outdoors folks. The Fogerty music occasions,playing with locals happened more than just a couple of times and were know by people about the area.

Nomomo wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:06 am

Can anyone help me out on a description of the vocals influence here? It is definitely Doors influenced instrumentally/compositionally, yet nothing like the Doors at all vocally.

My classic rock renaissance as a teenager didn't really get into Deep Purple though The Doors was on heavy rotation my senior year of high school. When I listened to this I thought it didn't sound like either what I considered Deep Purple's sound not did it really sound like The Doors to me. The Hammond organ was a signature part of Deep Purple's sound compared to Ray's dual keyboard sound with The Doors.

I think what feels like a Doors-ey vibe is the intro (a less elaborate This us the End) but that really disappears as soon as the song moves into the verse, and from minute 3:00 onward it sounds more like a pop song played by a rock band. I'd agree the shift from ballad to hard chorus and soaring guitar feels a bit Pink Floyd, but I'm not sure if that would be realistic as an influence in 1968 or a manifestation of converging musical trends in that era. Don't know.

So I went digging because I hadn't heard this before, liked it, recognized I didn't know much about Derp Purple's influences and background, and found it interesting. From what I gathered the lead singer here, Rob Evans, suggested doing this cover which actually earned him a spot as the vocalist since they still testing various singers out. So this song is apparently central to Deep Purple forming that year (1968). Unfortunately for Evans, his voice didn't fit the heavier direction the founding members wanted to move and they dropped him. That answered some questions I had regarding the sound not aligning with what I thought of as Deep Purple's heavier rock style.

In terms of Evans' vocals, I don't think it's too far off from Lennon or Mccartney without the full harmonies and slowed down to a ballad and rather than the snappy pace of the original. If I had to plug a sound I thought it verged on, it'd be tapping the vein of popular rock with John Lord juicing the Hammond organ into it to make it theirs...but not quite what it would become. Listening to the Yardbirds again ( it's been too long) I think Evans' style is representative of where radio playable music was at.

https://youtu.be/G5IqXi0rnfQ

1966. Wow.

https://youtu.be/jSJGEn4FDys

I hadn't heard of this movie, either. Read a revisited review of it by Roger Ebert that clinched that it's a blindspot needing filled. The scene with The Yardbirds playing to a motionless audience already sold me there was something there. Ebert seconded.

Can a GenX’er post something ‘classic’ now that we’re nearly 30 years on from his era?

King Missle

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4

Sonic Youth

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZdMk

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