DEEP PURPLE 'MACHINE HEAD' UK 1st PRESS '72 NICE COPY
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Mar 22, 2014 Sold Date
Mar 15, 2014 Start Date
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Deep Purple

'Machine Head'

Purple, UK, 1972

TPSA 7504

ALONGSIDE 'IN ROCK' this has to be the perfect rock album form the perfect rock band. Sure, the blues rock of Led Zeppelin made it to a bigger level and Black Sabbath placated the masses with their dirge like metal but if it was intelligent, sophisticated hard rock that floated your boat then Purple were the kings of the scene back in the early seventies. 'Machine Head' is about as good as it gets and the band were unquestionably at the top of their game, talent ouzing from their fingertips.

Amazingly the entire album is stuffed with grade-A material. No filler and no room for half baked ideas. Kicking off with 'Highway Star', the frantic hard rocker that stiff remains a live favourite to this very day featuring tremedous organ/guitar interplay and straight into the funky yet hard as nails 'Maybe I'm A Leo' and then 'Picture Of Home' complete with  brilliant Jon Lord hammond organ propelling the track into overdrive. Side one finishes on another high with the brilliantly catchy (and heavy) 'Never Before'

Side Two commences with the world's greatest guitar riff; 'Smoke On The Water'. Blackmore's presence is all pervasive but none more so than here. It's just the most perfect guitar song ever composed, right from the monumental riff to the exacting solo. The seven minute long 'Lazy' cuts an isolated groove with its jazzy tempo and guitar driven riff allowing Blackmore to shine until, once again, Jon Lord steps up to the plate with some deft Hammond touches. Final track 'Space Truckin'' knocks the point home in fine fettle with its big and blustery hard rock riffage and Gillan reaching for the stars. Definitely one of the best tracks in the vast Deep Purple cannon.

So there you have it, arguably the bands best effort alongside 'In Rock' and an album that simply refuses to lie down and be forgotten. If you really want to know what the early seventies was all about musically then I suggest you start here.

Pressing: Purple, UK, 1972

Vinyl: Nice clean condition. Displays spindle marks and some other light signs of use. Grades as Ex

Cover: Virtually no signs of use. Issued in a beautifully illustrated fully laminated gatefold cover retaining full gloss. Sharp corners, no dings, no bends, no ring wear, no split seams and no creases. Spine is straight, stiff and uncrushed - beautiful 'creak' appeal on opening. Looks like it stepped out of the factory yesterday. Beautiful and impossible to find like this 42 years after release. Grades as MINT-!

Inserts: Lyric insert

Matrix:

1st Pressing

Side One: TPSA 7504 A-1U

Side Two: TPSA 7504 B-1U

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