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Whilst the two best additions are, in order, the DVD and the booklet to this classic collection of Deep purple songs/tunes, the mixes are palpably different. It is not clear if Paice was the arbiter of the collection in the 30th Anniversary edition, or if the EMI group did that job. Some elements that are very clear, is that I never knew that the solo in Speed King was a bass guitar solo ( I have heard guitar solos that sound like that, however, since the way Glover uses his bass differs in some songs such that it is more in the treble range, and closer to being the way Jon Lord Pushed the Hammond sound to be closer to Blackmores guitar sound , case in point, Black Night, and, HighWay Star etc).
The one thing I loved about this Collection was that it was almost totally a driving CD or Tape, collection that could go with other material that could get myself amped up to drive. I would definitely give this as an introduction to Deep Purple, and then let whom-ever select what they like from their. Whilst the albums have some separate superior cuts, the broad selection represented in DEEPEST PURPLE is brilliant. The sounds on the DVD for Burn is Awesome, if this is live, it looks great and sounds excellent. Hughes bass is brilliant. Probably the one difference in element that Glover seems to have at points with Hughes is that the bass for Glover is more for the Virtuoso side of what he did, whilst Hughes did something different, not a bad thing, but still a different side of what Mach 3 and 4 did. I also suspect that a contributing factor in the anniversary issues is that the discs are made in the EU. Outside of Japanese pressings, the German re-issues ( if these are german re-issues for the discs) are far superior to the discs made elsewhere, and I have deliberately sought out EU versions. I would recommend the same, since if you decide to start collecting the albums after hearing DEEPEST PURPLE 30th Anniversary, you will hear the influence of Glover and others in the albums.
I avoided the track by track comments since it makes more sense in the album versions: Jon Lords comments speak for themselves, and as one of 3 who made it through all versions of the band, it seems better for him to have the word on the collection, but the most unusual part of the Deep Purple history I hear little of is the So called "Scandinavian Nights leg of the tour with the tour touted as the last work of Mach 3; Its an interesting work since I don't know exactly what the role of who was in this transition from mach3 to mach 4.
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