Product Description

Featuring rare archival material, much of it appearing on DVD and CD for the first time, along with incisive commentary from a leading team of music critics and working musicians, this highly entertaining and informative journey into the music of a great band is essential viewing for Deep Purple fans everywhere. The CD audio documentary includes a unique and highly entertaining blend of music and the spoken word. DVD features include French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, and Japanese subtitles, and Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS Digital Surround Sound.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153339 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-10-05
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Best of, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Enjoyed watching old footage and hearing the acclaim
This insider DVD is filled with a few surprises, though no song is played all the way through and most are available in their entirety in other DVD's. I liked hearing the commentaries by the various guest speakers (most I never heard of but are well known in the UK I'm sure) including Ex-Rainbow vocalist Doogie White exclaiming that "Deep Purple is the greatest rock band of all time." I couldn't agree more. Good fun time, enjoyable 60 minute experience. Not perfect, but it's Deep Purple and that's what counts.

Nice but a Band this Good Deserves Even Better
Though easily one of the greatest bands of all time, Deep Purple remains heavily underrated and somewhat overlooked. On stage they were virtually unmatched in terms of improvisation and unpredictability. On album, the now-famous Mark II lineup created hard rock history. This DVD is a critical analysis of those first Mark II years.

The material on this disk is presented in a chronological fashion and each album, from 1970's In Rock to 1973's Who Do We Think We Are, is discussed by various British session musicians and critics. Each album is then rated on a one to five star scale. Much as you'd expect, there are plenty of live clips to accompany the discussions but NONE of the footage shown is in its entirety (think of VH1 Legends or Behind the Music in terms of editing). If you're interested in seeing full versions of most of these performances, check out "Deep Purple Rock Review 1970 - 1972" and "Deep Purple Masters from the Vault". What's interesting, if slightly mystifying, is that this disk was taken from the same source as "Rock Review 1970 - 1972" (perhaps a TV special aired in Britain?). Basically this means you'll see a slight bit of repetitiveness if you buy both. It would have made so much more sense to compile everything onto one disk to create a more comprehensive show, but I suppose chopping it up meant more money for somebody. In any event, though not necessarily overly insightful, this is still a very entertaining 62 minutes for any classic Deep Purple fan. If you're just getting started with the band and all of this is new to you, you'll probably enjoy it even more.

You Fool No One!
I thought that I had found a gem....A DVD set that covered performances of one of the pioneers of metal...the early years of one of the greatest bands ever. Um...no. Someone is putting out a deliberate deception of Deep Purple DVDs that seem to suggest that you'll get live performances, but all you really get is a lot of strangers reminiscing about the band.

The very few performances that you get on any of these dogs have terrible A/V quality. My expectations were never high regarding the A/V based on when they were recorded. But the big problem is that THERE ARE HARDLY ANY PERFORMANCES. These Critical Review series are DVDs of interviews with bunch of people that maybe knew the band.

And with the performances (mostly cut up out-takes) that you do get, you start screaming at the TV to show the dang performers; the clips show things like the audience, the moon or the sky as the band plays.

The price of this release is a joke for the rubbish content that you get. This piece of crap isn't even worth 1 buck in my opinion for the relatively uninteresting Deep Purple items of info that you get throughout the set.

Deep Purple fans don't be fooled. Go with Live In Concert 72/73 (although unfortunately mostly in black and white) and/or Live in California '74 if you liked the Coverdale/Burn years. But by all means keep away from the Add to Cart button here.