Deep Purple - Fireball(TV)

[littlequeen64]

Ah my love,its a long way,where you're from its a long wayyyyyy !

[KakashiMachado]

I love this song, but I don't feel the same energy....

[littlequeen64]

@KakashiMachado Wow,you must be dead......

[schwoissfuass]

It is from German TV Show "DISCO" (Channel ZDF) aired on 15th January 1972.

[MSgenro]

playback :( but Blackmore at the end of this movie is amazing ;D

[jurek200412345]

Ritchie is amazing. Look at 3:15. What do you see?

[Sigillo7]

Energy...:)

[sicklittlemonkey]

This was recorded from Japanese channel BS2. The middle-aged generation here are still huge fans of good 70's music like DP. They have specials with videos like this, and classic songs are often played as background to related content during some TV programs. The younger generation here would never get the connection though.

Anyway, lots of hair in that great video!

[FlorkFlark]

awesome hammond solo ^^

[yoursatan]

Did anyone else see Ritchie Blackmore holding his guitar backwards at the end? xD I think everybody noticed it before, but I didn't see it anywhere in the comments so....

[tonik3030]

fuck you!!!

[CoolRapist]

fuck, cocksuccker, fuck you!

[Nipplepitcher]

Rap is totally the shitiest music on earth.

Black Azz

[flexer94]

rap isnt music anymore its fuckin shit

[Goldhand99999]

it never was music

[Goldhand99999]

it never was rap always suked in my opinion

[flexer94]

me too but my english was not good enough too express in this way^^

[23flowergirl]

The entire album is magic.

[Drumguy1988]

It's too bad they had to mime and lip-sync.

2 things I noticed Ian Paice is playing a Premier Kit with 2 rack toms. Ian didn't use premier he used Ludwig. And Jon is not Playing a Hammond B or C3 organ. I guess they had to use what the show supplied.

[LukeBerto]

And also:

Ian plays the original Fireball on the ride cymbal, here on charleston (but in audio you have the original song so you can hear ride while he plays the charlie)... He used also 2 bass drum (not for speed but it sounds better) and here he plays only one (that sounds like 2).

At 3:00 a tambourine starts playin, but nobody use it..

And the song finishes with a fade out!

One of my favourite songs ruined by a horrible tv show...

[ngillerqueen]

1;01 my favorite vocal from rod evans :)

what a song!

[shotguy1]

not rod evans..... this is Ian Gillan

[jaromT]

noob...

[nikolozzzz]

goooooooood axuitelno,

[Jecht301010]

LOL compare this audience to the one in the child in time video

[rudess84]

they are in playback...you can see at 2:28 where lord don't play the right notes there...he did a slide in the vid, instead in the music there isn't...

:(

[NJJ77]

LOL @ Blackmore's attempt at miming the guitar part. I would have done the same

[Regugug]

1st post for new Tuber here: labels suck, but that's all we know, so: Iggy Pop = godfather of punk; Neil Young = same to grunge; Yardbirds (Clapton/Beck/Page) blues-rock. On Deep Purple, I DEFY ANYONE to argue against the song Fireball (c.1971) as the birthplace of speed metal, thanks to Gillan's vocals and Paice's double floor-toms. Just listen to what the rest of the Hit Parade sounded like in 1971! Of cours, Steppenwolf's "Heavy Metal thunder" line came 3yrs earlier. All agreed?

[nordhoy]

Deep Purple = Heavy rock :P

[nolanb21]

Ritchie played the guitar backwards in the end to make fun of the network for making them mime.

[dudeavon]

Gotta love Deep Purple! But haha watch Blackmore at 3.15!

[GLettena]

Soon the best!! I love them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kotorising]

Litte Ian 's bass drums was set sigle...

[clauyin]

I really love deep purple....and this is one of the best song of them...TERRIFYNG!!!!

[heavymetalkicksass]

its funny how jon lord is looking as normal as possible but his hands on the hammond are going like 100 mph lol i'm suprised he didn't break his hand

[sirlordwhitman]

Funny watching them dance to this song..

It's hard rock.. they should just be banging their heads or something.

[FaerieCrone]

lol yeah came before headbanging, but no, impossible to dance to

[Angelious0]

thanks for calling them hard rock and not metal cause alot of people consider them metal but u can't compare them to other metal bands like slipknot mudvayne slayer and so forth there for they r hard rock like black sabbath led zeppelin pink floyd motorhead

[Misainzig]

Slipknot and Mudvayne aren't metal. Deep Purple is original 70s Heavy Metal. Get fucking used to it.

[Angelious0]

then what are slipknot and mudvayne

[Misainzig]

They're Nu-Metal. Nu-Metal, even though it has the word "metal" in it, is actually a form of alternative rock.

[Angelious0]

alright fine

[coder2k]

At that time they called it heavy metal but you can't talk about it like it was "modern" metal. In the 70s there was no music that's as "hard" as todays heavy metal. If you would play music like deep purple today noone would call it metal. But it's just a matter of from where you look at it...or better said: From WHEN you look at it ;-)

[Angelious0]

look man i had alot of back and forth arguments on utube on whats metal whats not metal and shit like that and i'm tired of it the way i see it u can call them whatever u want its just music at the end of day anyway and stupid names for diffrent types of music anyway

[MattHatter]

Angelious0, bands like Zeppelin, Sabbath, and Purple are more than just hard rock. Boston or Styx are HARD ROCK bands. These bands I mentioned are definately HEAVY rock. I don't call it metal because I don't like lumping these great bands in with the boring ass metal bands of the '80s onward. Same riffs, same looks, same atitude, same lyrics. And it hasn't gotten any better, except for maybe Wolfmother, who are trying to get back to that old approach. It might not be "metal" but it's HEAVY!

[Angelious0]

Thank you so fucking much for not for lumping these great bands in with the boring ass metal bands of nowardays but heavy rock would be the perfect genre to call them but is that even a real genre? i think that people take this whole whats metal whats hard rock thing to serously its music anyways so who gives a fuck

[MattHatter]

In reply to your first response, it's ALL TOO TRUE we get carried away with the whole "who started heavy metal" debates, especially here on You Tube. I got NOWHERE with a Black Sabbath fan once! But it WAS called "heavy rock" back then in '69, '70, '71 'cause that's exactly what it was. Actually one of the first references to this music being "heavy metal" was from a Creem magazine review for Sir Lord Baltimore in 1971. DEFINATELY check them out! Heavy as shit for their time!

[Angelious0]

but u should know that heavy rock isn't an actual genre cause u can search heavy rock wiki on google and they won't give a actual heavy rock wiki page but if u serch heavy metal or hard rock they would come out for the actual page for those genres so even if sabbath is heavy rock u can't call them heavy rock offically because that genre dosn't exist maybe it did in 69 to 71 but now it dosn't exist

[MattHatter]

Well I like to live in the past 'cause, to me, it was a better, simpler time. Conversations like this didn't exist. When I talk about these bands I like to say, "They're just so heavy man." I don't say, "Dude they're so freakin' metal!" These bands were TOO creative and limitless to be confined to being "metal" bands. To me, the term heavy metal implies you are of one sound and one style. It's more of an insult to these bands than a compliment I think.

[horstherbert35]

actually, "heavy metal" was just a word, the musicians were never trying to imitate a style...

(well, most of them)

[horstherbert35]

i heard the first reference to the word heavy metal was about alice cooper in the rolling stones magazine...

[Angelious0]

hey i checked out wolfmother the guitar does sound sabbath type and deep purple type but his voice is mad american and i prefer that britsh voice on the vocals if only we had a british voice on the vocals with the instrumental of wolfmother then that would bring back the music of back then in the 70's there not bad though

[MattHatter]

In reply to your second response, Wolfmother rocks but they're actually from Down Under!

[Ps3andy]

Deep purple 4 ever!!!!!

[012121958]

Die Größten !!

[notausgangaxel]

i saw them live, muhahah :D

fuck, i love this piano solo

[heavymetalkicksass]

hammond solo

[tens1son]

paiceys intro really sets the tone big suprise this song didnt get the credit it deserved along with demons eye

[kaneomasker]

Lord's paino solo is excelent

[namejimmy]

neither had i.

to me this is the sort of song you have to listen to quite a few times for it to fully sink in and for you to fully accept it as a fabulous record. at first, there was something about the speed and the format that threw me off a bit, but after working it out properly it's just wow- this is amazing.

[mg989]

I never saw Ian PAice having two toms on his bass drum before.

[SteveVaiFreak]

someone kmows the year ?

[giagords]

1971, the year I heard this song on the radio...

[fernando696]

What can I say, Fireball was one of the best of the great career of Deep Purple.

[elsapucai]

i love this bass solo... short, strange, but effective

[giagords]

yeah, the bass is the heavy leading structure of this song like many songs of Mark II. Glover could play and write many parts of DP songs not only Ritchie. I love that girl dancing like a mad behind Gillan...

[cmortimer1234]

this is my favourate song at the moment

[titanium53]

brilliant song

[Mokum1961]

Deep Purple should NEVER playback!

[rikyhendrixx]

yes,it's playback...

[dieneshugi]

why not???????

[charlessavarese]

I always thought the sound at the intro was a key board effect, but found out it was studio engineer Martin Birch putting the mic up to the air conditioner and turning it on. Fuckin' wild!

[RoseHarris]

GREAT! Awesome song! Deep Purple 4VER!

Purple Forever!

[frigidusi]

Super playback

[lvu16]

love ians drumming in this song but yeah deeppurple

[7wilightDream7]

GOD I LOVE DEEP PURPLE!!!!!!!

[RoseHarris]

Deep Purple is Rock! Deep Purple 4EVER! AWESOME!

[SonicMountain]

You're Gemini, and I don't know which one I like the most. Brilliant.

[tumbleingdice81]

rrrrrrrrrrrrock!

[yardjam3000]

Cute post. There are a lot of LIVE STAGE SHOWS AND JAMAICAN PLAYS NOW SHOWING SPECTRUM 2007 ON_YARDJAM.COM_

[LEEFORDJAGG]

Priceless footage ..let's see it officially released!

[HoskieDC]

This is mimed - shame on them! awesome song though, awesome band to, my favourite in fact, especially when they play live. I suppose its mimed because its just for TV.

[BigSofo99inc]

Jon Lord owns at 2:14 :)

[ledzepboy3]

i couldn't agree more ,the solo kiked ass, it was nice,fast,short:)

[DrunksNotDead]

i like this song deep purple kicks ass

[Alphonsine15]

Deep Purple are my second favourite band {after Rainbow},I was at their concert in Kosice next year and it was funny because I was only one person there who was 14. Xi xi They played this great song too and it was best night in my life.

[Jaraddeans]

no1 kiks Zeppelin retard... even tho these dudes come really close

[MrDD78]

they kick zepplin's ass

[gober01]

60' style is funny

[tomgaf]

The first single I ever bought. My Dansette wore it out.

[ROCKGOD99x]

i like the guitar tab and solo. nice distortion

[PenguinsAndPirates]

Haha, Ritchie flipping his guitar over like that is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect him to do. I bet he was right pissed about having to mime that.

[burtbacharachkey]

Crowd dancing in the wrong tempo...priceless! :)

[gorgiak]

yes, typical 60's set for rock groups...people dancing everywhere, just see that blonde how is funny...ten years later they were all running behind John Travolta...DP Mark II dead many years before

[Jollyjeweller]

Wicked stuff...shame they're miming !

A lot of shows in the 70's, like Top of the Pops couldn't have the artists actually playing live due to the Musicians Union problems. Shame.

[eddieconnolly]

its got to be the best album they ever did. eddie connolly

[MRCAB]

pretending to play and sing... I bet they loved that LOL

[siskokidd]

Mop-like hippie hair, elephant bell bottom jeans, platform shoes, freak-out style dancing. Dig it!

[Sycsa]

Lord is `playing` on a Hammond L100 or something like that. That`s rare, he`s always front of a big C3, this organ is a lot smaller.

[Isuflex]

Blackmore is playing on the back of his guitar at the end!! Classic Ritchie..

[bobkane66]

Pure Blackmore´s sense of humour...! Great!!!

[jexplink]

Both Dylan and Purple kick ass. I agree with MattHatter. There's no rule that says you can't crossover and love a lot of completely different music. I draw the line at Garth Brooks and Westlife however, as well as EMO and a lot of psuedo-Indie bands/singers. Fireball is also one of the best pre/post coital songs ever.

[MattHatter]

I love Deep Purple, I love Bob Dylan. I also love Led Zeppelin, The Moody Blues, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Uriah Heep, Yes, Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Cream, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Van Morrison, Poco, Buffalo Springfield, The Who, The Kinks, Judy Collins, The Byrds, The Turtles, The Monkees, Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, YOU CAN HAVE ALL THIS IN YOUR COLLECTION!

[kissarmy305]

Ian is'nt palybacking, but the rest of the band does playback.

sorry for my bad englisch.

[OtisGreen]

Dylan and Gillian? Why compare the two ... both are great at what they do ... and what they do are two completely different things.

[ledzep8888]

they're one of a kind, no one can replace them. Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Yes, long live rock & roll!!

[billybobthe3rd]

Yeah, that sounds exactly like the studio version, the mixing, timing, clarity, and everything. If that was an actual live performance than I'm amazed. Cool band either way.

[cranie4]

Sux when the bands had to sync. You can tell they hate it.

[suzmetal89]

creativly a very tight playing deep purple

[LASKARIKOS]

who f@@ks dylan?gillan rules!!

[svaran]

they're only miming, and I've seen dyuland purple live purple are way cooler. :-)

[kodythegreat]

1st to comment. this is a wicked song. deep purple is cool but not as cool as Bob Dylan

[giagords]

really don't see how matching Dylan with hard rock pioneers as Purple band...are you feel well?