Paint It Black pt 1

Deep Purple live at the Casino, Montreux, October 4th 1969.
Nobody now recalls why the decision was taken to record this gig. Most likely, the group and managers wanted to capture a headlining show to evaluate a full performance and see how well the new line-up was working in a live context.

A quarter inch reel was plugged into the mixing desk, and was fed directly from the live sound and mixed on the fly. This is the tape used for this release. No further mixing was possible - and this also explains the fluctuating levels which occur during the opening numbers.

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Sound restoration was carried out to boost frequencies and reduce hiss, but what you get here is near enough exactly what the sound engineer heard back in 1969. This set was discovered in 1999 when Deep Purple's sound archives were moved for safer storage. Unlike previous releases on the Sonic Zoom label, it has remained entirely outside the bootleggers' domain in over thirty years.

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Music

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• rock
• deep
• purple

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PAINT IT PURPLE