Deep Purple - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: 1971-1973

Here's the next album in my long series of Deep Purple at the BBC.

This one is a very long stretch to call a BBC album, as there are no songs performed at the BBC on it! However, everything here is from other TV or radio appearances, so it still fits the general concept, in my opinion. It seems that famous BBC DJ John Peel soured on Deep Purple around 1970. He'd previously supported them and gave them key early exposure. But he disliked their hard rock direction they took from the 1970 album "In Rock" and onwards, and criticized them publicly about it. So that probably has a lot to do with the band not playing for the BBC music after 1970. (They did do one live show in 1972, which will be the next album in this series.)

As a matter of fact, even as Deep Purple surged in popularity in 1971 onwards, it seemed the amount of TV and radio shows they did to promote their music dropped dramatically. This is about all there is, as far as I can see, not couldn't any lipsync stuff. I can only guess that maybe they thought such promotional efforts were uncool or unnecessary because they were so well known by then. 

The first four songs are from TV shows in Germany and Denmark, with each song come from a different date. For "Demon's Eye," there was a DJ talking in German over the solo section, but I cleaned that up in the usual way I take care of BBC DJs talking over the music. However, the sound quality in that section is worse than the rest.

The last three songs come from a concert in the US. For some reason, three of the songs were broadcast on TV, so the sound quality for those are excellent. The rest of the concert has been bootlegged, but the quality is much worse, so they're not included here. Luckily, this captures most of their best known songs from this time period, including the classic "Smoke on the Water." 

Also, everything here comes from officially released albums, though they're scattered over a bunch of different albums. Everything sounds top notch, except for the one section of "Demon's Eye" mentioned above.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Demon's Eye [Edit] (Deep Purple)
02 No No No (Deep Purple)
03 Fireball (Deep Purple)
04 Highway Star (Deep Purple)
05 Strange Kind of Woman (Deep Purple)
06 Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)
07 Space Truckin' (Deep Purple)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15109497/DeepP_1971-1973_BBSessionsVolume5_atse.zip.html

The album cover uses a promotional photo from 1972.