DEEP PURPLE - Gemini Suite Live, September 1970 - EU Sweet Leaf Limited Edition - VERY RARE - LISTEN

This limited, collectable CD of nearly 80 minutes, released in a small run, contains above all the only band, 44-minute premiere performance, from September 1970, of Jon Lord's composition 'Gemini Suite' - known from the legendary keyboardist's solo album released in 1971 (with the help of several friends, including Glover and Paice). Of course we are dealing here with the Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice line-up! This is sophisticated, strongly progressive playing (band + orchestra) in the style of the LP 'Concerto For Group And Orchestra' (1969). Recorded by the BBC (which, for legal reasons, all earlier versions of this title kept quiet about) and originally released in 1970 on a limited, promotional BBC Transcription Service disc - the sound quality is almost perfect - even slightly better than on the editions last released 15 years ago. Besides the three-part suite, as many as 35 rare recordings from the same period are additionally included: the 12-minute version of 'Mandrake Root' from London, from July 1970, released nowhere else, and 4 recordings (including 3 in fragments) made in the same July 1970 for Granada TV and released on the excellent, though short, VHS cassette 'Doing Their Thing'. In all we have here 79 minutes of Deep Purple from the classic period! A must! (JL) Condition: new, sealed.