Sold Date: March 28, 2015
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Perfect and unopened.  Original store sticker.  ‎– Shades Of Deep Purple Label:  ‎– T-102 Format: , LP, Album 
Country: Released: Genre: Style: Tracklist A1And The Address4:36A2Hush4:11A3One More Rainy Day3:15A4(a)Prelude: Happiness2:45A4(b)I'm So Glad4:53B1Mandrake Root5:55B2Help5:45B3Love Help Me3:34B4Hey Joe7:38 Credits Design –  Drums –  Engineer –  Lead Guitar –  Producer –  Vocals –  Vocals, Bass Guitar – * Vocals, Organ –  Review by Bruce Eder 

The usual perception of early  is that it was a band with a lot of potential in search of a direction. And that might be true of their debut LP, put together in three days of sessions in May of 1968, but it's still a hell of an album. From the opening bars of "And the Address," it's clear that they'd gotten down the fundamentals of heavy metal from day one, and at various points the electricity and the beat just surge forth in ways that were startlingly new in the summer of 1968.  never sounded less at ease as a guitarist than he does on this album, and the sound mix doesn't exactly favor the heavier side of his playing, but the rhythm section of  and  rumble forward, and 's organ flourishes, weaving classical riffs, and unexpected arabesques into "I'm So Glad," which sounds rather majestic here. "Hush" was the number that most people knew at the time (it was a hit single in America), and it is a smooth, crunchy interpretation of the  song. But nobody could have been disappointed with the rest of this record -- one can even hear the very distant origins of "Smoke on the Water" in "Mandrake Root," once one gets past the similarities to 's "Foxy Lady"; by the song's extended finale, they sound more like . Their version of "Help" is one of the more interesting reinterpretations of a  song, as a slow, rough-textured dirge. "Hey Joe" is a bit overblown, and the group clearly had to work a bit at both songwriting and their presentation, but one key attribute that runs through most of this record -- even more so than the very pronounced heaviness of the playing -- is a spirit of fun; these guys are obviously having the time of their lives rushing through their limited repertoire, and it's infectious to the listener; it gives this record much more of a '60s feel than we're accustomed to hearing from this band.