Space Truckin' (4:31)
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Space Truckin’ is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple. It is the seventh track on the Machine Head album. Its lyrics talk of space travel and it showcases the vocal abilities of singer Ian Gillan and powerful drumming of Ian Paice.
The song’s legendary chorus riff, although different, slightly resembles that of the song “Red the Sign Post”, released in 1968 by the band Fifty Foot Hose on their album Cauldron.
The intro was featured on the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati on the episode “The Airplane Show” (later issues of the episode replaced this track with generic music).
When it was first performed live, the band appended an instrumental that was originally part of the song “Mandrake Root” on their first album but gradually evolved into a showcase for Jon Lord’s Hammond organ and Ritchie Blackmore’s guitar solos. This usually took the length of the overall song to over twenty minutes, and was always performed as the last number of the main set. A good example of this arrangement can be found on the Made in Japan album, wherein Blackmore also quotes “Fools” of Fireball “cello” solo.
Jon Lord played his solo through a ring modulator or played some of it on an ARP synthesizer. Meanwhile, Ritchie Blackmore usually split the guitar solo into two halves, a quiet section with just drums, then a loud section with the full band. The second half was often when Ritchie would smash his guitar, play it with his feet or throw it into the air. One of the most infamous incidents where this happened was at the California Jam festival in 1974, where he dropped one guitar over the edge of the stage, smashed a second against a TV camera, then set his amplifier on fire which subsequently exploded.
The song’s legendary chorus riff, although different, slightly resembles that of the song “Red the Sign Post”, released in 1968 by the band Fifty Foot Hose on their album Cauldron.
The intro was featured on the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati on the episode “The Airplane Show” (later issues of the episode replaced this track with generic music).
When it was first performed live, the band appended an instrumental that was originally part of the song “Mandrake Root” on their first album but gradually evolved into a showcase for Jon Lord’s Hammond organ and Ritchie Blackmore’s guitar solos. This usually took the length of the overall song to over twenty minutes, and was always performed as the last number of the main set. A good example of this arrangement can be found on the Made in Japan album, wherein Blackmore also quotes “Fools” of Fireball “cello” solo.
Jon Lord played his solo through a ring modulator or played some of it on an ARP synthesizer. Meanwhile, Ritchie Blackmore usually split the guitar solo into two halves, a quiet section with just drums, then a loud section with the full band. The second half was often when Ritchie would smash his guitar, play it with his feet or throw it into the air. One of the most infamous incidents where this happened was at the California Jam festival in 1974, where he dropped one guitar over the edge of the stage, smashed a second against a TV camera, then set his amplifier on fire which subsequently exploded.
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fuh-q wrote:
great groove,love this song,sometimes overlooked
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ChiefKakashi wrote:
I play this song whenever I travel.
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bonzolead wrote:
Ian Paice on drums.............Yes
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schmidter wrote:
What a class Band
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misterBlonde84 wrote:
They've rocked around the Milky Way!!
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WinDu94 wrote:
agree. best one! ♪♪
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adamnaeem wrote:
yeah i wanna go space truckin tooo!
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MaSToDoNKeY wrote:
best purple tune, either this one or lazy
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hjbardenhagen wrote:
Made in Japan - yezz!
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purple-dirk wrote:
yeah ... space Purple ...
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davedavemckay wrote:
The player says this track is 02:26 long. I'm sure it's been going for over an hour now... and I don't want it to stop! (pressing the love button a few more times to make sure)
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nur1prinz wrote:
Space never ends, so why should truckin' there end?
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AllyOfTheDark wrote:
Come on! Come on! Lets go space truckin'!!! \,,/
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firelily- wrote:
Love this riff.
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jayakiran wrote:
I wanna go space truckin!!!!!!
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JUSHANGIN wrote:
read the hof's latest inductees,outside of jeff beck it is embarrassing,with the likes of mellencamp,metallica.the h,o,f is a damned joke!!
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JUSHANGIN wrote:
will not rest until deep purple is inducted in to the rock n roll hall of fame,which is a fuckin shame.and all involved in not putting them there should be ashamed of themselves.jus hangin
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PoeTattoo wrote:
God, enough already...
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Coalbarge wrote:
I wanna go space truckin!!!!!!
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Sentinel_18 wrote:
very long song I fell asleep...
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