They wrote this song in a day on a bus during an interview and then performed it later that day at a concert. There's no hidden meaning. It's just about a car.
"Space Truckin'" with Blackmore presenting the main riff to singer Ian Gillan in a bus with the initial idea of "come on" over the riff. "Highway Star" was more thought out with its classical leanings. There is an interview with Jon Lord about the "Highway Star" and also the secret of his organ sound.
@@nim4464 thanks for pointing that out. A lot of people just comment without thinking. That's how I lost my Twitter account because they took my comment too literally
Yeah, I always loved to joke around and give crap to keyboard players about how they're always the lamest member in any rock band, but I always added the disclaimer "Except for the guy form Deep Purple because he kicks ass."
Ritchie Blackmore, (Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist) is literally the first fast and technical shred guitar hero ever. Also the biggest idol and influence of Yngwie Malmsteen! You guys absolutely need more Deep Purple in your lives!
Yeah Deep Purple was part of the Pioneers concerning Metal with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and others even The Beatles with Helter Skelter of course. Awesome reaction! Cheers!
Saw Deep Purple in 1971 at Birmingham Town Hall (England) so LOUD we had to put our fingers in our ears to hear what they were playing and later, in bed, had ringing sound in ears!!!
Deep Purple is part of Holy Trinity of British Rock, 1. Led Zeppelin 2. Black Sabbath 3. Deep Purple What other song has 2 solos, Jon Lord organ and Ritchie Blackmore on guitar. Love this song!!!!
Glad to see a song from the pre metal years...a nice change from modern thrash! One of the all time great guitar innovators and performers....Richie B!
Deep Purple - "Child In Time" is an excellent song from 1971. When you listen to it, you can tell the influences in hard rock and metal of today. If you haven't checked it out yet, I highly recommend. Thanks =)
I would check out "Space Truckin" (of the same album as Highway Star) and than listen to song "Hard lovin man" off In Rock. Crazy how ahead of their time they were with those two songs in terms of metal.
Deep Purple members might deny it but they were right there next to Sabbath and even Zepplin as godfathers of heavy metal definitaly hard rock. CLASSIC!
Machine Head is the first album I ever listened to. And the reason why I picked up guitar. I litterly just went to my dad after hearing the whole album and went like "show me smoke one the water"
The bands that started hard rock witch later lead in to metal was Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriha Heep and Nazareth, they all had theire break in 1970. Some people also say Led Zeppelin was one of the orginal hard rock inventor
First album I ever listened to. And the reason why I picked up guitar. I litterly just went to my dad after hearing the whole album and went like "show me smoke one the water"
My birthyear. The first time I heard this it was 1987 when I was really in deep with Deep Purple. And with Guns and Roses. And with Iron Maiden. And with Metallica. And with many more.
Me cuesta creer que sus reacciones sean esas a una obra de arte como Highway Star de Deep Purple. I find it hard to believe his reactions are those to a work of art like Deep Purple's Highway Star.
I heard a story that a reporter was travelling with Deep Purple on their way to a concert. The guys in the band started to show how they write a song and out of that Highway Star was written and the rumours was that they preformed it that night to show off to the reporter.
Vin and Sori, I am 55yrs. old and the heavy metal terminology came in to play around when I was 10yrs. old (1975). It was used to describe bands that incorporated multiple music styles into their songs, not just blues as the bands of the 60s did. Led Zeppelin was considered an original Metal band because they had many different styles to their music. By today's standards they are just a hard rock band. Deep Purple's Mach 2 lineup incorporated blues, classical, and jazz regularly. If you listen to that guitar solo it start with a basic blues progression then went into a classical progression. This was pure Heavy Metal. Believe it or not Black Sabbath was not considered a Heavy Metal band back then, they were just a Heavy riffed blues band. Plus, Tony Iommi could never riff like Ritchie Blackmore. Iommi was missing the tips of his fingers so Sabbath developed a Heavy downtuned sound with heavy guitar rhythms . blackmore was called the Mad Wizard of guitar for a reason.
Yeah. I think Machine head is my third or 4th favorite Deep purple album. I have In Rock at 1 and Fireball at 2. Not sure if I like Burn or Machine head better at 3.
growing up, i never got into hot rods. a car was just a way to get from point A to point B. but several of my classmates would drag race each other on a piece of highway outside of town. i thought they were lucky to be alive. i've seen several news stories recently about people street-racing and getting into terrible accidents --- some with bystanders getting killed. stupid, and not worth it.
Metal like all music is always evolving. I have heard that the Kinks had influenced Metal sound when Dave Davies took a knife to his speaker Amp to create the distortion in You Really Got Me, but if you asked them they would tell you it was the blues guitar that influenced them from the 50’s All the greats get their influence from somewhere and when you hear people like Lars Ulrich talk about bands like deep purple and it’s impact, it’s just cool. 🤘
Good vid. It never would dawn on me as a Canadian prairie boy that it's basically useless to get a driver's license in NYC. But I've also never been there. My experience of the city is just what's on tv.
It can never be said for sure who invented metal, but as someone who was alive back then, the first really heavy stuff to get wide radio play included Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf etc... Deep Purple never struck me as that kind of heavy metal, their stuff was more straight ahead, often bluesy hard rock. This was like the ultimate driving song of the time. I was 15 when this came out. It was the time of car culture, muscle cars and street rods were a large niche. And even for any teen/young adult, getting a car was equal to freedom for many of us. It's pointless to do any pondering about deep lyrical meaning here, it's just feel-good rock celebrating that aspect of youth culture at the time. Like many rock songs, it just paints a general lyrical picture and draws some loose analogies to create a mood/feeling.
When I was a kid back in the 90's I never expected to ever think, let alone utter, the phrase "That organ solo was badass." And then I heard this song and Jon Lord reached out to me from the past across two decades and basically told me to sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen.
In a similar vain...check out Queen 'I'm In Love With My Car'...sung by drummer Roger Taylor. Just for the line "Told my girl I'd have to forget her...Rather buy me a new Carburettor"
After Blackmore left DP the most unsung guitarist of all time "Tommy Bolin"(RIP) blessed the band for their last album of the 70's " Come Taste The Band" check " Dealer" !!! Love Blackmore but Bolin was otherworldly(RIP) The warmest greasiest tone ever. Bolin brought the funk to DP. Anyone unfamiliar should check it out!!
The very basis of palm mute and ostinato is Communication Breakdown from Zeppelin (1968). "Paranoid" (1970) from Sabb and "Highway Star"(1972) just make the thing heavier and faster . Talking of the metal chord, the triton , the very first song is Black Sabbath (1970) from Black Sabbath . So the Black Sabb are the basis of metal , but Zeppelin with Cream and Hendrix are the very basis of the heavy / hard rock.
By the time this came out, Deep Purple, along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, were becoming part of the holy trinity of heavy metal. Or at least what was being called heavy metal at that time. A wonderful time to be young and alive. This song is great, but the live 'Made In Japan' version blows it out of the water.
You should check out their song burn it had David Coverdale on vocals, this song the first solo you heard was a keyboard solo and the second was guitar that’s why deep purple,sabbath , maiden,even scorpions were all playing at this time
For sure one of the OGs of metal. Listen to all the layers and the insane drum work, first ever rock song I heard was their Smoke on the Water, give it a try. Too dangerous to drive to
I seen Deep Purple with Judas Priest live on the Judas Priest Firepower tour Deep Purple was pretty rocking and Judas Priest what can you say their Metal gods
It's not about a girl. In the 70s guys called their car baby, she , girl, if it was a old car they may call their car old girl. www.songfacts.com/facts/deep-purple/highway-star
A very happy Sori, Listen to Iommi's guitar solo Black Sabbath Black Sabbath, and Ritchie Blackmore's Child in Time guitar solo, that's a great indicator on Metal, both albums were released 4 months apart in 1970.
I recommend you check out the song Hard Lovin Man from their 1970 album Deep Purple In Rock. It has that gallopy feel to it that Iron Maiden use quite often and it is even heavier than Highway Star.
Deep Purple started with the other foot in prog and classical music, moving towards the heavy / hard rock. Both keyboardist, the late Jon Lord and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore have classical training and especially Blackmore has had a permanent interest into medieval and renaissance era music. Blackmore is said to have laid the foundation to the neo-classical metal shredders ala Yngwie Malmsteen but of course nobody knew it back then.
This is a favorite one that the so called "shred" guitarists, ie Gilber, Vai, Satriani, et al, love to cover cause you can really take off and jam. Lotta great tunes on this album but my favorite is one that rarely gets played, "Never Before".
You guys need to check out the band Pentagram. One of the pioneers of Doom Metal. They got their start in the early 70's and were considered to be an American version of Black Sabbath. The frontman Bobby Liebling, had a long history of drugs and the band never really took off. The band released their official debut in the mid 80's... I'd go back to the 70's and check out their song "Forever My Queen" to start out with.
They wrote this song in a day on a bus during an interview and then performed it later that day at a concert.
There's no hidden meaning. It's just about a car.
"Space Truckin'" with Blackmore presenting the main riff to singer Ian Gillan in a bus with the initial idea of "come on" over the riff.
"Highway Star" was more thought out with its classical leanings. There is an interview with Jon Lord about the "Highway Star" and also
the secret of his organ sound.
So what , now it's a world famous song indeed🔥🔥
This is probably one of the best songs from the early 70s
Actually that's iron man
Yeah buddy!! That was a voice!!!
@@joeteague4292 well, if you read the comment correctly, it says "ONE OF the best", not "THE best"
Coincidently also the best solo ever
@@nim4464 thanks for pointing that out. A lot of people just comment without thinking. That's how I lost my Twitter account because they took my comment too literally
The organ by itself can be a song on its own
Yeah, I always loved to joke around and give crap to keyboard players about how they're always the lamest member in any rock band, but I always added the disclaimer "Except for the guy form Deep Purple because he kicks ass."
Ritchie Blackmore, (Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist) is literally the first fast and technical shred guitar hero ever. Also the biggest idol and influence of Yngwie Malmsteen! You guys absolutely need more Deep Purple in your lives!
Richie is my GOAT. Unpredictable and technical at the same time.
This song is a classic
Beyond “amazing” song. We have covered it for years. The Deep Purple classic lineup was 5 gifted musicians!!!!
One of the best dual guitar/Hammond organ solos of all time IMO. Hail!
So many legendary musicians on this band
All of them!
Yeah Deep Purple was part of the Pioneers concerning Metal with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and others even The Beatles with Helter Skelter of course. Awesome reaction! Cheers!
Is glad to find people like you who knows Heavy Metal.
yo creo que en el solo de teclados es incluso speed metal
These guys where a big influence to many musicians. Perfect Strangers is another great track from the Purple...
Deep purple was ahead of their time for sure I think they were the loudest band in the world at some point
Saw Deep Purple in 1971 at Birmingham Town Hall (England) so LOUD we had to put our fingers in our ears to hear what they were playing and later, in bed, had ringing sound in ears!!!
Wow that's crazy, but I'm jealous that you got to experience it
I love deep purple ❤🤘❤🤘
It’s been about 5 months since I’ve seen a good song on your page, finally haha
The Made in Japan version is one of the great live cuts of all time.
The most bad ass thing about the song is the theme is simple. It's cool to have a metal song about his love of a car.
The song is about everything he cares about , his car, his girl and his head. Sori is waaaaay overthinking it
Yes
Right, just enjoy the music please.
Deep Purple is part of Holy Trinity of British Rock,
1. Led Zeppelin
2. Black Sabbath
3. Deep Purple
What other song has 2 solos, Jon Lord organ and Ritchie Blackmore on guitar.
Love this song!!!!
Judas Priest?
@@mattmcsherry761 too late
Uriah Heep should have been included to make big 4.
🤘Deep purple rocks 🤘
Their album Machine Head,is a rock milestone,referenced by anyone who mattered.
One of the best songs EVER
Space Truckin by Deep Purple is a banger. I saw them in the 70s in Detroit and they broke all their instruments at the end of the show.
Ian Gillian played Jesus Christ in the original Andrew Lloyd Weber production of Jesus Christ Superstar in England. Best hard rock voice ever
Glad to see a song from the pre metal years...a nice change from modern thrash!
One of the all time great guitar innovators and performers....Richie B!
The first solo was Jon Lord on the Organ and the second solo was Blackmore on guitar, the song is definitely epic and Ian Gillan’s vocals is Superb
Deep Purple - "Child In Time" is an excellent song from 1971. When you listen to it, you can tell the influences in hard rock and metal of today. If you haven't checked it out yet, I highly recommend. Thanks =)
They already did it quite a while back.
One of their best. Blackmore's solo is just jaw dropping.
I love you too can you hold it down about that you mean too much
What are you doing is I like it
First solo: John Lord (R.I.P.), Hammond Organ
Second solo: Ritchie Blackmore, Lead Guitar
I would check out "Space Truckin" (of the same album as Highway Star) and than listen to song "Hard lovin man" off In Rock. Crazy how ahead of their time they were with those two songs in terms of metal.
First like and comment!!! Hello from chicago you guys are awesome!!!
Deep Purple members might deny it but they were right there next to Sabbath and even Zepplin as godfathers of heavy metal definitaly hard rock. CLASSIC!
That first solo was done on the organ/keyboard 👍
Machine Head is the first album I ever listened to. And the reason why I picked up guitar. I litterly just went to my dad after hearing the whole album and went like "show me smoke one the water"
The bands that started hard rock witch later lead in to metal was Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Uriha Heep and Nazareth, they all had theire break in 1970. Some people also say Led Zeppelin was one of the orginal hard rock inventor
The Unholy Trinity!
You can tell just by the smiles while you were listening...😄
One word..legends. These guys along Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin started it all.
The album that this song is from, Machine Head, is a great fucking album!
First album I ever listened to. And the reason why I picked up guitar. I litterly just went to my dad after hearing the whole album and went like "show me smoke one the water"
My birthyear. The first time I heard this it was 1987 when I was really in deep with Deep Purple. And with Guns and Roses. And with Iron Maiden. And with Metallica. And with many more.
Me cuesta creer que sus reacciones sean esas a una obra de arte como Highway Star de Deep Purple.
I find it hard to believe his reactions are those to a work of art like Deep Purple's Highway Star.
I heard a story that a reporter was travelling with Deep Purple on their way to a concert. The guys in the band started to show how they write a song and out of that Highway Star was written and the rumours was that they preformed it that night to show off to the reporter.
Solo courtesy of Ritchie Blackmore also in Rainbow and early Whitesnake
Never in Whitesnake!
Vin and Sori, I am 55yrs. old and the heavy metal terminology came in to play around when I was 10yrs. old (1975). It was used to describe bands that incorporated multiple music styles into their songs, not just blues as the bands of the 60s did. Led Zeppelin was considered an original Metal band because they had many different styles to their music. By today's standards they are just a hard rock band. Deep Purple's Mach 2 lineup incorporated blues, classical, and jazz regularly. If you listen to that guitar solo it start with a basic blues progression then went into a classical progression. This was pure Heavy Metal. Believe it or not Black Sabbath was not considered a Heavy Metal band back then, they were just a Heavy riffed blues band. Plus, Tony Iommi could never riff like Ritchie Blackmore. Iommi was missing the tips of his fingers so Sabbath developed a Heavy downtuned sound with heavy guitar rhythms . blackmore was called the Mad Wizard of guitar for a reason.
No moron
@@fredtello ???????
Wut? If you want to know what pure heavy metal is, it's Judas Priest.
Yeah!!!! Love Priest. Saw them in concert 3 times. The Painkiller tour had Megadeth and Testament opening up. AWESOME!!!!
Thanks for Reacting to our Alliance songs Big Homies!
Get your alliance to have them react to Red Barchetta by Rush!
Depp purple bom demais!!!
Purple are high there with rock royalty. First solo is keyboard (John Lord). What a band!
Hey vin and sori! Great night for some deep purple 🎵🎵🎵
Classic song
*Hey i used to headbang a lot wiith this song on GTAIV The Lost And Damned but never knew the name until now, great song ngl*
Black Sabbath, Symptom of the Universe. Trust me, this is thee best song ever. No shit. Amazing acoustic ending
Got Machine Head album when it came out in 72
Back then I gave it a 10
Now an 8 for me
Still one of the best Deep Purple songs
Great memories
Yeah. I think Machine head is my third or 4th favorite Deep purple album. I have In Rock at 1 and Fireball at 2. Not sure if I like Burn or Machine head better at 3.
Legendary!
Classic!
Just brilliant!Try Space truckin’ is great or anything from Machine head the album or Fireball! His “girl” is his car!
When you hear this song you know your going to like it
growing up, i never got into hot rods. a car was just a way to get from point A to point B. but several of my classmates would drag race each other on a piece of highway outside of town. i thought they were lucky to be alive.
i've seen several news stories recently about people street-racing and getting into terrible accidents --- some with bystanders getting killed.
stupid, and not worth it.
I LOVE YOU IAN GILLAN ❤ I LOVE DEEP PURPLE!!! 💜💜💜💜💜
Loved when Vin does is guitar bit when it's an over driven organ.
Deep Purple in two words: Kick Ass!!
These guys are one of the original heavy metal bands
It's no coincidence three of the best British metal bands of the 80s were Deep Purple offshoots, Rainbow, Whitesnake and The Ian Gillan Band.
Sabbath and Purple are the fathers of metal. Iommi and Blackmore are the two most influential songwriters in heavier music.
Dream theater is heavily inspired by this group. Super group
Metal like all music is always evolving. I have heard that the Kinks had influenced Metal sound when Dave Davies took a knife to his speaker Amp to create the distortion in You Really Got Me, but if you asked them they would tell you it was the blues guitar that influenced them from the 50’s All the greats get their influence from somewhere and when you hear people like Lars Ulrich talk about bands like deep purple and it’s impact, it’s just cool. 🤘
Vin, probably the one thing me and you agree on, Tony Iommi is where Metal begins :)
Deep purple were ahead of their time .
The guitarist Ritchie Blackmore is considered one of the greatest. He formed band Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio couple years later
Turn any vehicles into a landspeed record breaker since the 70's
Nice reaction guys.. getting into the groove!! What's up next? "Child in time" perhaps?
One of the best driving songs for me...outstanding!!
Good vid. It never would dawn on me as a Canadian prairie boy that it's basically useless to get a driver's license in NYC. But I've also never been there. My experience of the city is just what's on tv.
Groovy!
It can never be said for sure who invented metal, but as someone who was alive back then, the first really heavy stuff to get wide radio play included Black Sabbath, Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf etc... Deep Purple never struck me as that kind of heavy metal, their stuff was more straight ahead, often bluesy hard rock.
This was like the ultimate driving song of the time. I was 15 when this came out. It was the time of car culture, muscle cars and street rods were a large niche. And even for any teen/young adult, getting a car was equal to freedom for many of us. It's pointless to do any pondering about deep lyrical meaning here, it's just feel-good rock celebrating that aspect of youth culture at the time. Like many rock songs, it just paints a general lyrical picture and draws some loose analogies to create a mood/feeling.
When I was a kid back in the 90's I never expected to ever think, let alone utter, the phrase "That organ solo was badass." And then I heard this song and Jon Lord reached out to me from the past across two decades and basically told me to sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen.
In a similar vain...check out Queen 'I'm In Love With My Car'...sung by drummer Roger Taylor. Just for the line "Told my girl I'd have to forget her...Rather buy me a new Carburettor"
Great one from a great band.
Have you guys done "Child In Time", yet? That's a song I've seen so many reactions to that I can't remember which channels have done it 😅
Yep - ua-cam.com/video/DXLVNOa-HrI/v-deo.html
Space Truckin .... 🤘👽
After Blackmore left DP the most unsung guitarist of all time "Tommy Bolin"(RIP) blessed the band for their last album of the 70's
" Come Taste The Band" check " Dealer" !!!
Love Blackmore but Bolin was otherworldly(RIP) The warmest greasiest tone ever. Bolin brought the funk to DP.
Anyone unfamiliar should check it out!!
The very basis of palm mute and ostinato is Communication Breakdown from Zeppelin (1968). "Paranoid" (1970) from Sabb and "Highway Star"(1972) just make the thing heavier and faster . Talking of the metal chord, the triton , the very first song is Black Sabbath (1970) from Black Sabbath . So the Black Sabb are the basis of metal , but Zeppelin with Cream and Hendrix are the very basis of the heavy / hard rock.
By the time this came out, Deep Purple, along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, were becoming part of the holy trinity of heavy metal. Or at least what was being called heavy metal at that time. A wonderful time to be young and alive.
This song is great, but the live 'Made In Japan' version blows it out of the water.
Deep purple - hard lovin man ) first speed metal song 1970
You should check out their song burn it had David Coverdale on vocals, this song the first solo you heard was a keyboard solo and the second was guitar that’s why deep purple,sabbath , maiden,even scorpions were all playing at this time
So suited for driving fast, amazing song
For sure one of the OGs of metal. Listen to all the layers and the insane drum work, first ever rock song I heard was their Smoke on the Water, give it a try. Too dangerous to drive to
White Zombie/ Black Sunshine 1990's
I seen Deep Purple with Judas Priest live on the Judas Priest Firepower tour Deep Purple was pretty rocking and Judas Priest what can you say their Metal gods
Child in time!!!! Its fire!!!!!
I especially like that you air guitar during a keyboard solo. Lol.
Johnny Osmond old f****** Firebird 67 or 68 just worked on it all summer and sing when like Snot we were Highway Stars that's the song on the radio
Made in Japan is the best version of this unbelievable live album
It's not about a girl. In the 70s guys called their car baby, she , girl, if it was a old car they may call their car old girl. www.songfacts.com/facts/deep-purple/highway-star
A very happy Sori, Listen to Iommi's guitar solo Black Sabbath Black Sabbath, and Ritchie Blackmore's Child in Time guitar solo, that's a great indicator on Metal, both albums were released 4 months apart in 1970.
I had no idea Frank Zappa and Dave Grohl were in Deep Purple. Wow they go way...back.
You just listened to #1 rock song of all time bar none. Everything in this song is #1 in importance for rock.
I recommend you check out the song Hard Lovin Man from their 1970 album Deep Purple In Rock. It has that gallopy feel to it that Iron Maiden use quite often and it is even heavier than Highway Star.
Steve Harris from Iron Maiden is heavily influenced.. they play a key roll in Maidens success today !!
Deep Purple started with the other foot in prog and classical music, moving towards the heavy / hard rock. Both keyboardist, the late Jon Lord and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore have classical training
and especially Blackmore has had a permanent interest into medieval and renaissance era music. Blackmore is said to have laid the foundation to the neo-classical metal shredders ala Yngwie Malmsteen but of course nobody knew it back then.
This is a favorite one that the so called "shred" guitarists, ie Gilber, Vai, Satriani, et al, love to cover cause you can really take off and jam. Lotta great tunes on this album but my favorite is one that rarely gets played, "Never Before".
wow finally a good song.
Vin the first lead break is John lord on the organ not a guiter
You guys need to check out the band Pentagram. One of the pioneers of Doom Metal. They got their start in the early 70's and were considered to be an American version of Black Sabbath. The frontman Bobby Liebling, had a long history of drugs and the band never really took off. The band released their official debut in the mid 80's... I'd go back to the 70's and check out their song "Forever My Queen" to start out with.
The 1st solo was Jon Lord on the Keyboards then the 2nd solo was Ritchie Blackmore showing off his awesomeness. ]:P
First solo an organ piano courtesy of Jon Lord