Highway Star - Deep Purple - Drum Cover

Описание: Highway Star has always been one of my top favorite, if not THEEE favorite true classic rock songs ever. It's fast, high energy and has incredible dynamics from every member of Deep Purple. The strong, pulsating bass line by Roger Glover, the extremely strong, solid driving beat, diverse, fast fills and overall creative drumming by Ian Paice (one of my top favorite rock drummers of all time and I believe one of the greatest ever), incredible guitar work and solo by Richie Blackmore (ranked 15th best guitar solo of all time in this song by Guitar World Magazine), Incredible vocal range and powerful performance by lead singer Ian Gillan and last but not least, very powerful, high energy, amazing keyboard work by Jon Lord (RIP). It has it all!

According to songfacts.com, on September 13, 1971, the band was on a tour bus on the way to a gig in the UK and Richie Blackmore began strumming some fast chords on an acoustic guitar, Ian Gillan started adding some ad-lib vocals and Highway Star was born! They played it THAT night at the concert as their opening song, the crowd seemed to love it, and then, over time they perfected and released it as the opening track on the 1972 album Machine Head. They played it as their opening song for every concert after that.

Richie Blackmore explained that he wrote this guitar solo note for note about a week before they recorded it in Montreux, Switzerland. He wanted it to sound like someone driving a fast car.

To this day Highway Star is one of the most famous "driving" songs in rock, right up there with Born To Be Wild by Steppenwolf and Radar Love by Golden Earring.