The song by Deep Purple, the title track of the album by the same name. 1974. Probably the hardest song I ever played as a kid, on the drums. It would flat wear your ass out and it was about three minutes longer than you wanted it to be. Any of you guys that ever tried it know what I’m talking about.
So, a lot of people have covered it and now that we have YouTube, scads of people are playing their version of it on YouTube. One of my favorites is by a 12-year-old Japanese kid, who I think has a really bright future. She doesn’t play the song in the same way that Ian Paice did originally, but it doesn’t bother me and it doesn’t bother Ian, either. He has seen the kid’s video and loves it.
Here she is recording it with a band in Japan, I don’t know if they do more than this one song or if they just got together for this one recording, I need to check that out. They do a hell of a good job playing it, I particularly like the guitarist. His tone was really good and reminded me a lot of the original. Of course, the kid on the drums is the star.
Enjoy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PaeNz2Kkqaw