Space Truckin...Highway Star...
How about Lazy...Strange Kind of Woman...I always liked Ian Paice's drum intro to Fireball too.
I saw a show this weekend a friend taped, a history of the Fender Stratocaster, with clips of a horde of musicians using them, Blackmore and Clapton of course, David Gilmour, Steve Miller, Malmsteen, Keith Richards, George Harrison, Dweezil Zappa, (short clip of Frank too), Hendrix, Jeff Lynne, Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Heally, some of the older blues guys, Leo Fender, and others. They showed the clip of Ritchie Blackmore at California Jam smashing a strat on the video camera. Unfortunately they didn't show when he broke the lens, that looked pretty cool from what I remember of it but that was many moons ago...
Anyway it was interesting, clips of Hendrix burning one, George Harrison with his 1965 strat he painted day glo in about 67, (used on "All You Need Is Love") and he told the story of how it came to pass, Dweezil Zappa with the burned Hendrix strat Frank had, after he died Dweezil found it under a staircase with junk on top of it demolished again and rebuilt it with a left handed neck.
Clapton also related how in the late 60's when Fender almost sidelined the strat, they were going for very low prices because they just weren't selling, he bought 12 for nothing and gave several away, then used parts from 4 to build Blackie. When Hendrix died in '70 the strat sales suddenly took off, so we didn't lose the strat after all...
Cool that Blue Cheer looks like they're at it again, the sound loop on the site didn't sound anything like the 60's group though, it was raunch n' roll deluxe back then. I remember hearing that and atomic Rooster and thinking "that'll never fly"...boy was I wrong...Usually zeppelin is credited with being the original Heavy Metal band, believe it or not, but I always thought that should be Blue Cheer, Grabnd Funk Railroad or Atomic Rooster.
Captain Beyond was my favorite of that era, Deep Purple's original vocalist Rod Evans, Iron Butterfly's Lee Dorman (bass) and Rhino (guitar) and Bobby Caldwell (Johnny Winter's drummer). The first real supergroup. Unfortunately their record company had just discovered southern rock and didn't promote them well, they fizzled out due to that and drug problems, two albums and they disappeared. But that 1st Captain Beyond album was killer...I still listen to it now and then. By the way I read when I looked up some info on the band that Rhino said he recorded that album with a pair of 200 watt Marshalls and a Strat...And I thought Blackmore was nuts using just one of those beasts...
You just had to get me started...
