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Deep Purple - The origins

In May of 1965 created a formation known as "Episode Six," which included Ian Gillan on vocals, Graham Dimmock and Tony Lander on guitar, Roger Glover on bass, keyboards and Sheila Dimmock Harvey Shields on the drums.
Two years later came another band, centered on a trio of singers, The Flowerpot Men and Their Garden (formerly known as "The Ivy League"). The name was taken from children's show The Flowerpot Men, but they say that it is an obvious reference to the concepts of flower power and cannabis (pot in English). The group's most successful song was Let's Go To San Francisco (some argue that it was a parody of the song If You're Going to San Francisco by Scott McKenzie, but the group always denied the validity of this entry). The group members were Tony Burrows, Neil Landon, Robin Shaw and Pete Nelson on vocals, Ged Stone on guitar, Nick Simper on bass, Jon Lord on organ and Carol Little on drums.
In February 1968 after a meeting between Lord and Ritchie Blackmore, the project took shape for a new group, the Roundabout, which included Blackmore on guitar, Hammond organ Lord, Chris Curtis on vocals, Bobby Woodman on drums and Nick Simper on bass.
In March 1968, Blackmore, Lord and Simper left by the idea of \u200b\u200bcalling the group Roundabout, but kept it at the moment because, if the band had not been successful, they could start over with a new name and not Roundabout nobody would remember. So "Roundabout" was a purely strategic move. So that there was a new band with vocalist Rod Evans and drummer Ian Paice. When choosing the name of the band, decided on a name composed of two words (as was fashionable at the time): Blackmore proposed "Deep Purple" thinking eponymous song by Nino Tempo and April Stevens, her grandmother's favorite song.
In October 1968 the band had some success in the U.S. with the single "Hush, a cover of a song by Joe South, and with the debut album, Shades of Deep Purple. Followed, in 1969, two albums: The Book of Taliesyn and Deep Purple, the latter included some tracks recorded with a symphony orchestra. To this period belong also cover and memorable songs such as Hey Joe, Mandrake Root, Help and Chasing Shadows, in which there is separately to the stylistic Simper and Evans, considerably different from that of classical training later, but still superlative level.
After those first three albums and toured extensively in the United States, the arrival of Ian Gillan heading (for Evans) and Roger Glover on bass (instead of Simper) gave rise to the "classical training" by Deep Purple : The "Mark II". The first work was the formation of this new album Concerto for Group and Orchestra, a movement in three parts consisting of Lord and recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold.