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"Highway Star" is a song by the English rock band Deep Purple. It is the opening track on the band's sixth studio album Machine Head (1972) and is the fastest tempo song on the album. It is characterised by long, classically inspired guitar and organ solos.
One technique on guitar involves strumming palm muted power chords in an up-and-down motion with a pick, thereby creating an ostinato. [3] [4] Variations include the triplet gallop [5] and the reverse gallop. [6] On drums, the technique often uses a double kick pedal. A typical drum gallop is formed around this skeleton:
Rolling Stone's Lester Bangs praised the lyrics to "Highway Star" and "Space Truckin'" as well as all the music, although he was less complimentary about the lyrics of the remaining songs: "In between those two Deep Purple classics lies nothing but good, hard-socking music, although some of the lyrics may leave a bit to be desired." Concluding ...
Readers of Guitar World voted two of Blackmore's guitar solos (both recorded with Deep Purple) among the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of all time – "Highway Star" ranked 19th, and "Lazy" ranked 74th. [86] His solo on "Child in Time" was ranked no. 16 in a 1998 Guitarist magazine readers poll of Top 100 Guitar Solos of All-Time. [87]
On 2 April 2007 Gillan released a DVD Highway Star – A Journey in Rock. The DVD has 6 hours of footage including documentaries and music clips. This was followed in February 2008 by a double live album on Edel Records, Live in Anaheim that features Gillan and Deep Purple classic songs and several rarities. A companion DVD was released in May ...
Highway Star may refer to: "Highway Star" (song), a song on Deep Purple's 1972 album Machine Head; Highway Star, the band that became Stiff Little Fingers; Highway Star, a 1979 graphic novel by Katsuhiro Otomo; Highway Star; Highway Star, a Stand featured in Diamond is Unbreakable named after the Deep Purple song
Grace was an incandescent star the way Mick Jagger was a star. Marty Balin and Paul Kantner liked to promote the idea that Jefferson Airplane was their band, but it wasn’t. It whirled ...
Thomas Richard Bolin (August 1, 1951 – December 4, 1976) was an American guitarist and songwriter who played with Zephyr (from 1969 to 1971), the James Gang (from 1973 to 1974), and Deep Purple (from 1975 to 1976), in addition to maintaining a career as a solo artist and session musician.