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I just listened to the Reading 1979 tracks on the R&W remaster, and while I thought the band was really rocking, the version of Mistreated was, well, awful. Especially DC and the lead guitar.
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12/10/2009, 7:23
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Coverdale/Moody/Marsden/Murray/Paice/Lord = Best band in the world. Period.
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12/10/2009, 10:32
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I just listened to the Reading 1979 tracks on the R&W remaster, and while I thought the band was really rocking, the version of Mistreated was, well, awful. Especially DC and the lead guitar.
Awful?? totally disagree Rezi whilst it is far from DCs best ever vocal performance the raw power he gives it is simply awesome and i enjoyed Bernies solo totally different to TMIB but enjoyable just the same, for me this was a band who were out to prove themselves and they certainly did
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I think DC pushes it way too hard. He cannot hold the melody together anymore, and at times seems unsure of the lyrics.
The guitar work is the kind of 'blues' guitar that I don't like one bit. Overdone vibrato, tacky sound, etc., The harmony guitars in the fast part are awful, IMO, and so are the hammer-ons. The riff lacks all the power of the way RB played it. Knowing Marsden did not like Blackmore at all, playing his riffs probably wasn't the highlight of the show for the first mentioned.
I like the version on L...ITHOTC more, even if on that too DC is perhaps pushing it too hard. His voice had deepened by that time (thanks to the screaming contest he had with Hughes in Mk4?) and should have used that rather than attempted to bellow it with force.
I agree with Roy Davies when he wrote in his Rainbow book that Dio did the song better than DC with WS. Indeed Rainbow did the song better than WS.
The best performances of the song are by DC in his DP days. The vocal on MIE for example is absolutely devastating!
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The best performances of the song are by DC in his DP days. The vocal on MIE for example is absolutely devastating!
As is the vocal at Reading 80. In fact, it might be DC's best take on the song ever.
I like WS's version of the song. Lord's emotional piano intro really sets the tone for the song, and then the way they launch into it, opting for a different, more dramatic and angst filled approach than the DP/Rainbow versions.
Later climaxing with DC screaming at the top of his lungs over a chaotic ending... I find it hard not to get moved by it.
Finally, I'd argue that if anything, DC's voice was better with WS than with DP. He had more control over his instrument by then.
I wouldn't say his voice deepened in WS, rather the opposite. It became more polished.
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The Reading 1979 version as released on the R&W remaster is the worst version of the song I've heard from DP, Rainbow, or WS.
Has the 1980 version been released officially?
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Indeed Rainbow did the song better than WS.
The best performances of the song are by DC in his DP days. The vocal on MIE for example is absolutely devastating!
I'm stunned by that. The Rainbow versions were too... clean. No real emotion. Coverdale took it to new places with Whitesnake and they produced some devastating live performances of the song including Donington 1983.
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Rezi's ways are mysterious... but they usually involve Ritchie 
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Well, I'd say that Mistreated by Purple is kind of a grandiloquent blues song, and when they played it, Rainbow insisted more on the grandiloquent aspect, so that it fitted in the "heroic fantasy" universe of Rainbow, while Whitesnake insisted more on the blues aspect. So, I guess your appreciation of those versions depend of on which aspect of the song you are more sensitive. I like them both, the one I prefer depend on my mood of the day. 
About the Whitesnake version I have to say I prefer the 80-81 version to the 78-79, partly because of the talk box solo that disappeared latter on...
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Indeed Rainbow did the song better than WS.
The best performances of the song are by DC in his DP days. The vocal on MIE for example is absolutely devastating!
I'm stunned by that. The Rainbow versions were too... clean. No real emotion. Coverdale took it to new places with Whitesnake and they produced some devastating live performances of the song including Donington 1983.
I'm stunned by anyone claiming to be able to detect "real emotion" better the next person.
Basically WS's versions were inferior to Rainbow's, IMO, because overdoing finger vibrato, whining harmony guitars and shouting - not to mention talk box guitar solos - have quite little to do with blues.
Rainbow did it simply because it is an excellent song, that's all.
Daniel, yes, I do like RB far more than BM and MM. What "mysterious" there's to liking one guitar player over another, or one band's version of a song to another band's version I frankly have no idea of.
Neil Murray, now there's probably the finest bass player of the entire DP family.
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