Too close to be true?
Ok…So the song that changed my musical life was ‘Child in time’ by Deep Purple. I had been listening to late 60s pop and a friend of mine played the aforementioned song from the album ‘In Rock’. The effect on me was instantaneous, I bought the album and everything else that Deep Purple or Ritchie Blackmore did from that day to now. No doubt the most influential song on my musical direction in life.
Child in time…Clip
Now a friend of mine glibly destroys my illusions by saying " hey, that was a rip off from ‘Bombay Calling’ by It’s a Beautiful day!
Bombay Calling…Clip
Bombay Calling came out 1 year before Child In time…Oh man!! just to make it worse, I have a DVD by Deep Purple called 'Bombay Calling’
Musically disillusioned Bruffie
My guess is there’s more to the story than we know. “In Rock” was my favorite Deep Purple album, but my LP collection is long gone. Could it be a co-write? I’m not up on the history of Deep Purple, but could one of DP’s members been a prior member of It’s a Beautiful Day? I just find it hard to believe that Deep Purple ripped off another band without it becoming common knowledge.
From Wikipedia:
Child in Time" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple. It’s one of their most successful songs,and best known, along with Smoke On The Water. Featured on their seminal 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock, the song has become an epic classic, lasting for a full 10 minutes and 17 seconds. Written by the band in 1969, it is said by the band members themselves to have been inspired by a riff featured in a song by Purple contemporaries It’s a Beautiful Day, called “Bombay Calling”[1]. The riff was played on violins and very much faster in tempo.
I couldn’t say I’m disillusioned, but it is interesting.
Ah well…there’s a great difference between ‘ripping off’ and ‘inspired by’. For my musical well-being, I’ll settle for ‘inspired by’ 
Cheers Kevin.
Is that Francis Rossi in your Avatar Bruffie?
As for Purple - you can’t beat a bit of Black Knight. Love the riff. Really enjoyed hearing the live version when I was younger with a slightly muffed riff part way through. I thought it sounded superb and even Purple got things wrong but still sounded awesome.
Shattered Musical Illusions? Meh… that happens to me every time upon playback of something I recorded… 
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Quote: (Mark A @ May 23 2008, 9:52 PM)
Is that Francis Rossi in your Avatar Bruffie?
As for Purple - you can't beat a bit of Black Knight.
Love the riff.
Really enjoyed hearing the live version when I was younger with a slightly muffed riff part way through.
I thought it sounded superb and even Purple got things wrong but still sounded awesome.
Well spotted Mark....That is indeed Mr Rossi. One of the greatest Riffmeisters of all time IMHO.
Purple were awesome musical talents (a couple of then had egos to match)Black Night was written when they were all drunk which is why the lyrics are nonsense. Gillan could be quite clever lyrically, under normal circumstances.
Cheers,
Ian
Deep Purple were one of my favourite bands and I had about 8 of their LP’s until I sold my collection recently. I have the DVD of Bombay calling which features Steve Morse on guitar who I think is on par with Ritchie Blackmore for ability.
I like the music but Ian Gillan is really annoying between songs with his silly wailing. Deep Purple sound to me is driven by great drums and Hammond Organ.
Quote: (One-way @ May 24 2008, 8:55 AM)
Deep Purple were one of my favourite bands and I had about 8 of their LP's until I sold my collection recently. I have the DVD of Bombay calling which features Steve Morse on guitar who I think is on par with Ritchie Blackmore for ability.
I like the music but Ian Gillan is really annoying between songs with his silly wailing. Deep Purple sound to me is driven by great drums and Hammond Organ.
I'd agree with most of that. for years I thought the ego problem was with Blackmore but I'm not so sure Gillan wasn't as much of a problem. Drums and Hammond? Yes, absolutely, but when you throw into to the pot Blackmore's astonishing playing, you have everything. Smoke on the water was driven by the Hammond, setting aside the fact that it's overplayed to death, that song is a demonstration for anyone that wants to play Rock. The Drums are just brilliant!
I'm also a Steve Morse fan, I would agree that technically he's on a par with Blackmore, but Blackmore has an originality in his playing that makes him stand out.
Know what you mean about Gillan, but Morse and Jon Lord were a great match!
back in the mid 70’s the Dixie Dregs with Morse on guitar were a hot band to go see,man them guys could wail.They would play the smaller venues in Milwaukee and it was always a treat to go see them 
I’ve seen Steve M plenty…the last time in Phoenix with DP. But having said that, the first song I learned was Smoke on the Water back in 72 or 73. Blackmore never really did much for me, but Steve M is another story altogether…shattered any illusions I had about being “good”.
Steve and Dave
Peace,
-Ed