This is the only footage I know of that exists of Deep Purple Doing Fireball in the 1970's. This is from Copenhagan 1972 during the MACHINE HEAD Tour. The band was on fire this night. Poor Ian Gillan was getting over a nasty case of Bronchitis at the time of this show but he still managed to pull off a good preformance. MK 2 Deep Purple was untouchable live. They never played the songs the same way every night. They were almost like a jazz group. Always improvising.Double kick pedals hadn't been invented yet so Paice had to use 2 - 26" X 16" LUDWIG kick drums Live. FIREBALL was performed a couple other times in 1972 as an encore then it was dropped.Interesting note about IAN PAICES kit in the video. Ian had this kit custom built for him by LUDWIG. The sizes of the drums where huge. Bass Drum was 26" X 16". Rack Tom was 16" X 10 or 12", not exactly sure. First Floor Tom was 18" X 16". Second Floor Tom was 20" X 18".The kit is this video also the same kit that was used on DEEP PURPLES 1972 Live album MADE IN JAPAN.Ian was asked once during a 2007 Drum Clinic If he still had any of the Silver sparkle LUDWIGS he used in DP. Ian said he had pieces of them. When asked If he still had the kit he used on MADE IN JAPAN (the kit in the above video) he said the kit disappeared sometime in the mid-70's. He said there was a kid that lived down the street from him who started taking drum lessons but he didn't have a kit of his own. So Ian Lent him the Silver Sparkle Ludwigs that he played on MIJ and all through the MACHINE HEAD tour. A little while later the kid and his family moved away and never gave Ian Back The Drums. Fast forward 30 years Ian was approached by a guy at a clinic who offered him $100.000 for that very kit. It was at this point in the video I was watching that Ian lightly slapped himself on the face and said "Stupid, Stupid". Whether the guy was serious or not I don't know and I don't think Ian knew either. Great story, Amazing Drummer. My all time hero.

This is the only footage I know of that exists of Deep Purple Doing Fireball in the 1970's. This is from Copenhagan 1972 during the MACHINE HEAD Tour. The band was on fire this night. Poor Ian Gillan was getting over a nasty case of Bronchitis at the time of this show but he still managed to pull off a good preformance. MK 2 Deep Purple was untouchable live. They never played the songs the same way every night. They were almost like a jazz group. Always improvising.Double kick pedals hadn't been invented yet so Paice had to use 2 - 26" X 16" LUDWIG kick drums Live. FIREBALL was performed a couple other times in 1972 as an encore then it was dropped.Interesting note about IAN PAICES kit in the video. Ian had this kit custom built for him by LUDWIG. The sizes of the drums where huge. Bass Drum was 26" X 16". Rack Tom was 16" X 10 or 12", not exactly sure. First Floor Tom was 18" X 16". Second Floor Tom was 20" X 18".The kit is this video also the same kit that was used on DEEP PURPLES 1972 Live album MADE IN JAPAN.Ian was asked once during a 2007 Drum Clinic If he still had any of the Silver sparkle LUDWIGS he used in DP. Ian said he had pieces of them. When asked If he still had the kit he used on MADE IN JAPAN (the kit in the above video) he said the kit disappeared sometime in the mid-70's. He said there was a kid that lived down the street from him who started taking drum lessons but he didn't have a kit of his own. So Ian Lent him the Silver Sparkle Ludwigs that he played on MIJ and all through the MACHINE HEAD tour. A little while later the kid and his family moved away and never gave Ian Back The Drums. Fast forward 30 years Ian was approached by a guy at a clinic who offered him $100.000 for that very kit. It was at this point in the video I was watching that Ian lightly slapped himself on the face and said "Stupid, Stupid". Whether the guy was serious or not I don't know and I don't think Ian knew either. Great story, Amazing Drummer. My all time hero.

Check out this video Purple put out last year for a song off there new album NOW WHAT!!! Songs called VINCENT PRICE. It's a little cheesy but Ian is playing what looks like either the old BOP Keystone Ludwigs or the it's the Silver Sparkle keystone Ludwigs he used just before the B/O Badge kit. Strange thing about this kit is it has Premier Spurs on the bass drum. None of the Ludwig kits I've seen him use had premier spurs on them.http://youtu.be/BEWYRRaxFhU

That's where those images came from! I was searching online for "Ian Paice Silver Sparkle" (or something) recently, and I saw those pics, but had never seen that video before. What's that in the top RH corner? A large rack tom (piece from the Machine Head tour kit?)?[IMG]http://www.drummagazine.com/images/features/080210-paice-1.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://www.thehighwaystar.com/graphics/mk2a/live1973/amsterdam/amsterdam_ip_rai.jpg[/IMG]Playing a more normal sized kit, 1971:[IMG]http://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/gfx/400-4470.jpg[/IMG]Recording Machine Head with a normal sized kit:[IMG]http://www.oschti.ch/Deep-Purple/31/2/Machine-Head/53/Album/Ian-Paice-1971-Machine-Head.jpg[/IMG]Then the Burn album, looks to be a 24"(?) bass drum:[IMG]http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/deeppurple/paicepic1.jpg[/IMG]