Mistreated (song)

Mistreated (song)
"Mistreated"
Song by Deep Purple from the album Burn
Released February 15, 1974
Recorded November 1973
Montreux, Switzerland
Genre Hard rock, blues rock
Length 7:28
Label EMI (UK)
Warner Bros. (US)
Writer Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale
Producer Deep Purple
Burn track listing
"What's Going on Here"
(6)
"Mistreated"
(7)
"A" 200"
(8)

"Mistreated" is a song by the British hard rock band Deep Purple taken from their 1974 album Burn. Unlike most of Deep Purple's material (hard rock, heavy metal) "Mistreated" is a blues rock song. The song was written by the band's guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and new vocalist David Coverdale, who, along with new bassist Glenn Hughes, brought new blues and funk elements to the band.

At live performances Glenn Hughes would introduce "Mistreated" as a song that Blackmore had written a few years earlier to Burn.[1] The song was actually been considered for the bands previous album Who Do We Think We Are, but Ritchie held it back. When work on Burn started, Coverdale wrote the lyrics to "Mistreated", and it is actually the only song on Burn where he sings the lyrics entirely himself. In the booklet of the 30th Anniversary Edition of Burn, Coverdale commented on the recording of the vocals on "Mistreated":

"We recorded "Mistreated" from 11pm to 7:30 in the morning. I heard the first playbacks and thought it was terrible. It was so bad I just sat down and cried because I wanted it to be so good. Then the next night we had another session and I did it on the second take. It's like progressive blues. It wasn't raised in a shack by the railroad tracks but I've still had emotional hassles and that's the only kind of blues i can interpret. I tried very hard because I knew it was essential to get the strong emotive quality the song needs. The thing I wanted was for somebody listening to the song to think: 'I know what he's talking about' and get the feeling, then the song would be worth it. It's essentially a physical feeling. The reason it didn't come off straight away was simply that I was trying too hard."

The longest track on the album, the song shifts gear and builds to a climax, Blackmore launching into a rapid solo, with Coverdale and Hughes building a wall of multi-tracked backing vocals before the song's end.

The song stayed in the band's set-list until late 1975. After Deep Purple broke-up in 1976, David Coverdale would continue performing "Mistreated" with his band Whitesnake (which has also included former Purple-bandmates Jon Lord and Ian Paice) until the early-80's and briefly again in 1997. Live versions of the song are featured on the bands albums Live at Hammersmith and Live...in the Heart of the City

Ritchie Blackmore also performed the song with his band Rainbow in the late-70's and mid-90's.[2] A live version can be heard on the groups albums On Stage, Live in Germany and Live in Munich 1977 with Ronnie James Dio on vocals. And, more recently, Glenn Hughes has rolled the song out at gigs with his latest band Black Country Communion.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsO26Pgm6qI&hd=1
  2. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHqXFIbtGzM

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