Deep Purple — Highway Star (2024 remix)
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Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
It's gonna break the speed of sound
Oooh it's a killing machine
It's got everything
Like a driving power big fat tyres
And everything
I love it and I need it
I bleed it yeah it's a wild hurricane
Alright hold tight
I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my girl
I'm gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna have my girl
She stays close on every bend
Oooh she's a killing machine
She's got everything
Like a moving mouth body control
And everything
I love her I need her
I seed her
Yeah she turns me on
Alright hold tight
I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my head
I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head
Now that I'm on the road again
Oooh I'm in heaven again I've got everything
Like a moving ground throttle control
And everything
I love it and I need it
I seed it
Eight cylinders all mine
Alright hold tight
I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
It's gonna break the speed of sound
Oooh it's a killing machine
It's got everything
Like a driving power big
Fat tyres and everything
I love it and I need it
I bleed it
Yeah it's a wild hurricane
Alright hold tight
I'm a highway star
I'm a highway star
I'm a highway star
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
It's gonna break the speed of sound
Oooh it's a killing machine
It's got everything
Like a driving power big fat tyres
And everything
I love it and I need it
I bleed it yeah it's a wild hurricane
Alright hold tight
I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my girl
I'm gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna have my girl
She stays close on every bend
Oooh she's a killing machine
She's got everything
Like a moving mouth body control
And everything
I love her I need her
I seed her
Yeah she turns me on
Alright hold tight
I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my head
I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head
Now that I'm on the road again
Oooh I'm in heaven again I've got everything
Like a moving ground throttle control
And everything
I love it and I need it
I seed it
Eight cylinders all mine
Alright hold tight
I'm a highway star
Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
It's gonna break the speed of sound
Oooh it's a killing machine
It's got everything
Like a driving power big
Fat tyres and everything
I love it and I need it
I bleed it
Yeah it's a wild hurricane
Alright hold tight
I'm a highway star
I'm a highway star
I'm a highway star
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High school memories
hell to the yeah! Bill please also add the Made In Japan live version of this one...epic.
More Purple, less Dead.
As a birthday gift from my girl friend I saw them in Kiel, northern germany. Next door, at that time to us. I was impressed of Gillan's being steadily earthed by using a zenfigure, barefooted, and standing on his toes most of the time. Great!
Love it
Saw Deep Purple last year in Manchester UK. Wasn't expecting too much considering their ages these days, but I was very impressed!!! These old boys still very much have it!!!
Released 2002?? What is wrong here?
eyke wrote:
Yes! LOL! I hadn't thought about "Soundesign" for at least 30-40 years. I am 68yrs old and I have always had a great stereo, since I was 15. I worked at a department store when I was 16, that sold them. The King of low fidelity & high distortion. No bass, no treble, & it was hard to make out the vocals! ...but they were very INEXPENSIVE!
Brings back memories of me and my brother air band jamming to this on the Soundesign 70's shitbox stereo, arguing over is it the guitar or organ we hear.
Yes! LOL! I hadn't thought about "Soundesign" for at least 30-40 years. I am 68yrs old and I have always had a great stereo, since I was 15. I worked at a department store when I was 16, that sold them. The King of low fidelity & high distortion. No bass, no treble, & it was hard to make out the vocals! ...but they were very INEXPENSIVE!
mjbaumann wrote:
LOL!
Hope My Neighbors like this !
LOL!
mjbaumann wrote:
Hope My Neighbors like this !
I live in metro Atlanta and drive about 35 miles to work each day, then 35 miles back to the house. This song captures how I feel about the ATL's superb freeway network:
Simple, straight-ahead, pedal to the metal, glissando guitar followed by arpeggiated Hammond organ, drums thumping, cymbals smashing, and a big voice shrieking, "I'M A HIGHWAY STAR!!!"
Simple, straight-ahead, pedal to the metal, glissando guitar followed by arpeggiated Hammond organ, drums thumping, cymbals smashing, and a big voice shrieking, "I'M A HIGHWAY STAR!!!"
Far wrote:
That's,
About ten years ago, I was taking to this older guy next to me - nice guy - knew a lot about music. Karaoke time started and after a while he got up and did Highway Star - perfectly - I mean indistinguishably perfectly. Turns out he was a touring musician/singer with DP responsible to 'carry the vocals' at times shall we say.
That's,
...es todo lo que está bien!
On_The_Beach wrote:
I'm 70 and still do!
How many 16 year olds (or 60 year olds) have air-guitared to this?
I'm 70 and still do!
How many 16 year olds (or 60 year olds) have air-guitared to this?
Thanks for that Bill! That improved my mood dramatically.
Made in Japan was the first 'proper' album I bought as a kid. I still maintain that it's one of, of not 'the', best live albums ever, which of course includes the best version of this.
I listened to this and so much Deep Purple growing up in the early 70s.
Not sure that this song has aged well and it certainly sounds dated but love the nostalgia factor.
Not sure that this song has aged well and it certainly sounds dated but love the nostalgia factor.
nice organ!
My very first album. #2: Alice Cooper - Killer; #3: Led Zepplin - I
Cockrock for petrol heads. "8 cylinders all mine" - that must be a metalfitting awful fuel consumption.
Great!!
Proclivities wrote:
...and the bass playing is outstanding.
was always a sucker for a great bass line - and a terrible dancer but this brought out the "who cares?" mood...
...and the bass playing is outstanding.
What a solid rocker! It calls up countless times sunk into a beanbag chair looking up through wild teenage eyes at black-light posters, along with Led Zeppelin, The Sweet, Black Sabbath, The Who...
Brings back memories of me and my brother air band jamming to this on the Soundesign 70's shitbox stereo, arguing over is it the guitar or organ we hear.
Good times!
Good times!
Purple, Zep, Sabbath - my indoctination to Rock-n-Roll at age 12.
stephrigg wrote:
Just heard same. Just as good.
Only on RP, the direct transition from Ravel's Bolero to this - outstanding!
Just heard same. Just as good.
The kids these days with the rocking and the rolling and the souped-up jalopies!
igor wrote:
...and the bass playing is outstanding.
That guitar solo!
...and the bass playing is outstanding.
Only on RP, the direct transition from Ravel's Bolero to this - outstanding!
Phlegmaticman wrote:
YES!!! That was Awesome! I had forgotten about that until you mentioned it. Much appreciated!
Any fans of The Expanse?
Highway Star (Belter version)
Not quite as fierce as the original (or especially the Made In Japan live version), but it was a great scene in the TV show.
Highway Star (Belter version)
Not quite as fierce as the original (or especially the Made In Japan live version), but it was a great scene in the TV show.
YES!!! That was Awesome! I had forgotten about that until you mentioned it. Much appreciated!
Hope My Neighbors like this !
Phlegmaticman wrote:
Oye, Beltalowda! Epstein Drive ...All mine!
Any fans of The Expanse?
Highway Star (Belter version)
Not quite as fierce as the original (or especially the Made In Japan live version), but it was a great scene in the TV show.
Highway Star (Belter version)
Not quite as fierce as the original (or especially the Made In Japan live version), but it was a great scene in the TV show.
Oye, Beltalowda! Epstein Drive ...All mine!
Eight cylinders all mine!!
Great dance bar band
Thanks for playing this song for my neighbours too, Bill! LOUDER!
Thanks for playing Deep Purple. There could be more. Great song but I prefer the live version from made in Japan. Brilliant energy. What a great live band they were.
emmo_radio wrote:
If it surprises you it means you should get out more, do some fun things... listen to some Lemmy songs!
stands up surprisingly well. haven't heard it in years and it still rocks all the way...
If it surprises you it means you should get out more, do some fun things... listen to some Lemmy songs!
Any fans of The Expanse?
Highway Star (Belter version)
Not quite as fierce as the original (or especially the Made In Japan live version), but it was a great scene in the TV show.
Highway Star (Belter version)
Not quite as fierce as the original (or especially the Made In Japan live version), but it was a great scene in the TV show.
This tune was part of the opening set for my cover band Highway Star. The keyboard player was the only pro having recorded and toured with a couple of bands from Nashville. Somehow I became co-musical director having attended Berklee.
Took my best shot on Bass. Most musical fun one can probably have.
Took my best shot on Bass. Most musical fun one can probably have.
Lyrically, it is a head scratcher.
Crank it!Everyone is crazy about DP, but for me they are just noise. And I like noise. But not DP.
stands up surprisingly well. haven't heard it in years and it still rocks all the way...
igor wrote:
Still one of my all time favs
That guitar solo!
Still one of my all time favs
knowing that one from the made in Japan Album.... thats where i find Richie playin it the most precise way... absolute cult !!
The second concert I ever saw, in a venue that is now a Native American casino in Niagara Falls.
Perfect strangers "reunion" tour. Glad I saw them when I did. There was no one who had to carry the vocals back in the late 80s. Good Comment!
Perfect strangers "reunion" tour. Glad I saw them when I did. There was no one who had to carry the vocals back in the late 80s. Good Comment!
Thanks RP for this song ! Probably the first time I have heard it on the radio ... though I heard it a lot on my tape player in my lousy Opel Corsa back in the nineties. French radios only play bad Johnny Hallyday songs ... at best. Fortunately It's possible yo hear great RP via internet nowadays
Made. In. Japan. Version.
Please......
Please......
About ten years ago, I was taking to this older guy next to me - nice guy - knew a lot about music. Karaoke time started and after a while he got up and did Highway Star - perfectly - I mean indistinguishably perfectly. Turns out he was a touring musician/singer with DP responsible to 'carry the vocals' at times shall we say.
That guitar solo!