SHADES OF DEEP PURPLEDeep Purple: Rod Evans (vocals); Ritchie Blackmore (guitar); Jon Lord (keyboards); Nick Simper (bass); Ian Paice (drums). Principally recorded at Pye's Studio, London, England in May 1968. Originally released on Tetragrammaton (102). Includes liner notes by Digitally remastered by Peter Mew (Abbey Road Studios, London, England). The usual perception of early Deep Purple is that it was a band with a lot of potential in search of a direction. And that