Green Bullfrog

Digitally remastered and expanded edition. Green Bullfrog was an album resulting from a one-off studio project and recorded between February and May 1970. The album was the idea of producer Derek Lawrence who assembled a group of musicians with whom he had worked in the 1960s. For contractual reasons, the musicians were billed under pseudonyms: Albert Lee = Pinta, Matthew Fisher = Sorry, Ian Paice, of Deep Purple = Speedy, Tony Ashton = Bevy, Rod Alexander = Vicar, Chas Hodges = Sleepy, Earl Jordan = Jordan, Big Jim Sullivan = Boss, and Ritchie Blackmore, of Deep Purple = Boots. A lot has been written about who appeared on the Green Bullfrog album - particularly which members of Deep Purple played. This CD not only gives the definitive answers, but presents a fabulous remastering: the original mixes and bonus tracks. What more could you ask for? For those of you unfamiliar with the Green Bullfrog thing, it's a guitar-hero album of reasonably familiar covers that comes from a couple of informal sessions in 1970. Originally released in 1971 with almost no publicity and with no reference to the artists' real names (for contractual reasons) it sank without trace. Later of course, it became much sought-after and surrounded by rumor and mythology - often not helped by the vague and only partially accurate press recollections of key players.