Similarly, the guitar duties rotate fairly evenly, although Yngwie Malmsteen's masks his identity through the use of the name Lars Y. Stevens shares lead vocal on "Space truckin'" with Harnell, the track once again sounding rather like a mark 3 cover. Lead vocal duties are shared between the aforementioned Turner and Hornell plus Cory Glover and Richie Kotzen, with each stepping up for two or three tracks. Those who feel the song is sacrosanct will be horrified by this version, but the broad minded should actually find it quite pleasing. Tony Harnell does a good job at emulating Ian Gillan's screamed orgasm while Richie Kotzen adds a fine, if radically different lead guitar solo. After a faithful rendition of the first verse, the track suddenly adopts a reggae beat. It is only when we get to track 5, "Child in time", that the organ takes centre stage, albeit briefly. "Smoke on the water" sounds very much like you might expect to hear if it had been recorded for the first time by the mark 3 line up of the band. This sets the pattern for many of the tracks which often have a Lenny Kravitz feel. The opening "Black night" sees the song slowed down and funked up, with some fine extended lead guitar solos by Pitrelli and Moore. Indeed, a number of the tracks do not feature keyboards at all. While the songs are entirely recognisable, they are noticeably different to the originals, with an almost exclusive emphasis on lead guitar instrumentally. The selection of songs covered is a sort of Deep Purple greatest hits, predictably including the likes of "Black night", "Smoke on the water", "Strange kind of woman" and "Fireball". The rest of the artists come and go, but most appear on several tracks. This is more of a band effort than a collection of covers by a variety of artists with Stevens playing bass throughout. To enhance the appeal of the project as far as Deep Purple fans were concerned, artists such as Joe Lynne Turner, Al Pitrelli and Vinnie Moore were brought in, in addition to members of the band Living Color. The sleeve notes say that the objective was to pay homage to this "very special band" by maintaining the integrity of the original songs while adding a Big Apple feel and funk to it. In 1995, he initiated this project to pay tribute to Deep Purple by interpreting their songs in a "New York" way. Recently, he has worked and toured with artists such as Carl Palmer and Steve Vai. He has released a number of solo albums plus more with his band Shocka Zooloo. TM Stevens is a black rap and metal/funk singer and bassist from New York. "Who the hell is Deep Purple?"."Check this out!" US and UK versions have different sleeves, US version shown Loudamp (actually Yngwie Malmsteen) / Lead Guitar
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