Deep Purple (Official Thread)

[Powerage]

Fireball, AMAZING album. Track 11, Slow Train, one of my favourite tracks never to make it to the final cut.

 

[stepcousin]

I just listened to the California Jam '74 bootleg today for the first time. good show, although the guitar is kinda distant. The loudest member of the band seems to be Glen, his bass and vocals are very up front.

 

[Lord Dweedle]

I love Black Night, their best song I think.

 

[DaKillerWolf]

I just listened to the California Jam '74 bootleg today for the first time. good show, although the guitar is kinda distant. The loudest member of the band seems to be Glen, his bass and vocals are very up front.

The official release of that same concert doesn't have that problem.

 

[RebelY]

the first time I listened to the deep purple i was absolutely hypnotized...

 

[trucyoza]

An amazing band that I started to listening to in 1971, first album I bought was
"Who do you think we are", and I've been hooked buy the Purple ever since.
I always admired how even thou Deep Purple is a heavy metal band that the
instruments were always so well defined, and the vocals were always clear and upfront. The Mark II lineup has to be my favorite
>>>Easy listening Heavy Metal<<<<

TYoza

 

[E-Z]

I've liked D.P. from the mid-1970s (1st bought Machine Head album in 1976) but i didn't realize how good they were until i listened to MADE IN JAPAN (x3 cds live recordings from Japan in 1972) on HEADPHONES the 'interplay' between the musician's is 'absolutely breathtaking' it really is!!.

Makes 'the Stones' look like a bunch of amateur jerks!!

 

[E-Z]

I'm probably in a minority of ONE here but personally i NEVER thought that DEEP PURPLE should have reformed back in 1984.

The album PERFECT STRANGERS (released in 1984) i always felt was a 'contrived album' although i did like the follow up album the 'original version' of THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT released in 1987. According to a Ritchie Blackmore interview that i read back in the mid-1990s the ex DEEP PURPLE band member's were all offered an 'enormous amount of money' each to reform DEEP PURPLE just to much money to turn down so Ritchie disbanded RAINBOW!.

Personally i preferred wot Blackmore was doing with Rainbow, the last Rainbow album BENT OUT OF SHAPE in 1983 i thought was a good album and even Ian Gillan's own band GILLAN i thought was doing ok as well in the early 1980s before he disbanded that band and went off to join BLACK SABBATH for an album and a tour.

 

[DaKillerWolf]

I couldn't disagree more with your opinion, EZ. Deep Purple put out some great, though underrated, albums after reforming. Perfect Strangers, House of Blue Light ( wanna be radio hit or 2 aside), The Battle Rages On, Come Hell or High Water, are all favorites of mine. The really early stuff up to Burn is better IMO but those are still really enjoyable albums ...Rainbow hasn't done anything worth a damn, other then a few songs, since Richie decided to try and become a hit single machine, prompting RDJ's departure.

Personally, I think Rainbow disbanding was a good idea at that point regardless of the Deep Purple situation..

 

[E-Z]

I couldn't disagree more with your opinion, EZ. Deep Purple put out some great, though underrated, albums after reforming. Perfect Strangers, House of Blue Light ( wanna be radio hit or 2 aside), The Battle Rages On, Come Hell or High Water, are all favorites of mine. The really early stuff up to Burn is better IMO but those are still really enjoyable albums ...Rainbow hasn't done anything worth a damn, other then a few songs, since Richie decided to try and become a hit single machine, prompting RDJ's departure.

Personally, I think Rainbow disbanding was a good idea at that point regardless of the Deep Purple situation..

Now come on DaKillerWolf my main man i'll have to respectfully disagree with your opinions of DEEP PURPLE

In my humble opinion DEEP PURPLE shouldn't have reformed in 1984 because theres no way that the 1970s version (MkII & MkIII) were going to live up to the once 'mighty legend' that was DEEP PURPLE!!.

DEEP PURPLE was MASSIVE in the UK in 1973/74 and to my way of thinking there was no way that they could be that BIG again 10 years later in 1984 music and times had moved on. As far as the albums are concerned like i've already stated PERFECT STRANGERS was a contrived album, THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT was slightly better then 'STRANGERS', the SLAVES & MASTERS album with Jo Lynn Turner was so so and THE BATTLE RAGES ON was another so so album.

DEEP PURPLES best albums are as follows-

DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK MkII 1970
MACHINE HEAD MkII 1972
MADE IN JAPAN 1972 MkII (live double album)
BURN MkIII 1974

DEEP PURPLE albums that are worth a listen are-

FIREBALL MkII 1971
WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE MkII 1973
STORMBRINGER MkIII 1974
COME TASTE THE BAND MkIV 1975
MADE IN EUROPE MkIII (live album of the final MkIII concerts in April 1975) 1976