Deep Purple (Official Thread)

[E-Z]

Onetime back in the early 1980s in second-hand record shops around London you could find dozens of original vinyl copies of the Concerto album languishing in the 'bargin basement' bins, not that many hard rock or Deep Purple fans bothered going near that album.

Most original Deep Purple fans from the early 1970s (in the UK) usually gave the Concerto album a miss preferring to start there Deep Purple record collections with the albums DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK (1970) then picking up FIREBALL (1971), MACHINE HEAD (1972) and finally MADE IN JAPAN (1972).

 

[LG]

^^It does stand apart from the rest of their catalog EZ Rider, but I love classical myself and never even knew about "Concerto..." until a few years ago.

Just shows how versatile the band is, and that Jon could do whatever he wanted either as a composer or a keyboard player for one of the best bands of all time.

 

[E-Z]

Yes the passing of time is sometimes a good thing especially for younger rock fans who will pick up on the Concerto album and listen to it without prejudice with fresh ears unlike us older Deep Purple fans from the 1970s that basically ignored that album cos we only listened to IN ROCK and the albums that followed IN ROCK.

 

[Riff Raff]

The Battle Rages On is another DP album I need in my collection too.

 

[Marbles]

The Battle Rages On is another DP album I need in my collection too.

IMO, you really don't! It's the worst album that they ever recorded as far as I'm concerned. There are only a couple of tracks on it that I have any time for - on most of the other albums I'd struggle to find two bad ones.

I've tried and tried to get to like it, over the years, but it just leaves me cold, bores me even. I just get the feeling that they are going through the motions, that none of the band really have the heart for it.

Only my personal opinion, of course!

 

[Powerage]

Onetime back in the early 1980s in second-hand record shops around London you could find dozens of original vinyl copies of the Concerto album languishing in the 'bargin basement' bins, not that many hard rock or Deep Purple fans bothered going near that album.

Most original Deep Purple fans from the early 1970s (in the UK) usually gave the Concerto album a miss preferring to start there Deep Purple record collections with the albums DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK (1970) then picking up FIREBALL (1971), MACHINE HEAD (1972) and finally MADE IN JAPAN (1972).

1973's Who Do We Think We Are is also an incredible album. Of the 4 studio albums Mk2 made it's joint top with Fireball.

I would also highly recommend a double disc box set that contains the rest of the 1972 Japanese tour that Made in Japan was cut from. Seriously, they were gods on stage every night. At that time, they could and did absolutely no wrong.

 

[Marbles]

Yes the passing of time is sometimes a good thing especially for younger rock fans who will pick up on the Concerto album and listen to it without prejudice with fresh ears unlike us older Deep Purple fans from the 1970s that basically ignored that album cos we only listened to IN ROCK and the albums that followed IN ROCK.

I've always loved the Concerto and I'm of the same age. I know what you mean though - most of my Purple loving friends didn't. I come from a house where there was lots of classical music played and so I was always interested in the fusion of hard rock and classical. My only crit of the Concerto is that I don't think that it was very well recorded, the 1999 version sounds so much better. The second movement, with Gillan's vocal, is beautiful.

Jon Anderson once described the genres of music as being like an 2D egg and I can see what he means. The structures of rock and classical are so similar that they meet at the top of the egg with, I guess, rap and the like at the opposite side of the egg.

 

[Nololob]

Burn seem to be overlooked. D:

 

[Powerage]

Burn seem to be overlooked. D:

Monster of an album. Replacing Ian Gillan with David Coverdale. Couldn't ask for anymore IMO.

 

[Marbles]

The great thing about the Purple albums, particularly from the 68-76 era, is that they all differ from each other so much. I love every one of them in different ways and for different reasons, even the funk of Stormbringer.