Deep Purple: The Poll

Pretty nice!

http://www.aftersabbath.com/2012/07/the-day-after-sabbath-73-hammond-lord.html

Bumped because I'm listening to Machine Head right now and I'm marvelling at the amazing drumming. Ian Paice = legend.

The 1970-1973 line up of Deep Purple were fucking white hot, and it's such a shame that they couldn't keep that line-up together for longer.

Consensus seems to be that it was pretty much all Richie's fault. I do rate Burn higher than the previous Gillan record, but certainly Mk. II might have stuck it out a while longer if Blackmore wasn't such a pill.

Paice is tremendous though. Kind of a Fleetwood Mac sort of thing with Purple, only instead of the bass/drums as the only constants it's keys/drums. Hard to go wrong with Lord/Paice tho, even that first Whitesnake record is pretty good.

Yeah, what they really should have done is taken a break after Machine Head and recharged their batteries. There's some great stuff on the Coverdale-led records, but I think Mk. II could have gone on to make some incredible music. For me, Purple Mk. II is on an equal footing with Sabbath and Zeppelin.

Rising-era Rainbow were a fucking white hot band too, but Blackmore were dicks to those too. Particularly the keyboardist and the bassist. Cozy Powell and Dio left because Blackmore wanted to get away from everything that actually made Rainbow a great rock group.

yeah every time I listen to that run it's always even better than I remembered. a band whose best work has aged very well, like first four Sabbath albums well.

The production on Machine Head is impeccable, IMO - so clear, punchy and powerful.

A couple of weeks ago found the remastered cd of 'In Rock', then yesterday the 2cd version of 'Made In Japan'.
And loving them, even 'Smoke on the Water' sounds insanely massive.
Used to really hate that song as my parents ran a roadhouse pub/inn place in the late 80s and every sunday we would put on a local guitarist who used backing tapes.
The big finale was always 'Smoke On The Water', and all his biker mates would mosh about.
Truly painful experience.

But, these 2 cds are excellent.
Just need to get lucky and find Burn, Fireball, and Machinehead now.

Nothing tops Made in Japan but In Rock and Machine Head are both worth checking out.

Who Do We Think We Are is underrated imho.

pomenitul :
i have already got 'in rock' remaster with the Roger Glover 'remixes' (one of which is listed as 'unedited') no less.
suspect there is a story behind the inclusion of those.

The 80s reunion records are worth checking, especially the first one 'Perfect Strangers' which is one of their best albums they did.

This collection of BBC live recordings I think is better than Live in Japan. It's come out in a few different titles. I got this one.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Deep_Purple_-In_Concert.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Purple_in_Concert

I've got the two-disc of that. The '70 disc is them in jumbo jam mode, and the '72 disc is basically a dress rehearsal for Made In Japan (which was recorded a few months later, iirc).

“Anyone’s Daughter” is such a twisted song. I’d been listening to a lot of Dick’s Picks Dead and realized that song was prime for extended live jams.

On their second album, The Book of Taliesyn, Deep Purple interpolate "Also sprach Zarathustra" by Strauss at the beginning of "River Deep Mountain High". I'd like to suggest that the previous song on the record, "The Shield", also references this piece, with its piano melody alternating between the minor and major third of the scale. Jon Lord must have really liked 2001.

If you are looking for more jumbo jam mode from '70, I highly recommend Scandinavian Nights (I believe later reissued as Live in Stockholm).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Scandinavian_Nights.jpg

A 34-minute "Wring That Neck"! A 29-minute "Mandrake Root"! A 20-minute "Child in Time"!

i dig this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBugcmKpO2o

I feel like "Hush" is the only cover song Deep Purple didn't mangle, but you might like "We Can Work It Out" from their next album.