Posted: 5/25/2010 1:52:58 PM EDT
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By chance, a co-worker suggested I listen to a compilation CD he brought in and I'm impressed. I've always known who they were, heard "Smoke on the Water" played a million times, but never went down that road to really listening to them.
I also never realized they did "Woman from Tokyo" and "Highway Star." Also, Burn, Child in Time, Stormbringer, Fireball, Never Before, Getting Tighter, Black Night. All excellent rocking tracks. They give me what I was yearning for when listening to Uriah Heep. Good old Ritchie Blackmore. |
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Perfect Strangers
Knocking at your back door Two of my favorites. |
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One summer evening when my younger daughter was about 13 we were driving to get a bite to eat. We had the windows down and I popped in some DP and cranked it.
As we were driving down the road belting out "Highway Star" at the top of our lungs, I looked over at her and thought, "Now this is cool!" The stuff memories are made of. I hadn't thought about Uriah Heep in a long time! |
| Deep Purple was one of my all time favorites growing up. I saw them live with Nazareth opening for them in the late '70's. That's when concerts were still general admission instead of assigned seating. I could touch the stage where I was standing. It was awesome. I still throw in a Purple CD every now and then. |
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"Machine Head" was my very first Rock 8 Track tape. I bought it right after it came out with money I made mowing lawns one summer. Bought "Made in Japan" next. Double album 8 Track.
Machine Head is one of those rare albums that you can just let play from start to finish. Nothing but good stuff. It's still one of my favorites. Of course, I listen to it on CD these days... 
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I caught the Perfect Strangers tour at the Texas Jam in the mid 80s. Great show. But I've heard their stuff so many times now that I'm bored of it. I was at that Jam, great show. Liked it so much went to see them again at Reunion Arena when the showed back up on the same tour. Had the LP of Deepest Purple( greatest hits thing) and used to play it over and over again back in those days. Great music. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Ritchie Blackmore. His current project "Blackmore's Night" is pretty darn good, as was "Blackmore's Rainbow" with Dio. I saw Deep Purple once in around 1987 and they were great.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQW_DFADO6I Greatest Blackmore story ever
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By chance, a co-worker suggested I listen to a compilation CD he brought in and I'm impressed. I've always known who they were, heard "Smoke on the Water" played a million times, but never went down that road to really listening to them. I also never realized they did "Woman from Tokyo" and "Highway Star." Also, Burn, Child in Time, Stormbringer, Fireball, Never Before, Getting Tighter, Black Night. All excellent rocking tracks. They give me what I was yearning for when listening to Uriah Heep. Good old Ritchie Blackmore. Uriah Heep....the poor man's Deep Purple 
Deep Purple farkin rocks...saw them in 1986 ...perfect strangers tour... 
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I caught the Perfect Strangers tour at the Texas Jam in the mid 80s. Great show. But I've heard their stuff so many times now that I'm bored of it. I was at that Jam, great show. Liked it so much went to see them again at Reunion Arena when the showed back up on the same tour. Had the LP of Deepest Purple( greatest hits thing) and used to play it over and over again back in those days. Great music. You, me, and 125,000 of our closest friends in 105F Dallas heat. It was a show. Grim Reaper, Bon Jovi, Ted Nugent, Night Ranger, The Scorpions, and Deep Purple. We got there at 2pm or so and didn't leave till after midnight. Not bad for $30 or so. |
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Check out Steve Morse, who toured as the guitarist for DP for the last few years. He has a solo act that will blow your mind. Also DP released a live album with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Amazing. His brother was one of my wife's professors while she was working on her PhD. She said he plays classical guitar very well. I guess it runs in the family. |
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Saw Deep Purple at the music hall adjacent to the coliseum in Houston back in the late 70 or very early 80's. We were on about the 6th row dead center. I would have to say that was the loudest concert that I have ever been to.
The concert was strange in that the opening band finished their set but had to endure booing all the way through their set. Another strange thing happened at that concert, Deep purple played extremely long versions of their songs. I don't think they played more than ten songs. People were getting up in groups and flipping off the band and walking out. Not being a big follower of the band at the time my only thought was that at that time they were in a reincarnation with out Blackmore and this might have pissed them off or maybe it was the incredible loudness or the stretch versions of the songs. I will say this we damn sure got our money worth. The organ was damn near destroyed in the process of trying to get feedback out of it. That was a great small venue, I also saw Van Halen there as well as Stevie Ray Vaughn. |
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Deep Purple was an outstanding band. They are still together today,but are just a shell of what they
once were.After some cover versions of "Hush" and "Kentucky Woman" guitarist Ritchie Blackmore wanted to go with a harder sound. At that time vocalist Rod Evans and bassist Nick Simper were fired. They were replaced by Ian Gillian on vocals and Roger Glover on bass. This new line-up along with Blackmore on guitar, Ian Paice on drums, and Jon Lord on keyboards became known as the Mark II line-up, widely regarded as the most famous and popular. In 1970 they released "In Rock", what some believe was the first heavy metal album. After that came "Fireball" and the famous "Machine Head" album. Next came the live double album "Made In Japan",one of the best live albums ever.Sadly, after the studio release of "Who Do We Think We Are" in 1973, Gillian and Glover left the band. The constant in-fighting between Gillian and Blackmore,plus Gillian's ever increasing drinking doomed this line-up. In his prime, Gillian was an outstanding vocalist,just listen to "Child In Time" on the live album. The vocals are amazing. In late '73 David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes were brought on as replacements for Gillian and Glover. This was known as the Mark III line-up. They produced "Burn","Stormbringer" and "Live In London". By 1975, Blackmore left the band to form Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio. He was replaced by Tommy Bolan on guitar. Bolan was a fantastic guitarist, but he also addicted to drugs which took his life in December of "76. Deep Purple had officially disbanded in July of '76. The Mark II line-up reunited in the mid '80's for two studio albums, but Blackmore again quit the band over direction. |
| I went looking at a tour history of the band and apparently the version of deep purple I saw only had one of the original members and there was a lawsuit over the fact they called themselves deep purple. That would explain the people getting up and walking out. |
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Deep Purple was an outstanding band. They are still together today,but are just a shell of what they once were.After some cover versions of "Hush" and "Kentucky Woman" guitarist Ritchie Blackmore wanted to go with a harder sound. At that time vocalist Rod Evans and bassist Nick Simper were fired. They were replaced by Ian Gillian on vocals and Roger Glover on bass. This new line-up along with Blackmore on guitar, Ian Paice on drums, and Jon Lord on keyboards became known as the Mark II line-up, widely regarded as the most famous and popular. In 1970 they released "In Rock", what some believe was the first heavy metal album. After that came "Fireball" and the famous "Machine Head" album. Next came the live double album "Made In Japan",one of the best live albums ever.Sadly, after the studio release of "Who Do We Think We Are" in 1973, Gillian and Glover left the band. The constant in-fighting between Gillian and Blackmore,plus Gillian's ever increasing drinking doomed this line-up. In his prime, Gillian was an outstanding vocalist,just listen to "Child In Time" on the live album. The vocals are amazing. In late '73 David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes were brought on as replacements for Gillian and Glover. This was known as the Mark III line-up. They produced "Burn","Stormbringer" and "Live In London". By 1975, Blackmore left the band to form Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio. He was replaced by Tommy Bolan on guitar. Bolan was a fantastic guitarist, but he also addicted to drugs which took his life in December of "76. Deep Purple had officially disbanded in July of '76. The Mark II line-up reunited in the mid '80's for two studio albums, but Blackmore again quit the band over direction. wasn't there a lot of co-mingling with ozzie and black sabbath in there too. |
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I went looking at a tour history of the band and apparently the version of deep purple I saw only had one of the original members and there was a lawsuit over the fact they called themselves deep purple. That would explain the people getting up and walking out. I could be wrong, but I think Gillian is the only one left,and even he was not an original member. |
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Deep Purple was an outstanding band. They are still together today,but are just a shell of what they once were.After some cover versions of "Hush" and "Kentucky Woman" guitarist Ritchie Blackmore wanted to go with a harder sound. At that time vocalist Rod Evans and bassist Nick Simper were fired. They were replaced by Ian Gillian on vocals and Roger Glover on bass. This new line-up along with Blackmore on guitar, Ian Paice on drums, and Jon Lord on keyboards became known as the Mark II line-up, widely regarded as the most famous and popular. In 1970 they released "In Rock", what some believe was the first heavy metal album. After that came "Fireball" and the famous "Machine Head" album. Next came the live double album "Made In Japan",one of the best live albums ever.Sadly, after the studio release of "Who Do We Think We Are" in 1973, Gillian and Glover left the band. The constant in-fighting between Gillian and Blackmore,plus Gillian's ever increasing drinking doomed this line-up. In his prime, Gillian was an outstanding vocalist,just listen to "Child In Time" on the live album. The vocals are amazing. In late '73 David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes were brought on as replacements for Gillian and Glover. This was known as the Mark III line-up. They produced "Burn","Stormbringer" and "Live In London". By 1975, Blackmore left the band to form Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio. He was replaced by Tommy Bolan on guitar. Bolan was a fantastic guitarist, but he also addicted to drugs which took his life in December of "76. Deep Purple had officially disbanded in July of '76. The Mark II line-up reunited in the mid '80's for two studio albums, but Blackmore again quit the band over direction. wasn't there a lot of co-mingling with ozzie and black sabbath in there too. Yeah, Gillian joined Black Sabbath in 1983. They recorded one album together,"Born Again". |
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Me too. Especially Perfect Strangers. Edit - I think I've seen Deep Purple in almost all their various line-ups from 1970 - present. Always great in concert. Last one I saw was with Steve Morse. He is just awesome. I had seen him a year or two earlier playing with his band and The Dixie Dregs. That was great too. |
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I went looking at a tour history of the band and apparently the version of deep purple I saw only had one of the original members and there was a lawsuit over the fact they called themselves deep purple. That would explain the people getting up and walking out. I could be wrong, but I think Gillian is the only one left,and even he was not an original member. Ian Paice is the last remaining founding member. |
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I went looking at a tour history of the band and apparently the version of deep purple I saw only had one of the original members and there was a lawsuit over the fact they called themselves deep purple. That would explain the people getting up and walking out. I could be wrong, but I think Gillian is the only one left,and even he was not an original member. Ian Paice is the last remaining founding member. Good to know, I thought his health had become a problem. |