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    I always go for their first three and also like In Rock.

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    s/t (third LP).
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    Just heard April. It's proggy of course, but not sure if I really like it. I like the actual rock part after the first 8 minutes of classical/proggy, keyboardy-ness. It's a fine album overall.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
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    Listening to the self titled 3rd album on YT. I was familiar with Fault Line/The Painter but hearing the whole album for the first time. Love Ritchie's tone. Is that pre-Stratocaster?

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    You rang, Mr Adams?

    I believe so, yes. Ritchie's main guitar during the MK-I era was an ES-335. I believe he started playing a Strat around the time of the Concerto For Group And Orchestra and/or In Rock. In fact, he was still playing the ES-335 onstage during the In Rock era, as seen in the Granada TV footage, where he alternates between a black Strat and a 335.
    If I'm not mistaken, Richie only used the Strat on half the songs on In Rock. The other half were recorded with his trusty 335. Fun fact: Toni Iommi also used a Strat on half the songs on Black Sabbath s/t.
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    A couple of weeks ago, I picked up DP Live in Long Beach 1976, which was release 3 years ago. It must have been a day when Tommy and Glenn were having a good day. The performances are absolutely amazing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by progmatist View Post
    A couple of weeks ago, I picked up DP Live in Long Beach 1976, which was release 3 years ago. It must have been a day when Tommy and Glenn were having a good day. The performances are absolutely amazing.
    Actually, it was originally released back in the mid 90's, as part of the series of releases put out from the King Biscuit archives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    Actually, it was originally released back in the mid 90's, as part of the series of releases put out from the King Biscuit archives.
    What I picked up was the 3 disc vinyl set, released in 2016.
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    Always thought that Glenn Hughes has a voice that could curdle milk so I've never bothered with the Purple albums he's on.

    For what it's worth, I think their best album is Perfect Strangers.

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    No.

    IMO Deep Purple has three good albums and this isn't one of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by the ferret View Post
    Always thought that Glenn Hughes has a voice that could curdle milk so I've never bothered with the Purple albums he's on.

    For what it's worth, I think their best album is Perfect Strangers.
    I feel the same way about Coverdale.

    "Perfect Strangers" is great! So was the tour.
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    Pretty good cover of Lazy:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guitarplyrjvb View Post
    ^^ Probably because it was the first Purple album I bought, "Who Do We Think We Are" is one of my favorites. There's not much Blackmore soloing, but I love the songs. Mary Long is a great cut!
    Agree, Who Do we Think, We are is one fantastic album, played very tightly, and songs are great. They never sounded better. Jon Lord shines on that album. Blackmore's solos are very short, except for Place In Line.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    "No One Came" is one of the greatest closing-tracks from any British rock album of the 70s, and it's arguably one of the lesser known DP songs overall. But the cynical/satirical lyrics (in one of Gillan's best ever vocal performances) paired with an irresistible groove makes it a feast for the 'cerebral' rocker.
    No One Came's groove reminds very much of the Doors track Changeling.

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    One thing wrong with WDWTWA? is that it's so damned short.
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    A few random thoughts regarding this topic (all IMHO of course) :

    - Burn is a fine album, which showcases the freshness of that line-up, but the songs sound somehow restrained when compared with their live versions (Mistreated in particular). I understand why it sounds more energetic and inspired than WDWTWA to a lot of people, but I feel that, in spite of MkIII's renewed approach to singing, MkII had a more unique personality. There was something more generic in MkIII, and Coverdale's lyrics had something to do with it.

    - DP albums often suffer from a few weaker tracks which prevent them from having a really great flow, but I feel some albums have more consistency : the third one (self-titled), In Rock, Purpendicular, Now What!? come to mind. Burn's not bad in that respect either.

    - My favorite DP "LP side" is Fireball's second half. Just brilliant (and progressive).

    - I also love CTTB's second half. I feel it has a special sense of melancholy and sense of impending doom (well, apart from Love Child): Drifter has some melancholy, and This Time Around / Owed to G + You Keep On Moving are a great way to end the album with unexpected gravitas. In retrospect, one can somehow feel DP's and Tommy Bolin's sad demise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by progmatist View Post
    If I'm not mistaken, Richie only used the Strat on half the songs on In Rock. The other half were recorded with his trusty 335. Fun fact: Toni Iommi also used a Strat on half the songs on Black Sabbath s/t.
    You're probably right about Blackmore. I remember reading where he said when he got the first Strat, he had trouble getting used to it, but for whatever reason, he kept at it until he got to the point where he retired the 335.

    As for Iommi, I believe I read he used the Strat for a couple songs, but one of the pickups failed. He was using an SG as a backup, so he switched over to that for the rest of the session. He, then, continued using the SG as, at the time, there were limited options for dealing with a broken pickup. You couldn't just walk into any guitar store and buy a Seymour Duncan or DiMarzio or whatever that could drop right in place of the original.

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    Quote Originally Posted by grego View Post
    No One Came's groove reminds very much of the Doors track Changeling.
    Yeah! Also the greatest Doors opening tune second to the unbeatable "Break On Through". L.A. Woman is an übercool record deluxe in the first place. "Cars Hiss By My Window"? Until that point Morrison's blues cred was dubious at best (save for "Maggie McGill" and perhaps "Wild Child", which both promise of things to come); their rendition of "Back Door Man" is the one weak spot on the otherwise magnificent debut of theirs.
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    Their Back Door Man rendition I think works well for the album, they gave it a cabaret-like approach, which chimes with Alabama song..I think Morrison's blues was like sprechstimme in pop music) His recitative-like singing is the blues he hears, best examples were shown in big things, like The End, When The Music's Over, Celebration of the Lizard. He wasn't a standard blues vocalist, of course. DP I think were under some influence of the Doors, remember the Shield from their second LP - it sounds very Doors-alike.

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    ^ The early DP in particular were indeed informed by The Doors, as they were by other contemporary US artists like Vanilla Fudge, Iron Butterfly, It's a Beautiful Day, The Blues Magoos, H.P. Lovecraft and that first Spirit album.

    Jon Lord used to speak very nicely of Manzarek, I remember - and DP included "Roadhouse Blues" as encore on several tours. I believe they did "Love Me Two Times" at some point as well. Arguably the most successful of the early Doors' attempt at playing the blues.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Interstellar View Post
    Burn is a fine album, which showcases the freshness of that line-up, but the songs sound somehow restrained when compared with their live versions (Mistreated in particular). I understand why it sounds more energetic and inspired than WDWTWA to a lot of people, but I feel that, in spite of MkIII's renewed approach to singing, MkII had a more unique personality. There was something more generic in MkIII, and Coverdale's lyrics had something to do with it.
    I wouldn't disagree. Deep Purple Mark II had a real intensity which subsequent line-ups did not, IMHO. But Who Do We Think We Are has some things I find dreary, such as 'Place In Line' and 'Our Lady'. Even on the better songs, I don't think that album has anywhere near as much spark as the 1970-2 ones. I don't think it's a coincidence that so little of it has appeared in their set-lists over the years.

    I've always felt that their 'comeback' Perfect Strangers, whilst blandly produced and again having questionable synths, is a better album. They reasserted themselves well with that album, but it all went wrong thereafter. Commercially, they never recovered from their turbulent late 80s/early 90s.

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    Our little Greek committee during drinks on Tuesday night decided that Live in London is probably the best DP live record - and way better than Made In Europe.

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    While Who Do We Think We Are? was certainly a weak effort, at least it was one by DP - whereas Perfect Strangers sounded disappointingly like a post-Rainbow (J.L. Turner-version) affair. At the time of release I considered myself the greatest DP fan around, and boy was I ever set back by the complete lack of inspiration at play on Perfect Strangers. "Knocking On Your Back Door" a dull powermetal semi-ballad, and those prep-blues jingles... Ugh. I remember liking the title track and absolutely nothing else, and I pretty much gave up on the band after this. I was 13 at the time and had been worshipping at the altar of Blackmore since buying a cassette of Rising at a fleemarket when I was nine; now this journey was essentially over. And with the tame performance at Live Aid by the "reformed" LedZep the following year, so was my enchanted relationship with them as myth.

    I can no longer listen to most of those "classic" DP tunes; "Child In Time" was a cheap and embarrassing ripoff, as was "Black Night" (although its groove is undeniable), and "Smoke On the Water"... Well, it's tedious beyond. Still there are undercommunicated gems from In Rock, Machine Head and especially Fireball that I can not only listen to but thoroughly enjoy - such as "Flight of the Rat", "The Mule" and the above mentioned "No One Came". And "Demon's Eye" should have been one of their most celebrated tracks. Gillan was a great singer in those days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zappathustra View Post
    Our little Greek committee during drinks on Tuesday night decided that Live in London is probably the best DP live record - and way better than Made In Europe.
    I'll have to play it again. You're doubtless right on ...Europe but I don't think it matches Made In Japan, which is one of my favourite live rock albums by anyone. I find Hughes' schtick hard to deal with.

    I do like that long instrumental section of Blackmore's in 'Fools'- a different style of playing from him. There are some interesting, more experimental touches throughout Fireball.

    I think Martin Birch should have been brought in for Perfect Strangers. Glover's production was very slick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    ^ The early DP in particular were indeed informed by The Doors, as they were by other contemporary US artists like Vanilla Fudge, Iron Butterfly, It's a Beautiful Day, The Blues Magoos, H.P. Lovecraft and that first Spirit album.

    Jon Lord used to speak very nicely of Manzarek, I remember - and DP included "Roadhouse Blues" as encore on several tours. I believe they did "Love Me Two Times" at some point as well. Arguably the most successful of the early Doors' attempt at playing the blues.
    On the latest Doors tribute Gillan, with support of Yes's Wakeman and Howe, performed Light My Fire. I read about Iron Butterfly, before they've gotten a record deal, were mainly a Doors cover band. Love me 2 times, yes, sort of a decadent blues - they rarely used harpsichord, 3 times, if memory serves..( Wintertime Love, Soft Parade)

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    I don't like their melodic shift in the 80s..Much prefer Who Do We Think, We Are, Fireball, Concerto...Burn, last but not least..When they were original, trend setting band.

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