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Terrapin Station 
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 Topic: Deep Purple (1968-1974) vs EL&P (1970 - 1980)
Posted: August 31 2016 at 21:31 |
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I like both but ELP easily wins for me. ELP is in my top ten. I'm not sure that Deep Purple would make my top 100. That's not to suggest I don't like Deep Purple that much. I consider myself a fan of more than 1500 artists from a bunch of different genres--not all of them can be in my top 100.
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Posted: August 31 2016 at 21:02 |
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OK, I got over Camel beating ELP... and now that I know Camel I may even agree to a point. But Deep Purple? In a prog site? This is weird.
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Posted: August 31 2016 at 17:03 |
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I Like ELP, but DP was one of the first bands I've ever heard in my teenage years and still love them.
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Posted: August 31 2016 at 10:46 |
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You know my answer
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Posted: August 31 2016 at 10:40 |
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Seeing as my favorite song from ELP is from Love Beach, I don't think they'd really top Purple for me.
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Posted: August 31 2016 at 07:37 |
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From any kind of perspective...Deep Purple .....No doubt.
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Posted: August 31 2016 at 02:23 |
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Just noticed, although ELP announced they were splitting in 1979, they effectively ceased operations with 'Love Beach' in 1978.
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Posted: August 31 2016 at 01:58 |
Deep Purple I like ELP a lot but I just listen to DP more.
As for DP's classic period, it should be 1968-1975 (when Come Taste the Band was released, a fine album if you ask me).
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Posted: February 26 2016 at 09:46 |
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Blackmore is a decent guitar player, nothing more, nothing less. Never understood all the adulation for him.......just like Page...........don't get me wrong, they are pretty good, but often rough and sloppy - Holdsworth runs rings around them............
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Posted: February 26 2016 at 08:51 |
I always thought ELP didn't want a trad guitar sounding band which is why they formed a three man group. Did they ever actually seriously consider a guitar player and audition any? Regarding Blackmore and Hendrix....Blackmore certainly would have fit into ELP better but imho Hendrix was far more a force of nature than Blackmore who never really impressed me and even now I'm not that big a fan of DP. I do like many of their classic songs but I actually like what Blackmore has done with his folk rock band more than most of the stuff he did with DP.
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Posted: February 26 2016 at 04:31 |
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None belong to the long list of my favorite bands, but I like the first ELP and the song Child in time
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Posted: February 26 2016 at 04:20 |
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Neither I, and I would include the group side of Works Vol. 1 as 'great' as well.
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Posted: February 25 2016 at 18:14 |
People seem to forget just how great ELP was up to and including Brain Salad Surgery. I haven't.
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Posted: February 24 2016 at 11:37 |
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Posted: February 23 2016 at 13:25 |
 micky wrote:
man I love both.. but I have never voted 'both' in 11 years around this forum. That is a option for pussies and the weak minded. Sometimes you have to make a choice damnit...
in that... the choice is easy. Carl Palmer was slightly hotter and definitely had better hair than Ian Paice. Not to mention a smidge better drummer.
ELP baby.. but no slight on D.P which is one of the top 5 most played bands here in our home. Even more than ELP in fact...
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Posted: February 23 2016 at 12:49 |
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Ah the headliner from Cal Jam 74 and one of the warm acts. Like the best material from both. ELP' s Works is about 50% of one really fine album (the band tracks and Piano Concerto). I like Works 2; very eclectic. The second version of Purple's Concerto is sublime and a big improvement on the first. the performance by the orchestra is more in tune with a rock band rather than displaying a snobbishness for a genre outside their own. The ballads Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming and Watching the Sky sound absolutely powerful and full with the orchestra. Purple are very versatile and the first CD goes through all the other aspects of the musical facets (jazz orchestras for example) that put Purple right at the forefront of progression rather than being summarily dismissed as a mere hard rock band.
One should not forget the Gemini Suite either; Purple's or Lord's. They both give very fine concert too. Welcome Back versus Made In Japan...? Probably go with the ELP as the jam at the end of Space Truckin' is a bit noisy and monotonous for me. Purple were a bit inconsistent with their live albums; I thought Made In Europe sounded very desultory, a bit like the oddly disappointing Yesshows. Live In London (touring after Burn) is far more incendiary.
ELP's classical rock is fine; probably go for the debut out of them all but I'd include Pictures in there as it is a perfectly valid album no matter it's recording circumstance.
I could imagine Blackmore with ELP actually. Might have been worth an album and tour - I think it is a very good idea and muso / personality match more so than if Hendrix joined up with the disintegrating Nice. Hendrix was possibly a bit more blues oriented to Emerson's Bach which makes Blackmore a more logical inclusion. Which probably will never happen.
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Blackmore and Hendrix are /were respectivly both, forcess of nature.
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Posted: February 22 2016 at 14:55 |
suprisingly and intriguingly even result so far, me likey 
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Posted: February 22 2016 at 10:30 |
From a Prog perspective...ELP.....No doubt.
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Posted: February 22 2016 at 09:22 |
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Purple is cool
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ELP for me
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Prog On!
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Posted: February 22 2016 at 01:31 |
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by lightyear Deep Purple
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Deep Purple (1968-1974) vs EL&P (1970 - 1980)
