Deep purple suggestions

JD wrote: Snareman wrote: [EDIT]They are arguably the first heavy metal band [EDIT] Ahhh, I'm sorry, ever hear of a little band called Steppenwolf? You know they had a song called "Born to be Wild". The one with the lyrics... I like smoke and lightnin' Heavy metal thunder Racing in the wind And the feeling that I'm under Care to revise your argument?

Edited by earlyprog - March 01 2021 at 15:00

^exactly, and so were Iron Butterfly - heavy, that is (cf. e.g. their '68 debut 'Heavy' (!)) - but not 'heavy' as in hard or heavy rock but they ideated and conceptualized the former genre along with others including Deep Purple.

Edited by earlyprog - March 01 2021 at 15:20

JD wrote: ^Well, I'll concede that Deep Purple had elements of what became the defining characteristics of heavy metal, distorted guitars, dense bass and drums, and loud vocals, but they were much more than that just like Steppenwolf. I couldn't say the same for bands like... Metallica Iron Maiden Anthrax Quite Riot etc. ...which I equate with Heavy Metal. And BTW, I know what term refers to.

Actually Uriah Heep were a band in 1969 and they started work on their first album(very eavy..) before DP started work on In Rock.  Still, I concede it's not likely they influenced Deep Purple. 

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - March 03 2021 at 19:10

I'm suggesting Deep Purple's most recent release WHOOSH! as their most progressive in many decades.

Edited by earlyprog - March 03 2021 at 13:41

The Morse era albums are so often overlooked it's rather ridiculous. I wish those albums would get a fair chance. 

You could get a taste of the variety of the band with these albums: Deep Purple (third album), Fireball, Burn, and Perpendicular. Lots of hard rock, but some occasional prog. elements thrown in too. That's a great combination, used also by Uriah Heep, etc.

Edited by Boojieboy - September 28 2021 at 09:07

           Deep purples Fireball release has some very Prog moments. Songs such as The Mule are very progressive. I grew up with Deep Purple and worked my way quickly from Machine Head back to Shades of and then forward through their last release at that time Come Taste the Band. I liked the Rod Evans era as much as the Ian Gillian era and had a release called Purple Passages a double lp of the first three releases I basically wore the grooves off of.
           Then of course there’s the timeless live release Made in Japan. Ritchie Blackmore’s and Jon Lord’s neoclassical jamming left me amazed. Ian Gillian also really shined on this release as his incredibly strong and natural voice sang in never before heard tandem and duet with Blackmore’s guitar runs. One of the most interesting points to live music is improv. Deep Purple did a large amount of improvising. Songs took on a whole new life. Whatever happened to bands improvising in concert?   Child In Time, The Mule, Space Truckin are all classics. This live album has never been equaled in my humble opinion.   

Edited by PaulG - February 12 2022 at 17:22