Favorite lineup-Deep Purple!

[SAT-I need more room!!]

Deep Purple (along with the Eagles) was one of the reasons I started this feature. They had many lineups and they were all very significant.

I am going with the classic Mark II lineup.

[djdave]

Same as you, Adam--I believe the line-up that recorded "Smoke on the water".

Are you gonna join in this poll, Kitty??!!!!?? ;D j/k

[Pete70s]

Going with MK1, the first three albums are AWESOME!

I like MK2 as well, but I could live without hearing Smoke On The Water for the 50 billionth time..

MK3 and 4 I know very little of, but want to investigate more.

MK5-Anything with Joe Lynn Turner on vocals I AVOID!

MK6-I know none of the Steve Morse era.

Also, Joe Satriani was briefly a member in the early 90's. He never recorded with them, but I think he replaced Ritchie Blackmore when Ian Gillen rejoined.

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Pete70s said:

Also, Joe Satriani was briefly a member in the early 90's. He never recorded with them, but I think he replaced Ritchie Blackmore when Ian Gillen rejoined.

I know both Gillian and Ritchie recorded The Battle Rages On in 93, but I think they were bitching to each other again, and Satch replaced him for that tour.

Oh, and as far as the Bolin album, Come Taste the Band, apparently it's very FUNKY! I guess the last album Ritchie was on had a lot of funk influence and that is what caused him to leave.

[55dodger]

MK II lineup, they were awesome.

[Ken]

The Mark II Lineup is my fav - but marks 1 , III and IV had some fantastic songs as well - Come Taste the Band is indeed funky

Don't know much from the Joe Lynn Turner era except for what's on the box - he sure wasn't with them long - blink and he was gone LOL

[Pete70s]

I'm digging up this old post from over 2 years ago, because while I was away last week, the two things I listened to the most were the Deep Purple box and the Black Sabbath "Black Box".

I've really gotten into the third disc of the DP box, which mostly covers the MKIII and IV period. REALLY good stuff! I didn't realize that Glenn Hughes also sang lead on several tracks. David Coverdale sounded SO much different than he did in Whitesnake.

I'm interested in checking out the three albums from this time, "Burn", "Stormbringer", and "Come Taste The Band". Anybody else here familiar with them? Ken? Adam?

[SAT-I need more room!!]

pete70s said:

I'm digging up this old post from over 2 years ago, because while I was away last week, the two things I listened to the most were the Deep Purple box and the Black Sabbath "Black Box".

I've really gotten into the third disc of the DP box, which mostly covers the MKIII and IV period. REALLY good stuff! I didn't realize that Glenn Hughes also sang lead on several tracks. David Coverdale sounded SO much different than he did in Whitesnake.

I'm interested in checking out the three albums from this time, "Burn", "Stormbringer", and "Come Taste The Band". Anybody else here familiar with them? Ken? Adam?

I actually knew that Hughes did sing some tracks, although I haven't heard them.

The only tracks I am familiar with from the Coverdale era are the two that show up on the compilations-the two title tracks. As far as Come Taste the Band, that was post Richie (Tommy Bolin is the guitarist there) and nothing from that shows up on the single disc compilations.

I HAVE heard though that they got funky on that album and people said they sounded more like contemporaries of Ohio Players than say Sabbath.

[Pete70s]

sat said:

pete70s said:

I'm digging up this old post from over 2 years ago, because while I was away last week, the two things I listened to the most were the Deep Purple box and the Black Sabbath "Black Box".

I've really gotten into the third disc of the DP box, which mostly covers the MKIII and IV period. REALLY good stuff! I didn't realize that Glenn Hughes also sang lead on several tracks. David Coverdale sounded SO much different than he did in Whitesnake.

I'm interested in checking out the three albums from this time, "Burn", "Stormbringer", and "Come Taste The Band". Anybody else here familiar with them? Ken? Adam?

I actually knew that Hughes did sing some tracks, although I haven't heard them.

The only tracks I am familiar with from the Coverdale era are the two that show up on the compilations-the two title tracks. As far as Come Taste the Band, that was post Richie (Tommy Bolin is the guitarist there) and nothing from that shows up on the single disc compilations.

I HAVE heard though that they got funky on that album and people said they sounded more like contemporaries of Ohio Players than say Sabbath.

The song "Hold On", from Stormbringer, sounds like something The Doobie Brothers would have done with Micheal McDonald!

[Ken]

pete70s said:

I'm digging up this old post from over 2 years ago, because while I was away last week, the two things I listened to the most were the Deep Purple box and the Black Sabbath "Black Box".

I've really gotten into the third disc of the DP box, which mostly covers the MKIII and IV period. REALLY good stuff! I didn't realize that Glenn Hughes also sang lead on several tracks. David Coverdale sounded SO much different than he did in Whitesnake.

I'm interested in checking out the three albums from this time, "Burn", "Stormbringer", and "Come Taste The Band". Anybody else here familiar with them? Ken? Adam?

Hey Pete

All three are great. Of all of them I think Burn is the strongest, but Stormbringer and Come Taste The Band have their moments and are worth checking out.

I remember reading that Coverdale was getting more ticked off at Glenn Hughes as time went on, because he ended up doing more of the singing. Coverdale apparently kept telling him something like " Look I'm the lead singer NOT YOU, you're the bass player LOL!!

Here are my picks.
Burn - Highlights include of course the title track, Might Just Take Your Life , Lay Down Stay Down ( Paicey is all over the drumkit on this one), You Fool No One and Mistreated which is a slow funky blues tune.


Stormbringer - Great title track, plus "Hold On" (and yes it does sounds like The Doobies!) , The band rock out on "Lady Double Dealer", You Can't Do It Right and Love Don't Mean a Thing.


Come Taste The Band - "Comin' Home" chugs along nicely and "Gettin' Tighter" is a HUGE fave of mine. "Lady Luck" is also very, very good."Love Child" is a cool tune as well.


I hope this helps

[Pete70s]

kenfrank said:

pete70s said:

I'm digging up this old post from over 2 years ago, because while I was away last week, the two things I listened to the most were the Deep Purple box and the Black Sabbath "Black Box".

I've really gotten into the third disc of the DP box, which mostly covers the MKIII and IV period. REALLY good stuff! I didn't realize that Glenn Hughes also sang lead on several tracks. David Coverdale sounded SO much different than he did in Whitesnake.

I'm interested in checking out the three albums from this time, "Burn", "Stormbringer", and "Come Taste The Band". Anybody else here familiar with them? Ken? Adam?

Hey Pete

All three are great. Of all of them I think Burn is the strongest, but Stormbringer and Come Taste The Band have their moments and are worth checking out.

I remember reading that Coverdale was getting more ticked off at Glenn Hughes as time went on, because he ended up doing more of the singing. Coverdale apparently kept telling him something like " Look I'm the lead singer NOT YOU, you're the bass player LOL!!

Here are my picks.
Burn - Highlights include of course the title track, Might Just Take Your Life , Lay Down Stay Down ( Paicey is all over the drumkit on this one), You Fool No One and Mistreated which is a slow funky blues tune.


Stormbringer - Great title track, plus "Hold On" (and yes it does sounds like The Doobies!) , The band rock out on "Lady Double Dealer", You Can't Do It Right and Love Don't Mean a Thing.


Come Taste The Band - "Comin' Home" chugs along nicely and "Gettin' Tighter" is a HUGE fave of mine. "Lady Luck" is also very, very good."Love Child" is a cool tune as well.


I hope this helps

Thanks Ken! I'll definitely be looking into them. Of course, with my luck, I'll buy them and then Rhino will do the remaster+bonus tracks like they did with the MKII albums.

I was thinking about this on my drive home today. It seems like the Coverdale-Hughes (and Bolin) line-ups are almost an afterthought in the history of the band. Part of the reason I believe is that those line-ups never had a "signature song". MKI had "Hush", and MKII had one of the biggest rock anthems of all time (Smoke On The Water). But MKIII didn't, even the two songs that turn up on the compilations aren't all that popular. So history has all but erased this chapter in their history. A real shame... At least the Box Set covers it well!

When Whitesnake hit big in '87-88, I'm pretty sure 99% of the teenage girls who bought the album for "Here I Go Again" had no IDEA that David Coverdale had been in Deep Purple 13 years before. A few of them MIGHT have figured out that Whitesnake had been tooling around for about 10 years.

In '86, when Glenn Hughes became Sabbath's lead singer, I was shocked. I thought Sabbath must be scraping the bottom of the barrell if they have Deep Purple's bass player as their new singer. But it turned out that I liked the album (Seventh Star) very much, and now that I hear Glenn Hughes voice in DP songs like "Burn", I can see the similarities. I think he was more developed as a singer in Purple than Coverdale was. Easy to see why he'd be pissed...

[Dawn]

Somehow I missed this when it was first posted...

My vote goes to the Ian Gillian/Roger Glover lineup. I only own two Deep Purple albums, but both feature these members and are quite solid.

[Ken]

pete70s said:

kenfrank said:

Hey Pete

All three are great. Of all of them I think Burn is the strongest, but Stormbringer and Come Taste The Band have their moments and are worth checking out.

I remember reading that Coverdale was getting more ticked off at Glenn Hughes as time went on, because he ended up doing more of the singing. Coverdale apparently kept telling him something like " Look I'm the lead singer NOT YOU, you're the bass player LOL!!

Here are my picks.
Burn - Highlights include of course the title track, Might Just Take Your Life , Lay Down Stay Down ( Paicey is all over the drumkit on this one), You Fool No One and Mistreated which is a slow funky blues tune.


Stormbringer - Great title track, plus "Hold On" (and yes it does sounds like The Doobies!) , The band rock out on "Lady Double Dealer", You Can't Do It Right and Love Don't Mean a Thing.


Come Taste The Band - "Comin' Home" chugs along nicely and "Gettin' Tighter" is a HUGE fave of mine. "Lady Luck" is also very, very good."Love Child" is a cool tune as well.


I hope this helps

Thanks Ken! I'll definitely be looking into them. Of course, with my luck, I'll buy them and then Rhino will do the remaster+bonus tracks like they did with the MKII albums.

I was thinking about this on my drive home today. It seems like the Coverdale-Hughes (and Bolin) line-ups are almost an afterthought in the history of the band. Part of the reason I believe is that those line-ups never had a "signature song". MKI had "Hush", and MKII had one of the biggest rock anthems of all time (Smoke On The Water). But MKIII didn't, even the two songs that turn up on the compilations aren't all that popular. So history has all but erased this chapter in their history. A real shame... At least the Box Set covers it well!

When Whitesnake hit big in '87-88, I'm pretty sure 99% of the teenage girls who bought the album for "Here I Go Again" had no IDEA that David Coverdale had been in Deep Purple 13 years before. A few of them MIGHT have figured out that Whitesnake had been tooling around for about 10 years.

In '86, when Glenn Hughes became Sabbath's lead singer, I was shocked. I thought Sabbath must be scraping the bottom of the barrell if they have Deep Purple's bass player as their new singer. But it turned out that I liked the album (Seventh Star) very much, and now that I hear Glenn Hughes voice in DP songs like "Burn", I can see the similarities. I think he was more developed as a singer in Purple than Coverdale was. Easy to see why he'd be pissed...

" Of course, with my luck, I'll buy them and then Rhino will do the remaster+bonus tracks like they did with the MKII albums."

LOL - Yeah, I know, don't you hate it when that happens?