When Deep Purple announced the definite departure of Steve Morse, who worked for Deep Purple for nearly 3 decades- longer than any other guitarist- and who built an era with the band that had late career highlights with the release of the album trilogy Now What, Infinite and Whoosh, you co...
I had never seen Deep Purple live before, but was very excited to see this 50th anniversary tour of Smoke on the Water. The band was in top performance mode. Playing songs from their entire career and especially the big ones like Space Trucking and Highway Star. Extremely tight rhythm ...
This song is from Deep Purple’s first album with the Mark II lineup. This is a more hard-rock track and much more like the songs they released during this era. One of the highlights of this track is Ritchie Blackmore’s guitar playing and Jon Lord’s organ playing going back and fo...
Deep Purple (1972):A run of early ‘70s heavy-metal supremacy achieved its commercial zenith with a Deep Purple album that featured the guitar riff to end all guitar riffs: “Smoke on the Water.” But Purple’s multi-million seller was no one-trick pony, thanks to other benchmarks like...
Deep Purple recorded 37 songs during these sessions. 9 are lost or in such poor quality that they aren’t really listenable. What we are about to look at started with recordings on June 18, 1968. This was a full month before Shades of Deep Purple was released and about a month after ...
Following on from this unusual venture were four very influential studio albums over the next four years: Deep Purple in Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, and Who Do We Think We Are?, and the live album Made in Japan. Though this lineup still recorded some songs with a lighter, pop tone ...
and it's like Humpty Dumpty. Don's got his thing. He owns the [Dokken] name, and he has hired-gun guys that are great. And he's very happy with that, and they've been together for a lot of years. And they service the songs, and people dig it, and if it's not broken, why...
Okay then, there at least 10 Deep Purple riffs that are better and more complex, which are not overplayed for sure. Hard Lovin' Man It's a gallop. I love gallops and I also love when Iron Maiden and Iced Earth base their songs on gallops. This song was probably the first speed ...
and it's like Humpty Dumpty. Don's got his thing. He owns the [Dokken] name, and he has hired-gun guys that are great. And he's very happy with that, and they've been together for a lot of years. And they service the songs, and people dig it, and if it's not broken, why...
As if the make a point that the new album is a rebirth of sorts for Deep Purple, they played five songs from=1. It’s rare that an artist of Purple’s pedigree and history would include more than a song or two from a new album in their live repertoire. From the=1graphics and vid...