#Deep purple series

But my personal favorite album came next. Watch out, the beginning could fry something.Ĭontrolled chaos. Check the interplay between Lord and Blackmore with the always rock solid rhythm section of Paice and Glover holding up that bottom like marble and granite. I distinctly remember the words “Holy Shit” coming to mind. We all knew people like that growing up, and remember their names and faces. But Jack was the guy who turned me on to Life in general so I listened. A friend in college made me sit and listen. Starting with this album Deep Purple WAS Speed Rock. What followed would be the first of those four albums that would get a lot of attention and setup influences in metal and speed rock. Blackmore wasn’t happy with the release since it wasn’t really in the vein of what they were after, but at that time Lord was a de facto leader and the release had some success and got some publicity. DP had released three albums with the other band and with this lineup turned to a classical approach with a Lord composition “Concerto for Group and Orchestra”.

And by the way, that pesky Roger Glover became one of the influential bass players of his generation, and went on to produce many of their albums and stay through many band changes through the years.īut we will focus on the four greatest albums of the band’s career that were done exclusively with this line-up.

#Deep purple series

The personnel of one of the greatest rock bands ever to be formed was set, and through a series of happenstances and chance meetings. And if you love the drummer you take his advice. Always ask the drummer about the bass player. Gillan’s vocals were perfect but Lord and Blackmore weren’t certain about Glover. A mutual friend who played in a band Episode Six with Ian Gillan on vocals and Roger Glover on bass introduced the purple dudes to them. The core group now of Blackmore, Lord and Paice really wanted the band to move in a more hard-edged direction. Evans grew restless and decided to move to Hollywood and become an actor. The first Deep Purple started practicing with Rod Evans on vocals who’d brought in Ian Paice from Evans’ former band, and Nick Simper on bass from those wacky Flower Pot Men. The guitar player’s name was Ritchie Blackmore. If you haven’t heard that shit you go and check it out. Through bandmates Lord heard of a guitar player who was in Hamburg doing session work and backing people like Screaming Lord Sutch. He’d been mucking about London playing with bands with names like The Flower Pot Men. The first gentleman they looked at was a classically trained Hammond B3 player named Jon Lord. Curtis sold the idea to some London businessmen and they began recruiting. In 1967 Chris Curtis, former drummer for the Searchers, had an idea to start what would essentially be a supergroup where the members would rotate.