Deep Purple

I liked Fireball, good album, good songs. But it seemed to lack something In Rock and Machine Head had IMO. Machine Head, really not a ton to say beyond it is one of the top albums ever. Great to awesome songs start to finish
 
bearfan said:
I liked Fireball, good album, good songs. But it seemed to lack something In Rock and Machine Head had IMO. Machine Head, really not a ton to say beyond it is one of the top albums ever. Great to awesome songs start to finish
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Yeah, only really the casual Never Before and Maybe I'm A Leo stick out. But their both enjoyable songs just perhaps not quite as ambitious as the rest of the songs on the album :) Never Before sporting some odd Caribbean funk and a truly 60's psychedelic section in the middle...

I was hurt when I was younger
By a woman who was cold
She took my name
She took my body
And she threw away my soul

Cool section though I think. Maybe I'm a Leo is more forgettable perhaps. Can't decide if it's because it's just too bluesy for the rest of the album or because it's stuck between Highway Star and Pictures of Home. Two of the best on the album.
 
Cornfed Hick said:
Deep Purple have been inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, if you care about that sort of thing. It's deserved. "Inductees: Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale, Rod Evans, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Glenn Hughes, Jon Lord, Ian Paice." Nick Simper didn't make the cut, evidently.

See more at: http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/a...-of-fame-2016-inductees/#sthash.GTz2SHft.dpuf
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Excellent. On that occasion Rolling Stone interviewed Ian Paice here:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-at-last-20151217

Which provided a pretty interesting side story about Rod Evans who apparently has not been seen in public for 35 years. It turns out, that in the late 70s Evans set up a band (or was talked into setting up a band) consisting of him and totally unknown studio musicians and began touring under the name Deep Purple (at a time when the real Deep Purple was on hiatus and members were doing solo projects) This resulting in a sue by the Deep Purple management who were awarded US$672,000 in damages. And Evans pretty much hasn't been seen since.Pretty crazy story.

There's an article and an interview about it here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120314...es/65/rod_evans__sounds-int.__sept._1980_.htm
 
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As much as it doesn't bother me that Joe Lynn Turner has been left out (though he would be legitimate for Rainbow, who deserves to be in there too), I really can't see any explanation for leaving Nick Simper out. Maybe a mistake?

EDIT The same goes for Steve Morse: more than 20 years in the band. Even though the songs he contributed to are not as memorable as those with Blackmore, his input cannot be overlooked. Purpendicular and Now What ?! are particularly good in my opinion... plus, being in DP slows down his release of his snooze fest solo albums ;)
 
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Cornfed Hick said:
Nick Simper didn't make the cut, evidently.
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Nor did Steve Morse, who's now been with them for a long time, making great records.

Janet Jackson is in, and Yes is out. The Hall was making progress for a few years, getting better, but they're clearly fucking up again. Deep Purple and maybe Chicago are the only deserving inductees this year. Cheap Trick, Janet Jackson and Steve Miller had a lot of hits, but that shouldn't be enough IMO. A "Hall of Fame" should be more selective.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Janet Jackson is in, and Yes is out. The Hall was making progress for a few years, getting better, but they're clearly fucking up again. Deep Purple and maybe Chicago are the only deserving inductees this year. Cheap Trick, Janet Jackson and Steve Miller had a lot of hits, but that shouldn't be enough IMO. A "Hall of Fame" should be more selective.
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1) Janet Jackson is not in. CNN fooled you, because they have her photo above the headline.
2) I think the addition of two hard rock bands in one year is encouraging. I don't think Cheap Trick should have beaten other artists to the wire, including Priest and Maiden, but it's still not a bad development. It continues a trend of inducting a leading metal/hard rock band every year or two.

2001: Aerosmith and Queen
2003: AC/DC
2006: Black Sabbath
2007: Van Halen
2009: Metallica
2011: Alice Cooper
2012: Guns 'n' Roses
2013: Rush
2014: Kiss
2016: Deep Purple and Cheap Trick

Who knows, maybe by 2020 Maiden or Priest will get in...

SinisterMinisterX said:
Nor did Steve Morse, who's now been with them for a long time, making great records.
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Nothing against Steve Morse, who is excellent, but Deep Purple haven't been relevant since Blackmore left (the second time, after the Perfect Strangers reunion). At least Nick Simper was an original member. Frankly, if they's only inducted the classic Mark II lineup, I'd have been fine with it, but if you are going to include Rod Evans, and Coverdale/Hughes, you'd think an original member would merit inclusion too.
 
I am really happy about Cheap Trick .. great band, great albums, and they still bring it live .. big time.

For Purple, it is a joke they were not in long long ago, I would not mind if they include Morse, really good player, but I get that he was not in the band during the most influential era.
 
I'm happy about The Steve Miller Band being inducted as well. He's made some great albums. Three of my favorites being Fly Like An Eagle, Book of Dreams...And the more psychedelic leaning Sailor, which also featured Boz Scaggs.

I agree that Simper should have been in as well, not the most influential musician like some of the other guys, but he was a co-founder of Purple after all.
 
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I am most excited about Cheap Trick actually, but Deep Purple definitely deserves it more than anyone else and it's ridiculous they're only now getting in.

Cheap Trick has got to be one of the most underrated rock bands of their time though. There's a lot more to them than Surrender and I Want You To Want Me. And I agree with Bearfan, they totally blew me away live earlier this year. They still sound like the same band that recorded Budokan.
 
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No, I just wanted to demonstrate the level of interest this Hall of Fame has for me. :p
 
Yeah.

It's a stupid invented showbiz American thing. Maiden could turn down offer easily, Purple does it only to boost back catalog sales, 'cause that's the bulk of their current earnings. Album sales are low, while shows are still somewhat large (theatre/smaller arena setting for most of their tours), I bet they don't earn much by touring only.
 
Zare said:
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It's a stupid invented showbiz American thing. Maiden could turn down offer easily, Purple does it only to boost back catalog sales, 'cause that's the bulk of their current earnings. Album sales are low, while shows are still somewhat large (theatre/smaller arena setting for most of their tours), I bet they don't earn much by touring only.
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Paice does touch down on this in the inteview with Rolling Stone too:

Do you think part of the problem is so many voters are in America and you were never quite as big here as you were overseas?
"Of course, that does effect what people are aware of. If you're not seen on the U.S. touring circuit very often, then why would U.S. voters pick you? It's not a criticism. It's just a reality of life. Certain parts of the world have different musical tastes now. I'm not saying there aren't a lot of rock & roll fans in the States, but what is covered by the media and what is thrown in front of people by TV, like the flavor of the month, segregates things quite badly.

We'll do a show where we'll have a wonderfully mixed audience of kids in the front, then people that are slightly older until you get right to the back. In other countries, you just have an audience of more mature people or just kids. It's been broken up in a way, which is so sad. The best shows are where everybody, of whatever age, are experiencing the same thing and getting the same buzz out of it. You need the kids to kickstart it, and once they get it going, the old folks remember why they went to a rock & roll show in the first place. It's a wonderful feeling when it all kicks off like that. In the U.K. and the States, the media has cut the generations in half away from each other. It's very sad."
 
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