Coverdale Deep Purple

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A move towards soul and funk....

Burn
Stormbringer
Come Taste the Band

Okay, whilst present, there is minimal influence of soul and funk on Burn but views and votes on the other two (they are both robust)





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[WG Kaspar]

They are both irredeemable. Especially Stormbringer. Very few albums have disappointed me as much.

[andymacandy]

They are both irredeemable. Especially Stormbringer. Very few albums have disappointed me as much.

Stormbringer is excellent.Title track, Hold On, Lady Double Dealer, Soldier of Fortune all great.
Certainly a departure, but when the old band collapsed this is a bold re-invention. Love it.

[WG Kaspar]

They are both irredeemable. Especially Stormbringer. Very few albums have disappointed me as much.

Stormbringer is excellent.Title track, Hold On, Lady Double Dealer, Soldier of Fortune all great.
Certainly a departure, but when the old band collapsed this is a bold re-invention. Love it.

The title track is OK and Soldier of Fortune is good. The rest no thanks. It sounds like the shadow of a once great band.

[andymacandy]

It sounds like the shadow of a once great band.

It isn't Mark II Purple, but that had gone. Its a great new band. Fresh and different, at the time.
The keyboards sound a bit dated now, where maybe Purple MkII (in general) have stood the test of time better, but Im old, and dont really care!

[The Slider]

I don;t like CTTB much at all
And Stormbringer was a dip from Burn, but I still think it's a solid 7

[Matt Wilson]

Burn is excellent.
Stormbringer still has some good stuff on it, but is a lesser album.

I don't really know Come Taste the Band. Come to think of it, it's the only DP LP from that era I don't own.

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Burn I don't really know Come Taste the Band. Come to think of it, it's the only DP LP from that era I don't own.

It is very good




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[Nancy]

Burn is excellent.
Stormbringer still has some good stuff on it, but is a lesser album.

I don't really know Come Taste the Band. Come to think of it, it's the only DP LP from that era I don't own.

I think Come Taste The Band is almost as good as Burn. Very different albums though, obviously.

I believe there were two albums that came out under the Deep Purple name that Jon Lord didn't consider to be Deep Purple albums. They were Slaves and Masters and Come Taste The Band. He thought Come Taste The Band was a very good album, just that it shouldn't have come out as a DP album.

I love Tommy Bolin's guitar playing, and although he was a big fan of funk and you'd think the combination of him and Glenn Hughes would have taken Deep Purple over the funk cliff after Stormbringer, Come Taste The Band actually has less funk than Stormbringer. Gettin' Tighter is probably my favorite funk-rock song ever - it just shreds. You Keep On Moving is an all-time classic. There are one or two songs out of the rest that are just average, but overall Come Taste The Band is a much, much better album than Stormbringer.

Stormbringer is half of a great album. The title track, Gypsy, Lady Double Dealer and Soldier Of Fortune are all fantastic. If they had come up with 4 more songs that good Stormbringer would give Burn a run for its' money. Unfortunately, the rest of Stormbringer is, in my humble opinion, the worst half of an album Deep Purple ever made. Putrid.

I'd recommend picking up Come Taste The Band.

P.S. Ian Paice is a monster all over it, and he singled out his performance on "Dealer" as one of his recorded favorites from the whole catalog.

[soundchaser]

Burn is excellent.
Stormbringer still has some good stuff on it, but is a lesser album.

I don't really know Come Taste the Band. Come to think of it, it's the only DP LP from that era I don't own.

I think Come Taste The Band is almost as good as Burn. Very different albums though, obviously.

I believe there were two albums that came out under the Deep Purple name that Jon Lord didn't consider to be Deep Purple albums. They were Slaves and Masters and Come Taste The Band. He thought Come Taste The Band was a very good album, just that it shouldn't have come out as a DP album.

I love Tommy Bolin's guitar playing, and although he was a big fan of funk and you'd think the combination of him and Glenn Hughes would have taken Deep Purple over the funk cliff after Stormbringer, Come Taste The Band actually has less funk than Stormbringer. Gettin' Tighter is probably my favorite funk-rock song ever - it just shreds. You Keep On Moving is an all-time classic. There are one or two songs out of the rest that are just average, but overall Come Taste The Band is a much, much better album than Stormbringer.

Stormbringer is half of a great album. The title track, Gypsy, Lady Double Dealer and Soldier Of Fortune are all fantastic. If they had come up with 4 more songs that good Stormbringer would give Burn a run for its' money. Unfortunately, the rest of Stormbringer is, in my humble opinion, the worst half of an album Deep Purple ever made. Putrid.

I'd recommend picking up Come Taste The Band.

P.S. Ian Paice is a monster all over it, and he singled out his performance on "Dealer" as one of his recorded favorites from the whole catalog.

Cheers for this. I never really followed Deep Purple after Who Do We Think We Are?, so it will be interesting to go back and take a listen now.

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Burn is excellent.
Stormbringer still has some good stuff on it, but is a lesser album.

I don't really know Come Taste the Band. Come to think of it, it's the only DP LP from that era I don't own.

I think Come Taste The Band is almost as good as Burn. Very different albums though, obviously.

I believe there were two albums that came out under the Deep Purple name that Jon Lord didn't consider to be Deep Purple albums. They were Slaves and Masters and Come Taste The Band. He thought Come Taste The Band was a very good album, just that it shouldn't have come out as a DP album.

I love Tommy Bolin's guitar playing, and although he was a big fan of funk and you'd think the combination of him and Glenn Hughes would have taken Deep Purple over the funk cliff after Stormbringer, Come Taste The Band actually has less funk than Stormbringer. Gettin' Tighter is probably my favorite funk-rock song ever - it just shreds. You Keep On Moving is an all-time classic. There are one or two songs out of the rest that are just average, but overall Come Taste The Band is a much, much better album than Stormbringer.

Stormbringer is half of a great album. The title track, Gypsy, Lady Double Dealer and Soldier Of Fortune are all fantastic. If they had come up with 4 more songs that good Stormbringer would give Burn a run for its' money. Unfortunately, the rest of Stormbringer is, in my humble opinion, the worst half of an album Deep Purple ever made. Putrid.

I'd recommend picking up Come Taste The Band.

P.S. Ian Paice is a monster all over it, and he singled out his performance on "Dealer" as one of his recorded favorites from the whole catalog.

Cheers for this. I never really followed Deep Purple after Who Do We Think We Are?, so it will be interesting to go back and take a listen now.

Come Taste the Band is excellent - I bought it when it came out and I was a bit taken back by the more funky direction that DP had taken. That was short-lived. As Reap eloquently states there are very strong tracks. I love them all.

Sadly, when I saw Purple with Bolin in 1976 (Gentle Giant were supporting) he was below par - a few months later and he was dead






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[Fonz]

CTTB is great. I think it's the only DP album I still own.
Bolin was marvellous

[soundchaser]

CTTB is great. I think it's the only DP album I still own.
Bolin was marvellous

I’m going to stream it now.

[soundchaser]

Two tracks in and very good so far. Good rockin’ this morning!

The singer and guitarist had a twist to the classic Purple sound.

[soundchaser]

This album sounds more Whitesnake than Deep Purple, but it’s a fun listen.

And Ian Paice...what a drummer!

[The Slider]

I saw Purple with Bolin in 1976 (Gentle Giant were supporting) he was below par - a few months later and he was dead






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Shame they didn't wait to record the album after that

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And Ian Paice...what a drummer!

Isn't he just





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