Yes, gave up on music being churned out in the West, when Cowell and his like, dictated little boy and girl music was what we'd get. He couldn't handle the Alpha males who make up Rock Bands, so Rock music didn't see the light of day on mainstream TV. I looked East and found a guy (Hua Chenyu) brought up on Muse, Radiohead, Linkin Park, who writes everything from Rock/Metal to Rap, Reggae 😂, Pop, SynthPop, Broadway, Traditional Chinese and on and on. Like a mix of Bowie and Freddie Mercury (and equally chameleon like in look). Waiting for the West to rediscover music like this. 😔

You speak the truth

That is the best explanation I’ve heard. Im just now appreciating their music.

I was there... Thank God I did some "medical research " it blew my mind.... Recorded sucked... Live? Holy shit

It's not a product, it's expressive,, it has a narrative that is sympathetic, it's uncompromising, rebelling against cruel reality, evocative of repressed emotions and bringing them out. I always scream inside with him and slap the table at 8:10. This music controls me.

Yeah but normal people can't play like that

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I agree, this is up there, but Queen at Live Aid still takes it 😱

Agree, everyone in the band at this time were great at what they did.

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And that's absolutely true... We lived with it in our youth!!! 😂

We were so lucky!

Amen brother!

Everyone in the band were the best at what they did.

I was about to suggest it toO . My.. his version always gives me goose pimples. Other singers are great but none can convey the raw emotions, sadness, anger, fear, resignation the way he does it. In term of expressivity, he remains unattaignable, at least in my point of view.

Yes! Ian Gillan, nobody else comes close!

Made in Japan has the best versions.

Definitely do the studio first..then Mij version.

@@ponytrekker8996 yes I suppose the studio stuff would be a good place to start but Purple were primarily a performance band.

@@Hartlor_Tayley agreed.. but studio lazy is a must listen..

@@ponytrekker8996 yes, their are exceptions of course, Lazy being one.

Made in Japan and Made in Europe!

My dad was a Opera Singer. He covered his right ear to hear his voice and stay in key. He sang from his Diaphragm and covering his ear also helps you use your breath correctly. I sing at Church and sometimes I cover my ear by pushing the front skin over my ear canal. Most of the Contemporary Praise and Worship are for women and men that can't sing Bass/ Baritone. That's why you don't a lot of men sing during Worship because they can't sing like women.

Actually it was the only way singer can hear himself in the mid of all those noise arround. Closing ear from outside sound, you can hear yourself trough the inside canals like eustachian tube.

Great band. Everyone in the band was great at what they did.

I used to drive my parents absolutely crazy playing this very loud!

Released a full six months after Led Zeppelin 2. Nope.

Zeppelin is blues based hard rock. This is the birth of metal. Along with Black Sabbath, first lp. Sorry bro Zeppelin never been metal. But a great band​@tektoniks_architects

Ritchie Blackmore is a God on the guitar

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My children asked me about those "large black cd's". How can you expect them to have albums from 50 yrs ago? Lol.

He was top 3 in the world 🌎 in his day.

I like your 'genre' comment. I've noticed many reactors to the music from the past that I grew up with are overly obsessed with genres and have a need to compartmentalise everything they hear. Back then there seemed to be so much varied music coming through that it was just accepted that new talent always brought it's own originality into the equation. If it sounded good, regardless of any past influences or crossovers (jazz, folk, classical etc, etc) that was all that mattered.

@@Llydrwydd Exactly! You would get different influences on one album with a lot of bands or they changed their sound through the years like Rush. Music then was inventive and creative and had so many influences. These days it all had to be perfect pitch in a tiny little box with a label on it. That's why most music these days is really boring and uninspiring.

I like your term "Organic! yeah agree with you because all natural, the guitar effect just a treble booster.

@@Llydrwydd You said it all, Genres didn't exist in my world. Live music just reeked talent. Great comment!!!!! 🇬🇧

@@carolehankinson4969Thanks for the endorsement. I do think we were lucky in a way when music wasn't as accesible as it is now. Something new I'd usually taped (reel to reel, yes I'm that old) off the radio would spark an interest and, in my case anyway, a decision would need to be made whether to buy the album or alternatively something I'd heard previously by a different artiste. I couldn't afford both! Good in a way though because I think it honed my appreciation of the talent that existed. The downside was I'd miss that deeper delve into some artistes work at the time. Though aware of the influences (or genres) in the sounds I was hearing it was never something that overly concerned me.

I think they're easily par with Zeppelin. I seen them Sabbath Purple Zeppelin. Purple clearly better than those two live. Purple another color of the spectrum very different and all aces on there instruments. 5 all 🌟

@@barryrammer7906 Most definitely a better consistent live band than Zeppelin. Made in Japan is the measure of what a live Album should be.

@@kurtsherrick2066 agreed my favorite live lp of all time it's a masterpiece. Love Sabbath Zeppelin too. I was lucky enough to see them all in concerts in there big day in the 70s. Just my opinion. Seen Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden so disappointing to see Jimmy Page struggle live. Now Plant Bonham Jones especially Jones was spot on everyone could see he's the quiet one but a master musician. Jones and Bonzo perfect. Sabbath was awesome to Geezer Ward Tony even Ozzy were great and loved seeing them. Not complaints at all. Just not par with Purple mk 2 and even mk 3. I seen Coverdale and was shocked how good he was with Hughes. They were refreshing the band hate to say but brought energy and confidence. It's not easy to try and fill Gillan vocals but both as team really came close. I was shocked and so were we all. But Burn was huge. 1973 Deep Purple was the biggest band in the world thru gate receipts and record sales. We had Purple mania as kids and even got to see them in the happy years in the 80s. The meadow lands in NJ with guns and roses awesome and Aerosmith not so good at the time still dealing with drugs and trying to be clean. I think these kids today don't realize how good most bands in the 70s were. Almost all of them grand funk 10 years after the sweet all of them hold there own. I don't see it as a complaint to musicians today. I see it as one of the lucky ones. I got to see some of these bands and very lucky indeed.

@@barryrammer7906 Yes my friend that was a great comment and well said. I have thanked the Lord for letting me be a teenager in the Seventies. I have seen just about all of them. I have a photo Album full ticket stubs. I have been to over 100 concerts in the Seventies and early eighties. Many of the young people know they missed out. God bless and rock on. I grew up in Memphis the home of Rock and Roll. I saw Shawn Lane when he was 13 years old. He was already a top guitarist. I saw Mick Jagger play guitar hos first time on the Some Girls Tour in 78. He wanted Furry Lewis to watch him play on stage the first time. Furry was maybe the greatest Authentic Delta Blues Guitarist. You can Google some of his videos. I had to travel to Birmingham Alabama to see Zeppelin in 77. It was exactly how you described them live. I saw Rainbow's First American Concert. They warmed up Foghat whilch during their Concert people where yelling Ritchie, Ritchie, Rainbow, Rainbow. Those were the days my friend, I thought they would never end but it did. God bless you Barry! You brought back some great memories. Saw Sabbath 3 times. Twice with Ozzy and once with Dio. I can't remember if Sabbath came on the Born Again Tour with Gillian. If so I missed that one.

@@kurtsherrick2066 Kurt I'm with you all or most bands in 70s were true musicians and masters of there craft. Some were trial and error like the Moody Blues who the record executives thought did not have a chance. Wrong just one example of cognitive dissonance on there part. I'm like you went to many concerts loved it. One had a tragic event that bothers be to this day. Kiss Bob Seger Jake Geils band and Thin lizzy. A kid was stabbed to death in the stands. I was front row all Day event. During Kiss destroyer tour I think in Jersey City Roosevelt stadium. But other than that awesome experience people were so cool and none violent for the most part. Getting back to Purple seen them in mark 2 3 4 and the reunion tours. 2 and 3 really were the best ever it was hard at first no Gillan or Glover. But Coverdale and Hugh's pulled it off in combination singing. How many bands have 2 legitimate lead singers back then. We could probably names bands these folks never heard of to bad there all gone but our memories of our youth and openness to new things never dies. I got to see one of my heros in OR of all places. At a casino in Newport. BB king when he hit the first note on a lead an electric volt went thru my body lol. Never felt that from any guitarist in my lifetime. Lol even Ritchie Blackmore. 🤣 My point is I got to see the big 3 of so called metal pioneers. Black Sabbath awesome Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page has a hard time pulling off textures of overdubs live and was struggling live due to drugs also. Deep Purple back then we pretty much agreed live there were untouchable. There better live than on lps. They just were I can't explain it we came away dumbfounded. One of my buddies a hard core Zeppelin fan admitted to us all Deep Purple better and grudgingly admitted Ritchie Blackmore was better live. He stressed only live lol. Who cares really it's all opinions anyway. The point is we are so lucky indeed my brother rock on 🤘 💯

Totally agree. Seen DP with Sabbath at Cal Jam, no comparison. Saw Led Zeppelin in the mid 70's, no comparison. Most of the time, I just tolerate Robert Plants singing because the music was so great. DP were musicians at the top of the game, none better.

@@greggguenthard It's always nice to see someone who appreciated Deep Purple as much as me. Hope there are many more of us who do.

Much as I love LZ, DP just have that extra edge, some even darker spells that other bands can’t imagine.

They have the intention to outdo each other and that's what drives them. I believe they are the best live band that I personally saw and that is quite a few but again I must say Ian Gillan has a voice that is beyond belief. @@sillysod33

Amen 🙏