Please remember Jon Douglas Lord died today July 16th 10 years ago. Rip Finally some Purple easy answers. 1 In Rock 2 made in japan 3 machine head 4 burn 5 Fireball 6 pefect strangers 7 come taste the band 8 who do we think we are 9 strormbringer 10 battle rages on one side note rip Jon Lord 🙏 Tommy Bolin 🙏

Always loved Purple since I saw them live in Liverpool in 1971. For 10 years in the tax office in Liverpool I worked with Chris Curtis who was the drummer in The Searchers in the 1960,s. I didn,t find out until I left the job that after he left The Searchers he was living with Jon Lord and they were forming a band with Ritchie Blackmore to be called Roundabout ( because they were going to change the bass player and drummer on a regular basis). Sadly Chris had his problems and one day Jon came home to find the walls and windows covered in tin foil, Chris was having an episode and thought that people were using brainwaves to steal his ideas. Needless to say Jon moved out got a new drummer formed a band with Ritchie and changed the name to Deep Purple. Poor Chris came home to Liverpool and had to sit by me for years in the Tax Office. I often wonder what would have happened if Chris had kept it together, maybe no In Rock, Machine Head etc.These simple twists of fate huh.

Deep Purple has a pretty consistent catalog overall, with even their lesser albums still having some solid moments. I actually like "Who Do We Think We are." I would even put "Woman from Tokyo" in my ten favorite Deep Purple songs. Then you look at their top tier albums, like "In Rock," "Machine Head," "Burn," and "Perfect Strangers," and these are among the greatest heavy rock albums ever.

It's all about Glenn Hughes for me. The voice... the Bass. Stormbringer is my favorite from Purple and my 2nd favorite album of all time. Burn #2, Come taste the band #3. Saw the Perfect Strangers tour as a teen so it's my wild card...I'm not familiar enough with the newest stuff yet to pick least favorites and to date I've enjoyed every album I've heard.

Deep Purple is one of those bands I've been listening to forever, a household name. Favs: Perfect Strangers - This album just has the songs. I love the original mark II trilogy, but this just has the consistency those albums don't really have imo. Infinite - I reeeally love this album. Big grower. There's a hint of progressive rock here I really enjoy. Imo whatever the current mark is is just as strong as mark II. Least: House Of Blue Light Slaves And Masters Not a fan of these two, just sounds like they're deflated, put in Battle Rages On here too, but I like these two less than that one. Wildcard: Fireball - This was my favorite for a time, but it has a bit of that - it's not single side syndrome, but rather the first 2 tracks on each side are great and then I really don't care for the rest.

RIP Jon Lord I have to admit I haven’t kept up with Purple since Steve Morse, though I have a few. Great band, great musicians that have meant so much to me. Perfect Strangers came out when I was in high school, holds up as a sentimental favorite. Great run of albums in the 70s that exemplified the best hard rock you can find. Fun show!

Couldn't click the like button fast enough for this episode. Favorites - S/T '69 (Heaviest album they made with Rod Evans at the helm alongside tasty guitar work on the songs The Painter, Why Didn't Rosemary?, & Bird Has Flown), other favorite albums include In Rock, Stormbringer, Come Taste the Band, Perfect Strangers, and Rapture of the Deep. Least favorites - Bananas, Abandon, and The Battle Rages On...

A very fitting episode to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the passing of Jon Lord.

Who Do We Think We Are is a great album... hard to believe you don't like it. Rat Bat Blue, Place in Line, Smooth Dancer... unbelievable! Miles ahead of any band at that time.In my top 3 for sure.

Lot of folks here seem to not care much for House of Blue Light but I love it. It would easily be in my top 5 favorite albums of theirs. I actually prefer it slightly more than Perfect Strangers from start to finish.

Favs: Burn Perfect Strangers Least: The House of Blue Light Bananas Wildcard: Shades of Deep Purple

Hey Pete. I "discovered" your channel 4 years ago during the lockdown & I'm slowly starting to watch more of a variety of your shows. I must say I really love this show! You Steven & Simon have great chemistry & I love the beer sampling! In Rock & Machine Head are my 2 favorites but all their stuff is great including Steve Morse era Long live Deep Purple!!!!

Deep Purple is my all-time favorite band. I started listening to current music in 1979, when Rainbow came out with Down To Earth, and followed a trail that led me to Deep Purple. I was over the moon when the band announced the reunion in 1984. I bought every DP album upon its release for the next 20 years, then stopped after Rapture of the Deep. (Having a bunch of kids is expensive.) I have every intention of buying the Ezrin produced albums. Someday. My big favorite is Perfect Strangers, for personal reasons as much as musical. It was a strong comeback, and the songs -- especially KATBD -- helped me through my senior year of high school and most of college. My other hit is Machine Head; I wasn't going to choose it, but I keep going back to it, and I never tire of Smoke On The Water. This is the album I would play if someone wanted me to introduce them to Deep Purple. It never sounds dated to me. Big misses are Come Taste The Band and Slaves And Masters. Coincidentally, these are both one-off appearances of two of my fellow Americans in Purple. Ritchie Blackmore should have left the band after Burn, and the rest should have called it quits when Blackmore left. CTTB is not Deep Purple, to me. As it happens, I much prefer Whitesnake to anything David Coverdale did with Purple, except the song Burn. S&M starts with two of my favorite Deep Purple songs, King of Dreams and The Cut Runs Deep, but falls of a cliff a couple of tracks later. JLT is a fine vocalist but he did not belong in this band. My wild card is Purpendicular. This one sounded even fresher than Perfect Strangers, and it was nice to have an American stick around for not only more than one album, but for over a quarter of a century (so far). Almost every song is a hit for me. It's just not the album that I would use to introduce someone to the band.

Favorites: Fireball and Come Taste The Band Least favorites: Slaves And Masters and Rapture Of The Deep Wild card: Live in London 1974 (the band was absolutly on fire, five songs from Burn on the set, wonderful!)

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My favorite: 1= Come taste the band, 2= Who do we think we are, 3= The House of blue light, (4= Burn, 5= The battle rages on). Least favorite: The rest.

I'm slowly getting into Deep Purple and I will say that "Into the Fire" is my favorite song from the band, next to "Mistreated"!

I can't decide what my favourite deep purple album is, too many people choose from however when I first heard dp was listening to machine head and perpendicular blew me away with such a fresh new sound and guitarist Steve morse

Fantastic show today! Deep Purple is, has been and probably will always be my favourite band of all time. Have seen them numerous times in concert. My very first exposure to them was in 1973 when I got the 45 with Smoke on the Water - Side A Studio Edit / Side B Live Edit. From that moment on, I have been totally hooked. So now.....how to boil it all down to just 2 Favourites, 2 Least Favourites and a Wild Card?? I will attempt to do so here: #1 Favourite.................IN ROCK #2 Favourite.................BURN #1 Least Favourite.......BANANAS #2 Least Favourite......THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHT Wild Card......................NOW WHAT?! (and for good measure, 2 more Wild Cards......MADE IN JAPAN, AND FIREBALL).

In Rock Machine Head Perfect Strangers Made in Japan (1998 Deluxe Edition) Burn Fireball Stormbringer Who Do We Think We Are Shades of Deep Purple Slaves and Masters The Battle Rages On The House of Blue Light Come Taste the Band Purpendicular Abandon The Book of Talesyn Rapture of the Deep Infinite Now What?! Whoosh Turning to Crime Least Favorites: - Deep Purple (1969) - A Fire in the Sky - A Selected Career Spanning Songs (single disc version) hated how they edited so many of the songs love the 3 disc version better

Fantastic stuff guys as always! Was super fun Favourites-1. Machinehead 2. Tie between burn and fireball Least favourites-1. Bananas 2. Battle rages on Wild card-purpendicular

There are no throwaways on "Burn" for me. I love every track and "A '200'" is bloody fantastic. For me, easily Deep Purple's best instrumental. But then, I've loved this album since 1974 so I'm biased I guess. I don't care. LOL! My top two Deep Purple albums are 1) "Burn" then 2) "Come Taste the Band." I have "Machine Head" as my number 3. I much prefer David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes to Ian Gillian. Gillian was great in the day but having two great singers feed off each other worked so well for Deep Purple. My bottom three albums would be in order: "Infinite", then "The House of Blue Light" and at the bottom "Bananas." Having said that, I like all of Deep Purple's albums more or less, and don't think any are bad. I confess I don't have the covers album and don't want it either. I thought that, a band of their stature and talent, with so much isolation time during the pandemic, not being able to produce any original material was just sheer laziness.

The title track and anya are the shining lights of the battle rages on.

Top show - real passion in those selections. Always a fun listen too.

Thanks again for another fantastic show!

Excellent show.Thanks guys😄👍

My very first album was machine head...the rest is history.😁

Fireball is a Really Strong Album, it's very Heavy..... and then there's Bananas. With a Great Discography, there's usually One or Two Bad Albums. The only good thing about Bananas is that they are good for You.

Great show as always

Seeing Purple in October. It's been a while. Can't wait!

Pete, the reason they started adding Hush to most of their set-lists is because a British band called Kula Shaker did a cover of it. It was a pretty decent cover of it and was quite well received at the time, and of course the younger generation knew nothing about it's origins. It should be noted of course that it was a cover of a song written by Joe south, for Billy Joe Royal an American artist, in 1967.

I love so many Purple albums hard to pick a favorite.But I'll say this I love Who Do We Think We Are.I was in my early 20's when it came out and me and all my friends loved this album to death.Wasn't Machine Head but it was a great hard rock album at the time

Fantastic show lads. Been a fan of Deep Purple since Black Night was in the charts. I first saw Deep Purple (mark2) at the Music Hall in Aberdeen in March 1971 and I was so blown away by Child In Time I went out and bought Deep Purple In Rock. This may interest Steven as the opening act was a band called Tear Gas who went on to form The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

Perpendicular has been my favorite for quite some time; especially Sometimes I feel Like Screaming.

Great. Waiting for Moody Blues, Floyd, Camel, Heep, UFO, Sabbath

Favorites: In rock / Machine Head Least favorites: Shades of Deep Purple / Turning To crime Wild Card: Abandon

Favourite: In Rock, Made in Japan HM: Burn Least Fav: Keeping in mind that I haven't heard all of their albums...I'm going with "Shades of Deep Purple"

1) Machine Head 2) In Rock 3) Fireball I was 17 - 19yrs old across those 3 albums,they will always hold a place in my heart,much as i love Burn,Stormbringer and recently,Infinite. What a band,what a catalogue.

Pete, your 'soapbox' moment almost made me cry as a fan. Everything you said. They found their groove in that trilogy like I never could have wished for. Whoosh for me though. And Purpendicular. And that shows the strength of their latter day catalogue. I will enjoy the show in the Fall.

I really enjoyed this episode. I think you three nailed it. I have been really getting into the Don Airey era of the band. I really like everything from Rapture Of The Deep to Whoosh. I agree that the last three (not including the covers album) are brilliant. Airey's contribution can't be overstated. He is such a good fit and keyboardist. Very much underrated. I find myself listening more to the recent albums than the early ones, at least recently.

Number 1 for me is Come Taste the Band, which blew me away the first time I heard it and continues to astound me every time I listen! Second would be the tremendous In Rock album and there isn't much to say about this classic. Wildcard is Live in London, which I would say is better than Made in Japan and Made in Europe. Worst is Slaves and Masters (Breakfast in Bed is their worst song)... JLT and Yngwie worked better than JLT and Blackmore on this occasion. Second worse would be Who Do We Think We Are as a demonstration of a band running out of steam.

Now What ! Is playing, superb !

Like Pete, Purple are my favorite band. Many favorites. Least; bananas and Slaves and Masters. Their last 3 are great. There are reports that they are going to the studio in 2023. 👏

Hi Pete and Simon and Steven great fun,I wanted to tell you my picks but once again my library has been missing since update now I have to backup the library again

I started listening to Deep Purple from Machine Head and that is my favorite album. Second would be In Rock, for which I thought was released after Machine Head, as I listened to it later and it was overall heavier. Did not like Come Taste the Band and did not buy it back in the day. Change was so huge for me that I stopped buying further releases. Decades later, Come Taste the Band sounds great. New releases (not the covers album) I like a lot. Slaves and Masters would be at the bottom to me, together with Abandon.

Favorites Come Taste The Band, Abandon, In Rock, Least the first 3 albums, wild card The House of Blue Light.

You guys crack me up ! I will avoid that covers album 😆

Fascinating info about the band from Mark 1 through to now. Recorded some great albums as well as some not so good albums. Most bands who have been around some years, have done that Deep Purple are no exception, but have a great back catalogue. Great show guys as usual keep up the good work 👏 🙌 👍 👌.

Excellent show as ever gents. I am on the San Miguel today, and absolutely agree about the last 3 studio albums. Favourites: Got to go with "Machine Head" and "In Rock" - absolutely essential albums in any collection Least Favourite: "Slaves and Masters" and Bananas" I don't think I've listened to either more than a couple of times since I bought them back in the day. Wildcard for me has to be a Mark I album, today I am going with the debut, "Shades of Deep Purple" mainly coz I really dig "Hush" for some reason.😁

Great show gentlemen! I haven't heard much of the Steve Morse era, so I won't count those ones this time. Favorites: 1. Machinehead ( It's the one that I and most people heard first but it's a killer album, I don't listen to it as much these days though ) 2. In Rock ( almost a tie with Machinehead really ) Least favorites: Slaves & Masters The House of Blue Light Wildcard: Deep Purple ( 1969 ) ( I really like the majority of the songs on it, Ritchie's guitar playing was getting better, Paicey's drumming is stellar as always, good variety of song styles, classical, jazz, blues, rock, prog, folk. etc. They were finding their way, getting heavier, turning into what was to come the following year! It's not the Mark II - Mark IV stuff I know but it's an underated album in my opinion. )

My favourite is "In Rock", second one probably "Burn" or "Stormbringer". Least favourites are the Mark 1 albums. And the wild card is "Come taste the band", I've grown to like It more and more. As far as lyrics go, listen to "Mitzi Dupree", on "The House of Blue Light" album, really hilarious!

for me Come Taste The Band and Purpendicular are top of my list with Slaves and Masters propping up the discography.

Doctor Eddie Ganja here Deep Purple at a young age really blew me away The first album I ever b9ught was Made in Japan I remember watching ABC Entertainment World In Concert 1984 California Jam I remember Tommy Bolin I bought a Japanese Import album Last Concert In Japan Still one of my all Time Favorite Bands Albums like In Rock Machine head Made in Japan Burn and Come Taste The Band Awesome band Perfect Strangers Ian Gillan awesome vocalist Roger Glover Ian Paice bad ass drummer love this band Ritchie Blackmore

A great show. Don Airey is indeed a superb replacement for the sadly missed Jon. The dep guitarist at the moment, brilliant Northern Irishman Simon McBride has been part of the Don Airey band for a while along with vocalist Carl Sentance who now fronts Nazareth. My good buddy Jon Finnigan on drums for Don, who has also depped for Ian in DP. Jon grew up in the same village where Don lives, hence their families got to know each other. Little Jon at 12 years old used to play in bands in the village pub where Don frequented near Cambridge. Great nights in there.

I was a casual fan before discovering SoT in 2020. I knew all the AOR radio songs, but not much else. When I discovered Mark III, I said "what the hell was I doing?" This stuff is great. Favorites are You Can't Do It Right, Sail Away, and Stormbringer.

"Come Taste the Band" is my favourite! Also their last great album!

Great show as ever guys. Always an entertaining watch. Here's my choices... Favourites : In Rock & Perfect Strangers Least favorite: Book of Taliesyn & Deep Purple Wildcard: Made in Japan 👍

Deep Purple has nothing left to prove... They can do what they want. The current lineup is great... Legacy bands are like this.

Just reflecting: As opening tracks go Burn is out there but I’m going to suggest that Comin’ Home off Come taste the band pushes it close. Lord’s keyboards perfectly set up Bollin’s lengthy solo which skips along a la Blackmore but with t that added Bollin signature.

Great show! Being a younger fan I only have 9 of the studio albums and made in Japan. Of the ones I own I have to go with In Rock and machine head - honestly don't have any albums I don't enjoy however I did download Slaves and Masters and it didn't exactly blow my skirt up. My wild card is going to be Now What as its the most recent one I have bought and think its great! I am looking forward to my first live show in London in October! Regards. Carl

That beer opening was epic! Nice episode, also one of the first and most important bands in my life since about 1980. By the way, I discovered my all-time #1 album by them in my father's record collection. And yeah, for me - for all time - this is a perfect album top to bottom, don't mind "A' 200", especially Jon Lord on an ARP, at all. In fact, it has a nice little sort of Morricone/Goblin italian movie score flavour meets vintage SciFi. Favorites: 01. Burn (1974) 02. In Rock (1970) Least Favorites: 01. Turning to Crime (2021) 02. Who Do We Think We Are (1973) Wild Card: Come Taste the Band (1975)

Great show guy's 👍👍👍

Great show as always guys My 2 favourite albums are Machine Head and Perfect Strangers. My least favourite are any of the first 3 sorry just never really liked them apart from a few songs. I agree with you guys about the wildcard so any of those 3 with a honourable mention for Perpendicular which I still really like alot.

Cool episode. I am going for the good old Spitfire Amber Ale. Cheers. Looking forward to see Deep Purple, Jefferson Starship and Stage Dolls this autumn. Even though it is without Blackmore and they are not getting younger

Ok let me get this out of the way, mine are contrarian! lol! Favorites: 1. BURN & Stormbringer (tie... had to pull a Pardo! lol) 2. Slaves And Masters (Big JLT Fan!!!) Least Favorites: 1. House Of Blue Light 2. Who Do We Think We Are Honorable Mentions; 1. Come Taste The Band 2. Pupendicular

For me,probably Purpendicular.I was born in 1971 so by the time I started to develop an interest in music,Deep Purple had been inactive for several years.I do remember when Perfect Strangers came out and enjoying the title track which did get quite a bit of play on one of the local rock stations.I can also recall being in junior high at the time and one my classmates being ridiculed because he traded Iron Maiden-Powerslave for Perfect Strangers. I didn't get in to the band until 1998,when I ordered both 30 Very Best of and the anniversary edition of Fireball. I know there are a lot of people that go on and on about Blackmore being SO much better than Steve Morse,but I prefer Blackmore in Rainbow.But I prefer JLT in Deep Purple,over him in Rainbow..probably because he came after Bonnet and Dio.

Hello a great show again, my faves are - Machine Head and Burn. My least ones are the first two. As far as the wild card would have to be House of blue light. It was the first one I bought when it came out and it has a sentimental value .

Don Airey also stayed with Colosseum II. Amazing keyboard work, especially on "Electric Savage". I need to check out those Deep Purple albums with him.

Favorites 1. Burn 2a. Come Taste The Band 2b. In Rock Least favorite Bananas Infinite Wildcard: Purpendicular

Great video as always lads. Love Purple since 1970 ,yes I am that old , still love the band, but like you all the covers album is crap, but having made so many albums I suppose there has to be some lesser ones. Here are my favourite ones. Machine Head. Fireball. Runners up. In rock, Burn.

My favorite deep purple album is the first album I ever owned a compilation “when we rock we rock when we roll we roll. Followed by In Rock and Burn House of blue light is vastly underrated

What a great show. Humour mixed with a great review of albums that I love from a band I have been a fan of since 1970. Now What Perfect Strangers Burn In Rock Fireball Come Taste the Band are just fantastic albums and Infinite Woosh and Perfect Strangers pretty good. Made in Japan one of the great '70s live album. I have seen Deep Purple Mk2 Deep Purple Mk 4 and the current line up, love all versions of Deep Purple except the original lineup which although my entry point into Deep Purple was Mark One is just OK. Agree with Pete Simon and Steven if people who like DP Mk 2 3 and 4 and haven't listened to What Now Infinite and Woosh, do so you won't regret it three excellent albums and What Now is quite brilliant.

Greetings guys! Today I’m having 1 out of Santa Fe New Mexico called Mountain of Light. It’s a Foeder Aged Gose with Plums. Not very good but not horrible. I didn’t make the face you made Pete. 😂 Priceless!! My 2 favs of Deep Purple I’m going with are Machine Head and Perfect Strangers. Great show as always!

Burn, Come Taste the Band, In Rock, Machine Head - love them all!

Sail Away is my favorite song on the Burn Album

Easy for me my all time favorite band. 1- Burn 2- In Rock Wild Card- Come Taste the Band (and my sentimental favorite). Also need to mention Stormbringer which doesn’t get enough love. Least favorites 1- Bananas 2- House of Blue Light Steven- The Captain needs to disagree about “Who Do We Think We Are” Rat Bat Blue is an epic tune. The bridge on Women from Tokyo with the psychedelic Beatles feel. That’s ok you’re still in the Captain’s good grace’s. Lol Cheers.

Come taste the band. On the wings of a Russian foxbat Stormbringer Burn These are my favorite!!

As far as Purple are concerned I my favourites would be Burn and Come Taste The Band (is that really a Purple album?? Whatever it is very good). Mk2 are very much respected but I just prefer Mk3 &4. Least favourite? House of the Blue Light, such a disappointment after Perfect Strangers. I saw the Knebworth show and I thought it was excellent, one of the best I have seen but I always wondered if they should have stopped there? I have never understood Gillan's apparent animosity towards Mk3, sure I can understand him not singing those songs but he chose to leave. They are still a classic band. From an entertainment point of view as good as ever, watching Pete get his head round Ramsbottom is priceless. What would he make of Barnoldswick or Oswaldtwistle??

Late to the party again, sorry... Anyhoo, my beverage of choice is a tasty Bishops Finger (stop it!) This was a toughie guys, especially the best 2... Least favourites are Slaves & Masters and Battle Rages On... Top 2? Well sorry to be predictable but I'm going 1 Machine Head and 2 Burn for all the reasons mentioned already. 3rd= would be In Rock and Perfect Strangers... Wildcard? Well, I like the Morse albums, but don't love them, the really early albums aren't bad... I was close to picking Made in Japan, but in the end, I'm going for Stirmbringer. Ciao folks, till next time

Old peculiar. Top quality. A local brew here in North Yorkshire. Masham.

Hi Pete - Easy least favourite - Slaves, 3 MIJ, absolute killer live album edged by 2 Machine Head. I was lucky enough to get to the Grand Hotel Montreux in 2008, that night in the hotel in bed headphones on listening to this album, I’ll never forget being in the corridor where it was recorded. And number 1, the next day I was given a tour of the convention centre where Burn was recorded - Burn hit me between the eyes in 74 and has remained there ever since - Classic!!!🎸

Another great show. Always enjoy the beer banter. Old peculiar an ale that you have to give respect to. As for Deep Purple,my favourites are In Rock and Machine Head althoug Perfect Strangers came close. As for least favourites I'm afraid I can't get into Come Taste the Band . The other would probably be Book of Taliesyn.I would agree wild card coming from 3 most recent albums not including covers one which could also be there amongst least favourite . I might just give it to Whoosh though I would also say that Slaves and Masters is an album I enjoy but is more like a Rainbow album . Probably more so than Stranger in us all.

I'm totally with you Steven - "Who do we think ..." - is close to the bottom of my list too, together with "Abandon" and "S & M". On the top for me - the two Mk 3 albums. I think DP "owes" us another proper studio album after the not good covers album!

This has really made me want to grab House Of Blue Light and Burn ,off the shelf.Been too long since I listened to either one.

now what! damn bliss

Good show, interesting points made, I'll have to check out the newest albums as I stopped buying when Jon Lord left. My favs woukd all be live albums but for this my studio favs are Stormbringer and Purpendicular; nowt wholly bad but least favs are Come Taste the Band and Shades of... Wildcard would be Live at the BBC, the 1970 version of Wring that Neck is probably my fav DP performance.

Highway Star was the song that turned me into a life-long metal head and Burn made Deep Purple my all-time favorite hard rock band! So understandably, Burn’s my favorite DP album, followed by Machine Head.

Burn is fantastic.

I have them all. Great band!

As ever a great show chaps' huge fan First time I saw them was at Knebworth in 1985 totally blew me away. I agree the last Three albums are very underrated. here is my list Favourites In Rock Machine Head Least Favourites The House of The Blue Light (Although I saw Them on this tour the songs on this album sound better live I think) Masters and Slaves ( Good Rainbow album Bad Deep Purple album) Wild Card What IF

Early 2000's I lived in Hanwell in West London. I pull into a petrol station not far from Hanwell. I was trying to find my wallet at a table in the station, sitting at that table was a gentleman with moustach and ponytail, of course it was Jon Lord. I never said anything to him, such a regret. My 2 fav are Burn and Stormbringer

Thanks for the recommendations on the Ezrin produced albums. So refreshing that CTTB didn’t get didn’t get any hate. I still can’t find any reason to get ‘Slaves & Masters’ off the shelf. Having said that I’d be interested in hearing JLT on ‘Battle..’ if anything survives.

in fact I came in with purple with 12 years of age in '78 as I got the single smoke on the water/black night(live version), released in germany. unfortunatly the solo in sotw was shortened like lots of at those times, especially in the fm radio (pink floyds another brick in the wall pt.2 e.g.) then made in japan was a need. recommended by the older friends ... they were right. all my money I had to spend on the double album and *space trucking* was the absolute improvisation ever done by a rock band. so together, so funky and jazzy, nevertheless heavy to the point. it opened up a whole new musical horizon for my ears as *the inner mountain flame* did as I got 15 years of age in '81! so more interesting and astonishing music for me as a kid was nearly 10 years old.

Regarding the Mk I albums > In the day (1972), there was double LP (PURPLE PASSAGES) that was a compilation of those 1st 3 DP albums. Still have the LP & stumbled upon the cd a few years ago.

Favorites: 1. Burn 2. Machine Head runner up Fireball and Stormbringer Least Favorites: 1. Slaves and Masters 2. House Of Blue Light Wild Card(s) Those mentioned Ezrin albums, where Now What?I wins also important for me: the selftitled Mk I album as it has April on it.

I’ve always had a warm spot for “Fireball”…..lately I’ve been enjoying “Perpendicular “…….

When I heard "Out of Hand" from 'Now What?', I 'bout soiled my skivvies!!! Incredible!!!

Love Deep Purple, as Pete said, there's good music & musicianship in each chapter of their career. As far as my favorite, this is really easy for. These have always been & still are my favorites. Made in Japan is my favorite but if we are going only studio, then it's Burn. Also as Pete said, to lose those two members & come back with this album is just fantastic. The who album is great. Number two would be Machine head. So many classics that they still have to do today because they are such amazing songs. Least favorite is the covers album also. Then it gets tuff because there's always a couple of good songs on each album. But I'm going with Infinite. I was so disappointed with this album. And I was looking forward to hearing when it came out because like you guys said Now What is such a great album. I also think it's their best in the Steve Morris era. And I think Whoosh was great to, but Infinite just didn't do it for me. I also liked the Joe Lynn Turner Slaves & Masters album & I thought the Battle Rages On was great to. The title track is killer. Also a fan of Who Do We Think We Are, don't get the hate on that. Yeah I know they weren't getting along & that was going to be it for Mark 2, but still classic to me. Love Come Taste The Band, Bolin was awesome. And most of their live albums are great to, there's a couple of the newer ones that I'm not crazy about, but the majority of it is great. Big fan, love Purple.

FAVORITES 1. In Rock 2. Book of Taliesyn LEAST FAVORITES 1. Slaves & Masters 2. Stormbringer WILD CARD House of Blue Light

Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, & Paice (Mark 2 Lineup) Forever! 💜 Deep Purple is my all time favorite band and Blackmore is my favorite guitarists.