Best Deep Purple Songs

[Richland123]

I also liked (and played) this song from this lineup on the "Come Taste The band" album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Baheb8gEwM

Jon Lord – keyboards, backing vocals
Ian Paice – drums
David Coverdale – lead vocals
Glenn Hughes – bass, vocals
Tommy Bolin – guitar, vocals, bass

However, here is the same lineup performing Highway Star live (not good)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7kMFd-pkDQ

[BigJohnAZ]

Hush
Highway Star
Burn

[skibass94]

For me:
Speed king
Woman from Tokyo
Also if u love deep purple check out the TM Stevens black night album of all deep purple covers

[Richland123]

Early on, Deep Purple did quite a few cover songs. Deep Purple's covers of Hush by Billy Joe Royal, Kentucky Woman by Neil Diamond, and River Deep, Mountain High by Ike & Tina Turner really rocked.

Here was the lineup then.

Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
Rod Evans - lead vocals
Jon Lord - Hammond organ, keyboards, backing vocals, string arrangements on "Anthem"
Ian Paice - drums
Nick Simper - bass guitar, backing vocals

[Solarmist]

Highway Star & Space Trucking.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by mellowinman

I don't have anything against Coverdale as a person, or as a member of Deep Purple. He seems like a good guy, and he certainly has a good voice.

Why, then, can I just plain not stand Whitesnake?

I'm wondering if I should even be blaming David for that band!

Trust me, I am not a fan, either...Whitesnake was stocked with some real players, though...from the article, pretty evident Coverdale did the picking, too. He liked Campbell & Vai in the band together...competing ala Jagger/Richard.


Back to Purple-
For me, the Mk II band was "it"...when I was learning to play, DP & Led Zep were "my bands". That said, I was never really a fan of Glover or his (Ric) tone.
I was shocked when I flipped open that issue of Circus & saw "Deep Purple Shocker: Gillan & Glover Out"!
I bought Burn when it was released...liked it but never bought anything afterwards...thought Coverdale looked a bit out of his league at the Cali Jam (compared to Gillan).
I have recently (in the last year) picked up some videos from DP's early daze...good stuff. Blackmore & Lord are way better than I remembered.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by Richland123

Early on, Deep Purple did quite a few cover songs. Deep Purple's covers of Hush by Billy Joe Royal, Kentucky Woman by Neil Diamond, and River Deep, Mountain High by Ike & Tina Turner really rocked.

Here was the lineup then.

Ritchie Blackmore - guitar
Rod Evans - lead vocals
Jon Lord - Hammond organ, keyboards, backing vocals, string arrangements on "Anthem"
Ian Paice - drums
Nick Simper - bass guitar, backing vocals

My girlfriend likes the Mrk I band better...calls the Mrk II stuff "guy muisc".

[BassDoc51]

Highway Star
Speed King
Perfect Strangers

[mellowinman]

Originally Posted by JimK

Trust me, I am not a fan, either...Whitesnake was stocked with some real players, though...from the article, pretty evident Coverdale did the picking, too. He liked Campbell & Vai in the band together...competing ala Jagger/Richard.


Back to Purple-
For me, the Mk II band was "it"...when I was learning to play, DP & Led Zep were "my bands". That said, I was never really a fan of Glover or his (Ric) tone.
I was shocked when I flipped open that issue of Circus & saw "Deep Purple Shocker: Gillan & Glover Out"!
I bought Burn when it was released...liked it but never bought anything afterwards...thought Coverdale looked a bit out of his league at the Cali Jam (compared to Gillan).
I have recently (in the last year) picked up some videos from DP's early daze...good stuff. Blackmore & Lord are way better than I remembered.

Lord might be the best rock keyboard player EVER. Blackmore really can play, too! I like listening to stuff from around 1970, thinking about how far ahead of other players he was at the time. A lot of stuff he did back then was stuff you would hear a bunch of eighties guys do.

I am OK with Glover's tone, and style. Especially on my remastered cuts; I have him coming through just a bit more.

[themacinator]

Burn! ...bad ass jam man

[pocketgroove]

No No No from Fireball is actually a pretty cool song, with a neat little riff throughout.

[The Owl]

You Fool No One

Pictures of Home

Burn

Maybe I'm A Leo

Black Night

Might Just Take Your Life

[LiquidMidnight]

Maybe I'm a Leo - Vaguely bluesy in arranagement, but heavy as sin. Plus, I'm a leo (even though I'm not into astrology).

Hush - Kula Shaker also did a cool cover.

Perfect Strangers

[LiquidMidnight]

Originally Posted by JimK

Going off on a tangent-
Been off for 3 weeks...dug around & found an old '80s Guitar magazine with David Coverdale/Steve Vai on the cover...I'm not a fan of Coverdale/Whitesnake...still, read the Coverdale interview-
The guy is way more knowledgable (about other music) than I knew!
He sez a problem when he & Glenn Hughes joined DP at the same time...both were listening to the same type of music: Sly & the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, etc.
Coverdale, being a fan of Billy Cobham's Spectrum (seminal '70s Fusion classic) & Alphonze Mouson's Mind Transplant (an overlooked '70s Fusion classic)...was responsible for getting Tommy Bolin into DP (Bolin's guitars were in-hock when he auditioned for DP).
Love/hate: He loved Bolin's playing, hated what he chosse to do to his body.
Eventually, though, Bolin's skills got so bad that Coverdale & Hughes jumped around on-stage like kooks as a distraction to Bolin's pitiful playing.

Coverdale had kind words for Rudy Sarzo...
Coverdale on Vai: The guy coulda fit in with Miles Davis during the Bitches Brew period...

Coverdale also mentions Coltrane, Zappa, & some other R&B guys.
All in all, a very good read.

Coverdale is a very underrated vocalist. He gets a bad rap for trying to imitate Robert Plant (in no way is Slow 'n Easy meant to be WS's version of In my Time of Dying or Judgement Day was plucked straight from listening to Kashmir too many times ), but I always thought that he had a voice all of his own...very bluesy but with enough polish to sound good on the harder rock stuff he sang in the 80s.

[Tecate]

I think the Coverdale/Hughes combo was magic even thoughHughes got carried way at times. Gillan was awesome too. Anyway ......I celebrate all periods of DP and my favorite tune is BURN!

[MarkMgibson]

Hush
Maybe I'm a Leo
Perfect Strangers

[62Jazzbass]

Not sure if I posted on this topic before. If I did, I will likely contradict what I posted earlier, as I like so much of their stuff (MKII).

In no particular order....

Black Night
Maybe I'm a Leo
Pictures of Home
Lazy
Fireball
Fools
No One Came
Rat Bat Blue
Our Lady
Super Trouper
Wasted Sunsets
Perfect Strangers

[Vince Klortho]

Two of my favorite Deep Purple moments were both on "Made In Japan." One is "Strange Kind of Woman" where Blackmore and Gillan have a dueling lead solo. The other is when Jon Lord (I think) says, "I want everything louder than everything else." His Hammond organ sound going through a Marshall amp and a Leslie is the best ever.

[Richland123]

Many people don't know that Ian Gillan sang the part of Jesus on the Jesus Christ Superstar album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2cCuadivpE

[jaywa]

Looks like the old stuff is getting a lot of love here but I personally think "Perfect Strangers" and "Knockin at Your Back Door" are pretty good cuts too. I especially love the tone of Glover's bass when he comes in with those 8ths on "Knockin".

In fact, that whole album floored me when it came out and IMO is one of the greatest "comeback" albums of all time.

And FWIW Ian Paice is criminally underrated as a drummer.