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Is Deep Purple in the same league with Led Zeppelin?
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Somewhere, Killed By Death's heart just palpitated.....
Tho I'm a big YES fan, Jon Lord was king of rock organ.
Sorry Wakeman.
Tony Kaye was far more organ-centric than Wakeman in Yes. I feel like I'm talking dirty on here. I appreciate his stuff with them for that, and appreciate Wakeman's contributions for different reasons.
Indeed. Wakeman was far more into synth and piano.
The few early live YES videos you can find on YouTube reveal Mr. Kaye to be a beast on B3.
The Yes Album is a real showcase for his skills with a Hammond.
A cool moment for me was seeing Yes at Radio City. When it came time for Wakeman's solo the house lights went out and he reappeared at the house pipe organ. Insane moment. Never forget it. He also did a great job at Lord's memorial show splitting duties with Don Airey. Apparently, Wakeman and Lord were trying to put something together when Lord stepped away from Purple but he got sicker faster than was expected.
Great! I did get to see the Wakeman clip on Youtube shortly after that show. And yes, he, and the rest of he participants were great at the memorial show.
Thanks for reminding me of Radio City Hall clip. I can't find just the Wakeman part online but it's at 1:11:32 in this vid.
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All this is reminding me to dig out my Paice Ashton Lord vinyl. Interesting how players from that lineup went on to Whitesnake, back into Deep Purple, and one to Robert Plant.
Paice's time with Gary Moore was pretty good too and his time with Macca and Dave Gilmour was fun.
I say no...Zeppelin rules. The individual members of the group were great in both bands (though I'm backing them, I'm not a Jimmy Page fan), but to me Zeppelin is a better example of the whole being far more than the sum of their parts. And there's the Bonham factor, which I think you just can't get around. Lastly, I think the body of work as a whole is better known and more consistently highly regarded with Zeppelin, granted I know only Deep Purple's few hits. But I think that is also pretty common.
Where Zeppelin wins much more handily is in the "who plagiarized/stole more from the classic bluesmen" category.
I dug both bands and I'll just add that Ian Paice is one of the overlooked rock drummers that came out of that late 60's-70' scene.
OK, I like both bands but I'm more in the Zep camp, and I'll tell you why. In spite of their tendency to borrow from the old blues masters, they were still incredibly creative songwriters. When I hear people talking about Deep Purple as great songwriters, this is what comes to mind. It's cued up right where I want it:
That's not to say that they weren't a great band. I think they were. But I don't put them on par with Zeppelin.
That's not to say that they weren't a great band. I think they were. But I don't put them on par with Zeppelin.
Paice is every bit the drummer that Bonham was, IMO, if not better. Just my 2.
I loved Glenn Hughes with Purple. When Burn came out he was unknown to me. I went and bought the Trapeze LP’s. Now we know where the funk n’ soul crept into DP
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Both bands are great, but I feel like Deep Purple has a bunch of songs I don't really care about. They've got some songs that are awesome though, so they're still cool in my book. Zeppelin, on the other hand, has exactly one song I don't like and that's "Hats Off to Roy Harper."
