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Is Deep Purple in the same league with Led Zeppelin?
- Thread starter MidnightRunner
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i've had several deep purple albums and one LZ album. that being said, my husband has every LZ and no purple.
"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does."
At this point, I’m voting for Nino Tempo and April Stevens…
Sweet Child was quite impressive when I was 14, but in ensuing years it became quite tedious. IABD had the right idea, keep it short and, uh, sweet. I spent some time with David LaFlamme, the violinist/frontman, while working a show in the 80’s where he had a band made of his music students, but kept the old name. He gave me the whole story, or at least his version…DP Mk I opened for them at the Fillmore, and were a bit snotty backstage(my money is on Blackmore), and went on to purloin the basic structure of the song. For all the pissing and moaning in this thread about Zep being such thieves, the Purps were no angels in that department either. I cited all this in post #227, plus LaFlamme’s get back. And you know, one thing I forgot to mention is how “Perfect Strangers” has this one part that sounds suspiciously reminiscent of “Kasmir”.
Well, it was the best Rock and Roll Recording of 1964...
Yeah, right…it was a hit in 1963. It was awarded in ‘64, but it’s a far cry from what I’d call rock and roll; it’s just a pop tune ditty. But that illustrates how bad things had gotten before 2/9/64. Gotta love how clueless NARAS has always been.
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According to Malcolm Dome in Deep Purple - A Critical Retrospective, Jon Lord admitted this openly, and was in fact dating It's a Beautiful Day's vocalist, Pattie Santos.
Yes, in the same sense that the Oakland As & NY Yankees are in the same league. Both are staffed with major league players. Both have been to the top of their game. Both have been around for a long time & been influential to the game in different ways. But only 1 of them has completely blown the doors off the game, like them or not.
With all due respect, Paice was at least on par with Bonham. Some like him even better.
Paice was a VERY good drummer. But Bonham was a heavy, heavy influence on drummers of every genre. It's very interesting to me to hear a jazz drummer or a R&B drummer or a whatever genre drummer, high profile amazing drummers, mention what a huge influence Bonham was. He was unique. Paice was very good but he was not unique, did not have the influence that Bonham had. That's a hard period. I've watched this chat since it began and the take away for me is that Deep Purple were waay more popular in Europe than in the states. I have Machine Head and Live in Japan as most of us rockers from the 70s here in the states had and thats it. I've got every Zep album. That's how it went here. It's not even close here. In the states Zep is in another atmosphere.
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Ian Paice also played on some material George Harrison put out in the Eighties.
