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Deep Purple is great.

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p.s. Surf Daddy. Ritchie Blackmore was in a westernish shadowsy type of band, called the Outlaws, before Deep Purple.

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Brian
Deep Purple is great.

Most of their stuff is great. Blackmore and Lord KILL!

Bob

Bob

The funny thing is Smoke on the water is actually one of my least favorite songs by them. Its ok if you have a good stereo and you can hear the organ and Bass pumping underneath the guitar.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Jeff(bigtikidude)

sorry i don't like em and never did and i thought ritchie blackmore was vastly overrated.

surfdaddy
sorry i don't like em and never did and i thought ritchie blackmore was vastly overrated.

Surfdaddy is off his meds again... Blackmore: almost single-handedly introduced classical influences into hard-rock/metal music, forever changing it; moved rock guitar beyond blues/pentatonic scales, inventing 'shred' in the process (for better or worse - I personally think Ritchie did it right, and pretty much all the guys that followed did it wrong); and my favorite: introduced all sorts of middle-eastern tonalities into rock music. And did it all with a mostly stock Strat (and often times using an echo unit and a Vox AC30) - I love him just for that!

For my money, Ritchie's solo in Rainbow's "Stargazer" is the best solo ever in rock music. Such incredible combination of sophisticated chops AND pure emotion. It's astonishing. His choice of notes and phrasing is a thing of sheer beauty and joy.

And Deep Purple.... man. Ian Paice - one of the most explosive drummers EVER! But always SWUNG like a mofo! Ian Gillan - what a voice!! Who else could have sang Child in Time? Jon Lord - THAT'S what rock keyboards are all about! Look at the songs they left behind: Speed King, Hard Lovin' Man, Child in Time, Fireball, Highway Star, Space Truckin', Pictures of Home, Woman From Tokyo.

Ritchie !!
(Oh, and in most interviews Ritchie usually brings up Hank Marvin as one of his favorite guitarists - how cool is that??)

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surfdaddy
sorry ivan, but i was on my meds. i was not on meds when deep purple came out with the song "hush" which was basically "hey joe" with organ poots.

That was in '68. Ritchie has done a LOT since then. (Anyway, "Hush" sounds like "Hey Joe"? Huh?)

jeff beck did the middle eastern scales before blackmore did and did the echo unit ac30 thing too. i think he's a much more influential player than blackmore.

Beck is possibly more influential, who knows. Probably is. But for my money Blackmore is much more expressive and emotional. They're both very original, for sure. But Beck's experiments with middle-eastern tonalities were very brief and shallow, not comparable to Blackmore's full-blown adoption. Not even close. (The reference to an AC30 and an echo unit was simply that he used the same set up as Hank Marvin did originally - but then, many British 'Guitar Gods' did...)

i find the sound of a hammond organ repulsive---i don't like them in blues numbers. they are a waste in my point of view. heavy metal is boring and monotonus----after sabbath and zeppelin there wasn't much of a point to it. so, to me, it looks like you're saying blackmore spawned a pointless style of music. so maybe we do agree after all ?! looking forward to your reply!! peace dude!

Well, it sounds like you're saying just because YOU think Hammond and metal are stupid, that's the way it is. I can understand that those things don't speak to you, but let's give both their due. I love metal, and I do believe that Blackmore was one of the main progenitors of the kind of metal I like - especially Iron Maiden which owes a heavy debt to Deep Purple and Rainbow. DEFINITELY not pointless, I think.

Anyway, I'm not saying you need to like Blackmore, or Hammonds, or metal. But Blackmore was and is an extremely original, influential, and capable guitarist. Just give the guy his due. No way is he 'overrated', as you said - if anything, he is quite a bit underrated.

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Deep Purple did play Hey Joe as well as Hush and those two songs sound nothing alike. In 1969 I saw Deep Purple open for Cream before there was a Led Zeppelin. After all these years it is Blackmore that I remember from that show. Blackmore was a consumate showmen and played to the crowd while Cream was so serious about the whole thing. Was there a point to Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin?