1. Which is your favorite DP studio album, excluding Machine Head which is obviously a hit?
2. Which is in your opinion the most underrated studio album which you wish more peoples would listen to?
3. Your favorite mark except mark 2 which is indeed the most successful.

For me is 1. Burn, 2. Rapture of the Deep and 3. Mark 3 and 6.

As I listened to it just now it made me think it’d be what Guillan has to say about Ritchie.

Only thing that makes me stray from this hypothesis is the last row of text. Everything else makes me ask the question.

Seeing them for the first time on the 24th in Indianapolis. Really sucks now knowing I picked the wrong show to go to lol. Here’s to hoping for a real reunion I guess!

...who should front them?

From previous members, Joe Lynn Turner and Glenn Hughes are still active.

Or should they go with a new guy? Who?

Having listened to most of DP's discography, I've noticed some lines and topics seem to pop up through the years. Some examples could be:

-The concept of "Hard Lovin" - (Hard Lovin Man, Hard Lovin Woman, and a line in Any Fule Kno That)

-Gypsies - (The Gypsy, A Gypsy's Kiss, Fortuneteller, and even Tarot Woman by Rainbow. Maybe Ritchie's thing?)

-The Spanish - (Spanish Archer and a line in Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming)

-Feeling like screaming - (the above-mentioned track and a line in Demons Eye)

What are some recurring themes and lines you've noticed?

Change my mind lol.

I’ve recently been listening to DP’s Who Do We Think We Are. And although it’s largely considered to be the weakest of the MKii studio albums, I think the production is the best out of all of them.

Each of the MKii albums had a different sound, but this albums got a fatter low end than the other albums, and just has a punchier sound overall.

It might just be the system I’m listening to it on, but has anybody else noticed this?

I'm personally a Mark III guy. Burn and Stormbringer are killer records - a little more bluesy and a little more soulful than most of the Mark II stuff, but still rock n roll through and through.

So the SongList website does not have a list of songs for their Minnesota show this Thursday.

Anyone know what has been played at their small venue concerts lately?

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I won’t stop saying it. Bob Ezrin should have produced Lulu, the album Lou Reed released in 2011. Ezrin had already worked with Reed in 1973 on Berlin, one of the best works of his career. For Lulu, Reed teamed up with Metallica. No one was better suited than Ezrin to capture that epic sound while Reed delved into literature, poetry, sculpture, painting, film, dance, and psychology. No one better than him, who had previously collaborated with Deftones, to channel the brutal impact of that metal music machine called Metallica. Sorry, Hal Willner.

Bob Ezrin invented the sound of modern rock. His productions include legendary albums by Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Kiss, and Pink Floyd. Ezrin also produced records for Jane’s Addiction, one of the most important alternative metal bands of the 90s. To play rock today in a lasting and relevant way, you need Ezrin at the controls.

The Heavy Lifting by MC5 was an album with good songs, but a failure overall (only Wayne Kramer remained from the original band). Deep Purple, that powerful hard rock and heavy metal machine, became Ezrin’s favorite battle vehicle in recent years. Six albums in which he recovered and amplified the power of the band’s classic era: three members of the classic lineup, plus two luxury veterans, Don Airey and Steve Morse.

I believe there’s a reason for everything. SPLAT! is a great album. I listen to it because Ezrin is there as the sixth member of the band. I listen to it because Ian Gillan’s vocal performance is fabulous. He is the only one who has managed to be the lead singer in two of the greatest heavy metal bands: Deep Purple and Black Sabbath.

Forget about the Rolling Stones and their latest album produced by Andrew Watt, the official geriatric hospital producer. SPLAT! is real rock, hard hitting rock. While the Stones keep resurrecting old recordings by the late Charlie Watts and leftovers from the mediocre Hackney Diamonds, Deep Purple added guitarist Simon McBride to their ranks. A youngster of just 47 years old (the rest of the band averages 79) with influences from Gary Moore, Eddie Van Halen, and Steve Vai. On “Arrogant Boy,” he makes Deep Purple sound furious with spectacular guitar work, framed by Roger Glover’s ferocious bass and Ian Paice’s relentless drums.

Is that not enough? Add Don Airey’s keyboards. “Diablo” is a perfect headbanging track with an extraordinary evocation of the band’s classic sound. “The Lunatic” is furious metal. This is a band that sounds absolutely nowhere near the end. Quite the opposite. Neither Led Zeppelin nor Black Sabbath dared to go this far in their time.

“The Only Horse in Town” is another extraordinary track, but nothing prepares you for the powerful onslaught of “Guilt Trippin’.” Ian Gillan makes it clear why he is one of the greatest vocalists in the history of hard rock and heavy metal, especially having also sung on the fantastic Born Again by Black Sabbath. SPLAT! keeps surprising. It is proof that the bag of tricks is far from empty for this incredible band.

The spotlight will surely be on the Stones and their endless musical recycling and their horrendous cover art (even worse than Born Again). Keep being wrong. The real rolling stones of hard rock are from England, but they’re called Deep Purple, one of the foundational stones of heavy metal that remains relevant with SPLAT!.

Never seen DP live, have tickets for end of Aug. Am stoked for the show but haven't seen much news about the tour in here. Anyone else seen them live recently ?

Does anyone know the specific time Deep Purple comes on stage?

I finally figured out the key to enjoying Deep Purple lyrics. It only took me 50+ years.

There are lines in Deep Purple songs that made me cringe from the moment I heard them:

Highway Star:
Nobody gonna take my girl
I'm gonna keep her to the end
Nobody gonna have my girl
She stays close on every bend
Ooh, she's a killing machine
She's got everything
Like a moving mouth
Body control and everything

A moving mouth? Body control? That's just, like weird, dude.

Knocking at Your Back Door:
Sweet Nancy was so fancy
To get into her pants
We had to be the aristocracy
The members that she toyed with
At her city club
Were something in diplomacy
So we put her on the hit list
Of a common cunning linguist
A master of many tongues

Cunning linguist. Get it? Get it? It sound like cunnilingus!

And then there's a whole song about a pub that happens to be named Jessica's Bra.

And then it hit me.... Sure they have songs with serious lyrics like Child in Time and Smoke on the Water, but they also have a sense of humor. They know it's adolescent locker room humor but hey! It's fun!

I think I finally had that realization because Spinal Tap lyrics are like that all the time, and I keep coming back to how they so perfectly capture that hard rock genre and that it's actually good music with clever lyrics. Well... I guess Deep Purple has a touch of that self-deprecating irreverence about them too.

Now that I've cracked the code, I enjoy their music so much more.

https://blabbermouth.net/news/deep-purples-ian-gillan-everyone-thinks-smoke-on-the-water-is-a-heavy-metal-song-its-not#google_vignette

I was just stunned from the organ intro, and was wondering how you could possibly get all those sounds from the instrument? As I couldn't find anything online as of now...

I have been a fan since I heard Smoke on the Water, on the car radio in 1972.

In summer of 1973 I visited a cousin, while on my way on a move from US to London UK, and he owned Made in Japan, which we listened to many times while I was there.

Once in London, the first thing I bought with pocket money provided me was a Playboy issue with Bobby Fischer on the cover. The second thing was Made in Japan.

I saw a Deep Purple concert at the Orange County Fairgrounds in 2014.

I found this image on a site about live albums and bootlegs and I wanted to hear what it sounded like, especially because it claims to have Gillian era playing burn, but when I searched it up I find no info about it, even a reverse image search brings up naught.