Almost as though answering a salvo laid down a few months earlier by Iommi, Osbourne and crew, Deep Purple came out with this spin.Rod Evans is out as vocalist and Ian Gillan is in. In other words, from the moment you hear the first track, “Speed King” you realize, this Continue Reading
Listening Post: Purple Sabbath – Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath – 1970 And then came Sabbath. If ever there was a band that could be said epitomized all that was terrifying about Rock and Roll too ill informed parents, I would say, it was Sabbath. And the first strains of the first song on the Continue Reading
And now, a word from the uninformed but pious.
When you believe in something so devoutly that you refuse to see or hear any opposing views, that makes you, what? Crazy? Narrow minded? You bring the adjectives. What bothers me more than Rush Limbaugh being ill informed is that he is a leader of a massive political party in Continue Reading
Listening Post: Purple Sabbath – Deep Purple – Deep Purple
Deep Purple – Deep Purple – 1969 Deep Purple’s eponymous album comes a year after their debut AND sophomore records. And from the very first few seconds you can tell it’s a different affair entirely. “Chasing Shadows” is a drummer’s showcase and Ian Paice is up to the challenge. The Continue Reading
Listening Post: Purple Sabbath – Deep Purple – The Book of Taliesyn
Deep Purple – The Book of Taliesyn – 1968 The first thing you notice when you drop the needle on Deep Purple’s sophomore offering is the edge. This is a darker album, but not murkier. It’s edgier, cutting, trippier by virtue of frenzy. Mirroring the landscape that was being mined Continue Reading
Listening Post: Purple Sabbath – Deep Purple – Shades of Deep Purple
Deep Purple – Shades of Deep Purple – 1968 The Guinness Book of Records has called them the “World’s Loudest Band”. I’m sure Deep Purple contribute to the pastiche that made up Spinal Tap 14 years after this record was released. But, in 1968, Deep Purple started to change the Continue Reading