Black Sabbath – Technical Ecstasy – 1976 That chukka-chukka guitar! The soaring Ozzy vocals! It can only be one thing: It’s the Blizzard of—what? Oh, this is still Sabbath? But why does it—? Ok. I’ll stop asking. This first song really sounds like, hey, waitaminnit..electric synth? What? And why does Continue Reading
Listening Post: Purple Sabbath – Deep Purple – Come Taste The Band
Deep Purple – Come Taste the Band – 1975 I can’t believe I’m saying this but, I’ve never been so glad to hear Jon Lord’s organ. After the abysmal borefest that was Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, that instrument is a welcome sound.It should be noted that by this time the only Continue Reading
Listening Post: Purple Sabbath – Rainbow – Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow
Rainbow – Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow – 1975 A few months before the last Deep Purple album of the 70s (and the first without Blackmore, an album that Ian Gillan, who did not sing on it, would decree not really a DP album) Blackmore came out with his new band and Continue Reading