Deep Purple Appreciation Thread

[Damien Thorn]

You've never listened to the Blues, have you?

In Adrian's defence, he mentioned Louisiana. So, he knows about the deep south and the birth of the blues... Robert Johnson et cetera. We all know about that, I think. He was an average blues guitar player, old Robert, until he made a pact with Old Nick. That's when he became great. At least that's how the story goes...

Nobody knows it was actually the Pick of Destiny...

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Cheerio,

Damien

[AGAG]

Cheerio,

Damien

Damien, you are a riddle..

[adrian9]

You've never listened to the Blues, have you?

In Adrian's defence, he mentioned Louisiana. So, he knows about the deep south and the birth of the blues... Robert Johnson et cetera. We all know about that, I think. He was an average blues guitar player, old Robert, until he made a pact with Old Nick. That's when he became great. At least that's how the story goes...

Nobody knows it was actually the Pick of Destiny...

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Cheerio,

Damien

man that movie is amazing, just the part when dio sings is enough to make that a classic!!

and yeah thanks! I mentioned louisina blues because it was the influence elvis got (of course there is a lot more than just that) my favorite artist has to be Holinw wolf (if you havent heard about it, google it or youtube it) is also a rollings stones fave...pre-war blues is not so much my cup of tea.,
and hell, without the blues we had nothing.

[hiro23]

Deep purple is one of those bands that combined old blues with classically inspired music, I mean we don't think much of it nowadays but back then not a whole lot of people were doing it, they were either playing one or the other

[Rebel]

Deep purple is one of those bands that combined old blues with classically inspired music, I mean we don't think much of it nowadays but back then not a whole lot of people were doing it, they were either playing one or the other

narrow analysis, you're disregarding the jazz and far overstating the classical. While yes, they did record concerto for group and orchestra, and yes, Ritchie Blackmore later formed the neo-classical cornerstone band Rainbow, Purple itself had very little Classical.

The Blues were more prevalent, but not nearly to the extent of their peers, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, who wore the blues like badges of honor, Purple was too fast, too crazy, too huge, to really care. They were influenced by the blues in the same way every rock band is. That it laid the foundation of the instruments and the structure, but they even pushed THAT boundary.

What I think makes Deep Purple so incredible (Aside from well, everything), is that they were the first band to really fully embrace "Metal", even if they were soon to discard it in favor of some very respectable funk soul rock.

They weren't distorted blues, or heavy psychadelia, or any of the other TRULY DELICIOUS movements in music, just that they were the first band of the 70s and of metal to be just all about the energy.

What I'm saying, is that by being able to move AWAY from the Blues, and take some VERY early steps in neo-classicalism (You might say shredding guitar solos, but I argue they are too different in form at the time), Deep Purple formed a unique, and highly important identity on music.

[NeonVomit]

Yeah, if only more people knew about their music!

[hiro23]

I agree, Deep purple didn't have as much classical sound as Rainbow did but it's there as that's something Ritchie brings with him in every band he is in.

What I was trying to say was that they were nowhere near as bluesy as bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath were, not that it's a bad thing it's just one of many things that set them apart from their contemporaries.

[Damien Thorn]

I was just listening to Alice in Chains on Youtube yesterday. Would you believe me when I said that their biggest influence was Fair Warning-era Van Halen? That's hard to believe perhaps, but it's true nonetheless...

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Yngwie Malmsteen's always being called a neoclassical guitar virtuoso, and he came straight from Blackmore of course - or so it seems. However, Yngwie himself is always going on about how he started playing guitar because he saw Hendrix torch his guitar on stage. So, it's hard to determine how inspiration works. If anything, it should be your obligation as an artist to become as free as possible from these kinds of limiting thoughts.

Listen and play! It's music, not genealogy or archaeology!

People are all so serious nowadays. Do you think Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath knew what they were doing all the time? With the amount of drugs they were consuming? I don't think so. Don't build your own box; the marketing department of the record company will do that for you...

Cheerio,

Damien

[hiro23]

I agree, inspiration is a very interesting thing, one person can be inspired by someone else's music yet play a completely different kind of music.

Yet you might play something that sounds completely the same, to me what's important in the end is that what you play comes from that emotional side of you which makes you happy.

[Damien Thorn]

I agree, inspiration is a very interesting thing, one person can be inspired by someone else's music yet play a completely different kind of music.

Yet you might play something that sounds completely the same, to me what's important in the end is that what you play comes from that emotional side of you which makes you happy.

Yes, exactly... or sad, melancholy, manic, despondent, amorous. The genuine emotion, that's what music should be about. They call that "duende" in flamenco music, but Elvis would call it "soul". All different words for the same concept. It has nothing to do with the corporate territorial approach to music of "who got there first"...

Let's sing Happy Birthday... or let's not actually...

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Cheerio,

Damien

[hiro23]

That's what I mean, you should get fulfillment out of music, no matter what kind of emotion you are trying to portray you need to enjoy performing that music.

If you look at it as a chore or as a means to an end you really are missing the point of music(when I say you I mean it generally)