That reviewer didn’t do his homework. He didn’t even listen to the album. If he actually listened to the album the article would have been about how much the band changed. DP was not about volume. They said in the 80s their rehearsal equipment was louder than the 70s concerts. They did all types of music like pop, psychedelic, metal, progressive, blues, funk and they did albums with orchestras. True their popularity was fading by 1976 but that’s totally because of the change in personnel. CTTB is a great album. Great production, great playing and might be Ian Paice’s best album. The problem was their hard core fans liked Child in Time and Highway Star not Hold On and Gettin Tighter.
This is just a RUclips entry that has less actual value than some AI generated clips, where you would expect things to be wrong here and there. This is someone who even admits not doing his homework.
Come Tastes the Band FUCKING RULES!! It is a shame that you made the video before giving yourself a chance to have your ass kicked by this album. Metal, hard rock, funk, classical, all the influences are there. Tommy Bolin bought an amazing level of guitar virtuosity and songwriting talent to Deep Purple, if only for a short time.
Yes, the whole piece is riddled with inaccuracies - anyhow Bolin's solo on Coming Home equals anything that Blackmore did and belive me RB is my all time favourite guitarist. BTW - I saw them play with Bolin in March 1976 - in fact their final performance and with admittedly the exception of Bolin they were on fire and gave it their all that night despite what some have claimed.
@@zandig666 The thing is, back in the day when there were record stores ,CTTB wasn't the easiest album to find. At least by me. I would not have even known of this album if it wasn't for a friend in high school who was a big Deep Purple freak.
Jon Lord said that CTTB was a terrific album under the circumstances in which it was recorded; and that it was a terrific album under ANY circumstances.
You’re hitting it out of the park, Sir! SWOSU in Oklahoma had a jazz band that would “tour” high schools across the state. They featured a rock band, as well. I was 13 when they came to my high school and was a sax player at the time, so I loved it. I’d been working on guitar for nearly a year. The rock band opened up with “Gettin’ Tighter” and I lost my shit. The Come Taste The Band album still sounds that fresh and exciting to me today at nearly 60 years old. Tommy Bolin was absolutely smoking hot on this album. EDIT: SPIN THAT VINYL ASAP!!!
It's a masterful album that hasn't aged. It sounds like it was recorded in 2024. The Martin Birch production and Ian Paice mix are superb and I don't think that Kevin Shirley 2010 remix enhanced it. The only quirk is that Glenn Hughes doesn't appear on Comin' Home as he didn't turn up. For More on DP Mk IV watch the documentary movie "Phoenix Rising" where Jon Lord says the immortal line about Bolin & Hughes' partying "now lads, I think it's time you go back to the hotel and get a bit of sleep".
I was born in 1982, so I didn't live through all the personnel and stylistic changes. As a younger fan, "Come Taste the Band" has slowly emerged as my favorite Deep Purple album. It takes attentive listening and an open mind. It's pretty heavy... but has a very interesting funk flavor throughout. Bolin is on fire, and Paice is at his absolute peak. Saw Glenn Hughes in Sept performing Purple tunes from his time in the band... his voice sounds better than ever at age 72. Absolutely incredible.
The funny thing about it is----a lot of these bands who actually played heavier rock in the early 70s--like Deep Purple, Humble Pie, Grand Funk Railroad, etc---by the mid-70s, had actually started to tone down their "muscle car horsepower" (great analogy, I think, as the auto industry was going through a similar shift at the same time), and started playing more melodic, soulful music. Maybe it didn't always translate into live performanes, but musically they were all mellowing out---Led Zeppelin included.
Im a fan of this album. I think you should give it a listen. I also love Tommy Bolin! He was a talented player who could jam to all kinds of genres. Unfortunately, he was another tortured genius.
I was at the concert mentioned in the article. St. John Arena on the OSU campus in Columbus. They were loud. The arena was full at the start, but by the end it was nearly empty. Maybe 75% to 80% left during the show. Jon Lord would later say that this version of Deep Purple were either very good or very bad. This night they were not very good. I liked Come Taste the Band (still do), but did not consider it equal to their previous efforts (still dont't).
Wow. I was at that one also. Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't a couple of them walk off the stage because of a not so friendly reception? Maybe because of Blacmore being out of the band. I believe Coverdale was one of them that walked off, but they carried on. CTTB is one of my all time favorite albums ever. It gets played regularly. I only wish they had made a couple more recordings with that lineup.
I’ve listened to this whole album many times and it is a great record…. But they never hit it off live promoting this record, they sounded awful. I think the heavy drug use by both Hughes and Bolin affected their performance on stage.. Jon Lord finally approached Ian Paice and told him he’s had enough and that was the end of purple in 1976…..
whoever did this interview or review was a Peter, Paul, and Mary fan. Obviously the writer could of said the same thing for any rock band at that time. Punk rock was on the rise and all the hype or critics were promoting that. Basically Purple, Zeppelin, Sabbath etc. Were considered for being to cliche or being aged dinosaurs and washed up by that time.
Interesting that a lot of reviews of that 1976 US tour complain about Deep Purple being too loud. My "Deep Purple - 1976-01-18 Philadelphia - Full Show" upload has two reviews complainig about the band playing to loud, one from John David Kalodner, who later worked for Geffen as A&R manager with Whitesnake, Aerosmith and Coverdale/Page. The sound must have been so distorted , that people may have left the show with that "too loud" as most memorable thing. Even very positive reviews complain about the sound, not being able to hear the singer and so on.
Tommy brought magic to a fading band. He was wasting his time when he should have promoted his Teaser album. He was using heroin, cocaine, morphine, marijuana and pills along with excessive alcohol. It's a miracle he reached 25.
In theory though, playing with Purple should have given Tommy the platform and exposure from which his solo career could and should have taken off. And if he had been in better shape, maybe it would have 😢
@kennymathersmusic5297 Thanks For writing. I think that was the idea as Purple were easing up on the album/tour/album routine. They would have had time away from the band to pursue solo projects. When Purple turned up at a record store, the advertising for Teaser overshadowed their Come Taste The Band album, and from what I heard Glenn Hughes and Tommy Bolin didn't speak one word in the limo afterwards. Purple was the wrong gig for Tommy: he was good enough but playing Burn and Smoke On The Water must have bored him silly. He also lacked confidence, and was easily discouraged according to Paice. Had Tommy got a gig with James Brown or Sly And The Family Stone I think it would have been better, and also punk rock was about to make Purple obsolete... All the best.
Tampoco escuché completos esos álbumes...me daba tristeza ver a Coverdale intentando ser un Perple.... Me encantó con Wite Snake!! Sigo amando la MK II, fui tan felíz cuando se reunieron nuevamente e hicieron Perfectos extraños 😊. Gracias por tu reacción!! 💜💜💜💜💜
Deep Purple disbanded on March 15th, 1976, after a gig in Liverpool - so roughly a month after this article was printed. I suppose it reflects very well what audiences and fans must have felt back in the day, not knowing anything about what was going on behind the scenes. Not even 9 months later, Tommy Bolin died at age 25 from heroine and alcohol. Glenn Hughes was battling a severe cocaine addiction. Part of "Come Taste the Band" was even recorded without him (during the summer of 1975). For me, the strongest songs on the album are the last two - "This Time Around/Owed to G" and "You Keep on Moving". Apart from the funky stuff that was already there before Tommy joined the band, Deep Purple's last 70s album is the first to feature a noticeable soul element.
@@TheVidkid67 Now that you mention it and after listening to the album, you're right. Blackmore called that funky soul stuff "shoeshine music", much to Hughes' dismay. Hughes has always argued that he favored a songwriting approach that involved the whole band, rather than Blackmore always pushing his own ideas. Who can blame him for that?! In hindsight, however, it could be argued that Hughes was just trying to get his way and it would have been more sensible to trust the skills of the far more experienced Blackmore. The latter knew very well that he will have success with or without Purple. Hughes joining Purple lead to some amazing songs but at the same time he played a huge role in Blackmore leaving the band. Recruiting a young, very talented but hopelessly drug-addicted guitarist as a replacement was simply a stupid decision.
@@TheVidkid67 Rock has always been the lowest common denominator. The issue rather was that the band as a whole was slowly running out of creative juice by the time Stormbringer was recorded and the music scene was undergoing major changes. By the mid-70s, what had brought Purple great success just a few years earlier was simply no longer so fashionable and therefore Blackmore's songwriting was questioned (because it seemed to be outdated).
Ha ..I saw them a month before this one at Hersheypark Arena in January '76. Nazareth opened .. riding the wave of Love Hurts . Loudest concert I've been to for sure...but the sound was super clean. Both bands played great.
Perfect Strangers tour 3 nights in a row. Should have not been so cheap DP were growing up, as Glover said ' they weren't just good they were brilliance
I enjoyed Come Taste the Band and Bolin was fantastic when he wasn't inebriated.....however, I am disappointed that the host of this video didn't bother listening to the album that he's talking about in this video. I don't respect the opinion of someone who talks about something that they haven't bothered to do the homework on. 😮
Exactly! If you like a band, how could you skip an album? That's like skipping over Physical Graffiti if you're a Zep fan... Bolin was great! Loved what he did with Moxy as well.
It's actually a fantastic album! I'd been a Purple fan since about '72 when it came out (I was 8 when SOTW came out), and was very much a Blackmore (still am) fan. I was unsure about "Burn" when it came out, and it is still to this day my favorite DP album. But when Blackmore left, I didn't think I'd like it at all. Wrong. I kind of tried not to like it at first, but I just had to accept the fact that it was a different band. I soon after came to love it! Bolin's playing on it is great, and everything else about it is good, too! No secret that they were having drug problems around this time - certainly Bolin and Hughes, and a number of their shows reflected that. Poor Tommy was living on borrowed time, and he could barely even play sometimes. Still - you should really listen to it a few times. As long as you go into it with the attitude of "this isn't the same DP", I think you'll really dig it!
Come Taste the Band is a good album man, funky yet heavy, You Keep On Moving is a classic,, Love David but Glenn Hughes is known as THE VOICE OF ROCK for a reason. I saw Glenn a couple of months ago on his Deep Purple Burn tour, the guy literally brought me to tears. Greatest vocal display I've ever witnessed.
Can't believe the host says he hasn't even played Come Taste The Band. It's a terrific album. However, reviews throughout Mark IV's shows on 75-76 commented on the volume being painfully loud, so there is definitely something in that.
I had never heard CTTB but, about 30 or so years ago now, I came across a mint vinyl copy at a flea market that was REALLY cheap so I bought it. I must admit I didn't expect to like it but I did like it & I liked it a lot. Many people say it was actually the very first Whitesnake album. You really should listen to it with an open mind; you might get quite a surprise! Best regards
Mkii is the real DP David's singing and voice is terrible. Actually, if it wasn't of Glenn's help in singing the MKiii could be even worse. Over all, DP began to lose their image as MKii which really made it famous in world stage. The problem with DP was more about the management and Ritchie's bad behaviour and ego and disliking Ian. I wished Lord had more control than Blackmore on the band.
Deep Purple was always Jon Lord's Band. He was the first one, chosen by Chris Curtis for his proto Roundabout band idea. Blackmore was second choice... & so on. So Come Taste The Band is a real Deep Purple album. It says Deep Purple on the record sleeve doesn't it?.💜
You are completely wrong ... the epochal turning point that led to the MKII formation and the eternal masterpiece that is IN ROCK, followed by Fireball, Machine Head and the greatest live album of all time that is MADE IN JAPAN, was totally desired by Ritchie Blackmore ... he told Lord before composing IN ROCK: "it will have to be heavy or dramatic, otherwise the songs will have no place on the album... and if it doesn't go well, I will play classical music with you for my whole life!" .. so no second choice!
@@massimopescatori6514 Everything that I said in my previous comment was factually correct. However, just to put things a little more clearly.... There would be no MK2 DP without the preceding Mk1 DP, which set the foundations for everything that followed. Hush was their first top 10 smash hit in America in 1968. Mk1 DP blew Cream off the stage when DP opened for Cream. Deep Purple were always gonna be huge.
As a Purple Mark 2 fan, I found this album pretty good. "Coming Home", "Drifter" and "You Keep on Moving" are great songs, the only thing I didn't really like was Tommy Bolin's playing, probably doing too much heroin already.
You have to remember that Deep Purple wanted Paul Rodgers as the replacement for Ian Gillan but they could not reach him, so they compromised on David Coverdale who was an anonymous and a mediocre vocalist, Coverdale became a great vocalist only in 1987 after he passed an operation because he suffered from sinus issues, you also have to remember that Glenn Hughes was not a great vocalist in the seventies, he rose to fame as a vocalist only since the eighties, another problem was that Glenn Hughes and Tommy Bolin were "wasted" from the drugs use, so while you can control things when recording in the studio it's another thing when going on stage to perform live, one of Tommy Bolin's hands was paralysed, he couldn't move one hand so he played the guitar solos almost the same in every song, the audience thought that he's a lousy guitar player, most of the last live shows for the CTTB tour were embarrassing!!! so, it's not the music and not the volume, CTTB is a good and decent album, it is better than WDWTWR, Deep Purple were a bad joke in 1976, thankfully, they had more luck since the reunion in 1984 onward.
Glenn Hughes sings better now than he did 50 years ago. Take one listen to Whitesnake's Purple Album and Coverdale's voice is shot. His prime was the 1980s.
The author of the article clearly had an axe to grind and Deep Purple just happened to be a convenient vehicle for his point. That he refers to Patti Smith is a clear indication of this. This was 1976 and punk was the coming thing and for cultural commentators with an eye to the future bands like Deep Purple already belonged to the age of the dinosaurs. Deep Purple deserve credit for changing, for not being the same band that achieved fame and success twice over. It might have been challenging or alienating for some at the time, but it makes for a legacy more interesting than those bands who kept on flogging the same dead horse album after album. Come Taste the Band is an album pushing in a new musical direction and the playing all round is superlative even if you don't like the material. You Keep on Moving is my favourite track. It has an amazing sinuous groove you wouldn't imagine the band that made Machine Head could come up with.
it's not the best it's just unique. Absolutely out of hard rock league but played by professional players with excellent arrangements. That's why we love it. For hard rock die hard fans of Rainbow or ACDC it's too difficult to digest but if you're into jazz, funk or fusion it's nice bridge.
How can you discuss an album you've never taken the time to listen to? Who can take this seriously? CTTB is a fantastic album, showcasing the talents of all of it's members & their diverse musical interests & styles at the time. It's kind of like a piñata that pops open & everyone takes something different away from the experience. You may not like every flavor of candy inside, but there is definitely something for every DP fan to enjoy. Definitely tasty. 🎉
Another irony---Patti Smith was the wife of Fred "Sonic" Smith from the MC5, one of the loudest bands of the late 60s/early 70s, and she was also a friend of the Ramones. So yeah---tell me again about how she would be on board with bands "mellowing out"?
Classic rock magazine gave it a 10/10 review, a few years back. I was a big fan back from 1972... to1976. I thought it was a good album at the time, still do. What's left for Deep Purple?!😅 ... apparently quite a lot.
Indeed. The guy was talented. Blackmore was purple. Not to denegrare the fantastic contributions of the other members as they allowed Richie to create within a musical framework that was unsurpassed in the genre.
What robsas6610 said... Do your research! I agree with the late, great Job Lord said.... "It's a great album... It's just not a Deep Purple album"... And for someone who claims to like David Coverdale you should love the album
That writer, although unable to spell "goad", made some points that had (and have) merit, though they seemed to be singling out Purple randomly. Deep Purple's my favourite band, with Mott the Hoople and a handful of others, but high volume was never what attracted me to their music. Both the shows that led to the Guinness Book of Records entry are available on RUclips as bootlegs. I have both - from London's Rainbow Theatre in 1972 (ironically, then, featuring Mk.2!) - and there's no indication that either show was excessively loud. I also have some tinnitus (a musician's malady), and hate having to shout at parties, etc., because of loud music. I always go outside to avoid high volume. With regard to Come taste the Band, it's not an album where volume trumps subtlety. My fave songs are Coming Home, the opener, which should've replaced Burn as live opener (Tommy Bolin didn't sound comfortable playing Burn); Gettin' Tighter, heavy and funky and sung by Glenn Hughes; Love Child, which could've been a Mk.2 song; and This Time Around / Owed to "G", a jazzy ballad segueing into a Tommy Bolin jazz-fusion rocker. Onstage, Tommy Bolin excelled at Smoke on the Water, Lazy, and Stormbringer, as well as the Come Taste the Band songs. Best of all was his own song Wild Dogs, where he sang lead. It's a shame that wasn't on Come Taste...
I had a bootleg CD of DP live with Tommy. It was clear he had put no effort into learning😅the guitar parts. His attempt at a solo in Burn was embarrassing. But he was great on CTTB!😮
@@RossBoulter-g2w: Although Tommy Bolin was versatile, Bach-inspired neo-classical guitar wasn't his thing. I quite liked his solo on Burn, but NOT the way he played the riff.
Glenn Hughes was an underrated rock singer and actually considered to replace Ozzie in Sabbath at one point. I liked the album but I'm from Dayton Ohio the birthplace of funk. If you're going to sit on this album and give the stones some girls or emotional rescue a pass then your missing the point.
I Know I'm Going to Check Out "Come Taste the Band"... I also remember the album cover and I will probably remember a song or two... I saw the Perfect Strangers tour, it was in a big arena and I had bad seats, so to say I was unimpressed wouldn't be fair...I never wanted to see them after that... and Born Again was my favorite Sabbath album and I Did see that tour front row...lol
I had to stop listening to this man. Stating that you never even listened to an album which is an essential asset to what you are going to talk about is just simply stupid. To the interviewer: do just a little bit more research on the album while listening to it. You know, the thing where you put the record on and just listen. Mentioning Teaser is a good thing, but if you only know Private Eyes, you are not hearing a healthy Tommy Bolin and you are not going to appreciate what he did on Come Taste The Band either. Listen to the album, get to know it. Then come back.
1) All I can remember is that I listened to Come Taste The Band once - exactly once. Never again. Why waste valuable listening time on something that doesn't even belong in the same discussion as Fireball, Machine Head, Made In Japan, Burn and Perfect Strangers? 2) Volume? Saw the '84 tour (Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD) and it was really good... and LOUD... AND I MEAN LOUD... LOUD LOUD LOUD. At one point I looked at my buddy Jack to my left and he was frantically tearing the filters off a couple of cigs and stuffing them in his ears, while on my right buddy Tim was just kinda standing there and vibrating, lookinig like the guy in Scanners just before his head exploded. 3) Then, ever heard the - apocrypal(?) - legend about Pink Floyd in their early days killing the fish in the river with their volume at an outdoor gig in London?
And I'm pretty sure James Gang fans were saying the very same thing a year or two earlier when he entered that band and had to fill Joe Walsh's shoes, as well! Still---that's two guitar giants he had to replace, so he earns my respect for doing so
One of the best its heavy but the songs are short ahead of its time in 75 TB is the star he wrote nearly everything Glenn sings a lot more too my favourite DP record after in rock sadly TBs drug in take along side Glenns signaled the end ironically DP were never this good again! get it on the deck and turn it up DC at his best when he still sang instead of his boring yelping after 87!
CTTB is an excellent album, but it’s not in league with what Purple were known for in the mid seventies. I was 16 when it came out, and it took me awhile to buy it because of the “no Blackmore” thing. I still like it, buts it’s not what most folks would think of as a Deep Purple album. I remember Circus magazine at the time had a funny rating system that was quite humorous, if they didn’t like the album, it got a “boot” cartoon beside it. CTTB was considered “savoury” for special tastes. The problem with Mk4 was Bolins drug addiction which came and went by the day, so some shows were great, and some bloody awful. Tremendous talent in that MK as all Deep Purple versions were. Depends on what you like. It would seem that the king would be MK2.
Man- take out 2 hours and educate yourself. 1 youtube Phoenix Rising for starters. There youll find John Lord say of CTTB “ a perfectly fine rock album- ahead of its time”. Ian Paice sites Dealer off CTTB as his best work in DP. You havent listed to Teaser? Wtf man? A) it outsold CTTB w.zero promotion b) its got every A list player of that era on it: Phil Collins, Jan Hammer, David Sanborn, David Fostter, Nirada Michel Walden, Jeff Porcaro. On n on. Coverdale and Glenn’s voices are at a peak. Its a bold album. At least they made an album that was a musical cousin to DP w elements of Jazz Fusion, Raggae and funk. Ritchie, who bitched about formulaic music, goes out and makes a carbon copy of Mk 2 w Rainbow. CTTB was a good album that was created despite a lot of negative forces vectoring in from all angles. Bottom line- if youre going to RUclips a video, at least put some effort into familiarizing yourself w the subject matter
I’ve been a huge DP fan since the very beginning and own every studio album - and of course many live albums. I would rate CTTB in my top 10. Try listening to it dude before you make comments.
And the problem with Deep Purple MKIV is that Tommy Bolin was a mess on heroin and Glenn Hughes was strung out on coke - their live concerts were a train wreck. I saw them in early 76 and TB didn’t seem to realize where he was in the songs. He was missing his guitar lead parts and it was just chaos. TB was a great guitarist - and GH is a great singer and bassist - but drugs will ruin your career. Fortunately GH has recovered and is still putting out some GREAT music - and his vocals are still fantastic.
That reviewer didn’t do his homework. He didn’t even listen to the album. If he actually listened to the album the article would have been about how much the band changed. DP was not about volume. They said in the 80s their rehearsal equipment was louder than the 70s concerts.
They did all types of music like pop, psychedelic, metal, progressive, blues, funk and they did albums with orchestras.
True their popularity was fading by 1976 but that’s totally because of the change in personnel. CTTB is a great album. Great production, great playing and might be Ian Paice’s best album. The problem was their hard core fans liked Child in Time and Highway Star not Hold On and Gettin Tighter.
Love "Hold On"!
I love Come Taste The Band, yes it's different than previous albums but I prefer it to Burn and Stormbringer.
This is just a RUclips entry that has less actual value than some AI generated clips, where you would expect things to be wrong here and there. This is someone who even admits not doing his homework.
I love that album it was actually the first Deep purple album I heard forty years ago. Great video!!
Come Tastes the Band FUCKING RULES!! It is a shame that you made the video before giving yourself a chance to have your ass kicked by this album. Metal, hard rock, funk, classical, all the influences are there. Tommy Bolin bought an amazing level of guitar virtuosity and songwriting talent to Deep Purple, if only for a short time.
Tommy wrote basically all the music and songs for come taste the band just as he did from his former group, The James Gang
Yes, the whole piece is riddled with inaccuracies - anyhow Bolin's solo on Coming Home equals anything that Blackmore did and belive me RB is my all time favourite guitarist. BTW - I saw them play with Bolin in March 1976 - in fact their final performance and with admittedly the exception of Bolin they were on fire and gave it their all that night despite what some have claimed.
CTTB really doesn't get the attention that it should. The band still had a ton of talent and it may be one of the best albums Coverdale was a part of.
I've also heard a few people say they like that album !
@@zandig666 The thing is, back in the day when there were record stores ,CTTB wasn't the easiest album to find. At least by me. I would not have even known of this album if it wasn't for a friend in high school who was a big Deep Purple freak.
Research is everything..... Jon Lord is quoted as saying that Come Taste The Band is a great album... its just not a Deep Purple album.
That’s right, John Lord even went further and said that it was a Tommy Bolin album with the help of Deep Purple.
Jon Lord said that CTTB was a terrific album under the circumstances in which it was recorded; and that it was a terrific album under ANY circumstances.
You’re hitting it out of the park, Sir!
SWOSU in Oklahoma had a jazz band that would “tour” high schools across the state. They featured a rock band, as well. I was 13 when they came to my high school and was a sax player at the time, so I loved it. I’d been working on guitar for nearly a year.
The rock band opened up with “Gettin’ Tighter” and I lost my shit. The Come Taste The Band album still sounds that fresh and exciting to me today at nearly 60 years old. Tommy Bolin was absolutely smoking hot on this album.
EDIT: SPIN THAT VINYL ASAP!!!
Paice shows here why he is the drumming goat, mainly during live performances of the songs from this album and beyond…
It's a masterful album that hasn't aged. It sounds like it was recorded in 2024. The Martin Birch production and Ian Paice mix are superb and I don't think that Kevin Shirley 2010 remix enhanced it. The only quirk is that Glenn Hughes doesn't appear on Comin' Home as he didn't turn up. For More on DP Mk IV watch the documentary movie "Phoenix Rising" where Jon Lord says the immortal line about Bolin & Hughes' partying "now lads, I think it's time you go back to the hotel and get a bit of sleep".
Phoenix Rising is brilliant.
ITS AN UNDERRATED ALBUM
I was born in 1982, so I didn't live through all the personnel and stylistic changes. As a younger fan, "Come Taste the Band" has slowly emerged as my favorite Deep Purple album. It takes attentive listening and an open mind. It's pretty heavy... but has a very interesting funk flavor throughout. Bolin is on fire, and Paice is at his absolute peak.
Saw Glenn Hughes in Sept performing Purple tunes from his time in the band... his voice sounds better than ever at age 72. Absolutely incredible.
Great episode
Thank you!
Musicians were bored tensions were miserable
The funny thing about it is----a lot of these bands who actually played heavier rock in the early 70s--like Deep Purple, Humble Pie, Grand Funk Railroad, etc---by the mid-70s, had actually started to tone down their "muscle car horsepower" (great analogy, I think, as the auto industry was going through a similar shift at the same time), and started playing more melodic, soulful music. Maybe it didn't always translate into live performanes, but musically they were all mellowing out---Led Zeppelin included.
Im a fan of this album. I think you should give it a listen.
I also love Tommy Bolin! He was a talented player who could jam to all kinds of genres. Unfortunately, he was another tortured genius.
CTTB is a great album... maybe not a DP album, but a great one anyway.
I was at the concert mentioned in the article. St. John Arena on the OSU campus in Columbus.
They were loud. The arena was full at the start, but by the end it was nearly empty.
Maybe 75% to 80% left during the show. Jon Lord would later say that this version of Deep Purple were either very good or very bad.
This night they were not very good.
I liked Come Taste the Band (still do), but did not consider it equal to their previous efforts (still dont't).
Wow. I was at that one also. Correct me if i'm wrong but didn't a couple of them walk off the stage because of a not so friendly reception? Maybe because of Blacmore being out of the band. I believe Coverdale was one of them that walked off, but they carried on. CTTB is one of my all time favorite albums ever. It gets played regularly. I only wish they had made a couple more recordings with that lineup.
Tommy Bolin was revered by Beck, Page, Joe Walsh, Billy Cobham and every musician who ever worked with him. He was a genius.
A brilliant guitarist.
I’ve listened to this whole album many times and it is a great record…. But they never hit it off live promoting this record, they sounded awful. I think the heavy drug use by both Hughes and Bolin affected their performance on stage.. Jon Lord finally approached Ian Paice and told him he’s had enough and that was the end of purple in 1976…..
One of the best album ever made...
whoever did this interview or review was a Peter, Paul, and Mary fan. Obviously the writer could of said the same thing for any rock band at that time. Punk rock was on the rise and all the hype or critics were promoting that. Basically Purple, Zeppelin, Sabbath etc. Were considered for being to cliche or being aged dinosaurs and washed up by that time.
Interesting that a lot of reviews of that 1976 US tour complain about Deep Purple being too loud. My "Deep Purple - 1976-01-18 Philadelphia - Full Show" upload has two reviews complainig about the band playing to loud, one from John David Kalodner, who later worked for Geffen as A&R manager with Whitesnake, Aerosmith and Coverdale/Page. The sound must have been so distorted , that people may have left the show with that "too loud" as most memorable thing. Even very positive reviews complain about the sound, not being able to hear the singer and so on.
It's a great lp. Just need a few listens, and you will get it. Fantastic lp.
Tommy brought magic to a fading band.
He was wasting his time when he should have promoted his Teaser album.
He was using heroin, cocaine, morphine, marijuana and pills along with excessive alcohol.
It's a miracle he reached 25.
In theory though, playing with Purple should have given Tommy the platform and exposure from which his solo career could and should have taken off. And if he had been in better shape, maybe it would have 😢
@kennymathersmusic5297 Thanks For writing.
I think that was the idea as Purple were easing up on the album/tour/album routine. They would have had time away from the band to pursue solo projects.
When Purple turned up at a record store, the advertising for Teaser overshadowed their Come Taste The Band album, and from what I heard Glenn Hughes and Tommy Bolin didn't speak one word in the limo afterwards.
Purple was the wrong gig for Tommy: he was good enough but playing Burn and Smoke On The Water must have bored him silly.
He also lacked confidence, and was easily discouraged according to Paice.
Had Tommy got a gig with James Brown or Sly And The Family Stone I think it would have been better, and also punk rock was about to make Purple obsolete...
All the best.
Tampoco escuché completos esos álbumes...me daba tristeza ver a Coverdale intentando ser un Perple.... Me encantó con Wite Snake!!
Sigo amando la MK II, fui tan felíz cuando se reunieron nuevamente e hicieron Perfectos extraños 😊.
Gracias por tu reacción!!
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Deep Purple disbanded on March 15th, 1976, after a gig in Liverpool - so roughly a month after this article was printed. I suppose it reflects very well what audiences and fans must have felt back in the day, not knowing anything about what was going on behind the scenes. Not even 9 months later, Tommy Bolin died at age 25 from heroine and alcohol. Glenn Hughes was battling a severe cocaine addiction. Part of "Come Taste the Band" was even recorded without him (during the summer of 1975). For me, the strongest songs on the album are the last two - "This Time Around/Owed to G" and "You Keep on Moving". Apart from the funky stuff that was already there before Tommy joined the band, Deep Purple's last 70s album is the first to feature a noticeable soul element.
Some of Stormbringer was quite soul also.
@@TheVidkid67 Now that you mention it and after listening to the album, you're right. Blackmore called that funky soul stuff "shoeshine music", much to Hughes' dismay. Hughes has always argued that he favored a songwriting approach that involved the whole band, rather than Blackmore always pushing his own ideas. Who can blame him for that?! In hindsight, however, it could be argued that Hughes was just trying to get his way and it would have been more sensible to trust the skills of the far more experienced Blackmore. The latter knew very well that he will have success with or without Purple. Hughes joining Purple lead to some amazing songs but at the same time he played a huge role in Blackmore leaving the band. Recruiting a young, very talented but hopelessly drug-addicted guitarist as a replacement was simply a stupid decision.
@@hammondvoodoo9555 I remember him saying that, but he was right though in a way because he thought the band were turning their backs on rock music.
@@TheVidkid67 Rock has always been the lowest common denominator. The issue rather was that the band as a whole was slowly running out of creative juice by the time Stormbringer was recorded and the music scene was undergoing major changes. By the mid-70s, what had brought Purple great success just a few years earlier was simply no longer so fashionable and therefore Blackmore's songwriting was questioned (because it seemed to be outdated).
Come Taste the Band is my Favorite Purple album!
I'm not going to bother finishing listening to this guy....
Ha ..I saw them a month before this one at Hersheypark Arena in January '76. Nazareth opened .. riding the wave of Love Hurts . Loudest concert I've been to for sure...but the sound was super clean. Both bands played great.
Perfect Strangers tour 3 nights in a row. Should have not been so cheap DP were growing up, as Glover said ' they weren't just good they were brilliance
I enjoyed Come Taste the Band and Bolin was fantastic when he wasn't inebriated.....however, I am disappointed that the host of this video didn't bother listening to the album that he's talking about in this video. I don't respect the opinion of someone who talks about something that they haven't bothered to do the homework on. 😮
Exactly! If you like a band, how could you skip an album? That's like skipping over Physical Graffiti if you're a Zep fan... Bolin was great! Loved what he did with Moxy as well.
It's actually a fantastic album! I'd been a Purple fan since about '72 when it came out (I was 8 when SOTW came out), and was very much a Blackmore (still am) fan. I was unsure about "Burn" when it came out, and it is still to this day my favorite DP album.
But when Blackmore left, I didn't think I'd like it at all. Wrong. I kind of tried not to like it at first, but I just had to accept the fact that it was a different band. I soon after came to love it! Bolin's playing on it is great, and everything else about it is good, too!
No secret that they were having drug problems around this time - certainly Bolin and Hughes, and a number of their shows reflected that. Poor Tommy was living on borrowed time, and he could barely even play sometimes.
Still - you should really listen to it a few times. As long as you go into it with the attitude of "this isn't the same DP", I think you'll really dig it!
Come Taste the Band is a good album man, funky yet heavy, You Keep On Moving is a classic,, Love David but Glenn Hughes is known as THE VOICE OF ROCK for a reason. I saw Glenn a couple of months ago on his Deep Purple Burn tour, the guy literally brought me to tears. Greatest vocal display I've ever witnessed.
Despite the absence of Blackmore I don't think there's a bad song on it. Especially You Keep On Moving.
Can't believe the host says he hasn't even played Come Taste The Band. It's a terrific album. However, reviews throughout Mark IV's shows on 75-76 commented on the volume being painfully loud, so there is definitely something in that.
I had never heard CTTB but, about 30 or so years ago now, I came across a mint vinyl copy at a flea market that was REALLY cheap so I bought it. I must admit I didn't expect to like it but I did like it & I liked it a lot. Many people say it was actually the very first Whitesnake album. You really should listen to it with an open mind; you might get quite a surprise!
Best regards
That album kicks ass. Bolin was a monster and the songs were there.
I never heard this album. Put in the proper context, it might be an interesting listen.
Great album 😊
It's a great album period!
Great album but Stormbringer is still the most underrated DP album of the '70.
This is better than most albums
The rainbow clip I watched with bonnet singing,they were so loud he was yelling really and timing was off
The only time I was in pain till about 4th song spanning 85,87twice,89,05 twice,06---motley crue. Every time.
From being loud,let me clarify.
Drifter was a good song.
Mkii is the real DP
David's singing and voice is terrible. Actually, if it wasn't of Glenn's help in singing the MKiii could be even worse. Over all, DP began to lose their image as MKii which really made it famous in world stage.
The problem with DP was more about the management and Ritchie's bad behaviour and ego and disliking Ian. I wished Lord had more control than Blackmore on the band.
Deep Purple was always Jon Lord's Band. He was the first one, chosen by Chris Curtis for his proto Roundabout band idea. Blackmore was second choice... & so on. So Come Taste The Band is a real Deep Purple album. It says Deep Purple on the record sleeve doesn't it?.💜
You are completely wrong ... the epochal turning point that led to the MKII formation and the eternal masterpiece that is IN ROCK, followed by Fireball, Machine Head and the greatest live album of all time that is MADE IN JAPAN, was totally desired by Ritchie Blackmore ... he told Lord before composing IN ROCK: "it will have to be heavy or dramatic, otherwise the songs will have no place on the album... and if it doesn't go well, I will play classical music with you for my whole life!" .. so no second choice!
@@massimopescatori6514 Everything that I said in my previous comment was factually correct. However, just to put things a little more clearly....
There would be no MK2 DP without the preceding Mk1 DP, which set the foundations for everything that followed. Hush was their first top 10 smash hit in America in 1968. Mk1 DP blew Cream off the stage when DP opened for Cream. Deep Purple were always gonna be huge.
Listen to 'You keep on Moving'. Glenn Hughes offered it to Blackmore who wasn't impressed. I think he could have put a 'Mistreated' type solo over it.
As a Purple Mark 2 fan, I found this album pretty good. "Coming Home", "Drifter" and "You Keep on Moving" are great songs, the only thing I didn't really like was Tommy Bolin's playing, probably doing too much heroin already.
It's a fantastic album
You have to remember that Deep Purple wanted Paul Rodgers as the replacement for Ian Gillan but they could not reach him, so they compromised on David Coverdale who was an anonymous and a mediocre vocalist, Coverdale became a great vocalist only in 1987 after he passed an operation because he suffered from sinus issues, you also have to remember that Glenn Hughes was not a great vocalist in the seventies, he rose to fame as a vocalist only since the eighties, another problem was that Glenn Hughes and Tommy Bolin were "wasted" from the drugs use, so while you can control things when recording in the studio it's another thing when going on stage to perform live, one of Tommy Bolin's hands was paralysed, he couldn't move one hand so he played the guitar solos almost the same in every song, the audience thought that he's a lousy guitar player, most of the last live shows for the CTTB tour were embarrassing!!! so, it's not the music and not the volume, CTTB is a good and decent album, it is better than WDWTWR, Deep Purple were a bad joke in 1976, thankfully, they had more luck since the reunion in 1984 onward.
Glenn Hughes sings better now than he did 50 years ago. Take one listen to Whitesnake's Purple Album and Coverdale's voice is shot. His prime was the 1980s.
@@TajBluesTrue, but I'm glad he did it.
The author of the article clearly had an axe to grind and Deep Purple just happened to be a convenient vehicle for his point. That he refers to Patti Smith is a clear indication of this. This was 1976 and punk was the coming thing and for cultural commentators with an eye to the future bands like Deep Purple already belonged to the age of the dinosaurs. Deep Purple deserve credit for changing, for not being the same band that achieved fame and success twice over. It might have been challenging or alienating for some at the time, but it makes for a legacy more interesting than those bands who kept on flogging the same dead horse album after album. Come Taste the Band is an album pushing in a new musical direction and the playing all round is superlative even if you don't like the material. You Keep on Moving is my favourite track. It has an amazing sinuous groove you wouldn't imagine the band that made Machine Head could come up with.
it's not the best it's just unique. Absolutely out of hard rock league but played by professional players with excellent arrangements. That's why we love it.
For hard rock die hard fans of Rainbow or ACDC it's too difficult to digest but if you're into jazz, funk or fusion it's nice bridge.
Jon Lord said it was a great album, but not a Deep Purple album.
I agree it was a very good album.Production was good and yes Paice on drums was excellent,it was more soul and funk but still very good.
How can you discuss an album you've never taken the time to listen to? Who can take this seriously? CTTB is a fantastic album, showcasing the talents of all of it's members & their diverse musical interests & styles at the time. It's kind of like a piñata that pops open & everyone takes something different away from the experience. You may not like every flavor of candy inside, but there is definitely something for every DP fan to enjoy. Definitely tasty. 🎉
Another irony---Patti Smith was the wife of Fred "Sonic" Smith from the MC5, one of the loudest bands of the late 60s/early 70s, and she was also a friend of the Ramones. So yeah---tell me again about how she would be on board with bands "mellowing out"?
That is fascinating context!
Classic rock magazine gave it a 10/10 review, a few years back.
I was a big fan back from 1972... to1976. I thought it was a good album at the time, still do. What's left for Deep Purple?!😅 ... apparently quite a lot.
Indeed. The guy was talented. Blackmore was purple. Not to denegrare the fantastic contributions of the other members as they allowed Richie to create within a musical framework that was unsurpassed in the genre.
What robsas6610 said... Do your research! I agree with the late, great Job Lord said.... "It's a great album... It's just not a Deep Purple album"... And for someone who claims to like David Coverdale you should love the album
That writer, although unable to spell "goad", made some points that had (and have) merit, though they seemed to be singling out Purple randomly. Deep Purple's my favourite band, with Mott the Hoople and a handful of others, but high volume was never what attracted me to their music. Both the shows that led to the Guinness Book of Records entry are available on RUclips as bootlegs. I have both - from London's Rainbow Theatre in 1972 (ironically, then, featuring Mk.2!) - and there's no indication that either show was excessively loud. I also have some tinnitus (a musician's malady), and hate having to shout at parties, etc., because of loud music. I always go outside to avoid high volume.
With regard to Come taste the Band, it's not an album where volume trumps subtlety. My fave songs are Coming Home, the opener, which should've replaced Burn as live opener (Tommy Bolin didn't sound comfortable playing Burn); Gettin' Tighter, heavy and funky and sung by Glenn Hughes; Love Child, which could've been a Mk.2 song; and This Time Around / Owed to "G", a jazzy ballad segueing into a Tommy Bolin jazz-fusion rocker.
Onstage, Tommy Bolin excelled at Smoke on the Water, Lazy, and Stormbringer, as well as the Come Taste the Band songs. Best of all was his own song Wild Dogs, where he sang lead. It's a shame that wasn't on Come Taste...
I had a bootleg CD of DP live with Tommy. It was clear he had put no effort into learning😅the guitar parts. His attempt at a solo in Burn was embarrassing. But he was great on CTTB!😮
@@RossBoulter-g2w: Although Tommy Bolin was versatile, Bach-inspired neo-classical guitar wasn't his thing. I quite liked his solo on Burn, but NOT the way he played the riff.
Glenn Hughes was an underrated rock singer and actually considered to replace Ozzie in Sabbath at one point.
I liked the album but I'm from Dayton Ohio the birthplace of funk.
If you're going to sit on this album and give the stones some girls or emotional rescue a pass then your missing the point.
I Know I'm Going to Check Out "Come Taste the Band"...
I also remember the album cover and I will probably remember a song or two...
I saw the Perfect Strangers tour, it was in a big arena and I had bad seats,
so to say I was unimpressed wouldn't be fair...I never wanted to see them after that...
and Born Again was my favorite Sabbath album and I Did see that tour front row...lol
I had to stop listening to this man. Stating that you never even listened to an album which is an essential asset to what you are going to talk about is just simply stupid.
To the interviewer: do just a little bit more research on the album while listening to it. You know, the thing where you put the record on and just listen.
Mentioning Teaser is a good thing, but if you only know Private Eyes, you are not hearing a healthy Tommy Bolin and you are not going to appreciate what he did on Come Taste The Band either.
Listen to the album, get to know it. Then come back.
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1) All I can remember is that I listened to Come Taste The Band once - exactly once. Never again. Why waste valuable listening time on something that doesn't even belong in the same discussion as Fireball, Machine Head, Made In Japan, Burn and Perfect Strangers? 2) Volume? Saw the '84 tour (Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD) and it was really good... and LOUD... AND I MEAN LOUD... LOUD LOUD LOUD. At one point I looked at my buddy Jack to my left and he was frantically tearing the filters off a couple of cigs and stuffing them in his ears, while on my right buddy Tim was just kinda standing there and vibrating, lookinig like the guy in Scanners just before his head exploded. 3) Then, ever heard the - apocrypal(?) - legend about Pink Floyd in their early days killing the fish in the river with their volume at an outdoor gig in London?
Bolin just wasn't right for Purple. It's that simple. Talented, but Blackmore was impossible to replace.
And I'm pretty sure James Gang fans were saying the very same thing a year or two earlier when he entered that band and had to fill Joe Walsh's shoes, as well! Still---that's two guitar giants he had to replace, so he earns my respect for doing so
One of the best its heavy but the songs are short ahead of its time in 75 TB is the star he wrote nearly everything Glenn sings a lot more too my favourite DP record after in rock sadly TBs drug in take along side Glenns signaled the end ironically DP were never this good again! get it on the deck and turn it up DC at his best when he still sang instead of his boring yelping after 87!
CTTB is an excellent album, but it’s not in league with what Purple were known for in the mid seventies. I was 16 when it came out, and it took me awhile to buy it because of the “no Blackmore” thing. I still like it, buts it’s not what most folks would think of as a Deep Purple album. I remember Circus magazine at the time had a funny rating system that was quite humorous, if they didn’t like the album, it got a “boot” cartoon beside it. CTTB was considered “savoury” for special tastes. The problem with Mk4 was Bolins drug addiction which came and went by the day, so some shows were great, and some bloody awful. Tremendous talent in that MK as all Deep Purple versions were. Depends on what you like. It would seem that the king would be MK2.
Es que, MK II es la mejor formación. Eso es innegable!!!
Man- take out 2 hours and educate yourself. 1 youtube Phoenix Rising for starters. There youll find John Lord say of CTTB “ a perfectly fine rock album- ahead of its time”. Ian Paice sites Dealer off CTTB as his best work in DP. You havent listed to Teaser? Wtf man? A) it outsold CTTB w.zero promotion b) its got every A list player of that era on it: Phil Collins, Jan Hammer, David Sanborn, David Fostter, Nirada Michel Walden, Jeff Porcaro. On n on. Coverdale and Glenn’s voices are at a peak. Its a bold album. At least they made an album that was a musical cousin to DP w elements of Jazz Fusion, Raggae and funk. Ritchie, who bitched about formulaic music, goes out and makes a carbon copy of Mk 2 w Rainbow. CTTB was a good album that was created despite a lot of negative forces vectoring in from all angles. Bottom line- if youre going to RUclips a video, at least put some effort into familiarizing yourself w the subject matter
Smoke ..was 2 years past.. this guy .. arena rock is obsolete. Drugs this problem
I’ve been a huge DP fan since the very beginning and own every studio album - and of course many live albums. I would rate CTTB in my top 10. Try listening to it dude before you make comments.
And the problem with Deep Purple MKIV is that Tommy Bolin was a mess on heroin and Glenn Hughes was strung out on coke - their live concerts were a train wreck. I saw them in early 76 and TB didn’t seem to realize where he was in the songs. He was missing his guitar lead parts and it was just chaos. TB was a great guitarist - and GH is a great singer and bassist - but drugs will ruin your career. Fortunately GH has recovered and is still putting out some GREAT music - and his vocals are still fantastic.