That's was cool to hear you know your Purple. I grew up listening to these guys and always liked their changes. I agree, Gillan sounds good. Too bad he did'nt take care of his voice, with the drinking and smoking. But, he was a rock star and he's pushing 80 too. Now he looks like my dad up there, without the hammer in his hand. I've heard the album and I like it. I'd cut a long story short but it's much too late for that. Peace
Child In Time got retired from the set long ago for good reason but Ian's holding up pretty good for 80. He's miles above Bon Jovi, Don Dokken, and Vince Neil. He's singing songs that fit him and luckily he was also never a frontman who ran around the stage. His big thing was playing the bongos when everybody else jammed for 20 minutes.
Not to sound funny, but it's their best album since Whoosh in 2020. In fact I'd love to see somebody out there do a comparison between the last two (original) albums. I got to confess I'm going through Morse withdrawals and this album is a bittersweet victory.
My next videos is going to be a worst to best of non Blackmore albums. There’s definitely going to be some comparisons in that. I did a review of Whoosh when it came out. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GnzBu0wVa2I.html
The album does little for me. Ezrin’s production and mixing has taken the power out of Purple. Nothing memorable about this album. I like your take on Airey - he has alot to do with the change in DPs sound (both good and bad). Ironically, Airey suits Morse much better. Airey cannot or doesn’t produce that heavy growling Hammond sound which is why this album fails trying to return to simplicity and the “classic” sound. Airey can’t match Lords power and rhythm organ sound but he does bring other sounds which makes Bananas/Now What great. Even Whoosh’s songwriting overcomes the poor production by Ezrin (except for Man Alive - which is the type of song where Ezrin shines)
I actually like Don Airey’s sound because no it’s not growly and mean sounding like the 70’s but it’s more synth oriented like perfect strangers and house of blue light. It’s like a continuation of his stuff if Difficult to Cure with Rainbow. Strangely DP used to play Difficult to Cure live on their last few tour with Blackmore but now that Don is in the band and it makes more sense to play it, they don’t.
I share your thoughts about the album. One month after release I can't listen to it anymore, mostly because of Ezrin and Airey. Those two and the new guitarist ruined DP for me.
You know your Deep Purple. I agree with you for the most part except I think your wrong about the mix. I think the guitar is a lot more higher in the mix than it has been in the last 4 DP Morse albums.
It's definitely a different guitar sound. Simon using a PRS instead of Steve's Music Man's added more crunch to Purple. I do wish either of them would have used a 70's sounding guitar even if it wasn't a strat like Blackmore at least when they cover the old songs live.
So many people are raving on about this album like it's another Burn. It's not. I find all the songs very middle of the road with a similar tempo and feel. A pass for me.
It's more than decent but not Burn I agree. Whoosh was better and more ambitious. The people over praising the album probably having listened to a new DP album since Perfect Strangers. This was a sort of transition album without really trying to be a transition album because they've been pumping out stuff pretty regularly. I see it as them testing out the new guy with another quickie after they did the covers album the last time.
Nah I’ll pass on this one. Just like everything since Abandon. For heavy keyboard rock. I’ll take modern day Uriah Heep any day. They’re easily kicking DP’s ass up and down the street since 1995’s Sea of Light onwards.
@@BlackTerror well for starters try out the debut album. Look at yourself and demons and wizards. And believe me. They always have that kind of shuffle rock easy living remake on most of their albums 🤣. This band has a huge discography and lots of misses too. I’m afraid. But that’s my opinion but I can tell you I don’t really like the John Lawton years-Conquest(1977-1980). They rebounded nicely with Peter Goalby and his cool pipes for Abominog- Equator((1982-1985). The Bernie Shaw years get off to a rough start just generic arena rock for Raging Silence-Different World(1989 and 1991 respectively) then somehow, they hit the goldmine from 1995-Current. Mick Box and his boys going strong still. These ‘95-current albums are serious business. Whether you want the short to the point rockers to the long prog rock masterpieces they’re known for. No silly forrays into goofy party rock or disco type stuff that marred the later Byron years-Conquest. So in a nutshell, I’d say all Byron albums worth owning. All Goalby albums worth owning. And everything 1995-current worth it too. So I’m trying to steer you far from the crap they did sometimes. Some other Heep fans may tell you differently about the Lawton years, some swear by it. I guess if you really had to..1978’s Innocent Victim Could be worth checking out.
@@BlackTerror and btw. Don’t mean no disdain for DP post Abandon. That album just really turned me off Steve Morse isn’t Blackmore and for me the guitar is so key to DP. Ritchie was an undenied master. Tommy Bolin for CTTB from 1975 was a masterpiece as well. I think the band started slowly going downhill for Purpendicular. Mostly filler for me. If I were to give this DP another chance. What post Abandon album would you recommend to me?
@@Mike-aka747 Blackmore is my favorite guitarist period, even more than Iommi and May. I also like post Blackmore DP but not like the albums with him but I really liked Bananas and I might be in the minority. It caught shit when it came out for the silly title and weird cover but nearly every album they did since has a silly title. Check out I Got Your Number, Silver Tongue, and Haunted (Gillan's best ballad?). Plus Contact Lost live is incredible.
@@Mike-aka747 I'll try to check them out on my next nightly walk. I'll check out the early classic era stuff but I'm weird for classic rock bands stumbling around through the 80's. You had me at Arena Rock! Most people hate that era for 70's bands but I love that stuff (80's Sabbath, DP, Elton, Yes, Queen).
The songs were good but I think they should have changed Bob Ezrin so the album would sound different from the last few or changed up the production sound at least. The last decade sounds like one long (but good) album.
After "Whoosh" and "Turning to crime" this one is a huge disappointment. The band sounds tired and the song's are too short and simple. I am also missing the Hammond B3 organ: Moogs and syntesizers don't suit the band. I am also missing the flashiness of Steve Morse, the new guitarist Simon Mcbride ideas are boring. Production-wise the album sounds sterile, they could have tried someone else then Bob Ezrin. Maybe even Dweezil Zappa? Waiting for your best/worst list! 🎵
My problem with most modern albums by classic bands with decades ms spanning discographies is production. Everything from the last 20 years or so sounds the same because it’s all done on computers. From the 50’s to the 90’s every few years music production had unique eras of sound. You could tell a song was from the early 60’s or late 80’s just from the way it sounded. That was the charm of great albums, they were locked into a time and following a band was fun listening to them from era to era. While I like the Ezrin albums, there’s no variety at all in sound. I hate how people crap on Steve Morse now that he’s gone. They obviously never seen him play Contact lost or Well Dressed Guitar live because he’s amazing. I think this album was intentionally simple just to try out writing with Simon. That is a drawback though because they were breaking new ground getting proggy on the last few with Steve which blew me away.
I agree with you about that everything now sounds the same. I know that Foo Fighters album "Wasting light" from 2011 was done on old time equipment, produced by Butch Vig, but that was an exception from the rule. By the way, that album sounds fantastic...🙆♂️ I always liked Steve Morse when he was playing on the new Dp composisions, but I never liked him live playing the Dp cornerstones like "Smoke on the water" or "Perfect Strangers". Sorry, but he's no Blackmore. 😂 I will listen to the new album more. I think sounds tired, but I still like it more than "Abandon" and "The Rapture of the deep" and "Infinite" so it's not a dud only mediocre. Gillan's on fire at least. 😁
@@piotrlangtvedt I never heard that FF album but The Stones or DP or other classic bands should go back to an old studio and recreate their early sounds. That's a sick idea Grohl had. Abandon and Rapture were total disappointments. The best song off Rapture isn't even on the regular release, "Things I Never Said". I got Live in Montreux 2006 not long ago and heard it and went back to listen to Rapture thinking how did I miss that song and it wasn't on it! It's only some special deluxe edition that came out waay later.
The Morse era is pretty airtight his legacy in deep purple is 100% rock solid. It was Steve that saved Deep Purple in the autumn years so many bands stumble and Fall in the autumn.
@@micolsen9824 I like Steve Morse playing with Deep Purple. He gave the band a new energy they needed. The one that was much harder to replace was Jon Lord. I don't dislike Donald Airey but he's not that good as Lord was. Lord was unique, one of a kind.
