PaisteUser
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The most stupid decisions in DP history
I don’t know if this has been done before, but here it is. The countdown list of the most stupid things Deep Purple ever did (on the top of my head):
7. Bogus Deep Purple. Bad idea in the first place, even worse result.
6. Firing Roger Glover. Why? The two vocal thing was great in the studio on the song Burn and a couple of others and an interesting thing, but One great singer would maybe have been better and the band maybe more consistent (no funk, no screaming, no drug mania?). I don't know.
5. Touring a bit too much in the early 2000's? Maybe Jon Lord would have stayed a bit more years. Nothing wrong with Don, quite the opposite – he’s absolutely fantastic, but Jon was the Lord.
4, Replacing Gillan with Turner, a soul rock singer from Rainbow history. Oh, the confusion. Nick Simper said he liked him the most of all singers after Rod Evans. Me? Not so much.
3. Firing Gillan. Why not take a break, reform Rainbow (which they did anyway sort of) and maybe come back later? I guess Jon and Paicey didn’t have a lot of options, but anyway a stupid move.
2. Touring to much, way to much, in the 1970's. Mark 2 could maybe have been saved with a bit more time to recover from tours.
1. Replacing Paicey with a drum machine on some songs Slaves & Masters (great title by the way, I guess he was one of the slaves?). For no reason. There was absolutely no point of doing that to one of the greatest drummer of all time. That has to be the single most stupid thing ever done in DP.
Feel free to give feedback and corrections.
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19/5/2013, 21:01
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Randys
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Re: The most stupid decisions in DP history
Disbanding in 1976, instead of replacing Bolin and Hughes.
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19/5/2013, 23:21
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Randys
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Re: The most stupid decisions in DP history
I'm not a past dweller, but this is a very good topic. I realize this could be or maybe a good warning to the current Deep Purple and we learned from past mistakes.
Here's my comment:
7. It pissed off a lot of fans and destroys the singing career of Rod Evans, but at the same time it also shows that a lot of fans would welcome or waits for a reunion.
5. Heavy touring have shown in the past that it drained them of energy and creativity.
4. Agreed, but I think Blackmore would leave earlier. I'm not sure, correct me if I'm wrong. Isn't it Blackmore that wanted Gillan out?! Either way Mark V is on the way.
3. I'm not sure about this, but it's about who to be fired, Gillan or Blackmore?! The two hated to work with each other.
2. Agreed, 100%.
1. Agreed. I think Blackmore used synthesizer guitar or whatever in HOBL.
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20/5/2013, 1:48
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Re: The most stupid decisions in DP history
Ritchie also used one of the very first guitar synths ever made on Sail Away.
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20/5/2013, 4:51
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purpletemple
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Re: The most stupid decisions in DP history
I think the "stupidest" decision was to hire JLT. Not because he's a bad singer-far from that-but because it didn't add anything to the story. It would have been better to gt an unknown singer.
Coverdale, Hughes & Bolin were different and they were great discoveries and it gave them a chance to get a fabulous career (although some didn't use that chance).
JLT was already established and was too close to Rainbow.
Firing Gillan wasn't great in itself, but it gave us the chance to hear DC, and that's a blessing (imho).
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20/5/2013, 9:59
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Rezi
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Re: The most stupid decisions in DP history
Temple, Gillan wasn't fired, he left 1973.
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20/5/2013, 11:28
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purpletemple
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Re: The most stupid decisions in DP history
quote: Rezi wrote:
Temple, Gillan wasn't fired, he left 1973.
Right. Gillan left, Glover was fired. A shame but we get "Burn" with the best vocals ever recorded on a rock album (imho).
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20/5/2013, 14:01
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Re: The most stupid decisions in DP history
Touring too much is the obvious one and that caused chain reactions!
Deep purple lost almost a decade that was so important in hard rock history 1976-1985!!
they should choose another guitarist at the time(1975) ,that could actually replace Ritchie.Cause with bollin was another band completely and tottaly messed up on live concerts.
they should reunite at least at the start of 80's
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20/5/2013, 14:16
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Diostillrocks
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Re: The most stupid decisions in DP history
Biggest mistake? Hiring Tommy Bolin. Bolin wasn't mature enough to handle the pressure and he wasn't at all familiar with the band's material.
Not sure if not hiring Bolin would have made him live longer, but all the stuff he experienced in Deep Purple didn't help him with his struggles with drugs.
Close number 2. The hiring of JLT. Blackmore should have kept his bands separare. Slaves and Masters was a Rainbow album.
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20/5/2013, 15:10
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Re: The most stupid decisions in DP history
The DP history would be less interesting without those mistakes.
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20/5/2013, 15:59
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