Album Rating: 4.0

To each his own. Led Zep > all of them to me. And save for Space Truckin', Made in Japan's songs are rather faithful to the original songs. Great album for sure.

Album Rating: 4.0

Dude, Strange Kind of Woman and The Mule last for 10 minutes

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah but The Mule contains an endless drum solo.

Album Rating: 4.0

Bonzo did the same thing when they played Moby Dick dude





(Bonzo>Paice for sure though)

Album Rating: 4.0

You speak the truth.

And I never got enough of Bonzo's drum solos.

Live Purple >>> Live Zep for sure.

No other rock band came close to Purple with regards to live improv.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

What about the Allman Brothers Band? Just asking though.

Was kind of excluding actual "jam rock" bands but even so there was something special about the chemistry with Purple when they were really on it.

Purple and Uriah need more love here.

Album Rating: 5.0

i easily prefer led zeppelin over deep purple and i do enjoy both bands live....but lets face it, neither will be performing in my living room any time soon

"i easily prefer led zeppelin over deep purple"

Tough choice tbh, led zep has a bigger amount of quality material but in rock and machine head give the best lz albums a run for their money.

Album Rating: 4.5

from what I have heard, purple do stay to the album version of the songs, Zep pretty much does as well, except one or 2 songs in the set, but none of these bands can hold a flame to a good, jazz influenced improv band that lets the music and mood decide where they go.

Album Rating: 4.0

Not a fan of jazz, specially if it is improvised haha

You need some John Coltrane in your life.

"from what I have heard, purple do stay to the album version of the songs"

Except when they stretch a 4 minute song to 35 minutes (no exaggeration). Listen to some of the early Mk. II live albums or even some of the Mk. III stuff, they were easily the best hard rock band when it came to live improv/jamming.

Album Rating: 4.0

I think I've said this before. I've got tons of respect for jazz but my dad made me hate it by playing it every day, at every hour to a point I got tired of it



By now, 90% of jazz sounds the same for me. Jazz improvisations sound tedious and repetitive for me now. I love jazz fusion or jazz when it has vocals (like Nina Simone) though. I also dig regular jazz that isn't that focused on improv and has some structure, but that's pretty rare to find

Album Rating: 4.5

I didn't mean jazz jazz, although I love that too, I meant people with a jazz mindset, in any genre, like early sabbath, or the Dead, or tull, you would know that Jamie.



unaware of the improv powers of Purple, extending songs sometimes is not a good thing unless they take it somewhere, letting everybody get a solo, isn't really what I was talking about. As much as I love Zep the times they extend a song it gets a little tedious to listen to, and boring, the music they write doesn't really lend itself to live discovery

Album Rating: 4.0

With the exception of Paice drum solo in The Mule, Purple always rocked hard in longer versions of their songs

Album Rating: 4.5

ok, I think I have only heard 3 live albums from them, will check it out

"extending songs sometimes is not a good thing unless they take it somewhere, letting everybody get a solo, isn't really what I was talking about. As much as I love Zep the times they extend a song it gets a little tedious to listen to, and boring, the music they write doesn't really lend itself to live discovery"

100% agreed but Purple were the best at it. Check out the albums Scandinavian Nights and maybe California Jamming for the last two songs which total about 45 minutes (so the bulk of the album). Don't be put off by the start of the latter album as they're a little off their game to begin with but they click into gear around about the time Mistreated starts and from then on its one of the best performances I've heard from the Mk. III line-up.