The Clash

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard

Never heard about a physical gate except a plexiglass

It was a small club. The crash was about 3 feet behind his head and his amp was raised behind him. But because it was a proximity gate, it did not open unless there was something physically there to open it

The sound quality of a lot of old DP albums is rough to me. Outside of SOTW, they didn’t put out many radio friendly hits, and by the time they got popular, they started replacing members

I think you bring up a lot of good points and it's probably some combination of all of that. I love DP, and they totally deserve the recognition that Zeppelin and Sabbath get for influencing hard rock and metal.

Someone else pointed out a lot of it has to do with the consistency of their albums. Zeppelin released 7 consecutive albums that were absolutely fucking incredible, and their last album is still probably as good as much of DP's work too. Same with Sabbath, their first 6 albums are all complete bangers. Deep Purple took a while to find their stride, their sound evolved a lot, and they had significant lineup changes that altered said sound through different periods.

While they have excellent work that spans several decades, I would say their best run of albums includes In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head and Burn. Note that Who Do We Think We Are came out during this time but I did not include it because I don't think it's as good, save for the song Woman From Tokyo which is a classic. Zeppelin and Sabbath did not have any clunkers during their peak runs. I think that's the difference.

I think it is simple. The better the music, the better the band ages. It makes perfect sense. The relevance of old music is directly related to the quality of the music.

If you're alright with music in Spanish:

"Caramelos de Cianuro" I recommend "La casa" or "Veronica"

If not:

"Canvass The Town" and recommend "End up with nothing"

Sorry, my reaction should have been on his reply. not yours.

He responds as if you wrote Queen never had any solid albums, but actually, you did not write that.

You state that Deep Purple and Queen had more great songs than they had solid albums. And i agree with that. Even In Rock and Machine Head had less good tracks on them. Some even very average.

I played classic guitar when I was a teen. I did memorise the music, but you’re not allowed to make mistakes when performing, unlike say rock music. Which is why I kept track of what I was playing during the performance. It also helps to distract your attention from the audience.

I have often asked myself this question.

Although I take heart from the fact that my GCSE English oral exam was about Deep Purple so I educated a group of teenagers back in 1998 about the might of the Purple!

Interesting question. A lot of singers who are not technically brilliant are still great in the rock arena. If you do anything with enough conviction people will believe in it and being on the stage is a performance. All the worlds a stage and we are merely players. Rock hard my friend the audience will give their decision if you can hack it !

This is the answer. Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Beatles all had at least 5 or 6 stellar albums.

I'm from Alaska, and they were my first ever concert (in Washington, unfortunately). Love these guys. Glad they're supporting good causes.

It is my band. Thanks!

Are you Fat Mike from NOFX?

MC5, Cream, and Sabbath along with The Who, and Jimi were the original heavy bands IMO. Deep Purple is legit tho!

What a cool group of people they got. Always spreading good vibes

Part of the issue is Blackmore himself. The guy distances himself so far from rock music into the 90's that their media presence was significantly reduced. Even though he wasn't in the band anymore a lot of these other artists thrived through the 90s doing interviews and touring as legacy artists. As a young first player during this time I loved Blackmore but rarely read an interview with him in guitar world or rolling Stone after the mid nineties. The rest of the band you barely heard about because they're elder statesman weren't there to push them as much. Unless you wanted to read about Blackmore's medieval music move they faded into more obscurity through the last couple decades.

All this being said absolutely loved seeing them at Live 8!

Space Truckin'. YEH, YEH, YEH, SPACE TRUCKIN'!!!

... and Ian Paice. FTFY

One of my favourite drummers of all time.

>Much like Queen, Deep Purple has great songs but never had as many solid albums.

You mean like this? He is literally stating that Queen had great songs but not as many solid albums.

Nah.

They are not in deep rotations on classic rock radio or streaming so it my be the people or machines that program the list. They are more of the personal playlist sharing type of hype where people will play the deeper cuts