gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,950 
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Aug 7, 2020 15:26:40 GMT
Just heard this album 1st time today - have to say, I really love it. Their best by miles since 'Purpendicular', not a dud track among them - 5 musicians at the very top of their game, with lots of Hammond all over the place [I'm a 'guitar-head', so it takes something really special to divert my attention from Steve Morse!] Paice's drumming to the fore and sounding crisp and on the button too [didn't expect anything else, tbh!] And then IG's singing and lyrics - just stone-dead brilliant 
Will be listening to this a whole lot I reckon!  G
[Needless to say, but I will, these are just my views - no doubt there will be those who yearn for Itchy Bumsore's noodling ['get over it', folks!] and a more 'classic' [i.e. 1971-era] sounding DP, but I disagree [totally] 'cos this is just BRILLIANT!
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Post by rockonquo on Aug 8, 2020 0:27:24 GMT
Will look out for it at the local music shop mate. Liked the first single. |
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Post by charles on Aug 25, 2020 21:37:45 GMT
I trawled the internet after gerh's review and decided to take the plunge: bought it and what an album! I really liked 2013's Now What?! and play it regularly, but this one is something else: how can a band who've been around since '68 sound so good and still be so relevant? (Yes, Francis, I'm thinking of you.) The sheer musicianship of these old timers is staggering, they blow bands half their age (a third?) out of the water.
They had a glorious comeback in around 85 with Perfect Strangers, but that was 35 years ago! So yet again they are making music and going through a purple patch (sorry), I honestly don't see any boundaries for this band.
To give you just one example of its brilliance, let's discuss honky tonk piano. I hate it when it's wrongly used in songs (think Quo live post J&A), but it can sound absolutely fantastic in for instance Whitesnake's "Black and Blue". What Don Airey does to the piano in What is What is from another dimension: fabulous.
Get this album and play it. You won't be disappointed.
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,950
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Aug 26, 2020 12:17:05 GMT
I went and got it too having heard an mp3 originally - I don't buy 'new released' albums all that much any more unless they knock me down - this one did... 'nuff said!
[Btw, I did the same with the new Kansas album, 'The Absence of Presence' - mp3 first and have now got the cd. Says it all, too! G |
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Post by railroad007 on Aug 26, 2020 12:45:16 GMT
Just heard this album 1st time today - have to say, I really love it. Their best by miles since 'Purpendicular', not a dud track among them - 5 musicians at the very top of their game, with lots of Hammond all over the place [I'm a 'guitar-head', so it takes something really special to divert my attention from Steve Morse!] Paice's drumming to the fore and sounding crisp and on the button too [didn't expect anything else, tbh!] And then IG's singing and lyrics - just stone-dead brilliant
Will be listening to this a whole lot I reckon! G
[Needless to say, but I will, these are just my views - no doubt there will be those who yearn for Itchy Bumsore's noodling ['get over it', folks!] and a more 'classic' [i.e. 1971-era] sounding DP, but I disagree [totally] 'cos this is just BRILLIANT!
Got 3 stars in review from NME, coming from them that's 10/10 anywhere else. You can't teach class. "That Deep Purple don’t give a shit is undeniably part of this record’s appeal – it’s at once totally out of step with modern times and just the kind of thing we need to soothe one of the worst years in living memory. High praise indeed from NME. |
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mortified
4500 Timer
Posts: 5,861
Favourite Quo Album: Hello!
Favourite other bands.: Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, Gary Numan, Alabama 3, ZZ Top, Paul van Dyk, Jeff Beck, Bowie, Gerry Rafferty, Band of Skulls, UFO, S.A.H.B
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Post by mortified on Aug 26, 2020 13:32:31 GMT
I found it interesting that they chose to re-record the very old And The Address. I hadn't heard that in decades! Probably not since my mum brought me back the compilation Purple Passages from America in the early 70's!  I've liked most of Deep Purple's output, even during the funk-fest that Glenn Hughes and Tommy Bolin brought to the table. I haven't really kept up to speed with their later albums other than Bananas, which I thought was outstanding. And InFinite, which I didn't. This one, on a brief listen, sounds pretty good. I may indulge  |
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gerh
Grizzled Rocker Rollin'
Posts: 2,950
Favourite Quo Album: 'Hello' [and 'Quo Live']
Favourite other bands.: Zappa, Kansas, Rush, Deep Purple, Yes, Richard Thompson, Horslips, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest etc etc. [ANYONE but Kiss!]
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Post by gerh on Aug 26, 2020 15:08:53 GMT
Hey mortified, try 'Purpendicular' [the 1st Morse-era album]
After all the time since it's release, I still can't figure out how he plays the banjo-roll type intro to 'Ted the Mechanic' - and it's not for want of effort either!
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Post by charles on Sept 13, 2020 9:13:46 GMT
I've been brushing up on my Purple lately and stumbled onto this amazing concert. The boys (ahem) invited some of the best musicians in the world to celebrate Jon Lord, and what a glorious night it must have been. The duel between Airey and Wakeman is stunning, but with Deep Purple you know all members are on top of their game, always. Enjoy:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2020 21:44:51 GMT
Hi All, came across the same Video that rockonquo posted and I thought then back to they're best sound wise. I then thought about Quo and how they could have but never did get that FFish sound only on the rare track on a couple of later albums. Just so sad that Purple did it and Quo never... 
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