Deep Purple to follow in Led Zeppelin reunion footsteps?
December 18th, 2007 - 2:41 pm ICT by admin
- London, December 18 (ANI): Speculations are rife that just like Led Zeppelin, their arch rivals of the Seventies, Deep Purple, may also stage an enthralling reunion concert with the original band members.
The groups founder member and keyboard player Jon Lord, who quit the band in 2002, has not refuted the possibility of a reunion.
Id be there like a shot! Not in any way to denigrate what (replacement guitarist) Steve Morse has done with the band but only because it was an iconic group of people. We had an impact on the music industry, the Daily Express quoted him as saying, while replying to a question about any reunion of the original Deep Purple line-up.
Perhaps we never quite pulled in the massive adulation that Zeppelin did but we could certainly stand in comparison with them as a great rock band, he added.
The groups hit numbers, including Smoke On The Water, are still playing shows but without Lord and former lead guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, who left the band in 1975.
Blackmore has a history of friction with singer Ian Gillan.
Lord said that he was unsure whether Blackmore and Gillian could be convinced to join hands for a reunion gig.
Whether you could ever get Ritchie (Blackmore) and Ian Gillan on the same stage again, I dont know, he said. (ANI)
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December 18th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I would love to see this happen, but I cannot envision Ian Gillan and Ritchie Blackmore ever working together again.
December 19th, 2007 at 5:15 am
Deep Purple were a very good band at one time, but they never remotely rivalled Led Zeppelin in any way, nobody did. During the 70’s Zeppelin outsold The Beatles 2 to 1 and The Stones 4 to 1, so you can probably guess that there is a massive gulf between Zep and Purple album sales in the U.S. ie Zep-109.5 million and Purple 10.5 million, so roughly 10 to 1 in favor of Zeppelin. This is not to say that Zeppelin were ten times better than Deep Purple, probably like every other band in the world compared to Led Zeppelin, just 3 or 4 times. That is not meant to denigrate Purple, but instead to illustrate Led Zeppelin’s dominance as the greatest band in rock history.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Hey Bobby, typical stuck up arrogant comment from a typical stuck up arrogant Zep fan. There are many bands better than Led Zeppelin for starters. And quality is not measured by album sales, so why did you even mention it, besides the Beatles have well outsold the overrated blimp band anyway, making your comment even dumber. Members of Deep Purple have recorded far better music and have had better solo success than any of the zep guys did solo, so on an individual level they are better. If Jimmy Page was to be great, he should at least learn how to play his guitar, Ritchie absolutely blows him out of the water in all departments. Deep Purple are easily better musicians. Led Zeppelin is merely a marketable image rather than real substance. Deep Purple is substance.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:50 am
I agree with Brian, Deep Purple mk 2 individually and as a band blow Zep out of the water, especially in the live setting. Blackmore is 10 times the guitarist page is. Gillan much more versitile and better all round singer that Plant. Bonham is overrated, whereas Paice is rivaled only by Cozy Powell as the best drummer in the world. Jones and Glover are about equal. Live, Zeppelin were predictable. Play the songs, bitta blues inbetween. With Blackmore in the band, Deep Purple were the most unpredictable live act around. He could either play a stormer or not, either way it was fascinating. The interplay between Lord and Blackmore, the huge presence of Ian Gillan, with Glover and Paice holding the whole thing together, would all contribute to a Mark 2 reunion being the greatest musical event of the past decade, at least.
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:59 am
Hey Brian and Kevin, enjoyed reading both your comments, particularly the personal insults from Brian, but happily for me I can still enjoy the music of both Purple and Zep, and at the same time recognize that as a unit Deep Purple (original line up) was a damn good band, and Led Zeppelin, individually was the most gifted band in the history of rock, and as a unit, the greatest rock band that ever stepped on a stage. That opinion, by the way, regardless of how quickly it may reduce you to tears, is shared by the overwhelming majority of rock fans and critics around this globe of ours. P.S. Just a little pointer on how to make your ‘Deep Purple rule the world’ argument a little stronger. Don’t make ridiculously ludicrous statements about the band you are trying to slander, ie ‘Zeppelin is a marketable image with no substance’, because making what virtually all of the rock world would consider clearly false and stupid remarks like that, will weaken some of your other points that may have some validity. Do you seriously believe that a band can sell over 300 million albums based strictly on an image, with no quality in the music? You believe that hundreds of millions of Zep fans, just go buy Zeppelin albums because of the name and not because of the music contained on those albums? If your not a complete moron, and you are honest with yourself, then you know the answer. Anyway guys, have a great Christmas. I’ve got Machine Head here, oh but wait, there’s Physical Graffiti, very good versus dynamic brilliance, hmmm, yea it’s time for some Custard Pie.
December 28th, 2007 at 9:52 am
My answer to you bobby is that many people are sheep. Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake have all found massive audiences. How many albums have this lot sold versus how much substance that this lot actually have. There’s your answer.
Another factor you may want to consider is that once upon a time some critics weren’t overly enamoured with Zeppelin, but there are some financial realities involved, leading to their convenient change of stance. You have to sell magazines after all. If you can’t beat down the hype, you have to join in.
And the reason I got personal bobby was because almost immediately you have a zep fanboy telling us non zep fans that the most another band can aspire to be is about a quarter as good as zeppelin. If you are not a complete moron, and you are honest with yourself, then you know that is not true.
By the way, Physical Graffiti would have to be Led Zeppelin’s worst album. Only “Kashmir” and “The Rover”(in reality just the rover’s tune) are worthwile. Other songs would be better if they didn’t ramble on directionless for so long (eg “In My Time Dying”). The rest though are just bland at best. If you want dynamic brilliance listen to Queen, another band that totally outperformed Led Zeppelin on stage and in the studio.
I would rate Led Zeppelin III as their best because it isn’t rife with plagiarism like the first two(but the first album in particular is probably my favourite zeppelin album though) and isn’t as filler filled like many of their later albums. IV is half good half bad. H.O.T.H has three good songs(”no quarter” maybe their best) and probably the worst song of all time(the cringe, oops crunge). Presence has three good songs as well but at least the worst have a degree of listenability. Lets not talk about In Through the Outhouse (not a typo) but at least its shorter than Physical Graffiti. Individually and as a unit, Zeppelin are not top ten material let alone number one. I rate many above them, ranging from the Moody Blues to Iron Maiden (will be seeing Maiden soon).
Fianl note: I never said Deep Purple ruled the world, you must have been subconciously thinking that.
January 1st, 2008 at 6:16 pm
It is a very exciting and welcome news that both Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple each, may be uniting for tours because the world will never get enough of their music.
Maychic
January 31st, 2008 at 11:38 am
I must say both bands were at the top of their game in the 70’s. Unfortunatly for Purple the glue that held Zep together wasn’t so strong for Purple. And that was its demise. Musician wise I must lean towards Purple. I stongly believe what Paice said in an interview Zep was a great sudio band, live was something else.
Now as for guitarist Page or Blackmore well I never heard page being classical trained as blackmore was, it is evident in his playing, also if history is a teacher (Blackmore= Rainbow, Purple, Blackmores Night) all quite successful ( Page=Zep,Firm,Honeydrippers) Marginal success with exception of Zep.
I really believe the men that comprise these bands can care less of this comparision, they are all quite wealthy because we liked them!
August 31st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
“Speculations are rife that just like Led Zeppelin, their arch rivals of the seventies, Deep Purple, may also stage an enthralling reunion concert with the original band members.”
Good luck with finding Rod Evans!
October 29th, 2008 at 4:01 am
“Bobby Bobby Bobby…How wrong your numbers are. Zep have sold world wide over 200 Million, Deep Purple are over 100 Million["Hardly 10 to 1 Mate"]. You claim - “During the 70’s Zeppelin outsold The Beatles 2 to 1 and The Stones 4 to 1.” According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Beatles had topped worldwide sales of 300 million units by 1969.By October 1972, the Beatles’ worldwide sales total stood at 545 million units. Today they are in the Billion Club of 2[With Elvis]. The Beatles sold 245 Million from the 69′[Zep I] to 72′[Zep IV]. It has taken Zep 39 years to do what the beatles did in 3 years[2 of which they were broken up]. The Stones are over the 200 Million Mark[4 to 1 - "Me thinks Not"].
Bobby in all your hick arrogance said - “This is not to say that Zeppelin were ten times better than Deep Purple, probably like every other band in the world compared to Led Zeppelin, just 3 or 4 times”. When it comes to music Album sales are not a factor of who is the Best. The best is who ever you think is the best. If someone thinks that the Beastie Boys are the best, or Alison Krauss then they are the best to that individual[Nuff Said]. Besides it’s a fact that Jimmy Page has not created any long tern Post Zep legacy like his guitar contempories[Beck/Clapton/Blackmore]. The FiRM a sub par enterprise at best is the only momentum he has had post Zep[And that was only 2 albums]. Everything he has done is a one off. It’s as if he’s looking over his shoulder to his Zep past never willing to continue the Page legacy beyond them. He’s even going to take Zep on the road and in the studio with only John Paul Jones with him. So what we end up with is a Half Zeppelin [No JOHN Botham & No Diva Plant]. In an interview with BBC Radio, bassist John Paul Jones said he and guitarist Jimmy Page and drummer Jason Bonham “are trying out a couple of singers.We want to do it,” he said. “It’s sounding great and we want to get on and get out there.” [Good Luck and Nuff Said Indeed!!!}
January 7th, 2009 at 5:43 am
plain and simple; Ian gillian cannot sing anymore. His voice is shot.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Led Zeppelin were a good band that was great sounding in the studio, while Deep Purple were a great band that was good sounding in the studio. With that being said, I also like Deep Purple’s music alot more. And besides Purple have also gone on to make some great albums beyond the 70’s.