> On Aug 9, 8:10 am, Dale Houstman skypoint.com> wrote:
>

>> Morning Glory wrote:

>

>>> Deep Purple is a flash in the pan kind of group which doesn't merit
>>> much except for a handful of tunes. Pearl Jam, however, were a
>>> prominent grunge band at the time.

>

>> I suspect you haven't heard much of Deep Purple beyond their handful of
>> (huge) hits, but they were a very exciting live band,

>
> In fact, to tell the truth, I had a friend who was a co-worker of mine
> that I collaborated with on story about Deep Purple. We did plenty of
> research, went to concerts (I purchased tickets and went with him to
> see them live in concert at the California Jam Festival in '74 (now on
> DVD), listened to three out of four of their studio albums and met
> them backstage. I enjoyed listening to Blackmore's exciting guitar
> playing and his improvisational skills were outstanding (in fact I
> later heard they were almost banned from playing in America ever
> again), but what was missing was clearly the fact that the lyrics of
> the songs were just pedestrian in relation to the music performance,
> in fact the band members didn't impress me as human beings. Blackmore
> struck me as being quite snobbish with a keen awareness of his
> greatness (he didn't say much to my friend, but I was aware that he
> indeed thought highly of himself). Surprisingly, when I brought up the
> subject of Neo-medievalism to warm him up to interviewing he became
> more tolerable. Gillian was the opposite of Blackmore and quite
> enjoyable. The others didn't leave strong impressions on me, so I
> don't quite remember them except what happened to one of their roadies
> who threw a beer bottle at the wall barely missing poor Roger Glover's
> head (tee-hee) by an inch!
>

>>with an
>> improvisational bend (especially in the interplay between guitar and
>> keyboards).

>
> I've noted this myself because I was impressed with how close and
> tight the band performed onstage.
>

>>Pearl Jam is good also, but (particularly instrumentality)
>> they are certainly not better than Deep Purple.

>
> I don't know about the term "better" but I definitely prefer the music
> of Pearl Jam to Deep Purple for now. It is just invigorating music
> that brings myself back to my teen years. I realize that Deep Purple
> were an excellent live band that were quite capable of making great,
> memorable songs but for my money the music of Pearl Jam is much
> tolerable these days than listening to '"Burn", "You Fool No One",
> "Ramshackle Man" or "Smoke on the Water" from my twenty-something
> years.