Deep Purple – Come Taste The Band

Seldom has an album been so unfairly slammed or misrepresented.
If you’re anything like me then this album’s reputation had you expecting something like Young Americans when nothing could be further from the truth.
This is a hard rock album played with a conviction, spirit and cohesion totally absent from Stormbringer and even from who do we think we are .
The album even starts with a barrage of guitar and organ as if to reassure doubters that it’s a Deep Purple album then the echoplex kicks in to tell you there’s something a new gun in town there we’re off to the races
Bolin is a star bringing new life to the band, Paice gives his finest studio performance.
Coverdale never sounded better
Jon Lord is consistently adventurous and surprising in his choice of sounds.
As for Glenn Hughes, only his absence from coming home hints at trouble brewing, he even contributes 2 bona fide epics in the shape of Gettin’ Tighter and This Time Around

Edição espetacular!!! Som vigoroso, nítido e potente!!! Viva, Deep Purple!!!

My top 3 :
1 - You Keep On Moving
2 - Love Child
3 - This Time Around / Owed to G

Someone has to add in notes that it was released and given for free by Greek newspaper "Espresso".

Well, ok, this album is not In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, or in Made in Japan. However, I simply don't get the point when people take the view that this record was not a Deep Purple record. Yes, Blackmore, Gillan and Glover had left the band but musically this album is not weaker in any sense than Who Do We Think We Are and the Deep Purple mark II reunion studium albums. It is muscially different from the aforementioned DP Mk II records but does that make the album worse? NO! So, if Deep Purple Mk IV's Come Taste The Band is not a Deep Purple album, you should also say that Who Do We Think We or House of Blue Light are no Deep Purple albums at all.

The tragic life of Tommy Bolin ! Hughes Bolin awesome

Would anyone like to comment on the SQ of this press please ?

Their best album. Way ahead of its time.
It has to be listened several times and after each listening it gets better and better... and finally You realize that is fantastic album.

The Man in Black had left the building! In the spring of 1975, after a European tour, founding member and mercurial guitarist Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple, dissatisfied with the band's current musical direction. How to replace such an iconic and dominating figure? American Tommy Bolin, formerly of the James Gang and also currently embarking on a solo career, had intrigued David Coverdale when he heard Bolin play on a record by jazz musician Billy Cobham, so he was offered an audition for Purple. While impressed enough with the young Yank’s improvisational skills to offer him the gig, Coverdale, Lord and Paice had no idea the depths of Bolin’s soon to be fatal substance abuse. Glenn Hughes was also in a well documented struggle with his own personal demons and whether or not that was the reason, the singer-bassist and new hot shot guitar player bonded over funk and R&B influences. While many Purple enthusiasts seem to be irked about the record that was produced in Miami in the summer of 1975, ‘Come Taste the Band’ is, in my humble opinion, a very good record. Some parts sound like the Deep Purple of old but it definitely marks a change in the overall sound of the band. I also think Bolin puts a sizable stamp on the LP and I think his playing is brilliant, very different from Blackmore’s, but enjoyable all the same. ‘Coming Home’ is the lead track and many have commented on the pre-Whitesnake qualities of the song which I can definitely see but I also feel like it seems to be saying - “here’s a new era for Deep Purple and this is the hard rock opener you’ve come to expect from us.” “Love Child”, “Lady Luck”, “Dealer” and “Drifter” are all solid heavy rock tunes - much of what you’d expect from a band now led by Coverdale as he came to be the dominant personality in Purple after Ritchie left. Glenn and Bolin create their own magic on “Getting Tighter” which is probably the album’s best song, a perfect funk - rock blend that I guess was quite the workout in concert. It was actually on stage that the Mark IV of Deep Purple sowed their eventual downfall and led the dissolution of the band (and dormancy for the next eight years). Bolin’s problems drastically affected his live work and the band more often than not had disastrous shows. By Spring of 1976, Coverdale supposedly offered his resignation to Lord only to be told that there was no band to leave! Bolin would die later that year but luckily Glenn Hughes survived. ‘Come Taste the Band’ has grown on me but is it a favorite? No, but for the people who just disregard it due to Blackmore’s absence, they’re missing out on some inspired mid-70s hard rock. Everyday, wheels are turning…

My copy is full on bass, dynamic. Real party-rock record! I recommended that!