Favourite Deep Purple line-up

  • What are your favourite line-ups of Deep Purple ? I like the Mark 3 and 4 line-ups with David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes in the band.

    Ayesha

  • Mark II and the last 10 years!

    Mark II has created an unique style, they were a fantastic live band :thumbup:

  • Probably Mk 3... Burn is my fav DP album and I listen to the Hughes/Coverdale stuff more than the MK 2 stuff now, I think I may have heard the MK 2 songs too many times!

  • You're right,Beese. The radio stations seems to be playing "Smoke on the Water" more than anything else the band had ever released.

    Ayesha

  • MK III line-up is my favorite without a doubt:bouncer:

    Wanted the MK IV band to be my favorite, but Tommy's addiction got the best of him throughout most of his time with DP. It was a brilliant album though.

    But I have to admit that I have a soft spot for MK II...especially the "Who Do We Think We Are" album. "Woman From Tokyo" and "Rat Bat Blue" still tear me up:guitarmet

    Let's Kick It With A Tasty Groove :guitarmet

  • Quote from bassboy

    But I have to admit that I have a soft spot for MK III...especially the "Who Do We Think We Are" album.

    That would be MKII, of course ;)

  • Since Deep Purple started for me, with the televised broadcast of California Jam,
    I always thought that the MK3 line up WAS "the classic line up." (Actually, I still do.)
    Plus.....I had no clue what the names of the DP players were.

    And when I heard the news that the "strange" guitarist
    (who had beat up the TV camera with his guitar)
    had been replaced by a more normal person, that was OK with me...........:lol:

    Yep, any line up with:

    HUGHES and COVERDALE.
    (The Purple Boys.)

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  • MK III line-up is my favorite without a doubt:bouncer:

    Wanted the MK IV band to be my favorite, but Tommy's addiction got the best of him throughout most of his time with DP. It was a brilliant album though.

    But I have to admit that I have a soft spot for MK II...especially the "Who Do We Think We Are" album. "Woman From Tokyo" and "Rat Bat Blue" still tear me up:guitarmet

    Yeah,you're all right,what a great stuff!!!! :thumbup:

  • I love Glenn so much,a great man,as far as David is concerned,too bad that he spent his life trying to be Robert Plant,it's well worth trying,but...he won't be.

  • For me it has to be........ Mk3.....(ryme not intended !!!!)

    Reason:Brilliant Vocals and how they were arranged giving the songs extra interest.

    I know this applies to Mk4 but there's no Blackmore!(tee hee)....sorry.... for some reason i tried my hand at poetry last night ;)


    Cheers...

    Pete S.:singer:

  • Got to be Mk IV, Come Taste the Band ..... the most criminally underrated album ever released by any band!

    Absolutely ... AMEN! :bow:

    'You thought that you could take me for granted, but I couldn't take it no more. Better run if you see me coming ... '

  • Mark II is certainly considered as the best one because they invented something unique . But Mark III was also inventive especially on Burn and Stormbringer albums . About live albums , I surely like Made in Japan but I also enjoy Live in Paris 1975 because it was recorded at home . A friend attended that historic concert .

  • For me Mk3 is the best. I think that the voices of Glenn and David match perfectly, so I listen to Cal Jam '74 again and again, I'll never grow tired of it! :)

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