Favourite Deep Purple line-up

Mark II and the last 10 years!

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

...was MK IV no doubt about it!


And that's a fact - not an opinion!



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Any lineup with Coverdale and Hughes!!

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!

MK III line-up is my favorite without a doubt

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

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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

I love any DP lineup before 1995, but

MK III & MK IV are the best!

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had been replaced by a more normal person, that was OK with me...........

Yep, any line up with:

HUGHES and COVERDALE.
(The Purple Boys.)

I love Mk 2,3 and 4...but I would say Mk 3&4

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

Quote from bassboy

MK III line-up is my favorite without a doubt

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!!!!

Quote from Grace

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...........

Yep, any line up with:

HUGHES and COVERDALE.
(The Purple Boys.)

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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.

Quote from jbyrne

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

Absolutely ... AMEN!

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!

yep mk3; glenn and dave rule