Mr Jon Lord An articulate gentleman, who played keyboards like a wizard Sadly missed by everyone who loved Purple and early Whitesnake A great musical icon
Lord is right back in 75 when I listened to it. I hated it. I was coming off of Burn Stormbringer. As I got older..I love it. It's a rough diamond. A gem of its time..
Tommy Bolin was such a gifted musician, as well as being a competent vocalist, that it's desperately sad what happened. Given Glenn's burgeoning drug problems I suspect that had Mk4 survived another year both he and Tommy would have gone. But 'Come Taste the Band' is a great album and it's as much a Bolin showcase as 'Spectrum', albeit in another way. Certainly it's light years away from 'Machine Head' but that's not a bad thing imho. Coverdale and Hughes have really got the dual vocal thing happening, just as they had on 'Stormbringer', and the vitality that Bolin brings spurs them both into producing some of the best performances of their careers. RIP Jon Lord and Tommy Bolin.
Tommy certainly was an excellent guitarist. I consider his best work to be Spectrum and Teaser. Even Ritchie said, Tommy is really good. Having said this, DP was not the right gig for him, imo. CTTP was a good not great album. But, if you were to ask me the best DP album featuring Hughes and Coverdale, it's Burn by far. I consider Machine Head and Burn to be the 2 best Purple albums. And Burn is great mainly because Ritchie's playing was fucking incredible on that album, possibly his best studio work ever. I have to admit that of all the musicians who played in Purple, Hughes is my absolute least favorite. I did not like his vocal work at all, and found his bass playing to be somewhat lacking. I saw Purple in 72, 73, 74, 76 (and several times during the 80's). (And yes, I am old). The shows featuring the MKII lineup were phenomenal, superb musicianship from all 5. The Burn show was good, mainly carried by Paicey, Lord and Blackers. The CCTB show was poor, i hate to say. Poor Jon and Ian, they really had to bust their asses to carry the show.
@@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa Come Taste the Band is one of Bolin's best efforts.....it absolutely blows Stormbringer away....which with the exception of the titletrack sounds like lame easy listening FM rock....no wonder why Blackmore left....and Lord babbling later that it was a great album but shouldn't have been called Deep Purple is ridiculous.....it was he and Paice who wanted to carry on under the Purple banner and cash in on monster tour venues and album sales....
@@larrynolletti4594 Lord actually wanted Purple to stop when Gillan and Glover were out. Management said carry on. After Ritchie left, Jon was really wanting nothing more to do with Purple. It was Coverdale and Hughes (mostly Coverdale) who insisted they find another guitarist. Bolin plays well on CTTB, and I do think CTTB is a better album than Stormbringer. In fact, I actually think Stormbringer is one of Purple's worst album if not the worst one.
@@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa ..yes...absolutely...I got that take from the Gettin' Tighter documentary....the implication was that Lord and Paice controlled the fate of the band with the name....
Come Taste The Band is a fantastic Deep Purple album that still sounds great today. God Bless Tommy Bolin. I read somewhere Ritchie was a fan and said Purple made a good choice.
Didn't like it at all when it was released more than 4 decades ago (probably because as a kid I thought that's not what Rock music was supposed to sound like) but totally love it today! In fact I would rank it as my 2nd favorite Deep Purple album after Burn. It's different, but great.
@@DeenDesperado The full album is on TH-cam and I was listening earlier and man, Tommy Bolin isn't Ritchie but he definitely brought his own brand of fire and flair to the Purple sound. I'll always be a Mark 2 guy but CTTB is a really good album. Cheers, mate.
Imo one of Deep Purple's best albums .. great album for me since the 1st it came out .. I recall being sad about Blackmore leaving .. suddenly I have RBRainbow debut LP and Rising HOLY SHIT that was mind blowing .. and on the other side DP CTTBand .. ok I thought then who needs more .. CTTBand love that album : Drifter TTAround Owed To G .. EXCELLENT
The problem was that Purple wanted to stay a hard rock band, whereas Tommy painted from a broader pallette. He and Glenn spoke very much the same language as far as music went, and their shared drug habit bound them together more than the rest of the band. Punk was starting around that time, and the jazzy funky rock would have sounded better on the radio. Also Fleetwood Mac was about to happen in America and that West Coast style of rock would have worked, minus David, who was becoming redundant. But the main mistake was calling it Deep Purple. They needed him more than he ever needed them. He was starting to happen, and life with Purple heightened his addiction.
@@markrago5024 I can agree with the criticism that it isn't really a deep purple album, but I'll be damned if it wasn't just as good as the best of what else was released in '75
At some stage somebody really ought to ask the blinding obvious question ‘how was Tommy Bolin allowed to die?’ In Deep Purple at the time all the members were older than him and the core members at least ten years older. Where was the kindness and protection he needed and who cared? What happened? I don’t know? But shouldn’t we ask how was such a prodigious talent abjectly not protected? I hope we all live in more understanding times that such a tragic loss and death should not occur again.
Tommy was a very talented guitarist,he was also friends with Blackmore who actually recommended him for his replacement,but the guy should have checked himself into rehab and gotten clean, unfortunately that didnt happen.
Bolin - helluva guitarist, helluva junkie. Top the drugs up nicely with Ganga Glenn, and Mk4 were never going to survive. The wonder of CTTB is that it was made at all - I get high just putting it on.
That was a brilliant recording.....it should have out sold frampton comes alive....Pete’s a good player himself he just would up a teen idol for young girls....the corporate take over is what killed rock music.... punk was just a side show
I’m not following Jon Lord’s logic here: “It was actually a bit ahead of its time because our style of music was being replaced by punk”. Surely that’s the definition of being behind the times? (For what it’s worth I think Come Taste The Band is quite good).
*_Come taste the Band .. Humm let's see serve up some DEEP PURPLE throw in some White Snake with a Trapeze twist and God's guitar player to top that off .. and sure I would say Come taste the Band &))) Angels probably helped God's guitar player write the album &))) Drink up some of heavens own Teaser the Ultimate Tommy Bolin !! &)))_*
I find Jon lord very nieve i mean come on he was part of one of the greatest rock bands ever and they didn't party or he didn't know what his bandmates were doing come on,I think it part of the reason I don't like purple after come taste the band ,they were too righteous and to serious ,gillen I wouldn't sing coverdale songs give me a break better than some of shite you sing ,rant over
Glenn is very talented but in my opinion was never a good fit for purple. Roger Glover is the only purple bass player just like Ritchie is for the guitar
If Hughes could have controlled his constant screaming and running around like a headless chicken trying to be rock and roll I'd have more time for him !! What really but me off him was seeing Joe Bonemassa playing a slow deep song and hughes is running around pulling faces like a village idiot which destroyed the whole song !!
I could listen to Jon Lord talk for hours , fascinating insights and always polite and well spoken.
Simpleburger1968 Glenn Hughes too. Very articulate and well spoken
Absolutely precious.
Thank God for Come Taste the Band.
Mr Jon Lord
An articulate gentleman, who played keyboards like a wizard
Sadly missed by everyone who loved Purple and early Whitesnake
A great musical icon
Lord is right back in 75 when I listened to it. I hated it. I was coming off of Burn Stormbringer. As I got older..I love it. It's a rough diamond. A gem of its time..
Tommy should be in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame with the others.
he was mentioned by ian gillan at the rock n' roll hall of fame. and yes, he whould be inducted.
Totally
David Coverdale mentions his name.
Absolutely he could play near anything and beyond good... That album is to this day an all time wonder.
Aye
I like the way Jon used the word 'compromised' very classy way of describing Tommy.
Greetings from Davenport Iowa USA Come Taste the band my favorite album
I love this version of Deep Purple. I loved this album from the get go.
Tommy Bolin was such a gifted musician, as well as being a competent vocalist, that it's desperately sad what happened. Given Glenn's burgeoning drug problems I suspect that had Mk4 survived another year both he and Tommy would have gone. But 'Come Taste the Band' is a great album and it's as much a Bolin showcase as 'Spectrum', albeit in another way. Certainly it's light years away from 'Machine Head' but that's not a bad thing imho. Coverdale and Hughes have really got the dual vocal thing happening, just as they had on 'Stormbringer', and the vitality that Bolin brings spurs them both into producing some of the best performances of their careers. RIP Jon Lord and Tommy Bolin.
Tommy certainly was an excellent guitarist. I consider his best work to be Spectrum and Teaser. Even Ritchie said, Tommy is really good. Having said this, DP was not the right gig for him, imo. CTTP was a good not great album. But, if you were to ask me the best DP album featuring Hughes and Coverdale, it's Burn by far. I consider Machine Head and Burn to be the 2 best Purple albums. And Burn is great mainly because Ritchie's playing was fucking incredible on that album, possibly his best studio work ever. I have to admit that of all the musicians who played in Purple, Hughes is my absolute least favorite. I did not like his vocal work at all, and found his bass playing to be somewhat lacking. I saw Purple in 72, 73, 74, 76 (and several times during the 80's). (And yes, I am old). The shows featuring the MKII lineup were phenomenal, superb musicianship from all 5. The Burn show was good, mainly carried by Paicey, Lord and Blackers. The CCTB show was poor, i hate to say. Poor Jon and Ian, they really had to bust their asses to carry the show.
@@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa Come Taste the Band is one of Bolin's best efforts.....it absolutely blows Stormbringer away....which with the exception of the titletrack sounds like lame easy listening FM rock....no wonder why Blackmore left....and Lord babbling later that it was a great album but shouldn't have been called Deep Purple is ridiculous.....it was he and Paice who wanted to carry on under the Purple banner and cash in on monster tour venues and album sales....
@@larrynolletti4594 Lord actually wanted Purple to stop when Gillan and Glover were out. Management said carry on. After Ritchie left, Jon was really wanting nothing more to do with Purple. It was Coverdale and Hughes (mostly Coverdale) who insisted they find another guitarist.
Bolin plays well on CTTB, and I do think CTTB is a better album than Stormbringer. In fact, I actually think Stormbringer is one of Purple's worst album if not the worst one.
@@ScienceTalkwithJimMassa ..yes...absolutely...I got that take from the Gettin' Tighter documentary....the implication was that Lord and Paice controlled the fate of the band with the name....
Yes! Agree100%.
To me its THE best Deep Purple record.
Come Taste The Band is a fantastic Deep Purple album that still sounds great today. God Bless Tommy Bolin. I read somewhere Ritchie was a fan and said Purple made a good choice.
Love Mk IV and Come Taste The Band. The album has aged like a fine wine.
I haven't heard Come Taste the Band in 40 years. I would love to give it a listen now because Lordy knows best.
Didn't like it at all when it was released more than 4 decades ago (probably because as a kid I thought that's not what Rock music was supposed to sound like) but totally love it today! In fact I would rank it as my 2nd favorite Deep Purple album after Burn. It's different, but great.
@@DeenDesperado The full album is on TH-cam and I was listening earlier and man, Tommy Bolin isn't Ritchie but he definitely brought his own brand of fire and flair to the Purple sound. I'll always be a Mark 2 guy but CTTB is a really good album.
Cheers, mate.
I Still have it on vinyl
Bolin's 'Quadrant 4' solo on Spectrum is an all time facemelter.
Come Taste The Band. Very, very underrated album.
Imo one of Deep Purple's best albums .. great album for me since the 1st it came out .. I recall being sad about Blackmore leaving .. suddenly I have RBRainbow debut LP and Rising HOLY SHIT that was mind blowing .. and on the other side DP CTTBand .. ok I thought then who needs more .. CTTBand love that album : Drifter TTAround Owed To G .. EXCELLENT
When I saw DP (w Nazareth) in Feb,1976. Fort Worth, Tarrant County Convention Center. Both bands kicked ass.
@Missy Victoria I saw them 3 days later in El Paso at the County Coliseum with Nazareth. Great show. When Tommy passed I was crushed. He was so good.
The problem was that Purple wanted to stay a hard rock band, whereas Tommy painted from a broader pallette.
He and Glenn spoke very much the same language as far as music went, and their shared drug habit bound them together more than the rest of the band.
Punk was starting around that time, and the jazzy funky rock would have sounded better on the radio.
Also Fleetwood Mac was about to happen in America and that West Coast style of rock would have worked, minus David, who was becoming redundant.
But the main mistake was calling it Deep Purple.
They needed him more than he ever needed them. He was starting to happen, and life with Purple heightened his addiction.
mark 4 was a very underrated line-up.
Deep purple veranderd vaker met muzikanten maar klonk altijd geweldig !!!
thevoid99 comin home is such a killer song
Yep Comin Home, Dealer, Gettin Tighter, Ode To G/This Time Around, all great Purple tunes..
@@markrago5024 I can agree with the criticism that it isn't really a deep purple album, but I'll be damned if it wasn't just as good as the best of what else was released in '75
The Magnanimous Its good, no argument here...
I love this album! ❤️
I just love Jon Lord at 3:50. ❤️
Loved it when I first heard it in the 70's.
Fuck the haters, I agree with Jon Lord, Come Taste the Band is Par Excellence!!! RIP: Tommy Bolin
All those who hate on Tommy Bolin are folk who lack his talents, gifts and success.
Tommy Bolin - RIP
At some stage somebody really ought to ask the blinding obvious question ‘how was Tommy Bolin allowed to die?’ In Deep Purple at the time all the members were older than him and the core members at least ten years older. Where was the kindness and protection he needed and who cared? What happened? I don’t know? But shouldn’t we ask how was such a prodigious talent abjectly not protected? I hope we all live in more understanding times that such a tragic loss and death should not occur again.
the opening-track of spectrum begins with jan hammer`s keyboard, not tommy`s guitar. still a great player, and great album.
"Replacing," Blackmore is daunting, to say the least, but if I'm in a band with Ian Paice, and Jon Lord, I AM going to try to keep that band going.
El mas lindo idolo de mi ova amigo
"COME TASTE THE BAND" CLEARLY A TOMMY BOLIN MASTERPIECE!!!! DEEP PURPLE WAS HIS BACKUP,NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM THEIR LEGEND!!!!
Like Jon Lord said. Great album, but not really a "Deep Purple" album. It was really, to me, probably the first Whitesnake album.
@Michael Drumm "ludicrous"? How so? It doesn't really sound like a Deep Purple album and features most of the founding members of Whitesnake.
0:24 The article at the right.....By Cameron Crowe!!
Imagine led zeppelin without JP...and DP without RB. It will be like a surgery without anaestatic doctor.
Tommy was a very talented guitarist,he was also friends with Blackmore who actually recommended him for his replacement,but the guy should have checked himself into rehab and gotten clean, unfortunately that didnt happen.
Bolin - helluva guitarist, helluva junkie. Top the drugs up nicely with Ganga Glenn, and Mk4 were never going to survive. The wonder of CTTB is that it was made at all - I get high just putting it on.
That was a brilliant recording.....it should have out sold frampton comes alive....Pete’s a good player himself he just would up a teen idol for young girls....the corporate take over is what killed rock music.... punk was just a side show
Tommy Bolin is the Goat
I think it's a good album of the time but clearly a million miles from Deep Purple
only purple was Mark II lineup
Tommy Bolin !!!!!
I’m not following Jon Lord’s logic here: “It was actually a bit ahead of its time because our style of music was being replaced by punk”.
Surely that’s the definition of being behind the times? (For what it’s worth I think Come Taste The Band is quite good).
John lord ist leider am 16.07.2012 gestorben
John lord was the best my god what a nice man, I think tommy was good but he was no Ritchie
Clem Clemson = GREAT guitarist. But not a fit for Purple.
Yes ok , the album with Tommy Bolan was pretty good, but come on Glenn and Jon admit that the live shows afterwards were nearly all disasters.
Come Taste The Band is not a Deep Purple album in that all the songs are great. Most other Deep Purple albums (apart from Burn) had dud filler songs.
*_Come taste the Band .. Humm let's see serve up some DEEP PURPLE throw in some White Snake with a Trapeze twist and God's guitar player to top that off .. and sure I would say Come taste the Band &))) Angels probably helped God's guitar player write the album &))) Drink up some of heavens own Teaser the Ultimate Tommy Bolin !! &)))_*
how awful the ruination of the mk2 era , the greatest band on earth, lord, paice, blackmore, glover. gillan.
Great 70s rock album just not Deep purple
I find Jon lord very nieve i mean come on he was part of one of the greatest rock bands ever and they didn't party or he didn't know what his bandmates were doing come on,I think it part of the reason I don't like purple after come taste the band ,they were too righteous and to serious ,gillen I wouldn't sing coverdale songs give me a break better than some of shite you sing ,rant over
I just don’t believe a single word that comes out of Glenn Hughes’ mouth.
Dave Harris why for god sake? Glenn was truly honest here when he speak critically about his drug addition and his being lost at this time.
azja 666 the name dropping, the self aggrandisement and the revisionism.
Glenn is very talented but in my opinion was never a good fit for purple. Roger Glover is the only purple bass player just like Ritchie is for the guitar
If Hughes could have controlled his constant screaming and running around like a headless chicken trying to be rock and roll I'd have more time for him !! What really but me off him was seeing Joe Bonemassa playing a slow deep song and hughes is running around pulling faces like a village idiot which destroyed the whole song !!