Arguably the most maligned effort in Deep Purple\u2019s catalogue, Come Taste The Band <\/i>is an album that tends to leave most fans divided. The thought of a Purple lineup without Ritchie Blackmore must have seemed even more sacrilege in 1975 than it does today, given that he was still playing hard rock back then. What\u2019s more, David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes had taken such a leading role in the band\u2019s sound by this point, the whole album is saturated and oozing with \u201870s funk and disco vibes. It\u2019s no wonder that some of the traditionalists among Purple fans have nicknamed this one Come Disgrace The Band<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Come Taste The Band <\/i>has always remained something of a guilty pleasure to my ears. While there are no riffs to match \u201cBurn\u201d on this album, the new recruit on guitar, Tommy Bolin, nonetheless steals the show. His lead playing is more fluid and inspired than much of the stuff Blackmore churned out on the previous two Coverdale \/ Hughes records. And what tone! Fans of Bolin\u2019s work with Billy Cobham, and his two solo albums Teaser <\/i>and Private Eyes,<\/i> will devour this album. From the cosmic kick-off of \u201cComin\u2019 Home\u201d to the funk groove of \u201cI Need Love,\u201d Bolin is all over this record. It\u2019s a far cry from the sort of first-take, riff-based blues rock that Blackmore brought to the group, but hot damn, does he ever have a great energy about his playing. Bolin\u2019s performance alone makes this album <\/i>worth at least a few listens, which is more than you can say for 1987\u2019s The House of Blue Light.<\/i> Granted, some spots are hopelessly dated or out of place in Deep Purple\u2019s arsenal of sounds. Jon Lord\u2019s solo on \u201cLove Child,\u201d for instance, is so drenched in wah and effects, it sounds like something out of a \u201870s porn soundtrack. Likewise, \u201cGettin\u2019 Tighter\u201d features an ill-timed breakdown into a horrendous funk jam about These missteps aside, I would argue that Come Taste The Band <\/i>is actually the most consistent of the DP albums with the duo of Coverdale \/ Hughes on vocals. There are more quality songs on this disc than you\u2019ll find on Burn<\/i> and Stormbringer<\/i> put together. This disc <\/i>lacks a hit tune along the lines of \u201cBurn\u201d or \u201cMight Just Take Your Life,\u201d but the meditative lyrics and tasteful guitar licks of a tune like \u201cYou Keep On Moving\u201d more than compensate for this. There is a focus and coherency about this lineup that was never quite there with the previous lineup. Come Taste The Band<\/i> isn\u2019t particularly good as a Deep Purple album, but as a slice of 7\u20190s funk-rock, it\u2019s got some fantastic moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":29421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5656],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-40998","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-deep-purple","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40998"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40998"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}