That reviewer didn’t do his homework. He didn’t even listen to the album. If he actually listened to the album the article would have been about how much the band changed. DP was not about volume. They said in the 80s their rehearsal equipment was louder than the 70s concerts. They did all types of music like pop, psychedelic, metal, progressive, blues, funk and they did albums with orchestras. True their popularity was fading by 1976 but that’s totally because of the change in personnel. CTTB is a great album. Great production, great playing and might be Ian Paice’s best album. The problem was their hard core fans liked Child in Time and Highway Star not Hold On and Gettin Tighter.
You’re hitting it out of the park, Sir! SWOSU in Oklahoma had a jazz band that would “tour” high schools across the state. They featured a rock band, as well. I was 13 when they came to my high school and was a sax player at the time, so I loved it. I’d been working on guitar for nearly a year. The rock band opened up with “Gettin’ Tighter” and I lost my shit. The Come Taste The Band album still sounds that fresh and exciting to me today at nearly 60 years old. Tommy Bolin was absolutely smoking hot on this album. EDIT: SPIN THAT VINYL ASAP!!!
@@zandig666 The thing is, back in the day when there were record stores ,CTTB wasn't the easiest album to find. At least by me. I would not have even known of this album if it wasn't for a friend in high school who was a big Deep Purple freak.
Im a fan of this album. I think you should give it a listen. I also love Tommy Bolin! He was a talented player who could jam to all kinds of genres. Unfortunately, he was another tortured genius.
I was born in 1982, so I didn't live through all the personnel and stylistic changes. As a younger fan, "Come Taste the Band" has slowly emerged as my favorite Deep Purple album. It takes attentive listening and an open mind. It's pretty heavy... but has a very interesting funk flavor throughout. Bolin is on fire, and Paice is at his absolute peak. Saw Glenn Hughes in Sept performing Purple tunes from his time in the band... his voice sounds better than ever at age 72. Absolutely incredible.
It's a masterful album that hasn't aged. It sounds like it was recorded in 2024. The Martin Birch production and Ian Paice mix are superb and I don't think that Kevin Shirley 2010 remix enhanced it. The only quirk is that Glenn Hughes doesn't appear on Comin' Home as he didn't turn up. For More on DP Mk IV watch the documentary movie "Phoenix Rising" where Jon Lord says the immortal line about Bolin & Hughes' partying "now lads, I think it's time you go back to the hotel and get a bit of sleep".
Come Tastes the Band FUCKING RULES!! It is a shame that you made the video before giving yourself a chance to have your ass kicked by this album. Metal, hard rock, funk, classical, all the influences are there. Tommy Bolin bought an amazing level of guitar virtuosity and songwriting talent to Deep Purple, if only for a short time.
It's actually a fantastic album! I'd been a Purple fan since about '72 when it came out (I was 8 when SOTW came out), and was very much a Blackmore (still am) fan. I was unsure about "Burn" when it came out, and it is still to this day my favorite DP album. But when Blackmore left, I didn't think I'd like it at all. Wrong. I kind of tried not to like it at first, but I just had to accept the fact that it was a different band. I soon after came to love it! Bolin's playing on it is great, and everything else about it is good, too! No secret that they were having drug problems around this time - certainly Bolin and Hughes, and a number of their shows reflected that. Poor Tommy was living on borrowed time, and he could barely even play sometimes. Still - you should really listen to it a few times. As long as you go into it with the attitude of "this isn't the same DP", I think you'll really dig it!
whoever did this interview or review was a Peter, Paul, and Mary fan. Obviously the writer could of said the same thing for any rock band at that time. Punk rock was on the rise and all the hype or critics were promoting that. Basically Purple, Zeppelin, Sabbath etc. Were considered for being to cliche or being aged dinosaurs and washed up by that time.
I had never heard CTTB but, about 30 or so years ago now, I came across a mint vinyl copy at a flea market that was REALLY cheap so I bought it. I must admit I didn't expect to like it but I did like it & I liked it a lot. Many people say it was actually the very first Whitesnake album. You really should listen to it with an open mind; you might get quite a surprise! Best regards
I enjoyed Come Taste the Band and Bolin was fantastic when he wasn't inebriated.....however, I am disappointed that the host of this video didn't bother listening to the album that he's talking about in this video. I don't respect the opinion of someone who talks about something that they haven't bothered to do the homework on. 😮
Exactly! If you like a band, how could you skip an album? That's like skipping over Physical Graffiti if you're a Zep fan... Bolin was great! Loved what he did with Moxy as well.
The author of the article clearly had an axe to grind and Deep Purple just happened to be a convenient vehicle for his point. That he refers to Patti Smith is a clear indication of this. This was 1976 and punk was the coming thing and for cultural commentators with an eye to the future bands like Deep Purple already belonged to the age of the dinosaurs. Deep Purple deserve credit for changing, for not being the same band that achieved fame and success twice over. It might have been challenging or alienating for some at the time, but it makes for a legacy more interesting than those bands who kept on flogging the same dead horse album after album. Come Taste the Band is an album pushing in a new musical direction and the playing all round is superlative even if you don't like the material. You Keep on Moving is my favourite track. It has an amazing sinuous groove you wouldn't imagine the band that made Machine Head could come up with.
Interesting that a lot of reviews of that 1976 US tour complain about Deep Purple being too loud. My "Deep Purple - 1976-01-18 Philadelphia - Full Show" upload has two reviews complainig about the band playing to loud, one from John David Kalodner, who later worked for Geffen as A&R manager with Whitesnake, Aerosmith and Coverdale/Page. The sound must have been so distorted , that people may have left the show with that "too loud" as most memorable thing. Even very positive reviews complain about the sound, not being able to hear the singer and so on.
Classic rock magazine gave it a 10/10 review, a few years back. I was a big fan back from 1972... to1976. I thought it was a good album at the time, still do. What's left for Deep Purple?!😅 ... apparently quite a lot.
That writer, although unable to spell "goad", made some points that had (and have) merit, though they seemed to be singling out Purple randomly. Deep Purple's my favourite band, with Mott the Hoople and a handful of others, but high volume was never what attracted me to their music. Both the shows that led to the Guinness Book of Records entry are available on UA-cam as bootlegs. I have both - from London's Rainbow Theatre in 1972 (ironically, then, featuring Mk.2!) - and there's no indication that either show was excessively loud. I also have some tinnitus (a musician's malady), and hate having to shout at parties, etc., because of loud music. I always go outside to avoid high volume. With regard to Come taste the Band, it's not an album where volume trumps subtlety. My fave songs are Coming Home, the opener, which should've replaced Burn as live opener (Tommy Bolin didn't sound comfortable playing Burn); Gettin' Tighter, heavy and funky and sung by Glenn Hughes; Love Child, which could've been a Mk.2 song; and This Time Around / Owed to "G", a jazzy ballad segueing into a Tommy Bolin jazz-fusion rocker. Onstage, Tommy Bolin excelled at Smoke on the Water, Lazy, and Stormbringer, as well as the Come Taste the Band songs. Best of all was his own song Wild Dogs, where he sang lead. It's a shame that wasn't on Come Taste...
Perfect Strangers tour 3 nights in a row. Should have not been so cheap DP were growing up, as Glover said ' they weren't just good they were brilliance
What robsas6610 said... Do your research! I agree with the late, great Job Lord said.... "It's a great album... It's just not a Deep Purple album"... And for someone who claims to like David Coverdale you should love the album
Tommy brought magic to a fading band. He was wasting his time when he should have promoted his Teaser album. He was using heroin, cocaine, morphine, marijuana and pills along with excessive alcohol. It's a miracle he reached 25.
I Know I'm Going to Check Out "Come Taste the Band"... I also remember the album cover and I will probably remember a song or two... I saw the Perfect Strangers tour, it was in a big arena and I had bad seats, so to say I was unimpressed wouldn't be fair...I never wanted to see them after that... and Born Again was my favorite Sabbath album and I Did see that tour front row...lol
Glenn Hughes was an underrated rock singer and actually considered to replace Ozzie in Sabbath at one point. I liked the album but I'm from Dayton Ohio the birthplace of funk. If you're going to sit on this album and give the stones some girls or emotional rescue a pass then your missing the point.
You have to remember that Deep Purple wanted Paul Rodgers as the replacement for Ian Gillan but they could not reach him, so they compromised on David Coverdale who was an anonymous and a mediocre vocalist, Coverdale became a great vocalist only in 1987 after he passed an operation because he suffered from sinus issues, you also have to remember that Glenn Hughes was not a great vocalist in the seventies, he rose to fame as a vocalist only since the eighties, another problem was that Glenn Hughes and Tommy Bolin were "wasted" from the drugs use, so while you can control things when recording in the studio it's another thing when going on stage to perform live, one of Tommy Bolin's hands was paralysed, he couldn't move one hand so he played the guitar solos almost the same in every song, the audience thought that he's a lousy guitar player, most of the last live shows for the CTTB tour were embarrassing!!! so, it's not the music and not the volume, CTTB is a good and decent album, it is better than WDWTWR, Deep Purple were a bad joke in 1976, thankfully, they had more luck since the reunion in 1984 onward.
Glenn Hughes sings better now than he did 50 years ago. Take one listen to Whitesnake's Purple Album and Coverdale's voice is shot. His prime was the 1980s.
1) All I can remember is that I listened to Come Taste The Band once - exactly once. Never again. Why waste valuable listening time on something that doesn't even belong in the same discussion as Fireball, Machine Head, Made In Japan, Burn and Perfect Strangers? 2) Volume? Saw the '84 tour (Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD) and it was really good... and LOUD... AND I MEAN LOUD... LOUD LOUD LOUD. At one point I looked at my buddy Jack to my left and he was frantically tearing the filters off a couple of cigs and stuffing them in his ears, while on my right buddy Tim was just kinda standing there and vibrating, lookinig like the guy in Scanners just before his head exploded. 3) Then, ever heard the - apocrypal(?) - legend about Pink Floyd in their early days killing the fish in the river with their volume at an outdoor gig in London?
One of the best its heavy but the songs are short ahead of its time in 75 TB is the star he wrote nearly everything Glenn sings a lot more too my favourite DP record after in rock sadly TBs drug in take along side Glenns signaled the end ironically DP were never this good again! get it on the deck and turn it up DC at his best when he still sang instead of his boring yelping after 87!
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That reviewer didn’t do his homework. He didn’t even listen to the album. If he actually listened to the album the article would have been about how much the band changed. DP was not about volume. They said in the 80s their rehearsal equipment was louder than the 70s concerts.
They did all types of music like pop, psychedelic, metal, progressive, blues, funk and they did albums with orchestras.
True their popularity was fading by 1976 but that’s totally because of the change in personnel. CTTB is a great album. Great production, great playing and might be Ian Paice’s best album. The problem was their hard core fans liked Child in Time and Highway Star not Hold On and Gettin Tighter.
Love "Hold On"!
I love Come Taste The Band, yes it's different than previous albums but I prefer it to Burn and Stormbringer.
You’re hitting it out of the park, Sir!
SWOSU in Oklahoma had a jazz band that would “tour” high schools across the state. They featured a rock band, as well. I was 13 when they came to my high school and was a sax player at the time, so I loved it. I’d been working on guitar for nearly a year.
The rock band opened up with “Gettin’ Tighter” and I lost my shit. The Come Taste The Band album still sounds that fresh and exciting to me today at nearly 60 years old. Tommy Bolin was absolutely smoking hot on this album.
EDIT: SPIN THAT VINYL ASAP!!!
CTTB really doesn't get the attention that it should. The band still had a ton of talent and it may be one of the best albums Coverdale was a part of.
I've also heard a few people say they like that album !
@@zandig666 The thing is, back in the day when there were record stores ,CTTB wasn't the easiest album to find. At least by me. I would not have even known of this album if it wasn't for a friend in high school who was a big Deep Purple freak.
ITS AN UNDERRATED ALBUM
Im a fan of this album. I think you should give it a listen.
I also love Tommy Bolin! He was a talented player who could jam to all kinds of genres. Unfortunately, he was another tortured genius.
I was born in 1982, so I didn't live through all the personnel and stylistic changes. As a younger fan, "Come Taste the Band" has slowly emerged as my favorite Deep Purple album. It takes attentive listening and an open mind. It's pretty heavy... but has a very interesting funk flavor throughout. Bolin is on fire, and Paice is at his absolute peak.
Saw Glenn Hughes in Sept performing Purple tunes from his time in the band... his voice sounds better than ever at age 72. Absolutely incredible.
It's a masterful album that hasn't aged. It sounds like it was recorded in 2024. The Martin Birch production and Ian Paice mix are superb and I don't think that Kevin Shirley 2010 remix enhanced it. The only quirk is that Glenn Hughes doesn't appear on Comin' Home as he didn't turn up. For More on DP Mk IV watch the documentary movie "Phoenix Rising" where Jon Lord says the immortal line about Bolin & Hughes' partying "now lads, I think it's time you go back to the hotel and get a bit of sleep".
Phoenix Rising is brilliant.
Research is everything..... Jon Lord is quoted as saying that Come Taste The Band is a great album... its just not a Deep Purple album.
Come Tastes the Band FUCKING RULES!! It is a shame that you made the video before giving yourself a chance to have your ass kicked by this album. Metal, hard rock, funk, classical, all the influences are there. Tommy Bolin bought an amazing level of guitar virtuosity and songwriting talent to Deep Purple, if only for a short time.
Tommy wrote basically all the music and songs for come taste the band just as he did from his former group, The James Gang
It's actually a fantastic album! I'd been a Purple fan since about '72 when it came out (I was 8 when SOTW came out), and was very much a Blackmore (still am) fan. I was unsure about "Burn" when it came out, and it is still to this day my favorite DP album.
But when Blackmore left, I didn't think I'd like it at all. Wrong. I kind of tried not to like it at first, but I just had to accept the fact that it was a different band. I soon after came to love it! Bolin's playing on it is great, and everything else about it is good, too!
No secret that they were having drug problems around this time - certainly Bolin and Hughes, and a number of their shows reflected that. Poor Tommy was living on borrowed time, and he could barely even play sometimes.
Still - you should really listen to it a few times. As long as you go into it with the attitude of "this isn't the same DP", I think you'll really dig it!
whoever did this interview or review was a Peter, Paul, and Mary fan. Obviously the writer could of said the same thing for any rock band at that time. Punk rock was on the rise and all the hype or critics were promoting that. Basically Purple, Zeppelin, Sabbath etc. Were considered for being to cliche or being aged dinosaurs and washed up by that time.
CTTB is a great album... maybe not a DP album, but a great one anyway.
Paice shows here why he is the drumming goat, mainly during live performances of the songs from this album and beyond…
That album kicks ass. Bolin was a monster and the songs were there.
I had never heard CTTB but, about 30 or so years ago now, I came across a mint vinyl copy at a flea market that was REALLY cheap so I bought it. I must admit I didn't expect to like it but I did like it & I liked it a lot. Many people say it was actually the very first Whitesnake album. You really should listen to it with an open mind; you might get quite a surprise!
Best regards
I enjoyed Come Taste the Band and Bolin was fantastic when he wasn't inebriated.....however, I am disappointed that the host of this video didn't bother listening to the album that he's talking about in this video. I don't respect the opinion of someone who talks about something that they haven't bothered to do the homework on. 😮
Exactly! If you like a band, how could you skip an album? That's like skipping over Physical Graffiti if you're a Zep fan... Bolin was great! Loved what he did with Moxy as well.
This is better than most albums
Great album 😊
The author of the article clearly had an axe to grind and Deep Purple just happened to be a convenient vehicle for his point. That he refers to Patti Smith is a clear indication of this. This was 1976 and punk was the coming thing and for cultural commentators with an eye to the future bands like Deep Purple already belonged to the age of the dinosaurs. Deep Purple deserve credit for changing, for not being the same band that achieved fame and success twice over. It might have been challenging or alienating for some at the time, but it makes for a legacy more interesting than those bands who kept on flogging the same dead horse album after album. Come Taste the Band is an album pushing in a new musical direction and the playing all round is superlative even if you don't like the material. You Keep on Moving is my favourite track. It has an amazing sinuous groove you wouldn't imagine the band that made Machine Head could come up with.
Interesting that a lot of reviews of that 1976 US tour complain about Deep Purple being too loud. My "Deep Purple - 1976-01-18 Philadelphia - Full Show" upload has two reviews complainig about the band playing to loud, one from John David Kalodner, who later worked for Geffen as A&R manager with Whitesnake, Aerosmith and Coverdale/Page. The sound must have been so distorted , that people may have left the show with that "too loud" as most memorable thing. Even very positive reviews complain about the sound, not being able to hear the singer and so on.
Tommy Bolin was revered by Beck, Page, Joe Walsh, Billy Cobham and every musician who ever worked with him. He was a genius.
A brilliant guitarist.
Classic rock magazine gave it a 10/10 review, a few years back.
I was a big fan back from 1972... to1976. I thought it was a good album at the time, still do. What's left for Deep Purple?!😅 ... apparently quite a lot.
It's a fantastic album
That writer, although unable to spell "goad", made some points that had (and have) merit, though they seemed to be singling out Purple randomly. Deep Purple's my favourite band, with Mott the Hoople and a handful of others, but high volume was never what attracted me to their music. Both the shows that led to the Guinness Book of Records entry are available on UA-cam as bootlegs. I have both - from London's Rainbow Theatre in 1972 (ironically, then, featuring Mk.2!) - and there's no indication that either show was excessively loud. I also have some tinnitus (a musician's malady), and hate having to shout at parties, etc., because of loud music. I always go outside to avoid high volume.
With regard to Come taste the Band, it's not an album where volume trumps subtlety. My fave songs are Coming Home, the opener, which should've replaced Burn as live opener (Tommy Bolin didn't sound comfortable playing Burn); Gettin' Tighter, heavy and funky and sung by Glenn Hughes; Love Child, which could've been a Mk.2 song; and This Time Around / Owed to "G", a jazzy ballad segueing into a Tommy Bolin jazz-fusion rocker.
Onstage, Tommy Bolin excelled at Smoke on the Water, Lazy, and Stormbringer, as well as the Come Taste the Band songs. Best of all was his own song Wild Dogs, where he sang lead. It's a shame that wasn't on Come Taste...
Great episode
Thank you!
The rainbow clip I watched with bonnet singing,they were so loud he was yelling really and timing was off
The only time I was in pain till about 4th song spanning 85,87twice,89,05 twice,06---motley crue. Every time.
From being loud,let me clarify.
Perfect Strangers tour 3 nights in a row. Should have not been so cheap DP were growing up, as Glover said ' they weren't just good they were brilliance
I'm not going to bother finishing listening to this guy....
Drifter was a good song.
What robsas6610 said... Do your research! I agree with the late, great Job Lord said.... "It's a great album... It's just not a Deep Purple album"... And for someone who claims to like David Coverdale you should love the album
I never heard this album. Put in the proper context, it might be an interesting listen.
Tommy brought magic to a fading band.
He was wasting his time when he should have promoted his Teaser album.
He was using heroin, cocaine, morphine, marijuana and pills along with excessive alcohol.
It's a miracle he reached 25.
⭐⭐⭐⭐
I Know I'm Going to Check Out "Come Taste the Band"...
I also remember the album cover and I will probably remember a song or two...
I saw the Perfect Strangers tour, it was in a big arena and I had bad seats,
so to say I was unimpressed wouldn't be fair...I never wanted to see them after that...
and Born Again was my favorite Sabbath album and I Did see that tour front row...lol
Glenn Hughes was an underrated rock singer and actually considered to replace Ozzie in Sabbath at one point.
I liked the album but I'm from Dayton Ohio the birthplace of funk.
If you're going to sit on this album and give the stones some girls or emotional rescue a pass then your missing the point.
You have to remember that Deep Purple wanted Paul Rodgers as the replacement for Ian Gillan but they could not reach him, so they compromised on David Coverdale who was an anonymous and a mediocre vocalist, Coverdale became a great vocalist only in 1987 after he passed an operation because he suffered from sinus issues, you also have to remember that Glenn Hughes was not a great vocalist in the seventies, he rose to fame as a vocalist only since the eighties, another problem was that Glenn Hughes and Tommy Bolin were "wasted" from the drugs use, so while you can control things when recording in the studio it's another thing when going on stage to perform live, one of Tommy Bolin's hands was paralysed, he couldn't move one hand so he played the guitar solos almost the same in every song, the audience thought that he's a lousy guitar player, most of the last live shows for the CTTB tour were embarrassing!!! so, it's not the music and not the volume, CTTB is a good and decent album, it is better than WDWTWR, Deep Purple were a bad joke in 1976, thankfully, they had more luck since the reunion in 1984 onward.
Glenn Hughes sings better now than he did 50 years ago. Take one listen to Whitesnake's Purple Album and Coverdale's voice is shot. His prime was the 1980s.
@@TajBluesTrue, but I'm glad he did it.
1) All I can remember is that I listened to Come Taste The Band once - exactly once. Never again. Why waste valuable listening time on something that doesn't even belong in the same discussion as Fireball, Machine Head, Made In Japan, Burn and Perfect Strangers? 2) Volume? Saw the '84 tour (Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD) and it was really good... and LOUD... AND I MEAN LOUD... LOUD LOUD LOUD. At one point I looked at my buddy Jack to my left and he was frantically tearing the filters off a couple of cigs and stuffing them in his ears, while on my right buddy Tim was just kinda standing there and vibrating, lookinig like the guy in Scanners just before his head exploded. 3) Then, ever heard the - apocrypal(?) - legend about Pink Floyd in their early days killing the fish in the river with their volume at an outdoor gig in London?
One of the best its heavy but the songs are short ahead of its time in 75 TB is the star he wrote nearly everything Glenn sings a lot more too my favourite DP record after in rock sadly TBs drug in take along side Glenns signaled the end ironically DP were never this good again! get it on the deck and turn it up DC at his best when he still sang instead of his boring yelping after 87!
Smoke ..was 2 years past.. this guy .. arena rock is obsolete. Drugs this problem