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I don’t deny MIJ is awesome… I own the three gig version that Connoisseur put out years back, and the performances are simply beyond comparison… at that time it was a band in the truest sense… by MK3 Blackmore really began to dominate proceedings… the balance between all the protagonists on MIJ...

Poor Glenn… tbf he’s pretty well behaved at the Jam… the Bolin era live however… not good. Mistreated does benefit from a stellar Coverdale vocal … with Glenn only screaming at the end ! lol. That guitar tone - it’s God like.

Brilliant to read - I’m very jealous re the 71 gig especially… alas I wasn’t even born :( The one gig I wish I could have been at is the Cal Jam, mostly to hear this (vid below) strat tone live… To this day, Ritchie simply blows me away 🎸

Moving on, and by the the token you can see why Glenn Hughes was seen as an ideal replacement for Glover in MK3 - alas his indulgences stifled his impact somewhat - although the soul/funk mover thing or 'thang' clearly did come through...

It's little wonder Lord (I suspect) wanted to work with Gillan and Glover, based on this absolute gem from their fledging days in Episode Six... Glover was clearly a hugely talented writer who bizarrely often gets overlooked in terms of his importance to the whole MK2 story.... he's also, by all...

But I guess MK1 really kind of peaked on this epic… Lord absolutely the driving force herein: Thanks to Ennio too, obviously!

Always loved the shield, MK1 at their Lord inspired best… it’s a very interesting track this, for me representing the diversity they were capable of, which culminated (mk2) during the Who do we think we are ? sessions… again with Lord and (by that point) Glover driving things, with Blackmore...

This for me, although not my favourite Purple track - well, it just shows how special a group they were and how Blackmore is oft erroneously filed under a one trick pony guitarist… horse shit obviously…

I utterly adore Stormbringer and even dig the funkier elements of the album too… I own a very rare quad press of it on vinyl, with slight little differences in the intro/outro and solos too… really cool. Three things make Stormbringer (the track) f***ing awesome… the riff, the drumming, the...

I've waited long for NSC to become a music forum proper, and at last it's come to pass... and not before time. There I was the other day, and I surprised myself a little bit by thinking it's been too long since I'd listened to a MKII classic... after a few moments pondering the options I...