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BiGi 
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 Posted: September 21 2006 at 10:05 |
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My choice was, is and will be Deep Purple.
They feature my favourite keyboard player ever (his Majesty Jon Lord), and three of the best singers ever (in decreasing order of preference: David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Ian Gillan)...especially the Coverdale-era releases literally blow me away!
The down side to it is Ritchie Blackmore: I don't like him very much, and I think he hit a lot of flat notes on the earlier albums...
Led Zeppelin feature one of the most creative guitar players ever (Jimmy Page), but I often can't stand Robert Plant's voice...
Ditto with Black Sabbath featuring Ozzy Osbourne...it must be said that Ronnie James Dio, on the other hand, is very very very gifted!
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tuxon
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 10:13 |
I prefer the lyrics of Black Sabbath, the guitar of Page and the vocal chords of Ozzie Osbourne, and the drums of Bonham and the bass of Glover, and the keys of Lord
But strictly songlike I prefer Led Zeppelin, with Deep Purple close behind, and Sabbath occasional good songs, but basically not in their league.
so Led Zeppelin for me
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Philéas
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 10:26 |
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Led Zeppelin is my definite favourite, although I voted for Black
Sabbath (second out of these) because they had so few votes. Deep
Purple has never interested me, I find them boring.
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Phil
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 09:39 |
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Led Zep by a looooooong way....................
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Cristi
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 09:47 |
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Led Zeppelin.
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Mandrakeroot
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 09:58 |
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Uther
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 10:00 |
Zep of course...i can't stand Gillian's girl cries 
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What! can the devil speak true?
Macbeth, 1. 3
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Bilek
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 10:18 |
Deep Purple by a mile... Reasons:
1- They have a permanent keyboardist in their line up (the classic one is heck of a keyboardist!)
2- Three members of their "classic five" are either trained classicaly, or have classic music connections: Lord, Blackmore, and Gillan (a turkish writer once dubed them " Ludwig van" Blackmore, " Johann Sebastian" Lord, and " Luciano" Gillan  !!!) 3- Their "classic" period songs are long and winding, showing instrumental skills, sometimes multipart, including "unusual time signatures", thus more proggy. Not to mention Lord's efforts here and there to combine classical music with hard rock, including a concerto and a suite (Gemini Suite was also performed with Deep Purple)
Zep sounds to me more blues than prog. (of course, no one claims they are prog anyway, but they have excellent proggy works) Sabbath is a "heavy" continuation of early British psychedelia (fairies wear boots!!!), when they have outside help, they can kick ass (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath!!!) that said, if Wakeman was a permanent member of Sabbath, it could have been my pick 
of course, regarding Sabbath and Purple, I'm talking about "classic" 5's here. Both bands' '80's incarnations mean too little to me (despite Gillan's and Dio's inclusions in Sabbath). Mark VII (or was it VIII  ) line up of Deep Purple (with Steve Morse and Lord side by side) is slightly better than these. I still haven't heard Rapture of the Deep, though.
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Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret:
Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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Abstrakt
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 10:34 |
- Led Zeppelin
- Black Sabbath
- Deep Purple
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bhikkhu
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 22:06 |
Zep is the clear choice, simply because they only had one weak album. Many don't even consider that one weak (I'll let you diecide which one I am referring to ). Then it is Sabbath, followed by Purple.
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Soul Dreamer
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 22:13 |
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Purple for me, although I like some albums of LedZep and Sabbath as well, but for me Deep Purple made me a hard rock fan in the '70 (In Rock) and that cannot be surpassed by the other two.
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To be the one who seeks so I may find .. (Metallica)
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Zoot Allures
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Posted: September 29 2006 at 23:14 |
Love all 3 but had to pick Sabbath hands down.
Most influencial Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band in history. Mostly Ozzy material but Dio stuff was awsome as well.
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The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. - Hunter S. Thompson
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Kleynan
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 07:04 |
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Zeppelin followed by Sabbath.
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You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks.
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Guzzman
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 12:59 |
Led Zeppelin!!!  Never heard of the others Well, ok, it's Deep Purple in second place and then Black Sabbath
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"We've got to get in to get out"
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micky
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 13:02 |
Deep Purple
outgrew Zeppelin when I hit puberty. .as most should have
love Sabbath as well... but the prog Mk 1. incarnation of Deep Purple puts them over Sabbath. Great stuff.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Treble Clef
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Posted: October 01 2006 at 03:33 |
Deep Purple.
Gillan was the best singer, Blackmore the best guitarist. A virtuoso on Keyboards and a band that are still out there today, albiet with one or two or ten changes in personnel. 
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Uther
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Posted: October 01 2006 at 14:31 |
Well, for example...when Balckmore played (& jammed on) an acoustic guitar as good as Page did ???? never
Blackmore sounds like he played the same guitar all the time too! creativity  except some good solos In Zep we have an excellent keybordist & bassist in 1 person: j p jones (listen also bootlegs)
The Zep were the same until the end 
 Treble Clef wrote:
Deep Purple.
Gillan was the best singer, Blackmore the best guitarist. A virtuoso on Keyboards and a band that are still out there today, albiet with one or two or ten changes in personnel.
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What! can the devil speak true?
Macbeth, 1. 3
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rainbow111
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Posted: October 06 2006 at 13:05 |
WHAT!! BLACK SABBATH INVENTED HEAVY METAL!!! WITH THE SONG BLACK SABBATH!!!!! 
Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward...The fathers of hard Music...Though I'll admit Deep Purple helped a bit too!
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It's got to be slow
Taking love the only way
It's got to just flow
Making love and taking time to let it grow
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gong
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Posted: October 06 2006 at 14:56 |
i voted for Zep, coz of Zep4.
my fav DP is "...In Rock", as BS - "Technical Ecstasy"
Edited by gong - October 06 2006 at 14:57
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daz2112
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Posted: October 06 2006 at 15:32 |
Sabbath for me 
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Zeppelin, Purple or Sabbath?