DEEP PURPLE

i have realized that uriah heep is here involved. clear, should be, if not for anything else, for july morning definitely. but then:

it is coming to my mind

it is clear like a day after night

deep purple must be in this site!

if not for anything else, for april, concerto and in rock definitely.

Deep Purple is one of my Favourite Bands!

So yes they should be added to the Archives!

Also I beleive IRON BUTTERFLY and BLACK SABBATH should be given a place in the Archives too!

Possibly CREAM and LED ZEPPELIN as well?

They are the first people to do Heavy Metal with Prog/Psychedelic Elements.

RAINBOW is another good band too!

terramystic wrote: Deep Purple are not a prog band but they had a clear prog tendency in some songs! Jon Lord was the progressive element in the band - April, Concerto...

exactly

We need more prog-purists.

Does anybody know what real progressive music is?

I'm not an expert, but bands like Led Zepp, Deep P, Queen, Rainbow, etc. are very good, they use symphonic elements to enhance their sound, but they are not progressive rock bands.

Progressive rock is a name, and the litteral meaning of the word progressive is not ment to be taken into account when describing progressive rock.

It's all watering down, people who like to add these mentioned bands into this site, are the same that delute single malt whiskey with ice and water

I know prog...better then most, that's not me, tying to show off, it's a fact...so u r free to ask me:) Sorry folks, Deep Purple isn't a prog-band, they were during mark 1 and early mark 2, perhaps, but not a genuin prog-band...they are what I call quality-rock, though, but that's NOT the same as prog. Cheers:)

Stop this now!!!!

I love Deep Purple,I am a 30 odd year fan-but they are not,I REPEAT,NOT,a prog rock band!!!
They absorbed elements from the prog scene at that time but at heart they're still an electric blues heavy rock band and so are the equally wonderful Led Zep. I love Rainbow too,but I think you are confusing their love of keyboards,and Blackmore's plundering of Classical Music with true progressive rock.

Since You've Been Gone? Long Live RockNRoll????

Dont make me larf.

Stargazer,Gates Of Babylon etc are not Prog Rock tracks,but they are wonderful examples of more sophisticated heavy rock.

i totally agree with reed lover!!!

tuxon wrote: We need more prog-purists. Does anybody know what real progressive music is?

I know what I mean by progressive rock, but it isn't identical to Dallas Bryan's or others'  who think and write deeply here - but we overlap significantly. Once for the first 4 or 5 years it was literal rock that progressed - but as new options for progression disappeared, the successful bands stabilised having found some aspect  of the genre with which they were comfortable and fans enjoyed. In deed Deep Purple's early albums were prog (even up to In Rock)  - they were an early signing to EMI's prog label Harvest - but considering the range of music to heard in the first 30 Harvest releases, we are talking progressive music as opposed to the narrowed progressive rock - clues at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse /-/1PJO0ACOKFNS0/026-4013407-5278830

However, a small percentage of of DP's albums are prog and if somebdoy wants to argue them into the forthcoming(?) sub-section covering bands who are not really prog but have do the odd track or two, (e.g. Wishbone Ash, Spooky Tooth, Queen) let's go with that - but don't make Progarchives a  greater laughing stock because we don't have clear ideas about the constituents of progressive rock.