Come Taste the Band

Come Taste the Band is the tenth studio album by the English Rock band Deep Purple originally released in October 1975. The album was co-produced and engineered
by the band and longtime associate Martin Birch. It is the
only Deep Purple studio record featuring Tommy Bolin,
who replaced Ritchie Blackmore on guitar and is also the
nal of three albums to feature Glenn Hughes on bass
and David Coverdale on lead vocals before he later left to
form Whitesnake.

Home. The album shows the strong funk inuence from

Hughes at this point, now working with the equally funk
and jazz inuenced Bolin, but the direction tended to be
more like 1974s Burn, with a heavier focus on rock guitar. The recording with Bolin also allowed the band to
take many creative liberties, as Ritchie Blackmore had
been somewhat dicult to work with on the bands two
previous albums due to creative dierences with Hughes
and Coverdale.

3 Release and reception

History

When Blackmore left the band in 1975, there was uncertainty over whether Deep Purple would continue, as
they did when Ian Gillan left in 1973. It was David
Coverdale who asked Jon Lord to keep the band together, and Coverdale was also a major factor in recruiting Tommy Bolin to take the guitar slot.[1]

Generally the record is considered one of Deep Purples

lesser eorts, although it did sell reasonably well on release (#19 in the UK charts, and #43 in the US) and received a rave review in the leading British music paper,
the New Musical Express. The album was certied Silver
on 1 November 1975 by the BPI, selling 60,000 copies in
[5]
Musically, the album is more commercial-sounding than the UK.
the Deep Purple Mark III releases, leaning toward a con- The tour to support this album started strong, accordventional hard rock focus with overtones of soul and funk. ing to Jon Lord in the documentary video Deep Purple Getting Tighter, the story of MK-IV (2011), in
Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand. However, in Jakarta,
Indonesia, the band was (according to Lord and Glenn
2 Development and Recording
Hughes on the same documentary) 'set up' for murder.
Specically, Hughes and two others were (according to
Rehearsals for the album were recorded by Robert Simon, Lord and Hughes) framed for the death of the bands
who was originally engineering the album. But after a dishighly trained security worker, Patsy Collins, who died
pute with the band over scheduling, the band left Simons under 'suspicious circumstances. Hughes and the two
Pirate Sound Studios in favour of Birch.
others were placed in jail. The promoter also sold a secAccording to Glenn Hughes and Jon Lord, at least two ond nights show, and forced the band to play for only
songs were written well in advance of the albums record- the original fee for one night. Hughes was taken from
ing. You Keep on Moving had been written in 1973 jail at gunpoint to the second show, and returned to jail
by Hughes and Coverdale, but was rejected for inclusion promptly afterwards. During this time, Tommy Bolin
on the Burn album by Ritchie Blackmore. Lady Luck was given morphine by the promoter, which caused probwas written by Bolins friend and songwriting partner Je lems on the bands next stop in Japan. In order for the
Cook around the same time, but Tommy couldn't remem- band to be allowed out of the country, with the charges,
ber the lyrics when the band hit the studio and the group Deep Purples management had to forfeit their entire fee
couldn't get hold of Cook. So Coverdale rewrote much of as well as pay thousands more out of their pocket to the
the lyrics, and the song was included with Cooks bless- Army and Airport Security to y out of the airport in
Jakarta.
ing.
Their next stop was Japan, immediately afterwards.
Tommy Bolin had taken the drugs given to him and fell
asleep for an excess of 8 hours on his arm, causing him
to be unable to play the guitar properly. According to
Hughes, many of Tommys guitar parts were covered by
Lord on his organ and other keyboards. Lord (and in
other interviews, Ian Paice) stated that to carry on with

The remainder of the album was mostly written in LA,

then recorded in Munich, with the exception of Comin'
Home which was written in the studio. Hughes went
back to England before the completion of the record so
he could deal with his then-rampant cocaine addiction,
and he cites this as the reason for Bolin playing the bass
and singing the lower-register backing vocals on Comin'
1

the concert, Tommy had several guitars tuned to open 4

keys, minor and major, depending upon the song being
played. He would make a bar position with his ngers,
4.1
and play a basic rhythm while Lord played the melodies.
Unfortunately, the show was lmed and released as Last
Concert in Japan on CD and video. In the opening song, 4.2
Burn, its Lords organ playing the opening ri that was
originally played on guitar by Ritchie Blackmore.
5

REFERENCES

Track listing
Original vinyl release
35th Anniversary Edition

Personnel

After tours for this album concluded in March 1976,

Deep Purple broke up for eight years. Tommy Bolin died Deep Purple
of a heroin overdose in December 1976. (According to
Billy Cobham,who Tommy Bolin did studio guitar work
Jon Lord keyboards, piano, synthesizer
for on his Spectrum album, he died from an overdose as a
Ian Paice drums, percussion
result of a 100 dollar bet that he couldn't do a gram of cocaine, down a bottle of aspirin and drink a bottle of liquor
David Coverdale lead vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9)
in a relatively small amount of time.) In recent years the
album has received some critical reassessment, primar Glenn Hughes bass (all but 1), backing and lead
ily due to Bolins contributions to the album. Ian Gillan
(3, 8, 9) vocals
(who left the band just over two years prior), on the other
Tommy Bolin guitars, backing (1) and lead (4) vohand, has stated that he does not view the album as a real
[6]
cals, bass (1)
Deep Purple album. Jon Lord praised the quality of the
album years later in interviews, stating that listening to it
now, its a surprisingly good album, while acknowledg- Additional personnel
ing, the worst thing you can say about it is that, in most
peoples opinion, its not a Deep Purple album.[7]
Produced by Martin The Wasp Birch and Deep
Purple

3.1

Reissues

In 1990, the album was remastered and re-released in the

US by Metal Blade Records and distributed by Warner
Bros. It was re-released again on the Friday Music label on 31 July 2007 (along with Made in Europe and
Stormbringer).
While the labels website claims that the album has been
digitally remastered, it is unclear which tapes were used as
a source for this remastering, but it is unlikely the original
master tapes were used, as EMI had repeatedly claimed
over the years that the master tapes of this album were
missing.
In December 2009, the Deep Purple Appreciation Society (DPAS) reported the original multi-track masters had
recently surfaced and that an ocial remastered version
with bonus tracks (including remixes by Glenn Hughes
and Kevin Shirley) would see a release in 2010.
35th Anniversary edition

Final mix by Martin Birch and Ian Paice

Engineered by Martin Birch
Cover photography by Peter Williams
Remastered by Dave Schultz and Bill Inglot at
Digiprep, Los Angeles
2010 remix by Kevin Shirley. Remixed at The Cave
(Malibu, Ca)
Mastered by Bob Ludwig

6 Charts
7 References
[1] Interview, Jon Lord at TheHighwayStar.com.
[2] Allmusic review
[3] Rolling Stone review

Released on 25 October 2010, the 2-CD Deluxe 35th Anniversary edition includes the original album in remastered form plus a rare US single edit of You Keep on
Moving on the rst disc, and a full album remix and
two unissued tracks on the second disc: Same in LA a
three-minute out-take from the nal release in 1975, and
Bolin/Paice Jam a ve-minute instrumental jam with
Ian Paice and Tommy Bolin.[8] [9]

[4] http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/36792/
Deep-Purple-Come-Taste-the-Band/
[5] BPI certied awards-Silver.
2009.

Retrieved 21 February

[6] Gillan Has 'No Interest' In Deep Purple Mk III, Says

Glenn Hughes Is 'Copying Stevie Wonder'". Retrieved 24
October 2010.

[7] Deep Purple Come Taste the Band Documentary.

youtube.com. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
[8] Deep Purple Appreciation Society. Deep Purple, Come
Taste The Band. Deep-purple.net. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
[9] bravewords.com. "> News > DEEP PURPLE Come
Taste The Band 35th Anniversary Due in October; Details Available. Bravewords.com. Retrieved 10 February
2012.
[10] Come taste the Band on European Charts 1975. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
[11] The Ocial Charts Company Come Taste the Band.
The Ocial Charts Company. 5 May 2013.
[12] Come taste the Band on Billboard". Rovi Corporation /
Billboard. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
[13] Argentinian album certications Deep Purple Stormbringer.
Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and
Videograms Producers.
[14] British album certications Deep Purple Stormbringer. British Phonographic Industry. Enter Stormbringer in the eld Keywords. Select Title in the eld
Search by. Select album in the eld By Format. Select
Silver in the eld By Award. Click Search

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