Parallels between Black Sabbath and Deep Purple

A lot of other musicians have gone back & forth between the various bands, in addition to Ronnie James Dio being involved with members of both bands. Off-hand, I can't remember who they are.

OH - I just remembered - another band that got derived from Deep Purple was Whitesnake. David Coverdale replaced Ian Gillan as the lead singer of Deep Purple, & he is (or was) the singer for Whitesnake. I think the most well-known songs were: "Slide It In" & "Is This Love" & my favorite "Here I Go Again"

I just remember that Tommy Bolin replaced Blackmore in 1975 he also was a very talent guitarist and had played on the LP Spectrum from drumer Billy Cobham, though he was more a rock guitarist, Cobham wanted him for his solo album Spectrum (it´s more like jazzrock/fusion) it´s a great album. Bolin died in 1976 only 25 years old.

ps. have you ever seen Deep Purple at California Jam 1974,
i have it on videotape, they played with Emerson Lake & Palmer and Black Sabbath, it´s pretty good. Ritchie smashes his guitars and burns down the amplifiers.

And I thought I knew a lot about these things. You just gave more information. I knew that Ronnie James Dio was in Elf, but I never knew that they played with Deep Purple. It seems that Jon Lord & Ian Paice? (the drummer) seemed to be the only two founding members that stayed with the group throughout its career.

Yeah - the album, Burn had Coverdale/Hughes in Deep Purple. I'm not sure what prompted the change in the line-up. I'm trying to remember if Hughes also joined Whitesnake with Coverdale ... well, we'll leave that for someone else to explain.

Well, Dio seems to be slightly heavier metal than Rainbow, but I'm sure that his time as Rainow's vocalist did have a heavy influence on his solo career, being that was pretty much what got him famous.

Yes with all these changes some really good groups came up,
DIO was really great. I don´t know if Hughes has played with Whitesnake but i know that Ian Paice played with them in the begining of the 80´s, also has Jon Lord.

I want to ask you if you know the band Dokken also founded in the end of the 70´s. George Lynch play leadguitar he was also a great sideman, ohhh i love his solos.
Well i enjoyed this conversation write me back if you like to.

Dokken's guitarist George(?) Lynch is a good guitarist, but I just learned something new. As a band, they're one of my favorites, articularly "Alone Again." The thing about Don Dokken, is that he has this very "gentle & sweet" & smooth voice that while a talented vocalist, I kind of feel that he's not much of a heavy metal vocalist. However, still good music nevertheless.

Yes your right he´s not a big shouter, his voice is really nice sounding and i don´t really like the heavy screamers.
I like songs like When Heaven Comes Down, Standing In The Shadows and Into The Fire. Do you have that double LP live record BEAST FROM THE EAST??? it´s great i mostly listen to that one. see ya´ Mike

I had to stop buying CD's because I ran out of money. The worse thing was it was also at the time that the RIAA was beginning to file lawsuits against individual file sharers. Furthermore, when you download like this, all you get is just the music itself. You don't have a CD in your hand with the literature & pictures that comes when you buy the CD or order it online.

So far, the only things in my actual collection are compilations, & a couple of live albums. The only almost-full collections I have are The Scorpions & Michael Schenker, & Yngwie Malmsteen, although some of Michael's albums never made it to CD.

Yes i hardly don´t buy CD´s anymore they really got expencive
over here. I miss a little the time with the LP´s they were much better then the digital medium also you really had something in your hands ... lol
Second point is that the records just sound better then the CD´s in my opinion. Well i have about 300 LP´s i think that´s enough to listen too.

Sometimes i go to second hand store where i found some very great ol´ records and with a good price. I agree with you´re opinion on the downloads,
well take it easy mate and see you again.

That wsa probably what made the members of the both groups so interchangeable.

The similarities in the music of both bands really need to be looked for. However, many Deep Purple fans enjoy Black Sabbath, & many Black Sabbath fans enjoy Deep purple as well as - what I call - offspring bands & solo artists from the two bands. Those bands & artists are Rainbow, Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Dio, & I think Joe Lynn Turner also has a solo career going.

Hmm, I've never thought of the two as being parallel musically, because so many bands that came out around that time had similar sounds - that 70s fuzz sound with big drums and intrepid vocalists. Sabbath was obviously much darker, though Blackmore oozes mystery.

But yes, they did have musician mingling.
Ian Gillan sang with Sabbath on one of their tours (I think it was to cover for Ozzy, or maybe even later).

Iommi actually almost played with Jethro Tull. How strange.

Anyway, I'm not sure what colour Black and Purple mix to form.

Last I heard Joe Lynn Turner was singing solo in his godly voice.
I heard he collaborated on an excellent double disc concept album called 'Nostradamus' which taps into the talent of various musicians.
(Not 'Nostradamus' the new Judas Priest album)

It did seem at that time that several bands had similar sounds. While I did not really notice the similarities between Black Sabbath & Deep Purple, it is there, but you really have to listen for it. You can hear a lot of similarities between Aerosmith & Led Zeppelin also.

In addition to that, back during those days, Aerosmith fans were also liked Led Zep, & vice versa. It seemed to be the same thing with Deep Purple & Black Sabbath fans. In todays day & age, when there are two similar-sounding bands, fans of each call the other one 'cheap imitations' no matter which band was out first.

Yes i agree on your last sentence you wrote K.K. that´s really the truth. Also just for example i was discussing about the group Creed here which i must say i didn´t know about well sure the name but i didn´t know their music really. So they were some comments about they just copy Pearl Jam and Pearl Jam is better but that´s not the thing i was asking for well never mind.

I remember there were some hot discussions about groups copying styles from other´s in the 90´s but still who really cares, those days we listen a lot great groups which sound sure a little similar but still each were unique to say, so now a days it´s more like copy from a bad copy in my opinion.

I don't think Richie did anything for Black Sabbath, but several musicians that worked with him did end up becoming part of Sabbath, such as Ronnie James Dio, & then Ian Gillan, as well as Vinnie Appice as you said.

Hearing Rob Halford singing for Black Sabbath would have been interesting.

Being that Priest's music is usually louder & hard-hitting, Black Sabbath should have been first while everyone walked in with their hearing intact. However, because Black Sabbath was probably the feature band, it was the way it was.