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King Biscuit Flower Hour

Deep Purple - King Biscuit Flower Hour Audio CD

A fair review of the Deep Purple "King Biscuit Flower Hour" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Deep Purple reviews here, or go back to the Deep Purple tabs.

Band: Deep Purple
Title: King Biscuit Flower Hour
Rating:

Release Date: 1996-02-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Burn 2: Lady Luck 3: Gettin' Tighter 4: Love Child 5: Smoke on the Water/Geogia on My Mind 6: Lazy/The Grind 7: This Time Around 8: Tommy Bolin 9: Stormbringer 10: Highway Star/Not Fade Away 11: I'm Going Down [*] 12: Highway Star [*] 13: Smoke on the Water [*] 14: Georgia on My Mind [*]

Good playing but the singing is brutal
Ian Paice and Jon Lord do what they do very well. The guys can play that's for sure and tho Tommy Bolin isn't Ritchie Blackmore he makes some nice contributions to this album. However the singing is atrocious and detracts from whatever interest the instrumentation might engender. Dave Coverdale is out of tune and straining exactly as many times as he is singing well. A 50% rating of "good" is not. But the worst is Glenn Hughes whose R&B cliches and screachingly high pitched vocals get on my last nerve. That pseudo funk/r&b direction Hughes favors did not work in my opinion for the band. For example Hughes for reasons known only to himself inserts a cover of Georgia in the middle of Smoke On The Water and then proceeds to oversing it as only he (and Michael Bolton) can. That alone my friends was enough of a WTF?!? moment for me to pitch this cd in the resell pile. What a tasteless bozo, no wonder Ritchie Blackmore left after the lackluster Stormbringer album. .

only fool people who said this is a bad one!
if one can be fool, he cannot make any differences between Deep Purple & Britney Spears, and he said the songs are boring!
This cd is a godsend for all Deep Purple fans especially who remember Tommy Bolin (RIP) at that time. if one can be clever, he is able to get this cd with 4,5 - 5 stars. DP played in american soil during the US tour 1976 and the show was taped by King biscuit flower hour Radio with excellent quality.
The songs are heavy like Burn, Stormbringer, Lady Luck, Smoke, Highway star, The Grind. Tommy Bolin showed the audiences, how he could play very pretty that night in Long Beach Arena CAlif 1976. How strong he was! how clever he had replaced Ritchie Blackmore on his large shoes! if you're listening to this cd carefully, you can find the magical performances! if you re not listening carefully, you will find nothing!

DP dramatician O Jo .

it's bolin not blackmore ok???

tommy bolin is not ritchie blackmore, anymore than trevor rabin is steve howe. let's give credit to where it is deserved, ok?
enough of these childish bolin bashing. thus, to expect a lead guitarist of such individual calibre as bolin to simply imitate blackmore would both be an insult to tommy , and ritchie.
if you listen carefully to this album without expecting ritchie to come jumping off the stage with his gattling gun solo, you will find that there is a lot of tasty guitar from Mr. Bolin.
granted , the cat squeal of glenn hughes is a bit irritating, but he was trying to upstage david coverdale.
still, the band plays as a band. tight, with ian paice and jon lord at the helm, holding up the ship like 2 great captain driving this deep purple through one storm of a live gig.
drugs, booze or whatnot; those garbage that continuously suck
the talented life blood of these hard-working but unfortunately weak-willed artists;
and hopefully future artists will learn from this, never to mix junk with music. to sum it all, if you are still so pig-headed about sleeping with ritchie blackmore and his strat, then you are going to be hating this entirely different purple music with bolin. however, if you keep an open mind and judge an orange for an orange,(not an apple for an orange),then this is the juiciest orange you can get out of a bunch of purple people.
get it? 'nuff said.

Same, Same, Same
Save your $$$ & get Nobody's Perfect. Same songs on every other live album, but poor sound.

Whitesnake plays Deep Purple
The first disc and a half comes from a concert in January 1976. This is Deep Purple Mock IV (I don't use the word mach; I use the word mock as in mockery). The last 4 tracks are from February 1976. A couple of the songs get repeated, like Smoke on the Water. The first disc is 62 minutes and the second is 58 minutes. The sound quality is adequate.

The group consists of original members Jon Lord and Ian Paice with Glenn Hughes on bass/vocals, David Coverdale on vocals and Tommy Bolin on guitar. Lord, Paice and Coverdale would go to form Whitesnake, which was basically Coverdale's band.

The band does not sound like it had played together long. Bolin seems especially out of place. The band plays better on the newer songs, but really fumbles around with the classic songs. Coverdale doesn't even get the words right on the January version of Smoke on the Water. Later, in the February version, we sings the song correctly. Lord and Paice are solid throughout, but the other three don't mesh.

There is only one really good song, Getting Tighter. A couple of songs are OK in parts, like the middle of Love Child and the last half of This Time Around. There is a 22 minute version of Lazy, but it is nowhere as good as the jams the real Deep Purple used to do.

I do not appreciate Coverdale's vocals. He does a lot of screaming, but without the class of someone like Ian Gillan. He tries to imitate Gillan in some parts and fails. He tries to steal from Robert Plant, but comes off flat. And he does a bad imitation of Stevie Wonder. Most of the time, he comes off acting juvenile.

I am surprised at how bad Tommy Bolin is on this album. Bolin was always great with other bands or with his solo work. He has a 10 minute solo that is just snippets of guitar cliches with long gaps inbetween. His guitar work during most of the songs is uninspiring. He does get in a few good licks in Getting Tighter and This Time Around. His inconsistancy was probably due to his drug problems. He died later in the year from a drug overdose.

The best Deep Purple live album is the old 2 CD Live and Rare (not to be confused with the New Live and Rare). Next comes Made In Japan and In Concert. Live at Knebworth has some good parts. Nobody's Perfect is pretty bad, about on a par with this album.

A side note: I once saw Whitesnake as the warm up band for someone else. I didn't know anything about the band, and thought they were pretty band. But, then the keyboard player and drummer went into this fantastic jam. Then I find out they were Lord and Paice.

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