Posted by Anonymous Person on 11/21/2011, 7:48 am, in reply to "Re: I feel the same way about everything else, of course"
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Completely unrelated, but it delights me so much that George is still blogging and that I can find you and John discussing music, 8 years after I was 14 and discovered mjareviews, only solitaire and such. :)
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: Judging by Who Do We Think We Are, I'm not so
: sure about Coverdale and Hughes really
: spoiling anything great, although admittedly
: Blackmore showed he still had at least
: something left in the tank with the first 3
: Rainbow albums. Rising and Long Live Rock
: 'n' Roll are probably superior to anything
: Purple did since. I think it was really
: more that Purple was a limited band that ran
: more on finding exactly the right sound at
: the right time than songwriting and
: arranging talent, possibly moreso than any 3
: band you've reviewed so far. Not that
: thinking their 70-72 stuff as an amazing
: E/F/10 quality ideal for how rock music
: should sound isn't a perfectly reasonable
: opinion, though. I guess it's cases like
: Purple and other bands with a really short
: peak that made me less a fan of band ratings
: over time, and I wouldn't be surprised if it
: was partly what got George more
: disillusioned with the whole hierarchy
: approach and ratings in general.
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: And yet, I feel like (a) MkII was not just a
: great band, but an all-time great band
: (I'm really amazed that my estimation for
: them has only grown through the years), and
: (b) the greatness of MkII meant that all of
: the falls from grace of later incarnations
: actually "mattered," if that makes
: sense. If David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes
: joining a band moves beyond a mere annoyance
: and becomes something close to a musical
: tragedy, that means they were spoiling
: something great.
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