release date: Oct. 10, 1975
format: vinyl (TPSA 7515) / digital (2010 remaster)
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,96]
producer: Martin (The Wasp) Birch and Deep Purple
label: Purple Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: A) 1. "Comin' Home" - 2. "Lady Luck" - 5. "I Need Love" - - B) 1. "Drifter"
10th studio album by Deep Purple released on Purple Records and produced by Martin Birch and Deep Purple. Stylistically, the band continues with a mix of hard rock, funk, soul elements and more mainstream pop / rock as was the case on Burn (1974). The album features the band's new guitarist Tommy Bolin who had replaced one of the band's central composers, Ritchie Blackmore, but it remains the only album with Bolin as guitarist. In early '76 the band was on an Asian tour and Bolin who was a drug addict often failed to play guitar properly and the band broke up Mar. '76 - Bolin died of a heroin overdose Dec. 1976. Deep Purple was, however, rejoined in 1984 with the original "Mark II" members, Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Roger Glover and Ian Paice. The band still lives on, although, the members list have changed since the reunion but Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and Ian Paice are still together as Deep Purple. This is my newest album with the band. I have listened to a few of their more recent albums, including their "reunion" album Perfect Strangers (1984), which became the band's biggest commercial success, but I have failed to find anything interesting in their following releases and simply see the band as one connected to the early 1970s.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5 stars, Sputnik Music calls it "very poor" and hands it 1,5 / 5 stars ]
