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Loosely tight
Another online outfit Sleaze Roxx pays tribute to Come Taste the Band on the occasion of its roughly 50th anniversary.
While featuring a loosely tight Deep Purple from start to finish, it could be said that Come Taste The Band is a tale of two album sides. Side A is a funk fortified groove fest and the flip side is full on blues rock and roll not too far removed from what Coverdale would put together down the road in the early days of Whitesnake. Maybe it wasn’t for fans of the band’s most classic era of just a few years earlier but some pretty damn choice rock and roll indeed. On record, Paice keeps the foot tapping throughout while Lord pumps it up along the way. Bolin delivers masterfully on his lone appearance on a Deep Purple album but maybe the true star with this one is Hughes. Not only does he hold his funk own on bass with Bolin, he also draws a vocal line in the sand that at no time on this record does Coverdale come close to crossing over.
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