Deep Purple SHADES OF DEEP PURPLE Music Tee An equally strange and sexy

An equally strange and sexy debut

though it can be fairly pointed out that even some actual Funkadelic albums had songs that sometimes sounded like works in progress

" which concludes side two

having broken through the "ballad barrier" with Stained Class' "Beyond the Realms of Death

" "Sleep Now in the Fire" finds De La Rocha making historical references to government greed and the darker side of human nature

Deep Purple SHADES OF DEEP PURPLE Music Tee An equally strange and sexyDeep Purple: Rod Evans (vocals); Ritchie Blackmore (guitar); Jon Lord (keyboards); Nick Simper (bass); Ian Paice (drums). Principally recorded at Pye's Studio, London, England in May 1968. Originally released on Tetragrammaton (102). Includes liner notes by Digitally remastered by Peter Mew (Abbey Road Studios, London, England). The usual perception of early Deep Purple is that it was a band with a lot of potential in search of a direction. And that