Review: DEEP PURPLE 'Dissed' Their Classic

February 27, 2004

Vit Wagner of The Toronto Star reviewed DEEP PURPLE's headlining appearance at Massey Hall Thursday night (Feb. 26).

"I'll admit, skeptical as I was going in, that DEEP PURPLE sucked me into their blistering recreation of the 1972 prog/metal classic 'Machine Head' at Massey Hall last night — that was until they switched the sequence so that 'Smoke On The Water', the album's most familiar tune, was moved to the end," he wrote.

"Don't misunderstand. It isn't that I'm a purist when it comes to DEEP PURPLE. It was easier than expected to overlook the absence of original guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. It isn't even that the album, which I played fairly obsessively when it was released, still retains a nostalgic hold on me.

"It's just that it was too obviously a cheat. And an oddly contradictory one at that." [Read more]

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