Come Taste the Band
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| Studio album by Deep Purple | ||||
| Released | 10 October 1975 | |||
| Recorded | 3 August – 1 September 1975 | |||
| Studio | Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, funk rock | |||
| Length | 37:16 | |||
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Purple (Europe) Warner Bros. (US & Japan) |
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| Producer | Martin Birch & Deep Purple | |||
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| AllMusic |    |
| BBC Music | (mixed) |
| Blogcritics | (average) |
| Rolling Stone | (favourable) |
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Come Taste The Band is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, originally released in October 1975. The album was co-produced and engineered by the band and longtime associate Martin Birch. It is the only Deep Purple studio record featuring Tommy Bolin, who replaced Ritchie Blackmore on guitar and is also the final of three albums to feature Glenn Hughes on bass and David Coverdale on lead vocals, before he later left to form Whitesnake.
When Blackmore left the band in 1975, there was uncertainty over whether Deep Purple would continue, as they did when Ian Gillan left in 1973. It was David Coverdale who asked Jon Lord to keep the band together, and Coverdale was also a major factor in recruiting Tommy Bolin to take the guitar slot.
Musically, the album is more commercial-sounding than the Deep Purple Mark III releases, leaning toward a conventional hard rock focus with overtones of soul and funk.
Rehearsals for the album were recorded by Robert Simon, who was originally engineering the album. But after a dispute with the band over scheduling, the band left Simon's Pirate Sound Studios in favour of Martin Birch.
According to Glenn Hughes and Lord, at least two songs were written well in advance of the album's recording. "You Keep on Moving" had been written in 1973 by Hughes and Coverdale, but was rejected for inclusion on the Burn album by Ritchie Blackmore. "Lady Luck" was written by Bolin's friend and songwriting partner Jeff Cook around the same time, but Tommy couldn't remember all the lyrics when the band hit the studio and the group couldn't get hold of Cook. So Coverdale rewrote much of the lyrics, and the song was included with Cook's blessing.
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