Deep Purple Airey Pick

In the keys department, it was only, really Jon Lord until he left and then it was Don Airey. Yesterday you got Lord, today the pick is Airey. And it's a good one. He played with Rainbow, had solo albums (sorry only one from them) and guested on a bunch of albums. I didn't know that he wrote the beginning of Ozzy's Mr. Crowley until I started on this journey. Only one Deep Purple track on here, but we could have picked a bunch. The music just speaks for itself. So, listen.

Deep Purple Airey Pick

01 Michael Schenker Group - Armed And Ready

02 Whitesnake - Here I Go Again '87

03 Quatermass II - Long Road

04 Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

05 Black Sabbath - Never Say Die

06 Ten - Silent Rain

07 Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley

08 Don Airey - Adagio

09 Empire - One In A Million

10 Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways

11 Judas Priest - Prophecy

12 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone

13 Brian May - Driven By You

14 Colosseum II - Put It This Way

15 Wishbone Ash - Mud-Slick

16 Living Loud - Every Moment A Lifetime

17 Cozy Powell - Na Na Na

Deep Purple Lord Pick

This pick of the Jon Lord is a deeper dive into the Keyboard family of Deep Purple. Not that there were tons of Keyboard players in the band. Pretty much almost every version of the band had Jon Lord in it. He had a few breaks and played for, or with, some cool dudes, which I have a sampling of below. He said he guested on more, but I have not been able to verify some. Like he said he played on the Kinks "You Really Got Me" which I'm pretty sure he didn't. Although he was on a track with them. He did play with George Harrison on a couple of tracks, also David Gilmour and Nazareth. He also played with his buddies. some of whom I added to the playlist.

Deep Purple Lord

01 Deep Purple - April

02 Paice, Ashton, Lord - Ghost Story

03 Artwoods - I Take What I Want

04 Santa Barbara Machine Head - Porcupine Juice

05 Whitesnake - Here I Go Again

06 Deep Purple - Lazy

07 Nazareth - Glad When You're Gone

08 Kinks - Bald Headed Woman

09 George Harrison - Circles

10 Jon Lord & The Hoochie Coochie Men - Gotta Find Me Some Fire

11 George Harrison - Brainwashed

12 Cozy Powell - 633 Squadron

13 David Gilmour - Murder

14 Boz - Karma Knows

15 Jon Lord - Chance On A Feeling

16 Deep Purple - Demon's Eye

Deep Purple Simper Pick

This will be the last of the Deep Purple deep dive into their bassists. This pick is concentrated around Nick Simper from version one of the band. Just three studio albums, but what albums they are! Simper played with Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, but really only appeared on one track (which is here) before Kidd died. Although he played in a tribute to Kidd for a little while. . Besides Deep Purple, he was in Warhorse, Johnny Simper's Fandango (not the other bands named Fandango) and Quatermass II. I always want to add an extra "r" in the latter band name, but it does not belong. He was also in some other bands, but not on any recordings that I could find, so I don't include them. This was enough.

Deep Purple Simper

01 Warhorse - St. Louis

02 Deep Purple - April

03 Deep Purple - River Deep, Mountain High

04 Warhorse - Back In Time

05 Warhorse - Vulture Blood

06 Deep Purple - Hush

07 Deep Purple - Mandrake Root

08 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Send For That Girl

09 Nick Simper's Fandango - Candice Larene

10 Nick Simper's Fandango - Just Another Day

11 Nick Simper's Fandango - Rocky Road Blues

12 Nick Simper's Fandango - Slipstreaming

13 War Horse - Ritual

14 Quatermass II - River

Deep Purple Hughes Pick 2

For part one of this pick see yesterday. This continues what I started then. Adding the HUghes Turner Project, collaborations with Gary Moore & Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy). Also that stupid song from that soundtrack with Akroyd and Hanks. It really is dumb. Another Deep Purple track, his guest appearances with Geoff Downes, Pat Travers, John Norum, Quiet Riot, Device, Pat Thrall and even him in super band Black Country Communion. It's quite the collection and has some hard rock, some funk and some "industrial" sounds. I didn't include his production work, but he had a bit of that too.

Deep Purple Hughes 2

15 Hughes Turner Project - Devil's Road

16 Gary Moore & Phil Lynott & Glenn Hughes - Out In The Fields

17 Dan Akroyd, Tom Hanks & Glenn Hughes - City Of Crime

18 Deep Purple - Burn

19 Glenn Hughes - Love Communion

20 John Norum - In Your Eyes

21 Glenn Hughes & Geoff Downes - Double Life

22 Glenn Hughes - I've Got You Under My Skin

23 Device featuring Glenn Hughes - Through It All

24 Pat Travers - Stevie

25 Black Country Communion - One Last Soul

26 Quiet Riot - Evil Woman

27 Glenn Hughes & Pat Thrall - I Got Your Number

Deep Purple Hughes Pick 1

For some reason, when I type Glenn Hughes it always turns out "GlennHUghs" It's just my fingers want it to be that way. I do fix it, but it gets annoying. Hughes was in version 3 and 4 of Deep Purple and this pick has a couple of tracks to reflect those periods. Mostly, Hughes guested everywhere. That is reflected in this family pick. He was in Black Sabbath, but not for long. He was in The Dead Daisies, California Breed and Trapeze. Got a sampling of that on these. Got his guest spots with Night Ranger, Motley Crue, Gov't Mule, KLF, Joe Bonamassa, etc. Tomorrow I even have the stupid soundtrack bit with Dan Akroyd and Tom Hanks.

Deep Purple Hughes 1

01 Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock In America

02 Deep Purple - Stormbringer

03 Mötley Crüe - Misunderstood

04 Gov't Mule with Glenn Hughes - No Reward

05 Glenn Hughes - Soul Mover

06 California Breed - Midnight Oil

07 Glenn Hughes - I Got It Covered

08 Trapeze - Black Cloud

09 Roger Glover with Glenn Hughes - Get Ready

10 The Klf - America What Time Is Love

11 Black Sabbath - No Stranger To Love

12 Phenomena - Did It All For Love

13 The Dead Daisies - Unspoken

14 Joe Bonamassa featuring Glenn Hughes - Heartbreaker

Purple Bass Family

About a week ago, I posted the Pick that I called Purple Guitar Family and posted it on the Butterboy site as well as in his My Compilations section. But today it's here: the Purple Bass Family Pick. The Guitar one followed the guitarists from Deep Purple and this one follows the Bassists. Their family pick. Recap is simple Nick Simper, Roger Glover, Glenn Hughes all were in different bands, did solo work and guest spots. This samples some of that. Now to be really clear, I am going to follow this up with a deeper dive of each. This one starts each bassist with a Deep Purple track from each version of Deep Purple. Five tracks and then eight tracks. So you know where each begins. Simper was on the first few albums, Glover was on more, but at least a few were after some time off, and Hughes was during his time off. You'll figure it out.

Purple Bass Family

01 Deep Purple - Hush

02 Warhorse - St. Louis

03 Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Send For That Girl

04 Nick Simper's Fandango - Candice Larene

05 Quatermass II - River

06 Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo

07 Roger Glover with Dio - Love Is All

08 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone

09 Roger Glover with Glenn Hughes - Get Ready

10 Rainbow - I Surrender

11 Deep Purple - Burn

12 California Breed - Midnight Oil

13 Glenn Hughes - Love Communion

14 Trapeze - Black Cloud

15 Black Sabbath - No Stranger To Love

16 Phenomena - Did It All For Love

17 The Dead Daisies - Unspoken

18 Black Country Communion - One Last Soul

Deep Purple Glover Pick

Here's a more extended Deep dive into Roger Glover on this pick. You'll notice a lot more Deep Purple songs. Some that are not on my Deep Purple Picks, some with different versions. Because he was with the band for so long he had less guest spots. I did include a sampling of his time in Rainbow and his solo albums. Much was also done with Ian Gillan. They kind of came in to Deep Purple together and seem to hang after together. So there are a few tracks with him on here. But also some tracks with Glenn Hughes and Ronnie James Dio. His family pick is just a bit more sparse than say Hughes, who will be coming up soon.

Deep Purple Glover

01 Deep Purple - Maybe I'm a Leo

02 Gillan & Glover - Lonely Avenue

03 Deep Purple - Speed King (Full Length U.K. Version)

04 Deep Purple - The Battle Rages On

05 Glover & Gillan - She Took My Breath Away

06 Roger Glover - The Mask

07 Roger Glover with Dio - Love Is All

08 Rainbow - Stone Cold

09 Rainbow - Street Of Dreams

10 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone

11 Roger Glover with Glenn Hughes - Get Ready

12 Deep Purple - Call Of The Wild

13 Deep Purple - Strange Kind Of Woman

14 Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo

15 Rainbow - I Surrender

16 Gillan & Glover - Telephone Box

17 Deep Purple - First Sign Of Madness

18 Deep Purple - Fire, Ice & Dynamite

Steve Morse Family Pick

I fist saw Steve Morse with the then Dixie Dregs, later as the Dregs. What shows! He ended up playing in a few other bands and playing solo and also guesting with friends. This pick is a family sampling to get you started on the Steve Morse bandwagon. It's been awhile since I saw him live, but definitely worth it in whatever incarnation he comes. You will notice that there are five tracks that are from "tribute" albums. He seems to like participating and he holds his own on every track. More than hold his own, he is excellent.

Steve Morse Family Pick

01 Bob Daisley & Friends (Steve Morse & Ricky Warwick) - Parisienne Walkways

02 Steve Morse, Jim Beard, Randy Brecker & Percy Jones - At The Edge Of The Middle

03 Deep Purple - Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming

04 Steve Morse with Jimmy Hall - Whipping Post

05 Steve Morse - Tumeni Notes

06 T Lavitz - Between Coming And Going

07 Kansas - All I Wanted

08 Dregs - Cruise Control

09 Living Loud - Every Moment A Lifetime

10 Steve Morse - Mood For A Day

11 Steve Morse with Brendt Allman, James Murphy, David Townson - La Villa Strangiato

12 Steve Morse Band - Heightened Awareness

13 Steve Morse - Freeway Jam

14 Joe Lynn Turner featuring Steve Morse - Jungle Love

15 Flying Colors - Mask Machine

Purple Guitar Family

I have been on a Deep Purple dive and this pick is no different. This revolves around the five guitarists that have been in Deep Purple and a sampling of other things they have done. Ritchie Blackmore, Tommy Bolin, Joe Satriani, Steve Morse and Simon McBride. There was one other guy who played in the studio on one track, but no one remembers him. Simon McBride is the most current guitarist, but so far has not appeared on any Deep Purple recordings. Joe Satriani filled in on a tour with them, was invited to stay, but was busy with his solo career. He's so good however that I put in a couple of tracks from him. Solo and with Chickenfoot. We could do a pick just on Joe. Ritchie Blackmore appeared on the most studio albums, but Steve Morse was with the band for more years. Both brilliant guitar players. Tracks 1-5 are Ritchie and tracks 10-15 are Steve. We could do a Morse Family pick on his own and have a bunch of different bands. Blackmore has a few, but mostly Rainbow and Deep Purple.

Purple Guitar Family

01 Deep Purple - Highway Star

02 Rainbow - Man On The Silver Mountain

03 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone

04 Ritchie Blackmore - Apache

05 Screamin' Lord Such & The Savages (Ritchie Blackmore) - Train Kept A Rollin'

06 Deep Purple - You Keep On Moving

07 Tommy Bolin - Savannah Woman

08 Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien

09 Chickenfoot - Oh Yeah

10 Deep Purple - Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming

11 Dregs - Cruise Control.mp3

12 Kansas - All I Wanted

13 Steve Morse Band - Heightened Awareness

14 Steve Morse - Mood For A Day

15 Flying Colors - Mask Machine

16 Simon Mcbride - Don't Be A Fool

Deep Purple Pick 3

This pick has some great tracks on it but has the least from each album and I even skipped an album. Not my favorite. This has Mark 3, Mark 4, Mark 5, Mark 6, Mark 7 and Mark 8 versions of the band. Everyone but Ian Paice was replaced, quit or got fired at one time or another. Some cool variations are in here. Great guitarists, singers all cycled through from 1973 to the present. Although for a five year stretch Mark 2 was back in business and after some left Mark 2 came back for an album or two again. Four or five guitar players, one drummer, three bassists, four vocalists and a few keyboard players later and they are still playing and making some killer rock and roll.

Deep Purple Pick 3

27 Deep Purple - Burn

28 Deep Purple - Might Just Take Your Life

29 Deep Purple - Mistreated

30 Deep Purple - Stormbringer

31 Deep Purple - Lady Double Dealer

32 Deep Purple - Soldier Of Fortune

33 Deep Purple - You Keep On Moving

34 Deep Purple - King Of Dreams

35 Deep Purple - Love Conquers All

36 Deep Purple - Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming

37 Deep Purple - Bludsucker

38 Deep Purple - House Of Pain

39 Deep Purple - Rapture Of The Deep

40 Deep Purple - Vincent Price

41 Deep Purple - And The Address

42 Deep Purple - Caught in the Act

Deep Purple Pick 2

This is probably the most famous of the various versions of the band. You can look all this up easily enough, but mark 2 basically adds new singer and bassist. Mark 2 is also the one version that ends up having "reunion albums". I include tracks of those reunion albums in this pick. In none of these picks do I include Orchestral albums or live ones. They are good, but get them on your own to figure out which you like or don't. I always end up with this version of the band. Even though each version has some great songs. Notice how the songs are in the order that they were recorded (or released) at least sort of. Through out all of these I place singles in random places near where the album was.

Deep Purple Pick 2

12 Deep Purple - Black Night

13 Deep Purple - Speed King

14 Deep Purple - Child In Time

15 Deep Purple - Strange Kind Of Woman

16 Deep Purple - Fireball

17 Deep Purple - Demon's Eye

18 Deep Purple - Highway Star

19 Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

20 Deep Purple - Lazy

21 Deep Purple - Space Truckin'

22 Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo

23 Deep Purple - Knocking At Your Back Door

24 Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

25 Deep Purple - Bad Attitude

26 Deep Purple - The Battle Rages On

Deep Purple Pick 1

It's interesting that Deep Purple had various members playing with them for a season. In this next couple of picks, I will divide them up by the group. Mark 1 (mk1) will be the first incarnation of the band and basically the first three albums. The most amount of covers were on these three albums. Five songs by other artists. That's almost half of the songs I picked. But all great versions. And the originals sound great and show major potential. Notice that the playlist covers all match the last few days. I just love that shot from space and how the band nameshows through.

Deep Purple Pick 1

01 Deep Purple - Hush

02 Deep Purple - Mandrake Root

03 Deep Purple - Hey Joe

04 Deep Purple - Help

05 Deep Purple - Kentucky Woman

06 Deep Purple - Wring That Neck (Hard Road)

07 Deep Purple - Shield

08 Deep Purple - River Deep, Mountain High

09 Deep Purple - Emmaretta

10 Deep Purple - April

11 Deep Purple - The Bird Has Flown

Deep Purple Gillan Pick

Completely out of order, this family pick is from Mk2 of Deep Purple with Ian Gillan as lead vocalist. Probably my favorite of the Purples is this version of them. Either way a few Deep Purple songs, a couple of tracks when he was in Black Sabbath, solo tracks from a few different bands and an early track from a pre-Purple band. Even a track with Tony Iommi from Sabbath. And obviously some of the better known Deep Purple songs were during his tenure. But again, this isn't the first version of the band. Although I hear him as the "voice" of Deep Purple, he didn't come in until album 4. More picks coming later. But do notice the cover.

Deep Purple Gillan Pick

01 Gillan - Sleeping On The Job

02 Black Sabbath - Trashed

03 Black Sabbath - Disturbing The Priest

04 Gillan & Glover - Lonely Avenue

05 The Javelins - Can I Get A Witness

06 Gillan - New Orleans

07 Ian Gillan - Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say)

08 Ian Gillan Band - Child In Time

09 Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

10 Gillan - Trouble

11 Deep Purple - Fireball

12 Gillan - Living For The City

13 Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo

14 Ian Gillan - When A Blind Man Cries

15 Deep Purple - Black Night

16 Gillan & Glover - Telephone Box

17 Ian Gillan Band - Clear Air Turbulence

18 Ian Gillan & Tony Iommi - Holy Water

Deep Purple Coverdale Pick

I am not sure why I am starting at Mk3 of Deep Purple, but here it is. I will be dive into a multi volume pick of Deep Purple and family. I am not doing a copy of the Family and Friends CD set they already have out. My take on it is a little different. This is David Coverdale vocals in Deep Purple, Solo, with Jimmy Page and as Whitesnake. Kind of a sampling in one CD's worth of stuff. It's not neccesarily all his best tracks in any of those configurations, but I think they're good. Basically Coverdale was on three albums with Deep Purple and there is a pick from each. I tried to get a pick from each of the solo albums (got close) and him in Whitesnake (failed completely). Hopefully you like it anyway. I will do Gillan and just Deep Purple in the coming days.

Deep Purple Coverdale Pick

01 Deep Purple - You Keep On Moving

02 Deep Purple - Stormbringer

03 Whitesnake - Here I Go Again

04 Deep Purple - Burn

05 Whitesnake - Still of the Night

06 David Coverdale & Jimmy Page - Pride And Joy

07 David Coverdale - She Give Me

08 David Coverdale & Jimmy Page - Shake My Tree

09 Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving

10 Whitesnake - Love Ain't No Stranger

11 Whitesnake - Crying In The Rain

12 Deep Purple - Soldier Of Fortune

13 David Coverdale - Whitesnake

14 David Coverdale - Only My Soul

15 David Coverdale - Love Is Blind

16 David Coverdale - The Last Note Of Freedom

17 Whitesnake - Is This Love