Listening to Deep Purple's Burn. Ask me anything.

Interesting album. Without Ian Gillan on vocals but someone else who became well-known later on.

CONFIRM OR DENY!

...Deep Purple was part of the unholy trinity. Ritchie Blackmore had his hand in the invention of heavy metal. He definitely contributed to music in a huge way. But he has competition from Jimmy Page and Tony Iommi for being the inventor of heavy metal.

iommi invented heavy metal.

Anybody ever listen to a couple of lesser known
DP albums, "Come taste the Band" and "Who Do We
Think We Are?"

Both very good.

to an extent (Any Album with "Woman from Tokyo" is OK by me), though it's pretty uneven. Ritchie Blackmore wasn't on Come taste the Band-- that was Tommy Bolin. And though I've heard people sing his praises, I think that was a pretty weak album. If I had to pick a top five (not counting Live Albums where they ruled) I'd go with:
Machine Head (obvious)
Perfect Strangers (1984, first reunion-- Ian Gillan vocals)
Burn (No Gillan, but has Burn and Mistreated)
Fireball (1971, Machine Head predecessor)
Purpendicular (1998, No Ritchie, but has Steve Morse of Dixie Dregs fame and a few classics)

Best Live Album I would give to (originally import) "In concert"...

...what about "Deep Purple In Rock"? That is considered by many to be a classic purple album.

Jimi Hendrix layed the ground work for guitar rock. He was the revolutionary force.

Jimmy Page invented Hard rock
Tony Iommi invented Heavy Metal
Ritchie Blackmore invented neo-classical.

And he went on to take pretty much everyone in the band to form early Whitesnake...which was actually pretty good back then...

Coverdale was pretty good on this album. It is hard to believe that he started here on this album.

With David Coverdale and bassist Glenn Hughes on vocals ... OMFG! Those guys were awesome. And, of course, Ritchie is, and always was, the one true god.

Here's a question for ya: What was Ritchie's early nickname? Hint: it references the town of his birth.

...it was the other way around.

Ritchie was born in Bagshot. His nickname was 'The Bagshot Bullet'.

Deep Purple will always be Gillan AND Blackmore, as far as I'm concerned. If either is missing, it's not true Deep Purple.

That album had niether of them. Didn't Robert Plant come up with the whole Coverversion thing?

Totally awesome. They put on a fabulous light show.