Deep Purple-In Rock
Do you have to think a lot of yourselves to insert your image onto a monument? Maybe and perhaps even more so if you are a British band and you put your mugs on an American monument. Still I smile every time I see this cover. I find it funny and I do think that Deep Purple were saying they had confidence in themselves. Indeed the music contained here speaks volumes. Deep Purple covers were often hit and miss, but this was always a hit with me.
posted by Metal Mark at
3:01 PM
5 Comments:
I agree that it's funny. A band probably couldn't get away with it today, because the mere mention of "rock" in the title is a red flag that it could suck.
Whenever I see this cover, I think that David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel would approve. It's so bad, it's good.
-- david
One thing that Ritchie Blackmore has never lacked is self-confidence. Superb, overblown cover that's claimed it's place in history. At least the music here has the magnitude to support the cover... wonder if that's why they went for something a little more 'ordinary' on Who Do We Think We Are?
Over here in the UK when we see Mount Rushmore we reckon they based that on Purple's album cover ;-)
Bill
Bob-I don't think putting the term "rock" in a title has to be a bad thing. Generic and unimaginitive maybe, but not always bad if the band backs it up.
David-That may be.
Rock of ages-That last bit was funny.
Put some sort of psychedelic swoosh in the background and you've got Monty Python
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