![]() ![]() It’s too bad that a song like “Mary Long” hasn’t been a perennial concert favourite. It has a mellow, dreamy bridge before it assails you once more with its inimitable guitar riff. “Woman From Tokyo” is still a great Deep Purple track, very similar to the direction of Machine Head: straightforward, and slamming. That aside, it is obvious by listening to it that Deep Purple were not putting as much in, and getting less out. That still makes it better than many bands’ best albums. The resultant album, Who Do We Think We Are, is generally considered the weakest of the original MkII studio quadrilogy. The only really progressive moment on the album was a breakneck synthesizer solo on “Rat Bat Blue”. Perhaps due to sheer fatigue, they settled into a simpler, bluesy sound without the experimentation that marked albums like In Rock and Fireball. A few months later the band re-convened in Frankfurt Germany to finish the new record. ![]()
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