Which Band Is More Important: DEEP PURPLE Or BLACK SABBATH? ROB HALFORD Weighs In

Blabbermouth ^ | December 22, 2021 | N/A

[nevadapatriot]

>There was no metal in those days just hard rock. “One could say some bands were precursors to metal but that’s it”

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This

The genre was developed by the recording industry, who else?

[dakine]

“Highway Star” is my Theme Song....

[FlatulusMaximus]

This is about as inane as the old SNL bit “Who is most macho?” Fernando Lamas or Ricardo Montalban? And we care about this why?

[huckfillary]

Hey Jude is my theme song. Na-na-na-na-na-na 🤣

[golux]

Probably one of my favorite tracks was Deep Purple and Black Sabbath on the Tie a Yellow Ribbon / Lady in Red / Blue Suede Shoes medley. Very, very heavy.

[FreedomForce]

Not the whole album Paranoid, but every time I hear the song Paranoid, it strikes me that it was so far ahead of its time. I can hardly believe that was from 1970.

[Mathews]

Geez... No contest. Sabbath all the way.

[Signalman]

Which is more important? A Chevy or a Ford?

[hercuroc]

Lol you need to listen to After Forever and Lord of This World off Master of Reality.

Two very Christian songs.

[Falconspeed]

The good news is that both Black Sabbath and Deep Purple are 100 times better than the creepy Judas (the guy who led vicious soldiers to the Lord) Priest (a guy everyone needs before they die). Who is better than Black Sabbath and Deep Purple? The Steve Miller Band is still popular today.

[DoodleBob]

A question like “Which band is most important?” is something thing like the question, “What is your favorite color?” It’s good for conversation, but any answer is completely subjective, and so carries little weight.

I agree in part, and dissent in part.

Like any art form, music is subjective; what I love about a band (Zappa's technical prowess) may bore others, while I find country music to be the leading cause of boredom in adults.

That said, Springsteen totally sucks, an army of people agree with me, and not just because he's a hoser politically. As such, there has GOT the be some objective measure of "good" in music.

By the way, huckfillary is correct. The Beatles are the most important band ever. No doubt about that.

Important....I dunno...influential? Yes.

[Clutch Martin]

I listened to DP. Didn’t like the Sabbath release. My musical tastes were shifting towards contemporary jazz and bebop and later to 70s fusion. But, with “educated ears” DP still held my interest.

From a garage band perspective, the kids that played Sabbath were just making noise.

[South Dakota]

Oooo deep purple fireball

[lefty-lie-spy]

Both Deep Purple and Black Sabbath are two of my favorites, but Black Sabbath still remains highly influential, more so than Deep Purple in some ways, especially in their influence in new forms of metal and new bands making death metal. Even though both were around at the same time, Deep Purple being earlier, I think Black Sabbath would be called out as the more influential band these days.

Here are two local bands that you Black Sabbath / Death Metal fans might like -

Gotsu Totsu Kotsu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UDk7JI29hI
End All - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYRoDG4ZWbo

I go see both of these bands every chance I get.

[cport]

Hey Doodle, just for discussion. I find it interesting in this discussion of the differences between DP and BS, they both have something in common, or, someone. Dio. Via Rainbow for DP and of course his relationship with BS over the decades after Ozzy, he elevated both Ritchie and Tony without overshadowing either. Heaven and Hell was a powerful album, and I feel was when you could start calling BS heavy metal. His influence on BS is further verified in his band Dio with Vivian Campbell. Scorching, intelligent metal.

[cport]

I love these kind of threads. Keep posting ‘em Doodle

[who knows what evil?]

Good observation.

[Night Hides Not]

Had Duane Allman not died in a motorcycle accident, Derek and the Dominos would likely have joined that list. Eric Clapton and Duane developed a close friendship, and their collective efforts would have gone far beyond one album.

[ShadowAce]

Blackmore is and was one of my all time favorites and inspirations… the boy can play…

Have you listened to his newer stuff--Blackmore's Night is the group name.

Nothing at all like his earlier stuff.

[Vaquero]

Eat a peach. Duane WAS the allman brothers.

Eric is a brilliant musician. Saw him with Cream at the Philadelphia Spectrum in 1968. Saw him a few times solo in MSG. He is not a showman but his music is superb. Blind Faith a one album wonder is a fantastic effort by Clapton Baker and Windwood. Lots of great music in the 60s 70s. Lots of crap to. Seems like the crap is being reviewed on this thread.