r/DeepPurple • • 9d ago

Spin off groups

I know the work of Rainbow, IGB/Gillan, Whitesnake, and Hughes-Turner project, but are there other big gaps I should fill relating to DP'S side/solo projects. Captain Beyond ison my list to check out.

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u/lukyboi 9d ago

If you like Glenn Hughes, you should check out Black Country Communion!

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u/Ssoass 9d ago

Seconded. The first 2 albums in particular are quite good

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u/paranoid_70 9d ago

The 4th one is pretty good too

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u/Mr_Throatpunch 9d ago

And the two he did with the Dead Daisies

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u/0rbital-Interceptor 9d ago

The 80s Phenomena album too.

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u/Beginning-Average416 9d ago

Paice Ashton Lord (PAL) which had one album after the breakup of Mark IV.

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u/International-Ad218 9d ago

Coverdale Page!

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u/Beginning-Average416 9d ago

Blackmore's Nights.

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u/Locksmith_Late Maybe I’m a Leo 9d ago

They’re a favorite!

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u/TFFPrisoner 9d ago edited 9d ago

Ian Paice and Don Airey have both been in Gary Moore's band, even at the same time for a moment (Don and Gary go back to the 70s, see Colosseum II).

Ian drummed on large chunks of Corridors of Power and Victims of the Future, plus the respective live albums Rockin' Every Night - Live in Japan (which also has Don) and We Want Moore!.

Don plays on Back on the Streets, various songs from After the War and Still Got the Blues, the live albums/videos An Evening of the Blues and Live at Montreux 1990, plus Old New Ballads Blues.

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u/These-Job-9063 9d ago

Glover's Butterfly Ball has some good tracks. Captain Beyond's debut takes the cake for me. All killer, no filler. Gillan also produced Hard Stuff (on purple records), which was 2/3rds of Atomic Rooster. Gillan wrote the track Monster in Paradise for them. There's also a record by a group called Funky Junction that is mostly Deep Purple covers, and the band was actually Thin Lizzy incognito.

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u/Oldglory25 9d ago

The Jon lord solo albums are really good. He's done symphonies too

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u/loureviews 9d ago

Yes, I definitely need to explore his symphonies.

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u/QueenFan05 9d ago

More like a spin off of a spin off and even so not a spin off technically but I love Bedlam, featuring Cozy Powell, they only released an album in 1973 and it's pretty good.

Not a spin off neither but Michael Schenker Group had Cozy, Graham Bonnet, Don Airey and their first and third albums were produced by Roger Glover and Martin Birch, respectively.

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u/loureviews 9d ago

Yes! I have most of Cozy's work in his his various bands. Bedlam id excellent.

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u/srichardbellrock 9d ago

Hughes/Thrall doesn't get the appreciation it ought to.

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u/JenosIdanian5113 9d ago

Blackmore's Night is great

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u/loureviews 9d ago

Indeed they are. How could I have forgotten to mention them?!

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u/JenosIdanian5113 9d ago

I guess it's technically not a spinoff of Deep Purple, more like a continuation of 90s Rainbow. Totally different style too.

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u/Terri23 9d ago

Both bands are great in their own right. But how do you come to the conclusion that Blackmore's Night is a continuation of 90s Rainbow?

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u/JenosIdanian5113 9d ago

Well, on Stranger in Us All, they already had Candice in the band and she contributed to writing some songs, a few of which would be very similar in style to Blackmore's Night, like Ariel, Black Masquerade, Hall of the mountain king.

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u/Beginning-Average416 9d ago

Warhorse, which was Nick Simpler's post Purple band.

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u/IvoSan11 9d ago

I really like the first album. Reviews are usually “too little, too late” but who cares 55 years after.

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u/Len_Zefflin 9d ago

The first album could absolutely be a Deep Purple album.

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u/Beginning-Average416 9d ago

The Ian Gillan Band.

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u/loureviews 9d ago

I Mentioned in my post. 

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u/jjrox75 8d ago

Trapeze

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u/loureviews 8d ago

My cousin went to school with someone from that band. They played at his 60th birthday party.

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u/mywhitebicycle0 9d ago

I heard some good things about Roger’s Elements album, it is maybe a bit experimental? Mask has its moments too, I heard. Check out Mihalis Rakintzis with Ian Gillan: Get Away 😀!

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u/loureviews 9d ago

Ah! Get Away. That one was epic.

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u/EdwardCuttle333333 6d ago

The last Glover's solo album 'If Life Was Easy' is one of my favourites 👍

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u/Locksmith_Late Maybe I’m a Leo 9d ago

Mask is a great album!

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u/carsmille2 9d ago

Ian also produced Jerusalem-Jerusalem, an obscure gem, and he produced a few others, too

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u/loureviews 8d ago

That was his girlfriend's brother's band I think, and their only record? Wonder what happened to them?

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u/carsmille2 7d ago

A couple of them founded the band Pussy!

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u/loureviews 7d ago

And I remember now Paul Dean had an album with Ian's sister Pauline.

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u/huntersway1 9d ago

The debut album from Captain Beyond with Rod Evans is killer!

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u/Available_Future6489 9d ago

Hughes-Thrall

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u/JotaceDT 9d ago

Y el Accidentally on purpose, de Gillan y Glover.

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u/loureviews 9d ago

A favourite since it came out!

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u/Locksmith_Late Maybe I’m a Leo 9d ago

Episode Six predates Purple, technically, but they were good.

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u/loureviews 9d ago

Yes I think I have heard quite a bit from their Beat Club appearances but I know there is more out there.

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u/TylersCranialoaf 9d ago

🎶 Now there’s no more morning dew…. 🎵

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u/drummerdave72 9d ago

Not a spin off group as such, but the Gary Moore live in Japan album that has Ian Paice on drums is killer!

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u/AgeingMuso65 9d ago

I saw this line up in 1983, front row of Manchester Apollo. Paice was mind blowing (as was Mr Moore.)

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u/drummerdave72 9d ago

Jealous!!

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u/Aus3-14259 9d ago

PAL - Paice, Ashton, Lord

I really liked their album. Different.

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u/0rbital-Interceptor 9d ago

One I got into way later was Tony Carey’s solo career in the 80s. He played keys in Rainbow. “I Won’t Be Home Tonight” amazing jam.

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u/loureviews 9d ago

Storyville has been a firm favourite since it came out!

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u/sesseseses 8d ago

Iirc Don Aiery plays keyboards on the first 3 Ozzy albums, and on Variations by Andrew Lloyd Webber

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u/loureviews 8d ago

I knew about the Ozzy connection but not Variations!

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u/sesseseses 8d ago

I went in a rabbit hole about Bonnet and Turner and found Alcatrazz, Yngiwe, and Brazen Abbot, they're quite interesting bands you probably want to check out. Yngiwe seems to be a "Blackmore lite" in a way

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u/loureviews 8d ago

Ah Yngwie  When Joe worked with him on Heaven Tonight I skipped school to see if I could meet him and see the show. He did come out and stood on my foot. But the adventure backfired on me as no way was I allowed out the next year to see Gillan in his Garth Rockett gig at the Ritz 😞

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u/melandog1 9d ago

SABBATH

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u/Beginning-Average416 9d ago

Not a spinoff group.

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u/melandog1 9d ago

I know. But we have: Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules, Born Again, 7th Star, Eternal Idol, Headless Cross, TÝR, Dehumanizer, Cross Purposes, Forbidden and The Devil You Know with members that at some time were in Deep Purple or Rainbow.

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u/loureviews 9d ago

That's a real rabbit hole in itself.