Deep Purple: Who Do We Think We Are? and Made In Japan
Robot A. Hull, Creem, April 1973
DEEP PURPLE sure does play a godamn LOUD concert. I thought Cactus and Johnny Winter were bad, but hell Jon Lord knows how to cave in those eardrums. One time they was playing such a vibrating set that the twerp next to me got his insides all shooken up and barfed all over my cowboy boots. I shoved his face in his own puke.
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