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Actually Zeppelin was very US centric, most of their albums were sold there.
Deep Purple was focused in USA market just 70's and Perfect Strangers period. They didn't adapt to show business during MTV era. Therefore in Europe and Japan they mantained a huge fan base.
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It was to do with those acts reaching 100m and because they were very easily compiled and completed.
And the 60s, where the MKI line up had far more success, than they did in the UK or Europe.
Excellent remark. Hush, Kentucky Woman were singles with good performance at Billboard charts. At canadian charts as well.
Shades of Deep Purple charted reasonably well too.
I am anxious for the final results.
It's one of the most mysteries within fonographic outlets: how many records Deep Purple really sold in all career. Neither Ian Gillan or Roger Glover know it according some interviews! It's a enigma next to being revealed due the glorious work of Chartmasters.
"It’s strange that time has been kinder to Sabbath than Purple, who in the 70s were easily the more successful of the two."
Different kind of band though, Sabbath invented metal while Deep Purple is just hard rock (like Zeppelin).
Don't really get the correlation between what I said and your statement. Especially since Zeppelin are so much more successful and popular than Sabbath.
IMO all three acts were instrumental in the formation of Metal, with both Purple and Sabbath initially being influenced enough by the sound and style of Zeppelin, to change and alter their sound and style.
While I would not class Purple as a Metal band, they certainly introduced musical elements that became staples in metal and were certainly regarded as an influence by many metal musicians and bands that followed, such as Maiden, Metallica, Priest, Rammstein, Pantera etc
For me though, no one band created metal, it was an amalgamation of many bands and music, especially these three mentioned. What I would say is that Sabbaths imagery and lyrical content was way more instrumental than the other two bands with regards to metal.
I personally think that Sabbath have just been marketed better than Purple. In the 80s Sabbath kind of died a death, nobody really seemed to care about them much anymore, it was really all those reunion tours etc that revitalised their name and reputation.
"Don’t really get the correlation between what I said and your statement."
Well, if your band is considered to be the first metal band a lot of (young) metal fans are gonna be interested in your music.
You seemed to imply that they're very similar bands, and my point is that they're not.
Under this perspective I understand your commentary. But It's important to point out that Deep Purple was most influential to NWOBHM, speed metal and thrash metal scenes than Black Sabbath, because Deep Purple used much more velocity and rapid rythym sections than Sabbath at various songs originally.
Songs like Hard Lovin Man; Speed King; Fireball; Space Trunkin, Flight of the Rat were quintessential to heavy metal genres, for instance.
Cream, Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Uriah Heep, Gun, Spirit were essentials to shape heavy metal later. But they were forgot by mainstream media about them influence on heavy metal.
But since 80's Black Sabbath was regarded as the main "creator" of heavy metal music by some media outlets and it bought some visibility when that band reunited around 90's. Furthermore Ozzy was always beloved by media that made a huge folklore about him and this factor helped Sabbath as well.
I agree with your position. Several bands were essentials for shaping heavy metal genre, as Uriah Heep, UFO, GUN, Blue Cheer, Hendrix, Cream and others.
Deep Purple is remembered like an idol for so many metal acts , mainly originated from thrash metal, NWOBHM, speed metal scenes.
If we make a strict analysis, even Sabbath was not "heavy metal" in a pure concept, several songs of them show off folk, blues approaches, well far from heavy metal traditional.
Fortunately for them the great media "created" this mystique like being Sabbath as the major pioneer of heavy metal.
They are in a way, they along with Zep, are regarded as the kind of holy triumvirate of metal and the pioneers of the genre. They were all certainly lumped into the same category by many critics etc of the day such as Lester Bangs etc It is also the case that many metal musicians from the late 70s and 80s, state Purple as a huge influence on their music,
It's just that time, the press and critics have been far kinder to Sabbath than Purple IMO, as well as being far better marketed since the late 90s, As I said in the 80s and 90s Sabbaths star had fallen considerably, it was only those reunion tours and great marketing from I think Sharon Osbourne that helped them regain their name, allure etc
Hi El Jolito!
I suppose it goes on to show how closed the UK media is in regards to foreign language songs!
