Reel-to-reel: 7 1/2 IPS DOLBY - DEEP PURPLE “Come Taste the Band” MAGTEC 4-TRACK REEL TAPE

I listened to this tape today on a Studer A810 half way into the first song I turned this up way up... I have heard every one of DPs albums at one time or another and all of their reel tape releases in the last couple years. In fact I listened to the "Made in Japan" tape a couple of weeks ago over dinner with a few friends never though to put this tape on. No Ritchie Blackmore No Ian Gillan what's there to like. LOTS there is TOMMY BOLIN this album rocks and the Sound Quality of this tape is at the Pinnacle of MAGTEC's best ...The Tekton Towers are made for this stuff.

When I sleep in its not my Mom's voice I hear its John Lord pounding Hammond keys and then Ian Gillan yells in my ear Your'e Lazy Just stay in bed... then Blackmore's solo kicks in and I am though my second cup of coffee. Today I only take mild stimulants so at least I get some sleep.. Any way I am distracted and tormented and jolly well deserve it

SO

TOMMY BOLIN dies a year after this album is released... I just found this out had to read up on this guy...

After tours for this album ended in March 1976, Deep Purple broke up for eight years. Tommy Bolin formed his own band that toured in support of Peter Frampton and Jeff Beck, but it was short-lived as he died of Heron/Cocaine OD in December, 1976.

Come Taste the Band is the tenth studio album originally released in November 1975. It was the final Deep Purple studio record prior to the band's initial disbandment in 1976, therefore making it the only album to feature Tommy Bolin (who replaced Ritchie Blackmore on guitar),