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"Anthem" on Book of Taleisyn is a fine tune too!

I recall reading in the bio for the double LP on Warner's USA that
comedian Bill Cosby was one of three who founded the Tetragrammaton
record label, and thus launched Deep Purple in its infancy here in
the States around 1968. Their first three Stateside releases were on
that label...others were on it also--off the top of my head I recall
a lame LP by Biff Rose.


Interesting 'Purple plan on touring through Russia all the way east
to Vladivostok. They're somewhat famous for cutting their tours
short due to dissention within the Group. Let's see that happen out
on the trans-Siberian railroad with c-c-cold weather on the way.
Blackmore's latest chamber music line-up just wrapped up a handful
of former Easter Bloc nations, and the former Soviet Union. I don't
know what to think of Blackmore's latest music direction...chamber
music gone Abba? I wish they'd go back to Fireball/In Rock era stuff.
Black Night was such a powerhouse tune...I wonder why it wasn't
released on LP until eons later.

Getting back to record labels with a dominant band...think of
Threshold with the Moody Blues. Then you see a handful of albums by
Trapeze, and a Providence elpee on the same label. So...was
Threshold a record label owned by the Moodies?