I recently wrote for the follow up album Fireball: "While seemingly half of Europe was copying Deep Purple In Rock's innovations with hard rock, the band themselves regressed back into blues rock.". In hearing In Rock for the first time in many years, I think I managed to underestimate it. Every track is a hard rock winner, with Blackmore and Lord trading the heaviest solos of their career. Ian Gillan provides the blueprint for every hard rock, and later, heavy metal vocalist. Paice and Glover are on fire here. 'Child in Time' is a track for the ages.
Ownership: LP: 1973 Warner Bros. (USA). Gatefold. Acquired from a store in Albuquerque (2022).
My first copy was a European EMI single sleeve reissue from the 80s.
1986 (first listen); 2006; 2/2/23 (new entry)
1986 (first listen); 2006; 2/2/23 (new entry)
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