Come Taste The Band  by Deep Purple

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After an invitation from David Coverdale and a four-hour jamming session with Deep Purple, guitarist Tommy Bolin took Ritchie Blackmore's place for the band's tenth album titled Come Taste The Band. And so we reached the Mark IV lineup of Deep Purple, as well as the last album of the band for the 1970s.

Although Come Taste The Band is a hard rock album, its musical orientation does not resemble anything from the group's albums five years prior. Blues Rock has completely dominated. The compositions are primarily by David Coverdale and Tommy Bolin, who had many unfinished ideas from his previous work that matched the musical style Deep Purple wanted to give to their album at that time. Martin Birch was the producer of the album, assisted by Ian Paice.

The tour that followed to promote the album turned into a tragedy as there were intense disagreements among the group members. The main source of tension was that Tommy Bolin refused to play songs from the Blackmore era in the way they were played by him. Jon Lord had stated that this tour seemed like an attempt to destroy the band's reputation wherever they appeared. In July 1976, it was officially announced that Deep Purple no longer existed.