Won't it be great to see Ritchie on stage with Jon Lord in 2010!

easilly the most important rock band excluded by the Hall of Fame members.

Deep Purple are the ultimate pioneers of Rock & Roll. Purple should have been in the Hall 10 years ago, they have withered several line-up changes and are still making new music, and having very successful tours to this day. Besides having the alltime number #1 anthem of the ages (Smoke On The Water) they have so many hits that it seems that maybe to get into the Hall is like anything else in society, (WHO YOU KNOW) As far as I'm concerned there is no Band currently that are not in the Rock&Roll
Hall Of Fame more deserving than Deep Purple, it is the ULTIMATE DISGRACE to Classic
Rock Fans everywhere & the R&R Hall Of Fame!

The greatest band in the world...not in the hall of fame

Great rockers should have been considered decades ago.

Great rock band.

Sensational rockers.

Rock as hard as Black Sabbath, came on the scene long before Metallica, more chart success than Patti Smith, more popular than Bobby Womack.

Richie Blackmore!

It was kind of Metallica to give their respect to bands such as DEEP PURPLE in the induction speech at the Hall this year. Some would argue that an Induction does not add up to a hill of beans. maybe, still Id like to see DP get in before any one else, an there are probably many deserving as those that are getting in. Not sure what criteria the Hall Board of Directors uses. One could easily make a case for bands like Purple being more influential than Bobby Womack or Wands Jackson couldn't they?

Hush and Smoke on the Water will live on as long as people listen to rock music. With Zeppelin and Sabbath already in, what's taking so long getting the third part of the heavy metal influence trinity into the HOF?

* Tommy Bolin
* Ian Gillan
* Steve Morse
* Joe Satriani
* Ritchie Blackmore
* Roger Glover
* Glenn Hughes
* Jon Lord
* David Coverdale
* Rod Evans
* Ian Paice
* Nick Simper
* Joe Lynn Turner

# David Coverdale
# Ritchie Blackmore
# Whitesnake
# Rainbow
# The James Gang
# Ian Gillan

For sure

Ok...Let me get this right....Deep Purple is not in an association that considers itself a "rock and roll hall of fame", but madonna is?????? Next thing you'll tell me is that Rush isn't in there either...or Yes......or Emerson Lake and Palmer, or Dire Straits. If anyone really wants to make themselves frustrated or nauseated, make your OWN list of bands and performers that are eligible and not in there..

Now c'mon...who are we kidding here? If you want to throw a hodge podge of musicians and bands together and call it "the really good musical museum", ok.go for it....but for christ's sake....don't try and kid us by calling it the Rock and Roll hall of Fame...i mean...Run DMC is a pioneer of the hip hop movement, granted, but rockers????

I would love to support the R n R Hall and the Foundation, but I cannot in good conscience do so until they correct some of these rediculously glaring omissions.

I'm surprised these guys aren't in. Almost every incarnation has had some hits, so they really cannot say "This incarnation is in, all others are out!" That would be discriminating. The lineup of Ian Gillan, Ian Pace, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Richie Blackmore are the most popular, but still Ron Evans had contributed a lot on the 1st 2 releases and David Coverdale contributed a lot from Burn to Come Taste The Band. They also had one of the most successful reunion albums/tours in rock history, not to mention being listed in the Guiness Book Of World Records for being one of the loudest bands. And, most importantly, there are the songs- the chilling "Child In Time," the prog-metal "Knockin' At Your Backdoor," the story-telling "Strange Kind Of Woman," "Burn," "Hush," "Highway Star" and their anthem "Smoke On The Water." Easily identifiable by the G-Bb-C guitar opening, it needs no introduction. Come on, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, don't let Deep Purple remain Perfect Strangers in your hall any more!

"We ended up at the grand hotel, it was empty cold and bare, but with the rolling truck stone thing just outside making our music there"

Get everyone who ever played in the band, line um' up on the RnR HOF stage and let them do three hours...AND YOU WON'T EVEN NEED TO INDUCT ANYONE ELSE THAT YEAR!

As Scott sais, this is one of the best 70's hard rock bands ever, but not only of the 70's! Think about Perfect Strangers (1984), The Battle Rages On (1993), all great albums! Of Course the 70's were their best years, with Machine Head, Burn, Fireball etc. they MUST be in!

They should be in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. Until they are, The hall is a joke

It's insanity that Purple the most individulayy talented and collectively talented (not to mention influential) Hard Rock band of allm time are not in the Hall of Fame...I guess the press never did like them much. This proves it!!

This is one of the best 70's hard rock bands ever, PUT THEM IN!

not until more metal acts get put in

I can't believe these guys aren't getting in it and stupid groups like the Pretenders are. Deep Purple are as just as good as Zeppelin and Sabbath

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the best rock band ever..deep purple!

the best guitarist ever..ritchie blackmore!

All aspiring rock guitar players learn the riff to "Smoke on the Water." From the early to mid 70's, few bands could match their body of work. If you were to list the top ten hard rock bands of the 70's, these guys would have to be included in the conversation.

Just make it happen. Nothing needs to be said this many times over.

Greatest band not inteh R&RHoF.
Come on you fricking rock nerds, let these rockers in.

If they had written only Smoke on the Water, for the sheer number of high schoolers who played their first notes to Smoke, these cats should be in.  Add to that Deep Purple "Made In Japan" (the greatest live album of all time) and they should be basking in Hall of Fame glory.  But then there was the 5 Star album MACHINE HEAD:  Space Trucking / Highway Star / Lazy...  Plus off other albums great album tracks like "Sweet Child in Time", and classic covers Hush, Kentucky Woman, My Woman From Tokyo, Black Nights, Rat Bat Blue, Speed King.  They realesed a number of solid album in the 1970s and 80s like "In Rock", "Fireball", "Stormbringer". "Who Do We Think We Are".  I'm trying to think of a band with a better starting 5.  Jon Lord was a monster on keys, irraplacable.  Ritchie was a player. Great vocals (just listen to Made in Japan for the screaming, awesome), this guy was good enough to sing on Jesus Christ Superstar.

I don't get it.  I don't understand the Hall's judgement on this one.

Smoke on the Water, but no entrance into the Hall. what gives?

Cleveland = Mistake by the Lake

They would have to put a fog machine on Lake Erie on the day of their induction!

Agreed. I've never been impressed.

I think that Deep Purple is one of the first British Heavy Metal Bands that used a Hammond Organ.

This band sold more albums worldwide between 1972 & 1975, has had more than one top ten hit and owns the single most reconizable guitar riff in the history of rock and roll. And Leonard Cohen makes it in? WTF?

This band chanced rock history
it wont be a Rock and roll Hall of fame without them

Eventhough they've had zillions of lineup changes, they still belong. Many other bands are in that had as many or more lineup changes than Deep Purple.(Like the Eagles? Henley and Fry are a couple of pompous Hypocrites)
Deep Purple are the godfathers of Heavy Metal in my opinion.

Oh come on... how can you nothave Deep Purple? They have a whole arsenal of awesome songs (I don't care what Blackmore/everyone says, Stormbringer is amazing) including Strange Kinda Woman, Woman From Tokyo, Black Night, Fireball, etc... They have a load of talented members, including one of the best guitarists in the world in Ritchie Blackmore.
Oh, and not to mention they wrote one of the most iconic and recognisable riffs in rock history. Not that they need it... Smoke on the What?

Deep Purple MKII (Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice) is the Deep Purple of which I speak. Smoke on the Water contains the most recognized Riff in Rock and Roll. Hits like Highway Star, Lazy, Woman From Tokyo, Child in Time, and Speed King continue to drive stadium audiences to their feet(yes, they pack stadiums throughout the world, even today). They are the seminal Heavy Metal Band. Purple MKII was once rated by the Guiness Book as the loudest concert band ever. They headlined the largest outdoor rock concert ever in the United States (California Jam, 1974). I believe Made in Japan is still the best selling live album ever and in my opinion, the best sounding.

Excellent, straight forward rock band who with great live shows. Not many hits but just as popular as many "Chartmakers". Great musicianship but too many member changes. Mainstay lineup from Early 70s' should be voted in.

Creators of possibly one of the most influential rock albums of all time. What aspiring metal guitarist didn't own a copy of Machine Head in the early '70's?

No doubt about it.

The invented the greatest guitar riff ever and most of the popular songs of the 70's

Deep Purple is sorely underated as a pioneer of hard rock/heavy metal and deserves recognition by the RR HoF. Zeppelin and Sabbath get all the credit as the original "templates" of all metal that followed, but Purple was equally influential as a template for all guitar virtuosity and the "power metal" movement. Please induct the Mach II lineup (with honorable mention to Mach III and the the lineup that continues to pump out great rock to the current day).

The first concert I ever went to was a Deep Purple Concert. It was awesome!

Pros: One of the first bands that comes to mind when you think of a rock act on stage. Cons: But that's only because their cheesy and tiresome generic rock receives plenty of classic rock airplay.

Awesome band with classic song. But they had other great songs to such as Space Truckin

DEEP PURPLE should already be in there.

metal really needs it due

The Hall is a joke without Deep Purple, the greatest rock band of all time.

The biggest British Metal group not in, likely due to the many lineup changes and metal bias. Even so, they should be in simply for "Machine Head" and "Made In Japan", two landmarks of metal.

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