Music Review

Slaves and Masters (1990)

Deep Purple
Reviewed by David Browne | Oct 26, 1990
EW's GRADE
C-

Details Lead Performance: Deep Purple; Genre: Rock

Can this now-flabby arena band of the '70s be as nondescript as any corporate '90s metal act? The ingredients speak for themselves: throaty belter (new lead singer of Deep Purple, Joe Lynn Turner), requisite power ballad, and an undistinguished batch of crotch-grabbing rockers (with such titles as ''Fire in the Basement,'' naturally). Slaves and Masters is pointless professionalism. C-

Originally posted Oct 26, 1990 Published in issue #37 Oct 26, 1990 Order article reprints

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