It wasn’t always easy being a Deep Purple fan in the 1970’s. I was a young teenager and totally infatuated with Ian Gillan, so when Mark 2 became Mark 3, the changes took a while to be embraced. Glenn Hughes was soon enlisted to replace Roger Glover on bass and his funk/soul influences led to both ‘Burn’ and ’Stormbringer’ treading a different path from previous ‘Purple’ albums.