Favourite deep purple incarnation

I personally feel mark 8 is actually the best despite this being a highly non conventional view, morse has perhaps become better in later albums such as rapture of the deep.

MK 2? (I can't remember the number: Lord, Paice, Gillan, Glover, Blackmore)

It seems we're slowly turning into some sort of ADPFN.

Yes your getting the right idea. Lets highjack the site and turn into a deep purple forum just for a week or so and see what happens after that and see if people still want to go back to floyd. Imagine how much that would piss off the moderators hehe

Yep, it seems!

I like the current incarnation best - old favourites like "Down In It" and "Gave Up" have never sounded tougher, and the new songs like "Non-Entity" get better every time they play 'em. Plus, they're capable of hitting the quiet spots with finesse - "Right Where It Belongs" and "La Mer" prove that.

I don't know a damn thing about Deep Purple incarnations.

I have "Machine Head" because I mindlessly obeyed a guitar magazine's top 10 classic rock albums list...and I like it alright I guess.

I have 14 albums (just counted that ) and I think I like MKII the best.

nah thats a cliched view