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Originally Posted by Big Ears
I have never heard of Warpig before, but they do sound a lot like Deep Purple (or vice versa). Did Deep Purple play Fireball live, before the release of the album, or did they hear Warpig? A similar thing happened with Deep Purple's Woman From Tokyo, released three months before Joe Walsh's Meadows.
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As far as I know, the Warpig song came out several months before the Deep Purple effort. I guess Purple must've heard the song and thought that it fitted their sound and lifted it, but I also know that Warpig were influenced by Purple in the first place, so I suppose what comes around goes around. Warpig only ever put out one album in 1970. In fact it was a decent album and was re-released in 1973 in an effort to kick-start the band again. I may include it in my 1973 section.
Hell I never associated "Woman From Tokyo" and the Joe Walsh song "Meadows" but there is a huge similarity between the two songs.