I just discovered this. Haven't heard it yet, but looks pretty interesting!

"Funky Junction were a kind of lrish 'supergroup' formed in 1972 specifically to record a single album of Deep Purple songs. The band itself consisted of all three members of early Thin Lizzy (Lynott, Bell & Downey) and 2 musicians from less-known band Elmer Fudd. This happened because Lizzy didn't have a keyboard player and Phil Lynott was unable to sing like Ian Gillan, so he ended up playing the bass. Nine tracks (including 3 instrumentals and one original song) were recorded in one day and released in January 1973 in two versions: in UK and USA as ‘Funky Junction Play a Tribute to Deep Purple‘ (on Stereo Gold Award label) and in Germany under the name ‘The Rock Machine Play the Best of Deep Purple‘ (Sonic Records). Front cover of UK edition featured the photo of heavy rock band Hard Stuff (at the time signed to Purple Records)! This very fine and underrated album is recommended to the all fans of hard rock!"



http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083F5KI6/?tag=imwan-20

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000RIWAG2/?tag=imwan-20

As a Lizzy fanatic I can tell you-it's pretty awful.

I've read several Lizzy books (just finished the 3 book set by Martin Popoff) and they describe the ridiculous circumstances of this debacle quite well.

Very interesting story, I had never heard of this one. Probably was available in Quad and 8 Track as well !

I'll wait for the super deluxe box set on this one.

Like I said, I haven't heard it. It just seemed so odd when i saw it I had to post!