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- From: rswann@nyx.cs.du.edu (Richard Swann)
- Subject: Deep Purple / instrumental request
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 13:12:34 GMT
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- First of all, re: this request for instrumental albums, try a copy of
- "Scandanavian Nights" from Deep Purple. More than half the album is
- instrumentals - it's a live show from Stockholm around Christmas 1970, and
- it's really good.
- Secondly, about the Gillan / Blackmore relationship. Ian Gillan was heard
- to have said "I have a greater desire to wring my own neck than play with
- Ritchie Blackmore". Hmmm, a similar thing happened in early 1973, which
- involved Gillan leaving the band for the first time - actually he had
- decided to leave in April 1972 according to some sources but was persuaded
- to stay for a bit longer! For the album, "Who Do We Think We Are?" Ian
- Gillan taped the vocals separately with assistance from Roger Glover and
- Ian Paice. And Gillan reckons he could record another album conditions,
- thus produceing a Mk2 25th anniversary album without standing within
- spitting distance of Ritchie Blackmore.
- As for Turner, well my personal opinion is that Rainbow took a nose dive
- after Ronnie James Dio and CozyPowell left, so Turner is hardly the
- quintessential vocalit of the said band, and his position is Purple is
- much like that when Ritchie Blackmore was replaced by Tommy Bolin for
- short while in 1975/76; ie: everyone thought "how dare the band get
- someone fo upstage and vulgarise the work of a former member?" Certainly,
- most people who are members of the Deep Purple Appreciation Society can't
- stand the guy.
- Apparantly, the reason for Turner's sacking was that if their next album
- didn't whizz up the charts, they would disband. Realising that a lot fo
- fans would like to put JLT's head in a microwave and set it to defrost for
- 20 minutes, they outstead him.
- In the absence of Gillan (ho h) coming on stage and touring , something
- that some poeple have pondered over is the substitution of Glenn Hughe,
- indeed a former Purple bassist / singer, although this probably is
- impractical as Hughes has just reformed his old band Trapeze (who played a
- few Purple songs during their comeback tour).
- Needless to say, if Gillan rejoins the tour and gets his throat sorted
- out (which has been due to 2 years constant gigging to establish a solo
- career again!), then Purple may well enjoy a second surge in popularity!
-
- The next issue of Darker Than Blue (DPAS fanzine) is out in a few weeks,
- and it will probably have more to say about this subject in greater detail
- thatn I can!
-
-
- THE DEEP PURPLE APPRECIATION SOCIETY, PO BOX 254, SHEFFIELD, S6 1DF, UK
-
- Ritchie
-
- PS : Pink Floyd rule and all other bands suck? Are you sure you didn't get
- that statement the wrong way round?
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