The Deep Purple Podcast

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Personnel:

• Bass – John McCoy
• Drums – Mick Underwood
• Guitar – Bernie Tormé
• Keyboards – Colin Towns
• Vocals – Ian Gillan

Technical:

• Engineer – Paul ‘Chas’ Watkins*
• Lacquer Cut By – Joël (Dork) Michiels*
• Management – Phil Banfield
• Mixed By – John McCoy
• Mixed By – Paul ‘Chas’ Watkins*
• Mixed By [With Contributions From] – Bernie Tormé, Colin Towns, Mick Underwood

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Illustration – Alan Daniels (2)
  • Also did album covers for Girlschool
• Illustration – Angus McKie
  • Did album covers for Vangelis and others
• Painting [Cover] – Alan Daniels (2)
• Photography By [Main Photos] – Gavin Cochrane
  • Photography for Sparks, Pretenders, Stray Cats, The Who, Men Without Hats, and more.
• Gillan: “I realise that a lot of people think the album cover is rubbish. It was certainly a bit strange. But some of the photos inside were amazing. Future Shock came in a gatefold sleeve, and it was a great visual production effort by all concerned.”
• Title based on book by same name by Alvin Toffler:
  • “Future Shock” is the term Toffler gave to the trauma that happens as a result of going through great changes in a short time.In his book he explores how people can adapt to the changes they face, and while doing that he establishes a new social norm: embracing change.
• Gillan, later in a 2017 YouTube video: “Now this is an amazing cover. Portraits of the band, candid shots mixed with a lot of photographs from Young Artists agency that we decided were compatible with the title, ‘Future Shock.’” Well that’s the interesting part I think there . . .bit of a rebellion wnet on when everyone saw the picture because it sort of supposed to be I don’t know what . .. it makes it a little bit weird anyway . . . titled nicked from a book by Alvin Toffler at the time which was full of how exciting the future might be.”

• Liner Notes:
  • Record Business – 11.8.80
    • It’s almost a relief to hear bands like Gillan.
  • Huddersfield Daily Examiner – 20.9.80
    • John changed from playing trumpet to guitar while at school. . . . He moved to London to continue successfully working in rock music, playing afro-jazz at Ronnie Scotts, touring world wided with Julie Felix and playing cello on a Beach Boys album.
  • Hull Daily Mail – Oct ‘80
    • As for Bernie Torme’s guitar solo we all know that HEndrix did it with feedback, but, as the report says, it was “long ago” – too long ago for some of us to remember
  • Sounds – 9.8.80
    • . . . and on certain occasions Towns creams his colleagues into the ground.
  • Sounds – 4.2.78
    • Colin Towns (Keyboards/Vocals)
    • Coming from a diverse busical background which included jazz, R&R (including a stint with Chuck Berry), Country & Western Mr. Towns almost replaced Dave LAwson in a reformed version of Greenslade. LAwson was in fact originally offered the gig with IGB, but declined and gave them Colin’s number . . . 
    • The quietest member of the band, he has been known to more than occasionally go for walks sending the rest of the group into a state of freznsy, only to re-appear just in time for a gig.
  • Virgin Release Sheet
    • Ian was presented with the aforementioned cake onstage at the end of the Friars gig, with the immortal words, “There’s only one place for this,” Gillan promptly heaved the lovingly prepared oj=bject straight onto the bald pate of one John MCCoy, the Gillan band’s odd looking bass player, Aaah, the carefree joys of yough, the fun those rock stars have etc . . ..
    • REmember Gillan is a Group.
  • Record Mirror – 16.8.80
    • BEsides it’s worth having just for the photo of John McCoy.
  • ‘Glory Road’ is ten songs where five men struggle to get worked up about piss-all . . . but there it is in the LP charts.
  • South Wales Argus – 18.10.80
    • If you’re looking for “Trouble” Cardiff Top Rank will be the right place this weekend.
  • The Oxford Times – 05.9.80
    • Before you could about “wally” he was back with his own band
  • Derby Evening Telegraph – 17.10.80
    • But when in five years time Gillan are international superstars, don’t let anybody say ‘I told you so.’ A child of three with his eyes shut couldn’t help but notice the talent they displayed at Derby Assembly Rooms on Saturday Night.
  • The Northern Echo – 25.9.80
    • Ian Gillan is 35, paunchy, dresses badly and sings worse. He ought to be a washed up has-been if ever there was one.
  • Bristol Evening Post = 7.10.80
    • Last night they showed they weren’t afraid of stretching the form beyond the head-banging format. They used colour, tone, skill and turned in some attractive, cheering music.
  • Colin Towns: “‘Breakdown’ (MCA) Young (or should that be old?) Colin has made seven albums with Gillan and out of his own with this shows he’s got a reasonable sense of dynamis to go with those semi restrained crazed vocal streams. HM’sanswer to Pop Group? Sure, Boris.
  • Bernie Torme looks like a reject Rolling Stone but is without doubt a guitarist of unique style and sound.
  • Towns, to his chagrins, isn’t about to become quite as rich as the perpetrators of “The STud” and “Saturday Night Fever.”
    • “I keep having thie word ‘prestige’ rammed own me throat,” he laments “I got very little money in the end. But I was pretty hard up before I did it anyway.”
  • New Music News – 16.6.80
    • Ian Gillan breaks new poetic ground by rhyming “ultrasonic” with “gin and tonic.”
  • Mail – 13.9.80
    • Guitarist Bernie Torme, who previously stly fronted his own band.
  • Melody Maker – 9.8.80
    • The rhythm squad of Mick Underwood and John McCoy neither of them spring chickens, set about shaking the glass from windows with a sturdy resilience.
  • Melody Maker – 30.8.80
    • There were more than 30,000 people out there, going crazy with Gillan’s parting gift.
  • Burnley Evening STar
    • Preston Guild Hall rocked to the rafters with an amazing show of affection for the governor.
  • Sheffield Star – 7.10.80
    • Mick Underwood was impressively solid behind the drums.
  • Evening Sentinel – 9.10.80
    • Torme laid his own stamp on the aged “Smoke on the Water,” using feedback brilliantly and introducing that foamous riff Hendrix fashion – with his teeth.
  • Melody Maker – 30.8.80
    • When they did eventually crash into the body of the song, the corwd made the turf tremble.
  • Evening Sentinel – 9..10.80
    • And that supreme example of The Great Poser, John McCoy on bass. He really is one of Life’s Great Uglies.
    • This quote is oddly paired up with a picture of Roger Glover from “Cornflakes and Crazy Foam.”
  • Glasgow Daily Record – 31.10.80
    • Someone aske dme the other day what I’d do with my next million and I told them I’d probably buy myself a new tent.”
  • Hull Daily Mail – 28.10.80
    • It is a pity the music did not quite match th occasion. It was too patchy, smothered in part by histrionics and self indulgence. Guitarist Bernie Torme launched into a too-long solo which was so hackneyed it quickly became boring. There is only so much that can be done with feedback, and anyway, Hendrix did it a long time ago.
  • LAncashire Evening Post – 6/10.80
    • They seemed to love it best when he dragged his guitar across the speaker sending the decibel needle soaring off the scale.
  • Ipswich Evening Star – 22.10.80
    • And guitar player Bernie Torme was really a treat to watch. He plays his Strat like a formula one racer drives is car-one hand on the gearstick; 

Other Releases:

• 1989 CD release with bonus tracks
• 2007 Re-release with bonus tracks with Ian Gillan retrospective liner notes
• 2012 Re-release on vinyl with 12-page hard covered book.  Only 1,000 copies made.

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. Future Shock (Gillan, McCoy, Tormé)
2. Night Ride Out of Phoenix (Gillan, Towns)
3. (The Ballad Of) The Lucitania Express (Gillan, McCoy, Tormé)
   • “Some of the tracks here, like Night Ride Out Of Phoenix and (The Ballad Of) The Lucitania Express, were based on actual incidents which happened to us on the road. I always like doing that sort of thing.
4. No Laughing in HEaven (Gillan, McCoy, Tormé, Towns, Underwood)
   • “This is the one with No Laughing In Heaven, which is definitely my favourite Gillan track. It was really the start of me being publicly irreverent. It harked back to when I was 13 years old, asking questions at Sunday school like, ‘Father, what was the immaculate conception?’, and getting answers like, ‘You have to have faith in God, my son. Faith will guide you’. And I began to realise that I didn’t believe in religion, and that God didn’t create Man, it was the other way round. The idea of going to heaven was anathema to me. The last thing I want to do is be stuck in heaven with the sort of people I’d like to avoid! That’s where this song comes from.”
5. Sacre Bleu (Gillan, McCoy, Tormé)
6. New Orleans (Frank Guida, Joseph Royster) – Gary U.S. Bonds Cover
   • Simon Robinson in Stargazer #24:
     • This oldie (originally by Gary US Bonds) was sufficiently catchy to get the radio airplay, and became their most successful single to date. It’s ok I guess, though I’d have been happier to see MAD make it. The b-side (‘Take A Hold Of Yourself’) is nothing outstanding either, though it has yet more vocal experiments midway.
     • Gillan’s version or the song reached #17 on the UK Singles Chart.

Side Two:

1. Bite the Bullet (Gillan, Towns)
2. If I Sing Softly (Gillan, McCoy, Tormé)
3. Don’t Want the Truth (Gillan, McCoy, Tormé)
4. For Your Dreams (Gillan, Towns)

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Bustin’ Out The Spreadsheet

Reception and Charts:

• This album is viewed by many to be the band’s peak.  It was certainly trues as far as chart position. It reached #2 on the UK chart and was their highest charting album.
• Stargazer – Issue #24 – June, 1981
  • The outer sleeve is chronic, there are very few artists in the sci-fi field doing anything decent, and Gillan used the best, Chris Foss, for ‘Clear Air Turbulence’. The album itself didn’t live up to expectations. There seems to be a lack of musical ideas, reusing from previous albums, which are wearing a bit thin. ‘Ballad Of The Lucitania Express’ is the worst example. Much of the album sounds too rushed, which is a pity because the enthusiasm is there – one snatch of ‘No Laughing In Heaven’ shows that. Some of the tracks sound like Ian was suffering when he recorded them; such as on ‘If I Sing Softly’ and ‘Don’t Want The Truth’, both of which have a lot going for them. For my money the best cut of all is the last; ‘For Your Dreams’. It has a much more thought out feel to it, and begins to bring together Colin’s ideas and Ian’s vocal range successfully. Overall I feel Ian has let the album run away with itself, and ‘Glory Road’ seems (especially the American version with rearranged track order) much stronger.
• Bernie would leave the band while on the road supporting the album and was replaced by Jannick Gers who finished the tour.

For Further Information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock_(Gillan_album)
• https://www.discogs.com/release/1652904-Gillan-Future-Shock
• Child in Time by Ian Gillan
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
• Future Shock LP Release with 16-page booklet liner notes by
• Stargazer #24 – June 1981
• Darker Than Blue – Issue #1 – November, 1981
• Future Shock: Ian Gillan comments on the LP
• https://vinylspinning.tumblr.com/post/645598878773739520/gillan-future-shock-1981-aaak-future-shocks
• https://www.classic-rock-covers.com/2020/04/ian-gillan-band-future-shock-1981.html
• Help from the archives of Jeff Breis

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Album Tracks:

Mark 1 performed on the Sounds Like Tony Brandon Show session which recorded at BBC’s studio 4 Maida Vale.

1. “The Painter” (BBC Sounds Like Tony Brandon Show Session – 24 June 1969)
   • Version 1
   • At this point “The Painter” is showing up as reworking of what we heard in the last episode titled “Hey Bop A Re Bop” with rewritten lyrics.
2. “Laléna” (BBC Sounds Like Tony Brandon Show Session – 24 June 1969)
   • They also played “I’m So Glad” during the episode but that recording is missing.

At this point the band had already signed Gillan and Glover but Simper and Evans had not been given notice yet when they appeared on BBC’s Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae show at Aeolian Hall, Studio 2.

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1. “The Painter” (BBC Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae Session – 30 June 1969)
   • Version 2
2. “I’m So Glad” (BBC Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae Session – 30 June 1969)
3. “Hush” (BBC Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae Session – 30 June 1969)
   • Version Four

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Whitesnake Live in Illinois September 1, 2022!

• Live at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL.
• John and Nate will be there.
• Potential meet up beforehand!

Postcards From The Edge . . . OF CONNECTICUT!

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  • From the video around the 44:30 mark.

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• Our first spinoff podcast!
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Tracks:

The Syndicats – Crawdaddy Simone

Ray Fenwick – Stateside

Murgatroyd Band – Magpie Theme

Spencer Davis Group – The Screw?

Jon Lord – Windows

Roger Glover and Guests – Butterfly Ball – Fly Away

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Eddie Hardin – Money to Burn

Ian Gillan Band – Clear Air Turbulence

Ian Gillan Band – Scarabus Promo Video

Ray Fenwick – Queen of the Night

Forcefield – Hit and Run from Forcefield III: To Oz and Back

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• Bass, Vocals – Bob Danyls
  • Most credits are from Fandango.
  • Did play on a Brian Connolly (from The Sweet) album:”Hypnotized.”
• Drums – Abe Speller
  • https://www.abespellerjazztrio.com/
  • Most recently in Abe Speller Jazz Trio
• Guitar, Lead Vocals – Joe Lynn Turner
• Guitar, Vocals – Rick Blakemore
  • Went on to have writing credits on JLT albums, Alkatrazz, Ted Nugent, and Girlschool.
• Keyboards, Vocals – Denny LaRue*
  • Also went on to have writing credits with Ted Nugent and others.
• Piano, Clavinet, Synthesizer, Organ – Joe Delia
  • http://www.joedeliamusic.com/
  • Lots of credits on Discogs including being in Stevie Wonder’s band as well as The Isley Brothers and playing with Buster Pointdexter.
  • Also worked on music for movies.

Additional Personnel:

• Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – David Campbell (tracks: A3, A5, B2), Joe Delia (tracks: B5)
  • https://davidmusic.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Campbell_(composer)
  • Father of Beck.
  • Arranger and composer with over 1500 credits on Discogs.
  • Did composition and arrangement for almost too many to mention: Cher, Carole King, James Taylor, Linda Rondstadt, Billy Joel.
• Backing Vocals – Candy Kurgen (tracks: B1)
  • Only credit on Discogs.
• Bass – Don Payne (tracks: A2, B1, B2, B5)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Payne_(musician)
  • American jazz bassist.
• Congas – Santos (11) (tracks: A2, B1)
  • Walter Santos
  • Most of credits appear to be Fandango releases.
• Guitar – John Tropea (tracks: B2, B5)
  • http://www.johntropea.com/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tropea
  • American guitarist and producer.
• Saxophone – David Sanborn (tracks: A5)
  • https://www.davidsanborn.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sanborn
  • Very prolific sax player with almost 800 Discogs credits.
  • Played with all kinds of artists including James Taylor, B.B. King, etc.
• Tambourine, Drums – Lou Mondelli (tracks: A4)
  • Only a few other credits on Discogs.

Technical:

• Engineer [Recording], Remix [Engineer] – Gus Mossler
  • Most credits in the 70s, 80s, 90s in production.
• Executive-Producer – Warren Schatz
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Schatz
  • Almost 500 production credits on Discogs.
• Mastered By – Ted Jensen
  • http://www.sterling-sound.com/
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Jensen_discography
  • Sterling Sound with over 4,000 mastering credits on Discogs.
• Producer – Neil Portnow
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Jensen_discography
  • Bass player, songwriter, and current president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (also known as the Recording Academy), the organization that presents the Grammy Awards.
• Producer [Assistant] – Dorothy Steiner
  • Only credit.

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  • A few other scattered credits.
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  • Only credit is for Fandango logo.

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. Headliner (LaRue, Blakemore)
2. Down Down Down (LaRue, Blakemore)
   • Congas – Santos (11) (tracks: A2, B1)
   • Bass – Don Payne (tracks: A2, B1, B2, B5)
3. Jesse And Will (Blakemore)
   • Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – David Campbell (tracks: A3, A5, B2), Joe Delia (tracks: B5)
4. San Joaquin (LaRue, Blakemore)
   • Tambourine, Drums – Lou Mondelli (tracks: A4)
5. Life Of The Party (Delia, LaRue, Turner)
   • Saxophone – David Sanborn (tracks: A5)
   • Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – David Campbell (tracks: A3, A5, B2), Joe Delia (tracks: B5)

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1. Shadow Boxing (LaRue, Blakemore)
   • Backing Vocals – Candy Kurgen (tracks: B1)
   • Congas – Santos (11) (tracks: A2, B1)
   • Bass – Don Payne (tracks: A2, B1, B2, B5)
2. Helpless Heart (Meyers, Denny LaRue, Blakemore)
   • Tambourine, Handclaps – Lou Mondelli (tracks: B2)
   • Guitar – John Tropea (tracks: B2, B5)
   • Bass – Don Payne (tracks: A2, B1, B2, B5)
   • Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – David Campbell (tracks: A3, A5, B2), Joe Delia (tracks: B5)
3. Devil Rain (LaRue, Blakemore)
4. Misery Road (LaRue, Blakemore)
   • Marimba, Congas, Timbales – Lou Mondelli (tracks: B4)
5. Goin’ Down For The Last Time (LaRue, Turner)
   • Guitar – John Tropea (tracks: B2, B5)
   • Bass – Don Payne (tracks: A2, B1, B2, B5)

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Lead up to the Album:

• Ian Paice started having an interest in drums at the age of 14. On his 15th birthday he was given his first drum kit by his father.
• After becoming proficient he started getting his first paid gigs working with his father for £3 a night.
• Soon after that Paice joined his first rock group, Georgie and The Rave Ons playing in the Oxford area.
• In mid-1965 the band changed their name to The Shindigs.  From deep-purple.net:
  • “They comprised Johnny Bosher on bass, Brian Nelson (no-one can remember what he did!), Ian and Stuart Forrest on lead and rhythm guitars, plus George (Georgie, the band’s namesake) Adams on vocals.”
• Rod Evans began in a band called The Horizons based in Slough. From deep-purple.net:
  • “ . . . that included among its ranks Lenny Hawkes, later Chip Hawkes of The Tremeloes, on bass guitar.”
• The band traveled around playing Hamburg and made very little in pay.  Mick Angus says they’d eat at cafes then run out to skip the bills because they didn’t have the money to pay.
• At this time Rod Evans was doing modeling on the side to make some extra money.
• The Horizons never recorded anything but toured around doing covers.  After some 1965 tours they broke up.  Their drummer wasn’t able to play in Hamburg for not being old enough so they had John Kerrison fill in who would later go on to be the drummer in Episode Six.
• M.I. Five began in 1965 when Rod Evans joined a band called The Jumping Jimmy Band.
• At some point, unclear when, this band changed its name to M.I. Five.
• Paice’s band The Shindigs ended up playing gigs in support of M.I. Five fronted by Rod Evans.
• Mick Angus says of Rod: “He used to be a big Cliff Bennett fan. He modelled his style on Bennet and Allan Clark of The Mollies.”
• M.I. Five’s drummer quit and they began looking for a replacement and found one in Ian Paice.
• Paice thought M.I. Five was a more professional band so he left The Shindigs to join them.
• It was at this point that M.I. Five turned professional.
• Paice moved in with Chris Banham’s family.

MI Five / The Maze • The Complete Recordings [1966-1967] ℗ 2019

Band Lineup:

• Rod Evans – vocals
• Chris Banham – organ
• Eric ‘Jack’ Keene – bass
• Roger Lewis – guitar
• Ian Paice – drums

• In 1966 the band cut their first single “You’ll Never Stop Me Loving You. which came out in September on Parolophone and was recorded on a single track machine.

• M.I. Five
• You’ll Never Stop Me Loving You / Only Time Will Tell
  • Parlophone 5486 : UK, Sept 1966
  • https://www.discogs.com/release/12659300-The-MI5-Youll-Never-Stop-Me-Loving-You
  • You’ll Never Stop Me Loving You
    • Producer – Phil Jay (2)
    • Written By – Roger Lewis (17)
  • Only Time Will Tell
    • Producer – Phil Jay (2)
    • Written By – Roger Lewis (17)

• In October or November of 1966 they changed their name to The Maze.  There was an American band with the same name that are unrelated.
• They they worked on their second single “Hello Stranger” which was recorded for Robert Stigwood’s label Reaction.
• This was recorded in December of 1966.

• The Maze
• Hello Stranger / Telephone
  • Reaction 591009 : UK, Dec 1966
  • Hello Stranger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cbrbjxjlpo
    • Written-By – Lewis*
    • A- side was written by The Maze guitarist Roger Lewis.
  • Telephone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF8aTCh1MJQ
    • Written By – Ludd
    • Cannot find information on who “Ludd” is.
    • B-side of the single was a cover of a song by 
  • https://www.discogs.com/release/5000900-The-Maze-Hello-Stranger

• After this single release The Maze started playing more German gigs and eventually ended up in Italy as a live backing for a musical of the Arcnold Wesker play “Chips with Everything.” This was performed at The Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Italy.
• They were hidden away from the audience and Paice said the band never saw the audience once.
• They went into the studio and recorded an extremely rare Italian only single while they were there. This was intended to be a promotion for the stage production.  The two tracks were written by the play’s producers and they aired on local television.

• Aria Del Sud / Non Fatemi Odiare
  • Polydor NH 59801 : Italy, 1967
  • Printed By – Grafiche Dotti
  • Photography By [Foto Di Copertina] – Luigi Ciminaghi
  • Written-By – D. Saracino*, R. Pallavicini*

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• The band then headed to France to record a very rare French EP live in the studio.

• Harlem Shuffle/What Now/The Trap/I’m So Glad
  • Vogue INT 18136 :France, 1967
  • https://www.discogs.com/release/3704891-The-Maze-In-Special-Danse-Discotheque
  • “In” Special Danse Discotheque
  • Producer – Dru Harvey
  • Produced for Derrytone Records Ltd.
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    • Written By – N. Rodriguez
  • What Now: 
    • Written By – M. Field
  • The Trap: 
    • Written By – Roger Lewis
    • Written-By – Vanhan*, E. Keen*, I. Paice*, R. Evans*
  • I’m so Glad: 
    • Written-By – S. James*

• Paice: “On the boat trip over I met this guy called Ritchie Blackmore who was on his way to Hamburg”, says Ian Paice. “I’d heard about him, what a great guitar player he was supposed to be, and we had a talk but that was all… never thought anything about it but after the job in Milan, The Maze got a three week booking at the Star Club in Hamburg and we met again.” 
• Blackmore caught Paice live and offered him a drumming gig but Paice had to turn it down because The Maze were making money at this point.
• The Maze’s last single was released on December 6, 1967.  It was the ballad “Cateri Cateri.”

• Cateri Cateri / Easy Street
  • MGM 1368 : UK , Dec 1967
  • https://www.discogs.com/release/8324049-The-Maze-Catari-Catari
  • Producer – Dru Harvey
  • Cateri Cateri
    • Lyrics By – G. Fields
    • Words By – S. Cardillo*
  • Easy Street
    • Written-By – Banham*, Paice*, Keene*, Evans*, Lewis*

• After this the band wasn’t seeing much success from its singles.
• Rod Evans was the first to leave.  He heard about a singing gig from Mick Angus advertised in Melody Maker and he replied to it.
• When he got the job Ritchie asked Ian what he was going to do when The Maze broke up.  Ian said he went to the rehearsal when their original drummer, Bobby Woodman, wasn’t around and it was agreed that he’d join the band as well.
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