The Deep Purple Podcast

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• The Golden Girls in the UK!
• Other albums similar to this: Gillan’s Inn
• Real World Studios is the studio owned by Peter Gabriel
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_World_Studios

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Album Tracks:

1. “Dixie Chicken” (Little Feat)
   • From the 1973 album “Dixie Chicken” by Little Feat.
2. “Shapes of Things” (Yardbirds)
   • Single by The Yardbirds from 1966.
3. “The Battle of New Orleans” (Lonnie Donegan/Johnny Horton)
   • From the 1962 album by Lonnie Donegan, “A Golden Age of Donegan.”
4.  “Lucifer” (Bob Seger System)
   • From the 1970 album “Mongrel” by Bob Seger System.
5.  “White Room” (Cream)
   • From the 1968 Cream album “Wheels of Fire.”
6.  (Medley)
   • “Going Down” (Moloch)
     1. From 1969 album “Moloch” by the band Moloch.
     2. Also covered by Freddie King in 1971 and likely popularized by Jeff Beck in 1972
     3. Mark 4 used to cover this live.
   • “Green Onions” (Booker T. & The MG’s)
     1. From the 1962 album “Green Onions” by Booker T. & The MG’s.
   • “Hot ‘Lanta” (The Allman Brothers)
     1. From the 1971 live album “Live at Fillmore East” by The Allman Brothers.
   • “Dazed and Confused” (Led Zeppelin)
     1. From Led Zeppelin’s self-titled debut album in 1969.
   • “Gimme Some Lovin’ (Spencer Davis Group)
     1. A single from 1966 by Spencer Davis Group.

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Reception and Review

• https://ultimateclassicrock.com/deep-purple-turning-to-crime-album-review/
  • But these surprises are surprisingly convincing. Guitarist Steve Morse gets to employ some different playing techniques, Don Airey rolls out a little barrelhouse piano on some of the tracks and drummer Ian Paice sounds assured in the different rhythmic approaches. Gillan, meanwhile, can sing just about anything, so his voice winds up being the best ambassador for this unlikely fare.
  • The closing “Caught in the Act,” meanwhile, fuses together bits of five ’60s favorites – Jeff Beck Group’s “Going Down,” Booker T. & the MG’s’ “Green Onions,” the Allman Brothers Band‘s “Hot ‘Lanta,” Led Zeppelin‘s “Dazed and Confused” and the Spencer Davis Group’s “Gimme Some Lovin'” – into a mostly instrumental medley that shows why Mark VIII is one of the group’s best lineups and more potent than most of its Purple predecessors.
• https://bravewords.com/reviews/deep-purple-turning-to-crime
  • 6.5
  • My one gripe with Turning To Crime is that the selection of songs was rather predictable in the sense that it makes perfect sense for Deep Purple to cover a track like Cream’s “White Room”. It’s obvious that Deep Purple is targeting their efforts to their most prominent demographic whom they’ve already won over long ago, but I wish the band would’ve taken a different approach — maybe even covering songs from an artist or era that we wouldn’t have necessarily expected.
  • Despite wanting the band to step a bit outside of their comfort zone, the band’s latest efforts have continued to surprise fans with their level of quality; and I am still incredibly elated that 53 years after the band’s debut in 1968, Deep Purple are still recording and releasing music new (or in this case old), for rock fans of multiple generations to continue to enjoy.
  • An inexplicably odd, badly worded, and poorly researched article: https://pennsylvanianewstoday.com/genesis-2-nights-at-wells-fargo-center-and-6-new-album-releases-seven-in-seven-thereporteronline/273622/New release
    Deep Purple — “Conversion to Crime”
    “Turning to Crime” arrives just 15 months after “Whoosh!”. — Deep Purple’s 21st studio album. Despite the death of guitar wizard Ritchie Blackmore nearly 30 years ago and the death of keyboardist Jon Lord in 2012, he received high praise from critics who praised the band’s ever-evolving creativity. This new release is the first DP album of a track that wasn’t written by the band. This is a collection of songs previously recorded by other artists, such as Cream’s “White Room,” Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well,” and Bob Dylan’s “Watching the River Flow.”

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Lead up to the Album:

• Rumors surrounding Deep Purple working on a new album.
• Accidental track leak by fnac.
• Initial disappointment.
• Contest to win Stingray Bass – missing letters.

Personnel:

• Ian Gillan
• Ian Paice
• Roger Glover
• Steve Morse
• Don Airey
• Tenor Sax: Leo Green
• Trumpet: Matt Holland
• Backing vocals: Bob Ezrin
• Backing vocals: Nicole Thalia
• Backing vocals: Marsha B. Morrison
• Fiddle: Gina Forsyth
• Squeeze Box: Bruce Daigrepont
• Percussion: Julian Shank

Technical:

• Producer – Bob Ezrin
• Mastered by Robert Vosgien, CA
• Production Coordinator: Kim Markovichick
• Recorded by: Junior Garr (backing vocals at Renaissance House Studios)
• Recorded by: (fiddle and squeeze box) David Farrell

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Photography: Mark “Weissguy” Weiss
• Photography: Rene Treier
• Photography: Simon Emmett
• Cover art: jekyll & hyde
• Cover art: jeh.it

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Album Tracks:

1. “7 and 7 Is” (Love)
   • From the 1966 album “Da Capo.”
   • Prominent Ramones cover as well.
   • Official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtFiVyYto4c
2. “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” (Huey “Piano” Smith)
   • From the 1959 Huey Smith & The Rhythm Aces album “Having a Good Time.”
   • Official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECGft-VgIsg
3. “Oh Well” (Fleetwood Mac)
   • Single from 1969.
   • Fleetwood Mac single, included on later releases of “Then Play On.”
   • Official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTfNINPcjU8
4. “Jenny Take A Ride!” (Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels)
   • From the 1967 self-titled album by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels.
5. “Watching the River Flow” (Bob Dylan)
   • Bob Dylan single included on “Greatest Hits: Vol. II.”
6. “Let the Good Times Roll” (Ray Charles & Quincy Jones)
   • From the 1959 album “The Genius of Ray Charles.”

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• https://www.discogs.com/release/21111700-Deep-Purple-Turning-To-Crime

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  • Great fun podcast on Deep Purple
  • I found out about this excellent podcast by accident and I absolutely love it. It’s a great fun listen. I’ve only played a few episodes so have loads to catch up! The House of Blue Light review was interesting. I saw Purple on this tour at Wembley London UK. On that eve Blackmore refused to do an encore! So Lord and Glover played lead. It was definitely an interesting version of Smoke on the water! Having seen Gillan in mind blowing vocal form (the band) live in 81, it was noticeable Ian had sadly lost some of his range/power by 87/88. Overall he was still great. Keep up the great work, thank you!

Lead up to the Album:

• This album saw the departure of Ged Peck on guitar with Pete Parks joining the band. Peck left to pursue classical guitar playing.
• We talked on our last Warhorse episode about how Rick Wakeman was very briefly in the band but did not make it to any of the recordings. Rick left in April of 1970 to join the Strawbs.
• The Warhorse Story Volume 2 liner notes states that the album was released (or as Nick Simper puts it “escaped”) in 1972. There were no singles from this album.
• The head of A&R for Vertigo gave the band a 1,500 budget and said “Take your time, do what you want.”
• At the end of 1971 they headed to De Lane Lea to record the album.
• Part way through the recording Robbie Beck came into the studio to tell them they only had 500 worth of time left. It turns out that the head of A&R had left and not told anybody the budget he’d promised the band.They were able to get a little more money to finish the recording.
• The label wanted the album finished head of Christmas so they had to rush to get it done.
• Nick apparently went into a tirade about the budgeting issue with some of the “big wigs” at Phonogram and were soon dropped after the album came out in June of 1972.

Personnel:

• Bass Guitar – Nick Simper
• Drums – Mac Poole
• Lead Guitar – Peter Parks
  • New for this album
  • Went on to follow Nick Simper to Nick SImper’s Fandango
  • Later played in a band called The Good Old Boys
• Organ, Piano – Frank Wilson (2)
• Vocals – Ashley Holt

Technical:

• Producer [Produced By] – Ian Kimmet, Warhorse (2)
  • Worked with Ann Margaret, Andy Vanwarmer, Danny Gatton, went on to work in management for R.E.M.
• Engineer – Dave Stock
  • Worked on Jon Lord’s “Gemini Suite” and Ashton, Gardner, and Dyke
• Recorded at De Lane Lea Studios.

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Design [Sleeve Design] – Rick Breach
• Liner Notes – Ian Kimmel
• From The Warhorse Story liner notes: “Red Sea, as the second album was titled, also sported a Vertigo sleeve that was as poorly executed as the first one had been brilliant. The original concept of an ironclad warship had sounded great but the less than professional results look amateurish today.

• Alternate covers and titles:
  • 1984 UK Vinyl Reissue 
    • https://www.discogs.com/release/1006145-Warhorse-Red-Sea

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Album Tracks:

All songs composed by Warhorse except the final track.

Side One:

1. Red Sea
2. Back In Time
3. Confident But Wrong
4. Feeling Better

Side Two:

1. Sybilla
2. Mouthpiece
3. I (Who Have Nothing) (Donida, Leiber/Stoller)
   • Donida was an Italian composer
   • Leiber/Stoller, of course, was the legendary songwriting team who wrote numerous rock classics such as “Hound Dog,” Yakety Yak,” Jailhouse Rock,” etc.
   • Alternate version by Tom Jones: Tom Jones – I Who Have Nothing – This is Tom Jones TV Show 1970

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Reception and Review

• Ashley Holt’s performance on “Back in Time” was criticized as having been the “unconscious model for the kind of singing” that they parodied in Spinal Tap according to Richie Unterberger on AllMusic.
  • https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000053407
• WARHORSE: “Red Sea” (Vertigo). “. . . this second album cannot fail to establish them in the hierarchy of Europe’s greatest groups” pompously declare the liner notes. That’s a very hard tag to live up to — and Warhorse don’t quite make it, I’m afraid. “Red Sea” is like the curate’s egg: good in parts. But when they’re good, Warhorse are as good, if not better, than most of the bands working in the hard ‘nd heavy rock field. Their greatest asset is lead guitarist Peter Parks who works hard all the time to lift the ordinariness. He’s really missed on tracks like “Feeling Better” where he has to takes  backseat. But his long solo in “Back In Time” is a treat; inventive and exciting, sounding at times like Richie [sic] Blackmore’s work on “wring That Neck” on Deep Purple’s “Book Of The Taliesyn” [sic] album. In fact, “Red Sea” does bear comparison with early Purple albums; hardly surprising, as bassist Nick Simper was on of the founder members of that band. Both he and organist Frank Wilson are content to provide backings which gives the other members of the band something to work on. Vocalist Ashley Holt has a hard, gravelly voice which sometimes doesn’t have sufficient punch to carry some numbers — like “Feeling Better” — on its own. Nevertheless, he can do it if he tries: just listen to “Confident But Wrong” and “Sybilla” — the stand out track, with everybody boogieing along like there was not tomorrow, Drummer Mac Poole provides a solid beat throughout, coming into his own on “Mouthpiece,” an extended solo which is just a little too extended for my liking. But that’s the only bit of self-indulgence on “Red Sea.” — M.O.
• Soon after this Mac Poole left Warhorse to join a band called Gong. They recruited drummer Barney James and began work on a third album that was never completed.  There are bonus tracks on “The Warhorse Story” that were destined for this third album.
• This group played their last show in 1974 though original members would take the stage together a few more times over the years for one off reunion gigs.
• Rick Wakeman would recruit Ashley Holt and Barney James for his solo albums “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” and “The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.”
• Nick tried to get them to stay with Warhorse, telling them that Rick Wakeman’s projects didn’t last too long, they left.
• Two months later Ashley called back about getting back together and he didn’ty have the energy to pick up where they left off.  Additionally it was the first time he’d been off the road since the age of 18.
• Nick then (with Parks) started up Nick Simper’s Dynamite.
• Nick said it was a little galling to sit and watch bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, UFO, and others who had all been opening for Warhorse go on to achieve success as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal really took off.
• Simper: “I used to say tot he guys if we sick together long enough, we’ve got a stage act that wipes them out. We had some great times, which is why the band survived for four years, but there were always [problems with managers, publishers. Lots of support bands borrowed from us, both musically and some of our stage act. Judas Priest, all that leather studded arm band stuff, he took that straight of Ashley Holt. He borrowed the bull whip prop too which is fair enough, we nicked if off Dave Dee, they used one for Legend of Xanadu! That guy from Queen, Brian May, he saw us at the Marquee, was a great fan. He borrowed Pete’s solo from the track Back in Time for one of their albums.”
• Simon Robinson writes: “Indeed dedicated Queen fans who have heard the Warhorse track agree that the solo on Queen’s Brighton Rock is uncannily similar!”
• Robinson concludes: “It’s perhaps all too easy to day to forget just how important the live circuit was back int the ‘70s, both for the bands who played it and the audiences who came to watch and in some cases be influenced by what they saw. Warhorse can be proud of their part in it all.

For Further Information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_(Warhorse_album)
• https://www.discogs.com/Warhorse-Red-Sea/release/1603965
• The Warhorse Story Part 2 Liner Notes by Simon Robinson
• https://dmme.net/interviews/simper

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Lead up to the Album:

• Lineup change: Bernie Torme comes in to replace Steve Byrd who returned to session work.
• Phil Banfield comes onto the scene to work as Ian’s manager.
• Ian and Phil went to the south coast to get the picture for the front of the UK album.
• Gillan says: “He wanted a picture of me with only water behind, and, t o achieve the effect, he said I had to jump. So there I was, with my manager shoultin, ‘Jump,’ and I’d jump. Again and again. From that moment we agreed that when Phil says jump, I jump!”
• In 1979 Phil got the band in front of audiences, booking the National Jazz Blues and Rock Festival which became known as the Reading Rock Festival.  Gillan were on the same bill as Steve Hcket, Think Lizzy, and Rory Gallagher.
• ON September 20, 1979 the original version of this album was released in Japan by Toshiba-EMI.  This album was billed as Ian Gillan.  Australia and New Zealand got it later in the year.
• That version of the album had a different track list.
• Japanese version: https://www.discogs.com/Gillan-Mr-Universe/release/9594353 including tracks not on the UK release:

*Tracks that does not appear on the Japanese version.

**Track that does not appear on the UK version but does appear on the 1993 “Gillan – The Japanese Album” compilation.

***Track unique to the Japanese version.

• In 1993 RPM released a compilation called “Gillan – The Japanese Album” which combined the tracks from the Japanese “Mr. Universe” (except “Your Sister’s On My List”) album with the original Gillan “Japanese” album. 14 tracks in total.
• Since we’ve already covered 4 of the tracks on the UK version we will focus on the Japanese release of Mr. Universe.
• When you look at it the UK version is really more of a sort of compilation featuring 4 tracks previously released, one with a different lineup.  The Japanese version, however, is a brand new album.
• Stargazer – Issue #20 from December of 1979 also breaks down the differences between the versions.
• Simon Robinson states that he doesn’t detect any real difference between the duplicated tracks.

Personnel:

• Bass, Mixed By, Arranged By – John McCoy
• Drums, Arranged By – Mick Underwood
• Guitar, Arranged By – Bernie Torme*
  • Played in a band called The Urge in the early 70s
  • Also played in a band called Scrapyard with John McCoy in the mid 70s
  • He then formed The Bernie Torme Band which released his first recorded work in 1979 – this was his only recorded credit prior to Gillan
  • Sadly he passed away in 2019
• Keyboards – Colin Towns
• Vocals – Ian Gillan

Technical:

• Engineer, Mixed By – Paul “Chas” Watkins*
• Lacquer Cut By – Porky (5)

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Photography By – Mick Gregory
  • Photography for Deep Purple, Bernie Torme solo, Genesis
• Photography By – Yuka Fujii
  • Visual for Bernie Torme, Iron Maiden (debut album),  
• Photography By [UK Front Cover] – Victor Watts
  • Only credit on Discogs
• Artwork [UK Sleeve Design] – Jubilee Graphics
  • Worked with Elton John, ELO, 
• No Japanese credit for the cover design.
  • Cover is a pic from Ian Gillan at the Reading Festival in 1978 playing with the brand new Gillan

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

1. Vengeance (Gillan, Towns)
2. Mr. Universe (Gillan, Towns)
3. She Tears Me Down (Towns)
4. Your Sister’s On My List (Gillan, Towns)
   • Robinson: “… has lyrics which you would expect from a title like that! Musically it starts off sounding a little Zeppelin like (early stuff), just the way the riff is constructed and churned out.”
   • Robinson compares the ending of the track to an imitation of “Hard Lovin’ Man.”

Side Two:

1. Street Theatre (Towns)
2. Roller (Gillan, Towns)
3. Puget Sound (Gillan, Towns, McCoy, Torme, Underwood)
4. Moving With The Times (Gillan, Towns, McCoy)
5. Sleeping on the Job (Gillan, Towns)
   • Released as the next UK single per Stargazer Issue #20 per Ian.
   • Song is about Leyland night workers
     • Found this article: https://www.aronline.co.uk/archive/sleeping-on-the-job-essay/
     • “The story first hit the headlines on 12 November 1979 when it was revealed that 14 night shift workers had been caught sleeping at a British Leyland plant. The men were found tucked up in sleeping bags when management swooped on the priming shop at the Range Rover plant in Solihull, near Birmingham.
     • “After two days of disciplinary hearings and appeals, BL dismissed 13 Land Rover car workers, who had been caught sleeping on the night shift. A Supervisor who was sleeping was also dismissed, along with a Foreman. The company refused to comment while a hearing was still continuing into charges against a Superintendent.”

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• $3 “Nobody’s Perfect” Tier
  • Peter Gardow
  • Ian Desrosiers
  • Mark Roback
  • Andrew Meyer
  • Duncan Leask
  • Stuart McCord
• $1 Made Up Name Tier
  • Ells Murders
  • Spacey Noodles
  • The “Keeper of the Red Liquid” Leaky Mausoleum
  • Stephen Sommerville The Concerto 1999 Fanatic
  • Raphael Choury (Raff Kaff)
  • Spike, The Rock Cat
  • JJ Stannard
  • Hank the Tank
  • Flight of the Rat Bat Blue Light

Reception and Review

• The album reached No. 11 in the UK, selling over 2 million copies worldwide.
• With all the craziness surrounding the track listing and versions of this album there is also another song from the Mr. Universe sessions that is considered lost.  The song is called “Parliament Square.” 
  • You can hear it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUqM48lPLsE

Reviews from Simon Robinson in Stargazer Issue #20, December of 1979:

• Robinson in Stargazer #20 says that the Japanese version is the best ex-purple disc to date.
• Robinson speaks very unfavorably about the UK version, mostly having issues with the mix.
• In the UK they promoted the album touring with Randy California.  Samson with Bruce Dickinson were also there.
• Gillan: “I loved the band; Bernie and John galvanized audiences with their electrifying stage act, and, in John’s case he was described in one review as a ‘walking absurdity’ with a presence that oozed rock ‘n’ roll.”
• Gillan’s story about meeting back up with Ritchie from “Child in Time” pages 139-140.

For Further Information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Universe_(album)
• UK Release: https://www.discogs.com/Gillan-Mr-Universe/release/1385354
• Japanese (Original) Release: https://www.discogs.com/Gillan-Mr-Universe/release/9594353
• Child in Time by Ian Gillan
• Darker Than Blue, Issue 20, December 1979
• Stargazer – Issue #20 (December of 1979)

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