Month: October 2019

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• Jörg Planer – an essential Twitter follow

Show Updates:

• Comments from social media.
• Come Taste The Band release delay – due to “Come and Taste The Band” error in initial sleeve design.
• Thanks to Scott Haskin who sent over the complete lyrics to Cherkazoo and Other Stories.

• Mike Healy on Twitter points out that the “Funky Junction Play a Tribute to Deep Purple” album cover features an entirely different band, Hard Stuff.
• Spacey Noodles writes in to tell us about Ian Gillan’s Caramba TV channel on YouTube.  Looks like it was abandoned about a year ago unfortunately.
• Thank you to Steve Seaborg for the generous offer of tickets to see UFO!
• Alphabetical poll to pick our listeners’ favorite mark 1 song.

Notes From The Field:

• John reviews Deep Purple show at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT on October 9, 2019.

• Elaine Benis dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQu_NLRvULM

Lead Up To Album & Writing:

• From Glenn Hughes’s autobiography:
  • Songs left over from Come Taste the Band that DP didn’t use.
  • Very messed up on cocaine at the time of writing album.
  • Tells a story of having cocaine paranoia, running around with a knife into a field because he thought there was someone in the tall grass.
  • He talks about this being the point where drugs stopped being fun.  He just couldn’t stop doing them.
  • He became violent and exhausted at home.
  • His only comfort was sitting in front of his Fender Rhodes, playing, and writing music.
  • He says he was in a lot of pain when he wrote the album.
  • His intention was to push his musical abilities.  He wanted to show everyone what he was capable of with this album.
  • He was upset that Lord and Paice formed PAL.
  • He was upset that Lord had ended up with his girlfriend.
  • He wanted to show everyone that he was musically superior.
  • Mick Jagger offered Hughes use of his studio to record the album.
  • Hughes says he was out of his mind on speed when he recorded Play Me Out.
  • Album was written and recorded in ten days.  Glenn Hughes claims that he never slept once during that time.  He recorded all the basic tracks, vocals, and backing vocals.
  • Hughes says he saw a nurse walking through the studio with a poodle and had a conversation with her.  
  • The strings were recorded later on in L.A.
  • The album was mixed at Island.
  • Hughes admits to being totally out of it but is proud of the vocals he did.
  • Hughes describes the album as being very painful for him.  She said it was all about him breaking up with Vicky Gibbs and her leaving him for Jon Lord.  It was about losing his girlfriend to his mentor.
• From CD liner notes:
  • Original plan was to release the single “Smile” then finish it up with the album.
  • Found a studio called LEe Sound Studio, a 16 track studio to work in.
  • Glenn would clock in hearly to do the writing so by the ntime the musicians got there they’d be ready to work.
  • The bulk of the album was recorded in 1976.  After the basic tracks were laid down he re-joined Trapeze.
  • It was almost a year later when ti was released.
  • Safari was the sister label to Oyster (which did Rainbow) and that was who released Play Me Out.
  • Released in Germany first as that was the biggest market for ex-Purple.
  • The album cost $16,000 to make.  This was considered pocket change even in 1977.
  • Recorded his parts with a drum machine then added other instruments after.

Album Lineup

• Glenn Hughes – bass, guitars, keys
• Mel Galley – guitar
  • Trapeze, Whitesnake, Cozy Powell, Phenomena — a supergroup with Brian May and others
• Bob Bowman – guitar
  • Played in Luv Machine, Sundance,  
• Pat Travers (wiki) – guitar
• Dave Holland – drums
  • Trapeze, Judas Priest
• Terry Rowley – piano
  • Trapeze, Montanas, Roy Wood’s Helicopters, The Mountain Kings
• Robert Bailey – piano
  • Ananda, Osibisa, Johnny Nash, Alice Cooper, Billy Ray Cyrus
• Ron Asprey – saxophone
  • Bands: Back Door, JAR, Megatone
  • Prolific session musician for Spencer Davis Group, Cliff Richard, David Coverdale’s White Snake/Northwinds, and many more
• Henry Lowther – trumpet
  • Charlie Watts And The Tentet, Colin Towns Mask Orchestra, Manfred Mann, Mike Westbrook Orchestra, 
• Mark Nauseef – percussion
  • Elf, Ian Gillan Band, Eddie Hardin’s Wizard’s Convention
• Liza Strike – backing vocals
  • The Butterfly Ball, Elton John, Carly Simon, Pink Floyd, and hundreds of other sessions
• Joy Wright – backing vocals
  • Only credits are this album and two GH compilations that include songs from this album
• Helen Chappelle – backing vocals
  • The Butterfly Ball, Roger Glover’s Elements, David Coverdale, various session work

• Arranged By [Horns], Saxophone [Baritone, Tenor, Alto] – Ron Aspery
• Arranged By [Strings] – Graham Prescott*
  • He is best known for his work with Tom Jones, Deep Purple, Cher, Paul McCartney, Hans Zimmer, Jon Bon Jovi, John Williams, among others.
• Drums – Dave Holland (2)
• Engineer – Brad Davis
  • Started his career 1969, working for A&R Studios, NYC.
  • Moved to London in 1974 and worked on movies Serpico, Godspell, The Godfather (1 & 2), Holy Mountain, and others.
  • Worked for Marcus Recording Studios, London from June 1979 until roughly mid-1982.
  • Worked on an album in 1988 about the Baseball team the Rangers.
  • Worked with John Prine, Ian Gillan Band’s Clear Air Turbulence, Stan Clarke, Trapeze, King Crimson, Wang Chung, and many more.
• Other [Assistant Equipment Co-ordination] – Andy Field, Dave Whitehouse, Frank Merricks, Willy Fyffe
• Recorded By [Assistant At Air] – Jon Walls
  • Performed with Jimmy Buffet
  • Production with Olivia Newton John, Marvin Gaye, and The Pretenders amongst others
• Recorded By [Assistant At Island] – Barry Sage
  • Production with The Rolling Stones, Brian Eno, and Bad Brains amongst other

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Original cover had two Glenn Hughes heads, like a 70s portrait.

• 1995 Re-release went to one Glenn Hughes head.
• 40th anniversary moved back to original cover.
• Photography [Cover] – Gered Mankowitz

Album Details and Analysis:

• Recorded at Lee Sound Basing Street (Island) and Air Studios.
• This Album is dedicated to my best friend Tommy Bolin.
• (P)&(C)1977 Deep Purple (Overseas) Limited.
• Made in England

1. I Got It Covered
2. Space High
3. It’s About Time
   • Tommy Bolin liked this song and suggested it should be recorded for Come Taste The Band.
   • Deep Purple rehearsed it but at the last minute Hughes decided to hold it back.
4. L.A. Cut Off
5. Well
6. Soulution
7. Your Love Is Like a Fire
8. Destiny (Galley, Holland, Hughes)
9. I Found a Woman
   • Last song recorded for the album.
   • The “woman” he’s speaking of is “my music.”

Album Review & Reception

• After they had finished recording Hughes was flying with Terry Rowley from HEathrow to Chicago.  He was coming down off the speed and he got off the plane to get a sandwich during a connection. The plane left without him.  The masters of Play Me Out were on the plane. Luckily Terry was on the pane and kept them safe.
• Geoff Barton did a positive review.
• Pete Makowski did a positive review.
• Rave reviews in the music weekly Sounds by Geoff Barton.
• Record was solid with die-hard fans but didn’t get any live promotion, despite a Glenn Hughes Band tour being planned.
• It was re-released in 1983 as interest in the band and its former members was growing.
• Most DP fans were confused by the album.
• After the release Ozzy told Hughes he wanted to form a band called Blizzard of Ozz with Hughes on bass.  Hughes didn’t want to be in a band where he didn’t sing.
• Everyone thought this was going to be a big thing and lead to great solo success for Hughes but the drugs held him back.

• Review by Geoff Barton in Sounds magazine, 1977:
  • Title: Soulful flight of a Purple Emperor
  • Editor commented: Oy vey! Poetic headlines already. – Ed.
  • ALTHOUGH THE Ian Gillan-Roger Glover incarnation of Deep Purple is the one most fondly remembered by fans, in many ways the superceding David Coverdale-Glenn Hguhes line up had as much, if not more, going for it.
  • OK, so Coverdale, Hughes, et al never succeeded in recording an album of the overall calibre of ‘Machine Head’ (due to the steadily growing disillusionment of one Ritchie Blackmore more than anything else one would suspect, however) but in terms of sheer vocal variety and heavy rock funkability the two were, I think, unbeatable.
  • While Ian Gillan is still regarded as the Purple vocalist, in my opinion the combined talents of Coverdale and Hughes succeeded in raising the standards set by the silver-throated screamer sky high: Voverdale’s deep, full-throated macho calls to battle were perfectly offset/supplemented by Hughess’ supremely soulful vocal excursions: the rest was shattering.  The full extend of their titanic twin vocal abilities can be best witnessed on the ‘Made In Europe’ DP LP — on ‘Burn’ and ‘You Fool No One’ in particular, methinks. Then again, if you can bear to recall PUrple’s last tour with Tommy Bolin on guitar you’ll remember Hughes’ magnificent version of ‘Georgia On My Mind’ and know that he is one of our great singers . . . a fact that hits home immediately, listening to his solo album ‘Play Me Out’.
  • Now, this record has been out for an age I know, but it’s only recently that I’ve been able to get my hands on a copy.  On the highly unlikely label of Safari records, as far as I know and for reasons I don’t understand it’s only been released in Germany and a few other weird places like Greenland and suchlike . . . what the hell, whatever the policy/marketing restrictions, this album must be granted a full release in Britain some time in the near future, simply must.  For Glenn Hughes, it really is something of a triumph.
  • “White soul — pshaw” scored Al Lewis upon hearing this album in the office.  Now, I’ve never found the idea of non-black funksters so objectionable as our esteemed Ed. — and it seems to me that when an artist, like Hughes has done here, puts such feeling, such effort into the making of an album, all barriers are transcended.
  • For soul album this definitely is.  Hughes has given full rein to his ‘This Time Around’-type singing/songwriting leanings and the end result is guaranteed to bowl you over.  Recorded with his one-time Trapeze sidemates Mel Galey and Dave Holland (and with whom Hughes was suppose dto be getting a band together shortly after PUrple’s demise — something that, mysteriously, never came about) plus guests Pat Travers, Mark Nauseef and others.  ‘Play Me Out’ runs the gamut of soulful expression — from the proud, lip-pouting struf of ‘I Got It Covered’, through the warm, heart-felt ballad ‘Your Love Is Like a Fire’ up to joyous celebratory ‘I Found a Woman’.
  • Hughes is up front all the way, his infections bass lines rippling along, weaving though every song; his voice, whether backed up/counterpointed by raunchy chick singers or soft, solemn and solitary, is totally immaculate, possessing a seemingly endless range.  Hughes knows that he’s got a great parr of ‘chords of course and occasionally this cockiness proves to be a disadvantage as he crams too many different vocal variations into a sings song; alo, he sometimes sounds too much like Stevie Wonder for comfort — unnecessary, unfortunate, but true.
  • But even so this is a truly magnificent album 00 and in ‘Space High’ Hughes has a potential big hit on his hands, if anyone has the influence/foresight to get it released as a 45.  With the (albeit somewhat overrated) film ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’ currently hot news and ‘Space High’s’ subject matter (‘Thirty-two saucers over the land,’ run the lyrics, ‘should we catch them or should we let them land?’) together with its fidgety funkiness should guarantee its resounding success.
  • So all Purple fantastic out there: stop writing letters to SOUNDS praising garbage like ‘Powerhouse’ and instead muster your considerable collective might and see if you can do anything about getting this terrific ‘Play Me Out’ album released over here.  I’ll back you every inch of the way.
  • GEOFF BARTON
• Two German-language review provided less positive reviews.  These are rough translations by the wonderful Jörg Planer.

• The first translates basically as saying that it’s basically a “boring flop.”

• The second is more harsh saying: “Glenn is trying to play guitar and sing solo and hearing the album he isn’t and won’t be good in both.  His singing in ‘Soulution’ sounds like he’s imitating a love hungry cat.”

In The News . . .

• Deep Purple pays tribute to Ginger Baker with ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ 
  • They normally play Green Onions as an intro to Hush but replaced it for this show to pay tribute to their recently departed colleague.

• Martin Popoff’s new book Sensitive to Light: The Rainbow Story (Link to purchase here: http://www.martinpopoff.com/html/sensitive-to-light-the-rainbow-story.html )
  • Update to his book Rainbow: English Castle Magic which is now out of print
    • – First off, this book is 50% longer, a whopping 120,000 words and 318 pages
    • – No pictures in the old one – two swell colour sections of photos in this one.
    • – New interview footage with Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio, Roger Glover, Jimmy Bain, Tony Carey, Graham Bonnet, Craig Gruber, Cozy Powell and more.
    • – major overhaul in the writing and analysis by me
    • – loads more research of the press, breakdown of the songs, production, album covers etc.
    • – old one was smaller format; this one is my usual 6” x 9”
    • – old one… hey, it was one of my very first band biographies; it was long overdue for a re-engineering and this is probably my best yet. So, as the back cover sez…
    • – reissues and live output covered in more detail
    • – brought up to date with the Ronnie Romero era live shows and new songs
  • Email martinp@inforamp.net for purchase/invoicing.
  • Link to purchase here: http://www.martinpopoff.com/html/sensitive-to-light-the-rainbow-story.html

• Steve Morse Recalls His Worst Moment With Fans After Joining Deep Purple
  • On a recent episode of the Ernie Ball: Striking A Chord podcast, Morse recalled one incident where a fan whipped a bottle at him — he ducked and the projectile hit co-founding keyboardist Jon Lord in the head. It was awful but even that wasn’t the worst incident.
  • “South America. In Chile, [a man] was spitting at me,” Morse said. “Every time I would come up front to do a solo, and my eyes were closed involuntarily…because I’m into the music. I don’t have any poses or any kind of idea what I look like…I was just playing and during the last song, he spit into my mouth.”
  • Morse still isn’t sure whether the way he looks onstage played into the fans’ vitriol or if it was solely the fact that he wasn’t Blackmore (Joe Satriani filled in for Blackmore a year earlier, so Morse didn’t understand what all the hate was about).
  • “Anyway, this [spit] lands in my mouth suddenly,” Morse continued. “If there was a movie soundtrack, you’d hear the needle being scratched across the record. …I finally made eye contact with the guy; he was pointing to himself all proudly, ‘Yeah, it was me!'”
  • Violated and enraged, when the song was over, Morse launched himself into the audience in an attempt to fight the spitter. He didn’t make it to the man’s neck like he wanted, but it created a pretty memorable scene for anyone who was watching.

This Week in Purple History . . .

October 28 through November 3

• November 3, 1945 – Nick Simper is born

• October 29, 1984 – Deep Purple releases “Perfect Strangers”

• October 30, 1993 – Ritchie announced his resignation from Deep Purple

For Further Information:

• Deep Purple: A Matter of Fact by Jerry Bloom
• Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story
• The Road of Golden Dust: The Deep Purple Story 1968-1976 by Jerry Bloom
• Glenn Hughes The Autobiography: From Deep Purple to Black Country Communion by Glenn Hughes
• Purple Records 1971-1978 by Neil Priddey
•  

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• Ry @ Sabbath Bloody Podcast
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Show Updates:

• Comments from social media.
• John is now on Twitter!  Follow him: @jhurr1cane
• David Coverdale responds back with his thoughts on Billy Cobham’s “Spectrum” album.
  • https://twitter.com/DeepPurplePod/status/1179024304136167424

Lead Up To Album & Writing:

• We covered the end or Blackmore’s tenure in DP in Episode #18 – Stormbringer.  Stemming from his desire to cover “Black Sheep of the Family.”
• He could not convince Coverdale to sing on Ritchie’s “solo” EP so he was able to get Ronnie James Dio who he paid flat fee of £1,000 to sing the track.
• The chemistry between the two was so good that they ended up doing “Sixteenth Century Greensleeves” as well.
• Ritchie: “The way he sang was just perfect for what I wanted.  I didn’t have to tell him — he just sang it.”
• Dio: “Ritchie told me that we had to go into the studio in a couple of days to lay down a track  and asked me if I could write a lyric for him byt he following day! We went up to his room, he played me those chords and I went away having to rememebr it.  I went home and wrote the melody and lyric in my head, and it worked out fine.”
• ELO cellist Mugh McDowell also played on these first two tracks as he was teching Ritchie the cello at the time.
• After a break in Deep Purple’s Australian tour.  He used the rest of the band Elf (except for the unfortunate guitarist, Steve Edwards) and recorded the album between February 20 and March 14 1975 at Musicland Studios in Munich with Martin Birch.
• This recording gave Blackmore the confidence he needed that he could do this alone and he let Deep Purple Management know but not his fellow bandmates.
• In his book “Deep Purple & Rainbow Every Song” Steve Pilkington says: “. . . such was the shroud of secrecy and deception around every line-up change the band had, it’s a wonder that an ex-member never turned up at a gig, like the famed JApanese soldier who didn’t know the war had ended some twenty or thiry years later! Maybe that’s where Rod Evans is now . . .”

Album Lineup

• Ritchie Blackmore: guitar
• Ronnie James Dio: vocals
• Mickey Lee Soule: keyboards
• Craig Gruber: bass
• Gary Driscoll: drums

Album Art & Booklet Review

• The album cover is a painting by David Willardson.
• The crescent moon and the castle supposedly represent the two great influences on Blackmore’s writing on the album – the middle east and medieval Erope.

• The back cover has the lyrics to Sixteenth Century Greensleeves and a track listing.

• Inside the gatefold is a photo spread in black and white with the center a photo of Blackmore on stage with Deep Purple though none of the rest of DP is visible.  All the live shots are of the members in their respective bands, Deep Purple and Elf.

Album Details and Analysis:

• Recorded at Musicland Studios in Munich.
• Produced by Martin Birch, Ritchie Blackmore, and Ronnie Jame Dio.

1. Man on the Silver Mountain (Blackmore, Dio)
   • This was a staple of their live show throughout the band’s history.
   • Live it was a bit more high energy.
   • The title of this song is inscribed on Dio’s memorial in Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
   • Was released as a single in October of 1975 with “Snake Charmer” as a B-side by didn’t do well.
2. Self Portrait (Blackmore, Dio)
   • Blackmore described this as a cross between “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by Bach and “Manic Depression” by Hendrix.
   • The song was briefly performed live by Rainbow and was put away until being resurrected by Blackmore’s Night with a medieval flare.
3. Black Sheep of the Family (Hammond)
   • The song that created Rainbow.
   • It was recorded with the intention of being a single though it was never released as one.
   • This song also never made it to Rainbow’s live set.
4. Catch The Rainbow (Blackmore, Dio)
   • Similarity to “Little Wing.”
   • Backing vocals by Shoshana (Judith Feinstein) who was an American opera singer who was living with Blackmore.
     1. Shoshana’s band Dark Star playing “Dirge (for Ritchie Blackmore)”
     2. Christopher Willow presents: interview with Shoshana Feinstein
     3. Joerg Planer sends us Demon’s Eye playing Rainbow’s “Catch the Rainbow”
   • Dio says this song is about a medieval stable boy who falls in love with a lady of the court but their different backgrounds lead to them growing apart.
   • Longest song on the album at over six minutes, would be closer to fifteen when performed live.
5. Snake Charmer (Blackmore, Dio)
   • B-side to Man on the Silver Mountain.
   • Strong similarities to “You Can’t Do It Right.”
6. Temple of the King (Blackmore, Dio)
   • Medieval-influenced structure.
   • Similar feeling to “The Gypsy”
   • Blackmore claims that he was inspired to write this song by the TV program “Yoga For Health.”
   • Lyrics about peasants being called to the temple by a mysterious “great black bell.”
   • Some interpretations of the lyrics include the story of Buddha to the appearance of “The year of the fox” in fantasy literature.
   • Was never performed live until the band reformed in the 90s with “Stranger IN US All.”
   • Blackmore says it wasn’t suitable for live performances.
7. If You Don’t Like Rock ‘n’ Roll (Blackmore, Dio)
   • Filler track, blues pattern.
   • Only played live once as an encore that is documented.
8. Sixteenth Century Greensleeves (Blackmore, Dio)
   • From the original session with “Black Sheep of the Family” as the B-side.
   • Standard medieval/fantasy Rainbow track.
   • Conjures up image of a black knight in an old castle being brought to justice.
   • Blackmore said he was inspired by the song Greensleeves that he loved which is supposedly written by Henry VIII.
   • Blackmore used to live near Windsor Castle and was inspired to write this song by that.
   • Steve Pilkington calls the opening line of “It’s only been an hour since he locked her in the tower” as Spinal Tap-esque.  He says it’s a little better than “It’s only been a bit, since he threw her in the pit.”
   • This was commonly played in their live shows.
   • Hugh McDowell of ELO plays cello on this song.
9. Still I’m Sad (Samwell-Smith, McCarty)
   • An instrumental version of the song by the Yardbirds.
   • Was originally the B-side of “Evil Hearted You” in the UK and “I’m a Man” in the US.  From the album “Having a Rave-Up with the Yardbirds.”
     1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhA_8VbM7Vw
   • Opens with a “You Fool No One” style drum beat.
   • Shoshana does backing vocals on this track as well.
   • When done live it would have vocals.  Not sure why there were none on the album.

Album Review & Reception

• This lineup of Rainbow never played a live gig.
• Gruber and Dirscoll were fired during rehearsals.
• Mickey Lee Soule resigned fearing he was next, leaving Blackmore and Dio as a duo.

• Blackmore refused to have this album come out on Purple Records so a subsidiary called Oyster was created for its release. It would be released on Polydor in the US.
• Dio considered this is favorite Rainbow album.
• Album review from Circus Raves, September 1975.
• Album review from Winnipeg Free Press, October 1975.

This Week in Purple History . . .

October 21 through October 27

• October 21, 1921 – Sir Malcom Henry Arnold is born

• October 24, 1971 – Roger Glover sings lead vocals for one show after Ian Gillan comes down with hepatitis

• October 26, 1978 – Whitesnake begins their first ever tour of the UK

For Further Information:

• Deep Purple: A Matter of Fact by Jerry Bloom
• Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story
• The Road of Golden Dust: The Deep Purple Story 1968-1976 by Jerry Bloom
• Deep Purple and Rainbow 1968-79: Every album, every song (On Track)

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• Ry @ Sabbath Bloody Podcast
• The Simple Man @ Skynyrd Reconsydyrd
• Terry “T-Bone” Mathley @ T-Bone’s Prime Cuts

Show Updates:

• Comments from social media.

• Did “Donkey Ride Dream” inspire “Honky Tonk Man”
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUAmfJlgh9s

• Nate hosted an episode of Skynyrd Reconsydrd which came out today. Check it out!
  • S3 Ep. 4 I’m A Country Boy 
• @jonatanhedlin on Instagram: “First episode I was worried going into, because I love this album so much. Luckily I was worried for no reason because you do get the magic that is Captain Beyonds first album.”

Lead Up To Album & Writing:

• With Cherkazoo Gillan shopped it around to Disney.  Gillan stated on his Caramba Web site:
  •  “a meeting in the ‘70s with all the senior people at Disney.  I did a presentation at their studios in Hollywood and they were very enthusiastic.  However, it coincided with a sea change of company policy and they were in production with Robin Hood, having decided to go back to classic stories as the basis for their films, due to bad figures on some recent contemporary stuff.”
• Fenwick remembered the Cherkazoo project (as written in Smoke on the Water by Dave Thompson, page 133-134):
  • “At the time, it was kind of strange.  But it was one of those [projects] that you could see somewhere along the line, there was some connection.”
  • Fenwick along with Moran would later be in in Ian Gillan Band.   Monster in Paradise was gifted to Hard Stuff, John Gustafson’s group, for their album “Bulletproof.”
• “Other Stories” Recorded in 1974.
• Parts of this are demos he was working on with Dave Wintour (worked with Rick Wakeman) on bass, Andy Steele (Peter Frampton) on drums, and Bernie Holland on guitar.
• After leaving Deep Purple Ian Gillan purchased De Lane Lea Studios renaming it Kingsway Recorders.
• Apart from recording other acts he could use the studio whenever he was in the mood to get back to some music.
• In Spring of 1974 he got to the studio to record the second half of this compilation, finishing up the rest of the tracks in the fall.

Album Lineup

• Parts of this are demos he was working on with Dave Wintour (worked with Rick Wakeman) on bass, Andy Steele (Peter Frampton) on drums, and Bernie Holland on guitar.

Album Details and Analysis:

1. Trying To Get To You (Singleton/McCoy)
   • Based on the Elvis Presley version of the song.
     1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ64T6gEdC4
   • Previously released version on a record called “For Gillan Fans Only” in 1980 which was given away free to accompany purchase of the “Glory Road” album release.
   • This version is produced by Roger Glover.
2. Ain’t That Loving You Baby (Reed)
   • Written and recorded by Jimmy Reed.
     1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9YTlMs4NlI
   • Engineered by Martin Birch, Produced by Glover.
3. Driving Me Wild (Fast Take) (Gillan)
   • Engineered by Martin Birch, Produced by Glover.
4. Music in My Head (Gillan)
   • Mike Moran on keys
   • Dave Wintour on Bass
   • Andy Steel on Drums
   • Bernie Holland on guitar
5. You Make Me Feel So Good (Gillan/Holland/Moran/Steele/Wintour)
   • Would later be redone for “Child in Time.”
   • Mike Moran on keys
   • Dave Wintour on Bass
   • Any Steel on Drums
   • Bernie Holland on guitar
6. She Called Me Softly (Gillan)
   • Mike Moran on keys
   • Dave Wintour on Bass
   • Any Steel on Drums
   • Bernie Holland on guitar
7. Driving Me Wild (Take Three) (Gillan)
   • Mike Moran on keys
   • Dave Wintour on Bass
   • Any Steel on Drums
   • Bernie Holland on guitar
8. You Led My Heart Astray (Gillan)
9. A Little Share of Plenty (Gillan)
10. Night and Day (Gillan/Holland/Moran/Steele/Wintour)

In The News . . .

• John will be attending the October 9, 2019 Deep Purple show at the Mohegan Sun in CT.
• Nate will be attending the October 18, 2019 Deep Purple show at the Rosemont Theater in Rosemont, IL.  If you’re attending give us a message on Twitter so we can say Hi.
• When was he asked?
  • The Ultimate Guitar has quotes from an interview with Michael Schenker, in which he explains why he refused to join Deep Purple, Ozzy, Thin Lizzy, and Motorhead (spoiler: he didn’t want to end up in somebody else’s band).
    • I didn’t go with Deep Purple, I didn’t go with Ozzy Osbourne, I didn’t go with Phil Lynott or Lemmy’s Motorhead – you name them, they all asked me to join them, but I did not think that I was the right person for that because there was a reason why I didn’t join the Scorpions, there was a reason why I left UFO.
  • Here endeth the fact and starteth the speculation.
  • One plausible theory is that his name was on the list of “acceptable replacements” for Blackmore, supplied to the band by Japanese promoters in order for the ’93 tour not to be cancelled. If so, it is quite possible that inquiries were made before the deal was struck with Joe Satriani.
• Interview: Glenn Hughes of THE DEAD DAISIES
  • ANTIHERO: Your rescheduled ‘Glenn Hughes Performs Classic Deep Purple Live’ UK tour will be going ahead in November – do you envisage doing a tour of Trapeze songs too one day? 
  • Glenn Hughes: I’d love to! I’m getting communications from promoters about that. I would love to do that – it would be bigger in America and I could find people who adore Trapeze, like Billy Gibbons who’s a huge Trapeze fan, so I don’t think I’d have a problem finding someone to play it with, but I’m glad you mentioned that band because that’s where it started for me and that’s where I found my legs. I’ve been doing this for fifty years now and it’s never going to really stop for me because I really love what I do and I love giving back to the people that follow my music.

This Week in Purple History . . .

October 14 through October 20

• October 16, 1968 – Deep Purple play their first US show opening for Cream for their farewell tour
  • Video from show on October 18 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpmqIQlB4Lc

• October 16, 1975 – The Butterfly Ball is performed live at the Royal Albert Hall
  • Great photo archive here: https://photofeatures.photoshelter.com/search?KW=Butterfly+Ball&I_DSC_AND=t&I_DSC=Butterfly+Ball+&I_USER_ID=U0000s1U9gi65hLg&_ACT=search

• October 14, 1991 – Gillan releases Toolbox

For Further Information:

• Simon Robinson’s Liner Notes from Ian Gillan – Cherkazoo and Other Stories
• Child in Time by Ian Gillan
• Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story

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Show Updates:

• Comments from social media.
• Alice Gustafson on Twitter recommended the documentary “Some Other Guys” on Vimeo.  As well as a very touching tweet about her father:
  • 5 years ago, the finest bass player to come out of Liverpool (fight me!) passed away. John Gustafson went on to join Roxy Music, writing the infamous bassline to Love Is The Drug. But to me, he was just ‘dad’. Raising a glass of red to you tonight
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3OepDn5GU
• Lots of erroneous info about David Coverdale turning 70 yesterday (September 22) as we record this.  He actually is turning 68. @JoergPlaner traces this back to some incorrect newspaper articles from the 1980s crediting Coverdale as being two years older than he was,

Lead Up To Album & Writing:

• Recorded from 1972 to 1974.
• Essentially a collection of demos recorded by Ian Gillan in the 70s.
• They’d been available as poor quality bootlegs for years until Gillan approved of them being released after being stored in his garden shed for the better part of two decades.
• Parts of this are demos he was working on with Dave Wintour (worked with Rick Wakeman) on bass, Andy Steele (Peter Frampton) on drums, and Bernie Holland on guitar.
• The Cherkazoo project began in 1969.
• After Glover famously told Gillan he’d never talk to him again until he wrote a song. 
• Gillan began writing, if under duress, and eventually wrote so much material that Episode Six couldn’t record it all and he worked that creativity into Cherkazoo.
• Once in Deep Purple there just wasn’t enough time to work on the project.
• While in Deep Purple his only additional work was in Jesus Christ Superstar.
• In 1971 he dropped mention of the work in an interview where he explained that he was working on the project and that it was “… an animal, space, musical, travelogue fantasy.”
• Gillan then decided he wanted to turn this project into an animated children’s cartoon.
• He wrote dialogue, characters, and developed the music with Glover’s help.
• He brought it to film companies to see who would be interested.’
• As we stated in previous episodes it was mistakenly called “Chez Kazoo.”

Album Lineup

• Ian Gillan
• Pete York (possibly) – drums
• Roger Glover – guitar, bass
• Jon Lord – piano
• Marc Bolan of T. Rex (unconfirmed) – guitar
• Engineer – Martin Birch

Album Details and Analysis:

1. Intro
2. Cherkazoo (Gillan/Glover)
3. Monster in Paradise (Gillan/Glover/Gustafson)
   • This song made it out on vinyl, recorded by Hard Stuff for the album Bulletproof.
   • At the time it was assumed this was a leftover track that Deep Purple didn’t record and gave to the group.
   • There were a number of odd versions with different singers doing cockney accents with spoken word bits.
   • This was going to be left out until they uncovered this version featuring Glover on lead vocals with Gillan on the chorus.
4. The Bull of Birantis (Gilan/Glover)
   • Liner notes state that the strings were performed by members of ELO.
5. Intro
   • Jon Lord is laughing at hearing Ian Gillan sing “My Name’s Professor Pig.”
   • Glover plays guitar.
6. Hogwash (Gillan/Glover)
7. Driving Me Wild
8. Donkey Ride Dream (Gillan/Glover)

Album Review & Reception

• Full track list includes:
  • Overture
  • Cherkazoo
  • What’s New Finnegan
  • Gentle Meadow
  • Hogwash
  • The Bull of Birantis
  • Driving Me Wild
  • Monster in Paradise
  • Donkey Ride Dream
  • Fight Scene
  • Lady Fair
• Additional Tracks:
  • Meadowland
  • Brother of Mine
  • High ‘n Mighty Woman
  • Described in the liner notes as “lacklustre country and western efforts” found at the end of one of the reels without Ian Gillan on vocals.  Unclear if they were intended to be part of this.
• The liner notes state that this wasn’t meant to recreate the Cherkazoo project, merely to present a collection of Gillan’s demos.  They also state that completists will want answers as to why the other tracks were left off (other than a boring one like the lack of room!).
• Liner notes state that Overture, Fight Scene, and Gentle Meadow are instrumentals.
• Lady fair is an orchestral number with a choral refrain.
• What’s New Finnegan has vocals but not by Ian and “didn’t really make the grade.”

In The News . . .

• Jon Lord – Windows vinyl reissue: a closer look
  • On September 27, 2019 earMusic will continue the series of Jon Lord vinyl re-releases with “Windows”, an album featuring a cooperation between Jon Lord and conductor and composer Eberhard Schoener. Schoener, who was also involved in progressive rock masterpieces like “The Turn of a Friendly Card” by The Alan Parsons Project may also be known for being the creator of the main theme for the TV series “Derrick“.
  • “Windows” was recorded live at the Herkulessaal in Munich on June 1st, 1974 as closing performance of the “Prix Jeunesse International” festival under the “Rock meets Classic” banner and was broadcasted by German TV station Bayerischer Rundfunk to a potential audience of 300 million people.
  • The album consists of two parts, the 18 minute piece “Continuo on B.A.C.H.” and the name-giving 32 minute “Window” (without “s”), both composed by Jon Lord and Eberhard Schoener.

This Week in Purple History . . .

October 7 through October 13

• October 10, 1975 – Come Taste The Band original release date (delayed)

• October 7, 1977 – Ian Gillan Band releases Scarabus

• October 8, 2001 – Joe Lynn Turner releases Slam

For Further Information:

• Simon Robinson’s Liner Notes from Ian Gillan – Cherkazoo and Other Stories
• Child in Time by Ian Gillan

Listener Mail/Comments

• Comments about the show? Things you’d like us to cover?  We’d love to hear from you. Send us an email at info@deeppurplepodcast.com or @ us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.