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Episode #154 – Deep Purple & Iron Maiden

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Welcome Jonatan Hedlin!

John’s history with Iron Maiden

Nate’s History with Iron Maiden

Nate, roaming the halls of Bulmershe College in his “Seventh Son of a Seventh Son” t-shirt (c. 1993.).

Influences:

  • Bruce Dickinson & Deep Purple: How Ian Gillan Influenced Bruce Dickinson’s Vocals
  • Guesting on The Rock Show With Johnny Walker’s “Rock God” segment aired on the BBC here, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson named Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan as his personal rock god.
    • You can’t talk about Iron Maiden without first mentioning Deep Purple, a group that Dickinson first heard after accidentally stumbling upon their album In Rock: “I was walking up and down the corridor at boarding school and I heard this racket coming from behind a door,” Dickinson began. “I thought, ‘Oh my god, what is that?!’ So, I knocked on the door and this senior boy opened the door and looked at me with a big sneer on his face. I asked, ‘Who was that?’. He went, ‘Oh, it’s Deep Purple if you must know, ‘Speed King’’ and shut the door. That was that, I was hooked.”
    • Having said all that, I met Ian Gillan. Not only did I meet him, I actually went on tour with him when I was in a band called Samson.”
    • “I’m in a studio,” Dickinson continues. “We’ve done an album in Ian Gillan’s studio. We’ve all been at the pub and had a few pints, in walks my god Ian Gillan and goes, ‘Hey, what a great vocalist. Who’s the singer?’ At that moment, I felt the sudden urge to vomit. I ran out of the room, puked up for about 45 minutes in the toilet when in comes my idol, kicks the door and goes, ‘C’mon, mate, out you come. Let’s get you wiped down with a towel.’ He put me in a taxi and sent me home. I’ve never forgotten that, and he’s never let me forget it, either.”
  • Adrian Smith:
    • Adrian Smith Once Quit Fishing Because of Ritchie Blackmore
    • “When I was about 14 or 15, I was kind of a clueless, your usual type of teenager and I didn’t know what I wanted to do in my life. And I sort of wandered into my older sister’s bedroom to check out her albums, which were normally soul records — THE TEMPTATIONS and [other] Motown [artists]. And then I noticed she had some new records, and one of them was a DEEP PURPLE record called ‘Machine Head’. So I put the album on a little record player, and I just couldn’t believe what I was hearing. That was it, really. It sort of changed my life. I thought, ‘Well, I’d love to be out doing that one day.’ The fishing had kind of tapered off. In those days, I couldn’t imagine my heroes, like Ritchie Blackmore from DEEP PURPLE, and people like that going fishing. So I thought, ‘Well, I’ll give it up and I’ll give all my time to try and make it as a professional musician.’ So that’s what I did.”
  • The song Innocent Excile would ve worth listening to as an example of maiden at the Purplest sound.
  • Paul DiAnno auditioning en with “Lady Double Dealer” (not available to hear but, anyway)
  • Murders in the Rue Morgue and Lost in Hollywood drum resemblance. Clive’s and Nicko’s influence from Cozy and Paicey. Gangland another song example for this.
  • Iron Maiden – Murders in the Rue Morgue *HD*
  • Gangland (2015 – Remaster)
  • Interviews with members from both band must’ve occured, I know there is one with Paice and McBrain about cymbals ;p
  • PAISTE CYMBALS – 2 Legends 1 Sofa – Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) & Ian Paice (Deep Purple)

Best Albums according to Dickinson:

  • In Rock by Deep Purple (1970)
  • Are You Experience by Jimi Hendrix (1967)
  • Aqualung by Jethro Tull (1971)
  • Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin (1971)
  • Vol.4 by Black Sabbath (1972)
  • Rising by Rainbow (1976)
  • Live and Dangerous by Thin Lizzy (1976)
  • Van Halen by Van Halen (1978)
  • Live Bootleg by Aerosmith (1978)
  • Strangers In The Night by UFO (1979)
  • British Steel by Judas Priest (1980)
  • Blizzard of Ozz by Ozzy Osbourne (1980)
  • Back In Black by ACDC (1980)
  • Come An’ Get It by Whitesnake (1981)
  • Number of The Beast by Iron Maiden (1982)

Martin Birch Connection:

Deep Purple

Iron Maiden[edit]

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Ian Paice of Deep Purple, Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, Bruce Dickinson and Dave Murray of Iron Maiden (Photo by Leslie McGhie/WireImage)

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HaskinCast Episode 226 Album Review – Busta Rhymes – Part 1 – Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front w/ Nathan Beaudry

And now for something completely different . . .

Check out the episode of HaskinCast here: https://haskincast.podbean.com/e/episode-226-album-review-busta-rhymes-pt-1-extinction-level-event-the-final-world-front-w-nathan-b/

This week Nate joins Scott Haskin on his podcast for a deep dive review of Busta Rhymes’s 1998 album “Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front.”

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Episode #153 – Whitesnake – Come an’ Get It

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Lead up to the Album:

  • This album came on the heels of the double live album “Live . . . in the Heart of the City.” That along with “Read an’ Willing” had both done very well.
  • The follow up, “Come an’ Get It” was recorded at Startling Studios, Tittenhurst Park.
  • Tittenhurst was a Georgian style country house on 72 acres of land in Berkshire.
  • Tittenhurst was owned by John Lennon before he sold it to Ringo Starr when he moved to the US permanently in 1973.
  • This is where Lennon recorded Imagine and where Marsden had just worked on a solo album.
  • Allegedly Lennon bought it for 145,000.  He sold it to Ringo.  The ex-president of the UAE bouthg it for 5 million.  Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the UAE for $105 million
  • Murray says they used the studio there but it wasn’t that big so they recorded the drums and keyboards.

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Additional Personnel:

  • Coordinator – Magnet (9)
    • John Ward – used to work as a roadie for Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple before becoming Whitesnake’s tour manager.

Technical:

Album Art & Booklet Review

UK and US Album Cover Comparison:

  • UK Version
  • US Version

Album Tracks:

Side One:

  1. Come an’ Get It (Coverdale)
    • In Popoff’s book Bernie Marsden talks about claims of a Foreigner influence on this song.  He says that he liked “Feels Like The First Time” but doesn’t think any of the other guys were even aware of the band at that point.
  2. Hot Stuff (Coverdale, Moody)
  3. Don’t Break My Heart Again (Coverdale)
    • Marsden says he did one run through of the solo and that Birch said, “Okay, that’ll do.”  He said he thought he was just doing a run through.  He did it five or six more times but Birch insisted that they got it.  Marsden said he was like an additional member of the band being able to make great production decisions like that.
    • This song was about Coverdale’s daughter Jessica.
  4. Lonely Days, Lonely Nights (Coverdale)
  5. Wine, Women an’ Song (Coverdale, Moody, Marsden, Murray, Lord, Paice)
    • David, Bernie, and Micky do backing vocals.  Also known as “The Three Piece Suite.”

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  1. Child of Babylon (Coverdale, Marsden)
    • Marsden said he worked very closely with Lord on this one.  He said he explain to Jon what he wanted it to sound like and Jon fleshed it out.
    • Marsden talks extremely positively about Jon Lord.  He said he would always suggest alternative ideas that made songs better.  He said that he was very gracious and he said Jon should have gotten writing credits on a lot more songs (including this one) but Jon would shrug it off and say he wouldn’t have had those ideas if the ideas brought to him weren’t so strong.
  2. Would I Lie To You (Coverdale, Moody, Marsden)
    • Coverdale says this song title was from a pin a female fan of the band had given to him in Southampton.
    • Bernie says you’d think this was a love song but it was about their manager.  I think he said it as a joke.
    • Popoff asked Murray if there was Coverdale’s one-track-mind as far as writing ever got to the rest of them.  Murray said, “Ues amd you now, here’s tat stubborn mentality that if you criticize him for it he’ll do it more.
  3. Girl (Coverdale, Marsden, Murray)
    • Coverdale says Murray wrote this from more of a fusion perspective.
    • Marsden said it was about a girl they saw on the side of the road.
    • Coverdale says: “Most of the songs are about my old lady.”
    • Coverdale also says that most of the songs he’s been accused of being the most sexist in are about his daughter.
  4. Hit an’ Run (Coverdale, Moody, Marsden)
  5. Till the Day I Die (Coverdale)
    • Marsden says this was the peak of David’s writing.

Reception and Charts:

  • Went straight to No. 2 in the UK when it was released.
  • Coverdale said in interviews that after five years the band was trying to enter a more American approach to the music in the early 80s.
  • Murray says it’s between this album and “Ready an’ Willing” that are his favorites in Whitesnake along with the 1987 but given the choice he’s probably choose “Come an’ Get It.”

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  • Martin Popoff says of this album: “Sacrilege perhaps in the utterance, but this one is utterly ruined by Martin Birch and Ian Paice, two nearly unassailable rock icons who should know better.”  He says this whole album seems stiff and classical in its approach.
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Episode #152 – Deep Purple in the Charts

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    In The Charts

    • Hush
      • Peaked at #4 (#58 in the UK)
      • US Top 40 Singles for the Week Ending 28th September, 1968
      • TW LW TITLE –•– Artist (Label)-Weeks on Chart (Peak To Date)
      • 1 3 HEY JUDE –•– The Beatles (Apple)-3 (1 week at #1) (1)
      • 2 1 HARPER VALLEY P.T.A. –•– Jeannie C. Riley (Plantation)-6 (1)
      • 3 2 PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE –•– The Rascals (Atlantic)-11 (1)
      • 4 4 HUSH –•– Deep Purple (Tetragrammaton)-7 (4)
      • 5 15 FIRE –•– The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (Atlantic)-4 (5)
      • 6 8 THE FOOL ON THE HILL –•– Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 (A&M)-8 (6)
      • 7 5 1, 2, 3, RED LIGHT –•– 1910 Fruitgum Co. (Buddah)-10 (5)
      • 8 9 I’VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU –•– The Bee Gees (Atco)-7 (8)
      • 9 16 GIRL WATCHER –•– The O’Kaysions (ABC)-7 (9)
      • 10 13 SLIP AWAY –•– Clarence Carter (Atlantic)-12 (10)
    • Kentucky Woman
      • Peaked at #38 in the US (Did not chart in the UK)
      • Week Ending 14th December, 1968
      • 1 4 I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE –•– Marvin Gaye (Tamla)-4 (1 week at #1) (1)
      • 2 1 LOVE CHILD –•– Diana Ross and the Supremes (Motown)-9 (1)
      • 3 3 FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE –•– Stevie Wonder (Tamla)-7 (3)
      • 4 7 ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN –•– Dion (Laurie)-8 (4)
      • 5 5 WHO’S MAKING LOVE –•– Johnnie Taylor (Stax)-8 (5)
      • 6 2 HEY JUDE –•– The Beatles (Apple)-14 (1)
      • 7 8 WICHITA LINEMAN –•– Glen Campbell (Capitol)-7 (7)
      • 8 9 STORMY –•– The Classics IV Featuring Dennis Yost (Imperial)-8 (8)
      • 9 11 I LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME –•– Bobby Vinton (Epic)-7 (9)
      • 10 6 MAGIC CARPET RIDE –•– Steppenwolf (Dunhill)-11 (3)
      • …
      • 31 34 GOODBYE MY LOVE –•– James Brown (King)-6 (31)
      • 32 44 LO MUCHO QUE TE QUIERO (The More I Love You) –•– Rene and Rene (White Whale)-4 (32)
      • 33 50 PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG –•– Otis Redding (Atco)-3 (33)
      • 34 25 QUICK JOEY SMALL (Run Joey Run) –•– The Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus (Buddah)-11 (25)
      • 35 29 CYCLES –•– Frank Sinatra (Reprise)-10 (23)
      • 36 49 SON-OF-A PREACHER MAN –•– Dusty Springfield (Atlantic)-3 (36)
      • 37 40 GOODY GOODY GUMDROPS –•– 1910 Fruitgum Co. (Buddah)-8 (37)
      • 38 38 KENTUCKY WOMAN –•– Deep Purple (Tetragrammaton)-6 (38)
      • 39 58 A RAY OF HOPE –•– The Rascals (Atlantic)-2 (39)
      • 40 63 IF I CAN DREAM –•– Elvis Presley (RCA Victor)-3 (40)
    • River Deep – Mountain High
      • Week Ending 25th January, 1969
      • Entered charts at #72 (Peaked at #53)
      • 1 1 I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE –•– Marvin Gaye (Tamla)-10 (7 weeks at #1) (1)
      • 2 4 CRIMSON AND CLOVER –•– Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)-7 (2)
      • 3 2 I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME –•– Diana Ross and the Supremes and the Temptations (Motown)-8 (2)
      • 4 3 SOULFUL STRUT –•– Young-Holt Unlimited (Brunswick)-9 (3)
      • 5 15 EVERYDAY PEOPLE –•– Sly and the Family Stone (Epic)-9 (5)
      • 6 5 HOOKED ON A FEELING –•– B.J. Thomas (Scepter)-11 (5)
      • 7 8 TOUCH ME –•– The Doors (Elektra)-5 (7)
      • 8 9 WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN –•– Brooklyn Bridge (Buddah)-6 (8)
      • 9 16 I STARTED A JOKE –•– The Bee Gees (Atco)-6 (9)
      • 10 10 SON-OF-A PREACHER MAN –•– Dusty Springfield (Atlantic)-9 (10)
    • Help! (France)
    • Emmaretta – Peaked at #128 in the US, did not chart in the UK
    • Hallelujah – Peaked at #108 in the US, did not chart in the UK
    • Black Night – Peaked at #66 in the US, #2 in the UK
      • Week Ending 5th December, 1970
      • Entered the US charts at #90
      • 1 1 I THINK I LOVE YOU –•– The Partridge Family (Starring Shirley Jones and Featuring David Cassidy) (Bell)-9 (3 weeks at #1) (1)
      • 2 2 THE TEARS OF A CLOWN –•– Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Tamla)-8 (2)
      • 3 6 GYPSY WOMAN –•– Brian Hyland (Uni)-14 (3)
      • 4 3 I’LL BE THERE –•– Jackson 5 (Motown)-12 (1)
      • 5 4 WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN –•– The Carpenters (A&M)-13 (2)
      • 6 5 FIRE AND RAIN –•– James Taylor (Warner Brothers)-13 (3)
      • 7 25 ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER –•– The 5th Dimension (Bell)-7 (7)
      • 8 24 NO MATTER WHAT –•– Badfinger (Apple)-6 (8)
      • 9 9 HEAVEN HELP US ALL –•– Stevie Wonder (Tamla)-8 (9)
      • 10 16 SHARE THE LAND –•– The Guess Who (RCA)-7 (10)
    • Speed King (Germany, Netherlands)
    • Strange Kind of Woman
      • Did not chart in the US, Peaked at #8 in the UK
    • Fireball
      • Did not chart in the US, Peaked at #15 in the UK
    • Never Before
      • Did not chart in the US, Peaked at #35 in the UK
    • Lazy (US/Canada)
      • Did Not Chart
    • Child in Time
      • Did Not Chart – released in select EU markets
    • Highway Star
      • Released in US/Canada and Japan
      • Did not chart
    • Woman From Tokyo
      • Did not chart in US or UK
      • Had success in assorted EU markets
    • Smoke on the Water
      • Debuted at #85 week ending May 25, 1973
        • P1 4 FRANKENSTEIN –•– The Edgar Winter Group (Epic)-12 (1 week at #1) (1)
        • 2 6 MY LOVE –•– Paul McCartney and Wings (Apple)-7 (2)
        • 3 5 DANIEL –•– Elton John (MCA)-8 (3)
        • 4 2 TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE –•– Dawn Featuring Tony Orlando (Bell)-15 (1)
        • 5 1 YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE –•– Stevie Wonder (Tamla)-11 (1)
        • 6 9 PILLOW TALK –•– Sylvia (Vibration)-10 (6)
        • 7 3 LITTLE WILLY –•– The Sweet (Bell)-19 (3)
        • 8 7 DRIFT AWAY –•– Dobie Gray (Decca)-14 (5)
        • 9 10 WILDFLOWER –•– Skylark (Capitol)-15 (9)
        • 10 13 HOCUS POCUS –•– Focus (Sire)-13 (10)eaked at #4 in the US
      • Peaked at #4 in the US – Week Ending July 28th, 1973
        • 1 1 BAD, BAD LEROY BROWN –•– Jim Croce (ABC)-15 (2 weeks at #1) (1)
        • 2 3 YESTERDAY ONCE MORE –•– The Carpenters (A&M)-9 (2)
        • 3 4 SHAMBALA –•– Three Dog Night (Dunhill)-11 (3)
        • 4 7 SMOKE ON THE WATER –•– Deep Purple (Warner Brothers)-10 (4)
        • 5 2 WILL IT GO ROUND IN CIRCLES –•– Billy Preston (A&M)-18 (1)
        • 6 11 DIAMOND GIRL –•– Seals and Crofts (Warner Brothers)-12 (6)
        • 7 5 KODACHROME –•– Paul Simon (Columbia)-11 (2)
        • 8 8 BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY –•– Bette Midler (Atlantic)-12 (8)
        • 9 20 THE MORNING AFTER –•– Maureen McGovern (20th Century)-6 (9)
        • 10 6 GIVE ME LOVE (Give Me Peace On Earth) –•– George Harrison (Apple)-11 (1)
      • Did not chart in the UK
    • Super Trouper
      • Released in some EU markets
      • Did not chart anywhere
    • Might Just Take Your Life
      • Debuted at #99 for Week Ending March 23rd, 1974
      • Chameleon by Herbie Hancock debuted at #96 that same week
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        • 1 3 DARK LADY –•– Cher (MCA)-10 (1 week at #1) (1)
        • 2 1 SEASONS IN THE SUN –•– Terry Jacks (Bell)-11 (1)
        • 3 4 SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDERS –•– John Denver (RCA)-9 (3)
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        • 5 6 MOCKINGBIRD –•– Carly Simon and James Taylor (Elektra)-8 (5)
        • 6 12 BENNIE AND THE JETS –•– Elton John (MCA)-6 (6)
        • 7 14 HOOKED ON A FEELING –•– Blue Swede (EMI)-6 (7)
        • 8 10 JET –•– Paul McCartney and Wings (Apple)-7 (8)
        • 9 11 ERES TU (Touch the Wind) –•– Mocedades (Tara)-11 (9)
        • 10 7 JUNGLE BOOGIE –•– Kool and the Gang (De-Lite)-16 (4)
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      • Released in US/Canada and JApan
      • Peaked at #105 in the US – does not show up in top 40 (I think it’s only the top 100)
      • Did not chart in the UK
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      • Did not chart

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    Episode #151 – Deep Purple – Slaves and Masters (Part 2)

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      • With Gillan out they changed the set list up quite a bit, even working in songs such as “Burn” that Gillan would have never agreed to sing.
      • The live set included six of the nine tracks form Slaves and Masters though “Wicked Ways” was dropped after only a few shows.
      • Fan reaction to this lineup and album was largely negative.
      • In “The Complete Deep Purple” Michael Heatley calls “Slaves and Masters” “the definitive Rainbow album.”
      • It entered the UK charts at number, seven places below, “Nobody’s Perfect,” which was not widely regarded as a success. Then it dropped out of the charts. It was their least successful album since Mark 1.
      • In the US it was number 87.
      • JLT says of this album in Kerrang that this album wasn’t as forced as the Rainbow albums he’d done.  What he means is that they were more of jams than composed.
      • JLT also says, “If I hear ‘Deep Rainbow’ again I think I’m gonna puke. Think of something else. There are four of the five member of Purple, three of five members of Rainbow.”

      Reviews:

      • The album was met with mixed reviews.
      • The press seemed to be largely positive about it but fans were not.
      • Simon Robinson in Darker Than Blue #40, November 1990:
        • “. . . I know damn well that if someone had sent it me out of the blue by a new group, it would have got the one play and be in the bin . . . by now.”
        • “With this new one it’s all ended. Nothing here demands of me that I should zoom to the record deck every so often to assault my senses with it. If this is really the way they think music should be going then we’ve reached the parting of the ways. Nobody wants to live in the past, but they’re damn well giving me little choice.”
        • He goes on to say he has nothing against JLT, considers him very competent. Just does not like his vocal style.
        • “It’s hard to listen to the album and ignore the JLT favor, but when you do much of it is pretty ordinary anyway.”
        • “The idea of evolving the album from jamming has given a laid back feel which might have been better tempered by a hard edge at times.”
        • On King of Dreams: “I’d like to hear mixed without vocals. Granted poor old Ian PAice sounds like he’s falling asleep (Maybe the dreams are his?) but it chugs along with some inspired keyboard work.”
        • He calls “Breakfast in Bed,” “Breakfast in Bed (Crumbs In The Duvet).
        • “. . . Ian Gillan has to be agreed with  when he says he found it almost impossible to get inspired by the stuff when he was being sent the first demos. The addition of his talent on some of the tracks might have cracked it, but elsewhere we’re looking at a group who seem to have lost all sense of purpose. Roger Glover has written off House of Blue Light as a totally wooden album in recent press articles and it makes me wonder if I’m going crackers. Sure it had its disappointments but Bad Attitude, Spanish Archer, STrangeways, and Dead or Alive wipe the floor with this one.”
      • Neil Jeffries writes in Kerrang:
        • “Deep Purple’s new studio album “Slaves and Masters” is OK . . . and no-one is more surprised than me. It does lat grab-you-by-the-throat impact but it’s not the disaster I had feared and expected.”
        • It may not sound at all like “In Rock”, “Machine Head” or even “Perfect Strangers” but it doesn’t really sound much like Rainbow either. In fact just like “In Rock”, “Burn”, “Come Taste The BAnd” or “Perfect Strangers” it sounds like a band making a fresh start.
      • JLT: “In my opinion the best of this album is still lying on the cutting room floor.  We’ve got some racks  you’d fuckin’ die for but we never finished them.”
      • One of the things they did on tour was to open up the set list, something Gillan had also wanted to do but Blackmore had fought him on.  Gillan felt like they were just playing Made in Japan every night. The set lists for this tour were much more adventurous.

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