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Episode #55 – The Ronnie James Dio Tribute Special (with James Curl and Claude Schnell)

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History: 

Personal intros to Ronnie

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Interview with Claude Schnell

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Dio in Modern Culture 

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Episode #54 – Dance with the Devil: The Cozy Powell Story (with Laura Shenton)

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In this episode we interview Laura Shenton, author of Dance With The Devil: The Cozy Powell Story, and break down some of Laura’s favorite Cozy Powell moments!

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Interview with Laura Shenton, Author of “Dance with the Devil: The Cozy Powell Story”

Laura’s Top 5 Cozy Powell Songs

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Episode #53 – One Year Anniversary Extravaganza

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Show Updates:

  • Comments from social media.
    • Lionel_Hutz_, 04/10/2020 – FIVE STARS!
      • Unbelievably Researched Deep Dives
      • On some timeless classic albums, and some pretty terrible ones. It’s been great to hear the backstories on some of my alltime favorites, like “Machine Head” and “Burn”. But even better, hearing 7+ hours of indepth analysis of a talking animal concept album is what has kept me sane through quarantine.
    • Dubbleagle , 04/17/2020 – FIVE STARS!
      • 1st listen
      • I saw this show when it first aired , 14 years old I was .
      • Huge impact on my rock n roll sensibilities.
      • Great to hear your thoughts !

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Top Episodes

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Top Rated Albums

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Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Followers

  • Stats for each

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Top Patrons and Patron Moments

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Ry – video

Highlights of the past year

Interactions with Glenn and Coverdale

Nick Jones – audio

Goals for next year

Anton Glaving – written

Album you’re looking forward to reviewing the most

Mike Knowles

Champions of the Show

  • Michael Eriksson
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The Simple Man – audio

All 5’s – All our perfectly ranked songs (spaced throughout episode)

Steve Seaborg – written

Social Media Stats

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Ian Desrosiers wishes the Deep Purple Podcast a happy anniversary.

Podcast Listeners in 81 countries!

Top 10 countries

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Top 10 episodes by plays

Leaky Mausoleum

Q&A: If you could do a band podcast about any other band, what would it be?

Jonatan Hedlin

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Peter Gardow’s Year in Review

From The Providence Journal Bulletin – June 16, 1997 by Cristy DeAuraujo
From The Providence Journal Bulletin – June 16, 1997 by Cristy DeAuraujo

A review of the 1997 Providence Journal slang article by Cristy DeAuraujo

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Episode #52 – Captain Beyond – Dawn Explosion with Nick Jones of Pod of Thunder

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Lead up to the Album:

  • The Captain Beyond Story researched by Hartmut Kreckel
    • Reformation:
    • Lee Dorman: “Warner and Capricorn had a deal and contacted us in 1976 to do another album. In the interim I was working as a engineer/producer for demo bands for Warner Bros. We started to audition singers and were quite happy with Willy Daffern. We have a outtake of “Icarus” and a studio version of the song “Dawn Explosion” that wasn´t used for that album. We did like 15 to 20 gigs with that line-up.”
    • Rhino: “… I first met Willy in a liquor store…”

Personnel

  • Producer – Captain Beyond, John Stronach
    • Stronach worked with R.E.O. Speedwagon, Dan Fogelberg, Diana Ross, Keith Moon, and Joe Walsh
  • Engineer – John Stronach, Rick Sanchez
    • Al Kooper’s “Act Like Nothing’s Wrong album, The Outlaws (not the Ritchie Blackmore version), Tower of Power, UFO

Album Art & Booklet Review

  • Design [Album] – Pacific Eye And Ear*
    • Discussed on previous episodes, did Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Grand Funk, The Doors, Billion Dollar Babies, Aerosmith’s Toys in th eAttic, and the previous Captain Beyond album Sufficiently Breathless
  • Illustration – Carl Ramsey (2)

Album Tracks:

Side one:

  1. Do or Die (Caldwell, Daffern, Reinhardt)
  2. Icarus (Caldwell, Dorman, Reinhardt)
    1. Written by previous keyboardist (Lewie Gold) but he didn’t get credit, previously  recorded with Rod Evans
    2. Not played Live
    3. “Icarus” studio recording in 1972 with Rod Evans and Lewie Gold from Lost & Found 
  3. Sweet Dreams (Caldwell, Dorman, Reinhardt)
    1. Played a beginning version of this with Rod on ‘72 tour “Lonely Feeling” or “Lovely Feeling.”
  4. Fantasy (Caldwell, Daffern, Reinhardt)

Side two:

  1. Breath of Fire, Part 1 & 2 (Caldwell, Daffern, Reinhardt)
    1. The CD reissue separated these into two tracks:
      1. Breath of Fire, Pt. 1 (A Speck Within a Sphere)
      2. Breath of Fire, Pt. 2 (Alone in the Cosmos)
  2. If You Please (Caldwell, Daffern, Dorman, Reinhardt)
    1. Not played live
  3. Midnight Memories (Reinhardt)
    1. Not played live.
  4. Oblivion (Caldwell, Dorman, Reinhardt)
    1. The CD reissue separated this into three tracks: “Space Interlude” followed by “Oblivion” and ending with “Space Reprise”

Live they played the song “Dawn Explosion” which was not included on the album.

Reception and Review

  • The Captain Beyond Story researched by Hartmut Kreckel
    • Lee Dorman: “Looking back, we lacked of proper management. I think if we´d gone out doing 150 gigs a year it would have done much better. Our management did nothing for us, it was like “we´ll get back to you” and they never did a thing, so what could you do about it… They should have bought us into a tour to open up for someone who would really draw some people, but it never happened… There were several attempts of reforming Captain Beyond over the years, but it never got beyond talking about it, and the only chance to do it seemed, if I was going to do anything… I´m now with Iron Butterfly and surely I can do one thing at the time only, but THERE´LL ALWAYS BE A PLACE IN MY HEART FOR CAPTAIN BEYOND…´CAUSE THIS WAS REALLY A LABOUR OF LOVE…”
    • Bobby Caldwell: “… after Willy left, we tried out Jimmy Henderson for a time in 1978…”
    • Rhino: “… and then Jimmy went with me in my band named “Rhino”, we were managed by the manager of Styx and toured for six months in 1979…”

This Week in Purple History . . .

April 20 through April 26

  • April 20, 1968 – Roundabout plays their first show
    • *Date: 1968-04-20
    • *Venue: Parkskolen-Vestpoppen   
    • *City: Tastrup   
    • *Country: Denmark
  • April 22, 1997 – Blackmore’s Night releases “Shadow of the Moon”
  • April 26, 2013 – Deep Purple releases “Now What?!”

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  • Album Liner Notes

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Episode #51 – California Jam (Part 2)

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Lead up to the Album:

  • Deep Purple Bios

Additional Audio/Video from Show:

  1. Burn – 8:00 version
  2. Lay Down, Stay Down from California Jamming CD – 14:20 on DVD rip video
  3. Extended plays and camera angles

Controversy:

Mike Stark on Rock 50 with Don Branker

  • 1:34 minute mark starts to describe the show

Reception and Review

  • Allen Pamplin
  • Letter from Don Hearston to Sandy Feldman (TV executive who promoted the show and sadly passed away in 1996) – https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-07-mn-33346-story.html
  • Letter from City of Ontario Fire Department to Sandy Feldman
  • Deep Purple – Lets celebrate the California Jam from April 1974 – short documentary that reviews how the show ran with some clips of the acts
    • 5:30 – “Mad John” and Simon interviewed about DP’s exploding amps
  • 19740402 – BIllboard discusses money Deep Purple are making
  • 19740404 Santa Ana Register gets it all wrong!
  • 19740406 – ‘Salbuquerque Tribune – ‘California Jam’ rock fans jam up traffic for 13 miles
  • 19740408 Connellsville Daily Courier – “Police Surprised at Quiet Nature of Rock Concer”
  • 19740408 Huntingdon Daily News – “caused no trouble and few arrests.”
  • TV: ‘California Jam’ Simulates Live Rock Session – NY Times, scanned, some of text garbled

This Week in Purple History . . .


  • April 14, 1945 – Ritchie Blackmore is born
  • April 15, 1977 – Ian Gillan Band releases Clear Air Turbulence
  • April 14, 1978 – Ritchie Blackmore Rainbow releases Long Live Rock 

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Episode #50 – California Jam (Part 1)

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    • 5 STARS! – Sgt. Rock 24 , 03/05/2020
      • The best (not just because it’s the only)
      • Great podcast! These are not experts flexing their knowledge of facts and trivia. It’s two friends having casual and entertaining discussions about all things Deep Purple related. It reminds me of hanging out and talking music with my friends. I consider myself a die hard Deep Purple fan but these guys have opened my eyes up to things I never noticed and given me a fresh perspective on things I know by heart.
    • 5 STARS! – deep blackmore , 03/07/2020
      • Great podcast!!!
      • They are just regular fans just like me of the greatest band of all time!!
    • 5 STARS! – MikeOfTheTerribleOpinion , 03/09/2020
      • What’s not to like?
      • Two old friends investigating and discussing the fascinating music and history of Deep Purple. Hard to think of anything better, in my opinion.
    • 3 STARS! – assdf Fhh hhj I’ll l , 03/09/2020
      • Volume
      • Please turn up the music level, it is barely audible.
      • It would make this much harder more listenable.
      • Content great!

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Set list:

  1. Burn
  2. Might Just Take Your Life
  3. Mistreated
  4. Smoke on the Water
  5. You Fool No One/The Mule
  6. Space Truckin’

This Week in Purple History . . .

April 6 through April 12

  • April 6, 1974 – The California Jam
  • April 7, 1975 – Made in Europe live performance
  • April 7, 1987 – Whitesnake releases self titled album

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Episode #49 – Roger Glover – Elements

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  • Rich Shailor on Facbeook: Just got finished with this episode 😂. Not sure if this or your dramatic reading of the Crucifixion from JCSS was my favorite part.

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Lead up to the Album:

  • Roger: “I wrote [the poem] it about a year before the album. The album came about because I’d been wanting to do an album for a while but kept putting it off. The only way I’d get it done would be to actually book the time and then I wouldn’t have an excuse. So this I did, went to Musicland with Simon and Mickey Lee and spent a week laying down tracks over which I was going to sing, with a little help from Liza Strike and Helen Chapelle who were due to arrive a week later. What happened was I got cold feet when it came to my singing and abandoned the idea. Rather than go home and forfeit the studio time and musicians I’d already paid for, I decided to try something really off the cuff, not to mention off the wall, based on that strange poem.”
  • It was exhilarating actually, not knowing what I was going to do (or not knowing what I was doing) and just forcing myself to come up with something in the hour or so before the rest of them came into the studio each day. My only credo was that I really didn’t want to use the electric guitar; I’d had enough of it and I reasoned that it should be possible to make dramatic music without that crutch. It’s a matter of conjecture whether I succeeded or not, but if one went by record sales then I’d have to admit that I didn’t. Only one piece of music survived from the earlier abandoned recordings and that was used for the third section (water).
  • There two other musicians that I would mention: Ronnie Aspery, the sax player from Back Door who sometime later gave me the unforgettable quote when I asked him what he’d been up to and he replied that he’d had enough of doing sessions and was writing more, saying, “I’d rather be an architect than a bricklayer.” The other one is Graham Preskett, a super bloke and musician who orchestrated my ideas with a great deal of talent and zeal, and who sang whilst playing the electric violin. I’m indebted to everyone who appeared on that album, not the least of whom was Martin Birch, they gave me a lot of support when I needed it most.

Personnel

  • Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals, Producer, Engineer – Martin Birch
  • Drums, Tabla, Percussion – Simon Phillips
  • Lead Vocals – Helen Chappelle, Liza Strike
  • Piano, Organ, Percussion – Mickey Lee Soule
  • Saxophone, Flute – Ronnie Aspery*
  • Synthesizer [Arp 2600, Oberheim Polyphonic], Bass Guitar, Percussion, Tabla, Sitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vibraphone [Vibes], Backing Vocals, Producer, Written-By – Roger Glover
  • Violin [Electric], Clarinet, Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – Graham Preskett
    • http://www.preskett.com/
    • Hundreds of credits including Whitesnake’s “Snakebite” album, Coverdale’s “Northwinds,” and the Judi Dench version of “The Butterfly Ball”
  • Written-By – Martin Birch (tracks: B2, B3)

Album Art & Booklet Review

  • Graphics – Tony Cohen (2)
    • Only other credit is the cover for “The Rutles” album.
  • Photography By [Image] – Ken Randall
    • Only 3 other credits including Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth
  • Back Cover
    • Bruce Payne for managing
    • Mack for the intro
    • Stuart Wicks for the equipment
    • Francoise and Anne for the food
    • Stefan Kresic for being physically Immaculate
    • Graham Preskett for being spiritually immaculate
    • Judi and Gillian for just being
    • Cosy Powell for blowing my trumpet
    • Ken Randall for the image
    • Tony Cohen for the graphics

Album Tracks:

  1. The First Ring Made of Clay (Glover)
  2. The Next a Ring of Fire (Glover)
  3. The Third Ring’s Watery Flow (Glover)
  4. The Fourth Rings With The Wind (Glover, Birch)
  5. Finale (Glover, Birch)

Reception and Review

  • “A long-winded labour of love” by Geoff Barton in Sounds Magazine, 8 April, 1978:
    • If I asked you which of the five members of Deep Purple Mk. II you reckoned had had the most success since the split, you’d probably say Ritchie Blackmore — and you’d be right.
    • But who would you place after Rainbow’s Man in Black?
    • The author puts Roger in second place due to his production.
    • Called the album “a labour of love, no doubt about it, but sadly not a resounding success.”
    • “Superior to some of Jon Lord’s similar work, i.e. “Sarabande.”
    • “Overall it lacks cohesion and direction.”
    • “It’s a commendable, proficient all round effort, but no ‘Tubular Bells’ or anything.”
  • German review, rough translation by Jorg Planer: “They said that this is a milestone of classic rock (in the meaning of symphonic rock), that has nothing to do with his former work in Deep Purple.”

In The News . . .

This Week in Purple History . . .

March 30 through April 5

  • April 3 & 5, 1975 – the performance that would become “Made in Europe”
  • April 5, 1998 – Cozy Powell dies
  • April 4, 2014 – Concert celebrating Jon Lord at the Royal Albert Hall

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Episode #48 – Elf – Elf

Another episode banned by YouTube.

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    • Mark Roback
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    • Ells Murders
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Show Updates:

  • Nick Jones sends incredible pictures of a Machine Head era in-store display kit!
  • Stephen Sommerville sends some great outtakes from Concerto ‘99,  wanting to make sure we cover them when we review it.
  • Dear, Mr. Pop Star by Dereck and Dave Philpott – father and son team who write letters to famous pop stars about the lyrics to their favorite songs.  This book features the letters they received back including some from Ian Gillan and Roger Glover
  • Lots of back and forth about Ritchie’s stolen and returned guitar.
  • 1961 Gibson ES-335 semihollowbody (serial number 26547)  Word is it Ritchie’s second wife, Babs, was awarded the guitar in their divorce and sold it at an auction in 2004 for $28,000.  The current owner lives in Connecticut.

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Lead up to the Album:

  • Elf was formed in 1967 when Ronnie Dio and the Prophets changed their name to the Electric Elves and added Doug Thaler on Keyboards.
  • In 1968 there was an automobile accident which killed Nick Pantas. Doug Thaler (former keyboard player) moved to guitar after recovering from his injuries and that’s when they brought in Mickey Lee Soule.
  • Ronnie is listed as Ronald Padavona on this album.  In Dio’s Brutally Honest Tour Bus Interview from 1994 Dio explains that he used his birth name so that his parents could see their family name on an album at least once.

Personnel

Recorded April-July 1972

Released August 1972

Album Art & Booklet Review


  • From the back of the sleeve:
  • Recorded at Studio One, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • © 1972 CBS, Inc. / ℗ 1972 CBS, Inc. / Manufactured by Epic Records / CBS, Inc.
  • From the disc labels:
  • Printed in U.S.A.

Album Tracks:

  1. Hoockie Koochie Lady
  2. First Avenue
  3. Never More
  4. I’m Coming Back for You
  5. Sit Down Honey (Everything Will Be Alright)
  6. Dixie Lee Junction
  7. Love Me Like a Woman
  8. Gambler, Gambler

In The News . . .

  • Whoosh! Album cover teased then revealed, track listing released
  • https://www.deeppurple-whoosh.com/
    • Being released on June 12, 2020
    • We will be coming to you on June 12 with a special episode to give real time reactions/review to the new album
    • Track Listing:
      • 1. Throw My Bones
      • 2. Drop The Weapon
      • 3. We’re All The Same In The Dark
      • 4. Nothing At All
      • 5. No Need To Shout
      • 6. Step By Step
      • 7. What the What
      • 8. The Long Way Around
      • 9. The Power of the Moon
      • 10. Remission Possible
      • 11. Man Alive
      • 12. And the Address
      • 13. Dancing In My Sleep

This Week in Purple History . . .

March 23 through March 29


  • March 25, 1972 – Machine Head is released
  • March 24-25, 2001 – Deep Purple play concerto dates in tokyo with Dio on vocals
  • March 26, 2002 – Steve Morse releases his album “Split Decision”

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