Episode #220 – Deep Purple – Abandon (Part 1)

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  • Øyvind Fjeldbu turned us on to the tour book and sent us a scan. I immediately purchased my own copy.

First Studio report from Roger Glover

We have completed a brief stay in Orlando, at the same location where _|_ was recorded. No title has yet been decided, although there are several on the table, one or two under the table, a few beneath the cushion of a cheap chair, one caught on the horn of a suspicious looking ram on a remote ranch in New Zealand (no idea how it got there!), four were inadvertently washed in some jeans, and US Customs seized seven. That leaves several.

We have some brilliant ideas for songs, I can’t tell you how many but let’s just say it is between 7 and 9, roughly. They are all really bad. However, with a little improvement they could be worse. (Excuse my difficulty with this sarcasm thing).

JL has been tied up making an [sic] solo album and although he was planning on herring, decided that it would be in everyone’s best interest to finnish [sic – humor] his danish first. When asked if he was going to, he mysteriously replied, Norway, man!” and left it at that.

I must apologize for that last paragraph, JL had nothing whatsoever to do with it, and as far as anyone can tell has not been seen anywhere near Scandinavia recently. Actually, JL is finishing work already in progress and so therefore we are all meeting up again alarmingly soonish after the Summer gig things to complete the writing and recording, not to mention the strudel.

SM ve continues es to play ay with th his is echo ho unit.

IanPaiceisveryverytogether.

Aye yam learning knew thyngs very day.

Ian Gillan likes to dance all over the place.

Confused? Quite rightly.

Good luck and look good, RG

  • The band plays a few shows in the summer including as the tour book states:”Layr, Beirut, Zurich” and “Calgury, Canada.”  Not sure about the seemingly intentionally misspelling here.
  • In September they return to work on the album, arriving back in Orlando on September 9.
  • On September 15th Dawk (John Stillwell) and his son, John, are in the studio where they have to work repairing Jon’s organ that had been damaged when too much power was sent through them at their show in Calgary.
  • On september 16, the band get together for some UK radio interviews, talking about the 25th anniversary of Machine Head.  Dawk continues some work on Roger’s basses.
  • September 18, Ian Paice and Steve Morse jam on an idea for a song with an acoustic and they put down a rough guide on tape.
  • September 19th was the first day they were all in the studio together.

They play in Atlanta, Orlando, Pompano Beach, Myrtle Beach, New Orleans, and Chicago to round out the year.

Band plays shows in LA, Phoenix, Mexico City, Monterrey, Costa Rica.

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Technical:

  • Engineer – Darren Schneider
    • Started working with Deep Purple on The Battle Rages on. Also worked on Purpendicular as well as doing the mixing for Live at the Olympia ‘96.
    • Additionally worked with Steve Morse Band and Vixen. Also worked with Living Loud, Hoochie Coochie Men, and Porcupine Tree.
  • Engineer [Additional] – Keith Andrews
    • Had some credits before this but not many after.
  • Engineer [Assistant] – Kent Huffnagle
    • Worked with Mandy Moore, Destiny’s Child, Mike Kenneally
  • Engineer [Assistant] – Shannon Brady
    • Not many other credits. Worked with a band called Pissing Razors.
  • Mastered By – Greg Calbi
  • Mixed By – Darren Schneider
  • Producer – Deep Purple, Roger Glover
  • Production Manager – Charlie Lewis (4)
    • Worked with Roger Glover solo, Rainbow, Dream Theater.

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Recorded at Greg Rike Studios, Altamonte Springs, Florida, 1997/98.

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Album Tracks:

All songs written by Gillan, Glover, Lord, Morse, Paice except where listed below.

  1. Any Fule Kno That
    • Through Glover’s Journal this is probably the song that gets talked about the most. It seems to have given them the most trouble through re-writing and re-recording but also seems to be one of the songs they seemed to like the most.
    • After deciding he didn’t like a song they were working on called “Talk Radio,” Glover returns to his apartment and starts work on a song called “Any Fule Kno That.”
    • They seem to have done this twice live before the album came out. One of two tracks done prior to the album release.
    • December 5, 1997 – House of Blues in Atlanta, GA
    • December 6, 1997 – House of Blues, Buena Vista, FL
    • Glover got the phrase he got form a Mojo magazine article about Radiohead.
      • https://citizeninsane.eu/media/uk/mojo/03/pt_1997-09_mojo.htm
      • Thom E. Yorke (as he was billed early on) was born October 7, 1968. By the time he arrived at Abingdon public school he was already the veteran of a pre-pubescent art-pop duo (Thom on guitar, friend demolishing televisions). At a sagely 14, Yorke, who says he spent most of his free time secreted in the school’s soundproofed music rooms, began singing (“because no-one else would”) in the school punk band TNT, where his contemporary Colin Greenwood also threw a few shapes.
      • When TNT imploded, Thom offered Colin the chance to play bass in a band he was forming with the tall, handsome chap in the year above who looked a bit like Morrissey: Ed O’Brien. A sixth-former, who looked nothing like Morrissey but had a drum kit, was also asked to join. Thom’s first words to Phil Selway were momentous: “Can’t you play a bit faster?”
      • Colin’s brother Jonny wanted in too. The kind of musical genius who can get a tune out of a cheese roll, he was still only a third year. And an oik from the third can crimp a fourth-former’s cool, as any fule kno. So it was a four and a half man line-up of On A Friday which debuted at Oxford’s Jericho Tavern as early as 1987. (Jonny hanging about with his harmonica just in case.) But any serious tilt at stardom was to be forestalled by largely unenthusiastic parents and the call of further education.
    • The band acknowledges that the song does not quite work live so they do some more work on the song before completing it for the album.
    • Glover shows Talk Radio and Any Fule Kno That to Gillan. Gillan also does not like “Talk Radio” but does like “Any Fule Kno That.”
  2. Almost Human
    • Working title of “Last Jam.”
    • January 26, Jon Lord does the solo for the end of Almost Human. Glover says, “Typical of him it is a first take.” Glover feels the session is over and relaxes with some TV following the news story about the Presidential crisis being reported that Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton allegedly had an affair in the White House.
  3. Don’t Make Me Happy
    • Originally titled “Oh Darlin’ Blues.”
    • “Don’t make me happy,” was a quote from one of their crew members, Ton.
    • November 13, Glover says that Gillan does a great job on Don’t Make Me Happy and writes: “He is like a dog with two dicks.”
  4. Seventh Heaven
    • Glover writed that Lord did the solo for this song on Glover’s birthday, November 30, 1997, Glover is exhausted. He is thankful many don’t know it’s his birthday.  “So I don’t enlighten them.” Lord works on Seventh Heaven but can’t complete because Morse had made some subtle changes to his part.  Glover says he gets a much better idea of what they album is going to look and feel like and says that’s the best birthday present.
    • The other track they attempted live in advance of the album being finished.
  5. Watching the Sky
  6. Fingers to the Bone
    • When recording this song they had to build a booth around Gillan’s microphone to shield it from picking up ambient noises echoing through the studio due to the power of his singing.
    • Piano solo by Lord was done on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1997.

THE OCTOBER STUDIO REPORT

IG arrived in Orlando first, on 7th September 1997, and the rest of us arrived in dribs and drabs. I dribbed in a few days later on the 9th Sept to write with IG, IP drabbed in a few days after that, and JL dribbed and SM drabbed in about a week later. Anyway, the upshot of all this dribbing and drabbing is that the actual recording session started on the 19th September 1997 (at noon, for all you punctualists).

Our loyal and hard working recording engineer, computer operator, counselor, and fashion consultant is Darrewn Schneider, who has had the good fortune, or otherwise, to still be there since the last album.

We have taken a break in the proceedings for a week. Therefore we have been ‘hard at it’, as they say in musical scircles, for the best part of five weeks. HEads down again next week.

During that time there have been successes, failures (hardly any), jokes, laughter, practice, a lot of fiddling with wires, tuning up, listening, writing, driving, gossiping, tripping up, brain surgery, focusing, making tea, brewing coffee, thinking, looking, recording, rewinding, fast forwarding, unpacking, learning, arguing (nicely, thank you), darts, sleeping, smoking, flying, drinking, saying ‘oops’, cooking, concentrating, dialing, reading, an enormous amount of pushing buttons, filing, searching, eating, correcting, uncorking, mending, programming, looking at the sky and muttering about the price of potatoes, planning,pluggin in, complaining, sorting out, complimenting, watching, and playing tennis (IG and Clarlie narrowly beat RG and Collin 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 yesterday).

There are twelve items (so far…) on the agendum, not all of which will make the album methinks, but who knows? The general tone of the album is tough, being the result of a direct manipulation of the outermost sensory organs by means of careful voltage control, high decibel regeneration, and the redistribution of particles of human madness and logic interwoven into the subdivisions of connected sections of powerful riffage placed cunningly between the start and finish of each piece.

Of those twelve songs, five have so far been adorned with lyrics (the rest play themselves in mute abandon on the DAT player while IG and I wrestle – I know what you’re thinking and the answer is no, not yet).

Solos have been attacked on about half the tunes but are fighting back.

There is a strange dichotomy at work here: we know what we’re about but we don’t know what we’re doing. Or the other way around.

At least one live performance has been salvaged from the May writing session.

An idea born in 1987 at a rehearsal has found a new life.

One song, The STallion, didn’t make it to the last album but has made it to this, and has been, thankfully, butchered in the process. It will be called something else. No not Something Else, that was by Eddie Cochran in 19 fifty something, and in my humble onion was a very, very early example of hard rock, long before hard rock was an item, and I love it ……… but I digress.

The atmosphere in the studio is very happy, confident, and relaxed – must be the cleaning alcohol, toothpaste, and palm trees.

Working titles will not be divulged at the present time due to mostly governmental pressure. All in good time, as some unforgettable character in a famous book probably once said. Probably.

Good luck.

RG 😉

Some of the ideas that come out in the first group of sessions include: Wah Wah, Seventh Heaven, Oh Darlin’ Blues, Evil Louie, Talk Radio, Last Jam, and a few others.

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Episode #219 – Deep Purple – Live at The Olympia ‘96 (Part 2)

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  • Darker Than Blue Issue 50  February 1998
    • http://www.deep-purple.net/DPASmags/dtb50/dtb50.html
    • DEEP PURPLE
      Live At The Olympia ’96. EMI : June 1997: 2xCD
    • Purple’s new double live CD – sorry “official bootleg” (Roger says the oxymoronic sticker was not their idea) but there were real problems over the UK release thanks to a cock-up on the price front. The official retail price was only a few pence short of £25 which seemed very off-putting to us. Apparently soon after the CD was issued, EMI sent all shops a letter telling them the price had been wrong, and it should actually sell for around £16. For anyone looking for a serious Purple collectors’ item, the artwork for the CD cover exists on a wall somewhere in New York – and was done by a schoolmate of Roger’s stepson. So, a cheap return air flight with hammer and bolster chisel in your hand luggage!
    • It doesn’t seem that long since we were bending our ears to the last (official and current) Deep Purple live offering – namely COME HELL OR HIGH WATER. Yet almost three years mark the gap between that set (issued in November ’94) and this latest title. As for the recording itself, well all I can say is I hope they didn’t pay a lot for it! The overall effect is a little messy, poorly balanced and lacking in clout. COME HELL grabbed you by the parts as it powered out of the speakers; this one kind of begs you to crawl inside the cabinets and have a peek around to see where the sound has gone to. In the past, Purple live sets have always set out their stall right from the opening couple of bars. Here, instruments seem to be unsure of just where they ought to be. I guess some of this could be down to recreating the unusual on-stage set-up, but if so it doesn’t really work. The drum sound is at times weedy, with lots of irritating cymbal noise being little compensation; the guitar is not too easy to hear, and the keyboards (as on the nights we saw them) are buried except during solos. Ian Gillan is simply pitched somewhere in the middle of all this, and sounds like he’s been dubbed on afterwards, while the bass is lacks definition. Perhaps the recordings were poor, maybe it was mixed hastily – oh well; as with many bootlegs, ears adjust to the ambient sound pretty quickly and to be fair, it does get better as the set progresses. I suppose were we reviewing an actual bootleg, everyone would be raving about it, shoving one another aside to be first at the dealer’s table.
    • The final section in PICTURES OF HOME is particularly exciting, with Morse fixed in a wall of Purple sound, before they descend into BLACK NIGHT, and parody comes dangerously close. CASCADES is more like it, a strong chugging sound, and then the much vaunted brass section blasting away in the background. I’m sure like many I’d wondered just what this would sound like, but it’s far from intrusive, being more of a bright seventies brass effect than any attempt at following the tune. Lordy is playing incredibly quickly here and the whole show has just gone up a notch or two. NO ONE CAME is similarly imbued with a real syncopated spark, and what with the jazzy touches of brass, it’s just a brilliant rendition – and in retrospect one of the highlights of the CD for me. The sax players last for a curiously unsatisfying PURPENDICULAR WALTZ and then troop off (“where did they comes from” questions Ian to nobody in particular). If this CD does one thing, it disproves the theory that one Purple gig is going to be just like another Purple gig without the man in black. This show has different peaks from many of those I saw, and a different feel as well. I’m sure overall it’s not as good as a couple of gigs we witnessed, but this is the problem if you go for a one-concert recording – and only tape one flipping show.
  • Review by our friend Glen Miller
    • https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-the-olympia-96-mw0000464277
    • As a present to their fans, particularly the ones on the Internet, the band decided to put out another live album — such live releases now tallying in double figures, unprecedented for any rock band. Unedited, undubbed and with a three-piece horn section blowing in on four tunes at the Olympia in Paris, Deep Purple are in their best habitat — exhibiting raw power, free-for-all jamming and charging into the new numbers culled from Purpendicular. Reinvigorating the classics, namely “Smoke On the Water,” “Speed King” and “Highway Star,” the veterans still prove they can mess with the best on stage.

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Episode #218 – Deep Purple – Live at The Olympia ‘96 (Part 1)

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  • Performed and recorded on 17 June 1996 at L’Olympia in Paris, France.
  • On the subject of horns, Roger writes:
    • From: (BAsec5)
    • Newsgroups: alt.music.deep-purple
    • Subject: Re: Horn musicians on new live DP CD?
    • Date: 28 May 1997 06:25:19 GMT
    • Garry Smith (garry@caleyjag.demon.co.uk) wrote:
    • > He was 100% correct, of course – it was a
    • > fabulous show –  but I’d be curious to know
    • > all the background to it – how it was added to
    • > the tour, where the horn section came from, and
    • > how it came to be recorded.
    • At the end of the first show the promotors asked
    • us to come back for a special show and we thought
    • why not? The Olympia is a legendary place – we
    • played there in 69 or 70 – and it would be good to
    • visit it again. The idea of working with other
    • musicians is not new, we just never got around to
    • doing it. The horn players were recruited by the
    • promotor and are part of a Parisian late night chat
    • show on TV, so they were well equipped to deal with
    • our music. They were great.
    • Having said all that, how could we not record it?
    • Look good,
    • RG

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Episode #217 – Deep Purple’s Greatest Italian Moments

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Episode #216 – Michael Schenker Group – The Michael Schenker Group

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Episode #215 – Rainbow – Live in Munich 1977 (Part 2)

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    Episode #214 – Blackmore’s Night – Shadow of the Moon (Part 2)

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    3. No Second Chance (Blackmore, Night)
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    Reviews:

    • Darker Than Blue Issue #50, February 1998 http://www.deep-purple.net/DPASmags/dtb50/dtb50.html#11
    • BLACKMORE’S NIGHT
      SHADOW OF THE MOON : UK : Edel 0099 022WHE : Oct 1997 CD
    • “As a guitarist of 30 years pro & amateur experience, I know only too well the difficulties in reconciling your advancing years with a desire for musical progression. Off-hand, I can only think of one “elder statesman” guitarist (Beck) who still retains the fire and inventiveness of those days. Is it fair to expect any guitarist to continually expand his musical horizons whilst retaining the spark of youth in his playing? Unfortunately not; guitarists are only human after all. Will a die-hard fan still hope for that? Inevitably.
    • Shadow Of The Moon – clearly a RB song -pumped up, it could be a Rainbow song, but restrained and nicely sung. No solo? Shock horror! Excellent production work – everything is clear with acoustic to the forefront as one would hope. The Clock Ticks On – yeuch: synthesised medieval instruments. Rather cliched lyrics, but they fit in with the overall theme of the record. RB has clearly applied his knowledge of medieval syncopation to write what could have been a formal dance number. Again, the singing is a bit laid back for my taste; I’m sure with more studio experience Candice will open her lungs a bit more.
    • Be Mine Tonight – a pleasing 3/4 tempo, not unlike a Paul Simon song. The chorus on this one is more clearly defined & benefits from being so. The brief arpeggiated guitar section helps with the structure of the song, if rather predictably. Ocean Gypsy – a beautiful opening mood turned into a song I’ve known & loved for years. A chance to draw comparisons for the first time. I played the original & this back to back a few times without any real conclusions. Yes, I prefer the original (Annie Haslam has a voice you’d struggle to match) but Candice delivers it sympathetically, albeit lacking in any passion. The song is beautiful and delivered with sensitivity. I hoped RB would let himself go a little here & give us one of those “bringing tears to the eyes” solos, but no, restraint seems to be his watchword.
    • Writing On The Wall – oh dear, I thought, more cod-classical rubbish, but what do we have here? Euro-pop??? Yes indeedy, the Man In Black reveals for perhaps the first time a wry sense of humour in his range of musical genres (previously somewhat limited). Great chorus, clipped & wonderful licks, slide guitar & a superbly cheesy drum-machine. Gawd, more spine-tingling guitar; please don’t fade, please, oh sh*t, it’s fading. Whether he had to use the classical refrain instead of an original one is debatable, but for me it works. Strange that it has been programmed into the middle of an otherwise coherent set of songs, but I’m just glad it’s there. So I say “More songs taking this kind of musical risk please!”
    • So then what does this leave us with? I applaud him for breaking his self-adopted mould, taking the odd chance (viz. Europop), authentic medieval structures & playing, sympathetic production, clearly articulated acoustic work, fairly catchy melodies (in the main) and creditable singing. I mark it down on a lack of passion throughout, with RB as guilty as Candice, with far less excuses to his name. Candice should be proud of her debut but will hopefully gain in confidence as their personal & musical relationship develops.” Nick “don’t shoot me I’m only his brother” Robinson
    • My thanks for all the mail, and especially to Nick for tackling this delicate task with a far more lenient hand than I could have brung to it. We played the CD (myself and Ann) at first with interest, feeling at last he’d tackled something if not radically new, then at least a little different. As the disc wore on however our frustration grew. The very flat vocal approach, almost country and western in feel, set out on one level and simply stayed there. Fine for a couple of songs but deadly dull over a whole CD. I’ve absolutely no idea where Blackmore intended to go with this record, though as he’d had total control one can but assume he did what he set out to do, but he seems ensured of a reasonable audience if he wants to pursue this avenue further. To me the CD doesn’t really satisfy on any level. It neither works emotionally, being almost totally devoid of feeling, nor does it threaten to break any boundaries anywhere, and it certainly won’t find any admirers amongst fans of true ancient music. Ann – who has tapes of that sort of music – assures me that technically, Blackmore is absolutely spot on – but at the price of losing any shred of soul in his playing – save from the odd spot of electric work here and there which show he still has what it takes to move mountains.
    • A reader writes in to More Black Thank Purple printed in Issue #5: “Ritchie wanted to make an album like this for years, and it’s just a really good album, it’s very well produced. I like Candice’s singing on it. He’s playing really well . . . it’s just a really nice departure and it’s very well played. I think it’s really good; I hope he does well with it. Quite surprised, but very pleasantly surprised. (Cozy Powell, Berkshire, England)

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    Lead up to the Album:

    • After leaving Deep Purple which Ritchie referred to as “the monster machine” he said he figured he’d put Rainbow back together.  Ritchie says “it was an easy get out” but that his heart was not into it.
    • Ritchie was working at Longview Farm and Ritchie said he was going to fly in a professional lyric writer.  He called Candice and said that before he did that he wanted Candice to put down some lyrics as she traveled up to see him.
    • Candice got to 14 verses and gave them to Ritchie and Pat and they circled the ones they liked and put the song together.
    • Ritchie and Candice started writing acoustic songs at home for themselves and had no intention to release them.
    • Ritchie said that it was so fun because there was no pressure and it was very freeing.
    • Pat Regan says that the Blackmore’s Night thing came together when at the end of a day of recording they’d get together and jam.  Regan had a record label and thought to bring them together to do a recording of this with the intention of it being a one off thing.
    • Ritchie says in doing this project he was putting together melodies that were similar to what he was doing with Rainbow without being hard rock.  He had a lot of faith that fans would follow it.
    • Ritchie saw a band at a castle in Germany playing renaissance music with authentic instruments and he said that’s what he wanted to do. He even asked them if they wanted a guitar player.  Ritchie called it “a fantastic underground world.” He said that playing in front of very large rock crowds wasn’t as meaningful.
    • Candice said she never had any real intention to be a singer or in a band but it sort of evolved this way. She was very self-conscious and considered herself a “closet singer.”
    • Candice said they met in 1989, Ritchie says they met in 1889.
    • The story goes that he met her after a soccer match and told her “you’re a very beautiful girl.” He then sent his roadies to get her information and ask her if she wanted to meet up for a drink at a pub and they talked for hours.
    • Ritchie asked her what she could do, because he would always ask people to “give something” of themselves: singing, dancing, juggling, etc.
    • Ritchie says that there doesn’t seem to be anyone else “doing what we do. There’s probably a good reason for that.”
    • On this album Ritchie was using an Alvarez acoustic and sometimes a Taylor.  “Taylors sound a bit rough in the studio. The amp was a Crate and was picked up via a microphone. I also used an ENGL amp from time to time.

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      • Background is mostly with Blackmore’s Night albums.
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      • Also did the artwork for Blackmore’s Night “Ghost of a Rose” album.

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    Album Tracks:

    1. Shadow of the Moon (Blackmore, Night)
    2. The Clock Ticks On (trad. By Tielman Susato, Blackmore, Night)
    3. Be Mine Tonight (Blackmore, Night)
    4. Play Minstrel Play (trad. By Pierre Attaignant, Blackmore, Night)
      • Backing Vocals – Scott Hazell
      • Only credit is this and a song on Under a Violet Moon
      • Served as guitar tech for Ritchie Blackmore from 1995 through 1997 as well as some background vocals for Rainbow.
      • Guest, Flute – Ian Anderson
      • Songwriter [Traditional Song] – P. Attaingnant*
        1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Attaingnant
      • RB: On this song we played together for the first time. I sent him the tape, and he played his part and sent the tape back. That was it. I’ve admired Ian for a very long time; we’ve known each other for over 25 years.
    5. Ocean Gypsy (Renaissance Cover) (Dunford, Thatcher)
      • Written-By – B. Thatcher*, M. Dunford*
      • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Thatcher
      • https://www.discogs.com/artist/571852-Michael-Dunford
      • RB: We did not write that song. That’s a song that was written back in 1975 by another group called Renaissance. We’ve always loved that track. We used to play it around the house just for fun. Most of these songs that are only the LP, CD, we played in the beginning for fun, which is the best way I think of approaching music. It wasn’t hard work. It was very easy to make this CD … because we knew these songs, we played them to our friends, we had good fun playing them. And “Ocean Gypsy” was one of our favourite songs.
      • RB: With Deep Purple every song had to be composed by the band. Just for the credits! Bullshit! You play a song because you like it and not because you have written it yourself.
      • CN: “”Ocean Cypsy was a song that was given to us on a tape by Annie Halslam who used to sing for Renaissance, and Ritchie went to see here with a friend of his one night in a club which she was performing. And he brought home all these little tapes that she had given him, and we played them when we were livin gin Connecticut …. We don’t live there anly more. We were sitting outside one day, just listening to the tpea, and Ocean Gypsy was one song that stitch in my mind. And then we moved, and we packed the tapes, and we didn’t see those tapes for years. And I always remembered Oveam Cyptsey was always in my head. Then one day I just started hummin it around the kitchen and ritchie picked up laying it, and we had to go and find the tape and rummage through all our tapes so we could find out what the words were, and what the rest of the chords were. But that was just one of those haunting melodies that sticks in your head.
    6. Minstrel Hall (Instrumental) (Blackmore)
    7. Magical World (Trad Wassail, Blackmore, Night)
      • Composed By [Traditional Composition] – Wassail
    8. Writing on the Wall (trad. By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Blackmore, Night)

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    Episode #212 – Rainbow – Live in Munich 1977 (Part 1)

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    Nate Guests on Pod of Thunder Episode 509 – Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows

    Nathan Beaudry from The Deep Purple Podcast joins the guys to analyze “No One Knows” from the 2002 Queens of the Stone Age album Songs for the Deaf! For his first appearance on POT, Nate was given the privilege of picking the song and he chose this one, which marks the first time anything involving Dave Grohl has been featured on the show. Were some sacred cows slaughtered during the discussion, or did this cut receive Sweet Surrenders all around? Listen and find out!

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