The Deep Purple Podcast

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Personnel:

• Bass, Vocals – Andy Milton
  • A couple of other credits including Crowded House and The Aqua Velvets.
• Drums, Vocals – Jeff Campitelli
  • Went on to play drums for Joe Satriani solo including Surfing with the Alien.
• Guitar, Vocals – Joe Satriani
• Written-By – Andy Milton (tracks: A1 to B5), Jeff Campitelli (tracks: A1 to B5), Joe Satriani (tracks: A1 to B5), Neil Sheehan (2) (tracks: A1 to B5)
  • Neil Sheehan was Joe Satriani’s brother in law and co-wrote lyrics as well as managing the band.

Technical:

• Executive-Producer – Joe Satriani
• Management [Artist Representation/Management] – Mick Brigden, Morty Wiggins
• Producer, Mixed By, Recorded By – John Cuniberti
  • http://johncuniberti.com/
  • Produced a lot of the early Satriani stuff Not of the Earth, Surfing with the Alien, etc.
  • Also worked with Dead Kennedys, Tracy Chapman, Kevin Gilbert, PJ Harvey, Aaron Neville and the Grateful Dead.
• Lacquer Cut By – HL*

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Design [Package Design] – Ryan Corey
  • http://www.ryancorey.info/
  • Art director and designer
  • Worked on a number of albums including Guns ‘n’ Roses’s Chinese Democracy, Don Henley, Steely Dan, The Eagles, a lot of compilations and greatest hits.
• Photography By [Album Cover Photo] – haygoodbros
  • Only entry on Discogs
• Liner Notes – Joe Satriani

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Album Tracks:

First 10 tracks credited to Campitelli, Milton, Satriani, Sheehan.

Track 11 credited to Written-By – Barry Mann, Larry Kolber.

1. Give It Up
   • Give It Up – Video on Youtube
   • Joe Satriani: “This song starts with the sound of my two Marshall half staks, cranked up at Hyde Street’s famous Studio C, where years later I would record ‘Surfing With The Alien.’ ‘Give It Up’ is a perfect example of what we thought at the time was the perfect blend of rock, punk, and new wave.”
2. Everybody’s Girl
3. B-Side Girl
4. I Need A Lot Of Love
5. Can’t Take It Anymore
6. So Used Up
   • So Used Up – Video on Youtube
   • Joe Satriani: “One of the more unusual and progressive Squares songs, with lyrics that are a bit darker than our usual upbeat message. I still find the guitar arrangement unique and intriguing, and it’s one of my favorites to play.”
7. You Can Light The Way
   • You Can Light The Way – Video on Youtube
   • Joe Satriani: “This is a great example of the band wanting to stretch and write more meaningful songs. I love John Cuniberti’s production. The backwards reverb on the acoustic guitar is awesome.”
8. Tonight
9. Never Let It Get You Down
   • Never Let It Get You Down – Video on Youtube
   • Joe Satriani: “Great lyrics from Neil Sheehan on this track. It’s got a positive message that still rings true. Can you hear my big nod to Mott the Hoople and ‘All The Young Dudes” on that last solo?”
10. Follow That Heart
11. I Love How You Love Me
    • Written-By – Barry Mann, Larry Kolber
    • I Love How You Love Me – Video on Youtube
    • Barry Mann
      1. https://www.mann-weil.com/
      2. https://twitter.com/mannweil
      3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Mann
      4. Almost 3000 credits on Discogs.
      5. Won two Grammys “Somewhere Out There” for Song of the Year and Best Song Written For a Motion Picture or Television.
    • Larry Kolber
      1. http://repertoire.bmi.com/writer.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&page=1&fromrow=1&torow=25&querytype=WriterID&keyid=188106&keyname=KOLBER+LARRY&CAE=16511908&Affiliation=BMI
      2. Almost 500 credits on Discogs.
      3. Passed away in 2015.
    • Joe Satriani: “This was our encore song. It was lead vocalist Andy Milton’s idea to do this song. He sang it straight while Jeff and I rocked it out fast and hard.”

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Reviews:

• Quotes from Joe’s peers.

For Further Information:

• https://www.discogs.com/release/13901772-Squares-Squares
• http://www.satriani.com/discography/Squares/
• http://www.redguitarmusic.com/album-reviews-1/2019/7/6/squares-squares-album-review
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Album Art & Booklet Review

• Cover design by Peter Gardow?

Album Tracks:

1. Smoke on the Water
   • Carlos Santana, Jacoby Shaddix
   • Bass – Benny Rietveld
   • Congas – Karl Perazzo
   • Drums – Dennis Chambers
   • Keyboards – Freddie Ravel, Howard Benson
   • Lead Guitar – Carlos Santana
   • Lead Vocals – Jacoby Shaddix
   • Percussion – Karl Perazzo
   • Rhythm Guitar – Tommy Anthony
2. Highway Star
   • Chickenfoot, performed live
   • Bass – Michael Anthony (3)
   • Drums – Chad Smith
   • Guitar – Joe Satriani
   • Vocals – Michael Anthony (3), Sammy Hagar
3. Maybe I’m a Leo
   • Glenn Hughes & Chad Smith
   • Bass – Glenn Hughes
   • Drums – Chad Smith
   • Guitar – Luis Maldonado
   • Vocals – Glenn Hughes
4. Pictures of Home
   • Black Label Society
   • Bass – John DeServio
   • Drums – Chad Szeliga
   • Guitar – Zakk Wylde
   • Vocals – Zakk Wylde
5. Never Before
   • Kings of Chaos
   • Bass – Duff McKagan
   • Drums – Matt Sorum
   • Electric Piano [Wurlitzer] – Arlan Schierbaum
   • Guitar – Steve Stevens
   • Organ [B3 Organ] – Arlan Schierbaum
   • Vocals – Joe Elliot*

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1. Smoke on the Water
   • The Flaming Lips & Gibby Haynes
   • The Flaming Lips With Gibby Haynes
2. Lazy
   • Jimmy Barnes, Brad Whitford & Joe Bonamassa
   • Bass – Michael Rhodes
   • Drums – Anton Fig
   • Guitar – Brad Whitford, Joe Bonamassa
   • Organ – Arlan Schierbaum
   • Vocals – Jimmy Barnes
3. Space Truckin’
   • Iron Maiden
   • Bass – Steve Harris
   • Drums – Nicko McBrain
   • Guitar – Adrian Smith (2), Dave Murray (2), Janick Gers
   • Vocals – Bruce Dickinson
4. When a Blind Man Cries
   • Metallica
   • Bass – Robert Trujillo
   • Drums – Lars Ulrich
   • Guitar – James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett
   • Vocals – James Hetfield
5. Highway Star
   • Glenn Hughes, Steve Vai, and Chad Smith
   • Bass – Glenn Hughes
   • Drums – Chad Smith
   • Guitar – Steve Vai
   • Keyboards – Lachlan Doley

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  • Back Tracks: Aerosmith Revisited

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Lead up to the Album:

• Between albums we had the incident in 1980 where Ritchie joined Gillan on stage after Ritchie had refused an offer to join Gillan and Gillan had refused an offer join Rainbow.
• Shortly after this Ian got a call from Tim Rice asking him if he’d like to play the part of General Peron in his new musical Evita.  Gillan would refuse the offer to focus on Gillan.
• The band changed to the Virgin label.
• They had previously been with the label Acrobat and had to front all of the money for Mr. Universe themselves.  Proceeds for the new album were going to have to go to paying off their old debt.

Personnel:

• Bass – John McCoy
• Drums – Mick Underwood
• Guitar – Bernie Tormé
• Keyboards, Flute – Colin Towns
• Vocals – Ian Gillan

Technical:

• Arranged By, Producer – Gillan
• Producer, Mixed By – John McCoy
• Producer, Mixed By – Paul ‘Chas’ Watkins*
  • https://www.chaswatkins.com/
• Mixed By – John McCoy
• Mixed By – Paul Watkins
• Lacquer Cut By – Porky (5)
• Executive-Producer – Kingsway Recorders Ltd.

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Photography By – Brian Cooke (2)
  • http://www.briancooke.com/
  • British photographer for Island Records.
  • Sleeve notes: My adventures in rock ’n’ roll
  • In the latter half of the 70’s he teamed up with photographer Trevor Key to form Cooke Key/Cooke Key Associates.
• Sleeve, Design – Cooke Key
  • http://abouttrevorkey.com/
  • Previously designed Ian Gillan Band’s “Scarabus” album.

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Album Tracks (UK Version):

Side One:

1. Unchain Your Brain (Gillan, Torme, McCoy)
2. Are You Sure? (Gillan, Torme, McCoy)
3. Time and Again (Gillan, Torme, McCoy)
4. No Easy Way (Gillan, Torme, McCoy)
5. Sleeping on the Job (Gillan, Towns)

Side Two:

1. On the Rocks (Gillan, Towns)
2. If You Believe Me (Gillan, McCoy, Torme, Underwood)
3. Running, White Face, City Boy (Towns)
4. Nervous (Gillan, Towns)

Album Tracks (US Versions):

Manufactured and Marketed by RSO Records, Inc.

This is the USA version of Glory Road that comes in embossed/raised Gillan Logo and where two of the tracks “Unchain your brain” and “Running, White Face, City boy” were switched. A5 is different from other releases. Running times as given on the label. Those slightly differ from the running times given on the European and other countries versions.

Side One:

1. Running, White Face, City Boy (Towns)
2. Are You Sure (Gillan, Torme, McCoy)
3. Time And Again (Gillan, Torme, McCoy)
4. No Easy Way (Gillan, Torme, McCoy)
5. Your Mother Was Right (Gillan, Town)
   1. Sleeping on the Job (Gillan, Towns) was on the UK Version which was previously on UK version of “Mr. Universe.”
   2. US version saw a track called “Your Mother Was Right.”
   3. This track was included on the UK double album version’s bonus LP “For Gillan Fans Only.”

Side Two:

1. On The Rocks (Gillan, Towns)
   1. In an interview with DJ Phil Easton: “It’s basically one of my little hobby horses. It’s about how I think people have generally become de-animalised in modern society, and are conditioned to do certain things from a very early age. It’s summed up in “Once you were a flying thing, now you’re on the rocks with broken wings” which sums up mankind for me at the moment. It’s a sad song, but as always, there is a bit of optimism later on.”
2. If You Believe Me (Gillan, McCoy, Torme, Underwood)
3. Unchain Your Brain (Gillan, Torme, McCoy)
   1. Album opener on UK version.
4. Nervous (Gillan, Towns)

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Reception and Charts:

• The album reached No. 3 in the UK album charts.
• In UK it was also released as a double album with the additional “For Gillan Fans Only.”
• In 1989 the album was released on CD by Virgin with some tracks from For Gillan Fans Only.
• In 2007 a 19-track double album version was rereleased by Edsel. The For Gillan Fans Only CD had two bonus tracks.
• Gillan says that “Glory Road” was his best work since “Machine Head.”
• The second part of the double album “For Gillan Fans Only” was given away as a freebie with the first 15,000 copies.
• After the album came out the press was still hounding Gillan about a Deep Purple reunion.  Gillan told them they should ask David Coverdale the same thing.
• After this a rumor circulated on Tommy Vance’s show (where they would later announced the official Deep Purple reunion) that reunion dates were being booked in America. This would have been a mention of Rod Evans’s failed Deep Purple revival act.

Reviews:

• http://www.deep-purple.net/DPASmags/stargazer23.htm#gillan
  • Glory Road / For Gillan Fans Only – Album Review
  • Very workmanlike, somewhat unadventurous too, with many cuts taking a similar style and level. ‘Unchain Your Brain’ is a case in point, nothing too brilliant, but enjoyable. ‘Are You Sure’ is great. The track is less cluttered than many on the album, and Ian really seems to be enjoying it. ‘Running White Face City Boy’ is another which I like, very similar to many Gillan band tracks, but has as a little more drive to it than most. ‘Nervous’ seems quite adventurous, and Ian’s throaty scream suits the track.
  • The extra ‘For Gillan Fans Only’ album is a rag-bag collection of items mostly unavailable before. ‘Your Mother Was Right’ is a lengthy out-take which seems a bit unfinished, but interesting ideas abound all the way through. ‘Abbey Of Thelema’ includes the flute solo which was done live, while ‘Trying To Get To You’ is an oldie from Ian’s shelved 1974-75 solo album. It has the intro edited off for some reason. Colin Towns’ ‘Dragon’s Tongue’ is great, he’ll never be out of work with stuff like this! On the whole, Glory Road and ‘son of’ have things to pick up on, but still lack the sheer impact of the Japanese Gillan album.
• Darker Than Blue ran a series of fan responses for the album:
  • Marcus Paisley: “Not keen on the cover. Why do they keep changing the logo?”
  • Andrew Ellesden: “. . . side one didn’t impress me much, but side two is brilliant . . . I’d rate it higher than all Gillan’s post Purple stuff except for the Jap LP and some of Clear Air. My fave overall is “On The Rocks,” then “Nervous” . . . Ian’s singing is particularly effective.

Merch, Etc.

• Jeff Breis’s official tour jacket
• Official Gillan Biography Tour Programme
• No Easy Way Single
• Glory Road 7”

For Further Information:

• Child in Time by Ian Gillan
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_Road_(Gillan_album)
• https://www.discogs.com/release/1690031-Gillan-Glory-Road – UK Version
• https://www.discogs.com/release/2313206-Gillan-Glory-Road – US Version
• http://www.deep-purple.net/DPASmags/stargazer23.htm
• Help from the archives of Jeff Breis

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Apple Podcasts Reviews:

• CDMorissette – Canada – 5 Stars!
• A must for all music fans!
• Whether you are a lifelong fan of Deep Purple or not this podcast is a must listen for all rock music fans!

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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.

Personnel:

• Bass – Neil Murray
• Drums – Ian Paice
• Guitar, Backing Vocals – Bernie Marsden
• Guitar, Backing Vocals – Micky Moody
• Keyboards – Jon Lord
• Vocals, Written-By, Backing Vocals – David Coverdale

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:

• Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – Martin “Sir Larry” Birch

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Illustration – Malcolm Horton
  • https://www.malcolmhorton.co.uk/
  • Also did some solo album art for Bernie Marsden.
• Photography By – Fin Costello

UK and US Album Cover Comparison:

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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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Side Two:

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.”

Reviews:

• 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.
• A sampling of reviews courtesy of Jorg Planer.

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For Further Information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_an%27_Get_It
• https://www.discogs.com/release/1429071-Whitesnake-Come-An-Get-It
• https://www.malcolmhorton.co.uk/blog/painting-whitesnakes-come-an-get-it-album-cover-40-years-on/
• Sail Away: Whitesnake’s Fantastic Voyage by Martin Popoff
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