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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):

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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
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• No Easy Way Single
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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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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:

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• 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
• Help from the archives of Jörg Planer

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Album Tracks:

1. Breakfast in Bed (Blackmore, Turner, Glover)
2. Love Conquers All (Blackmore, Turner, Glover, Lord)
3. Fortuneteller (Blackmore, Turner, Glover, Lord, Paice)
4. Too Much Is Not Enough (Turner, Bob Held, Al Greenwood)
5. Wicked Ways (Blackmore Turner, Glover, Lord, Paice)

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Reception and Review

• 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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For Further Information:

• Help from the archives of patron Jeff Breis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaves_and_Masters
• https://www.discogs.com/release/15935685-Deep-Purple-Slaves-And-Masters
• Child in Time by Ian Gillan
• Black Knight: Ritchie Blackmore by Jerry Bloom 
• A Hart Life by Colin Hart with Dick Allix
• Darker Than Blue #39, July 1990
• Darker Than Blue #38, November 1989
• More Black Than Purple #32, 2006
• Darker Than Blue #41, May 1991
• Darker Than Blue #42, December 1991
• Deep Purple Slaves And Masters: In-depth by Laura Shenton
• The Complete Deep Purple by Michael Heatley
• Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story by Dave Thompson

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• Hey! I wanted to leave a 5 star, but I can’t connect to Apple bla bla bla.. So, if this counts I’ll do it here. I really enjoy your show and I really want to hear that flexitone? or whatever the the name is.
• It’s actually the only pod (besides Popoff) I listen to. Old (as fuck) Purple fan so I enjoy you guys talking about what I belive is the best band ever. Therefore, 5 star of course. Keep up the good work. Cheers
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• My dad had made a mixed CD to my mom that she played in the car with songs from mark 2, 3 and 5. 
• It was about 99/00 that I heard Jon Lord’s intro to Knocking At Your Back Door from Nobody’s Perfect and from that moment I was hooked. I went through every CD and LP that my parents owned.
• In Rock (this I did not listen to!), Fireball, Machine Head, Burn, Stormbringer, Perfect Strangers, House Of Blue Light, Slaves and Masters, Battle Rages On, Purpendicular and Abandon. A couple of compilations and Nobody’s Perfect.
• By the time I was 15 in 2004 I owned every studio album that they had released on CD. I bought In Rock that summer and I had heard Speed King, Child In Time and Black Night from the 24 Carat Purple compilation record before. 
• But when I played In Rock in it’s entirety for the first time… I mean.. Come on! What. A. Record! The intensity of the band, Gillan’s singing, Jon and Ritchie’s solos! 
• Bad production or not, it’s a epic and a groundbreaking record. 
• Played that record on repeat the whole summer. 
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Lead up to the Album:

• Gillan says that with “House of Blue Light” that as long as Blackmore was happy with the guitar parts then everyone was happen. Ian says that wasn’t good enough for him.
• While RItchie recovered from a broken finger (the result of misjudging his timing when catching his guitar) Ian and Roger went to work on “Accidentally on Purpose.”
• Gillan said that when the tour resumed that the spark had gone.
• They had an odd route through their European tour and when asked about why at a press conference Ian Gillan said, “Because Bruce Payne is an asshole.” Something he regretted and said out of frustration.
• Things were very tense between Gillan and Blackmore.  It all came to a head when Ritchie burst into Ian’s room holding a plate of spaghetti which had been covered in ketchup.  Given the tension between the two Blackmore assumed it was Gillan.  He said, “Did you do this?”  Gilland says before he could answer Blackmore had smashed the plate into Ian’s face “as if it were a custard pie.”
• Gillan claims at that point Blackmore started dancing around holding up his fists and saying, “Come on! Come on!” To which Gillan replied, “I don’t want to hit you, Ritchie.”  He said he turned around and went into the bathroom where he cried with frustration.  He said, “I quit” out loud then changed his mind.
• Ian had already started working on his side project “Garth Rockett and the Moonshiners” and there was the sense he wasn’t giving his all to Deep Purple.
• After this they worked on Nobody’s Perfect.
• After this Deep Purple returned to Stowe for sessions and Ian was invited not to attend.
• Ian said he finally did show up at the sessions but ended up at the bar and was drinking very heavily.
• Gillan burst in on Blackmore and his girlfriend who were having a fight and ended up falling onto a sofa and knocking over a huge glass shelf.  He was wearing nothing.
• Darker Than Blue #38 for November 1989:
  • Article describing “Vocalist Wanted” advertisements in Kerrang! And speculating they may be for Deep Purple.  They’d previously speculated about Brian Howe from Bad Company being a potential vocalist.
  • Blackmore ended up playing on Howe’s solo album which Darker Than Blue said: “. . . to be cringingly called “Howe’d Business” (guaranteed to git it bargain bin status within weeks!)”
  • They also go on to say that Joe Lynn Turner has been on people’s minds as well as Ronnie Dio. Interestingly the Dio rumor came from none other than Don Airey who said he’d heard Dio was auditioning while he was woring with Whitesnake.
  • Coverdale also came to mind quickly to reprise his role replacing Gillan.  Whitrsnake wasn’t exactly stable but their latest album “Slip of the Tongue” was selling quite well.
  • Doug Pinnick of Kings X was also considered.
  • Word from MTV was that JLT had turned the job down.
  • Rumors were that Paul Rodgers auditioned and was “found lacking.”  Hard to believe with Blackmore’s admiration for Rodgers.
  • Jimmy Barnes was rumored to have taken the job as well.
  • The next name was Kal Swan from the band Lion.
  • Jamie Jamison from Survivor was another rumored name.
  • According to Sounds magazine Gillan was fired.  According to NME Gillan quit.
  • Jon said he’d like to work with Colin Hodgkinson again but couldn’t due to the BMG contract running until 1991.  There were so many delays from Deep Purple that Jon Lord ended up touring with him anyway with John Mayall.
  • Simon Robinson says that seeing JLT do Deep Purple material  made himn think they’d need to really rework the set to make it work.  HE said this is ironic considering this seemed to be the main stickign point with Gillan who really wanted to rework things.
• ++++ Black Knight
• Tensions were rising between Deep Purple and Polygram. In interviews Jon Lord said they got the impression that Polygram did not consider Deep Purple to be a current group.
• IT was decided in 1989 they would take a break from touring and focus on a new album.
• Lord stated they had six nearly completed songs and another six that they were working on.
• Blackmore wanted this album to go into a more commercial direction.  Gillan wanted it to be something a little more quirky.
• Gillan wanted to record in a New York studio.  Blackmore hated the idea and Lord said, “The idea of recording in New York fills me with dread.  This upset Gillan and lead to Blackmore calling a recording session without Gillan.
• Raymond D’Addario: “You almost thought tha tIan wanted to be kicked out.  That’s the impression I got.”
• Artie Hoar: “I was there when Gillan got fired. WE were in Vermont and Deep Purple was rehearsing. Rich and all of the other band members (except for Roger) went home without telling Gillan that he was going tobe replaced. I left with Rich so I guess Roger told him he was out.”
• Blackmore had lead the charge in ousting Gillan but the rest of the band backed his decision.
• Lord: “Ritchie is like a terrier or pit-bul, he gets hold of something and won’t let go. HE ahs a vision of what he wants, and he’ll fight and fight until he gets what he wants. He’s rarely wrong, and if he is wrong, he’ll admit it with utmost graciousness. Until he’s proven wrong, he won’t budge. I love him the way he is.”
• Roger said in an interview in Kerrang! “Sacking Ian Gillan was not personality clash, it was not about behaviour, it was a decision taken by all of us in the band, however painful that was.”
  • Glover goes on to say it was a difference in songwriting. Gillan wanted to go in a different direction.  He also says it’s painful to talk about and they are still great friends but that his dismissal was necessary.  He concludes with: “In many ways, I miss him a lot.”
• At a video shoot for MTV Jon Lord said he was glad that Ian had left and said it had gotten “as bad as it was the first time he left.” This caused Bruce Payne to shake his head as this was done on camera.  Several sources cite this including the Kerrang interview with Roger Glover as well as a few of the books.
• In Colin Hart’s book “A Hart Life” he mentions that Bruce Payne sided with whoever had the most power in the band. At this moment it was Ritchie.  That would change in the future.
• BMG was not happy about this change as they’d signed the Mark 2 lineup and now they did not have their signature singer to record their next album.
• The remaining four members did not have any particular singer in mind to replace Gillan.  They auditioned potential singers.
• It was during this period that Ritchie met Candice Isralow at a charity soccer match.
• Jon took the opportunity to team up with Pete York and Tony Ashton and others and they toured Germany under the name Olympic Rock and Blues Circus. By the time the tour ended they still didn’t have a singer.
• Some singers that were auditioned included Jimi Jamieson and Terry Brock.  The former was the singer in Survivor and allegedly was offered the job but refused it at the advice of his management.  Jon Lord said that’s who he really wanted but that Jimi was afraid of his managers.  He said they were “Italo-Americans; that says enough.” Brock was less well known from a band called Strangeways. There were rumors that he and Blackmore had a big altercation with Brock walking out.
• Jimi Jamieson turned down the band, opting to go with a solo career.  He ended up doing the theme song for Baywatch.  In Colin Hart’s book he says, “Good choice, Jimi!”
• It was at this point that Blackmore suggested Joe Lynn Turner. The other band members were initially not interested in this idea but eventually they relented, perhaps due to Ritchie’s pit-bull tendencies.
• When Roger first heard of the idea his first reaction was “No Way! Absolutely Not!”  He went on to say that it wasn’t for any personal reasons but he just felt it was the wrong move.  He said he though the “Deep Rainbow” criticisms would be “flying thick and fast.”
• Jerry Bloom states in Issue #32 of “More Black Than Purple” that these complaints could have been nullified given Lord and Paice joining Whitesnake and the sound staying relatively the same.  I would contest that that may have had something to do with neither of them taking much of a songwriting place with that band.
• In a 1984 interview with Mick Wall Blackmore talks about the differences between Rainbow and Deep Purple.  “. . . I feel that although Rainbow did some good stuff, it didn’t ever have the identity that Purple has.”  He goes on to say that in Rainbow he was able to have everything exactly how he wanted it but it didn’t seem to appeal to the masses.  He admitted that him in 100% control didn’t equal the best results.  He then goes on to compliment Gillan: “Ian Gillan . . . will come up with melodies and lyrics to things I’ve written which I would never have thought of. That’s part of the chemistry and magic of Purple. Nobody has a voice like Ian Gillan’s and you can’t say that about the Journeys, Foreigners, Survivors or Rainbows.”
• Joe says that when he walked in to her audition the band was playing and Ritchie went into “Hey Joe” by Hendrix and Turner got right on the mic.  It’s alleged that Roger Glover has a recording of this in his session tapes.  He goes on in Kerrang to say “I recorded that, I have it on a 12-track, and it was really good. One day I’d like to release that.”
• Glover in Kerrang: “I don’t think the real test is how well Joe performs the old songs, it’s how well he performs the new songs and how much of a career we forge from here . . .”
  • Glover goes on to talk about whole Who Do We Think We Are didn’t produce any songs that translated into live numbers so they just went back to Machine Head which is just Made in Japan.  He really wanted to focus on getting back to some old 
• Joe Lynn Turner goes on in interviews about how Ritchie was the band leader, he sided with Ritchie, and Roger and the others sort of did their own thing.  JLT has some somewhat unfavorable things to say about working with Jon Lord, a rarity in Deep Purple circles.  “I can remember Jon saying ‘Love Conquers All’ was shit and it wasn’t a good song and I said, ‘If you play it right I’m gonna sing the hell out of it and it’s going to be a great power ballad so just shut the fuck up and get started.”  He goes on to say that Ritchie had been wanting to say that to Jon for years
• JLT described Lord as being critical but not very involved in the writing “Jon would never write and he’d be sitting there drinking his glass of wine reading his book listening to classical music.”
• Despite the fight with Gillan about recording studios they ended up at Greg Rike Productions in Orlando, Florida to record “Slaves and Masters.”
• This was their first time in a proper studio to record an album since “Come Taste The Band.”  Wonder if this made Gillan mad?
• In an interview in Metal Hammer from December 1990 Jon Lord says (about why they went with an established singer instead of someone new like they’d done with Coverdale): “We area band of a certain age. And most singers we got audition tapes from were guys of 20-22 years. And two things would happen if we took a guy of that age. One it would look wrong. And two the poor guy would not stand the chance.”  He goes on to say that a young, inexperienced singer wouldn’t be able to “control the band from the front.”
• Jon said in interviews that Ritchie was the leader of the band and it wasn’t Purple without Ritchie.
• They played one show with Joe Lynn Turner but Jon Lord opted not to play as it was a very cramped venue.
• After that Colin Hart arranged a location in Altamonte Springs, Florida, north of  Orlando called Greg Rike Productions. He mentions that the band was tired of the snow.
• Colin Hart said it took six months to record.
• Ian Paice: “The thing that’s different is that Joe has the ability to sing anything well, and because of that it opens up more possibilities than ther ewere before. I mean, I an was a great rock’n’roll singer, David was a great blues singer, but Joe has the ability to do anything and everything, so where there were certain limitations on what we could do before, at the moment anything we can think of he can do.”
• During press conferences JLT wouldn’t miss an oppotunity to speak negatively about Malmsteen and pump up Blackmore.
• JLT: “Before I joined there were certain restrictions and conditions that I flet had to be met. Ome was that I’m not just gonna come into the band singing someone elses’s drivel.”

Personnel:

• Bass – Roger Glover
• Drums – Ian Paice
• Keyboards, Organ – Jon Lord
• Lead Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore
• Lead Vocals – Joe Lynn Turner

Additional Personnel:

• Management – Bruce Payne
• Orchestra – Jesse Levy
  • https://www.discogs.com/artist/292826-Jesse-Levy
  • George Benson, Peggy Lee, Bette Midler, Barbara Cook, Carly Simon, Lou Rawls, Paul Simon, Lena Horne, and Gloria Estefan
  • Played on numerous film soundtracks.

Technical:

• Producer, Mixed By – Roger Glover
• Producer [assistant] – Raymond D’Addario
• Engineer, Mixed By – Nick Blagona
• Mastered By – Greg Calbi

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Artwork [enhancement] – Ralph Wernli
  • Worked on album photography  for numerous others including Art Garfunkel and Kool Moe Dee. While a photographer he is credited with artwork on this album.
• Photography – Didi Zill
• Art Direction – Roger Glover

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Album Tracks:

1. King of Dreams (Blackmore, Turner, Glover)
   1. Glover says in Kerrang: “King of Dreams is a perfect case point. That came out of a couple of days of frustration, the atmosphere in the studio was like pea soup, everyone was really down in the mouth. Then Ritchie just started playing a completely different riff. He only played it once cos when we’d done it I said “That’s really good, let’s work on it’ – but Ritchie wouldn’t!  We came back to it a couple of weeks later, did a few overdubs, I got Joe in to work on a set of lyrics I’d got, then by the time the band came in we had a song. It’s not perfect by any means. We tried to improve it, but it wouldn’t be improved. It just lived the way it live . . .”
2. The Cut Runs Deep (Blackmore, Turner, Glover, Lord, Paice)
   1. In Black Knight Joe Lynn Turner says that Jon Lord started playing the keyboard intro at his audition in Vermont and Turner started singing the vocal line “What about the heartache? What about the emptiness inside?”
3. Fire in the Basement (Blackmore, Turner, Glover, Lord, Paice)
4. Truth Hurts (Blackmore, Turner, Glover)

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For Further Information:

• Help from the archives of patron Jeff Breis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaves_and_Masters
• https://www.discogs.com/release/15935685-Deep-Purple-Slaves-And-Masters
• Child in Time by Ian Gillan
• Black Knight: Ritchie Blackmore by Jerry Bloom 
• A Hart Life by Colin Hart with Dick Allix
• Darker Than Blue #39, July 1990
• Darker Than Blue #38, November 1989
• More Black Than Purple #32, 2006
• Darker Than Blue #41, May 1991
• Darker Than Blue #42, December 1991
• Deep Purple Slaves And Masters: In-depth by Laura Shenton
• The Complete Deep Purple by Michael Heatley
• Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story by Dave Thompson

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