In this bonus episode we interview Ray Fenwick. We talk about his beginnings as a session player, his time working with Joe Meek, The Spencer Davis Group, Fancy, his solo album “Keep America Beautiful, Get a Haircut,” Jon Lord’s “Windows” project, The Butterfly Ball, Wizard’s Convention, Eddie Hardin, Ian Gillan Band (“Clear Air Turbulence” in particular), his single “Queen of the Night,” what he’s working on now, and more!
When we last left IGB Mike Moran was on keys. He had since left and been replaced by Colin Towns on keys.
Ray Fenwick looks back on IGB in “Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story” by Dave Thompson: “The first album was very, very good, I thought. The thing with it was, Ian suddenly found himself in a band with a bunch of session guys and, of course, session guys like to play as much as they can when they get a chance. In that situation, we were given a bit of room and rope, so we let the rope out a bit.”
Dave Thompson also says that the punk scene was huge in the UK at this point. Rainbow took advantage by spending much of their time in the UK and Japan during this time. IGB spent most of their time in the UK and didn’t get a lot of traction.
The band was under fire by the music press as well.
Even Deep Purple fans weren’t on board with Ian Gillan Band.
Fenwick stated that fans were getting a little unhappy about the funky elements in Ian Gillan Band. “. . . by the time of the second album [Clear Air Turbulence], that terrible word ‘jazz’ was coming in. But the worst thing we could have done was be another Deep Purple. We started to really experiment and, by the time we got to the third album [Scarabus], although we started doing shorter songs because we were thinking about radio play, we were also getting into some really strange stuff.”
The band settled down at Kingsway, owned by Gillan himself, where they would have as much time as they needed to record.
The album was recorded twice. The first attempt was not satisfatory to Gillan so they cancelled their 1976 tour and re-recorded it. Scarabus would be released just six months later.
They toured in 1977 and released “Live at the Budokan” which features mostly Clear Air Turbulence.
Gillan wanted Clear Air Turbulence to set them apart from Deep Purple and even the previous IGB album.
Gillan says in his book, “Child in Time,” that he got a new manager named Gerry Black. He admits to signing a contract blindly.
Gillan says that at Island records they had signed people like Steve Winwood. Gillan said at Island he’d spend many mornings playing pool with Bob Marley.
Gillan also said that bands like IGB were considered second division.
Gillan also tells a great story in his book about how he was tired of the band constantly taking taxis to go get cigarettes, strings, etc. He told management to buy a car to save money. He came in and saw the car parked in his spot at the studio. He looked in and there was nothing in it: no seats, no steering wheel, no dashboard, nothing. “. . . not a bloody thing. I was just a shell.”
Thousands of science fiction books, Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert (Dune), Arthur C. Clarke
Created the original line artwork for “The Joy of Sex”
Gillan, discusses working with Chris Foss in his book “Child in Time”: and calls it “the bumble-bee spaceship.”
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Many thanks for the enthusiasm, support and professional services
Gerry Black
Gary Lee
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Ezee-Hire
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Side one:
Clear Air Turbulence
Five Moons
Money Lender
Per “The Complete Deep Purple” by Michael Heatley, Gillan is referencing his former manager, Bill Reid.
Gillan claims to regret this, “In truth, I had not a single reason to think badly of the man.” He had just gotten a tax bill for £385,000 and was looking for someone to blame.
Side two:
Over the Hill
Goodhand Liza
Angel Manchenio
Reception and Review
From Pop: Zweitling vom ex-purple-sanger und seiner band, in der nach wie vor erstklassige typen mittun ( ). musikalisch ist die truppe. bei alter harte bleibt der sound uberall transparten und grazil. trotz-dem fehlt etwas: gute songs, melodien, knuller. das lobenswerte teamwork (all songs enstanden in gemeinsamer arbeit) erbringt nur heisse luft.
Second of the ex-purple-singer and his band, in which still first-class types now (Ray Fenwick, John Gustafson). the group is musical. with old hard the sound remains transparent and delicate everywhere. Nevertheless, something is missing: good songs, melodies, pacifiers. The commendable teamwork (all songs were created in collaboration) only provides hot air.
New Musical Express references the canceled tour and refers to the band as “Clean Air Turbulence.”
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In this episode we talk with Claude Schnell, keyboard player for Dio, about his career working with Ronnie James Dio, his beginnings, and his work with Glenn Hughes.
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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.
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In this bonus episode Nate has a conversation with Hartmut Kreckel, long time webmaster of Captain Beyond fan sites in the 90s and all around expert on all things Captain Beyond.
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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.”
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
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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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
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