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Minor nines and major sevens
Another Glenn Hughes Australian interview, this time with the Spotlight Report.
SR. Now that you are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Burn, how does it feel to look back on such a landmark album?
GH. Look, it was a moment for all of us where we were at a castle writing that album, having fun, not really knowing how it was going to be received. I just knew at that time we all felt it was a strong piece of work. All these years later, reminiscing about it, playing these songs for myself and people that want to come and hear it is a very feeling to me.
SR. That’s incredible. What inspired you to embark on this anniversary tour?
GH. I may be the only one that is doing this, you know. I think Coverdale did something like this about 12 years ago, but for me to say goodbye to that era is an opportunity I just wanted to make sure was going to exist. Because I can’t keep doing this. So, it’s important for me to close the door on this particular show, which I will do in Dubai.
SR. Apart of celebrating this 50th anniversary, are you working on something else?
GH. The album, I just made an album in June in Copenhagen, it’s coming in March. So next year will be a new Glenn album. I’m looking forward to releasing it.
Continue reading in the Spotlight Report (caveat: there are transcription mistakes).
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
In Copenhagen of all places. If Karin wasn’t so hung up on Ian Gillan, she could have sat in for all of us during the recordings. Glenn is esoteric too, so exchanges about Jung and homeopathy would have been possible no sweat.
An opportunity missed if not outright sabotaged! That affair with the apple and the snake way back comes to mind. History repeating itself all over again.
October 5th, 2024 at 18:33That was a hell of a record label that tumblr Motown … 😂
They don’t teach young people anything these days anymore!
October 5th, 2024 at 18:43In case you were wondering …
https://youtu.be/lTrCGsaSy54
It’s what most people would call “jazzy sounding chords”.
https://youtu.be/4NADPGjPsM4
Not something Ritchie would use a lot, let’s put it this way. He likes chords to be identifiably major or minor, not augmented in such a way that their original character takes a step back. Led Zep too were a band that explored that chordal no man’s land. It’s generally perceived as a sign of musical sophistication.
October 5th, 2024 at 22:07(Again) recorded in CPH at Søren Andersen’s studio. He happens to be the banjo player in GH’s Purple adventures.
October 6th, 2024 at 09:17@1
October 6th, 2024 at 14:01“If Karin wasn’t so hung up on Ian Gillan…”
Yes I am!
He is the greatest and everyone else can’t reach to the top of his toenails!
So, there you have it 😄
Besides I live far away from Copenhagen!
This is a pretty good number for what Glenn is harmonically about as well:
https://youtu.be/8zM2SVLreaw
That is not really a rock ballad, not even a pop one, it goes deep into Jazz & Soul territory. Not as easily accessible to European ears like, say, Ritchie doing Soldier of Fortune or Temple of the King. But very rewarding after a few listens. And very few white musicians have actually devoted themselves to that kind of music (and do it as well as Glenn). Call it cultural appropriation, but as one rock critic once wrote about Play Me Out (the album): “This record will leave old Deep Purple fans bewildered, but Hughes has poured so much deep and sincere soul into his new music that you cannot help but be thoroughly impressed by it.”
I honestly believe that if Glenn had been born black in Cannock, he might have faced a tougher childhood in the 50s and early 60s, but all things otherwise equal would have had a more flourishing post-DP career in the US/California with US radio being so heavily formatted along skin color lines.
October 7th, 2024 at 14:45Uwe
Play me out.
I think it was Kees Baars in Dutch “Muziek krant Oor” that tagged it :
“Ok to be melted into an ashtray.”
Kees was a national hero cause he played, like Alfred Lagarde, so much heavyrock as a DJ on the radio in a time the genre was being outcasted.
Later on he managed early VANDENBERG and writing reviews, called Gillans screaming megalomaniacal.
By that time I felt Ian did not have the great scream anymore. So I decided to think about the review .
I hardly listened to the live disc in Double Trouble.
Like we all do he wrote many things which might ve been the moment.
DownToEarth was an album he criticised but still ended the review with something that showed his admiration for Blackmore.
This is just a snipped existing in my brain and 44 years old, so sorry if it lacks a lot of details.
October 22nd, 2024 at 23:06