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A little Gillan and a little Lord
The latest issue (February-March 2025) of the Rock Candy magazine has a feature on the “Deep Purple maestro’s other band” Gillan. We have no idea on the details, so please report if there’s something interesting in there.
In other unrelated news, Dear Mr Fantasy – A Celebration for Jim Capaldi Featuring the Music of Jim Capaldi & Traffic, featuring contributions from Jon Lord on several tracks is being reissued on Cherry Red Records as 2CD/Blu-ray. It had been previously available on CD and DVD, so the addition of Blu-ray format is kinda new.
2CD / Blu-Ray video release of this special concert staged at the Roundhouse in London on 21st January 2007 to celebrate the life and music of Traffic co-founder and acclaimed solo artist Jim Capaldi. Aside from his work with Steve Winwood and Chris Wood in Traffic, (a band inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004), Jim also worked with many other artists and was a successful solo performer in his own right.
A wonderful house band was joined by a stellar line-up of musicians to perform their favourite Traffic and Jim Capaldi songs including STEVE WINWOOD, PAUL WELLER, PETE TOWNSHEND, JOE WALSH, YUSUF / CAT STEVENS, GARY MOORE, BILL WYMAN, JON LORD, DENNIS LOCORRIERE, SIMON KIRKE and many others who performed to a full house.
Originally issued in 2007, this new Esoteric Recordings edition gathers together the concert recordings on two CDs and a multi-region Blu-ray video of the concert film, issued in this format for the first time, in a clam shell box set.
Thanks to our editor emeritus Benny Holmström on both counts.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
“Deep Purple maestro’s other band” Gillan. We have no idea on the details, so please report if there’s something interesting in there.” The Karin lady from Denmark casts her spell again it seems. I suppose it is THS good folk who have allowed this occur. If they deleted all those posts from Uwe about Elvis this probably wouldn’t be happening. It is payback time from Karin it seems. When will this spell end we wonder? Cheers.
February 4th, 2025 at 05:58@1
“The Karin lady from Denmark casts her spell again it seems.” <- what!?
I have absolutely no idea what you mean 😄
“It is payback time from Karin it seems. When will this spell end we wonder?”. <- Aarhh?!? 🥺😥 don’t you know me at all by now?
The most awful and evil thing I could ever do to any of you, would be to serve you lukewarm coffee…… wait a minute! No no no – that kind of nastiness, I would never do!
I will always serve you all the loveliest coffee available 😍
February 4th, 2025 at 08:18In beautiful cups or mugs 😍
While I let you listen to Purple 🤩🤩
Karin loves everything from Ian except his best work outside of DP, namely IGB (wimmin don’t understand fusion) and Black Sabbath/Born Again (girls think that album is too doomy/dark/screamy). But that’s just how wimmin are, don’t expect anything too rational from them. Like waterfalls they cannot be tamed nor contained.
But I personally believe she has cast some pagan mind-bending spell bewitching Svante and Nick:
The site’s ablaze, the discussion’s on fire
The woman’s flames are reaching higher
We were fools to ignore her willin’
All we hear is … “GILLAAAAAAAAAN”
DC was prophetic. A rock’n’roll Nostradamus so to say: “I see danger rising from the Kingdom of Denmark!!!”
February 4th, 2025 at 14:34The credits on at least the original release are misleading, Jon is not just on the five credited tracks, but on no less than four others as well, namely Love You ‘Til The Day I Die with Margo Buchanan, John Barleycorn with Joe Walsh, Pearly Queen with Paul Weller and Rock And Roll Stew with Dennis Locorriere (the Dr Hook lead singer), Margo Buchanan and Stevie Lange (first wife of Mutt).
Hope they get the credits right this time.
The Jim Capaldi Tribute was actually where Paul Weller and Jon Lord got to know each other first – hence Paul’s appearance at Jon’s Tribute years later where the Modfather performed Artwoods songs.
February 4th, 2025 at 15:16Don’t know about the Rock Candy article but IG is featured in this months Classic Rock being interviewed on the same era and it’s a good article. Not the standard questions and some of IG’s replies are quite spiky
February 4th, 2025 at 16:36And who is this GILLAN band anyway? THE ONE AND ONLY IGB ROOLZ !!!
https://youtu.be/nlqsYuJtS-w
When Big Ian and John Gustafson did that Mk III shtick for once and pretended to be DC/GH in twin lead vocal attack. Actually, Mad Elaine in its frantic energy wasn’t that far off from what GILLAN would do later.
Of course, Karin won’t like it. But do we mind disturbing the beast? Not at all, not at all, not in the least!!! 😈
February 4th, 2025 at 19:34