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Wood for the trees
In this new interview with his drum stick company ProMark, Ian Paice talks about working on the new album, peculiars of working in the studio in general, and not seeing the wood for the trees in the first place:
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
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Wow!
That was pretty boring stuff.
Things he said so many times, very stale.
And were they exited with Bradford as well?
Hopefully I m wrong but I dont feel much anticipation for their new album based on interviews like these.
October 9th, 2012 at 20:31Ehhh…Sorry, not sounding so super exciting for me…’more’ …’less.’…affraid that for the last years came ‘least’ …followed by ‘nothing’…because that is what we’ve got untill so far….
October 9th, 2012 at 21:04I think that the recording sessions have been overshadowed by the passing of Jon Lord.
It can be inspiring to try new sounds or ways to create them but when you have a good song it will sound good even on a crappy instrument. When I think back to Purple’s early records, the sound quality wasn’t in the foreground and their equipment not nearly as sophisticated as nowadays. Without any suggestions regarding their upcoming record, I often find that the technical possibilities we have today get in the way of the art itself. When I go to the movies it’s all about special effects, quality of tone and picture etc. but nobody seems to have some money left for a really good story. There are quite some analogies to music.
October 9th, 2012 at 22:25Paicey’s a very humble guy. If he thinks the new album is brilliant, then rather than rave about it, he’ll tend to understate his opinion and let the listeners decide what they think of it. Let’s suspend all opinions until the album is released. Morsey reckons Bob Ezrin is the best producer he has ever worked with. That’s a good start… fingers crossed!
October 10th, 2012 at 01:45Thanks for the clip. I enjoyed it.
October 10th, 2012 at 01:54Hmmm, better take the glass half full attitude..it sounded truthful and revealing, not pretentious..Paicey is pretty quite most of the time anyway, when he isn’t hitting the kit.
October 10th, 2012 at 04:16“… on this record, we cutting now, thwe drum parts are … simple,
becaise a .. lot of the music is very heavy …”
Yes – you are preparing for history !!!
That is a very little but fine information about that, we waiting for …
Hey Paicy, give us more to eat … can´t wait …
LLRnR
LLDP
-kraatzy-
October 10th, 2012 at 06:16He seems to be really motivated! Fresh and everything!
The last interviews and news rather gave me impressions like “we got to do an album, so we do it, but we’re tired”.
But he seems to be really interested in that stuff! And awake, as well.
Can’t wait to hear som excerpts from the new album! With Ezrin, it gonna sound like hell! …Or heaven, as you want!
October 10th, 2012 at 13:48=)
How can you judge what the albums going to sound like just from listening to that interview!! Are you guys for real…?!!
October 10th, 2012 at 14:12How about you wait till you hear it before you start slashing your wrists eh..?
I rather enjoyed the interview. Nice to see such humility in a legend! And the stuff about the new cd being heavy…what’s not to like?!?
October 10th, 2012 at 19:192:25-2:53…that’s at the same time really true and really sad to me…
October 10th, 2012 at 19:20I was hoping for a more ‘progressive’ touch with great drums part…this is the opposite…
‘Purpendicular’, their best album with Morse, had a progressive approach but certenly what really counts is the songwriting…Paice is generally underrated as drummer and He could have shown us he is still at the top (as some of his recent performances demonstrate), even on this next album…
This sounds unpromising…I hope I’ll be completely wrong…
I thought it was an intelligent piece, he was being interviewed by a drum stick company for drummers, not DP fans particularly.
October 10th, 2012 at 20:18it sounds like 2013 for the new album date .
October 10th, 2012 at 20:49It was interesting to me. Heavy tracks, good to hear every time.
October 10th, 2012 at 22:49The Smoke on the Water question is redundant, the rest is interesting.
October 10th, 2012 at 23:14the record is going to be heavy ,that is great at least !
October 11th, 2012 at 00:14You’ve got to remember this was filmed during the recording, so it must have been very close to JL’s passing. It’s understandable that Paicey wouldn’t be at his most exuberant.
October 11th, 2012 at 06:17I listened to the wood for the trees, it led me to a 4″ solo from 2012 that lead me to an interview of 16:44″ November 28, 2011… and I stoped there because I’d already spent too much time. I’m amazed about the way he talks and the wisdom of his words and his sound. It’s a pity you’re loosing the faith a bit puplepriest (thought so, forgive me if wrong); I quiet can understand your meaning Skow, being spanish, but I think you’re quiet disapoited too, ain’t it?
For myself, I DO am very exited bout the new album, that I BELIEVE will come soon.
October 11th, 2012 at 10:29It’s not like Paicey has ever been a particularly “exciting” interview. One of my favorite drummers and all around good guy…but if you are looking for sparkling interviews filled with exciting anecdotes….that probably isn’t happening with little Ian.
October 11th, 2012 at 16:59Al
So was Abandon…….
Cheers
October 12th, 2012 at 22:35It worries me he’s saying he’s keeping it simple…..his drumming has been getting more simple and at times down right boring on some of their latter stuff …he used to do more drum fills and complicated rhythms on a single song than he does on a whole album these days ….lets hope he doesn’t simplify it too much ! There are plenty of rock drummers playing in a busy style like he used to….it would be nice to see Paice back and kicking their collective asses…
October 14th, 2012 at 00:07@21 yes, that’s what I was saying too…and in general it’s true that for fast songs you can’t make complicated drums parts but at the same time when I listend to ‘Fireball’ song I know this is at the same time untrue…
October 15th, 2012 at 12:02“that moment of creation lasts forever”…………………………………………
October 15th, 2012 at 13:03I hope they had this in mind when writing for new album………………perhaps i’m being bit cynical……..looking forward to new material.
Ted the Mechanic and House of Pain are good tunes, but it sounds like they’re being influenced by Motley Crue. They should be influenced by heavy riffs such as Flight of the Rat, Space Truckin’, Rat Bat Blue and Burn instead. I’m looking forward to the new album, but hopefully Ezrin hasn’t led them in too much of a Motley Crue/Van Halen direction as did Bradford
October 19th, 2012 at 19:30Aint slashing my wrists yet but I am seriously considering slashing the veins around my ankles. But seriously, if Purple makes an album like the last Van Halen album they will chart at #2 and that my friends would be something to write home about. No?
October 21st, 2012 at 07:36The Motley Crue suggestion might be a left over from the S & M days.
October 23rd, 2012 at 20:29JLT suggested that to Ritchie who replied : Motley WHO?!