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Gillan to perform in his home town
Blackmore Vale Magazine (I kid you not) reports that Ian Gillan offered his services to perform at the Guitars On The Beach festival in his home town of Lyme Regis. The event is essentially a mass gathering of guitar players not unlike the ones that set the world record, albeit not on quite the scale: last year 2,267 guitarists set the UK record, with this year more than 3,000 having already signed up. Smoke on the Water is one of the songs to be played, along with Buddy Holly’s Rave On, Rocking All Over The World by Status Quo, 500 Miles by The Proclaimers, Valerie by The Zutons, Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top, Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd, I Wasn’t Born To Follow by The Byrds and Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard, “the last two depending upon finding a bunch of Rickenbackers and a London bus.”
When Big Ian heard about the event, he offered to sing Smoke, this giving a chance to 3,000 budding guitarists to brag about playing guitar for Ian Gillan.
The event will be held on the beach in Lyme Regis, UK, on the weekend of September 6-7th.
Thanks to Andrey Gusenkov for the info.
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Go, Go Gillan Go Go, Go Gillan Go Go……
June 18th, 2014 at 16:28Sadly I can’t make it this year (last year was fun, despite the rain) … tis my wedding day a few miles east.
June 18th, 2014 at 16:32lyme regis – nice part of the world…
June 18th, 2014 at 16:47THE single most famous RIFF in ROCK.
June 19th, 2014 at 10:55Rocking All Over The World is written by John Fogerty. It can be found on the lp/cd John Fogerty from 1975. Enjoy the original version!
June 19th, 2014 at 15:51I think that Rockin´ all over the world, is a Johm Fogerty song.
June 20th, 2014 at 05:00And to think I was standing on the Cobb 8 days ago, but with no Electric Lady guitar in hand. May show for this one? Last time I performed with big I, was Axminster just after Cherkazoo performance in 1999. What has he been up to since then?
June 27th, 2014 at 17:19You must put some musics in this site… Looking, reading and listentening, gives you more knowledgement. People under 25 years never heard about you.
August 24th, 2014 at 18:37A FAN
Saw the interview at Ian’s home yesterday and loved it…learned alot from this session…he also cleared up something for me by saying his cough is from medication…always thought it was too many cigarettes on the tour bus…I love you and your stage mates!
October 30th, 2020 at 20:24