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Lazy Sod
A third single Lazy Sod from the new album =1 has been released.
[Update July 1]: The video clip was removed from public viewing just a few hours later without any explanation.
…And reinstated back a couple of days later:
[Update July 2]: Attempt #2, this time audio only
Straight from the horse’s mouth, as quoted by the ROCKS magazine, June 2024 issue:
Recently, a young journalist asked me how many songs I had written in my life. I replied that the last time my assistant counted, twenty years ago, it was over 500. I felt quite accomplished until she pointed out Dolly Parton’s 5,000 songs, calling me a lazy sod. I couldn’t help but agree and wrote down the exchange in my notebook.
Thanks to Lutz Reinert for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Waaaw, what a great and catchy song ! Love the riff and overall vibe, everyone play/sing great… Another brillant one… 5 on 5 to me, that album REALLY is promising !
July 1st, 2024 at 14:59Early Whitesnake-ish
July 1st, 2024 at 15:01Seems they’ve gone into more hit-chorus making, just like on The House Of Blue Light or Whoosh. Sounds good anyway, but aren’t we slightly tired of those Airey-type solos that just don’t stick in our head at all? 6-7/10 would be the most honest review, I suppose. Still waiting for the whole album though, Bleeding Obvious promises a lot even being played live
July 1st, 2024 at 15:35this Video ist the best out of the three so far ! Yeah. A good rock song.
Seems like the video is gone again, but I have my TAB with the video still open and repeat until 1 = 2
=)
July 1st, 2024 at 16:22Released by mistake! It went down after 10 views! I hope this is the weakest one cis it actually is nothing special instead some good work from Don and decent singing.
July 1st, 2024 at 16:32Or perhaps not😁
July 1st, 2024 at 17:16Was it an unintended leak, or what happened?
July 1st, 2024 at 19:33I’m pretty sure bad ole Rasmus was behind it. He ain’t gonna give up his advantage of sovereign knowledge. The Catholic Church didn’t want book printing either. We are to be kept in the dark!
Or maybe the “unintended leak” was in fact intended to raise appetite? 😎 We live in an age of deception …
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July 1st, 2024 at 22:58It’s called a teaser 😂
July 2nd, 2024 at 08:05Once thing I leaned from Now What and it was from their first song in the album called ‘Simple Song’
Time it done not matter
But time is all we have.
My understanding is since the aging population of DP fans I think people want to hear the album before mother nature call it a day on us.
Patience is a virtue
Peace ✌️
So far not overly impressed from the songs that they released. I thought Simon was more on the heavier side and it still sounds like Morse era. Songs are not bad but nothing that immediately grabs you. Same like Whoosh. Where are the upfront riffs? Heck even that Rolling Stones song Angry is so much better than what DP has released. It has a nice strong riff and catchy chorus and I can’t stand the Stones!!!
July 2nd, 2024 at 10:26I was lucky enough to see and hear the video. Excellent song. The chorus is very strong.
July 2nd, 2024 at 10:27@8. Uwe, Bit harsh on Rasmus, who has displayed near saintly characteristics over the years, with the Catholic church which hasn’t. We await St.Rasmus’s latest epistle with heightened interest.
July 2nd, 2024 at 13:29I was momentarily weak in faith, David, forgive me!
July 2nd, 2024 at 23:09People and Uwe. The next chapter in the review is up. It’s the ballad. Love it!
July 3rd, 2024 at 00:26Got a hold of it now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85jT9sBomwc
The riff is very Mean Streak’ish, more Blackmore than anything Steve ever attempted. The kind of riff a guitarist plays in a rehearsal space and then everyone starts laughing and says: “Are we Deep Purple now or what?!”
Attila’s comparison to early Whitesnake isn’t off the mark, but I’m more reminded of GILLAN (the band), I can envisage John McCoy and Colin Towns bopping behind their instuments to that chorus.
Don’s electric piano during the bridge(s) and at the end of the organ solo is ABBA’esque and even a bit kitsch in its faux drama, but, hey, I like it! He did that in Eyes Of The World too and it already had me cracking up back then, Don channeling his inner Benny Andersson!
https://media.giphy.com/media/XK8ubiGrbCvHbZeMMr/giphy.gif
Sehr schöne Musik, a bit banal, but in a good, life-affirming way.
July 3rd, 2024 at 03:36As a loyal forever fan of DP, I am always happy to have them around. Yet, I must admit that on these three songs I don’t see anything striking me. When “Nothing At All” was released, everything, and I really mean everything, was making me happy, the riff, the flash of genius, the keyboard, the lyrics. Here, I hear some good old friends who I’ll always love, but nothing really impressing. Please, don’t get me wrong. I’ll love Purple forever.
July 3rd, 2024 at 05:32Simon is brilliant, so close to Ritchie from his best days .. the first solo reminds of “Strange Kind of Woman” … the second solo is even better but has one flaw .. short … at least 30-45 seconds are missing, Simon caught the working temperature…why “scissors”guys, Bob ?!
July 3rd, 2024 at 05:50So listen,
July 3rd, 2024 at 07:52so learn,
so read on
You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn
Hear the song of lovely Joan
Her sound so sweet and clear
Very poppy and hit record oriented song!
Definitely reminds me of the 80s era stuff – except I think this stuff works much better. I agree with the comparison to Whitesnake – up until the hammond solo I was like “eh, this is alright.” and then Don just hits you with these crazy, CRAZY runs right at the very end and so many tasty chromatic licks from the band and damn, I’m sold!
It’s the most commercial I’ve ever heard DP sound – I don’t think that’s bad, it’s just different! I’m gonna have to adjust – and I think I’m gonna grow to really like this record. I’ve got a good feeling about it!
July 3rd, 2024 at 07:53sounds good, a bit like ZZ Top Tush!
July 3rd, 2024 at 08:01There is a hint of a whitesnake song riff in it.
July 3rd, 2024 at 08:20Can you someone help me or I am just imagining things
Peace ✌️
At places the groove of it makes me think of Long Live Rock and Roll. Love both.
July 3rd, 2024 at 08:27Reminds me of ZZ Top, sort of, guitar wise at least at the start of it. Not too bad a song all things considered. Cheers.
July 3rd, 2024 at 08:28Oh sugar, it’s whitesnake’s ‘Fool for your loving ‘
July 3rd, 2024 at 08:36Riff
It’s a blatant case of plagiarism, it will all end up in court, 😂😂😂😂 just love it.
The battle rages on
Peace ✌️
@13 Ah a penitent man. I’m not sure I am in a position to grant absolution (blues!) but I’m sure you would gain merit with a few hail Mary’s.
July 3rd, 2024 at 08:53ZZ Top riff with a very Gillan/Deep Purple chorus. Sounds good to me. IMO the Morse era albums all have a couple of mid tempo bland tracks but none of the three we’ve heard so far fall into that category.
@14. Cheers Rasmus. All very well written and the reality of the tracks matches your description. Is part 4 the last and when do we get it?
July 3rd, 2024 at 08:58I like it, it’ different and it should be!
July 3rd, 2024 at 09:18Alessandro #16 got It.
July 3rd, 2024 at 10:34Simon Is so fresh that people still write thing’s like “he play like Steve” “he play like Ritchie”..come on.but if you criticize him because he isn’t up to par they’ll tell you that he has to be himself and play as he wants
Let me Say “you got the wrong man”. I really can’t like this. The overall sound of this kinda like purple Is terrible. The only thing’s they do Better than before Is promotion and music video.
it’s my opinion, it certainly won’t change the world. If you like this stuff, go ahead and listen to it.
@24. When the riff kicked in I started to hum the vocals of that said WS song. Good track anyway.
July 3rd, 2024 at 11:51Non bad but tending to the pop.
July 3rd, 2024 at 11:59don airey is a copy paste
July 3rd, 2024 at 12:00@15 Yeah, I get the “Mean Streak” vibe in this track too.
July 3rd, 2024 at 12:08It’s good song by all, it does not have the shortcomings of portable door. Solos are good and Gillan is comfortable and catchy. Black night vibe is all over, so it’s not breaking any new ground but still as one off is fine within the album variations:)
July 3rd, 2024 at 12:21@24
July 3rd, 2024 at 12:38It reminds me of Whitesnake’s, Give me all your love tonight. Does anyone else hear that?
I think you guys are all getting hen and egg confused: DP, i.e. Ritchie wrote those types of riffs long before ZZ Top or Whitesnake did. If there is one thing you can (somewhat unjustly) boil him down to in the 70ies then it is being a riff furnace.
DP were one of the chief progenitors of making the riff central to a song and repeating it over and over, it became their formula/recipe (and people who don’t care for Purple cite this as the major reason why they dislike the band), and IG would very often weave his voice and chorus ideas into those riffs (or even sing them in unison, he wasn’t above that either).
This is a Deep Purple forum and you guys start citing ZZ Top and Whitesnake tracks as being inspirational for a new riff-dominated Purple number – SHAME ON YOU! That’s like saying a new Paul McCartney track “sounds a lot like Oasis”. 😂 Listen to In Rock for ultimate penance, you blind heretics!
(Walks off stage, huffing.)
July 3rd, 2024 at 14:30For some unknown reason I listened to why didnt rosemary together with this track. Surprising how good things sound from half a century ago.
July 3rd, 2024 at 15:30Yes, banale, a padavan’s job, but with its inherent simplicity somehow guarantees itself a place in the history of popular music. One note though: Jon’s organ sound is what ot should be. 60 years on, with all the no-nos for a keyboardist in a rock band (give more blond hair implant to a league of guitar shredders on a single stage), fuck it (saxon: where are they now, the broken heroes), that sixties hammond survived a lot. Should come to the fore.
July 3rd, 2024 at 15:58Hammond is my favorite rock instrument, ahead of bass and guitar. I think it’s an incredibly versatile and mighty instrument and not every Joe Blow plays it either, much less well.
My wife winced slightly when she heard Don’s solo arrive in Lazy Sod: “He’s a lot edgier than Jon was, that’s already too jazzy for me, Jon was more melodic.” And she is right, but I have long made peace with Don’s style: Yes, he is edgier (and also flashier) + more angular than Jon, a lot more 12-tone technique (which Jon wouldn’t eschew all the time either, but he was generally content with his Arabic scale exploits when he wanted to play something “weird”).
She is also rather adamant that Big Ian “needs a haircut fast” and that the current state of his hair cannot be reasonably described as such. 🤣
July 3rd, 2024 at 16:24I know they are pushing 80 but this makes Johnny’s Band sound like Motörhead.
July 3rd, 2024 at 16:41BTW: I love Little Ian’s cartoonish outstretched arms at the end of the vid! Still the little drummer boy, aged 76. 😆
July 3rd, 2024 at 16:50NomeACaso #28, when Steve came on board, I didn’t want him to play like Ritchie – impossible and useless – I wanted him to play like Steve. I want Simon to play like Simon. But I want a guitar player who strikes me with his personality. As for now, I don’t see his mark here. Still, I hope I’ll find it. The good part is that he is not a boring guitar shredder… I have Enough of that.
Uwe #35, I agree. Why comparing with Whitesnake or ZZ Top, when Ritchie made already it? And I have the impression that if you slow down Mad Dog you’re not far from the beginning of this song.
Peace
Alessandro
July 3rd, 2024 at 17:04My initial feel was: Deep Purple does their take on Bad Company. Very “can’t get enough-ish” to my ears as well as this Whitesnake one, too. Not exceptional composition wise, but still it sways me right. We got five islanders in the band again and it’s telling. It’s less angular and adventurous than it used to be with Steve, but sounds so more how I like Purple to sound. Grit in the guitar chords, long notes, no staccato in the rhythm. And Don at last is on fire. Gillan, again has his bumps and punches in the lyrics, he really got his mojo out of his trousers to the paper on this album to my ears.
July 3rd, 2024 at 17:40On a more positive note, I am hoping it will only get better from here. It’s difficult to deliver the goods if the drummer is not driving the band. This is way too laid back with Paicey virtually unrecognizable. The organ sound is also a strange choice, closer to a toy organ than a real Hammond.
July 3rd, 2024 at 17:58Actually the Riff is very similar to Neil Young – see T-Bone from RE-AC-TOR album – I think then Neil Young re-used that riff for This Notes For You – maybe I am wrong but that’s what is sitting in my head now lol
July 3rd, 2024 at 17:59#31 AndreA
Don wants to be (and was for last twenty years) the next incarnation of Keith Emerson. His phrasing always falls in Keith’s style aura and that’s a shortcoming that irks me a bit, because if he wants – he can be diverse and full of feel no iota less than Jon Lord always was. But he somehow chooses safe paths in Purple, with lots of leanings towards ELP mainman. Which not always fits the DP sound best. But at least he still kicks this goode ol’ B3 around well. With all this said, I don’t see anyone else taking the Jon Lord booth as well anyway. Younger guys would end copying Jon’s style without a feeling. Don is who he is – the only guy with the musical background diverse enough to be the man with pomp and circumstance on keyboards. That’s what we want from Purple, isn’t it?
July 3rd, 2024 at 18:19Wow! This thing rocks like in the old days! Mr. McBrides riffy playing really makes the difference and drives the number forward plus extra cool drumming from Mr. Paice … the entire band plays absoloutely great! Bonus: Mr. Gillans voice has this wonderful patina. Love that! A real hit for me as an “stone old” Purple fan since “Mark I”! Hopefully more of that cool stuff on the album! Rock on!
July 3rd, 2024 at 18:49There are not many devoted and dedicated Hammond players still around or of the younger generation, so I’m happy to have Don with the Purps even though he’s – Thorsun is right – closer to Keith E than Jon L, but then he always was. It’s just his natural style and that’s fine. Don is the mad professor on keyboards and that is an image too, Jon was: “Hello, I’m Mr Concerto and giving this outfit some semblance of culture!” 😄
One thing in favor of Don is that he’s really pushing the band hard live, more so than Jon who in his latter days reverted even in DP a bit to coasting à la Whitesnake (he was still great, but not as awesome as he had been, I guess he was beginning to have other things on his mind).
[I think the Dutch kid in Glenn’s band is actually quite good, just the right amount of gung-ho devil-may-care sloppiness and raunch. He impressed me and I haven’t been impressed by keyboard players in the ‘Greater DP Family’ in a long time – unless they are called Jon or Don of course. (Honorary mention: Colin Towns was of course great too.)]
July 3rd, 2024 at 20:30Great Song for Radio Stations. Groovy and Popstyle. Get straight into your ears. A real headbanger for venues.
July 3rd, 2024 at 20:32This riff reminds me No Class (motorhead).
July 3rd, 2024 at 21:53@15 Uwe:
you’re right, it also immediately reminded me of the flavor of the Gillan band….finally a hard blues song with non-obvious passages, as only Deep Purple can do, and they haven’t done for years!!
having said that, I prefer the other two singles, maybe it’s because I find them much more FM music.
and finally Ian Paice sets his drums on fire like I haven’t heard since Abandon!
I agree with those who judge Don to be a bit repetitive lately, more than anything it seems to me that the passage of chords he makes to connect the verse to the bridge is something he has already played in several previous Deep songs, perhaps he could have “hided” it a little with a different arrangement…or that harmony came from someone else’s pen, but still abused in the purple repertoire of recent years.
other than that, great song!
July 3rd, 2024 at 21:58and then I love that Purple are making all these “minimal” videos where they put their face into it, and a lot of it, what magic they still have!…excellent promotion!
That opening riff instantly reminded me of 80’s ZZ Top, not Blackmore at all. The sound of it & that is not a bad thing as Billy Gibbons is a wonderful player & influence on younger generations as well as older. A Stratocaster it ain’t or even that ole Gibson from the 60’s. First impressions usually bring a memory or two to the fore. Cheers.
July 3rd, 2024 at 22:44I like the songs that they have released so far, and Lazy Sod might be my favorite. What is standing out to me is the quality of Simon’s solos. Looking forward to some heavier stuff on the album that usually doesn’t get released as a single.
July 3rd, 2024 at 22:56“This riff reminds me No Class (Motörhead).”
Which is ZZ Top’s Tush with a minorish verse, even Lemmy admitted as much! 😎
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg_bWlmbeb0
Re Don repeating himself: Let’s be fair, Jon had his bag of tricks and mannerisms too and didn’t reinvent the wheel every time he played a solo – even in his classical compositions there were recurring themes and similarities. And more than Don, Jon was a veritable showman, either crouched over the organ or fully-maned head thrown back, rocking it back and forth …
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https://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Jon-Lord-with-Deep-Purple-in-concert-1973.jpg
https://hecraig.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/jon-lord_2.jpg
That’s not knocking Jon, I loved the man, but like Ritchie he had a flashy stage persona too and not everything he played was filled with breathtaking virtuosity or originality, he had his cliches, gimmicks and “sure audience wins” too.
Speaking of, here’s a nice interview with him from the Now What?! period which probably has been on these pages before:
https://www.classicrockrevisited.com/show_interview.php?id=970
Interesting quote from it:
Jeb: What is it like playing on stage with Steve? Being the keyboard player in Deep Purple is a lot like being a lead guitarist.
Don: There is a lot to do. Usually, as a keyboard player, you look down the set list and you think, “Oh, in four numbers time I have to do something.” The rest of the time it is pretty easy. In Deep Purple, I look down the sheet and go, “Oh, how am I going to get through this.”
Steve very much leads the charge. He is full of ideas and it really astonishing how much he has in the way of ideas. We clash a lot in a friendly way. We butt horns, so to speak, quite a bit, but that is good for the song, the material and for the band.
July 4th, 2024 at 00:31Lamentably, Nick Foley doesn’t have the cute dimples and nose wrinkling mannerisms of the qualified ladies usually embellishing this site with their (reputedly) virgin observations, but – nature has a habit of compensating – unlike them he has an organ (or two) and plays with it too (his Don solo analysis is at 09:33).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_3384n_XyI
July 4th, 2024 at 03:10Once I’ve got past the opening riff (I agree it’s like Tush) – and IMO it’s a good riff – it turns into the sort of track that only DP write (something I find hard to define) and Simon really shines here. His solo on Portable Door was quite Morse-ish but his solo here is definitely not and it’s a cracker.
July 4th, 2024 at 12:07