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At the most blissful
Here’s quite an off the wall conversation between Glenn Hughes and an Indian guru Atma Nambi, that happened on August 18, 2024. Among other things, Glenn confirmed that he has finished recording a new solo album, which should be out some time next year. Namaste!
In other Glenn news, he will play 5 live dates (doing his Deep Purple set), plus 2 spoken-word appearances in Australia, starting October 3. See our calendar for further details.
Thanks to Blabbermouth for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
“Consciousness only exists.” That sounds like the little green guy from Star Wars with the garbled syntax to me. 🙄
Ok, ok, I’m not only areligious, but also aspritual, but I now understand from this 40 minute testimonial of Glenn for his guru Atma Nambi that he took the opportunity of the Pandemic to delve deep into Indian spirituality. Horses for courses, some people do psychoanalysis at his age (more my thing), he does spirituality, a favorite Californian pastime. (He’s become so American over the last half-century that he now says “soccer” rather than “football”. 🤗)
I never knew about his trombone playing. It surprises me because horn playing and horn arrangements play very little role in Glenn’s music even when he does funk and RnB where it is an integral part of the genre per se. A lot of his music would have benefitted from snappy horn arrangements and he did at one point even audition for Earth, Wind & Fire as their singer – they turned him down for being “too rock”, must have broken his heart.
The single child thing is interesting too. Towards the end of the interview we learn that not only is Glenn a single child, but so were both his parents. And Glenn and Gabi of course don’t even have any children for whatever reasons. (Which makes Glenn the only childless Purple member with the exception of Tommy Bolin, who died very young, and Rod Evans of whom I don’t know whether he ever had children). I get from Glenn’s accounts of his childhood that he enjoyed a very sheltered and loved youth, not spoiled, but empowering. How many English rock musicians do you know about who in 1967 at the age of 16 received a real Fender Telecaster from their parents? That was quite the investment back then, even for a lower middle class family like the spouses Hughes and their son seemed to have been.
And then at only 21 (he only turned 22 a few months after he had joined DP, Roger was a latish 23 when he joined DP as not yet a famous band in 1969) Glenn gets thrown into that superstardom cauldron that was Deep Purple in 1973 and Mel Galley who apparently functioned as his replacement elder bother (he was three years older than Glenn) for much of his previous career with the Finders Keepers and Trapeze is no longer there. Does put Glenn turning to cocaine (that blissful state he is always striving for, be it in childhood or when singing on stage) into a new light.
September 29th, 2024 at 15:20Yo,
Spirit is real, better to get to know it that not Lieber Uwe, & a guru is not necessary, but whatever, horses for courses yo !
A new Telecaster in 1946 at its release was around $150:00, + another $20:00 or so for a case, depending on what specification you wanted in the US-of-A…And the was a lot of money back then, for sure. I imaging that 20-years later & UK prices would have made the gift a very special one indeed. Perhaps the the E & B string saddle was dodgy, & he kept breaking strings, & so evolved his Telecaster bass ?…
Adonai vasu !
September 30th, 2024 at 11:21Uwe @1….a young, naive 22 year old thrown into the maelstrom that was the 1970’s Purple touring machine, suddenly having wealth beyond his wildest dreams, and all the trappings that go with stardom, but no big brother influence to ground him…..may have led to some poor choices. Unfortunate that Glenn’s life took that nasty detour down Drugville, as he had the potential to become one of Purple’s biggest stars. He only emerged from the depths in the mid-1990s, but by then it was a bit too late for him to make a huge impact in the music scene.
September 30th, 2024 at 11:33In 1967 a Tele in the US was $ 200-230 street, it must have been quite a bit more in the UK due to their prohibitive tariffs to protect their then still wartime-stricken economy. That was a lot of money for some novelty item as a birthday present – young Glenn must have been overjoyed.
Yeah, Glenn’s drug-induced 70ies and 80ies hiatus likely cost him a more prominent international career. But if truth be told, he’s also not the most commercial songwriter on earth with the jazzy chords he prefers – I like the way he writes, but Hitsville it ain’t. He himself has said that he can’t really write pop tunes.
September 30th, 2024 at 13:51L.A. Connection Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Oh, carry home my broken bones and lay me down to rest
Forty days of cries and moans I guess I’ve failed to pass the test
I’ve been sent away not a thing to say
I’m banished from the fold
I’m a fallen angel who’s lost his wings and left out in the cold
[Chorus]
Ooooh L.A. connection
Oh L.A. connection
L.A. connection, yeah
[Verse 2]
Operator place a call keep secret put it through
Investigator knows it all he’s at the window I wonder who
I’ve got to cut the line and let me drift find a haven in the storm
I got no time I need a lift to where it’s sweet and close and warm
[Chorus]
I say
Ooooh L.A. connection
Oh L.A. connection
L.A. connection
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 3]
Hey, carry home my broken bones and lay me down to rest
Forty days of cries and moans well I’ve just failed the test
Feel I’m balanced on the brim should I lean another way
Like a flame that’s going on the dim needs blessing from the day, oh
[Chorus]
September 30th, 2024 at 22:59Ooooh L.A. connection, L.A. connection
Oh take me away I got nothing to say
It’s got to be an L.A. connection, oh
Ooooh L.A. connection, L.A. connection
Rory Gallagher purchased his first Stratocaster (that classic well worn 1961 that is about to be auctioned I think) in 1963 for 100 pounds HP. It was second hand & from a music store. The tariff that England or Britain had from 1951 was lifted in 1959 according to this Hank Marvin Stratocaster information. Enabling many guitar aficionados to purchase them at home for the first time.
https://www.rorygallagher.com/1961-stratocaster/#:~:text=Rory's%20iconic%201961%20Fender%20Stratocaster,Stratocaster%20to%20ever%20reach%20Ireland.
https://guitar.com/features/guitar-legends-rory-gallagher/
https://www.fuzzfaced.net/hank-marvin-stratocaster-origin.html
October 1st, 2024 at 05:23But wasn’t Rory – unlike Simon or Gary Moore – Irish Republic (like Phil Lynott) anyway, UK/GB protectionism was no issue for him, the Irish Republic had not even been a WWII participant?
October 1st, 2024 at 08:23@7 They knew they wouldn’t bring any value added to either side in WWII. Their sympathies were on display, though as the Irish PM did not waste his chance to visit the German Embassy I Dublin and express his condolences at the occasion of the death of the leader of the German nation.
October 3rd, 2024 at 20:58I know!!! 🤣 Toiseach Éamon de Valera’s
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSe54C1xzG0e-HHkkwe7CJmW67i4b3Fii2n1A&s
heartfelt condolences were the only show of sympathy for the Führer’s sad demise on the battlefield of glory by ANY Head of State in 1945 IN THE WORLD. It endeared him further to the British public, but then Éamon wasn’t obsessed with English feelings ever.
A controversial historical figure to say the least, very well depicted by the great late Alan Rickman
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQAtux_wEptNPreuYR56NlE_IlVUmyr9ACe5_ChD_3om1rMl5PHkC2BBh4knUTUstdpVMQ&usqp=CAU
in this movie here, well worth watching if you’re interested in Ireland’s troubled history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXmBO81Lc2Q&t=31s
“They knew they wouldn’t bring any value added to either side in WWII.”
Not sure about that, Georgivs, I believe the Führer himself and Admirals Raeder and Dönitz would have given their collective left (and right) nuts for an aircraft carrier and military port the size of Eire smack-dab in the middle of the Atlantic and able to cordon off the UK. It would have been a game changer, but Éamon was not only a ruthless, but also a very sly and prudent man. Never place all your bets on one horse, especially not a brown one from Austria.
October 4th, 2024 at 15:05