The rest is not history
Ritchie Blackmore tells the story of how Deep Purple Mark 1 coalesced together, eventually morphing into Mark 2. That’s a lot of history in 3 minutes.
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Ritchie Blackmore tells the story of how Deep Purple Mark 1 coalesced together, eventually morphing into Mark 2. That’s a lot of history in 3 minutes.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Yeah, “croonerish”, an apt description of Rod Evans’ voice which lacked grit. It worked with Captain Beyond who were essentially a PROG band, where a more lyrical voice does fine, but it wasn’t the type of voice to front a hard rock/heavy rock outfit.
I’ve been unjustly derided here for bringing up that Ian Gillan’s looks in 1969 resembled Jim Morrison’s (before alcohol bloated him) and that this was a factor in him getting the job, but now you have it straight from the horse’s mouth. Early Mark II promo shots with Ian wearing a WW II RAF sheepskin flight jacket and black leather pants also played on the likeness with Morrison.
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Which goes to show: I was right all along! ☝️😎
November 15th, 2024 at 15:25Fantastic
November 15th, 2024 at 18:23Great to here Ritchie reminiscing and everything he says adds up to what we already know, albeit with a few tweaks here and there .
I’ve been waiting for all this kind of stuff for years ….surely a book is not too far away.!?
and Ritchie with a hint of nostalgia and a lot of reflection due to age, adds another anecdote where he says that Gillan had a great voice and was a great frontman……how I would love to see them together again at least once in their life!
November 15th, 2024 at 23:08Ian Pace?????
November 17th, 2024 at 11:25Great! 🤣 And so true….
I’ve seen interviews where Ritchie says that Hendrix was the inspiration for wanting to go in a heavier riffier directions as they went from mk I to mk II, but this is the 1st time that I’ve heard that Robert Plant was the inspiration to get a grittier singer who could scream.
It makes sense to me. In college in the mid-80s my friends & I decided to have 60s parties. The thing that stood out as if it was from another planet compared to the Beatles, Stones, and the Woodstock era on our tape mix was songs from Led Zeppelin’s albums from 1969. The next step in that direction were In Rock and Black Sabbath’s debut albums from 1970. It was at that point in the mid-80s that my musical taste got entrnched in hard rock of 1969-1973.
November 18th, 2024 at 07:42Fla76
November 18th, 2024 at 09:39sauf que Mr Ian Gillan n’à plus de voix et Ritchie ne peut plus jouer….je pense sincèrement qu’il devraient arrêter!
I’ve heard that from Ritchie before and also that In Rock was masterminded to have even more energy than Led Zeppelin II – Ritchie had been to some party with, would you believe, nurses (no, I don’t know whether they wore their uniforms for chrissakes!) and he wanted a record “they can dance through to from start to finish”, hence In Rock’s track-to-track intensity.
Rod had to go for DP to transcend from the 60s into the 70s. His voice was one decidedly looking back. Blackmore had the right nous.
Rod had a pleasant baritone voice and his lyrics weren’t bad either (probably better than Coverdale’s), but there was no way he could have competed with people like Robert Plant, David Byron, Steve Marriott, Mark Farner, Steve Winwood, Jon Anderson and even Ozzy who all represented a new breed of lead vocalist for the approaching decade.
November 18th, 2024 at 14:54@6
November 18th, 2024 at 16:35J’espère qu’ils continueront le plus longtemps possible 😉
Fru Verndal flirts fluently in French, incroyable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM
November 18th, 2024 at 20:29Arthur Brown ‘The God Of Hellfire’ would have been a huge influence on many vocalists as Blackmore says. That powerful in your face operatic style that Brown had. A dominating presence as such. Alice Cooper eat your heart out. Ian Gillan & Robert Plant were tame compared to Arthur. He set the scene for many stage antics with The Crazy World of Arthur Brown’. Cheers.
November 18th, 2024 at 21:09When Arthur goes into his poppy passaggio voice at 00:32 and 01:09 you hear the influence on Big Ian distinctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzHtePuz13U
Also the ascending falsetto screams over the chromatic organ at 01:58.
The whole ‘In Rock’ album has an Arthur Brown vibe to it in its frantic attack. Arthur Brown didn’t have many hits, but that Fire single was highly influential. It’s the type of singing Rod Evans could have never done.
November 18th, 2024 at 22:30@9
November 19th, 2024 at 06:36Je suis persuadé que Monsieur Francis ne pense pas que ça flirte ☺️
#6 francis:
visto che scrivi in francese per pigrizia,
November 19th, 2024 at 18:53Io ti rispondo in italiano: non ho tempo da perdere con queste cazzate senza senso
We built a tower of stone
With our flesh and bone
Now they all speak in tongues …
November 20th, 2024 at 14:07My eyes are bleeding
November 20th, 2024 at 22:47And my heart is leaving here