That’s frenetic!
A probably final (at least, for a while) instalment in the restored classic Gillan video series. Behold the infamously frenetic version of the rock’n’roll classic Lucille:
Thanks to steve4422 for keeping us posted.
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A probably final (at least, for a while) instalment in the restored classic Gillan video series. Behold the infamously frenetic version of the rock’n’roll classic Lucille:
Thanks to steve4422 for keeping us posted.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Finally, the last one. I am going to attempt to find a ‘no Gillan app’ to install on my computer. Only because of the (at least, for a while) line above. At least if successful in my endeavours the computer will just block anything to do with Gillan and I will not have to worry about any possible ‘feedback’ from anyone, not that anyone here should mind, surely. No more Gillan, no more Gillan, etc etc, I can hear the mantra already echoing across the universe and even beyond. Cheers.
February 28th, 2025 at 22:37I have just had a thought. With all the AI wonderful treatment of everything and anything these days, couldn’t they have all the Ian Gillan related songs, including DP with the singing being performed by Elvis. And vice versa. The possibilities are endless it seems. Cheers.
February 28th, 2025 at 23:14It’s fun to listen to once or twice, Colin’s solo is exquisite and the band plays with impressive precision at that frantic pace.
Other than that it’s pretty much terrible and especially misses the playful lewdness and humor of the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HpcWzBgc0g
There is a fine line between playing something fast and sounding hilarious doing it. Speeding things up no end doesn’t necessarily make them harder or heavier.
Way too fast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U625wIf9ABw
Proper speed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbDekaqw3lQ
And sometimes it works the other way around, even with Little Richard numbers, like it does here with Cactus giving Long Tall Sally a slo-mo treatment until that blissful release at 09:24 where they shuffle into a faster tempo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjMCbZ2E60
February 28th, 2025 at 23:35@ 1
“…I am going to attempt to find a ‘no Gillan app’ to install on my computer. Only because of the (at least, for a while) line above. At least if successful in my endeavours the computer will just block anything to do with Gillan …”
That’s OK, you go ahead & do that. I’m sure Karin will install a MORE Gillan app on her computer thus taking up the slack. 😉
March 1st, 2025 at 07:40Really sleepy in the morning, when even coffee can’t do it’s magic tricks, this song gets my feet moving 😄
March 1st, 2025 at 09:32It’s a fun and happy tune 😍
And now I can’t wait to get the box set and relive all those great old memories !
It seems really good value at around 35 quid and a lot of the old B sides and rarities too .
I also understand that there should be a new Purple album out later in the year
March 1st, 2025 at 12:00I prefer the way he sings Lucille on the Made in japan concerts.
March 1st, 2025 at 12:36@4
“I’m sure Karin will install a MORE Gillan app on her computer thus taking up the slack”
Indeed I will! And on my iPad and phone!!
March 1st, 2025 at 14:55According to Little Richard, the original tempo and rhythm was to emulate the chugging of an approaching train – train arrivals being the social highlight in the sleepy neighborhood of Pleasant Hill in Macon, Georgia, where he grew up in boredom as a teenager.
I guess Ian and the boys thought more of a Japanese high speed bullet train!
To be fair, GILLAN always had a penchant for this ultra-fast stuff, it was a bit their musical calling card. Both Tormé and McCoy liked to do it and every GILLAN album features a few songs like that. According to Tormé, Little Ian refused an offer to drum for GILLAN after a successful audition because he didn’t want to play that fast a music to the extent GILLAN wished to. Whitesnake mostly eschewed double time songs (Take Me With You and Mean Business being exceptions), Coverdale doesn’t really like them and hardly ever writes in that vein. Rainbow would regularly have one fast track on their albums and also feature one live (Kill the King or Spotlight Kid or Death Alley Driver), but did not put a focus on them like GILLAN did. With Rainbow I always had the impression that the fast songs only served Ritchie’s inherent wish to show off and overwhelm people, with GILLAN it seemed more like a collective rush thing, the band (and the fans) getting off on the hurtling frenzy.
Personally, ultra-fast stuff is not to my taste, I can’t connect with it, never could. In my CD collection that covers a vast array of genres, you won’t find a single album by Slayer. I even find listening to early Metallica a chore. At Judas Priest gigs, the really fast tracks like Painkiller are the ones whose quick ending I welcome most. Listening to a whole album side of speed metal is irritating to me, I can’t align my heartbeat with it.
March 1st, 2025 at 16:40And that is evident on the DP reunion albums & even the Purpendicular album. A fast song, poor old Ian Paice eh?
March 2nd, 2025 at 07:01Living Colour’s ‘Times Up’ song from that very album is ridiculously fast & Vernon Reid did play certain guitar solos way too fast. They were a much better band than that and that ‘thrash’ style they sometimes drifted into. I avoid those sort of songs on most bands material, however I don’t mind the occasional one from some of the Rainbow, DP & Tony Iommi riff songs. Am I biased in that regard, you bet I am. Cheers.
Gillan the band were always the most irreverent of the three off shoots. In that context I always took the take on Lucille to be deliberately different and meant to be humorous as evidenced by Gillian’s giggle at the end.
March 2nd, 2025 at 07:03Oh and the original EP had One For The Road on it which is a great track
March 2nd, 2025 at 07:06Yes, I can imagine that they once played Lucille ridiculously fast in the rehearsal space and then decided to record it for a laugh, it is a spoof number. Whether is was ideal as a single is another matter though, perhaps it would have fitted better on For GILLAN Fans Only.
One For The Road was a good number, true. With Trouble, Lucille and New Orleans being three singles with 50s Rock’n’Roll numbers, GILLAN in any case overplayed the retro aspect of their oeuvre a little. I think they should have stuck to their own material more, there is a fine line between a heartfelt tribute and being deemed a novelty/nostalgia act.
March 2nd, 2025 at 14:08I’ve got boots of DP playing it faster and faster till it’s fairly breakneck as a fun encore. I think it should be taken in context (and Gillan played it live as an encore) and released soon after the first release of in concert 70/72 (the first time I heard the Purps playing Lucille – and it’s blooming great)
March 3rd, 2025 at 16:49