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Hell to Pay choir
Nimbus School of Recording Arts is a music production, audio engineering and recording facility in Vancouver, Canada, of which Bob Ezrin is one of the co-founders. In October 2012 students of the school got an opportunity to be on the new Deep Purple album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqiRj3KdWloBob Ezrin was recording with Deep Purple at his studio in Nashville when he gave GGGarth Richardson (Nimbus co-founder and producer) a call. He needed vocals for a track on the album. So, GGGarth gathered 40 Nimbus students into Studio D here at Nimbus and lead them in a recording session to capture gang vocals for Deep Purple track “Hell to Pay” which appears on the new album.
Of these 40 students, many were only in the first month of their program at Nimbus. GGGarth lead the session, saying to one of the new Nimbus students, “Not bad for your third day of class, eh?”.
And it resulted in…
Thanks to Nimbus School of Recording Arts for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
I’ve only heard it once, but now I’ll enjoy it even more. Thanks.
April 10th, 2013 at 22:49Yeah – this is “hand made music” at his best.
LLRnR
LLDnP
kraatzy
April 11th, 2013 at 12:26Bob Ezrin doing what he is known for…. bringing in outside resources to enhance a record. It’s a signature move on his part and a welcome addition to put his stamp on this effort. we wanted something NEW and CREATIVE from ?ur?!e. Looks like we are getting it. YYYEEEEEEEOOOOOWWWW!!!!
Counting down….
CheerZ?!
April 11th, 2013 at 16:12My revolutions have been to internal to be the Eddie in this song, but I couldn’t resist a listen. How many bands could achieve that in just a few takes?! Not many I wager!?
April 11th, 2013 at 17:09Keep ’em coming!!!!
This DPD line up (Deep Purple Derivative) line up has EVERYTHING that the Blackmore/Lord line-ups hadn’t…everything…except ALL what they stand for, and that is: Hard Rock skill, soul, talent and inspiration…
I have had it by this…I abandon this nogood airknitters…total!!!!
And what my best friends and I think when we hear this incredible 40 singers is:
April 11th, 2013 at 22:12MOAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN and fly as fast as possible!!!
Tracy, as long as he doesn’t bring in ‘outside influences’! I read an interview few weeks ago from Ezrin, regarding his time with the Floyd. The absolutely absurd attempt by him to bring ‘rap crap’ into Pink Floyd! Talk about no respect, not surprisingly Gilmour slammed the crap idea, congratulations to him indeed! But thankfully Ian Paice wouldn’t allow that to happen anyway, I remember his comments 20 years ago in regards to rap crap! Brilliant.
April 11th, 2013 at 22:35Its cool you can hear a different vocal take from gillan…
April 11th, 2013 at 23:04Well MacGregor, that would certainly be up to the Band and their integrity. The closest this band will come to RAP has already been done with ‘Any Fool No That’ from Abandon, and I think that was a pretty good tune. Don’t get me wrong, I’m in no way advocating RAP. Can’t friggin’ stand it. I don’t think we have to worry about that. Definitely not on this album. But the extra ‘album’ sound effects (as with the Hell to Pay Choir) aren’t a bad idea if used sparingly….
Ch-BeerZ?!
April 12th, 2013 at 00:436
I thought it was clear that Gillan did get to use a lot of RAP over the years on DP records.
April 12th, 2013 at 12:59Bob Ezrin is the sh*t. Top of the producer’s ladder no doubt.
Naysayers need to fly away. Amazing how they stick around all of these years later. And listen to the DPD (nice joke) lineup to some extent or another….
Bring it on!
Peace,
April 12th, 2013 at 14:42Ted
Rush did a small ‘rap’ type thing in their title track song on the album ‘Roll The Bones’ back in the early 90’s. That’s the closest I get to having something along those lines in my collection! With Neil Peart being a ‘world’ influenced percussionist, I don’t mind it though looking at it from that perspective! But not the Floyd, that would have been sacrilege on all levels!
April 12th, 2013 at 22:20I think Gillan’s vocal is ok on ‘Any Fule ‘Fool’ Know That’ I don’t really hear the ‘rap’ in it that much’! I have heard him sing that style on his solo albums somewhere, or maybe even earlier Purple, or is it on Born Again? Somewhere before anyway! Cheers.
MacGregor & Tracy:
while being no big fan of rap, my favourite quote from Roger Glover is ‘95% of music in every genre is crap’. i’m sure purple could do something interesting with anything. remember, back in 1979 it was Ezrin who insisted on Floyd putting some (blasphemy! sacrilege!) disco influences on The Wall. against the will of the whole band kicking and screaming bloody murder. the result was Another Brick In The Wall.
April 13th, 2013 at 00:43@12….
I think you added to my point here?! It’s up to the band in the end. Obviously Floyd made a decision. The right one in the end. It’s never too late to let the creative juices run the gambit…..
Ch-BeerZ?!
April 13th, 2013 at 02:55Nick @ 12 – I am not sure of 95%, even that is only one persons theory. The Floyd tempo for the ‘Another Brick In The Wall’ song is well documented. From what I have read over the years, it was the push for a ‘single’ from the album, something that the Floyd were not into, not that lineup anyway! So the tempo of the song was altered apparently, to accommodate this ‘desire’ from some & there you have it! Apparently. Cheers.
April 13th, 2013 at 03:25Click on “We Like It We Love It”
http://steppenwolf.com/i-5117302-rise-and-shine-cd.html
The Wolf a-rappin’.
Peace,
April 13th, 2013 at 12:57Ted
Toolbox is a good example.
Dancing Nylon Shirt comes to mind.
I thought it was ok in there, but he should have quit it after that.
Btw, should I remind you he made an awful recording with Dutch rapper Ray Slijngaard(or something like that)of Two Unlimited, making a joke of SOTW?
April 13th, 2013 at 20:49Anyway………….
Was this choir thing for DP inspired by the Pink Floyd example?
April 14th, 2013 at 09:46DNS -Ok?! yeah right, you know you like it! And the words to songs like SKOW and No One Came never rhymed? Wow, what a silly nit pick indeed! When don’t his lyrics rhyme? Calling any of that rap is redundant. It’s just the same old whining that WILL BE PUT TO REST IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS. I simply can’t wait to see the naysayers, doubters, whiners, complainers concerning what they think is going to pass thru their ears. Going to be a nice slice of humble pie. And I don’t mean in the sense like “One Eye To Morocco” sounding pleasing and then perhaps wearing off, or previous Purple albums lasting months instead of years. I have no problem predicting myself what’s to come. Look out…. Now What?! Of course unless once again you can’t handle something different from people your beloved Blackmore has worked with. But then again, rockingly different at that. Going to kick some serious butt, ya’ll’s in particular! Thinking this will be the usual Purple night out would be a huge mistake! Priest, ya better go after Gillan all you can, cause he’s coming to blow your mind! You might be glad to know, if I see one peep from you post release in the same way you constantly cry, you will just be doing it out of spite. Everyone here can mark these words! I suspect you won’t hear it for a while though, until it can be freeloaded, which won’t be right away.
April 14th, 2013 at 09:59On a better note for presence here, thank you THS for the comment editor!
Just to add, spiffin’ the negative is exactly that, expect an upset on that usual behavior!
April 14th, 2013 at 10:11@Eddie, I count two mentions of “Larry” in Purple songs. 🙂
April 14th, 2013 at 10:15At the risk of getting beaten with socks full of marbles, I am going out on a limb and saying that I am not a big fan of this kind of choir which strikes me as cliché and on the trite side–just like electronic hand claps and guitars shaped like axes. Overall, I do like the song and mine is a minor complaint. I especially like Steve’s work and the way the song ends.
My opinion, however, is not to steal any thunder from the students who have the bragging rights of being on a Deep Purple album–something few people can say. I am sure their participation is an experience they will never forget–and what an experience at such an early point in their studies.
April 15th, 2013 at 02:12Now we’re on it, I mean the Ian Gillan track………
I read about Ian Gillan in 1978 doing tv in Japan, judging from the little pcis I saw looking extremely well I must say, covering Get Back by The Beatles.
Uptill now I have not seen that footage anywhere.
I suppose Larry or Tracy do have something like that in their vaults?
April 16th, 2013 at 14:23