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Steaming Pile of Mick
Mickey Lee Soule, who not only was the keyboard player in Elf and Rainbow, and not only worked as a keyboard and guitar tech for Purple for years, but also was on a very short list to stand in for Jon Lord when the latter injured his knee back in 2001, has a new project going — self-deprecatingly called Steaming Pile of Mick.
Steaming Pile of Mick is basically Dave Salce playing drums, plus Mick himself playing everything else and singing. Last year they’ve quietly put out a 5-track EP called Pet Wounds. You can check it out on YouTube and/or purchase it via cdbaby.
Thanks to deep-purple.ru for the info.
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January 21st, 2014 at 17:08Sounds PALish in a good way. I always liked his playing with Elf, excellent rock piano player. The later Elf albums (Carolina County Ball/Trying to Burn the Sun) are in dire need of a remaster, the Connaisseur release hasn’t aged well soundwise. I’m one of those few people that actually prefers Elf’s band performance on the Rainbow debut to any other Rainbow line up, in my ear all later line ups sounded stiff and not as rhythmically nuanced in comparison. You show me one other Rainbow album where the bass playing was as intricate, yet tasteful as what Craig Gruber did on that first album. Anyway, it’s nice to hear that trademark piano of MLS again.
January 21st, 2014 at 17:32I love his work on the first album – ”ritchie blackmore’s rainbow” – a true masterpiece
January 21st, 2014 at 18:23Legend.
January 22nd, 2014 at 00:29сочно……свежо……..интересно!! почему Блэкмор его выкинул в 76?
January 22nd, 2014 at 06:20Hey! A great number I think. The singing, the verses especially, reminds me of The killing of Georgie by Rod Stewart or a Dylan song…but in a very pleasant way. I´m off to get it!
January 22nd, 2014 at 10:17Wow. That is really bad. Like Dewey Cox, in his Dylan phase, trying to channel Ben Folds. The atmospheric guitar work in the bridge saves this song from being a complete disaster.
January 22nd, 2014 at 14:52Good music,great player.I was lucky to see him on stage with Elf and with the Ian Gillan band (Mark Nauseef,John Gustafson and Ray Fenwick-what a band!)
January 22nd, 2014 at 20:29You can hear him too on the (fantastic) Butterfly ball album
vocals sound like “Flash in the Pan” …..sort of.
January 22nd, 2014 at 21:01no its not bad! dont believe the previous comment… or well listen for yourselves. I didnt expect anything but I was really quite nicely surprised, the music is fresh and the lyrics are silly
January 22nd, 2014 at 22:21I’ve got the EP.
January 23rd, 2014 at 09:39It’s absolutely great!
I’ve spoke to Don Airey and Roger Glover about it and they have the same opinion, great.
When I’ve listend to it I imagineed this.
You go away for years and finally you come back in the same Pub and meet the same friends and you start to play the piano to tell some stories about your life, and you are sad, happy, alone…and when you play, you move beetween jazz, blues, oldies and some rock…
The songs are true, music is fresh, warm, friendly.
I love it very much.
Superb!! I love it!
January 23rd, 2014 at 12:04Not too bad, kinda enjoyed the tunes – Fake Titties sounds a little like Zappa and We’re Livin’ is kinda laid back and cool………..
January 23rd, 2014 at 23:44@9…………..indeed they do sound like Flash in the Pan………good call
January 24th, 2014 at 23:21