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All hail to the chief
There’s one member of the band that is truly irreplaceable. He has been in every lineup, on every record, and on every gig. His name is Ian Anderson Paice, and he was born on June 29, 1948. Which makes him 75 today. Happy birthday to The Boss!
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Happy Birthday Ian
June 29th, 2023 at 07:15Have a great day
You always had the back seat but you have seen it all.
You still the best of any of the rest at what you do.
Peace ✌️
Still the best! Fantastic drummer, wonderful guy! Thank you Ian for all the years!!
June 29th, 2023 at 08:09Blackmore to Evans; ‘have you still got that drummer? Evans: ‘Yes’; Blackmore “then bring him with you” Something like that and he is still hanging around, there should be a law against that, he he he. All the best Ian Paice, 55 years & still hanging around, who would have thought that? Oh & thanks for keeping those pesky bass guitarist in check ‘I lead, you follow’. The last thing this planet needs is bass players wandering about the place doing as they please’ Cheers.
June 29th, 2023 at 09:42Happy Birthday Ian!
June 29th, 2023 at 10:00Still remember your 37th birthday when you played in Mannheim…
Happy Birthday to the greatest drummer of all time!! Thank you for all the fantastic Music!!
June 29th, 2023 at 10:50Ian Paice is the guy that got me into Deep Purple decades ago when I first heard Black Night.
June 29th, 2023 at 11:09He’s still my favorite drummer ever, and he’s left-footed, you know.
Happy Birthday Ian!
Happy Birthday Mr.Paice !!! And thanks for keeping a level-head, & the band-on-the-road !
Peace !
June 29th, 2023 at 11:13Amazing guy!! Wishing all the best.
June 29th, 2023 at 14:00THE BEST- InTo the Fire!
June 29th, 2023 at 15:20Happy B-day!
Happy birthday mister Paice.
I saw him may be ……25 ….30 ….35 times with Deep Purple , or Perpendicular.
I even met him 3 times. What a wonderful human being. A true gentlemen !
It’s not so bad
When he’s just a touch away
Nothing much
Is all I ask
And it’s alright, oh yes
June 29th, 2023 at 15:28Listening to In Rock – Living Wreck – the coolest drum intro!
June 29th, 2023 at 15:42Ian Paice Rocks !
There’s not a Volume 11 on my stereo !
Happy Birthday Ian 🎂🧁🥧¯\_(ツ)_/¯🎈🍻🥢
June 29th, 2023 at 15:47The best jazz/rock drummer of all time. Always worth listening to. Happy Birthday Ian!
June 29th, 2023 at 15:53🍻
June 29th, 2023 at 15:54I’ll give Burn & You Fool No One a spin today.
June 29th, 2023 at 16:18Every good wish on your birthday, Ian !!
Happy Birthday, Ian!
June 29th, 2023 at 19:44Thanks for all the years of playing and for being you.
Happy 75th birthday to our favourite drummer of all times.
A real gem in hard rock music.
We all love you and your drumming 🙂
June 29th, 2023 at 20:21Just got back from Macerata, IT where he just played awesome as usual. We all sang Happy BDay to him, he got out from the drums to mimic the walking of an elder with a stick…
June 30th, 2023 at 00:33It’s absolutely incredible the energy he can put in his drumming when he is 76…
God bless him.
Happy Birthday Ian! I have been a fan for over 50 years.
June 30th, 2023 at 03:18Ian Paice – drummer ace! The reason why Purple in all incarnations never sounded heavy-handed and never will.
Also one of the most fun and sympathetic drummers to play with if you are a bassist.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, long may you para that diddle!
June 30th, 2023 at 09:18“Oh & thanks for keeping those pesky bass guitarist in check ‘I lead, you follow’. The last thing this planet needs is bass players wandering about the place doing as they please’”
You darn island convict, I can’t let this stand! Yes, he said that, but it’s not how he plays. He has a very good, musical ear and actually communicates with any drummer he plays with. Simper, Glover, Hughes, Martinez, Murray – each one an individual player, each one could blossom alongside Paicey. Now tell me if you hear as vast a difference between Bain, Daisley, Glover, Chris Glen, Colin Hodgkinson + Neil Murray playing with Cozy? You can’t, he battered them all into submission.
Little Ian is immediately recognizable in his playing and idiosyncratic, yet leaves room and does not obliterate. He’s a consummate musician.
June 30th, 2023 at 09:45Happy birthday Ian …Leo Messi (or Stephen Curry) from drummers !!!! ….I still live by the belief (that’s how I’ll die) that the best rock rhythm section is RnR Ian Paice- Neil Murray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh7zW-q_zUE
July 1st, 2023 at 05:13It’s been about 7 months since the last post on Ian’s DrumTribe YT channel.
July 1st, 2023 at 17:58Too bad.
I found it was quite entertaining & interesting.
Ivica: Paice-Murray were incredibly creative and groovy. So were Paice-Martinez, with a funky edge, kind of like a refined Paice-Hughes.
July 1st, 2023 at 22:41@22 – I can remember playing Ready A Willing on my friends “posh” stereo for the first time…. listening to the grove of Fool For Your Loving through a high end system… Paice and Murray were a masterclass… perhaps too good for Whitesnake but it doesn’t matter because they absolutely elevated the band.
July 2nd, 2023 at 14:31Coverdale had the undeniable talent of going from one of hard rock’s best, grooviest and most original rhythm SECTIONs ever to two SEPARATE players – Cozy and Colin – who didn’t listen to each other and also had no idea what to do with one another. They never bridged the gulf between them. It brought me to tears, seeing Whitesnake live around that time. The two never gelled. Unlikeliest combination ever. Hodgkinson once described his stint with Whitesnake with a sigh as “hard work I got paid well for”. Him playing with WS was as incongruous as Alan Holdsworth auditioning with Status Quo to replace Rick Parfitt, Colin was totally out of his depth.
July 2nd, 2023 at 16:20All these years ago, being a member of Over the Rainbow en zo , still done by Gerrit Tijhoff we were reminded of Ians 33rd birthday.
I wish I was that young today but way back everyone above 30 seemed like an old geezer.
July 2nd, 2023 at 16:57LEGEND
July 9th, 2023 at 14:53A bit belated as a birthday present, but I just thought I leave this piece of peer appreciation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krZYK65AtAA
July 10th, 2023 at 13:48Happy birthday to Mr Paice.
July 10th, 2023 at 22:36As far as being irreplaceable, he’s one of the greatest drummers, but knowing Deep Purple, if Ian decided to leave, I’m sure there would be a new drummer in the band. I just hope this never happens.
In hindsight, I also wish Little Ian all the best on his semi-anniversary! I just arrived home from the Deep Purple concert in Vienna and got to say that Big Ian is and always will be one of my absolute heroes! He gives his all and that’s what everybody in the audience felt. It’s pure heart! The best singer I’ve ever seen!
July 13th, 2023 at 00:10