No, not swimming
Another classic Gillan video has been restored and posted.
No Laughing In Heaven:
Big Ian these days talks about what’s behind the song:
Thanks to steve4422 for the heads-up.
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Another classic Gillan video has been restored and posted.
No Laughing In Heaven:
Big Ian these days talks about what’s behind the song:
Thanks to steve4422 for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
That is the single version of the song in the video, not the alternative take/mix as on Glory Road
https://youtu.be/ZAQjMScGw_E
which is 01:30 longer, has a different intro and more pronounced harmony vocals in the louder mixed chorus. It always sounded a bit to me like Bernie was singing along too.
I remember buying the single on a record fair for silly money just to have that version! It wasn’t available on CD for a long time until the GILlAN Singles Box came out.
January 25th, 2025 at 03:47Love the humour in most of the tunes 😃
January 25th, 2025 at 09:09Makes me giggle, and that’s really not bad 😉
Amazing song I love this one so much. It’s has all the elements, Amazing lyrics, Great screams, riff and keyboard.
January 25th, 2025 at 10:58No other band in the world has a family tree so rich with amazing songs like DP has.
That’s why DP is the greatest band of all time not because of their catalogue but all the branching out from that band.
Peace ✌️
Uwe
January 25th, 2025 at 11:36Hate to do this to you …but, it’s actually from Future Shock …not Glory Road !
But, go on then …you can have the last word .. for a change !
@3
Yes Purple has everything!
So had Gillan… 😉
January 25th, 2025 at 13:10Steve, may I have the last word, admitting that – as nearly always – you’re so right?!
https://youtu.be/zBZPzGPC-j0
January 25th, 2025 at 14:29It was not his commercial best period (1979-1982) but his voice and performance were at their peak songs (“She Tears Me Down”, .”Fighting Man”, “If You Believe Me”, “If I Sing Softly”, “Nightmare”, “Born to Kill”.of course and”No Laughing In Heaven:..) yes he is not only a pioneer founder of falsetto singing in hard and heavy tracks, but also showed that he is a great singer and an excellent lyricist…
January 25th, 2025 at 16:23“No Laughing in Heaven'”, “The rap-hard rock ” vocal-song continuation of “No One Came”….in both cases Ian Gillan is a passionate performer-storyteller, simply a fantastic frontman,..he has a ….story, voice and stature.
@ 3 Adel
January 25th, 2025 at 19:04Wonderful post!
Uwe
@6
MAGIC
Thanks
January 26th, 2025 at 08:58https://youtu.be/a1XZO10S-9s?si=UEtX9Saw5FKk2k5o
If anyone is interested, here is the bands actual performance on TOTP WITHOUT Bernie …which resulted in he’s sacking from the band .
January 26th, 2025 at 10:08They are miming of course, but John McCoy could have actually played more than some guitar on the double-neck he used because he was initially a guitarist. He only switched to bass in the late 60s when ahead of an engagement in – you guessed it – Hamburg he broke his wrist in an accident and had to wear a cast making playing guitar impossible, “but I could just about still play bass with it”. So switch to bass he did to take part in the overseas gigs – and then stuck with it because bassists were rarer than guitarists and found jobs easier.
At that point in time he was still a long- and curly-haired young man wearing fetching white trousers.
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https://dmme.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/mccoy5-300×257.jpg
More about the man here:
https://dmme.net/interviews/mccoy
He was always the GILLAN member I found most interesting and not just because he played bass. Though the way he did that very much defined the GILLAN sound. His bass playing – with a pick, relentlessly ostinato and precise plus rhythmically accentuated, root note oriented, but incredibly fast when asked to do a synchronized run – would have endeared him to Ritchie and made him an ideal partner for Cozy Powell. Of course, a bald bassist with a physique as towering as John’s was conceptually impossible for Blackmore.
January 26th, 2025 at 15:29@10
January 26th, 2025 at 17:27Thanks Steve 🙌🏼
But why didn’t the cute punk-guitarist show up?
As far as I remember he was pretty angry of being sacked.
I just found this old live version of Loosen My Strings from the Paris Olympia, 18 November 2007.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-bmeQ-OrS4
My oh my, how times have changed! Lucille ’81:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQ0YUxEqws
January 26th, 2025 at 22:17Karin, the cute punk guitarist, who btw suffered from a severe stammer, didn‘t show up because he was in Germany at the time, having a few days off from the tour there when the offer to play TOTP came in. And Bernie said, “I ain‘t going unless I get paid for miming there.” and your crush Ian countered: “If you’re not on the plane, you’re out of the band.” And Bernie being Irish … well you know how Irishmen are.
All a little silly in hindsight if you ask me, typically male rubbish.
January 26th, 2025 at 23:18