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.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40-PtHDaqbBLt-uO0HZKmj3b99ouKyHECj_NGsHuBbFDhUjGfopW_AbYPvjNEjlK2V09FUw4hBhM8zeuHg3LMTg9ZbzbR6r162wr-A59EdBXqaPXca_S8dpR2ZphjZHovgZdsdmWfsGZK/s1600/Scan10004.JPG
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 23:18I can relate to Bernie not wanting to do a miming TOTP facade. Many musicians refused to do that & good on them. I suppose when it isn’t your band the chance of being disciplined or dismissed could increase somewhat. Remember when Dave Brock didn’t show for the Hawkwind song, Quark, Strangeness & Charm on TOTP. However when it is ‘your’ band, it is easier to say eff off isn’t it. Cheers.
January 27th, 2025 at 02:18I never heard that Ritchie actually minded Ian’s screaming – after all that was what he was hired for and Glenn Hughes could scream too as Ritchie had heard at the Trapeze gigs he witnessed to check him out. I was under the impression that Ritchie disliked Ian’s loss of high range which he attributed to his drinking and smoking (+ “messin’ around with wimmen, not swimmin’…”). With the exception of DC and RJD who were low tenors/baritones, Ritchie liked tenor voices in rock: Gillan, Bonnet and Turner all were. In fact he let RJD go because he thought his falsetto was not piercing enough, mocking it as “that little girlie voice with which he sang Rainbow Eyes”. And it was Blackmore who was adamant in the last phase of Mk II that they continue performing Child In Time which by its very nature required Ian to scream.
I think he simply grew tired of Ian’s tone and/or fell in love with Paul Rodgers’ voice (which was/is of course great, but could have never realized something such as In Rock or Machine Head). He blamed Ian for not being a blues singer which quite rightly he never was nor professed to be.
January 27th, 2025 at 05:11@14
Ok sweetie, you’re always an enigma to me!
Bernie didn’t sing so what could him being a severe stammer have anything to do with not playing Top of the Pops?
Uwe please explain why Bernie felt the need to trash Ian & co when it indeed was his own actions (or lack of) that caused him to be fired!
( I really never get the male way of thinking 😉)
January 27th, 2025 at 07:23@11
Thank you so much Uwe for the info regarding the 6xB John McC 😃
“A lot of fans felt alienated by IAN GILLAN BAND” – well I was among the alienated! That marvellous voice shouldn’t be misused like it was in IGB!
“I think I suggested the name shortening to GILLAN“ – brilliant 😃
“Being on stage is the best place to enjoy these moments” – well not if you’re shy and timid ☺️ (personally I prefer to hide behind my coffee mug)
“John leads a quiet life with his wife and best friend Bob, he loves peace, animals, all kinds of music, and is a nice chap to have a beer with.” – awwww 🥰
“a medical condition called aloepetia nervosa” – I could help with that!
“There was/is no treatment for this condition which is caused by stress” – so wrong! There is a treatment!
“By the time I found a homeopathic remedy and cure for the aloepetia it was too late” – he did not find the right homeopath! (😉)
“are you still with me? “ – yes!
“GILLAN without Ian? About as ridiculous as Ian joining BLACK SABBATH. “ 🤣🤣🤣
“but true friendship? I don’t know.” – this is beyond sad 😢
This interview is from 2008, I wonder how he is doing these days?
January 27th, 2025 at 11:29John, Lucille by GILLAN was even a little 🤣 frantic for me when I heard it first as a 20-year old. I know they were having a laugh and also wanted to show how they can execute high speed songs with ultra-precision, but I failed to see how the hilariously fast tempo benefited the song.
I stand by my word: Music played at a faster tempo than Highway Star is wholly unnecessary (ok, Fireball excepted …) and speed metal a stylistic aberration. ☝️🥸
If you can’t move your butt to music, there is something missing!
https://youtu.be/wiYjQr22meY
January 27th, 2025 at 12:17I prefer the the version they did on the Young Ones British comedy show from the 1980’s better.
January 27th, 2025 at 13:19“That marvellous voice shouldn’t be misused like it was in IGB!”
Tsk, tsk, tsk, I fail to hear the misuse, Karin. It’s one of his most beautiful ballads ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeVoRiMn-jU
When the music picks up at 01:59 after the intro, it’s nothing short of magnificent. Tell me what’s not to like?
Böses Mädchen.
January 27th, 2025 at 15:27@19
“I stand by my word: Music played at a faster tempo than Highway Star is wholly unnecessary”
🤣🤣 ok grandpa, sometimes a person just likes to sit down, enjoying a nice cup of coffee and listen to this fx:
https://youtu.be/Ed1tv_gCOUA?si=XD9fzFLqlYukehP4
I cannot dance to that, but I love sitting in my sofa and letting my toes tip to the rythm 💃🏼
January 27th, 2025 at 15:58@21
Thank you so much for the link, and maybe it’s just me, but I don’t like it 🙃
This, on the other hand, WOAH! :
https://youtu.be/QXizI5Q3L8U?si=7o-cpsmg5t50Vteb
January 27th, 2025 at 19:46Ian G is actually quoted as saying , The Gillan band was equal …but , he was a little more equal then the others !
Apparently, Dear Bernie had Tourettes .
And when TOTP offered them the slot , they were on tour and Bernie said he didn’t want to do it , Gillan insisted, saying it would be good for the band ( who were having a purple patch in UK at the time..excuse the pun !) So, Gillan put his foot down and said ” we’re doing it and anyone who isn’t on the plane , I’ll take that as his resignation! ” …Bernie didn’t show ! The rest is History ( I bet Janick Gers is glad he didn’t show !!! )
I personally think Bernie was fed up with what he perceived as mismanagement of the finances …and tested Gillans arm …and came of worse !
Incidentally, I’ve seen interviews with all the Gillan band since ..and there doesn’t seem to be any acrimony .
January 27th, 2025 at 20:14I get crazy with
January 27th, 2025 at 20:45https://youtu.be/cjeIUpD9Emo?si=081lxCDJ8de85Iow
😈 🤘
Mamma miaaa!!
January 27th, 2025 at 21:58https://youtu.be/JjLYiyIp6Y0?si=6gGAet0Wzmwdlt3F
💜💜💜💜💜🤘🤘
No acrimony? That’s like saying Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton had a harmonious marital life. Twice. 😂 I think there are no hard feelings from Janick, little from Bernie who jumped ship early, Colin refuses to give interviews on GILLAN at all and both John and Mick were/are still incredibly hurt.
The guys from IGB shrugged their shoulders (“Duh, you could have told us earlier that we were just too jazzy for you!”) and moved on at the time (except for Colin who moved with Ian), but the GILLAN members were devastated and felt jilted in 1982.
Which I can understand. Ian isn’t a mean man, but he relinquished responsibility at a certain point, possibly because his hand was financially forced. But he wasn’t very transparent about it.
January 27th, 2025 at 21:59Good on Bernie for saying it like it was. The writing was obviously on the wall and he was NOT going down with that sinking ship. TOTP a good career move? At that point, now that is a delusional view from mr Gillan, too much laughing in Hell me thinks. Hedonism can do that at times, apparently. Not that I would know. Cheers.
January 27th, 2025 at 22:03@22 Karin, I would humbly suggest that the following is not only more popular amongst certain demographics, but has a better tune, better lyrics, & is eminently more danceable than that which you’ve offered up to us!
Pet Shop Boys? Harumph!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn4TkgPmvUA
January 28th, 2025 at 01:18Uwe
You’ve just made yourself look rather foolish ( again !) ….obviously Richard Burton and Liz Taylor were absolutely in Marital bliss at least twice …otherwise they would not have married TWICE !
I’m just going off the interviews I’ve seen from the Gillan dvd that came out around 2008 ( from a Gillan concert filmed in Edinburgh in 1980 ) …but , interviews done in 2006
January 28th, 2025 at 09:46@29
🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks so much for the very, ahem, interesting link!
If it’s ok with you, I’ll let you off easy with this one (please promise me to hear it through ☺️)
https://youtu.be/rLV52d7J8rA?si=DPFFMZmhR0iWVvaZ
Btw: what does HARUMPH means?
January 28th, 2025 at 12:06That’s what I like about Steve, always the hopeless romantic!
https://theadventurine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/830-lead.jpg
While the former members of GILLAN are all in agreement that the music was great and intra-band life initially fun and full of camaraderie, John McCoy (who was closest to Ian at the time) was even in 2005 still very bitter about how it ended:
https://www.getreadytorock.com/rock_stars/john_mccoy.htm
QUOTE
There seems to be a cloud over how Gillan broke up. In your words what happened? Would you ever work with Ian, Colin or Mick again?
“I think I’m going to be asked this in every interview forever perhaps because I’m the only one who ever really says anything!
The way in which we the band, were treated was abysmal….after so much success, Top Ten albums and singles, headlining sellout world tours, all the trappings and awards, gold discs etc etc it would have been good to see some of the financial rewards but sadly the pot of gold was already in someone else’s bank account and back pocket…if Ian had said to us that Purple were reforming we would have understood and wished him all the best, but to blatantly lie to us all, his only real friends, for whatever reasons, was very very wrong.
Bernie learned of the problems and that’s why he left, but myself being a trusting (stupid?) soul stayed to the very bitter end, defending Ian almost to the last. As for working together again I have already worked with Colin Mick and Bernie and nothing is impossible, but it’s not up to us, only one person could ever make that happen…but I wouldn’t hold your breath for a reunion album and tour …”
UNQUOTE
And Colin Towns still doesn’t want to speak about the band’s demise on record:
https://www.soundonsound.com/people/colin-towns-behind-mask
QUOTE
Despite their success, the Gillan/Towns partnership wasn’t to last: by 1982 rumours had begun about a Deep Purple reformation and, after six successful studio albums together, the band split up and Ian Gillan and Colin Towns went their separate ways. Both have different stories to tell of the less than amicable break‑up, but 14 years on Towns remains politely reserved on the subject. An innocent question about royalties breaks his silence.
“Turn it off!” he laughs, ordering me to pause my tape recorder so he can voice his true feelings on the matter, before allowing me to record again for his rather more tactful answer: “That was part of the problem — no‑one had any paperwork; we just didn’t do it properly. I do see a bit now, years after the event. But I was living in a council house almost right up until the end and we’d had five albums in the Top 20! People didn’t believe that we were still skint, but we were. It wasn’t well‑managed, let’s say. It was all a great experience but you’ve got to move on, move into more challenging musical areas.”
UNQUOTE
As for Mick Underwood, I remember an interview with Big Ian where he complained that his Christmas cards to Mick never receive an answer … There is more than an inkling that things were not well in this interview here from Mick while he was still a member of GILLAN:
https://trinkelbonker.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/mick-underwood-interview-1982/
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You live in England. Would you leave if the band suddenly sold a lot of records, Platinum and all that?
– “I would not move, certainly not to America. This is a problem that we don´t have at the moment, but it would be a nice one to have. The problem we have now is getting to the bottom of who´s hiding the money we make now!”
Are your albums out in America?
– ““Glory Road” should be out, but I honestly didn´t see a single copy when we were there. I don´t think that our kind of rock suits their radio very well. They think that Foreigner is tough. We could get big if we, like you said, toured with a major band.”
So why did you go over there on your own?
– “We didn´t know! Ian might have known.”
Who makes these decisions?
– “Ian and the office. Ian is in charge.”
You never get asked for your opinions on things?
– “Not really, things are ready to go when we hear about it.”
Is this one of the reasons why Bernie Tormé left?
– “Probably, yes.”
UNQUOTE
January 28th, 2025 at 12:36@30
January 28th, 2025 at 12:57Steve, well regarding the two lovebirds, they had some kind of hate/love relationship, I believe it’s common knowledge (in Denmark that is 😉) that the couple wasn’t happy in any of their marriages with each other!
Karin @19, tsk, tsk, tsk, your admission of not being able to dance to fast electronic beats betrays your generational distance!!! 🤣
You don’t dance to keep up with the fast sequencer rhythm, you dance to the snare beat, (duh!),
But no worries, help is on the way, I’m your life coach:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYjq9BDipu0
And btw: The Pet Shop Boys are extremely well-crafted pop, don’t knock’em.
January 28th, 2025 at 14:39@34
Duh right back at ya sweetie 😄
Thank you for the dance lessons 🤩
Yeah Pet Shop Boys are really good!
Listen to this one:
https://youtu.be/lvhRPJH5Tgw?si=hshL4YkoYiW-bYph
Never forget how disappointed I felt when I discovered Neil Tennants lack of interest in women! 😂😂
January 28th, 2025 at 20:09Well, live and learn…
“Uwe please explain why Bernie felt the need to trash Ian & co when it indeed was his own actions (or lack of) that caused him to be fired!
( I really never get the male way of thinking 😉)”
It was a male pissing contest. Ian wanted to establish leadership and Bernie wasn’t having any of it because he felt he was being cheated out of money. He was looking forward to a few days off in Germany and those were now supposed to be curtailed by the TOTP appearance for which he wasn’t getting paid. You can find arguments for both their respective positions, but as a reason to fire someone? Silly. And all GILLAN members are unanimous that the band finances were murky with Phil Banfield and Ian holding the accounts close to their chest – that is never a good sign.
“Bernie didn’t sing so what could him being a severe stammer have anything to do with not playing Top of the Pops?”
Bernie actually sang live quite a bit on the chorus parts, even had a song by himself in the encore part (Bonie Moronie). He had a raunchy rock’n’roll voice that wouldn’t have gained him entry with the Beach Boys, but it was perfectly serviceable within a GILLAN context, whether singing lead (as in the first following vid) or background (as in the second one).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnLi9E5Z4p8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDLUfuc08Q
His stammer didn’t show when he sang, but irrespective from that I DID NOT CLAIM that he skipped TOTP because of it! 😂 I just mentioned it incidentally.
I saw GILLAN twice, once with Bernie Torme and once with Janick Gers. Gers’ neo-Blackmore-styled guitar playing was more to my liking back then, but Bernie had star power on stage in loads, he made you want to watch him. So much in fact that you sometimes forgot about Big Ian!
When I saw him for the first time on German TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqXTAXLrb7Q
I thought, wow, this guy is something else!
January 28th, 2025 at 21:18“Never forget how disappointed I felt when I discovered Neil Tennants lack of interest in women! 😂😂
Well, live and learn …”
How could you have been in doubt, seriously? 😁 You girls are actually hideously awful in identifying a guy as gay. Totally clueless.
Sure didn’t take me long with Auntie Roberta!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxV7GTbqC10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuuHfMx3CQ
To shelter you from further disappointments, liebe Karin, he ain’t interested either, but it’s nothing personal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB4w8EVh-2E
January 28th, 2025 at 22:33@36
Thanks so much for the Bernie links!
“whether singing lead” – ohhhh very very nice indeed 🤩 I’m so sorry I have never heard him before! Oh man his voice is lovely 😻 at 3:22 I like the nod at Status Quo 😊 really like his energy 🙌🏼
“😂 I just mentioned it incidentally.” – ok, I wasn’t aware anything mentioned in here was incidental 😉
“Bernie had star power on stage in loads, he made you want to watch him. So much in fact that you sometimes forgot about Big Ian!” 🤣🤣
Sorry to correct you here! Nothing can ever gets us to forget the current vocalist in Purple!
Not that I haven’t tried, fx in this one:
https://youtu.be/49XBmLTwWsQ?si=oBb7xF4u-h2DChX1
No matter what I do, I’ve been listening in my very nice headphones, but I can’t pick out Roger and Steve as backing vocals! Have tried to block Ian out. But his voice take over every time….🤔
“When I saw him for the first time on German TV” – yeah both Bernie and John are eye-catching! John’s stare is a bit frightening 🫣
January 29th, 2025 at 07:27@37
“How could you have been in doubt, seriously?” – well I was very young and innocent, and was under the spell of curly hair, dreamy eyes and that voice mr Tennant had (maybe still has, not sure)
I am very well aware of Mr Manilow’s choice of life!
January 29th, 2025 at 17:35“Nothing personal”?! Well, if you say so 😉
Karin, as I‘ve written before, you‘re not missing much if you can‘t hear Roger‘s and Steve‘s backing vocals (they were likely wiped from the official release or pulled down to near inaudibility), they are both not even adequate backing vocalists, DP was never Uriah Heep in that department. Herr you hear them a bit better, but it would hardly qualify them for an audition with The Beach Boys.
https://youtu.be/rk0MjE71e4s
Except in the Mk III and IV eras, live harmony and backing vocals were always their (very) weak spot. Or as a friend of mine once succinctly opined: “Deep Purple’s harmony vocals capabilities are almost as awesome as Uriah Heep’s improvisational skills on their instruments.” 🤣
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And I feel honor-bound to unequivocally state: Among the eternal truths of rock, the most important one is that no one, absolutely no one does the legendary “Quo Row” as well as the originators!
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a2/bb/49/a2bb495d49798e15397834e8c042dcb0.jpg
January 29th, 2025 at 18:27@40
saw this joke earlier today:
“ I play in a band that plays progressive rock to prisoners as the walk to the electric chair. We are called Deathrow Tull” 😆 (sorry if I’m offending anyone, sadly my humour is a tat to the darker side 🤣)
Well, I have pretty decent overhear headphones, and I simply cannot detect the two gentlemen!
What do you think they thought of being cut almost off?
January 29th, 2025 at 19:14I will immediately take a close listen to the link! Thank you 🤗
“What do you think they thought of being cut almost off?”
I am pretty sure they laugh about it.
January 29th, 2025 at 19:18@40
Yes! I can hear the two gentlemen here!
January 29th, 2025 at 19:22I was more disturbed but Ian’s trousers 🫣 looked like they were about to drop of 😳
@42
January 29th, 2025 at 19:29Thanks Svante, I hope so too!
Personally I would be a bit miffed 🤣 (no I wouldn’t, rather surprised I was placed in front of a microphone in the first place 🥴)
@40
January 29th, 2025 at 19:57“absolutely no one does the legendary “Quo Row” as well as the originators!” – so very true!
Sadly the blond dude is gone, (Rick Parfitt, isn’t that his name), he was great with Francis Rossi. Mr Rossi looks a bit lonely now on the stage.
“What do you think they thought of being cut almost off?”
I think they said: “Phew, we got lucky, no sonic record of what we did!”
Here’s a version from early day Mk VII where you can hear them as well – when Steve was actually still on the left side of the stage, I had forgotten all about that! He also back then played the intro on acoustic guitar which sounded nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T-J0yNnh9A
I’d say that Roger’s and Steve’s slightly bellowed baritone backing vocals were about ACCEPT standard … 😁: “The princess, the princess, the princess of the dawn …” – a Teutonic Männerchor at 06:58:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTOJpHyx6gk
Am I the only one who ever noticed how Wolf Hoffmann’s minor key melody in Princess of the Dawn is a direct ripoff from the first phrase of Ritchie’s violin’esque volume fading solo in Fools @04:16?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTOJpHyx6gk
Darn thieving Krauts!
January 29th, 2025 at 21:05@ 41 – “saw this joke earlier today:
January 29th, 2025 at 22:15“ I play in a band that plays progressive rock to prisoners as the walk to the electric chair. We are called Deathrow Tull” 😆 (sorry if I’m offending anyone, sadly my humour is a tat to the darker side 🤣)” I would have thought of taking the spelling little further, Deathrow Dull possibly would have worked even better. As long as Jethro’s spirit residing in the afterlife does not mind. “Jethro Tull, the person, was born in 1674. He was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who, scholars say, helped to bring the British Agricultural Revolution to the country in the 18th century.
He is credited with developing a horse-drawn seed drill in 1701 that sowed seeds in neat rows. Later, he developed a horse-drawn hoe. His methods were adopted by many and helped to set the foundations for modern agriculture.”
Hey, in the right mood, I might actually prefer (I’m herewith signing my own death warrant, I can already here Herr MacGregor rummaging for his machete …) Deathrow Tull to the real thing! Unlike the more angular Ian Anderson, their music is buoyant and skips lightly …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JXgeTfprbo
Reminds me of that other Indie guy and his actress muse with their wonderfully summer breezy song …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEMPbsqqdOA
January 30th, 2025 at 00:50@25,26
AndreA, I’ve now listened to ‘Bite the bullet’ several times!
Please PLEASE explain what it is you like about it 😃
Personally I love ‘Gypsy’s kiss’, and my sweetheart, with whom I share morning-coffee and newspaper, hates ‘Gypsy’s kiss’! And then I played ‘Bite the bullet’ for him 😱
You can’t imagine what he looked like 🤣
‘A whiter shade of pale’ was actually a nice description 🫥
So if you can help me detect the sentiment behind ‘Bite the bullet’, I would be so happy 😃
January 30th, 2025 at 13:58@48
I had no idea Uwe that Deathrow Tull actually excist!
It’s not half-bad at all 😃
It reminds me a little bit of ‘Come on Eileen’ with Dexy’s midnight runners! Not everything, but the rythm and the happy-go-lucky vibe 😊
Never knew Scarlett J tried to sing ☺️
January 30th, 2025 at 14:04It would have been even better if they had named themselves “Deathrow Toll”. 😁
January 30th, 2025 at 14:06I am unashamed to say this but Scarlett is illegally hot.
January 30th, 2025 at 19:59Karin
I’ve only just read this , am I right in you’re asking what Bite the Bullet means ?
It basically means to swallow your pride and just accept how things are …maybe you don’t necessarily need to swallow your pride …you would just say …” oh well, that’s how it is, tough luck, accept it and get on with it ”
Eg
You’re thrown out of work got no money to eat …etc etc
And a gypsies kiss is actually cockney rhyme and slang for …piss !
January 30th, 2025 at 22:38It’s an English thing !
@52
January 30th, 2025 at 22:45Ok, but can she sing? 😄
RE: …Scarlett is illegally hot.
Meh… doesn’t impress me much & her acting is just a little better than average. I did like her in Jojo Rabbit though.
January 31st, 2025 at 01:36@53
Oh no Steve, not what it means, more why AndreA was all ‘mamma Mia’ about it 😄
René likes Purple, and some of Gillan’s music, but ‘Bite the Bullit’ and sadly enough ‘Gypsy’s kiss’ (are you sure it’s the cockney rhyme there was thought of? Then I simply don’t understand mr Gillan’s way of singing it, and on stage he blows a kiss upward at the end of the song, and well, if Gypsy’s kiss actually means that, it’s downright unhygienic 😆) are not his style (he likes Metallica though 😑) he find them too fast and with no melody 🫣, so I would like some enlightenment on why AndreA was all Mamma Mia ☺️
February 1st, 2025 at 05:49@55
This lady, well she had it all 😊
https://youtu.be/mV_57u6EL4A?si=ujZPQUtam5Z6NOB8
But I guess her ‘luck’ was that she died quite young so everything we remember about her is her beauty, sweetness and innocence 🥰
February 1st, 2025 at 08:00Doubting Karin @54: In a non-singers way (like Debby Harry), yes! Her voice is alluring.
Jojo Rabbit was an excellent film with a great performance by her and she was more recently hilarious here as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7enw6mFxs
I actually consider her quite variable as an actress, Dilligaf!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_8a08zwOMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0WaX80XY5w
February 1st, 2025 at 15:26Hi Karin
Well, you’ve got me thinking now …A gypsy’s Kiss is definitely cockney rhyme n slang ( us vulgar gents used to say it …before we visited the gents !) …but, I must admit, I can’t see it making much sense in Gillans lyrics for the song …but, then again …it makes perfect sense ! I think we either need Mr Gillan to interject in the forum or ….Uwe …to tell us exactly what was going on during the recording sessions ( cus, he was bound to have been there ! Lol )
It’s interesting to see how these things differ from country to country though 🤔
Let’s hope AndreA can come back with the rest of the answer ( it’s always nice to hear from Andre…I think they love Gillan nearly as much as you ! )
February 1st, 2025 at 20:44Uwe has never attempted to give meaning to all streams of consciousness Big Ian rambles into a mic. He himself is on record that he often uses words just because they are unusual, sound good, have a good rhythm or sing well.
Some of Big Ian’s lyrics defy definable meaning just like Jason Pollock’s art does and that’s ok by me.
https://www.jackson-pollock.org/assets/img/paintings/convergence.jpg
February 2nd, 2025 at 00:26@ 58
To borrow from Karin’s comment in another thread: “…(I guess especially ladies) are treating themselves these days, with ‘nip and tuck’-procedures, Botox etc. and never feel ok with ourselves anyhow!
February 2nd, 2025 at 06:52He prefer the real looks…” As do I; which is why I’m not overwhelmed by her, as you put it, “hotness”.
@61
I agree completely here 🙌🏼
To me she always looks so miffed and wronged 😄
February 2nd, 2025 at 10:24But some may find that very attractive!
I dunno, there is probably not a single Hollywood actress of Scarlett’s age that has not had “enhancements” these days, but I fail to see her as an obvious culprit. She’s neither ultra-skinny nor big-bosomed, doesn’t have a sculpted butt or a nose job. Her facial features aren’t botoxed to inertia either. Nor does she really look glamorous – she’s somewhere between girl-next-door-pretty and sultry rock chick. And a lot of her appeal lies in her lower-alto range voice which is why she is used for voice-overs a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeMfAYCdRb0&t=4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ApzBuFmIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HeHui9vl8c
February 2nd, 2025 at 15:50@63
“that has not had “enhancements” these days” – if they only knew how much homeopathic medicine could help them in that area too 😉
February 2nd, 2025 at 22:50