The joys of country living
This is a 1977 vintage interview with the country gentleman Ian Gillan, taken during the IGB Japanese tour.
Thanks to the Deep Purple Podcast for posting this, and to Uwe Hornung for bringing it to your attention.
![[hand]](/hs-pics/portraits/hands/mcbride1.jpg)
![[face]](/hs-pics/portraits/faces/airey3.jpg)
This is a 1977 vintage interview with the country gentleman Ian Gillan, taken during the IGB Japanese tour.
Thanks to the Deep Purple Podcast for posting this, and to Uwe Hornung for bringing it to your attention.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Thanks Uwe 🙌🏼
Is this Ian?? Gillan?
March 15th, 2025 at 07:51Ohh man I can’t recognise his voice here 😯
Who says that jazz rock isn’t mind-expanding: “primitive forms of existence”, “the powers of mental energy”, and, of course, “the human race without bodies”, Ian shares slices of his own personal philosophy and visions of the future with us @03:20 faster than you can spell out “e-s-o-t-e-r-i-c” …🤯
Returning to Ian’s penchant for somewhat flexible changes of view: While he showers Mark Nauseef @01:02 with accolades in this interview, six years later, while on tour with Black Sabbath, the thrill seems to have paled somewhat and memories darkened:
“Mark Nauseef is a musical snob and he thinks that he is above people that play hard rock, so I knew that he would be disappointed when I wanted to do “Smoke On The Water”. The record company wanted some Purple stuff for the sake of increased sales so we ended up playing “Woman From Tokyo” and “Child In Time” as well. But the guys didn´t want to perform them like the original versions so we ended up doing them in this horrible way. But I don´t want to say anything bad about the Ian Gillan Band, I learnt more in that band than I can ever use. But I was so bored by the time we did “Scarabus” and that´s when I decided to end that and start what became GILLAN instead.”
Uhum. Let’s watch Mark Nauseef “looking down on people who play hard rock” here in Australia (only a few months after the dissolution of IGB):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmBy48YJKd4
For being allegedly such an arrogant prick vis-à-vis hard rock musicians, I’ve heard people drum worse and with less enthusiasm for Thin Lizzy, just sayin’. 😑
In truth, Mark, who elevated Jon Lord’s Sarabande with his wonderful percussion work, is simply a world musician in the truest sense of the word, a man with an open mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2IUJGpGkCw
Oh, I forgot, watch him look really down on Gary Moore in 1979 here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdYoDZy8xZY
No matter, at least the late great Ray Fenwick was unrepentant in his pride for the work he had done with IGB:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBaCdTAm8Q
Also included in the Fenwick interview: John Gustafson’s little French chair-out-of-the-hotel-window incident … @04:19.
https://dmme.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/gus3-300×214.jpg
March 15th, 2025 at 07:58Don’t mess with this man!
Interesting comments about the future of human existence in our bodies. I wonder what Uwe thinks of that, hmmmmmmmmmm interesting @ 2.48. Go Ian. Cheers.
March 15th, 2025 at 09:33