When Metal bands aren’t scaring you with gravity defying clothing, blinding you with light shows that would shame the set designers from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind or guaranteeing that blood will pour from your ears treating you to deafness by the time your 25 – when they’re not insulting your intelligence with terrible lyrics or […]
Deep Purple formed in the late sixties with ex Artwoods keyboard player Jon Lord on organ, session guitarist from The Outlaws and Screaming Lord Sutch sideman, Ritchie Blackmore on lead guitar, Nicky Simper on bass, Rod Evans on vocals and Ian Paice on drums. This line-up made three albums for Tetragammon Records in the US […]
It’s not often that you find reason to post Smoke On The Water, overplayed and equally hated and loved, this old chestnut is another example of riff vs song. (Posting Smoke On The Water is rather like playing Stairway To Heaven in a guitar shop). Despite Smoke On The Water’s verse, chorus, lyric and vocal melody […]
A concept album and Rock Opera put together by Deep Purple’s Roger Glover based on the children’s poem The Butterfly Ball and Grasshopper’s Feast written by William Roscoe 1n 1802. It spawned Love Is All, a cheery song with a convincing vocal performance from Elf/Rainbow and future Black Sabbath singer Ronnie James Dio. The cover design […]
Let’s Go To San Francisco was a hit without a band. The song was written by Ken Lewis and John Carter (both pseudonyms) who had operated in different incarnations as singers, songwriters and band members. Writing Herman’s Hermits No.1 US hit Don’t You Hear My Heart Beat and writing songs for Brenda Lee, Peter And […]
Here’s a sonic and visual Rock gem of hats, hair and heavy tunes – Deep Purple Mk2 contributing massively to inventing a genre on German TV. Ritchie Blackmore’s dazzling skill and tone, Jon Lord looking like a busy chef creating an exquisite dish, a rhythm section of Ian Paice and Roger Glover joined at the hip […]