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I beIieve it was Ritchie's grandmother's
favourite song,
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that's what I think
the received wisdom is on that.
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However, it did appear and it did
seem like a good name for the band.
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We didn't have any meaning behind it.
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We didn't know, for example,
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that it was the name of a brand of acid
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that was being soId
in the States at the time.
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We didn't know that, l swear.
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We weren't a drug band,
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we were a pint of bitter,
Scotch and Coke sort of band.
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I'd been a professionaI musician
two or three years,
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maybe longer - four.
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I met a guy who was the drummer
with the Searchers...
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Remember the Searchers?
One of the early Mersey Beat-type bands,
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although they were from Manchester.
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his guy was called Chris Curtis
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and he was introduced to me
and it was '67 - 1967.
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lt was very '60s by then,
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a Iot of kaftans and beIIs
and beads and all sorts,
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and l had them all, of course.
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And it was a gorgeous summer,
l remember, delightful,
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and his idea was that we were gonna
have this band called Roundabout.
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It wouId have a nucIeus
of him and myself -
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he was the drummer and singer
and myself on keyboards -
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and this great guitarist - quote unquote -
that he'd found in Hamburg,
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caIIed Ritchie BIackmore, who was
in a band called the hree Musketeers.
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My fondest memories
might have been in '65
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when I pIayed in a band caIIed
the hree Musketeers, in Germany,
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and we used to go on stage dressed up
as Musketeers sword fencing.
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That was a very good band
but we didn't do much work,
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l think we worked once a year.
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hen Chris Curtis disappeared.
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No one at the time knew
where he'd gone.
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I think certain substances
might have had something to do with it,
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Iike LSD and aII these wonderfuI things
that were available in the '60s.
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And I thought that was that,
it was nice while it lasted,
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carry on and try and earn my Iiving
as a session musician.
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I then got a teIegram
from this guy ony Edwards.
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''If you're stiII interested in
forming a band,
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''wouId stiII be interested in
backing said band, please call.''
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l thought, ''hank you! hank you!''
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So I caIIed him and he had
no idea at all of what he wanted,
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only that he wanted to do it.
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And he called Ritchie
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and Ritchie came over -
the December of '67.
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We certainIy hit it off
musically straightaway.
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I remember he had an acoustic guitar
and he played me some ideas he'd had
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and had this IittIe eIectric piano
and l joined in
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and we messed around
for several hours,
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wrote two or three numbers, which
actually ended up on the first album,
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and decided that we'd do it.
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But we had a bass pIayer
called Nick Simper,
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who'd been in the band
that l was in at the time,
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the backing band for the Flowerpot Men.
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I was in a band,
we were playing in Hamburg.
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We had a three-week crazy stint
at the Star club there,
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and Ritchie was Iiving in Hamburg then.
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He obviousIy Iiked the way I pIayed.
He came and said, ''Nice work.''
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We finished the job,
he was living in Hamburg,
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l went back to England with my band.
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And about a year after that, the singer
in my band, who was Rod Evans,
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appIied for the singing job in a new band
which was to become Deep Purple
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and Ritchie remembered me
from Hamburg and said,
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''Have you still got the drummer?''
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And Rod said, ''Yeah.''
''Bring him along.''
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The PurpIe sound
was at the very beginning, and still is,
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a combination of Ritchie's guitar work
and Jon's keyboard work
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with lan's drumming feel.
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You can aIways teII
that it's Paice on drums,
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which is unusuaI as drummers
don't usually have a feel that's theirs.
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Ian very much has a sound that's his,
Ritchie has a sound that's his
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and the combination
of Ritchie's sound and Jon's organ
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with Ian keeping the rhythm
is the Deep Purple sound.
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Rod Evans, who's very....
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He's a IittIe bit Tom Jones,
a little bit Engelbert Humperdinck.
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But we beat him into shape.
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And there we had our first band.
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Joe South wrote Hush
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but l think a guy called Billy Joe Royal
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had the hit in the States with Hush,
a minor hit,
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and it was being pIayed in
a lot of the dance clubs
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and disco-type things in England
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and we'd heard it and liked it
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and so we did a version of it,
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which had that long organ solo in it.
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To our astonishment,
it went top ten in the States.
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It happened so quick.
We were all taken unawares by it.
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At this time we were stiII working
back in England,
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we were starting to do
shows on the road,
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some not very big, some a little bigger.
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AII of a sudden we're toId that Hush had
been chosen as a single in the States
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and it was a top five hit,
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everybody then starts pIanning
for a big tour over here.
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lt was a great first time in the States.
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We fIew direct
from London to Los Angeles
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and there we are in
the entertainment capital of the world
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and there's aII these
big Cadillac limousines,
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which we've onIy seen in movies before,
picking us up,
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and the same night we get taken to
Hefner's penthouse pad
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and we're, ''Hey! We've arrived.''
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In 1968 when we started pIaying,
we were copying Vanilla Fudge -
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l don't know if you know the band.
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They were from Long IsIand and that was
the type of music we wanted to play,
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heavy organ, Hendrix-type of music.
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Funnily enough, they liked us.
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They thought we were innovators
and we were just copying them.
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It's amazing what you can get away with
and get paid for it.
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hat's how we started really.
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Ritchie was more and more getting
towards what would become hard rock
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and when he heard Hendrix,
it was a pretty big moment for him.
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And we started to move towards
more what Ritchie saw.
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lt was quite evident that Rod and Nicky
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were not the singer and bass pIayer
who could get us there.
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Ian GiIIan and I
were in a band called Episode Six.
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He'd been in the band since '65
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and '69 came around,
we had a couple of different drummers,
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one of them was a guy
called Mick Underwood.
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Mick used to be in a band with Ritchie,
years before, called the Outlaws.
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I'd never heard of Deep PurpIe -
although they had Hush in the States,
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they didn't mean anything in England.
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And Mick got a caII one day
from Ritchie Blackmore
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saying he was Iooking for a singer,
did he know any,
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and possibly a bass player.
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So Mick said, ''Come and Iisten to
our band. We've got a singer.''
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We pIayed Woodford Green
and Ritchie and Jon Lord showed up.
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Woodford Green,
it was a boys' club, a tiny little...
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A boy scouts hall, l think it was.
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I don't remember much about it -
Ritchie did get up and have a jam,
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aIthough I never met
either of them that night.
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ln fact, l didn't like the look of them.
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I thought they were
dodgy-looking characters,
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very dark, and hair
and they all had expensive clothes on,
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which to me was a sign of
''not one of us'' - we were pretty broke.
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The upshot of it was
that they offered lan the gig
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and it caused pandemonium in our camp
cos we were losing our lead singer.
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About two weeks later, lan called me up.
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Now, I'd been song writing for years,
l've always been a songwriter,
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and I'd got Ian to join me
so we became a partnership
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for the Iast two years
of Episode Six's life.
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And he caIIed me and said,
''Listen, we got some songs,
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''Deep PurpIe need songs, I'm gonna go
to Jon Lord's flat and play him some,
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''do you wanna come?''
l said, ''Yeah, OK.''
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We started writing in HanweII
Community Centre, outside London -
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a big, empty gymnasium,
a horrible sound, horrible echo.
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l remember the first rehearsal we did,
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Ritchie started pIaying Jimi Hendrix's
Let Me Stand Next o Your Fire
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and he said, ''Wouldn't it be good
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''if we had a short riff
with words in between?''
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and I started pIaying the first thing
that came into my head,
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which ended up as Speed King.
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I have to say that I think the prime mover
behind Purple's music for all these years
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has been Ritchie Blackmore.
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He, aImost invariabIy,
is the one that comes up with...
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the kerneI of the idea,
the little spark, the little riff
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that everyone goes,
''hat's good. Let's work on that.''
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It wasn't any one song, the whoIe aIbum
was in a much harder vein
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than even we couId have imagined,
cos that was Deep Purple ln Rock.
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Every track on that aIbum is a powerfuI
statement about one thing or another.
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Whether it be
a lyrical statement - anti-drugs -
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or whether it be a musicaI statement
with the virtuosity in the band.
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Ritchie said if it's not exciting or
dramatic it doesn't belong on the album
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and also we were doing gigs at the time,
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it wasn't Iike now where you go
in a studio and do an album.
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In those days, you did a few days
in a studio then a few days on the road,
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and that's good cos it keeps you fresh.
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I think that's what makes In Rock
such an uncompromising album.
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Deep PurpIe In Rock came out
and went huge.
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lt stayed in the charts for a year.
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We toured in the wake of that
pretty extensively around Europe.
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It didn't happen in America
so we forgot America for a while
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and concentrated on Europe.
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Then we did
the follow up album, Fireball.
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As an aIbum, it didn't do anything Iike
what Deep Purple ln Rock had done.
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l remember going to Germany once
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and they had expected it to be goId
by the time we got there and it wasn't
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but they had the presentation Iined up
so they went ahead with it anyway
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and presented us with haIf a goId record,
actually cut in two.
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We didn't know whether to Iaugh
or to be insulted.
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Machine Head was a conscious effort
by us to change the sound.
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Thinking about Iive sounds, we aIways
preferred the sound of the band live,
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in a hall, in a theatre or whatever,
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and during the making of Fireball,
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we'd experimented with putting drums in
the corridor to get that slap-back sound.
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Studios were aIways padded
and sounded very good for folk music
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but rock didn't seem right.
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So we took it one stage further
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and we decided to go and record
the entire album with a mobile studio
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in a theatre setting
without the audience.
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So it'd be like a live album
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but we'd have the Iuxury of being abIe
to redo songs if we didn't like them.
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We Iooked around
and we figured we'd do it in Montreux,
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where the Casino was a reguIar gig
and any European tour,
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any seIf-respecting band
would have played the Casino.
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he day we got there, he said,
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''The Iast function before you take over
the hall is a Frank Zappa concert.''
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''WouId you Iike to see it?''
''Sure.''
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So we went aIong, he made
a little special seating section for us
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in the middle of the crowd
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and we watched Frank Zappa
for about an hour and it was great.
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AII I remember is peopIe Iooking up
at the ceiling and some sparks.
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There's a bamboo ceiIing,
like a false ceiling.
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The music stopped, it didn't Iook Iike
much, but the music stopped
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and Frank was great, he said,
he went up to the mike and said,
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''I don't want to aIarm anybody,
l don't want to cause any panic but
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''fire!''
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Within minutes
the building was an inferno.
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It was stunning, certainIy the most
horrendous fire l've ever seen.
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It's a huge buiIding,
it was about ten or twelve storeys high.
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It housed casinos, theatres,
restaurants, bars...
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lt was a huge complex.
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We retired back to the hoteI
we were staying at,
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a little while down the coast -
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it was right on Lake Geneva,
a beautiful setting -
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and we just watched the fire.
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lt raged for hours, all day.
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A huge paII of smoke
hung over Lake Geneva.
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A coupIe of mornings after the fire,
l woke up, eyes still closed,
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and said out loud,
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''Smoke on the water.''
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I came awake with a bang, there's no one
else in the room, who was l talking to?
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l must have dreamed it or something.
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And I mentioned it to Ian the next day,
or later that day,
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I said, ''Sounds Iike a song titIe
came to me this morning.
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''Smoke on the water.''
He said, ''Sounds like a drug song.''
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I said, ''Yeah, it does, doesn't it?
Oh, well, it's not for Deep Purple,
226
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''doesn't sound Iike
a Deep Purple song.''
227
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Then a few days Iater,
we had this riff with no lyrics.
228
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We aIways used to write Iike that,
we'd write the music,
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then Ian and I wouId get together
and figure out what to sing over it.
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We were stiII reeIing from
what had happened
231
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so I said, ''Why don't we write a song
about what happened to us?
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''Just put it exactIy as is,
don't make anything up.''
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l always remember arriving in Japan.
234
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Japanese audiences
were very warm, very attentive.
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hey sat, arms folded, very neat.
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They didn't say much
during the songs
237
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but they erupted at the end of songs,
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which is unIike
European and American audiences
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who yeII through the whoIe thing.
hey listened a lot.
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The Japanese company said,
''We want to make a live album,''
241
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and Iive aIbums in those days
weren't the thing to do.
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They had a budget
kind of feel about them.
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So we said we're not interested in
doing a live album,
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especiaIIy as our shows
are so haphazard.
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You have the danger of either having
a brilliant show or an awful show,
246
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which you're capabIe of
if you play on the line like that,
247
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you take chances.
248
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They insisted and we said,
''OK, we'll do it on certain conditions.
249
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''A: our engineer goes over to record it.
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''B: we bring the stuff back, we mix it and
if we don't like it, you don't put it out -
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''if we don't like it, you don't out it out -
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''and C: it onIy comes out in Japan,
it doesn't come out anywhere else.''
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We recorded three concerts,
two in Osaka and one in okyo,
254
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and most of the materiaI
comes from the second night in Osaka
255
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cos the first night we were on stage
like puppets - ''We're being recorded!
256
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''Make sure l don't make any mistakes.''
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By the second night, we'd relaxed a bit.
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We got back to EngIand a few weeks
later and listened to these tapes
259
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and we were just bowIed over
by how good they were
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and that became Made In Japan.
261
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I think that reaIIy is probabIy
the most important album for us
262
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because aIthough the record company
were loathe to release it
263
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cos they wanted the new studio album,
264
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we said, ''Yeah, but it's
the Machine Head tour,
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''it's got to be reIeased
right after Machine Head
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''otherwise it's gonna be out of date.''
267
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We kinda forced their hand on it
and they eventually released it.
268
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Happily for them cos it went platinum
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and it dragged Machine Head up with it -
that went platinum.
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he live version of Smoke On he Water
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was reaIIy what made
Smoke On he Water happen.
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he essence of this band is live.
273
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My roIe was exactIy
what l wanted it to be.
274
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I had no concept
of being ''the drummer''.
275
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l was the star in the middle of the stage
276
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and Ritchie was the star on the Ieft
of the stage, Jon on the right...
277
00:33:56,981 --> 00:34:01,441
We used to have
this permanent sort of battle.
278
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Who was gonna steaI the IimeIight
from the next guy?
279
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In those days, jamming was everything.
Songs would go on for half an hour.
280
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It was a reaI battIe royaI,
lots of tricks were pulled, you know,
281
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just to upstage
some member of the band.
282
00:35:15,427 --> 00:35:19,329
I had cIassicaI training for one year
when l was eleven.
283
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l studied Bach and all that stuff.
284
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It's stiII there a bit, I don't Iike to get into
it much, it's a different way of playing.
285
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It's finger styIe and I don't pIay much
of that, l keep to the plectrum style.
286
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I keep infIections of cIassicaI music
rather than really hard-core classical.
287
00:37:50,782 --> 00:37:54,274
It happened,
which was lan and Roger leaving,
288
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because we were working too much.
289
00:37:56,721 --> 00:38:01,283
The year before Ian Ieft -
it was '72 or '73, '72 l think -
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we did six American tours.
291
00:38:04,128 --> 00:38:06,722
l mean, it was ridiculous.
292
00:38:06,764 --> 00:38:10,598
When Ian did quit,
he gave us six months' notice,
293
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a very pIeasant chap, and I reaIIy thought
that was the end of it.
294
00:38:19,010 --> 00:38:22,605
I thought, ''WeII, we've had
a good run for our money,''
295
00:38:22,647 --> 00:38:28,210
and then I got taken to a restaurant
by one of our managers, John Colletta,
296
00:38:28,252 --> 00:38:30,914
and he showed me a copy of BiIIboard.
297
00:38:30,955 --> 00:38:34,015
I think we had 1 1 different entries
298
00:38:34,058 --> 00:38:38,495
in singles, albums, back albums.
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00:38:38,529 --> 00:38:42,488
We were aII over the pIace,
it was exploding.
300
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And that year, 1973, we were the top
album-selling artists in the United States.
301
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And he said, ''You can't stop now.''
302
00:38:53,177 --> 00:38:55,873
l said, ''Well, we just did.
303
00:38:55,947 --> 00:38:59,883
''We Iost our singer and our bass pIayer,
how much more final can that get?''
304
00:38:59,917 --> 00:39:01,908
He said, ''Replace them.''
305
00:39:03,955 --> 00:39:07,322
And to be quite honest,
l hadn't even thought of it.
306
00:39:07,358 --> 00:39:09,349
lt never occurred to me.
307
00:39:09,427 --> 00:39:13,955
I thought, ''We've aIready repIaced
them once, we can't do it again.''
308
00:39:16,601 --> 00:39:20,196
So I spoke to Ritchie and he said,
''Well, we could try,''
309
00:39:20,238 --> 00:39:26,370
so we auditioned and sent out
a message for tapes to be sent in
310
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and we listened to
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00:39:31,282 --> 00:39:34,513
thousands and one of them
was David Coverdale.
312
00:39:34,585 --> 00:39:39,215
He had a gIorious voice, he did a briIIiant
audition so we gave him the job.
313
00:39:39,257 --> 00:39:42,624
WhiIe we were Iooking for a singer,
we'd seen Glenn Hughes,
314
00:39:42,660 --> 00:39:46,653
who pIayed in a band caIIed Trapeze,
and was sensational.
315
00:39:46,698 --> 00:39:52,432
AbsoIuteIy wonderfuI. Sang Iike a dream,
great-looking guy, hair down to here,
316
00:39:52,503 --> 00:39:57,406
pIayed great bass guitar,
so we snapped him up.
317
00:41:44,315 --> 00:41:46,806
Not long after David and Glenn joined,
318
00:41:46,851 --> 00:41:50,810
we were over in America
doing the California Jam
319
00:41:50,855 --> 00:41:53,949
to estimates of 400,000 people.
320
00:41:54,025 --> 00:41:55,822
lt was huge.
321
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,328
We came in by helicopter
322
00:41:59,330 --> 00:42:03,630
and as we came down
over the backstage area and looked out,
323
00:42:03,701 --> 00:42:06,829
it was like a city - it was unbelievable.
324
00:42:06,904 --> 00:42:09,634
And the bill read like a Who's Who,
325
00:42:09,707 --> 00:42:13,871
the EagIes, SeaIs & Croft,
that band America,
326
00:42:15,980 --> 00:42:19,040
BIack Sabbath,
Emerson, Lake And Palmer,
327
00:42:19,083 --> 00:42:21,051
Earth, Wind And Fire.
328
00:42:22,420 --> 00:42:24,354
here were tons of them.
329
00:42:24,422 --> 00:42:28,153
Ritchie was very Iucky
not to get arrested in California Jam.
330
00:42:28,226 --> 00:42:33,493
We had a contract that said
that we'll take the first spot
331
00:42:33,531 --> 00:42:37,126
where the Iights are gonna be,
you know, impressive.
332
00:42:37,168 --> 00:42:40,103
So we said we will go on at sundown
333
00:42:40,137 --> 00:42:43,538
and so you must gear the show
so it runs so when,
334
00:42:43,574 --> 00:42:47,169
you know, haIf-hour changeover
or whatever it is,
335
00:42:47,211 --> 00:42:49,202
sundown, we'll be on.
336
00:42:49,247 --> 00:42:51,977
But every big show
you ever go to always runs late.
337
00:42:52,016 --> 00:42:53,813
his one ran early.
338
00:42:53,851 --> 00:42:58,811
So about an hour before dusk,
they came and said, ''Right, you're on.''
339
00:42:58,856 --> 00:43:03,520
Ritchie said, ''No, we're not,''
and locked himself in his dressing room.
340
00:43:04,695 --> 00:43:07,061
So that kind of stopped us going on.
341
00:43:09,533 --> 00:43:12,297
This guy came
and started screaming at us,
342
00:43:12,336 --> 00:43:14,327
this guy from ABC television.
343
00:43:14,372 --> 00:43:16,169
He was livid.
344
00:43:16,207 --> 00:43:20,268
And using a very inventive language.
345
00:43:20,344 --> 00:43:24,041
Of course, the audience
are starting to get a bit annoyed
346
00:43:24,081 --> 00:43:27,915
and the next thing the promoters,
l think ABC or whoever,
347
00:43:27,985 --> 00:43:31,614
brought the IocaI sheriffs
to tell Ritchie he had to go on stage
348
00:43:31,656 --> 00:43:34,124
and Ritchie said, ''No, l'm not gonna.''
349
00:43:34,158 --> 00:43:38,254
They were gonna get a warrant
for his arrest unless he went on stage.
350
00:43:38,296 --> 00:43:40,526
We got wind of this and we hid him.
351
00:43:40,564 --> 00:43:43,931
We hid him till the sun went down.
352
00:43:43,968 --> 00:43:47,335
l'm usually kind of a loner on stage,
353
00:43:47,371 --> 00:43:49,839
l get into my own little world.
354
00:43:49,907 --> 00:43:53,365
PeopIe take that as,
''Oh, he's annoyed at the singer,''
355
00:43:53,411 --> 00:43:57,074
but it very rareIy was,
l'm just concentrating on my music.
356
00:43:57,114 --> 00:43:59,708
l tend to like my little corner on stage.
357
00:43:59,784 --> 00:44:04,915
Ritchie, of course, wreaked his famous
revenge on the television company.
358
00:44:04,956 --> 00:44:07,720
Ritchie told the guy about five times,
359
00:44:09,660 --> 00:44:12,993
''You're getting too cIose.
l need my space.''
360
00:44:14,665 --> 00:44:16,826
he guy didn't listen.
361
00:44:16,901 --> 00:44:22,362
He repeatedIy smashed his guitar
into the lens of the camera.
362
00:44:54,705 --> 00:44:59,074
For this occasion, he had his roadie
put petrol in the back of his amps
363
00:44:59,143 --> 00:45:03,079
but the guy got a IittIe bit
overgenerous with the petrol.
364
00:45:03,147 --> 00:45:08,915
He wanted to make a rousing finaIe
to this particular number.
365
00:45:10,521 --> 00:45:14,355
You can see on the film of this thing -
366
00:45:15,526 --> 00:45:18,791
it looks like Ritchie's dancing forwards,
367
00:45:18,863 --> 00:45:22,959
he's not, he was bIown forwards by
the force of the explosion
368
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,231
and I was way over the other side
of this huge stage,
369
00:45:26,303 --> 00:45:28,430
it knocked me back off the organ -
370
00:45:28,506 --> 00:45:31,771
the force of the expIosion
when the amps went up.
371
00:45:32,810 --> 00:45:34,471
Frightening.
372
00:46:00,104 --> 00:46:04,473
After David and GIenn joined
and we'd made a couple of albums,
373
00:46:04,542 --> 00:46:07,010
we made an album called Stormbringer,
374
00:46:08,345 --> 00:46:13,442
which Ritchie didn't Iike
and for him, that was it and he left.
375
00:46:13,484 --> 00:46:16,112
I feIt the band
was becoming too bluesy,
376
00:46:16,187 --> 00:46:20,453
not bIuesy, but kind of funky,
and l don't like funky soul music.
377
00:46:20,491 --> 00:46:24,359
I Iike bIues, cIassicaI music
and hard rock and medieval rock
378
00:46:24,395 --> 00:46:27,660
but I don't Iike funky bIues
and that's why l said, ''l'm off.''
379
00:46:27,698 --> 00:46:31,156
He'd had enough and by then,
l'd had enough.
380
00:46:31,202 --> 00:46:34,535
I said, ''No more chopping
and changing, l'm out.''
381
00:46:34,572 --> 00:46:38,941
Then David came to me,
pleading with me to stay on.
382
00:46:38,976 --> 00:46:44,608
He said, ''I've heard a guitarist
who will be able to fill Ritchie's shoes,
383
00:46:44,648 --> 00:46:47,116
''called ommy Bolin.''
384
00:46:47,184 --> 00:46:53,123
Tommy was a deIightfuI man,
an absolutely lovely, lovely, lost soul.
385
00:46:56,026 --> 00:47:00,292
He was dreadfully into heroin, l believe.
386
00:48:22,012 --> 00:48:26,005
It was such a sad thing
when we learnt that ommy had died.
387
00:48:26,050 --> 00:48:32,114
Before he died, Ian Paice and I
had both decided we'd had enough.
388
00:48:32,156 --> 00:48:34,488
We came off stage one night,
389
00:48:34,525 --> 00:48:37,983
I think it was the LiverpooI Empire
we were playing,
390
00:48:38,062 --> 00:48:42,897
and just Iooked at each other
and said, ''l can't do it any more.''
391
00:48:42,933 --> 00:48:45,333
hat was in 1976, March of '76.
392
00:48:47,004 --> 00:48:51,839
And I just became a recIuse. I got out
of the business. l didn't do anything.
393
00:48:51,875 --> 00:48:53,672
hen in August of '78,
394
00:48:53,744 --> 00:48:58,181
I started getting the first of many
phone calls from David Coverdale.
395
00:48:59,049 --> 00:49:02,382
You know, ''PIease come out to pIay,''
sort of thing
396
00:49:02,419 --> 00:49:06,446
and I said I reaIIy don't want
to go back on the road.
397
00:49:06,490 --> 00:49:09,926
You know, l want to start a family...
398
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:15,057
But he kept on at me so eventuaIIy
l gave in and l joined Whitesnake,
399
00:49:15,099 --> 00:49:20,093
in August, September of '78,
400
00:49:20,137 --> 00:49:22,435
and stayed with them until '83.
401
00:49:23,641 --> 00:49:28,408
I thought it was a wonderfuI band
but then petty things started creeping in,
402
00:49:28,445 --> 00:49:30,242
they do, it's...
403
00:49:35,486 --> 00:49:37,420
l decided to leave.
404
00:49:38,489 --> 00:49:40,616
So l told David and he said,
405
00:49:40,658 --> 00:49:46,062
''PIease just stick with me for three more
months while we get this tour through,''
406
00:49:46,096 --> 00:49:50,430
so I did and during that three months
l got a call from lan Gillan.
407
00:49:52,369 --> 00:49:54,360
''What about reforming Purple?''
408
00:49:54,405 --> 00:49:57,932
''Crazy. Ritchie wiII never agree.''
He said, ''lt was his idea.''
409
00:49:57,975 --> 00:50:02,742
It was fantastic.
We had the grand reunion of Purple.
410
00:50:03,647 --> 00:50:06,207
First show... A few shows in AustraIia
411
00:50:06,250 --> 00:50:09,413
and then we did Knebworth
over here, in the mud.
412
00:50:12,089 --> 00:50:15,718
I've got some great memories
of the reunion of Purple.
413
00:50:15,759 --> 00:50:18,785
We sat down and the guys
just started jamming
414
00:50:18,862 --> 00:50:21,126
and it sounded Iike the oId PurpIe.
415
00:52:07,704 --> 00:52:10,468
hat period of Perfect Strangers...
416
00:52:10,541 --> 00:52:13,169
After that we got into a bit of a struggle
417
00:52:13,210 --> 00:52:16,611
and the same oId probIems
started to emerge.
418
00:52:16,647 --> 00:52:19,207
lt's always worked on stage
419
00:52:19,249 --> 00:52:23,913
and even though Ritchie and Ian GiIIan
have no love for each other at all -
420
00:52:23,954 --> 00:52:28,721
I think now it's a Iost cause trying to put
those two in the same city
421
00:52:28,759 --> 00:52:30,750
let alone the same band -
422
00:52:32,996 --> 00:52:36,796
they stiII have immense respect
for each other on stage.
423
00:52:38,001 --> 00:52:40,299
Ritchie will still say
424
00:52:40,337 --> 00:52:44,467
that nobody ever made him Iaugh
like lan did on stage sometimes.
425
00:52:44,541 --> 00:52:46,475
He was hilarious.
426
00:52:46,543 --> 00:52:50,843
This incarnation of Deep PurpIe...
hey called me up and said,
427
00:52:50,881 --> 00:52:53,509
''Do you want to have
a sing with the band?''
428
00:52:53,584 --> 00:53:00,353
But before I joined the band, there were
certain restrictions and conditions
429
00:53:00,424 --> 00:53:02,415
that l felt had to be met.
430
00:53:03,627 --> 00:53:05,925
One was that
l'm not just coming in the band
431
00:53:05,963 --> 00:53:10,195
and singing someone eIse's driveI,
it's just not me any more
432
00:53:10,267 --> 00:53:13,896
and I wasn't gonna try
and emulate lan Gillan
433
00:53:13,937 --> 00:53:17,839
because I've reaIIy
no want or desire to emulate lan.
434
00:53:17,875 --> 00:53:20,639
l think he's a great artist but l'm not him
435
00:53:20,677 --> 00:53:22,804
and l don't want to replace him.
436
00:53:22,846 --> 00:53:25,314
People say l've got big shoes to fill
437
00:53:25,382 --> 00:53:28,374
and I say, ''I'm making
my own footsteps.''
438
00:53:28,418 --> 00:53:33,446
The pIan is at the moment to get through
to 1993 and then see where we stand.
439
00:53:33,490 --> 00:53:36,721
l think you always go forward.
440
00:53:37,761 --> 00:53:41,162
PeopIe say, ''WeII, what direction
are you going in?''
441
00:53:41,198 --> 00:53:44,031
You aIways go forward,
you're never in a rut
442
00:53:44,101 --> 00:53:47,434
and I practise quite a Iot
so l know l'm going forward.
443
00:53:47,504 --> 00:53:53,170
I might not be pIaying scintiIIating soIos
but l'm playing to the best of my ability
444
00:53:53,210 --> 00:53:56,407
and it's pIeasing to me,
which is the main thing,
445
00:53:56,446 --> 00:53:58,641
and l hope people catch on to that.
446
00:53:58,682 --> 00:54:02,584
I stiII get butterfIies,
l still get nervous before a concert.
447
00:54:04,254 --> 00:54:06,245
l hope that continues.
448
00:54:10,594 --> 00:54:15,725
I want to pIay untiI 1993 to see that
25th anniversary, l think that'll be fun.
449
00:54:17,734 --> 00:54:21,329
To stand on stage and say,
''Right, it's 25 years,
450
00:54:21,371 --> 00:54:23,965
''a quarter of a century.''
451
00:54:24,007 --> 00:54:25,998
lt's quite amazing.
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