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You've had quite a few changes
in the band. How does this affect you?
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It creates a Iot of hard work.
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We've been reaIIy Iucky
with this set of five peopIe,
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in that it's come together
in a matter of a few months
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as opposed to
nearIy a year for the oId bands.
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David, you took over from one
of the top vocaI spots in the country,
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in the worId aImost, with Deep PurpIe.
Just how difficuIt was it for you?
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It wasn't too bad reaIIy 'cause ...
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the members of the band I was working in
were reaIIy great human beings.
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They didn't make me feeI
as if I was repIacing anybody.
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They made me feeI Iike
a member immediateIy, you know?
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We had a jam, I mean, Iike ...
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within the first minute or two.
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I couId teII that they were
into the same things I was into.
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Drugs, groupies, hypodermic needIes.
What have you got to say about that?
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Love it aII!
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If you don't get the gig, you're coming
to my house tonight, we're gonna party.
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Now Iook, Iads,
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it's time you went back to the hoteI
and got a bit of sIeep.
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Ended up on the roof naked one day
and the neighbour caIIed the cops ...
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It was CaIifornia, midseventies.
I mean, goodness me!
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What, was he gonna be drinking miIk?
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Snorting coke off strippers' bottoms.
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Wasn't that the normaI thing to do?
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With a guitar case fuII of cocaine.
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I didn't Iike the man I was becoming,
but I couIdn't stop this merrygoround.
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I just wanted out at that point.
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It had gone insane.
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They'd Iet the tyres down on our pIane.
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I knew he was dead. They put me in jaiI
for being the Iast person to see him.
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Murder, which is what it was.
It was not an accident.
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I don't know how
we got out of that country ... aIive.
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That's it, isn't it? It's over.
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You know, it was Iike, Iate '72
or even the middIe of '72. We wouId ...
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Trapeze were pIaying at the Whisky a Go Go,
three nights or four nights, and ...
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I noticed in the audience,
Jon Lord was there one night,
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Ian Paice was there,
Ritchie was there separateIy and ...
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I just figured these guys
were reaIIy big fans of Trapeze
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or they were becoming fans of Trapeze.
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I was vuInerabIe and naive
back then, and ...
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The same thing happened in the
Marquee in London, and ...
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They each came and ...
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a coupIe of times and ...
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And then, you know, I had a feeIing ...
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they were there for another reason.
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I just didn't reaIize at that moment
that they were going to ask me to join.
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You know, at the time, their aIbums
'Machine Head' and 'Made in Japan'
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were very, very popuIar.
And 'Made in Japan' was probabIy
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the first great Iive aIbum,
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and they captured that aIbum
very, very strongIy in Japan.
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I Iook back now and it ... did it expIode!
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And it was after Ian GiIIan actuaIIy Ieft,
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in '73, I guess ...
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that we became aware of
the two versions of Smoke on the water
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both in the American Top Ten
at the same time.
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You know, and aII the way down
the charts of that year
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were PurpIe tracks.
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And that was the year aIso that we
became the biggest seIIing artists
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on the biIIboard chart, you know ...
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aII of which was actuaIIy due to the work
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that Ian GiIIan and Roger GIover had put
into the band aIong with the other 3 of us.
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Not actuaIIy due to GIenn and David.
They joined in
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and took it ...
heIped us to take it on from there.
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And we became one of
the big seIIing pop bands.
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So they Iike,
came and fIew me to New York
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to see them pIay
at Madison Square Garden.
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Lo and behoId,
after the show the next day they ...
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we had a board meeting
somewhere in a hoteI and ...
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they asked me if I wanted to pIay bass
in Deep PurpIe.
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I was quite shocked,
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as I was a singerbass pIayer.
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So I just made a quick decision
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on the knowIedge that they were gonna
ask PauI Rogers to be the Iead singer.
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And I wouId be pIaying bass
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and have this idea of maybe
I couId sing some stuff with PauI.
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That was the initiaI reaction
for me joining, so ...
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It didn't happen that way,
because PauI had aIready started Bad Company.
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And then of course,
when we got to audition
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the onIy singer we auditioned
was a young David CoverdaIe.
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David was just ...
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a piece of tape to us. He just sent
a IittIe tape in and we Iistened to it,
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amidst quite a few others,
and quite honestIy, he was the onIy one
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that had the vaguest sort of knowIedge
about what he was doing.
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And that was onIy four bars.
He sent a 15minute tape in,
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about 30 seconds of it were good,
the rest was rubbish!
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But you couId teII from that 30 seconds:
with a bit of work it was there.
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Very, very, very bIuesy.
The great tone that he had,
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and untapped
that David wouId be an amazing ...
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performer for us.
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Hence we got that two northern guys,
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souIfoIkrock guys singing together.
And you know ...
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David wiII probabIy teII you that
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one of his infIuences
was PauI Rogers at an earIy age, so ...
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It was a great thing.
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David had taIent
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in bucket Ioads,
and we saw that immediateIy, I think.
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What a hard job
to step into Ian GiIIan's shoes!
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AIthough he actuaIIy
brought his own shoes, Iet us say.
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I mean, Ian, Iike ...
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thin, handsome ... hippieIooking ...
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dude,
with aII the Ioony quaIities required,
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and there was David:
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a trouser saIesman
from North Yorkshire
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stepping into those ...
standing in front of the same mic.
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It was a hard job.
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David was a guy that we aII thought
had the quaIities to go aII the way.
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A very bright man, very funny.
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And had a great tone to his voice,
so you know ...
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And he aIso had a tremendous thirst for this,
we couId see that.
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And ...
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I thought it was the greatest thing
the Purple ever did
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was to have an unknown guy come in
because it was very baIIsy thing to do.
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I think one of the miracIes
of rock 'n' roII music history
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is how ...
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incredibIy quickIy David CoverdaIe
took to being the Iead singer
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of an immenseIy popuIar band,
from nowhere.
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More power to him for that.
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Immense courage,
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an immense abiIity, of course,
it goes without saying.
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I mean, within just months
of him joining Deep PurpIe
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he'd made
one of the best Deep PurpIe aIbums
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and was appearing in front of upwards
of 400,000 peopIe at the CaIifornia Jam.
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And that's some chutzpah, that is.
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The man had ... immense courage.
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Hanging out was a big thing for David.
TaIking music, Iistening to music,
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becoming friends, and that reIationship
has stood the test of time
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aII these years, and I'm the onIy one
that David hangs out with
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and he's the onIy one I hang out with,
so ...
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that is good to go.
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I think to be a successfuI frontIine man,
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guitarist or singer,
in a rock 'n' roII band,
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especiaIIy one
that achieves stadium rock status,
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I think you have to have an ego.
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You have to have a taIent
to support that ego.
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But I don't see ... You can't be a
shrinking vioIet and stand in front of
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a quarter of a miIIion peopIe
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and seII the music properIy.
It wouIdn't work.
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You know, Iook at aII the greats
that achieved it, from Jagger
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to Freddie Mercury and onwards.
You know, this is ...
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It's aII about abiIity and ego
married in the right proportion.
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And I think David CoverdaIe had that.
I think the whetting of the appetite
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wouId have been down at
CIearweII CastIe in GIoucester when we ...
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The bonding of the band
before we went to the studio.
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This is so important
that we couId become friends.
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Remember now,
you've got two new guys in the band
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and it was an integraI part that the band
was now fresh and new again.
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Something that BIackmore
has reIished aII through his career
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is having new IifebIood.
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After a coupIe of years he Iikes to change
musicians and ... this was no different.
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You onIy have to Iisten to 'Burn'
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and say,
'Yeah, that guy had a good spot''.
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You couIdn't reaIIy have two guys
come in that sounded Iike Roger
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and Ian GiIIan. It wouIdn't have been
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the right thing to do, you know.
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So having two guys come in that had
a different aspect of singing and pIaying
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was a big, big major key
for the aIbum that was to become 'Burn'.
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'Burn' was a fortunate ...
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It was absoIuteIy the right aIbum.
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Because aII those that said,
''What's gonna happen to them now?
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GiIIan's gone!''
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You know, they heard 'Burn' and went,
''Wow! So they are gonna be aIright.''
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I was coming in, I had been touring
with Trapeze in America for three years,
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I was quietIy confident
that we wouId be abIe to do this.
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As I said before, the key eIement behind
this I think is David's and I friendship.
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And going into the studio,
having worked the vocaI parts out.
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David and I worked those parts out aIone,
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without any of the other band members
being around.
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We sort of knew when we wouId step up
to the mic it wouId be,
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''ShaII I go now or ...?''
''Oh, pIease, after you!'' It was Iike ...
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It wasn't ... There was no ego about,
''I wanted to sing that part, damn it!''
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Or,
''Damn it, I wish I couId have sang that!''
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Very obvious
from the first track of 'Burn'
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who was gonna sing what.
It was quite obvious what I wouId sing
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and quite obvious
where David wouId sing.
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And that was the bIueprint of the
Hughes and CoverdaIe vocaI throughout
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those three aIbums with Purple.
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There was a kind of
''new boyoId boy'' thing.
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I mean, BIackmore,
Paice and myseIf,
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we'd been together
at that point, for what, six years ...
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and had a certain way of being
with each other on a certain ...
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I mean, the band
was run a certain way because ...
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that's the way we'd been
running it for aII those years.
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So I think for GIenn and David
it must have been ...
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tricky to step in.
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AIso it was a bit tricky with David,
because GIenn
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had been given the post of bass pIayer
before David was auditioned.
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So GIenn aIready was in the band
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and GIenn, as you know,
has an astonishingIy good voice. So...
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...that was a bit difficuIt
for David as weII. You know,
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who was actuaIIy
gonna be the Iead singer?
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And I think the reason for that was quite
specificaIIy because GIenn wasn't quite
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the right voice for the Iead singer
of Deep PurpIe, we thought.
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And it was
what David brought to the tabIe
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that was more
what we saw as the Iead singer.
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He ticked quite a few boxes for Ritchie
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because Ritchie wanted
a more bIuesy singer than Ian GiIIan was.
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I've never beIieved, by the way,
that that was the right choice.
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I've aIways beIieved
that Ian GiIIan's type of voice
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and the way of Iooking at vocaIs and
Iyrics was the right voice for Deep PurpIe
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and aIways wiII be.
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I've said that on many occasions
and I wiII aIways stick by that.
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But what David brought was astonishingIy good.
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But it changed things.
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Let's be cIear:
Everybody knows that Deep PurpIe
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was centred around BIackmore
and his eccentricity on and off the stage.
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And Iet's be cIear aIso,
that he, at that time,
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was one of the
top three guitar pIayers on the pIanet.
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The hoIy trinity maybe of Jeff Beck,
Eric CIapton and Jimmy Page,
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and Ritchie. Those guys
were the key eIements of the '70s.
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And it was a very guitardriven band,
though Jon's organ was very dominant.
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I thought the camaraderie and ...
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the vibe we had going on 'Burn'
was monumentaI.
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And it was a great, great rock aIbum.
You know, it was a reaIIy big record.
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'Burn' reaIIy was ...
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the aImost perfect aIbum
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that couId have been made
by those forces ...
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in my opinion, because it retained a huge
amount of what Deep PurpIe had Iearned
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up to that point when Ian GiIIan Ieft.
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It kept a Iot of that Purple sound
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and the way of Iooking at rock music.
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And David sort of
fitted himseIf into that briIIiantIy.
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When we go on from there
I begin to question
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the direction sIightIy.
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That's where I start to Iose ... beIief.
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And the direction change
drove Ritchie out, in fact.
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That's what caused Ritchie to Ieave.
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The thing with 'Burn' was we toured
America and Europe on 'Burn'.
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We never got to Japan on 'Burn',
unfortunateIy.
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You can see the footage from
Iive performances of the 'Burn' tour,
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and you can see
a young David CoverdaIe.
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And if you notice, back then
he wasn't introducing a Iot of songs,
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he was stiII finding his feet. Of course,
he's the commandeering front man today.
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But back then ...
And nobody ever put a gun to my head
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to introduce songs. It was just
a naturaI thing for me to do that.
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And Iike I said,
David and I had a great reIationship.
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The CaIifornia Jam to me ...
I'm a bit ambivaIent about it.
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I mean ...
it was an astonishing occasion.
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I mean, so many peopIe!
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Just, you know, to get out on stage
and see that many peopIe!
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It's massiveIy intimidating.
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So what I did is
I pIayed to the front three rows.
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That's aII I couId do, just say,
''You guys are my audience tonight,
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I can't possibIy hope to reach
the guy a quarter of a miIe away.''
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It's unbeIievabIe!
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It was aImost ruined by the ...
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And I have to say,
this was not Ritchie's fauIt.
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It has been reported
that it was Ritchie's fauIt, but ...
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that we nearIy didn't go on.
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We had ...
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a contract...
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...that stated quite specificaIIy,
in bIack and white,
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that Deep PurpIe wouId go on at sunset.
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Because we wanted to be ...
We were offered headIine position,
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we accepted headIine position
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and we wanted to be the first band
that wouId use the Iights.
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It was quite simpIy ...
We wanted it to be a piece of theatre
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and that was in our contract.
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So when they said,
''We are running, strangeIy, earIy,
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can you go on in 15 minutes?''
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Ritchie Iooked at his watch,
Iooked at the sun, and went, ''No.''
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Then he came to the rest of the band,
and we said ''No, sunset.''
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Ritchie took it a step further
and Iocked himseIf in his caravan.
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So we couIdn't go on.
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And the promoters
were actuaIIy ABC teIevision,
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and it was being fiImed by them
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and it was rather a big deaI.
And there were 400,000 peopIe waiting
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untiI Ritchie decided
it was actuaIIy sunset.
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But, you know, he was right.
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It was in our contract.
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Thus, he was stoked
when he got on, a IittIe angry,
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thus he pIayed briIIiantIy.
He was pIaying Iike a demon up there.
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But aIso, that unfortunate cameraman
that got in his way,
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and that unfortunate camera
that got in his way,
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ended up costing him 75,000 DoIIars
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which in 1974 was a Iot of money.
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I don't bring CaIifornia Jam up,
because it's Iike my caIIing card.
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But it just happened to be
in the midseventies
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the biggest concert event ever.
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Three to four hundred ...
250,000 tickets were soId, I think
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anywhere between 350,000
and 400,000 peopIe were there.
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It was a great moment for the band
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hence, which is smashing
the guitar neck into the camera
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and the bIowing up of the amps
and some of it was out of tune, and my ...
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The white suit I was wearing,
it's Iike, yeah, it's ...
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It's for everyone to see.
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But that was just part
of the Deep PurpIe weIIoiIed machine,
287
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it was a very dangerous stage to be on.
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We were aII fire and brimstone.
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You didn't want to be on a Deep PurpIe
stage if you weren't invited.
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It was a dangerous pIace to be. It was the
epitome of what rock music shouId be.
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It's not supposed to be poIite,
and ''Yes, Sir, Ma'am! No, Sir, Ma'am!''
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It was a big, big, hairyass
''Get outta the way!''
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Any member couId do something voIatiIe.
That's what I Iove about
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1974 Deep PurpIe, 1975.
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It was dangerous, and that's
how it shouId have aIways been.
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I mean you can't imagine
the CaIifornia Jam now without
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a) without Ritchie destroying the camera
with those amazing stabs with the guitar,
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and b)
nearIy bIowing himseIf to smithereens
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with the guitar cabinets
going up in fIames.
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OverappIied amount of petroI
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by a rather enthusiastic roady
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putting far too much kerosene in.
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We just ran off stage
and got on a heIicopter, I mean ...
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It was a highenergy thing,
and you had to be so good
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for that many peopIe,
you wanted to be.
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And the other bands that were on ...
There were some terrific bands on,
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so we wanted to be as good
as we possibIy couId.
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I just remember
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this immense stress IeveI
of wanting to pIay so weII.
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Friction reaIIy came in the form of
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Ritchie wanting to do
some other kind of music.
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When we started to prepare
for 'Stormbringer' at CIearweII CastIe,
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Ritchie didn't come in
with a Iot of materiaI.
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I think he came in with one song,
'Stormbringer', and 'SoIdier of Fortune'.
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And the rest
we had to write pretty quickIy.
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A Iot of the stuff
was written by Jon, myseIf and David
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because Ritchie didn't have
a Iot of things in his arsenaI.
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I think at this time, even earIier
in the stage of 'Stormbringer'
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he was thinking about moving aIong,
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moving to something new. He wanted
to pIay more BachinfIuenced rock music,
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sort of the medievaI thing
he's into today with a bit more eIectric,
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and he was aIready thinking
of Ronnie Dio.
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This is the kind of music
that doesn't appeaI to me.
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So I think he ... doing what he
wanted to do was a great thing for him.
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It was aIso a very sad time
to Iose a major member.
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But once again, I think 'Stormbringer'
is a great meIodic rock aIbum
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with some groove to it.
I wouIdn't say it was funky,
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that's a word
that's reaIIy been overused.
329
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I think it's a groovier rock aIbum.
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More meIodic, and the songs are ...
stronger on 'Stormbringer' than 'Burn'.
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It's my favourite Deep PurpIe aIbum.
332
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I'm a IittIe ambivaIent
about 'Stormbringer'.
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It's when I began to think
''What are we actuaIIy doing here,
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where is the band going?''
335
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And as I've said before,
it's the benefit of hindsight.
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I shouId have Ieft with Ritchie,
I reaIIy think.
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When Ritchie said, ''I've had enough'',
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because of the direction
'Stormbringer' took
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I wish I'd had the ...
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WeII, I actuaIIy did think it was over
but I ...
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I think I shouId have just
stepped away at that point.
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Now Iooking back, and Iistening
objectiveIy to 'Stormbringer',
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it's a very good aIbum indeed.
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There's some great pIaying on it,
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there's some reaIIy good songs,
some exceIIent moments.
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But to me it's the beginning
of the end of thatDeep PurpIe.
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Because the one that foIIowed it,
with Tommy BoIin,
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is to me not a Deep PurpIe aIbum,
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it's a Tommy BoIin, GIenn Hughes
and David CoverdaIe sort of aIbum
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with reaIIy good heIp
from two guys in Deep PurpIe.
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The finaI track, it is a great rock song,
you know, I mean, it's ...
352
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another terrific BIackmore riff.
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But again ...
354
00:26:14,767 --> 00:26:16,837
LyricaIIy not my cup of tea.
355
00:26:17,487 --> 00:26:20,479
''Coming out of nowhere,
driving Iike rain ...''
356
00:26:21,807 --> 00:26:24,196
What is a stormbringer, actuaIIy?
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I'm not totaIIy sure.
I'm being a bit sniffy about it, but ...
358
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It's not my cup of tea IyricaIIy,
but it's a terrific track.
359
00:26:39,847 --> 00:26:43,237
You know, we'd aIready sort of,
aII the band had now moved
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to LA from EngIand,
we've aII got houses in LA.
361
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Ritchie was out in MaIibu, so was Jon and
Dave. And I was in BeverIy HiIIs with Ian.
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We had homes
two streets away from each other and ...
363
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it was at this time when ...
We onIy did one show that winter,
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and obviousIy
it was the Sunbury in AustraIia.
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I'd never been there,
PurpIe had been there before.
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We fIew there for this one gig at Sunbury
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and it was raining.
I remember that, it was Iike a mudfest.
368
00:27:11,247 --> 00:27:14,125
I just remember being
as jetIagged as I've ever been.
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Because we fIew straight down,
did the show and fIew off again.
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I mean, it's astounding to be asked
to do that kind of thing.
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It wouIdn't happen now.
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Saturday night, Sunbury 1975,and the vibes are really good here.
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The temperature is way down, it's about14+C on the Sunbury rock concert site.
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We managed to get one of our guysthrough the security ranks
375
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and we'll cross to him right now:It's over to Trevor Smith.
376
00:27:37,047 --> 00:27:40,722
Dave Coverdale, prior to going on stageat Sunbury in about 20 minutes time.
377
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What's your impressionof the festival so far?.
378
00:27:42,847 --> 00:27:46,283
Well, great vibes here.
It's a really nice atmosphere.
379
00:27:46,447 --> 00:27:49,598
We came down about an hour ago and...
380
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it's really groovy, man, it's really groovy.
Jon!
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Jon, youwant to add anything to that?
382
00:27:55,287 --> 00:27:57,198
Oh, it's groovy as well, mate.
383
00:27:57,847 --> 00:28:00,077
I think it's absolutely bonzer.
384
00:28:25,167 --> 00:28:26,725
Can I ask you
what you thought of Sunbury?
385
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ReaIIy good.
386
00:28:28,487 --> 00:28:30,398
You're enjoyed despite the mud?
Yeah.
387
00:28:30,847 --> 00:28:32,724
Looks Iike you're packing in for the day.
Yeah.
388
00:28:32,887 --> 00:28:34,718
Did you enjoy Sunbury?
Yeah, no worries.
389
00:28:34,887 --> 00:28:37,765
What was the best thing about Sunbury?
Sex.
390
00:28:38,207 --> 00:28:41,597
The music, the atmosphere.
It's terrific.
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The beer.
The mud! The mud!
392
00:28:44,647 --> 00:28:46,319
The beer! The beer!
Aye!
393
00:28:46,487 --> 00:28:48,796
I say the beer.
No, the mud.
394
00:28:48,967 --> 00:28:51,879
It was a oneoff show.
We fIew in, and we fIew out.
395
00:28:52,047 --> 00:28:54,038
But at this time ...
396
00:28:54,847 --> 00:28:58,601
This was the time when Ritchie
was debating whether he shouId Ieave.
397
00:28:58,767 --> 00:29:00,120
And I think he knew it at this time.
398
00:29:00,287 --> 00:29:03,518
I think some members might have feIt
some friction at this point.
399
00:29:03,687 --> 00:29:07,965
You have to remember that by 1974
the band was six years oId,
400
00:29:08,127 --> 00:29:12,405
which at the time was a IongIived band.
401
00:29:12,567 --> 00:29:17,004
Some bands didn't Iast more than
ten minutes, Iet aIone six years.
402
00:29:17,247 --> 00:29:19,397
So ... and I was ...
403
00:29:20,047 --> 00:29:24,677
I feIt that I was fighting
a sIightIy Iosing battIe against ...
404
00:29:25,167 --> 00:29:27,635
I didn't have the courage ...
I have to be honest with you,
405
00:29:27,807 --> 00:29:31,083
I didn't have the courage
to think to Ieave myseIf.
406
00:29:32,207 --> 00:29:36,598
AIthough when we got Iater on into ...
407
00:29:37,607 --> 00:29:41,520
into Ritchie Ieaving
and deciding to put another guitarist in,
408
00:29:41,687 --> 00:29:44,281
that's when I fought
a Iong battIe against ...
409
00:29:44,447 --> 00:29:46,483
I just wanted out at that point.
410
00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:56,401
I wanna make this cIear:
411
00:29:56,567 --> 00:30:00,355
I was very priviIeged and proud
to pIay with the members of Deep PurpIe.
412
00:30:00,527 --> 00:30:02,802
The mark III generation.
413
00:30:02,967 --> 00:30:06,437
I was not a major fan of mark II PurpIe.
414
00:30:06,607 --> 00:30:11,317
It wasn't the kind of rock
that I Iistened to growing up.
415
00:30:11,487 --> 00:30:12,886
It was ...
416
00:30:14,087 --> 00:30:18,080
It was too traditionaI for me, it ...
417
00:30:18,927 --> 00:30:23,557
It wasn't ... And once again,
using the word 'funk' here ...
418
00:30:23,727 --> 00:30:27,959
It had no sex in the music,
there was no groove to it, there was no ...
419
00:30:28,367 --> 00:30:31,723
I Iike music that makes me want to move,
not think.
420
00:30:31,887 --> 00:30:34,606
I wanna be abIe to think,
''Just move!'' You know,
421
00:30:34,767 --> 00:30:36,758
that's the kind of music I Iike.
422
00:30:36,927 --> 00:30:39,885
I never stepped into Deep PurpIe and ...
423
00:30:40,807 --> 00:30:44,322
and Roger's shoes
to stick a finger up and say,
424
00:30:44,487 --> 00:30:47,081
'WeII, I'm gonna just do it the way I do it.'
425
00:30:47,247 --> 00:30:50,523
Ian Paice and I formed a reIationship
as a rhythm section
426
00:30:50,687 --> 00:30:53,485
and that was a different rhythm section
to Roger GIover.
427
00:30:53,647 --> 00:30:55,717
It needed to be different.
428
00:31:04,007 --> 00:31:08,125
Ian Paice, in 1971, 1972, 1973,
429
00:31:08,287 --> 00:31:10,881
was the greatest percussionist ...
430
00:31:12,727 --> 00:31:15,525
snare drum pIayer in rock.
431
00:31:15,687 --> 00:31:19,236
He'd taken his stuff from Buddy Rich,
Louie BeIIson.
432
00:31:20,207 --> 00:31:22,801
He'd taken it up a step further
and he was great.
433
00:31:23,007 --> 00:31:25,601
And now Ian was probabIy
Iistening to more of the stuff
434
00:31:25,767 --> 00:31:28,201
that I might have been pIaying
in the car or in his house.
435
00:31:28,367 --> 00:31:30,642
I Iived together with Ian for a whiIe.
436
00:31:30,807 --> 00:31:34,720
He was becoming more interested
in probabIy the groovier music
437
00:31:34,887 --> 00:31:36,764
that I was Iistening to.
438
00:31:37,047 --> 00:31:38,878
I'd have to say that was a fact.
439
00:31:46,367 --> 00:31:49,484
In Trapeze,
over the Iast coupIe of years, '71, '72,
440
00:31:49,647 --> 00:31:53,083
peopIe wouId offer me aII kinds of drugs
and I wouId refuse them.
441
00:31:53,247 --> 00:31:57,445
I was a very Iight drinker,
I didn't have a drink probIem either, so ...
442
00:31:57,607 --> 00:32:03,000
I was more interested in where was the
stage and ''Have I got my ... you know,
443
00:32:03,407 --> 00:32:05,398
7 Up to drink?'' And ...
444
00:32:05,567 --> 00:32:11,324
I didn't Iike pot, cannabis, any of those
drugs, didn't Iike downers or uppers.
445
00:32:11,487 --> 00:32:14,001
And I refused cocaine
for many, many years.
446
00:32:14,167 --> 00:32:16,044
And it was just ...
447
00:32:16,207 --> 00:32:20,086
It was very obvious
that when PurpIe was so big that ...
448
00:32:20,247 --> 00:32:26,641
That kind of iconic status
brings out the scum of the earth,
449
00:32:26,807 --> 00:32:31,278
i.e. drug deaIers
and pimps and whores and ...
450
00:32:32,047 --> 00:32:34,686
you know,
circus peopIe and ... you know.
451
00:32:34,847 --> 00:32:37,441
It's Iike a FeIIini movie, they aII ...
452
00:32:37,967 --> 00:32:39,082
...find you.
453
00:32:39,247 --> 00:32:42,398
And Io and behoId,
before you couId shake a stick
454
00:32:42,567 --> 00:32:46,958
there was drug deaIers on every gig
and backstage, and there was
455
00:32:47,127 --> 00:32:51,279
Iines of coke put out, and
I was Iooking at it, ''What is this stuff?''
456
00:32:51,447 --> 00:32:56,237
EventuaIIy peopIe wouId start
putting it into my pockets, you know.
457
00:32:56,647 --> 00:32:59,115
And aIso to other members
of the band,
458
00:32:59,287 --> 00:33:04,839
but it's not their story
this is my story about drugs and ...
459
00:33:05,687 --> 00:33:10,317
The fact of the matter is that I
sIowIy but sureIy became addicted
460
00:33:10,487 --> 00:33:13,718
to a drug that I thought
was a nonaddictive drug.
461
00:33:13,887 --> 00:33:17,243
I thought, ''WeII, this is just kind of fun'',
you know.
462
00:33:17,607 --> 00:33:23,477
But cocaine back then we aII thought ...
AII of us thought that.
463
00:33:23,647 --> 00:33:26,719
Because we'd be sitting in meetings
in record companies
464
00:33:26,887 --> 00:33:30,243
and executives were doing Iines of coke.
465
00:33:30,407 --> 00:33:34,798
It's Iike, ''Okay, weII,
I'm happening now in a rock band.
466
00:33:34,967 --> 00:33:38,357
Oh, cocaine's probabIy
the drug of choice, right?
467
00:33:38,527 --> 00:33:41,246
Isn't everybody doing it?
I mean, everybody is doing it, right?''
468
00:33:41,407 --> 00:33:46,117
And Io and behoId some of us did it,
some of us sort of pushed it aside.
469
00:33:46,287 --> 00:33:49,677
And I sIowIy and sureIy became ...
470
00:33:50,687 --> 00:33:53,076
you know, addicted to that ...
471
00:33:54,087 --> 00:33:55,884
powder which ...
472
00:33:56,287 --> 00:33:57,686
became the bane of my Iife.
473
00:34:07,127 --> 00:34:09,800
I became aware during the recording
of 'Stormbringer'
474
00:34:10,367 --> 00:34:12,961
of the kind of probIems that GIenn had
475
00:34:13,367 --> 00:34:15,483
with substance abuse.
476
00:34:16,927 --> 00:34:20,442
I'm not saying that the rest of us
were squeaky cIean.
477
00:34:20,687 --> 00:34:23,918
Ian Paice never took a drug in his Iife,
478
00:34:24,087 --> 00:34:26,282
unIess you caII aIcohoI a drug.
479
00:34:27,007 --> 00:34:29,601
The rest of us experimented
here and there with bits and pieces,
480
00:34:29,767 --> 00:34:34,761
but I became aware
that GIenn was truIy in a bit of troubIe.
481
00:34:36,047 --> 00:34:39,596
It became even more apparent during
the making of 'Come Taste the Band'.
482
00:34:41,447 --> 00:34:44,837
Of course it was difficuIt.
It was difficuIt for Ian Paice.
483
00:34:45,807 --> 00:34:48,401
He and I were cIose,
484
00:34:48,567 --> 00:34:52,321
we'd been pretty cIose aII over the years,
and stiII are,
485
00:34:52,487 --> 00:34:53,886
so ...
486
00:34:54,847 --> 00:34:57,486
Yeah, it was not an easy time.
487
00:34:58,287 --> 00:35:00,278
EspeciaIIy to see ...
488
00:35:01,007 --> 00:35:06,877
the increasing remoteness of Ritchie
during 'Stormbringer'.
489
00:35:07,047 --> 00:35:11,723
I couId see him moving away. I didn't
know he was going to Ieave untiI Iater,
490
00:35:11,887 --> 00:35:16,119
but I couId see him moving away.
That was disturbing because ...
491
00:35:17,127 --> 00:35:20,915
he was a very big part of the engine
that drove the ship.
492
00:35:21,327 --> 00:35:24,080
And I didn't Iike to see him
493
00:35:24,487 --> 00:35:27,399
being disaffected by what was going on.
494
00:35:27,567 --> 00:35:30,639
When you got a deaIer,
a highpowered deaIer
495
00:35:30,807 --> 00:35:34,277
that had been foIIowing the Stones
and Led ZeppeIin around
496
00:35:34,447 --> 00:35:37,757
and getting aII kinds of peopIe hooked
on this deviI's shit ...
497
00:35:37,927 --> 00:35:40,441
You know,
and then they start giving you things.
498
00:35:40,607 --> 00:35:42,802
And when you get hooked
they want to be part ...
499
00:35:42,967 --> 00:35:46,960
Then you start putting them on the
Starship, and start taking them to Hawaii,
500
00:35:47,127 --> 00:35:52,360
then you start giving their famiIy gifts ...
Cocaine is a horribIe drug!
501
00:35:52,527 --> 00:35:54,518
I used to take my shirt off
and give it to peopIe,
502
00:35:54,687 --> 00:35:57,201
give them my boots and, you know ...
503
00:35:57,367 --> 00:36:01,406
making friends with peopIe
I shouId never been speaking to ...
504
00:36:01,567 --> 00:36:04,365
making promises, changing the worId,
gifts wouId be exchanged ...
505
00:36:04,527 --> 00:36:05,642
It's an awfuI drug.
506
00:36:08,887 --> 00:36:10,559
I've seen footage of me
507
00:36:10,727 --> 00:36:12,365
high on drugs.
508
00:36:12,527 --> 00:36:14,518
I can aIways teII because my shirt's off.
509
00:36:15,207 --> 00:36:20,361
You wouIdn't know sometimes,
but you'd know there was ...
510
00:36:20,527 --> 00:36:23,280
something going down with me
that wasn't supposed to be.
511
00:36:23,447 --> 00:36:27,599
I'm not proud to hear myseIf
or see myseIf perform on drugs,
512
00:36:28,807 --> 00:36:32,004
aIthough peopIe have said that I couId
stiII sing the phone book on drugs.
513
00:36:32,167 --> 00:36:34,761
It's nothing to be proud of, you know.
514
00:36:34,927 --> 00:36:39,796
It wasn't Iike that at the end.
I was barking Iike a dog. AbsoIuteIy.
515
00:36:40,207 --> 00:36:44,678
I don't think I was ever
a bastard or a jackass to peopIe.
516
00:36:45,447 --> 00:36:47,403
I might have been a IittIe ...
517
00:36:48,407 --> 00:36:51,922
irritabIe if I hadn't sIept for a few days.
518
00:36:52,847 --> 00:36:56,681
But I never went out of my way
to be nasty.
519
00:36:58,447 --> 00:37:02,042
I was patheticaIIy invoIved
with my mistress cocaine.
520
00:37:03,047 --> 00:37:05,800
AwfuI. But it's the way it was.
521
00:37:06,207 --> 00:37:08,960
I'm here. The most important thing is,
I survived that.
522
00:37:09,167 --> 00:37:14,764
When Ritchie Ieft and we did
the Palais des Sports in ApriI '75,
523
00:37:14,927 --> 00:37:18,044
famousIy, he came out of a staII in
the bathroom and I came out of a staII.
524
00:37:18,207 --> 00:37:20,402
He couId hear me doing coke and ...
525
00:37:20,567 --> 00:37:25,402
He was never into doing drugs,
and I apoIogized to him in a way that
526
00:37:25,567 --> 00:37:28,525
I sort of Iooked at him and said,
''Shit, I'm, you know ...
527
00:37:28,687 --> 00:37:32,282
It's not been fun you knowing
that I've been doing this.''
528
00:37:32,447 --> 00:37:33,800
And ...
529
00:37:35,207 --> 00:37:37,402
I feIt I'd Iet him down.
530
00:37:38,007 --> 00:37:42,046
I was never grandiose enough
to think that these guys were ...
531
00:37:42,367 --> 00:37:47,077
I was never Iike shoving it in their faces,
because when you are ...
532
00:37:47,247 --> 00:37:49,477
addicted to drugs it's ...
533
00:37:49,647 --> 00:37:52,798
At that time it was aII very hidden
from the generaI pubIic.
534
00:37:52,967 --> 00:37:55,162
I never was ...
535
00:37:55,327 --> 00:37:59,206
It wasn't known that I was doing it
at that point. But it got out of controI.
536
00:37:59,367 --> 00:38:05,715
Cocaine is not a pretty drug. It makes
peopIe Iie, thieve, and steaI and ...
537
00:38:07,087 --> 00:38:09,362
You cannot trust an addict.
538
00:38:10,167 --> 00:38:12,806
If it's your mother or your father,
your sister, your grandmother,
539
00:38:12,967 --> 00:38:15,356
you cannot trust an addict.
They are not to be trusted.
540
00:38:15,527 --> 00:38:17,757
And I was not the man I am today.
541
00:38:18,607 --> 00:38:23,283
Thank God the guys Ioved me enough
to hang in with me.
542
00:38:24,647 --> 00:38:28,196
We were up on the Starship,
and Rob Cooksey or somebody,
543
00:38:28,367 --> 00:38:32,076
maybe Tony Edwards, our friend,
came to me and ...
544
00:38:32,727 --> 00:38:36,481
''BIackmore is going to Ieave!''
and I went, ''Oh, wow!''
545
00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:38,524
Then I went and thought about it.
546
00:38:38,687 --> 00:38:43,078
I maybe had a drink over it and I probabIy
wouId have sIept ... not sIept on it,
547
00:38:43,247 --> 00:38:47,638
and I thought, ''You know something?
Wow! We better quit.''
548
00:38:47,807 --> 00:38:50,685
How can you repIace ...
WouId Led ZeppeIin
549
00:38:50,847 --> 00:38:55,079
ever think of repIacing Jimmy Page?
It's impossibIe, right? It's impossibIe!
550
00:38:56,087 --> 00:38:59,841
So I was getting ready to figure ...
551
00:39:00,007 --> 00:39:04,285
If Davey had said he was going to go,
I wouId have probabIy gone.
552
00:39:05,207 --> 00:39:08,802
And at the time
I had become mates with David Bowie,
553
00:39:08,967 --> 00:39:12,846
and he and CoverdaIe
convinced me and Lordy
554
00:39:13,007 --> 00:39:16,238
that we shouId get another guy in.
555
00:39:16,407 --> 00:39:20,286
But it was ... How do you repIace
somebody Iike that?
556
00:39:20,687 --> 00:39:22,086
And ...
557
00:39:23,087 --> 00:39:28,320
My first thought, when I came out
of my haze, was CIem CIempson
558
00:39:28,487 --> 00:39:31,365
from HumbIe Pie, a guy from
Birmingham whom I reaIIy Iiked.
559
00:39:31,527 --> 00:39:33,995
And CIem came over to the States,
we fIew him over
560
00:39:34,167 --> 00:39:36,237
and he stayed at my house
in BeverIy HiIIs,
561
00:39:36,407 --> 00:39:41,720
and we auditioned CIem.
He was fantastic, but he didn't ...
562
00:39:41,887 --> 00:39:44,196
and no disrespect here, CIem,
cause you are amazing,
563
00:39:44,367 --> 00:39:46,164
he didn't have that ...
564
00:39:47,767 --> 00:39:52,124
factor of stepping into a major ...
565
00:39:52,527 --> 00:39:57,203
eccentric pIayer Iike BIackmore.
We needed somebody that had some fIair
566
00:39:58,447 --> 00:40:00,756
as weII as pIaying wonderfuIIy.
567
00:40:00,927 --> 00:40:03,680
CIem pIayed absoIuteIy wonderfuI,
568
00:40:04,407 --> 00:40:07,797
but it wasn't quite right.
And the next thing ...
569
00:40:08,207 --> 00:40:11,085
Ian Paice and David CoverdaIe
were raving about this
570
00:40:11,247 --> 00:40:13,556
BiIIy Cobham aIbum caIIed 'Spectrum',
571
00:40:13,727 --> 00:40:18,403
with an unknown guitar pIayer
from the midwest caIIed Tommy BoIin.
572
00:40:18,567 --> 00:40:20,444
And we were Iike ''Wow''.
573
00:40:20,607 --> 00:40:24,441
''This guy is astonishing!'' And I'd heard
his work on an aIbum caIIed 'Spectrum'
574
00:40:24,607 --> 00:40:26,882
with BiIIy Cobham, which is ...
575
00:40:27,407 --> 00:40:31,241
an astounding aIbum,
an utterIy astounding aIbum.
576
00:40:31,687 --> 00:40:34,440
And there was Tommy BoIin
just shredding away Iike mad,
577
00:40:34,607 --> 00:40:36,723
and it's just gorgeous stuff.
578
00:40:37,127 --> 00:40:41,006
AII improvised,
aII just off the top of his head.
579
00:40:41,167 --> 00:40:42,646
MarveIIous stuff.
580
00:40:42,887 --> 00:40:44,684
So, I remember ...
581
00:40:45,687 --> 00:40:49,441
I'd been up with Bowie aII night,
maybe a coupIe of nights, and ...
582
00:40:49,687 --> 00:40:53,999
I peeIed myseIf away from his house
and drove down to
583
00:40:54,287 --> 00:40:58,200
Pirate Sound
to audition this new guy Tommy BoIin.
584
00:40:58,367 --> 00:41:00,722
And I remember it very cIearIy.
585
00:41:00,887 --> 00:41:04,562
I was coming out of the bathroom
and in waIks this guy,
586
00:41:04,967 --> 00:41:08,277
dressed very sort of feminineIy,
587
00:41:08,447 --> 00:41:12,725
and he had greenredorangepurpIe hair.
588
00:41:13,727 --> 00:41:15,524
And I went, ''Oh, fuck!''
589
00:41:16,927 --> 00:41:19,725
''If you don't get the gig,
you're coming to my house tonight,
590
00:41:19,887 --> 00:41:22,196
we gotta party.''
Cause I knew he was a party, I couId teII.
591
00:41:22,487 --> 00:41:25,877
It was aImost impossibIe
not to Iove Tommy BoIin.
592
00:41:26,887 --> 00:41:28,240
A deIightfuI man.
593
00:41:30,087 --> 00:41:32,726
FIawed, enormousIy fIawed,
594
00:41:32,887 --> 00:41:37,119
and damaged by his addictions,
595
00:41:37,287 --> 00:41:40,006
but a wonderfuI guy.
596
00:41:40,167 --> 00:41:44,843
To be honest,
at first I didn't think it wouId be ...
597
00:41:45,847 --> 00:41:48,486
it wouId work, I reaIIy didn't, but ...
598
00:41:49,127 --> 00:41:51,880
We had a jam and Iike ...
599
00:41:52,887 --> 00:41:56,118
within the first minute or two
600
00:41:56,287 --> 00:41:59,279
I couId teII that they were
into the same things I was into.
601
00:41:59,447 --> 00:42:03,486
I had absoIuteIy no idea when he joined
the band that he had an addiction.
602
00:42:03,887 --> 00:42:06,720
It was CaIifornia, midseventies,
I mean, goodness me.
603
00:42:06,887 --> 00:42:10,596
What, was he going to be drinking miIk?
You know, I mean ...
604
00:42:10,767 --> 00:42:14,555
I knew that obviousIy
he was a rock musician,
605
00:42:14,727 --> 00:42:17,958
and I mean, he was going to be sniffing
a bit of that, smoking a bit of this,
606
00:42:18,127 --> 00:42:20,595
and drinking a bit of the other.
607
00:42:21,007 --> 00:42:25,125
But I had no idea
that he was truIy, desperateIy, addicted.
608
00:42:25,287 --> 00:42:29,644
He got the gig effortIessIy because
he had aII the charm and eccentricity
609
00:42:29,807 --> 00:42:32,560
and swagger,
unIike Ritchie in a different way.
610
00:42:32,727 --> 00:42:34,718
He just had something eIse going on,
611
00:42:34,887 --> 00:42:36,559
and he was a guitar hero and ...
612
00:42:36,727 --> 00:42:42,120
The echopIex happening, and he had
this tremendous amount of confidence
613
00:42:42,287 --> 00:42:45,404
to be in a band of that size.
He got the gig effortIessIy,
614
00:42:45,567 --> 00:42:47,956
he pIayed wonderfuIIy
and we jammed on a coupIe of things.
615
00:42:48,287 --> 00:42:50,039
He didn't know too much
about Deep PurpIe,
616
00:42:50,207 --> 00:42:52,198
which was aIso a good thing.
617
00:42:52,847 --> 00:42:57,875
So it was a bIessing to have somebody
coming that was a rough diamond.
618
00:42:59,607 --> 00:43:01,962
So he came to my house,
and he didn't Ieave for about a month.
619
00:43:02,127 --> 00:43:05,915
I put him up at my house, and
then Tommy eventuaIIy found a house.
620
00:43:06,087 --> 00:43:10,444
But now I had aIso a friend
who we couId party with and drink with
621
00:43:10,607 --> 00:43:13,485
and have fun with
and hang out with and ...
622
00:43:13,647 --> 00:43:16,639
We reaIIy didn't do anything,
we stayed in the house the whoIe time
623
00:43:16,807 --> 00:43:19,560
and just wrote a coupIe of things
624
00:43:19,727 --> 00:43:23,037
and went down and started to rehearse
with the rest of the guys in PurpIe
625
00:43:23,207 --> 00:43:27,280
for what was to be an aIbum caIIed
'Come taste the band'.
626
00:43:27,567 --> 00:43:30,559
And Tommy was drinking one night
627
00:43:30,727 --> 00:43:34,436
and he was quoting this ...
628
00:43:34,607 --> 00:43:39,078
''Come taste the wine,
come hear the band ...''
629
00:43:39,247 --> 00:43:41,715
He mixed it up and said,
'Come taste the band'.
630
00:43:41,887 --> 00:43:46,642
And that's the name of the aIbum, it was
just a sIip, a drunken sIur one night.
631
00:43:46,807 --> 00:43:50,766
The best thing one can say about
'Come taste the band'
632
00:43:50,927 --> 00:43:55,000
is that if you Iisten to it now
it's a surprisingIy good aIbum.
633
00:43:55,167 --> 00:43:59,638
It's terrificaIIy weII put together.
Like I said, it's wonderfuIIy pIayed.
634
00:43:59,807 --> 00:44:03,686
Everybody is pIaying weII on it,
it's wonderfuIIy sung.
635
00:44:03,847 --> 00:44:07,044
Tommy's guitar pIaying is par exceIIence,
636
00:44:07,207 --> 00:44:11,485
Paice's drumming absoIuteIy at the peak,
637
00:44:13,607 --> 00:44:16,883
and the worst thing you can say about it,
and it's not that bad,
638
00:44:17,047 --> 00:44:20,801
is that in most peopIe's opinion
it's not a Deep PurpIe aIbum.
639
00:44:20,967 --> 00:44:25,961
But it makes a terrificaIIy good rock
aIbum. It's very much of the period.
640
00:44:26,127 --> 00:44:28,595
In fact
I think it's a bit ahead of it's time.
641
00:44:29,167 --> 00:44:32,876
Don't forget what was happening
back in EngIand at the time
642
00:44:33,047 --> 00:44:35,402
was the beginnings of punk.
643
00:44:36,087 --> 00:44:39,124
You know, and bands Iike PurpIe,
644
00:44:39,287 --> 00:44:44,077
which were viewed
as sort of huge, pompous
645
00:44:44,247 --> 00:44:49,719
rock edifices, you know,
that were being sniped at
646
00:44:49,887 --> 00:44:54,324
by the punk ... and probabIy quite rightIy,
by the punk revoIution
647
00:44:56,327 --> 00:45:01,845
which bIew aII the kind of stuff
that we beIieved in away.
648
00:45:04,047 --> 00:45:08,518
So the fact that it was made at aII
at that time is fairIy remarkabIe,
649
00:45:08,687 --> 00:45:14,842
considering that Ritchie had Ieft and that
Tommy was a compromised musician
650
00:45:15,007 --> 00:45:18,397
and very shortIy after, sadIy,
not that Iong,
651
00:45:19,727 --> 00:45:22,560
he was dead.
So, you know, it's ...
652
00:45:22,727 --> 00:45:28,245
It's important to remember the
circumstances in which it was made,
653
00:45:28,407 --> 00:45:30,921
and it's a terrific aIbum
under those circumstances,
654
00:45:31,087 --> 00:45:33,317
it's a terrific aIbum
under any circumstances.
655
00:45:33,487 --> 00:45:36,718
AIright, here we go!
A coupIe of songs for you!
656
00:45:37,367 --> 00:45:38,766
Come on!
657
00:45:42,567 --> 00:45:47,482
Those songs were written in rehearsaI
over a period of about a month.
658
00:45:47,647 --> 00:45:50,241
I'd written aIso some songs
which didn't make the aIbum,
659
00:45:50,407 --> 00:45:56,437
which went on my soIo aIbum premiere,
which were a IittIe bit too souIfuI.
660
00:45:57,567 --> 00:46:02,004
But 'Come taste the band' is a far cry from
anything PurpIe had ever done before.
661
00:46:02,167 --> 00:46:06,001
Now you got three new guys, if you wiII.
You got CoverdaIe, Hughes and BoIin,
662
00:46:06,167 --> 00:46:09,762
and you got the two oId guys from mark II
which is Ian and Jon.
663
00:46:09,927 --> 00:46:12,521
Ian Paice's drumming
is now changing again.
664
00:46:12,687 --> 00:46:15,838
He's now obviousIy
Iistening to probabIy more John Bonham,
665
00:46:16,007 --> 00:46:17,725
he started coming to it.
666
00:46:17,887 --> 00:46:21,846
And Lord, he's obviousIy been Iistening to
what I've been Iistening to,
667
00:46:22,007 --> 00:46:24,726
because he's pIaying
the Fender Rhodes more.
668
00:46:24,887 --> 00:46:27,560
The song 'This time around' is obviousIy
669
00:46:27,727 --> 00:46:32,084
my homage to great singers
from America from the '60s.
670
00:46:33,687 --> 00:46:37,680
The goaIposts changed again
on 'Come taste the band'.
671
00:46:39,167 --> 00:46:41,522
It's a different kind of an aIbum.
672
00:46:52,287 --> 00:46:53,640
That period for me ...
673
00:46:55,167 --> 00:47:00,560
The start of 'Come taste the band'
was when the wheeIs started to go off.
674
00:47:00,727 --> 00:47:05,403
I was Iiving aIone and I had
an assistant at the house, PhiI,
675
00:47:05,567 --> 00:47:08,684
that wouId, you know ...
676
00:47:09,287 --> 00:47:11,482
wake me up in the morning and ...
677
00:47:12,287 --> 00:47:15,359
and make me some food
and make sure I got some food.
678
00:47:15,527 --> 00:47:20,282
You know, I was going without food
for days upon time and ...
679
00:47:20,807 --> 00:47:25,039
You know, strong paranoia now
was creeping in for me and ...
680
00:47:26,127 --> 00:47:28,083
and I think everybody
just wanted to Ieave me aIone
681
00:47:28,247 --> 00:47:33,401
because I was now becoming
king of Paranoia HiII.
682
00:47:33,567 --> 00:47:36,445
You know,
I wouId hear noises in the night,
683
00:47:36,607 --> 00:47:41,397
I wouId run out of my house with a gun
and Iook around for the bogeyman,
684
00:47:41,567 --> 00:47:46,197
ended up on the roof naked one day
and the neighbour caIIed the cops.
685
00:47:46,367 --> 00:47:48,164
It was, you know ...
686
00:47:48,327 --> 00:47:54,357
I was now becoming a fiend
upon that hiII where I Iived.
687
00:48:01,727 --> 00:48:03,399
I stiII think, you know,
688
00:48:03,567 --> 00:48:08,880
that 'Come taste the band', with Tommy's
beautifuI ... He's a beautifuI man.
689
00:48:09,047 --> 00:48:12,596
And he hid
a Iot of his darker drugs from us.
690
00:48:13,047 --> 00:48:16,119
I wasn't privy to a Iot of the stuff
that Tommy was doing but ...
691
00:48:16,287 --> 00:48:19,245
Iater on I reaIized that when he was
nodding out or scratching his face
692
00:48:19,407 --> 00:48:22,638
that it was the opiates
in heroin and stuff Iike that.
693
00:48:22,807 --> 00:48:25,196
Tommy wasn't reaIIy doing
a Iot of that stuff around us.
694
00:48:25,727 --> 00:48:28,878
David and I were stiII best mates,
695
00:48:30,127 --> 00:48:34,678
but he was becoming
concerned for me and Tommy, you know.
696
00:48:35,327 --> 00:48:37,318
That we were going off the raiIs.
697
00:48:37,487 --> 00:48:39,876
Once again, you know,
698
00:48:40,367 --> 00:48:44,679
wasn't this the norm for rock stars
and movie stars in the midseventies
699
00:48:44,847 --> 00:48:49,557
to be doing cocaine off pIates
in restaurants
700
00:48:49,727 --> 00:48:53,242
and in boardrooms across America?
Wasn't that normaI?
701
00:48:53,407 --> 00:48:58,037
It was, wasn't it? I think it was normaI.
Everybody eIse was doing it.
702
00:48:58,207 --> 00:49:02,086
Every other band that I knew
that was doing reaIIy weII was ...
703
00:49:02,247 --> 00:49:05,876
snorting coke
off strippers' bottoms and ...
704
00:49:06,647 --> 00:49:09,036
Wasn't that the normaI thing to do?
705
00:49:09,207 --> 00:49:10,606
I think it was.
706
00:49:12,087 --> 00:49:14,043
Here's a song for you aII.
707
00:49:14,207 --> 00:49:15,606
Everybody.
708
00:49:18,567 --> 00:49:22,879
A song for everybody. Here's a song
caIIed 'You keep on moving'.
709
00:49:23,047 --> 00:49:25,322
For me, it was a difficuIt period
because I ...
710
00:49:25,527 --> 00:49:27,438
I had to go home.
711
00:49:27,607 --> 00:49:29,563
We were making 'Come taste the band',
and we were
712
00:49:29,727 --> 00:49:34,243
pretty much haIf way through the aIbum,
and Tommy, god bIess him ...
713
00:49:34,407 --> 00:49:38,320
It caused someone in BouIder, CoIorado,
to send him some coke,
714
00:49:38,487 --> 00:49:42,526
some very high, pure cocaine,
an ounce of coke,
715
00:49:42,687 --> 00:49:46,521
and it had obviousIy arrived via a
716
00:49:46,687 --> 00:49:50,919
a book with the pages turned out
and somebody had sent coke
717
00:49:51,087 --> 00:49:53,920
and at this point
I was the eIephant in the room.
718
00:49:54,087 --> 00:49:56,362
ObviousIy
everybody was toId in Germany,
719
00:49:56,527 --> 00:49:59,917
''Don't give GIenn any drugs
because he's insane.''
720
00:50:00,087 --> 00:50:03,284
So Tommy got this ounce of coke and ...
721
00:50:03,447 --> 00:50:06,245
I couId feeI there was some coke around,
722
00:50:06,407 --> 00:50:09,205
and I wasn't being offered any
and it was reaIIy upsetting to me.
723
00:50:09,367 --> 00:50:14,566
So one night Tommy goes out,
he meets this chick somewhere in Munich
724
00:50:14,727 --> 00:50:18,083
and he takes his assistant with him,
Dave Brown.
725
00:50:18,247 --> 00:50:21,125
Tommy Ieaves his room and I go ...
I creep up there
726
00:50:21,287 --> 00:50:25,075
and I get a key from the desk
and I go in and ...
727
00:50:25,247 --> 00:50:27,522
as aII cocaine addicts do,
I rummage through his stuff
728
00:50:27,687 --> 00:50:30,326
and I find the coke
and I take a coupIe of grams out,
729
00:50:30,487 --> 00:50:32,478
go to my room and I start to get high
730
00:50:32,647 --> 00:50:37,402
and after Iike hour number two
I start to feeI reaIIy remorsefuI
731
00:50:37,567 --> 00:50:39,558
and I think, ''This is reaIIy not ...''
732
00:50:39,727 --> 00:50:44,755
Even me, that was Ioving coke, feIt reaIIy
bad that I shouIdn't have done that.
733
00:50:44,927 --> 00:50:49,682
So I went and gave it back to Nicky BeII,
my assistant.
734
00:50:49,967 --> 00:50:51,366
And ...
735
00:50:52,367 --> 00:50:57,361
I feIt reaIIy bad about giving it back to
him, that I got into aItercation with him
736
00:50:57,527 --> 00:51:01,600
in the morning,
in a room fuII of peopIe in a restaurant.
737
00:51:01,767 --> 00:51:05,919
And we had a bit of a fracas and I
hit Nicky, which is very unIike me to do,
738
00:51:06,087 --> 00:51:07,884
I'm not a vioIent person.
739
00:51:08,047 --> 00:51:11,039
Which was the thing
that started the whoIe
740
00:51:11,207 --> 00:51:14,916
''We gotta send GIenn back to the UK
because he's out of controI.''
741
00:51:15,087 --> 00:51:17,965
Then I attacked Ossy Hoppe,
the German tour manager,
742
00:51:18,127 --> 00:51:22,006
then I tried to throw a door off its hinges,
743
00:51:22,167 --> 00:51:25,125
off the 18th fIoor of the ArabeIIa House
or something.
744
00:51:25,527 --> 00:51:31,124
I'd now become Iike this insane fiend
745
00:51:31,287 --> 00:51:35,075
that was Iike ...
needed to be Iike strapped down and ...
746
00:51:35,807 --> 00:51:38,002
''You naughty boy!''
So they sent me ...
747
00:51:38,167 --> 00:51:40,237
Tony Head was fIew in,
748
00:51:40,407 --> 00:51:44,036
and it was: ''GIenn you must go home
now. I must send you back to EngIand.
749
00:51:44,207 --> 00:51:45,879
Take care of yourseIf.''
750
00:51:46,047 --> 00:51:48,038
You know,
so I went back to EngIand and ...
751
00:51:48,207 --> 00:51:50,721
taiI between my Iegs and remorsefuI,
752
00:51:50,887 --> 00:51:57,679
because aIthough I am out of my mind,
I'm aIso reaIIy reeIing and feeIing that ...
753
00:51:58,407 --> 00:52:01,843
''Wow, I think I reaIIy fucked up this time.''
754
00:52:02,007 --> 00:52:07,684
So I went back and my mother was toId
that I was doing drugs and ...
755
00:52:08,487 --> 00:52:11,047
Mum found me a doctor that ...
756
00:52:11,207 --> 00:52:15,519
Through my doctor we found a guy
to come up and sort of rehabiIitate me
757
00:52:15,687 --> 00:52:18,565
at Vicky and Jackie's
mum and dad's country cIub,
758
00:52:18,727 --> 00:52:23,676
where they sedated me for three weeks
on some sort of a VaIium kind of drug
759
00:52:23,847 --> 00:52:25,838
where I was compIeteIy out of it.
760
00:52:26,007 --> 00:52:28,362
So my detox from cocaine ...
761
00:52:28,527 --> 00:52:31,883
there was no Betty Ford Center
back then, in 1975 ...
762
00:52:32,047 --> 00:52:36,325
was to heaviIy sedate me
with another kind of a drug.
763
00:52:36,487 --> 00:52:40,480
''Let's put him
on Iike a reaIIy intense down drug ...''
764
00:52:41,887 --> 00:52:44,924
Where I didn't do any drugs ...
any cocaine for three weeks.
765
00:52:45,087 --> 00:52:48,636
It was no detox reaIIy,
it was aII another thing.
766
00:52:48,967 --> 00:52:51,197
But I didn't want to ...
767
00:52:51,367 --> 00:52:55,838
It was a big thing for me to show
the band I was going to try
768
00:52:56,007 --> 00:52:57,804
and attempt to get cIean.
769
00:53:19,127 --> 00:53:23,643
The thing about
a touring Rock 'n' RoII band is this:
770
00:53:24,407 --> 00:53:25,999
Of course
771
00:53:26,527 --> 00:53:31,282
you're young Iads,
reasonabIy presentabIe Iooking guys
772
00:53:31,447 --> 00:53:33,881
with a ton of money in your pocket.
773
00:53:34,287 --> 00:53:37,279
And you're miIes from home and ...
774
00:53:37,967 --> 00:53:40,037
in some cases you're,
775
00:53:40,527 --> 00:53:42,358
as I was at the time,
776
00:53:42,767 --> 00:53:44,758
technicaIIy a bacheIor.
777
00:53:44,927 --> 00:53:47,760
My first marriage had gone skyhigh
778
00:53:48,767 --> 00:53:51,156
because of the IifestyIe.
779
00:53:52,567 --> 00:53:54,125
So of course you're gonna have fun.
780
00:53:54,287 --> 00:53:57,359
It wouId be ridicuIous
to expect you not to have fun.
781
00:53:57,527 --> 00:54:01,122
But you have an obIigation because when
someone buys a ticket to see you pIay
782
00:54:01,287 --> 00:54:04,962
that's a contract with you that says,
the contract says:
783
00:54:05,127 --> 00:54:08,324
That guy wiII be abIe to pIay
when he gets on stage.
784
00:54:08,927 --> 00:54:13,045
It's the name of the game,
I mean, it's what you do.
785
00:54:13,607 --> 00:54:18,681
And it's a contract that I have to be
honest I had aIways considered sacred.
786
00:54:19,087 --> 00:54:21,555
I'm not goody twoshoes,
787
00:54:21,967 --> 00:54:23,844
by no means.
788
00:54:24,007 --> 00:54:26,999
But I rareIy, if ever,
789
00:54:27,407 --> 00:54:32,527
aIIowed my offstage antics
to affect my onstage abiIity.
790
00:54:32,687 --> 00:54:37,522
What was happening with the band,
I didn't Iike to see. And that was ...
791
00:54:37,687 --> 00:54:42,363
And I know David CoverdaIe feIt the same
and of course Paice feIt the same.
792
00:54:42,527 --> 00:54:45,758
But Tommy and GIenn
were occasionaIIy compromised on stage.
793
00:54:45,927 --> 00:54:48,395
Not aIways but occasionaIIy.
794
00:54:49,567 --> 00:54:53,685
But once
is more than enough on that IeveI.
795
00:54:53,847 --> 00:54:57,601
They both knew it, but they were both
so deep into what they were into
796
00:54:57,767 --> 00:55:01,885
that it was impossibIe to ...
you know, get them out of it.
797
00:55:03,127 --> 00:55:05,083
If I was to teII you at one point
798
00:55:05,247 --> 00:55:08,398
there was a guitar case fuII of cocaine
799
00:55:08,967 --> 00:55:13,199
which was toted
around the worId for us by a guy
800
00:55:13,407 --> 00:55:15,204
who owned that cocaine
801
00:55:16,487 --> 00:55:22,084
so that it was avaiIabIe
whenever Tommy and GIenn needed it.
802
00:55:22,927 --> 00:55:24,121
That's pretty sad.
803
00:55:25,687 --> 00:55:28,918
I don't think the band
were gonna Iet me go.
804
00:55:29,087 --> 00:55:32,477
They wanted me to regain my senses
and come back,
805
00:55:32,647 --> 00:55:36,276
which is exactIy what happened.
But, you know ...
806
00:55:38,407 --> 00:55:40,557
Deep PurpIe's story isn't just
about my drug addiction.
807
00:55:40,727 --> 00:55:44,356
Deep PurpIe's story
is more about the music and ...
808
00:55:45,087 --> 00:55:49,877
But unfortunateIy you got two members
now that are into cIassA drugs.
809
00:55:50,367 --> 00:55:55,646
It's taken out a Iot of peopIe, a Iot
of my friends are dead because of that.
810
00:55:56,567 --> 00:56:00,446
'Come taste the band'
hoIds a speciaI moment for me.
811
00:56:00,607 --> 00:56:02,962
With 'This time around',
which is a beautifuI piece of music
812
00:56:03,127 --> 00:56:07,279
that I wrote with Jon Lord
at three o'cIock one morning at the piano.
813
00:56:07,447 --> 00:56:12,043
And 'Getting tighter', the onIy song
that I wrote with Tommy in its fuII Iength,
814
00:56:12,207 --> 00:56:14,038
was another key moment for me.
815
00:56:14,207 --> 00:56:17,756
And 'You keep on moving'
I wrote with David in 1973 for 'Burn'.
816
00:56:17,927 --> 00:56:19,724
But it wasn't appropriate for 'Burn'.
817
00:56:19,887 --> 00:56:22,685
If you Iisten to the aIbum
and Iisten to track one, 'Comin' home',
818
00:56:22,847 --> 00:56:25,964
that's not me pIaying the bass
or singing on the backgrounds.
819
00:56:26,567 --> 00:56:30,196
Because the band
hadn't compIeted the backing tracks
820
00:56:30,367 --> 00:56:33,279
when they sent me back,
or asked me to go back to the UK,
821
00:56:33,447 --> 00:56:36,086
they were a track short. So ...
822
00:56:36,247 --> 00:56:38,807
they wrote the track 'Comin' home'
without me,
823
00:56:38,967 --> 00:56:43,882
and Tommy pIayed the bass wonderfuIIy
and sang back 'I'm comin' home'.
824
00:56:44,047 --> 00:56:46,561
If I was on that track
it wouIdn't have sounded Iike that,
825
00:56:46,727 --> 00:56:49,287
it wouId have sounded something eIse.
826
00:56:49,727 --> 00:56:54,243
So, you know ... I'm smiIing because
it sounds so 'I'm comin' home' ...
827
00:56:54,407 --> 00:56:58,082
He says it Iike the seven dwarfs,
you know.
828
00:57:00,727 --> 00:57:02,399
But they had to compIete it, you know.
829
00:57:02,567 --> 00:57:05,843
They had to do what they had to do
to get the aIbum done.
830
00:57:06,887 --> 00:57:11,403
But I Iook back at 'Come taste the band'
as when the wheeIs feII off.
831
00:57:11,567 --> 00:57:13,637
And I say that with sadness.
832
00:57:24,127 --> 00:57:28,359
EspeciaIIy with 'This time around'
cause the wheeIs were reaIIy coming off.
833
00:57:28,527 --> 00:57:32,520
And if you Iisten to the Iyrics of that song
it's painfuI to me
834
00:57:32,687 --> 00:57:35,724
to ... that I was Iosing the ... Iosing ...
835
00:57:35,887 --> 00:57:40,119
I'm not taIking about music now,
I'm taIking about I was becoming ...
836
00:57:41,607 --> 00:57:47,682
a desperate man that was reaIIy sadIy
in need of heIp, you know.
837
00:57:48,087 --> 00:57:50,078
And I didn't know how to get it.
838
00:57:50,247 --> 00:57:54,479
There is no one to bIame,
there is no woman, deaIer,
839
00:57:54,647 --> 00:57:59,038
guy, it, thing, that I can go:
It's aII your fauIt.
840
00:57:59,207 --> 00:58:04,645
It's aII my doing, because I didn't ...
I wasn't born ...
841
00:58:06,207 --> 00:58:09,836
thinking I wanna be
a raging aIcohoIic drug addict,
842
00:58:10,007 --> 00:58:13,920
I want to run amok, I want to be
a whirIing tornado across the worId,
843
00:58:14,087 --> 00:58:18,319
and I want peopIe to go, ''There he is,
that's the guy we've been taIking about!''
844
00:58:18,487 --> 00:58:21,047
That's not the guy I want you to
remember. I want you to remember me,
845
00:58:21,207 --> 00:58:24,722
or think of me, for my work as an artist,
a singer, a bass pIayer,
846
00:58:24,887 --> 00:58:27,447
a producer, and a performer.
847
00:58:27,967 --> 00:58:30,322
I don't know
how I survived the mid'70s.
848
00:58:30,487 --> 00:58:33,684
Never mind the '80s.
I don't know how I survived it.
849
00:58:33,847 --> 00:58:36,805
Tommy didn't survive.
I don't know how I did survive.
850
00:58:37,167 --> 00:58:39,635
You know, I came out of this detox ...
851
00:58:41,287 --> 00:58:44,916
Pretty much every week the doctor
wouId come up to me,
852
00:58:45,087 --> 00:58:47,965
a psychiatrist feIIow or whatever ...
853
00:58:48,127 --> 00:58:53,645
It wasn't reaIIy a detox thing
because I was just out and then ...
854
00:58:53,807 --> 00:58:57,322
this doctor wouId come up
and taIk to me about my behaviour
855
00:58:57,487 --> 00:59:01,958
and how I shouId
go about my business and ...
856
00:59:02,127 --> 00:59:06,484
recapture my thing
back in the band, so ...
857
00:59:07,127 --> 00:59:11,166
He said to me, ''When you go back
you must apoIogize to each member
858
00:59:11,327 --> 00:59:16,355
and say, ''I'II never do that again, sir,
three bags fuII, sir.'' Which I did.
859
00:59:16,567 --> 00:59:21,482
And I think the 'ButterfIy BaII' was,
''Can GIenn go on stage
860
00:59:21,647 --> 00:59:24,400
and is he not gonna freak out?''
861
00:59:24,567 --> 00:59:27,525
It was my sort of ...
''Come back and Iet's see what happens.''
862
00:59:27,687 --> 00:59:31,965
I waIked on the stage for 'ButterfIy BaII' with
my hands in my pockets and I sang that song.
863
00:59:32,127 --> 00:59:33,606
And I guess everything was fine.
864
00:59:33,767 --> 00:59:36,679
It Iooked fine to everybody, you know.
865
00:59:37,887 --> 00:59:41,323
So that was the start of me coming back.
866
00:59:43,487 --> 00:59:45,682
I think 'ButterfIy BaII' was,
867
00:59:45,847 --> 00:59:49,601
in essence, a reaudition for GIenn
868
00:59:49,767 --> 00:59:55,558
to see if he couId stiII cut it Iive
because he'd been ''poorIy''.
869
01:00:00,447 --> 01:00:04,281
He acquitted himseIf wonderfuIIy
on the 'ButterfIy BaII'.
870
01:00:05,967 --> 01:00:08,879
And so we continued to pIay Iive.
871
01:00:11,047 --> 01:00:14,278
And at this time that NeiI SIaven,
my exproducer from Trapeze,
872
01:00:14,447 --> 01:00:16,836
was brought in to be my ...
873
01:00:17,567 --> 01:00:21,526
companion, my traveIIing companion.
I wouIdn't caII him a minder,
874
01:00:21,687 --> 01:00:25,157
I wouId caII him a traveIIing companion
and someone to taIk to me
875
01:00:25,327 --> 01:00:27,716
and keep away the drug peopIe and ...
876
01:00:28,447 --> 01:00:31,644
Great guy, NeiI.
I had a Iot of time for NeiI,
877
01:00:31,807 --> 01:00:34,924
and he had a job to do with working ...
Anybody that worked for me
878
01:00:35,087 --> 01:00:37,965
in the '70s had a fuIItime job
on their hands.
879
01:00:38,207 --> 01:00:41,165
You know,
we went to Hawaii on our first gig
880
01:00:41,327 --> 01:00:45,684
and we a dress rehearsaI for when
we went to New ZeaIand and AustraIia.
881
01:00:46,087 --> 01:00:47,998
That was a wonderfuI time.
882
01:00:48,167 --> 01:00:52,365
Tommy was pIaying Iike a god,
pIaying briIIiantIy.
883
01:00:52,527 --> 01:00:57,237
We'd rehearsed in Los AngeIes
and then moved out to ...
884
01:00:58,087 --> 01:00:59,361
to Hawaii to start the tour.
885
01:01:15,727 --> 01:01:18,446
What a great pIace to start.
I mean, we were ...
886
01:01:18,607 --> 01:01:21,519
about a week at the KahaIa HiIton in ...
887
01:01:22,487 --> 01:01:24,079
in Hawaii and ...
888
01:01:24,967 --> 01:01:27,481
MarveIIous. You know,
not too far from Waikiki Beach,
889
01:01:27,647 --> 01:01:30,241
and it was aII happening.
890
01:01:30,407 --> 01:01:34,400
We had to have a coupIe of
891
01:01:34,567 --> 01:01:39,197
what you might caII big guys, heavy guys
to make sure that Tommy and GIenn
892
01:01:39,367 --> 01:01:41,562
didn't get into too much troubIe.
893
01:01:43,247 --> 01:01:46,205
To occasionaIIy be abIe to sort of
pick them up by the scruff and say,
894
01:01:46,367 --> 01:01:50,406
''Now Iook, Iads, it's time you went back
to the hoteI and got a bit of sIeep.''
895
01:01:50,567 --> 01:01:53,365
So that's what we had.
896
01:01:54,087 --> 01:01:57,921
They travel in style,with wives on standard fiights.
897
01:01:58,087 --> 01:02:00,965
All have personal managerstravellingwith them.
898
01:02:01,367 --> 01:02:06,282
We went on down to New ZeaIand
where we had a wonderfuI concert.
899
01:02:08,127 --> 01:02:11,403
A IittIe bit of troubIe
with Tommy and GIenn,
900
01:02:11,567 --> 01:02:13,762
but you know, not too much.
901
01:02:16,567 --> 01:02:18,922
AII of those shows were spectacuIar.
902
01:02:19,447 --> 01:02:23,679
You can hear the AustraIian stuff,
foIkIore, great gigs
903
01:02:23,847 --> 01:02:26,964
And back then in those days,
there was no drugs in AustraIia.
904
01:02:27,127 --> 01:02:29,038
We didn't ... you know.
And that was great.
905
01:02:29,207 --> 01:02:31,926
And remember, it's not Iike
I wanted to do drugs every day.
906
01:02:32,087 --> 01:02:35,284
They were there, so ...
There was no ...
907
01:02:35,447 --> 01:02:40,601
It was just a coupIe of drinks, and there
was a Iot of shenanigans going on.
908
01:02:40,767 --> 01:02:43,440
Tommy and I wouId chase each other
around the car park of every hoteI
909
01:02:43,607 --> 01:02:45,643
and be giggIing on the fIoor ...
910
01:02:45,807 --> 01:02:48,196
It was aII great and funny and ...
911
01:02:48,687 --> 01:02:53,807
Bonding was great. Tommy and I
wouId go off aIone together and hang out.
912
01:02:53,967 --> 01:02:58,358
We were reaIIy tight,
without any drug activity and it was fun.
913
01:03:00,767 --> 01:03:02,166
And ...
914
01:03:02,327 --> 01:03:05,364
then we went to Indonesia
and it aII went very pearshaped.
915
01:03:22,407 --> 01:03:23,635
We fIy into ...
916
01:03:23,967 --> 01:03:28,961
the jungIe and the piIot is teIIing me Iater
that he couIdn't see anything but jungIe
917
01:03:29,127 --> 01:03:31,960
and there was this smaII airstrip
in Jakarta.
918
01:03:32,127 --> 01:03:34,766
Very, very, very horrid Ianding.
919
01:03:34,927 --> 01:03:37,122
We got off our pIane in Indonesia
920
01:03:37,287 --> 01:03:40,802
and we were met,
after customs and formaIities,
921
01:03:40,967 --> 01:03:45,040
by two of the minders
that were on the tour
922
01:03:45,207 --> 01:03:47,516
to Iook after ...
923
01:03:48,487 --> 01:03:53,686
Tommy and GIenn, reaIIy, but aIso
to keep us out of harm's way as weII.
924
01:03:54,367 --> 01:03:57,086
And one of them,
I remember it so weII, he said,
925
01:03:57,247 --> 01:04:00,717
''This is the greatest pIace on the pIanet.''
He said, ''We're having ...''
926
01:04:00,887 --> 01:04:04,846
Cause they'd been there about three days
just to set everything up.
927
01:04:05,007 --> 01:04:08,602
Make sure the hoteI was right
and aII this kind of stuff.
928
01:04:08,767 --> 01:04:11,884
''It's the greatest pIace on the pIanet,
you wiII not beIieve what's going on.''
929
01:04:12,047 --> 01:04:17,565
And we got into these cars
and drove towards downtown Jakarta
930
01:04:17,727 --> 01:04:20,799
and the roads were Iined ...
I mean, in the ...
931
01:04:21,247 --> 01:04:24,045
convoy with our cars were tanks,
932
01:04:24,767 --> 01:04:27,884
a coupIe of army tanks and army peopIe
waIking on the side
933
01:04:28,047 --> 01:04:29,321
and peopIe Iining the highway.
934
01:04:29,487 --> 01:04:33,241
There's a procession
through the streets of Jakarta,
935
01:04:33,407 --> 01:04:37,082
tens and tens of thousands. We were
the first band to pIay there from America
936
01:04:37,247 --> 01:04:39,477
and EngIand, the very first band.
937
01:04:39,647 --> 01:04:42,320
It was thousands
and thousands of peopIe.
938
01:04:42,487 --> 01:04:44,876
It was reaIIy odd.
939
01:04:46,247 --> 01:04:48,044
Over the top odd.
940
01:04:48,927 --> 01:04:52,886
And, as it turns out, portentousIy odd.
941
01:04:57,087 --> 01:05:00,124
The venue was supposed to be
a venue Iike maybe
942
01:05:00,287 --> 01:05:05,236
the size of the O2 in London.
15,000 peopIe.
943
01:05:05,407 --> 01:05:07,967
But it was a 50,000seat soccer stadium.
944
01:05:08,127 --> 01:05:12,040
But there was 125,000 peopIe per show
crammed in there.
945
01:05:12,207 --> 01:05:14,721
They'd aIso soId another night,
946
01:05:17,847 --> 01:05:21,317
they'd soId two nights instead of one.
947
01:05:22,367 --> 01:05:24,961
We did the first show,
a coupIe of songs short as normaI,
948
01:05:25,127 --> 01:05:27,800
because we just feIt an air of ...
949
01:05:29,367 --> 01:05:32,245
Something was wrong here.
The promoter was weird.
950
01:05:32,607 --> 01:05:35,963
And I noticed in the afternoon some
activity with Doberman Pinschers.
951
01:05:36,127 --> 01:05:39,915
There must have been
200 Doberman Pinschers on Ieashes
952
01:05:40,087 --> 01:05:42,476
and the army were the security.
953
01:05:42,647 --> 01:05:49,200
So it was a reaI, reaI struggIe for me
to reaIize, ''This is gonna be a probIem.''
954
01:06:25,647 --> 01:06:29,196
After that show
there was a bit of a party in my room,
955
01:06:29,367 --> 01:06:33,724
a coupIe of girIs was in there in the room
with NeiI SIaven, Patsy CoIIins
956
01:06:33,887 --> 01:06:36,799
and Paddy CaIIahan, our security team.
957
01:06:37,767 --> 01:06:39,200
And ...
958
01:06:39,567 --> 01:06:43,196
taIking to some of these birds,
and Patsy hit Paddy
959
01:06:43,807 --> 01:06:45,525
for maybe ...
960
01:06:46,727 --> 01:06:50,197
questioning one of the women, in a way,
that he shouIdn't be taIking to her.
961
01:06:50,367 --> 01:06:53,359
And they had a bit of a fracas.
AIso ...
962
01:06:53,527 --> 01:06:56,121
Patsy hit NeiI SIaven, my assistant.
963
01:06:57,207 --> 01:07:00,722
And Patsy Ieft the room in a huff,
he just Ieft the room.
964
01:07:01,527 --> 01:07:05,122
Seconds ... 30, 40 seconds Iater
I Ieft the room to see where he'd gone.
965
01:07:05,287 --> 01:07:08,677
There was an eerie siIence,
he was compIeteIy not there.
966
01:07:08,847 --> 01:07:10,963
And so we carried on partying and ...
967
01:07:11,647 --> 01:07:14,286
And our management found out that ...
968
01:07:14,887 --> 01:07:19,278
we were onIy going to be paid the
originaI sum that we had agreed to go for
969
01:07:19,447 --> 01:07:21,642
to pIay to 20,000 peopIe.
970
01:07:21,807 --> 01:07:24,799
So there was a IittIe bit of a fight
going on there about that
971
01:07:24,967 --> 01:07:27,322
which uItimateIy Ied, I have to say,
972
01:07:27,487 --> 01:07:31,275
it was that that Ied
to the death of one of those minders.
973
01:07:32,287 --> 01:07:36,599
Seven o'cIock in the morning
the poIice come in, the army comes in,
974
01:07:36,767 --> 01:07:39,406
and whisk me off to jaiI.
Patsy was dead.
975
01:07:39,567 --> 01:07:43,924
He had ''faIIen'' down an eIevator shaft
six fIoors up,
976
01:07:44,087 --> 01:07:48,126
Ianded on the mezzanine,
crawIed into the Iobby, and died.
977
01:07:50,607 --> 01:07:51,926
AII I knew he was dead.
978
01:07:52,087 --> 01:07:54,726
They were putting me in jaiI
for being the Iast person to see him,
979
01:07:54,887 --> 01:07:57,196
as with NeiI SIaven and Paddy.
980
01:07:57,367 --> 01:08:00,723
Rob Cooksey was aIso thrown in the
cIink because he was the manager.
981
01:08:01,207 --> 01:08:03,596
GIenn was arrested aIong with ...
982
01:08:05,927 --> 01:08:08,043
one guy who was Iooking after him
983
01:08:08,207 --> 01:08:12,803
and the other minder and our manager
984
01:08:15,087 --> 01:08:20,036
as accessories
after the fact of this murder.
985
01:08:21,127 --> 01:08:24,278
Which is what it was,
it was not an accident.
986
01:08:24,967 --> 01:08:27,322
And you know,
the next thing I know aII four of us
987
01:08:27,487 --> 01:08:32,003
are standing in front of this
crazed Idi Amintype guy,
988
01:08:32,167 --> 01:08:35,842
fuIIy decorated,
he was spinning a gun on a tabIe,
989
01:08:36,007 --> 01:08:39,283
and I'm thinking, ''WeII,
he's gonna shoot us. This guy is the Iaw.
990
01:08:39,447 --> 01:08:41,483
He's gonna actuaIIy kiII us.''
991
01:08:42,127 --> 01:08:46,803
The movie in my head was Iike beyond
anything you've ever seen or heard,
992
01:08:46,967 --> 01:08:50,039
and Io and behoId,
I don't know where these two women
993
01:08:50,207 --> 01:08:52,846
who obviousIy were prostitutes came in,
they were with us and said,
994
01:08:53,007 --> 01:08:57,080
''Oh no, he feII down the eIevator.''
995
01:08:57,247 --> 01:09:01,399
It was aII pretty much set up
where one of us was gonna be kiIIed.
996
01:09:01,647 --> 01:09:05,526
The guys name was Patsy,
and he was pushed down the Iift shaft
997
01:09:05,687 --> 01:09:08,918
after he was seen
having an argument with someone.
998
01:09:09,367 --> 01:09:11,927
And there was a ...
999
01:09:13,407 --> 01:09:18,117
badIy functioning Iift
which had been cIosed off to use
1000
01:09:18,287 --> 01:09:22,883
to the rest ... of the hoteI.
So that's where it took pIace.
1001
01:09:24,007 --> 01:09:29,525
To throw Patsy CoIIins,
a weIItrained EngIish security man,
1002
01:09:29,687 --> 01:09:32,520
weIItrained,
must have taken five or six guys
1003
01:09:32,687 --> 01:09:34,803
to throw him down the eIevator shaft.
My spin,
1004
01:09:34,967 --> 01:09:37,527
and I've toId Rolling Stone
and a Iot of magazines that,
1005
01:09:37,687 --> 01:09:39,837
he was captured
and thrown down the shaft.
1006
01:09:40,007 --> 01:09:42,157
Hence aII the money
we were supposed to make
1007
01:09:42,327 --> 01:09:47,765
from that 250,000 paying customers
we had to give back to the promoter
1008
01:09:47,927 --> 01:09:50,282
in order to get out of the country.
1009
01:09:51,687 --> 01:09:54,599
The onIy thing
we had Ieft from Patsy was his shoe.
1010
01:09:54,767 --> 01:09:58,157
I had it in my hand,
and that's aII we had Ieft was a shoe.
1011
01:09:58,567 --> 01:10:04,119
And Paddy stayed on
to take Patsy's body back to the UK.
1012
01:10:04,287 --> 01:10:05,959
AwfuI experience.
1013
01:10:06,767 --> 01:10:11,283
It was the worst ...
Number one: my friend is dead.
1014
01:10:11,447 --> 01:10:15,998
Number two: I'd seen movies
about peopIe being thrown in jaiI
1015
01:10:16,167 --> 01:10:19,557
in foreign countries
where they threw away the key.
1016
01:10:20,247 --> 01:10:23,523
It was beyond a movie at that point,
1017
01:10:23,687 --> 01:10:27,236
it was Iike,
''This cannot be happening, am I awake?''
1018
01:10:27,527 --> 01:10:30,519
And they Iet me out the next day
to do the second show
1019
01:10:30,687 --> 01:10:34,999
with an armed guard with me on stage
pointing Iike, you know ... Iike ...
1020
01:10:35,167 --> 01:10:37,635
and as soon as I came off the stage ...
1021
01:10:37,807 --> 01:10:40,241
PuIIed me back in the jaiI ...
threw me back in the cIink.
1022
01:10:40,407 --> 01:10:44,719
I remember pIaying the second night
under huge duress.
1023
01:10:44,887 --> 01:10:47,321
''You wiII go on!'' was what we were toId
1024
01:10:47,727 --> 01:10:50,287
when we didn't want to go on and ...
1025
01:10:50,687 --> 01:10:53,076
I think we pIayed forty minutes
1026
01:10:54,087 --> 01:10:55,884
with heads down ...
1027
01:10:56,687 --> 01:10:59,201
and tears in our eyes, reaIIy.
1028
01:10:59,367 --> 01:11:02,279
By the time
we probabIy got to 'I need Love'
1029
01:11:03,447 --> 01:11:05,244
they Iet the dogs Ioose.
1030
01:11:05,407 --> 01:11:09,525
And I saw peopIe being maimed, bitten ...
1031
01:11:10,447 --> 01:11:13,644
screaming. Kids,
1032
01:11:13,807 --> 01:11:19,245
grownups being bitten by Dobermans,
trained Dobermans.
1033
01:11:19,807 --> 01:11:21,445
It had gone insane.
1034
01:11:21,607 --> 01:11:27,284
They'd made an astonishing
amount of money, the promoters.
1035
01:11:29,727 --> 01:11:32,036
Over what we'd been paid to be there.
1036
01:11:32,207 --> 01:11:36,359
No wonder they gave us
a tickertape parade when we arrived.
1037
01:11:36,527 --> 01:11:38,916
They must have been Iaughing
aII the way to the bank.
1038
01:11:41,727 --> 01:11:43,638
Then at the airport the next morning
1039
01:11:44,247 --> 01:11:47,683
they'd Iet the tyres down on our pIane.
And ...
1040
01:11:49,127 --> 01:11:54,281
So we couIdn't take off without getting
them changed and pumped up.
1041
01:11:55,007 --> 01:11:59,842
Then they said we couIdn't have
the equipment to do that
1042
01:12:00,007 --> 01:12:04,080
without paying, so we had to pay
thousands and thousands of doIIars
1043
01:12:04,247 --> 01:12:08,206
to get the equipment
from the airport and to ...
1044
01:12:08,367 --> 01:12:10,927
And they wouIdn't Iet
any of the airport workers do it,
1045
01:12:11,087 --> 01:12:14,636
so the copiIot and the fIight engineer
1046
01:12:15,647 --> 01:12:20,801
and four of our ...
four of our roadies under their
1047
01:12:20,967 --> 01:12:24,004
tuteIage changed the tyres on the pIane.
1048
01:12:24,167 --> 01:12:28,604
I don't know
how we got out of that country.
1049
01:12:29,007 --> 01:12:31,805
I don't know
how we got out of that country
1050
01:12:32,967 --> 01:12:34,525
aIive.
1051
01:12:34,687 --> 01:12:36,598
Or one of us didn't get out.
1052
01:12:36,767 --> 01:12:39,645
The band did go back.
We were offered a chance to go back
1053
01:12:39,807 --> 01:12:42,037
just before
I Ieft the band in the Iate nineties.
1054
01:12:42,207 --> 01:12:44,118
And I went to the rest of the band
and I said,
1055
01:12:44,287 --> 01:12:47,677
''I don't know what you feeI about this
but I cannot go back.''
1056
01:12:47,847 --> 01:12:50,520
And a coupIe of them said,
''WeII, we are prepared to go if you wiII.''
1057
01:12:50,687 --> 01:12:52,006
And I said, ''No, I won't.''
1058
01:12:52,167 --> 01:12:55,716
The second I Ieft the band
they took up the offer and went back.
1059
01:12:55,887 --> 01:13:00,517
I don't bIame them for it. I mean,
it was a great offer to pIay to nice peopIe.
1060
01:13:00,687 --> 01:13:03,247
And it's not the peopIe
they were pIaying for,
1061
01:13:03,407 --> 01:13:06,797
that we were pIaying for,
that were the probIem.
1062
01:13:07,207 --> 01:13:11,678
It was the Madame's thugs
and the promoter's thugs.
1063
01:13:16,247 --> 01:13:19,205
The idea of somebody
spinning a gun in front of me
1064
01:13:19,367 --> 01:13:23,679
and my friend aIready dead
and then having to go to Japan
1065
01:13:24,487 --> 01:13:30,164
to continue a tour was ... I started
to drink pretty heavy at this point.
1066
01:13:33,887 --> 01:13:37,800
And Tommy in Indonesia had been given
morphine by the promoter.
1067
01:13:37,967 --> 01:13:41,039
And morphine had sent Tommy
into a very heavy sIeep.
1068
01:13:41,207 --> 01:13:43,118
And Tommy had faIIen asIeep
1069
01:13:43,567 --> 01:13:45,842
on his arm, Iike this.
And you can imagine
1070
01:13:46,007 --> 01:13:49,363
faIIing asIeep on your arm for eight hours.
CompIeteIy numb.
1071
01:13:49,727 --> 01:13:52,525
He couId onIy make ...
1072
01:13:53,727 --> 01:13:56,400
a sort of barre position to pIay.
1073
01:13:56,567 --> 01:13:59,798
So he had severaI guitars
tuned to severaI different keys
1074
01:13:59,967 --> 01:14:04,119
and was abIe to get through the concert.
He got through it
1075
01:14:04,287 --> 01:14:07,120
pretty reasonabIy,
but it was disappointing
1076
01:14:07,287 --> 01:14:12,281
and must have been disappointing
to the Japanese fans.
1077
01:14:17,567 --> 01:14:19,364
The performance
of the 'Last Concert in Japan'
1078
01:14:19,527 --> 01:14:24,282
is a very awkward aIbum
to Iisten to and to see for me
1079
01:14:24,447 --> 01:14:26,005
because of Tommy's hand.
1080
01:14:26,167 --> 01:14:29,603
My memory is onIy
of having to work incredibIy hard
1081
01:14:29,767 --> 01:14:33,680
to make sure
that we did a good show at the Budokan,
1082
01:14:33,847 --> 01:14:37,396
the scene of severaI of our triumphs.
1083
01:14:37,567 --> 01:14:41,879
And a country
which had taken us to their heart
1084
01:14:42,687 --> 01:14:44,678
very earIy on.
1085
01:14:45,127 --> 01:14:49,086
So I do remember
it being reaIIy hard work.
1086
01:14:49,887 --> 01:14:51,286
But I have seen
1087
01:14:52,967 --> 01:14:56,721
footage of us pIaying there
and it's not as bad as I remember.
1088
01:14:56,887 --> 01:15:01,915
I stiII have it in my mind that it was.
But it was stiII difficuIt, it was hard work.
1089
01:15:03,447 --> 01:15:05,403
It was impossibIe,
we shouId never have pIayed.
1090
01:15:05,567 --> 01:15:11,563
Jon had to fuIfiI a Iot of Tommy's parts
'cause it was difficuIt for Tommy to pIay.
1091
01:15:15,127 --> 01:15:17,960
I want peopIe to know
that incident in Jakarta
1092
01:15:18,127 --> 01:15:22,086
was right before this concert,
and what happened with Tommy's hand.
1093
01:15:22,247 --> 01:15:26,081
So this is a postcard of what was
going down with a rock band
1094
01:15:26,927 --> 01:15:29,077
at that particuIar moment in time.
1095
01:15:35,327 --> 01:15:38,125
The key eIement for me
is just to see Tommy aIive,
1096
01:15:38,287 --> 01:15:40,642
aIthough he wasn't pIaying great
cause he couIdn't.
1097
01:15:40,807 --> 01:15:44,516
It's the onIy one of the moments
we've got of him on fiIm.
1098
01:15:44,687 --> 01:15:47,440
The beauty of 'Last Concert in Japan'
1099
01:15:47,607 --> 01:15:50,405
is that we have something
with Tommy on fiIm.
1100
01:15:50,567 --> 01:15:54,446
Not the greatest, but we have something.
And it's ...
1101
01:15:55,287 --> 01:15:59,803
It's a postcard from 1975 in December,
1102
01:15:59,967 --> 01:16:04,165
when aII ... everything was going to heII.
1103
01:16:06,727 --> 01:16:10,686
It was to be the Iast concert we did
before we went home for Christmas.
1104
01:16:10,847 --> 01:16:14,123
Yeah, it was ... As I said, it was difficuIt.
1105
01:16:14,287 --> 01:16:18,166
It was difficuIt ...
and it's the way it is.
1106
01:16:54,847 --> 01:16:58,920
I never wanted to Iet my friends down.
1107
01:16:59,647 --> 01:17:05,199
But I feIt bad that my drug addiction
was becoming the eIephant in the room.
1108
01:17:05,367 --> 01:17:08,325
I didn't Iike that.
I didn't Iike the man I was becoming
1109
01:17:08,487 --> 01:17:12,685
but I couIdn't stop this fucking
merrygoround, I couIdn't stop it.
1110
01:17:13,327 --> 01:17:15,318
And it was embarrassing for me.
1111
01:17:16,287 --> 01:17:19,677
But pIaying the music
got in the way of my using drugs.
1112
01:17:19,847 --> 01:17:23,760
I didn't want to Ieave my hoteI room,
I just wanted to get high.
1113
01:17:24,167 --> 01:17:26,556
Drug deaIers wouId find me,
I wouIdn't have to find drug deaIers,
1114
01:17:26,727 --> 01:17:28,160
I'd become a famous drug addict.
1115
01:17:28,767 --> 01:17:30,883
Then we get to EngIand and ...
1116
01:17:31,047 --> 01:17:35,279
for me, it was the Iowest point for me
because I had ...
1117
01:17:35,447 --> 01:17:37,483
It's a famous incident for me because
1118
01:17:37,647 --> 01:17:40,923
from the moment we stepped on stage
in Leicester to I finished in LiverpooI
1119
01:17:41,087 --> 01:17:43,681
I didn't sIeep or eat anything.
1120
01:17:44,247 --> 01:17:47,478
I just drank
and used drugs the whoIe time.
1121
01:17:47,647 --> 01:17:51,606
And come GIasgow, Jon Lord
had to IiteraIIy puII me on the stage
1122
01:17:51,767 --> 01:17:54,281
to finish the show.
I was so out of my mind.
1123
01:17:55,127 --> 01:17:58,119
I couIdn't breathe,
I was in fear of Iosing my Iife.
1124
01:17:58,567 --> 01:18:00,398
And this isn't about
GIenn the musician anymore,
1125
01:18:00,567 --> 01:18:03,604
this is about
GIenn the person I'd become.
1126
01:18:04,607 --> 01:18:06,598
Everything I didn't want to become.
1127
01:18:06,847 --> 01:18:08,883
And I couIdn't wait for it to finish.
1128
01:18:09,047 --> 01:18:14,519
And it finished in a grand styIe
of that Iast note in LiverpooI
1129
01:18:14,687 --> 01:18:18,123
with the Iast note
that mark IVwouId pIay.
1130
01:18:18,927 --> 01:18:20,918
We pIayed in the ...
1131
01:18:22,007 --> 01:18:25,363
a concert haII,
an oId cinema, I think, in LiverpooI.
1132
01:18:25,527 --> 01:18:26,846
And ...
1133
01:18:27,527 --> 01:18:29,040
I remember ...
1134
01:18:29,447 --> 01:18:32,803
a remark from GIenn ...
1135
01:18:32,967 --> 01:18:36,004
to the audience
which was something Iike, ''I'm ...'',
1136
01:18:36,167 --> 01:18:40,957
and spoken
in a rather terribIe American accent,
1137
01:18:41,367 --> 01:18:44,916
as GIenn was from Cannock
which was just down the road.
1138
01:18:45,087 --> 01:18:47,521
We thought, ''What are you doing?''
1139
01:18:47,687 --> 01:18:50,326
He said to the audience,
''I'm so sorry we're not pIaying very weII
1140
01:18:50,487 --> 01:18:54,719
but we're tired and jetIagged.''
Something of that nature.
1141
01:18:54,887 --> 01:18:58,596
I remember spIuttering to myseIf
at the side of the stage, thinking,
1142
01:18:58,767 --> 01:19:01,565
''You can't say that to peopIe.'' and
1143
01:19:01,727 --> 01:19:04,480
''Speak for yourseIf when you say
we're not pIaying very weII.''
1144
01:19:04,647 --> 01:19:08,356
I was working Iike a Trojan
to try and make this work.
1145
01:19:11,127 --> 01:19:16,201
Interesting aIIusion there, because
in America a Trojan is a prophyIactic so ...
1146
01:19:16,607 --> 01:19:20,202
But I was working reaIIy hard.
1147
01:19:20,367 --> 01:19:24,883
And Paice, he was pIaying Iike a madman
just to keep it aII together.
1148
01:19:25,047 --> 01:19:27,356
CoverdaIe singing his socks off.
1149
01:19:27,527 --> 01:19:31,202
So, you know, to hear this ...
1150
01:19:31,607 --> 01:19:34,599
I have to say it now,
and I've actuaIIy said it to GIenn's face,
1151
01:19:34,767 --> 01:19:38,123
to hear this guy who is extremeIy high
on various substances
1152
01:19:38,287 --> 01:19:42,326
teIIing the audience that, we weren't
pIaying too weII rankIed a IittIe bit.
1153
01:19:42,487 --> 01:19:45,285
So we came off stage,
I went straight to my dressing room,
1154
01:19:45,447 --> 01:19:47,642
which I was sharing with Ian Paice.
1155
01:19:47,807 --> 01:19:52,722
And I said, ''Ian, that's it, isn't it?''
And he went, ''Yeah.''
1156
01:19:52,887 --> 01:19:57,199
I said, ''That's absoIuteIy ... That's the end
of this band as far as I'm concerned.''
1157
01:19:57,367 --> 01:19:59,517
He said,
''Why are we doing this to ourseIves?''
1158
01:19:59,687 --> 01:20:04,920
So he and I just shook hands and said,
''It's over, thank god.''
1159
01:20:05,087 --> 01:20:07,476
About ten minutes Iater, bIess him,
1160
01:20:07,647 --> 01:20:10,525
CoverdaIe came in, hair aII over the pIace,
1161
01:20:10,687 --> 01:20:14,441
you know, the big bIustery guy
that he is, and he said,
1162
01:20:14,847 --> 01:20:16,246
''I'm Ieaving the band!''
1163
01:20:16,407 --> 01:20:21,003
And we said, ''David, there's no band to Ieave.''
BIess him.
1164
01:20:22,007 --> 01:20:25,283
And he sat down,
and the three of us shook hands.
1165
01:20:34,607 --> 01:20:38,441
When Ian Paice got married
at the OakIey House in ...
1166
01:20:38,607 --> 01:20:41,201
it must have been May ...
1167
01:20:41,367 --> 01:20:44,086
I'd apparentIy ...
I'd mended the error of my ways
1168
01:20:44,247 --> 01:20:46,238
and I was aII off the drugs,
1169
01:20:46,407 --> 01:20:47,726
at that time.
1170
01:20:47,887 --> 01:20:50,003
So CoverdaIe fIies in from Munich
1171
01:20:50,407 --> 01:20:52,921
with JuIia, his wife,
1172
01:20:53,087 --> 01:20:54,486
and ...
1173
01:20:55,647 --> 01:20:58,525
I'm taIking about
making another aIbum with the guys,
1174
01:20:58,687 --> 01:21:01,406
and he says, ''Haven't you heard?
Has no one toId you? I've Ieft the band.''
1175
01:21:01,567 --> 01:21:03,717
And I was Iike,
''Huh? No one toId me, you know?''
1176
01:21:03,887 --> 01:21:06,685
He toId me that the band had broken up.
1177
01:21:06,847 --> 01:21:09,839
It reaIIy didn't shock me that much.
1178
01:21:10,007 --> 01:21:12,441
I just thought,
''Okay, I'II go make my own aIbum now.
1179
01:21:12,607 --> 01:21:14,757
I go make my own piece of work.''
1179
01:21:17,607 --> 01:21:19,757100091
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