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Heating has improved since then
Back in 2016, when Deep Purple were performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Simon Robinson arranged a visit of Roger Glover and Don Airey to the building that used to be The Grand Hotel in 1971. Here is Roger talking about the events that unfolded 45 years prior right where it happened.
Thanks to dplz kc for posting this.
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That toddler disturbing in the background is a Led Zep fan, I can pick those out from a mile away!
July 9th, 2025 at 19:00@ 1 – the toddler was probably related to Bonzo, trying to stop Roger from going, da da da, da da dada etc. We know how much Bonham loved the Purple guys. Not to mention some of the Sabbath guys too. The Unholy trinity. I thought they all loathed each other. Cheers.
July 10th, 2025 at 04:48I never really thought they loathed each other just like the Stones and the Beatles didn’t loath each other. They focused on their own careers, but that didn’t mean that they wouldn’t have listened to each other’s music once in a while just to hear what “the competition” was doing.
Page was keenly aware of Blackmore’s strengths as a guitarist and has worked with DC as an ex-Deep Purple. Plant has had musicians from the Purple Family (except-PAL Paul Martinez and ex-Silverhead Robbie Blunt as well as Cozy Powell) on his records. I’d also be surprised if the enduring surprise success of MIJ did not influence Zep releasing eventually a live double album with The Song Remains The Same too. I don’t think that Peter Grant slept well with Purple having a double live album in the US Top 5 (whose production costs had been next to zero!) while Led Zeppelin, these sell-out-stadium kings, had nothing similar on offer.
Sabbath have recycled Purple Family vocalists continuously (Ronnie, Ian & Glenn) and at one point even had Martin Birch produce them on Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules. They also didn’t think it beneath themselves to play in broad daylight as an opener to DP at California Jam.
And both Ritchie and Jon Lord have owned up to the fact that early Led Zep with the dramatic high-pitched vocals was a wake-up call to them to do something about Mk I. Without Robert Plant, Ian Gillan might have sung a few years more with Episode Six and faced an uncertain future. Ritchie has admitted that Kashmir played a role for the orchestral arrangement of Stargazer and I guess the influence on Perfect Strangers (the song) is clear as well, right down to the use of unconventional meters (except that Paicey followed those while Bonzo stuck to 4/4 letting the music above his beat shift from bar to bar).
There was a lot of cross-fertilization – as it should be.
July 10th, 2025 at 12:45@ 3- either did I think along the lines that the media wanted us all to do. It always is a ‘beat up’ with the media, they do the same with actors, sports personalities etc etc. Having said that, there will always be the odd controversy between certain ego driven people at times. Some musicians did loathe others, but usually they would have been asked about that sort of rubbish we would think, to get a response of sorts. Regarding Black Sabbath at the Cal Jam, no they wouldn’t have cared about playing in the daylight hours. Let’s face it though, Sabbath certainly didn’t have anything else to project really, other than their music? They were never know for their flamboyance or stage presentation. Plus the fact that their appearance wasn’t anything they knew about until it was rather late in proceedings. Weren’t they thrown in at the deep end? Good point regarding Peter Grant and MIJ being a top seller. I have often thought along those lines in regard to TSRTS. That is healthy business sense though, everyone took ideas off others. Cheers.
July 12th, 2025 at 00:20