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No funky music for him
A couple of historical clips.
The first one is about Mark 3, with snippets of contemporary interviews from Glenn Hughes and Ritchie Blackmore:
The second one is a report on the 1975 Sunbury Festival from Australian TV, including an interview with Jon Lord and Glenn Hughes:
Thanks to Ritchie Blackmore Official channel for posting these.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Pity there wasn’t any live performance footage of the Purps at Sunbury. I was still at school, bummer! Cheers.
July 17th, 2025 at 03:12Back in Mk III, Glenn still had much more of a Brummie accent – I even hear parallels to Tony Iommi‘s accent. It‘s not that Glenn has a thoroughbred American accent today, but his Midlands English has unsurprisingly after 50 years undergone quite some Californication.
As for Ritchie‘s well-known view on funky music – my God, he saw Glenn with Trapeze more than once before asking him to join, what was he expecting? Don‘t remember Glenn‘s contract reading “play like Roger”, but I do remember a 1974 interview of Ritchie where he belittled Roger’s bass playing and praised Glenn’s sense of syncopation, going even as far as to say it had changed SOTW for the better.
July 17th, 2025 at 04:36Hopefully no one reads this, but – well, I surrender to mark lll!
Against my better knowledge and will…
(What kind of place is this? I blame the German gentlemen!)
July 17th, 2025 at 05:52