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With a wave of her hand
A live cover of Burn performed by Japanese kids:
Vocals — Leia Kato (16 y/o) @KatoleaAndHayate
Guitar — Kanon Inazuki (18 y/o) @kanon_gitabo
Guitar — Akarin (10 y/o) @akarinsguitar4853
Bass — Nene Miyake (10 y/o) @ototarock
Drums — YOYOKA (15 y/o) @yoyoka
This was recorded on June 5, 2025 at duo MUSIC EXCHANGE in Tokyo.
Drum Tech by Shinopi
Mixed and Mastered by Hirokazu Tsuruha
Sound Supervisor: Akifumi Soma
Yoyoka’s drum cover of Burn has previously caught Paicey’s eye and even lead to an offer of collaboration (did it ever end up in anything?)
Thanks to Amit for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
They did it very well indeed, despite no keyboards, and I especially liked Jon’s solo played on the second guitar.
July 17th, 2025 at 23:47Brilliant.
July 18th, 2025 at 15:20It’s incredible to think that youngsters can play so well .
I wonder at what age they started .
Well done and good luck to them
I usually get bored of covers after a minute or so and switch off. Not this. This is great: Vocals are particularly good as too are the guitars. Watched it to the end.
July 18th, 2025 at 16:14I wish I could play as good as them!!!!!!
This Buln velsion is vely nice. Empelol applove gleatly!
Prove how the Japanese education system achieves superior results. The kids learn something there and that includes pronouncing a Western “r” collectly and listening to and learning proper music! 🤘👍👌
It’s weird that Mk III never visited Japan in their one-and-a-half-years of touring activity, the “closest” they came was Australia at Sunbury. When they finally arrived at Nippon’s shores, Mk IV had already superseded Mk III (and the Japanese loved Tommy’s flamboyant and Manga-compatible looks).
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I guess Ritchie did leave a bit too abruptly after all (though not as abruptly as the second time round! 😁) or an Mk III tour of Japan would have certainly followed in late spring/summer 1975. Or maybe he just doesn’t like the jet lag travelling to Japan, what’s with this guy … 🙄
July 18th, 2025 at 16:23Oohhh NICE 😍
July 18th, 2025 at 16:46Look at Karin now recklessly schmoozing with the Mk III fans here! This woman truly knows neither guilt nor shame …
July 18th, 2025 at 20:39these kids are cool!
Unfortunately in Italy there is nothing similar, only trap shit with auto tune now.
The multi-camera video is beautiful and the stage is beautiful, I just don’t understand why there are even two cameras on the little Paice!
July 18th, 2025 at 20:53Messieurs, whaton Earth to be afraid of? Jap teens play this song in 2025.
July 18th, 2025 at 21:04@6
I’m schmoozing nothing! Those kids just did a great job ☺️
July 19th, 2025 at 03:48@ 7 – “just don’t understand why there are even two cameras on the little Paice!’ That is because drummers rule Fla76. Don’t tell me you are a mate of Uwe’s, where drummers are look at as a ‘by product’ of sorts, he he he. Cheers.
July 19th, 2025 at 06:43@ 6 – Ha ha ha ha, yes indeed. But what about poor Anton. Karin arrives home possibly with what all doggies hope for, food, something nice from the butcher or delicatessen. But oh no, just three ‘new’ Deep Purple albums. Spare poor Anton a thought or two. He will be disconsolate indeed. Cheers.
July 19th, 2025 at 06:55@11
Thank you so much MacGregor, for looking out for Anton 😃
But I promise you, he is taking very well care of 😄😄
July 19th, 2025 at 14:33Besides getting yummy food every day, I also give him treats, made of salmon!
I am all for addressing the concerns of special needs people, Herr MacGregor – and is there a better example of them than drummers?
July 19th, 2025 at 15:56Some talented teens (or kids?) there. Good version. Beats the snot out of most stuff I hear/see on the radio or TV nowadays.
July 19th, 2025 at 18:12The kids are alright!!! What a great cover – really neat hearing Jon’s parts done on guitar – the girl with the blue Strat really nailed Ritchie’s tone and feel, and in the bridge section, the singer sounds alot like Glenn – there’s something about the tonality of her voice and how she sings the notes that really remind me of him! Really awesome stuff all around!
July 19th, 2025 at 20:21Great job. I was impressed with the guitars. These youngsters put Mark IV to shame. Bolin couldn’t play the riff, his tone was off and his lead solo was weak in all versions I heard, not just Last Concert in Japan. I saw comments this week from an old interview with Roger Glover. He actually saw Mark IV live and was disgusted.
July 20th, 2025 at 17:35Roger saw Mk IV? That is news to me, I know that he saw Mk III incognito in 1974 on their UK tour and “I didn’t like it, but I was probably prejudiced”.
July 21st, 2025 at 01:05Look what I found!
https://earofnewt.com/2020/09/17/that-time-roger-glover-told-me-that-he-felt-very-bitter-towards-deep-purples-mark-iii-lineup-didnt-like-burn-much/
Well, at least he liked Sail Away then, immaculate taste.
I can understand that Roger felt incredibly hurt by Blackmore edging him out in 1973: Here you are a co-writer, reliable and expert bassist making the whole band shine, co-producer, sleeve artist and social worker plus intra-band negotiator, all around good citizen with zero drama … and then that a…hole of a guitarist strikes a whim that he doesn’t like your bass playing anymore and the other guys in the band do … fuck all!
But Roger getting the boot might have also been down to Blackmore’s Stalinist instincts at the time – he saw RG & IG as a tandem, bonded by a strong friendship (Ritchie never really had “friends” in music) and a lengthy common history, he knew that with Roger remaining in the band, there would always be someone having second thoughts about the wisdom of getting a new singer. Roger jettisoned as collateral damage so to say. Ritchie wanted a clean purge with no leftovers. Such a thoroughly pleasant man. 😈
July 21st, 2025 at 13:44@ 18- ‘expert bassist making the whole band shine’. I doubt Roger would call himself an expert bass player. He always played down that sort of talk. Still, it worked very well what he and the others did at that time, we all know that. “all around good citizen with zero drama”, really Uwe, were you there? Who knows what was going on at various times. Hype it up old son. “a…hole of a guitarist strikes a whim that he doesn’t like your bass playing anymore and the other guys in the band do … fuck all!” Oh dear oh dear, does that make them a..holes too then??Netflix, here we come! Such a thoroughly pleasant man indeed Uwe, is the man in black. So much so, that many still supported him over the ensuing years……………? It does work in ‘mysterious ways’ all this adulation and criticism and worshipping doesn’t it. We are all guilty, well most of us at least. Get the cash out and buy that ticket or cd etc etc. Support your favourite artists, no matter what! The drama of it all. Cheers.
July 21st, 2025 at 22:16What’s with these Tassie catcalls?!
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Roger is certainly an “expert” rock bassist, he’s smooth, has a flawless technique, a steady groove, is very tasteful and accurate. His “throb” and Little Ian’s swing are the heartbeat of Purple Mk II and V-IX.
What I did not write was that Roger is particularly idiosyncratic, attention-grabbing or a virtuoso. He’s not a lead bassist like Glenn sometimes can be. Roger plays more like clockwork. And while he is a humble man about his own abilities, his chops shouldn’t be slighted. Glenn is not a technically more able or complex player than Roger. In fact he is often less complex, but plays what he plays with a maximum of attitude and a sense of drama and pushiness that just isn’t Roger.
I’ve been following Purple for a long time. Nowhere have I ever read or heard the slightest criticism voiced by another band member against him regarding his interaction with his band colleagues during Mk II’s heyday. Ritchie has never justified his decision to row him out other than with that he grew bored with Roger’s bass playing. You, lieber Herr MacGregor, are now the first person in 52 years to insinuate that “there might have been something we don’t know about”. That’s vague.
Ritchie has never made any bones about why he wanted Roger gone, his quote to Roger “Look it’s nothing personal, it’s just what I believe is right for the band. after the final Japan gigs says it all. It was his disenchantment with the chugging “Glover style”-bass playing which so much contributed to the dense Mk II sound. But that sound was no longer deemed desirable by Ritchie in 1973 which is why he dismantled it to reconstruct anew. And yes, Mk III was musically more jagged and rhythmically livelier than the train engine-reminiscent Mk II steady groove, mission accomplished by Purple’s then musical director.
[Of course, Ritchie being Ritchie, with Rainbow he went back to wanting an incessant, even hammering rhythm section throb again – with a few highlights from Cozy and bassists that generally kept in the background.]
July 22nd, 2025 at 01:08I apologize, although I respect and find it nice that there are these teen videos, I must say that I don’t find them very rich in artistic value.; but it is amazing and commendable, though I don’t like it stylistically very much. look here, what my children can do…well
July 22nd, 2025 at 11:06#20: For example, when you listen to Roger’s bass playing on the Bananas album (the clever pieces, not the radio-friendly ones), you will notice his variable and empathetic playing both technically and in terms of speed; he is very underrated, which I can’t understand at all, because Glover is an exceptional bassist and has qualities that are not so flashy but are of very high quality.
July 22nd, 2025 at 11:12Yes, under Steve’s influence (and also when Roger wasn’t distracted with producing the band, he himself has said that his bass playing then tended to take a backseat) Roger’s bass playing flourished and took a creative leap.
Without him, DP sounds nothing like it usually does, I saw a whole gig with Nick Fyffe deputizing for an ailing Roger and all of the trademark drive had gone though Nick played admirably well in his own style. But he doesn’t sit on Paicey’s beat like Roger does.
July 22nd, 2025 at 15:40New neoclassical moment, kids are something, Ritchie will like this. Ozzy RIP.
July 22nd, 2025 at 20:10