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In good company
In this interview with Classic Album Review Roger tells the war stories on soon to be reissued Made in Japan, bootlegs, drum solos, writing Black Night, alleged rivalry with Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, Vincent Price, and many other things. Some of those stories you may heave heard before, others not necessarily. Enjoy!
Thanks to Mike Whiteley for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
A terrific interview that hit on a lot of different topics.
July 25th, 2025 at 02:13Thanks for the Roger Glover interview. Testing his memory there a fair bit, I think he did well in the end. Cheers.
July 25th, 2025 at 02:36Uriah Sheep … 😈😈😈
Realschul-Deep Purple we called them. 🤗
July 25th, 2025 at 05:23#3 “We called her Realschul-Deep Purple”
ok, that’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time, I’m laughing my head off…but I also like Uriah Heep a little bit…
UH are like Saxon compared to Iron Maiden, in comparison to Deep Purple… because I actually like Saxon a little, too and Maiden a lot an Purple a whole lotta lot, or wholest lotta lot – and ah Led Zeppelin , Sabbath, Hendrix, i forgot-lot….
July 25th, 2025 at 10:48I watch all Barrys (Classic albums review) programs on You tube, I especially like the ones with topics like
“Ten albums I really hate” or “ten bands I really hate” LOL!!!
Cheers!!
July 25th, 2025 at 12:44Budokan is an iconic hall but from all I have heard its billowing acoustics can be tricky. It was built for Sumo wrestling contests not music. Cheap Trick had real issues getting a decent sound there for their Live At Budokan album (which has dreadful echo-o-o-o all over) which nevertheless finally broke them as a band. But then Cheap Trick, from the few times I have seen them, always tend to sound messy live. The IGB live recordings from Budokan sound excellent, especially for such complex music in a live environment, but I guess that is a testament to the abilities of that band so shamefully ignored on these pages. One listen to the immaculate sound quality of IGB’s Live At Budokan and the sonic mess of the Double Trouble live side should make everyone think.
July 25th, 2025 at 13:03@3
Why? ☺️
July 25th, 2025 at 13:58The mathematical equation to decrease DP to UH of course is:
Deep Purple
MINUS virtuoso guitar solos,
MINUS any meaningful Hammond solos, but
PLUS catchy chorus parts with shrieky stacked backing vocals (see also —> Sweet + —> Van Halen) that do stick in your head
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= Uriah H
deepurple !!! 😎https://youtu.be/75tvdg-GpkM
Deep Purple für Mädchen … 😈
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July 25th, 2025 at 15:37We’re waiting for Roger’s biography to read many anecdotes like the one about the Uriah sheep who played in their same rehearsal room!
when the journalist asked him about concept albums, he could have made a digression about his solo albums, after all, Roger knows very well what it means to make a concept album!
July 25th, 2025 at 21:39I thought the interviewer was possibly leading to The Butterfly Ball album. From progressive to concept and all. Roger didn’t appear interested in certain topics, fair enough. How many interviewers ask the same or similar questions all the time. One thing is certain though, that DP rhythm section no like the dirge of heavy metal. I get that too, it is rather limiting and a tad same-ish. and too thrashy. Me thinks most of the Purps don’t like that, except for you know who, that guy we dare not mention who had that long hair etc. Led Zeppelin do ok though with the DP members recognition and respect, much to some peoples chagrin, he he he. I like it! Not sure about the Uriah Heep comparison though that some people waffle on about. Totally different songwriting, not to mention Uwe’s favourite lyrics too. At least once Ken Hensley exerted his songwriting skills 1971 era. Ken was also a heavier gothic Hammond player, much like Vincent Crane from Atomic Rooster. Not classical influenced. Jon Lord was much more ‘pastoral’, for want of a better description. Richard Wright was also that way inclined and Tony Banks and Rick Wakeman too. Not Keith Emerson though, he was a heavier and more aggressive Hammond player. UH played acoustic guitars etc, Purple didn’t. So many differences. Cheers.
July 26th, 2025 at 00:24Karin, Germany has a highly diversified system of schools:
– Hauptschule: finishes after ninth grade, in theory then followed by an apprenticeship for a practical/manual job,
– Realschule: finishes after tenth grade, leads in theory to an apprenticeship for an office job,
– Gymnasium/Oberstufe: finishes after 13th (or 12th for a time) grade, in theory followed by a university education.
– Gesamtschule: all three groups of pupils are schooled together, some stay for the full 13 years, others hop off earlier.
The saying used to be: The Hauptschüler mans the machine, the Realschüler services it and the Gymnasiast designs it.
You can see where this is going, it’s a school system that institutionalizes and reinforces class segregation and we have culture wars about it in Germany with the Gesamtschule approach being favored by lefties like me (I can hear Max’ sniggering catcalls already!) while conservatives deem it as the end of education as we know it if the dreigegliederte Schulsystem was discarded on the garbage heap of history (where it belongs). Internationally, it has to be said that the German school system is perceived as notably rigid as well as archaic and while lateral changes of a pupil between the different tiers of schools are possible in theory they happen rarely which leads international education analysts to deem the German system a huge waste of potential talent.
It follows that some bands were perceived Gymnasium (like all the Proggies: Genesis, ELP, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, YES, Supertramp, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, Gentle Giant, Eloy, Frank Zappa – DP were just barely still Gymnasium-worthy) while others were Realschule (Uriah Heep, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Sweet, Barclay James Harvest, Status Quo, AC/DC, UFO, Nazareth, German Krautrockers Jane, Scorpions etc). Black Sabbath were pretty much seen as Realschule too, Led Zeppelin were securely Gymnasium, but never that popular in Germany in the first place.
Although an Oberstufenschüler myself, my music tastes always leaned towards Realschulrock, I got a lot of stick for it! It probably had to do with the fact that most of my buddies were Realschüler (via playing hard rock in bands), I didn’t mingle much with my Gymnasium classmates. I even was nicknamed “Hartrock Uwe” by them, but I wore that tag proudly!
Anyway, I like Uriah Heep, but of course they owe an obvious conceptual debt to DP, especially in their Byron era (David Byron was also a lot closer in singing style to Ian Gillan than to either Robert Plant or Ozzy Osbourne). Musically, UH shares more with DP than, say, Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin do. In Germany, they were always perceived as a lesser Deep Purple, but one with more presence in the singles market. And I’m admittedly a sucker for this song here …
https://youtu.be/KVpU0I994MY
Credit where credit’s due: Free Me probably has more chord changes in one song than contained on all of Mk II’s album output in the 70s put together! 🤣 UH/Ken Hensley always had more harmonic pop sensibilities than Mk II who rather than change a chord would use their default mode and enter into another Ritchie or Jon solo … 😎
July 26th, 2025 at 01:24