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I’ve never been a Clapton fan, but his status as one of the greatest Blues-infused rock/pop guitarists is deserved. And long before it became popular he decided that he was not gonna fit the guitar hero mode, not play faster and faster, not turn to Prog or Jazz, and not improvise songs to death. He stepped out of Cream and said, I’m done with this, I want to be a singer-songwriter who presents accessible songs and plays tasteful and to the point guitar solos to them. That wasn’t the stuff 16-year-olds nor rock critics dream of, but I think it was a sincere choice he made from the heart. He didn’t want to be Hendrix, Beck, Page, (Alvin) Lee, Fripp or Holdsworth, he wanted to be Robbie Robertson of The Band which at the time was a brave and unusual path to take.
I’ve never been to a gig of his and I know that he is a bit the type of artist whom people have in their CD collection or playlist who otherwise don’t really like rock anymore because they think they have grown out of it, but I respect the man.
Interesting Karin, we wonder too. We also wonder if the youngster noticed Ritchie and knew who he was. Most probably not as Blackers may have been watching from afar and thinking, ‘I think I could wipe the floor with most guitarists’. The poor young lad was lucky to survive by the sound of it. Cheers.
There is a interview from Roger Glover who claims that he was the one that convinced Blackmore not to try to be the fastest but a more melodic guitarist. You can tell the difference since Fireball album.
Clapton is the most influential electric guitar player. He perfected vibrato which is still being taught in conservatories
MacGregor I hope so much that Ritchie is as kind and gentle as he was playing the banjo….
But alas, according to Ian, Ritchie was some kind of a bitter pill.
Ian acknowledged Ritchie’s world class guitar playing, because Ian is a wonderful human being! (Yes Sir, I said it ☺️😉)
I use to own the double live album of Clapton’s, Just One Night I think it was called, with Albert Lee by his side. A very good band with them too and a cracking set list. I played it a lot back in the 1980’s and I also owned 461 Ocean Boulevard. However these days the Cream reunion live dvd is all I need of Eric, cranking it out, wonderful that is, with Jack and Ginger. No doubt about it, Clapton is one of the biggest inspirations for so many. Cheers.
@ 9 – Ian Gillan himself admitted a long time ago that he was just as big an a..hole and the two of them are over it. Imagine if Ian Gillan is knighted or something. Saint Ian or Sir Ian, meh, not in this life he ain’t. It takes two to tango, that old saying……..Cheers.
Blackmore and Gillan were simply both not made to stay together in the same band for long. As Purple fans we should simply live up to that fact. Mk 2.1 was pretty much exactly four years (and the mood had turned sour by three), Mk 2.2 was a bit more than four years (once again the mood had turned sour by three), and Mk 2.3 was like the bat of a a butterfly’s wings or less than a year even (with the mood sour right from the start because Blackmore saw himself the victim of a purge —> Kill the King). Blackmore couldn’t even bring himself to hang on to the band for a few weeks and fulfill his commitments in Japan – talk about an urge to get out.
Compare that to Steve Morse’s tenure of 28 years and then tell me who you want to share a dressing room or ride on the tour bus with.
I believe that Blackmore and Gillan maxed out their possible time together. The surprising facts were not their respective departures but that they stayed and worked together as long as they did.
“Blackmore and Gillan were simply both not made to stay together in the same band for long.”
– yeah it’s a fact Uwe, but WHY? I will never get to understand why two intelligent individuals can’t work out their differences and instead they worn each other out. And I’m not blaming Ian here, not at all….
Just wondering 😊
I’m not aware of anybody having been Ritchie’s friend for life or even extreme long periods – Candice excepted. IG on the other hand has been friends with Phil Banfield, his manager, for close to 50 years and with Roger Glover for more than 60 years.
Ritchie and Ian might have had inspirational chemistry flashing at times, but they see the world too differently from another. Blackmore has a low frustration tolerance, needs to control and likes to scheme while Ian is stubborn and takes no shit, especially not from Blackmore. It’s not like Ian has no drive for leadership himself, but he likes to lead by embracing people whereas Ritchie is always moving little chess figures around in search for perfection.
And while Ian has caustic wit and life experience, he’s essentially still a trusting person and Ritchie isn’t and never has been. It’s been my professional experience that if someone has Urvertrauen – I’m guilty as charged – and someone else has not – I’ve run across a few in law firms – then that is constant clashes waiting to happen. And you can’t really bridge those two different world views that color the perception of everything either. I used to bewilder and infuriate people who were distrusting by nature and I in turn would – the asshole component – shake my head at and mock them. Not easy.
Je comprends ce que tu veux dire !
Mais tu ne penses pas que, parce que Ritchie était le premier guitariste, tous les autres sont comparés à lui ? Si je n’avais jamais entendu Ritchie, Steve ou Simon seraient les meilleurs.
Mais Ritchie était là en premier, il a posé les bases du Deep Purple qu’on aime tant, et oui, c’est difficile de lui succéder.
Comme disait Steve : « Ritchie a laissé des chaussures que Steve ne pouvait pas remplacer… »
“but he likes to lead by embracing people”
– yeah he does Uwe 😃💜
“ Ian is stubborn and takes no shit, especially not from Blackmore.”
– well, geniuses tend to be like that 🥰
“And while Ian has caustic wit”
– which is seen in his lyrics! They talk as much to my brain as to my heart… I often giggle when I read his lyrics, and English is sadly not my first language, so I guess it must be even more fantastic than I can apprehend.
“Smooth dancer”
– as far as I know the only song Ian has acknowledged was meant to p*ss off Ritchie. I have always wondered why Ritchie didn’t refuse to play that song! Or maybe he hadn’t understood it was aimed at him? Or maybe they never played it at concerts? And when recorded, he hadn’t read the lyrics beforehand 😄
“the asshole component – shake my head at and mock them. Not easy.”
– Arhhh! I beg to differ! I have seen in here how you actually tries to mend with people of, ahem, different opinions 😊
Ritchie doesn’t give a damn about lyrics as long as they don’t get in the way of his music. And by WDWTWA he wasn’t appreciating Ian as a musical force anymore anyway and mostly ignored him.
I see Smooth Dancer more as a call to Blackmore to help repair the relationship, but by that time “Black Suede” was not listening anymore, but rather putting together in his head how Mk III should sound.
It’s our tribute to RJD’s obsesion with Babel/Babylon, Andrew …
Genesis 11:5-9
New International Version
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[a]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
No where do we go?
What would you guys do without my solid Catholic upbringing. 😇
Uwe and Karin,
I think that the quarrel between Blackmore and Gillan started with the riff which later would become Mistreated. Blackmore had written its main part in 1971 and Gillan wanted to sing it. Blackmore refused because he thought his voice is operatic and not bluesy. Gillan responded that he can sing anything and again he was rejected.
It is the initial sparkle of the hatred one musician not believing in the capacities of the other.
One may argue that the song was a better fit for Coverdale but later on in 1976 an operatic singer did a fine job with it(Dio)
However Gillan is brilliant in Strange Kind of Woman
Big mistake for a brilliant musician who is sincere an strong minded even if he is not right.
“Blackmore refused because he thought his voice is operatic and not bluesy.”
– what! Ok, I respect and admire Ritchie Blackmore a lot, but that is downright ridiculous and stupid!
In the female universe there can be a lot of rivalry regarding looks, and I might guess that it could be the same here: Ian is a way more attractive and handsome man than Ritchie ever was, so maybe the hatred comes from plain envy?
Sometimes people can be so stupid!
And this: https://youtu.be/bLfUu5Bd0uM
I know a lot of you in here aren’t thrilled about it, but in strictest confidence I can tell you that John McCoy also loves it! (Yes I chatted with him on FB)
And this one is perfection: https://youtu.be/3IrGLvkqUDM
The lyrics is funny and the way he sings it reminds me of a lion!
And in all honesty I could go on! Sadly I don’t have the time, but no one, not even a brilliant guitarist can convince me that Ian Gillan can’t sing the blues!
That man could sing everything and even now he is still a more accomplished singer than Ritchie ever has been a guitarist’! And please remember I really dig Ritchie’s playing…
That would depend on what s ‘everything’ wouldn’t it. I can sing anything and everything, well I will give anything a good attempt at least. But it ain’t gonna sound right is it? The feel, nuances, phrasing and the general vibe of what is to be sung to carry it correctly. It is the way it is, everyone has a niche, that doesn’t mean they can do everything. Just listen to the IGB, big Ian wasn’t suited to a lot of that music, it is what it is. The same with so many other vocalists, the limitations of being a human eh? And the same scenario applies to other musicians, guitar, keyboard and on and on we could go. Now we get back to the reality of life on earth, again. Cheers.
Of course Ian can sing a blues rock tune or two, but he ain’t no bluesy vocalist in an Eric Burdon, Joe Cocker, Chris Farlowe, Rod Stewart, Paul Rodgers, Jess Roden, Jim Dewar, Frankie Miller, Elmer Gamtry or David Coverdale vein. He is not from that school of British RnB, Episode Six were a vocal pop group, not members of the British Blues Boom. Nothing wrong with that, but I understand what Ritchie meant: IG for all his qualities couldn’t have leant Mistreated that wounded lion roar/hurt machismo wailing DC mustered so well. OTOH, there are tons of things IG can do well that DC can’t.
What Ian did with/to No More Cane On The Brazos says it all, he – likely unwittingly – turned a field song from the American South
And mind you, this is essentially an AI voice mimicking Ian that follows DC’s original vocal melody. Ian himself would have of course come up with a totally different one.
Thank you for that AI awfulness re Ian’s beautiful voice compared to that monstrosity 😝😝😝
I do believe that had Ian sung Mistreated when he was younger, he would have put his heart and soul (sole?😄) into that song, maybe even more than DC did.
Yeah Uwe, I really do believe that. You see, Ian had and has a certain feeling with the songs he chose to sing, so no one in their right mind ever would dare to challenge him.
When I hear this one, a song he sang so many times: https://youtu.be/1ieqHL15yEw
He put layers in I hadn’t heard before!
His personality is oozing out in every syllable, every note, and I dare to say that not many performers can do what Ian seems to be doing so perfectly!
Just a bit like Ritchie I guess…. When he was younger and was excellent in playing the guitar, not many could do what he so easily did.
For both of the gentlemen it seemed and seems to be second nature to them.
And yeah, for so many other singers in the Purple universe, it feels like they are putting on a mask when they wanna sing Ian’s songs, that is.
They knew what they ought to sing so they did, but the soulfulness were missing (I am not thinking about DC’s own work with WS) but put Ian on a stage and give the guy a mike and tell him to perform without any sheets to sing from, and he’ll be entertaining people out of their minds! https://youtu.be/T7NXt9K3B4g
Well, how many can sing out their heart like that? (And yeah, you probably wanna give me a list so long of singers you think are way better, but that is ok, I just think Ian is the most amazing singer 😃)
I fully support Luciano Pavarotti’s sentiments re Ian 🥰
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I’ve never been a Clapton fan, but his status as one of the greatest Blues-infused rock/pop guitarists is deserved. And long before it became popular he decided that he was not gonna fit the guitar hero mode, not play faster and faster, not turn to Prog or Jazz, and not improvise songs to death. He stepped out of Cream and said, I’m done with this, I want to be a singer-songwriter who presents accessible songs and plays tasteful and to the point guitar solos to them. That wasn’t the stuff 16-year-olds nor rock critics dream of, but I think it was a sincere choice he made from the heart. He didn’t want to be Hendrix, Beck, Page, (Alvin) Lee, Fripp or Holdsworth, he wanted to be Robbie Robertson of The Band which at the time was a brave and unusual path to take.
I’ve never been to a gig of his and I know that he is a bit the type of artist whom people have in their CD collection or playlist who otherwise don’t really like rock anymore because they think they have grown out of it, but I respect the man.
https://youtu.be/dATZzP0n0QE
December 12th, 2025 at 03:15Being the fastest doesn’t do it!
Did Ritchie give the kid some money?
December 12th, 2025 at 03:33Interesting Karin, we wonder too. We also wonder if the youngster noticed Ritchie and knew who he was. Most probably not as Blackers may have been watching from afar and thinking, ‘I think I could wipe the floor with most guitarists’. The poor young lad was lucky to survive by the sound of it. Cheers.
December 12th, 2025 at 10:09There is a interview from Roger Glover who claims that he was the one that convinced Blackmore not to try to be the fastest but a more melodic guitarist. You can tell the difference since Fireball album.
December 12th, 2025 at 11:30Clapton is the most influential electric guitar player. He perfected vibrato which is still being taught in conservatories
“Clapton is God”..and Phil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcmcAUQtcVM
December 12th, 2025 at 16:27Did Ritchie give the kid some money?
Naw, but he did have one of his roadies/assistants creep up on him later that day and break a few of the little uppity brat’s fingers!
December 12th, 2025 at 16:29Never was a Clapton fan until I saw him live -circa’85
December 12th, 2025 at 16:35He’s was awesome!Was a good time!
@6
Uwe, like the emperor he was! 😃
December 12th, 2025 at 18:08@3
MacGregor I hope so much that Ritchie is as kind and gentle as he was playing the banjo….
But alas, according to Ian, Ritchie was some kind of a bitter pill.
Ian acknowledged Ritchie’s world class guitar playing, because Ian is a wonderful human being! (Yes Sir, I said it ☺️😉)
December 12th, 2025 at 18:14I use to own the double live album of Clapton’s, Just One Night I think it was called, with Albert Lee by his side. A very good band with them too and a cracking set list. I played it a lot back in the 1980’s and I also owned 461 Ocean Boulevard. However these days the Cream reunion live dvd is all I need of Eric, cranking it out, wonderful that is, with Jack and Ginger. No doubt about it, Clapton is one of the biggest inspirations for so many. Cheers.
December 12th, 2025 at 21:41Saw Clapton in 2001 on The Reptile tour. He’s always been one of my all-time favorite guitarists. Great show.
December 12th, 2025 at 22:13@ 9 – Ian Gillan himself admitted a long time ago that he was just as big an a..hole and the two of them are over it. Imagine if Ian Gillan is knighted or something. Saint Ian or Sir Ian, meh, not in this life he ain’t. It takes two to tango, that old saying……..Cheers.
December 13th, 2025 at 01:41Blackmore and Gillan were simply both not made to stay together in the same band for long. As Purple fans we should simply live up to that fact. Mk 2.1 was pretty much exactly four years (and the mood had turned sour by three), Mk 2.2 was a bit more than four years (once again the mood had turned sour by three), and Mk 2.3 was like the bat of a a butterfly’s wings or less than a year even (with the mood sour right from the start because Blackmore saw himself the victim of a purge —> Kill the King). Blackmore couldn’t even bring himself to hang on to the band for a few weeks and fulfill his commitments in Japan – talk about an urge to get out.
Compare that to Steve Morse’s tenure of 28 years and then tell me who you want to share a dressing room or ride on the tour bus with.
I believe that Blackmore and Gillan maxed out their possible time together. The surprising facts were not their respective departures but that they stayed and worked together as long as they did.
December 13th, 2025 at 14:59@13
“Blackmore and Gillan were simply both not made to stay together in the same band for long.”
December 13th, 2025 at 20:26– yeah it’s a fact Uwe, but WHY? I will never get to understand why two intelligent individuals can’t work out their differences and instead they worn each other out. And I’m not blaming Ian here, not at all….
Just wondering 😊
I’m not aware of anybody having been Ritchie’s friend for life or even extreme long periods – Candice excepted. IG on the other hand has been friends with Phil Banfield, his manager, for close to 50 years and with Roger Glover for more than 60 years.
Ritchie and Ian might have had inspirational chemistry flashing at times, but they see the world too differently from another. Blackmore has a low frustration tolerance, needs to control and likes to scheme while Ian is stubborn and takes no shit, especially not from Blackmore. It’s not like Ian has no drive for leadership himself, but he likes to lead by embracing people whereas Ritchie is always moving little chess figures around in search for perfection.
And while Ian has caustic wit and life experience, he’s essentially still a trusting person and Ritchie isn’t and never has been. It’s been my professional experience that if someone has Urvertrauen – I’m guilty as charged – and someone else has not – I’ve run across a few in law firms – then that is constant clashes waiting to happen. And you can’t really bridge those two different world views that color the perception of everything either. I used to bewilder and infuriate people who were distrusting by nature and I in turn would – the asshole component – shake my head at and mock them. Not easy.
Smooth dancer versus freelancer sums it up!
December 14th, 2025 at 05:16bonjour steve morse est resté 28 années…OK mais la majorité des fans ne se rappelleront que des titres de la formation avec Blackmore!!!
December 14th, 2025 at 07:07@15
Je comprends ce que tu veux dire !
December 14th, 2025 at 09:47Mais tu ne penses pas que, parce que Ritchie était le premier guitariste, tous les autres sont comparés à lui ? Si je n’avais jamais entendu Ritchie, Steve ou Simon seraient les meilleurs.
Mais Ritchie était là en premier, il a posé les bases du Deep Purple qu’on aime tant, et oui, c’est difficile de lui succéder.
Comme disait Steve : « Ritchie a laissé des chaussures que Steve ne pouvait pas remplacer… »
@15
“but he likes to lead by embracing people”
– yeah he does Uwe 😃💜
“ Ian is stubborn and takes no shit, especially not from Blackmore.”
– well, geniuses tend to be like that 🥰
“And while Ian has caustic wit”
– which is seen in his lyrics! They talk as much to my brain as to my heart… I often giggle when I read his lyrics, and English is sadly not my first language, so I guess it must be even more fantastic than I can apprehend.
“Smooth dancer”
– as far as I know the only song Ian has acknowledged was meant to p*ss off Ritchie. I have always wondered why Ritchie didn’t refuse to play that song! Or maybe he hadn’t understood it was aimed at him? Or maybe they never played it at concerts? And when recorded, he hadn’t read the lyrics beforehand 😄
“the asshole component – shake my head at and mock them. Not easy.”
December 14th, 2025 at 10:01– Arhhh! I beg to differ! I have seen in here how you actually tries to mend with people of, ahem, different opinions 😊
Ritchie doesn’t give a damn about lyrics as long as they don’t get in the way of his music. And by WDWTWA he wasn’t appreciating Ian as a musical force anymore anyway and mostly ignored him.
I see Smooth Dancer more as a call to Blackmore to help repair the relationship, but by that time “Black Suede” was not listening anymore, but rather putting together in his head how Mk III should sound.
December 14th, 2025 at 13:06@19
I was about to claim women are clever, but nah! ☺️
December 14th, 2025 at 18:37@ 16
Le « plus » peut-être… mais loin de tout ! 😏
December 15th, 2025 at 10:51Blimey! The ease with which we move between different languages! Are all rock fan websites like this? I think not!
December 18th, 2025 at 02:08It’s our tribute to RJD’s obsesion with Babel/Babylon, Andrew …
Genesis 11:5-9
New International Version
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[a]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
No where do we go?
What would you guys do without my solid Catholic upbringing. 😇
December 18th, 2025 at 12:37@22
Og ved du hvad Andrew? Vi kan endda prise Deep Purple på dansk 😃
December 18th, 2025 at 17:28Uwe and Karin,
December 19th, 2025 at 13:26I think that the quarrel between Blackmore and Gillan started with the riff which later would become Mistreated. Blackmore had written its main part in 1971 and Gillan wanted to sing it. Blackmore refused because he thought his voice is operatic and not bluesy. Gillan responded that he can sing anything and again he was rejected.
It is the initial sparkle of the hatred one musician not believing in the capacities of the other.
One may argue that the song was a better fit for Coverdale but later on in 1976 an operatic singer did a fine job with it(Dio)
However Gillan is brilliant in Strange Kind of Woman
Big mistake for a brilliant musician who is sincere an strong minded even if he is not right.
@25
Manos, I love that riff!
“Blackmore refused because he thought his voice is operatic and not bluesy.”
– what! Ok, I respect and admire Ritchie Blackmore a lot, but that is downright ridiculous and stupid!
I honestly don’t think there is anything Ian can’t sing.
And regarding blues:
https://youtu.be/lTfNINPcjU8
And this:
https://youtu.be/ewzrJ5W1BzA
In the female universe there can be a lot of rivalry regarding looks, and I might guess that it could be the same here: Ian is a way more attractive and handsome man than Ritchie ever was, so maybe the hatred comes from plain envy?
Sometimes people can be so stupid!
My favourite songs with Ian is this:
https://youtu.be/sOLJLPE0p-U
And this:
https://youtu.be/UNacKTzsTw0
(Especially 3:48 ->, man what a voice…)
And this:
https://youtu.be/bLfUu5Bd0uM
I know a lot of you in here aren’t thrilled about it, but in strictest confidence I can tell you that John McCoy also loves it! (Yes I chatted with him on FB)
And this one is perfection:
https://youtu.be/3IrGLvkqUDM
The lyrics is funny and the way he sings it reminds me of a lion!
And in all honesty I could go on! Sadly I don’t have the time, but no one, not even a brilliant guitarist can convince me that Ian Gillan can’t sing the blues!
December 19th, 2025 at 15:26That man could sing everything and even now he is still a more accomplished singer than Ritchie ever has been a guitarist’! And please remember I really dig Ritchie’s playing…
That would depend on what s ‘everything’ wouldn’t it. I can sing anything and everything, well I will give anything a good attempt at least. But it ain’t gonna sound right is it? The feel, nuances, phrasing and the general vibe of what is to be sung to carry it correctly. It is the way it is, everyone has a niche, that doesn’t mean they can do everything. Just listen to the IGB, big Ian wasn’t suited to a lot of that music, it is what it is. The same with so many other vocalists, the limitations of being a human eh? And the same scenario applies to other musicians, guitar, keyboard and on and on we could go. Now we get back to the reality of life on earth, again. Cheers.
December 19th, 2025 at 21:46Of course Ian can sing a blues rock tune or two, but he ain’t no bluesy vocalist in an Eric Burdon, Joe Cocker, Chris Farlowe, Rod Stewart, Paul Rodgers, Jess Roden, Jim Dewar, Frankie Miller, Elmer Gamtry or David Coverdale vein. He is not from that school of British RnB, Episode Six were a vocal pop group, not members of the British Blues Boom. Nothing wrong with that, but I understand what Ritchie meant: IG for all his qualities couldn’t have leant Mistreated that wounded lion roar/hurt machismo wailing DC mustered so well. OTOH, there are tons of things IG can do well that DC can’t.
What Ian did with/to No More Cane On The Brazos says it all, he – likely unwittingly – turned a field song from the American South
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E34s3fHq3nc
into something that sounded like Celtic Folk Pop from a Riverdanceshow.
AI can give you an idea of how Mistreated might have sounded with Ian’s lead vocals, it’s not bad, but it has none of DC’s primal intensity/agony.
https://youtu.be/I1Hp6qmFvpY
And mind you, this is essentially an AI voice mimicking Ian that follows DC’s original vocal melody. Ian himself would have of course come up with a totally different one.
December 20th, 2025 at 15:21@28
Thank you for that AI awfulness re Ian’s beautiful voice compared to that monstrosity 😝😝😝
I do believe that had Ian sung Mistreated when he was younger, he would have put his heart and soul (sole?😄) into that song, maybe even more than DC did.
Yeah Uwe, I really do believe that. You see, Ian had and has a certain feeling with the songs he chose to sing, so no one in their right mind ever would dare to challenge him.
When I hear this one, a song he sang so many times:
https://youtu.be/1ieqHL15yEw
He put layers in I hadn’t heard before!
His personality is oozing out in every syllable, every note, and I dare to say that not many performers can do what Ian seems to be doing so perfectly!
Just a bit like Ritchie I guess…. When he was younger and was excellent in playing the guitar, not many could do what he so easily did.
For both of the gentlemen it seemed and seems to be second nature to them.
And yeah, for so many other singers in the Purple universe, it feels like they are putting on a mask when they wanna sing Ian’s songs, that is.
They knew what they ought to sing so they did, but the soulfulness were missing (I am not thinking about DC’s own work with WS) but put Ian on a stage and give the guy a mike and tell him to perform without any sheets to sing from, and he’ll be entertaining people out of their minds!
https://youtu.be/T7NXt9K3B4g
And this:
https://youtu.be/eMbBtWdklxI
Well, how many can sing out their heart like that? (And yeah, you probably wanna give me a list so long of singers you think are way better, but that is ok, I just think Ian is the most amazing singer 😃)
I fully support Luciano Pavarotti’s sentiments re Ian 🥰
Well, that is just one ordinary gals opinion!
December 21st, 2025 at 06:46