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It’s for the kids
Ian Paice is auctioning for charity one of his drum kits. In this video, he explains what exactly is being auctioned, how it sounds, and where the money will go.
The auction is now live on eBay, and will close on March 7. Bidding starts at £5,000.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
A man needs a shed.
February 28th, 2024 at 19:44They are no good to me as they are left handed. Seriously it is for a good cause & as we know in this life, ‘we cannot take it with us’ so all will be good. Cheers.
February 28th, 2024 at 21:16Yo,
Good-on you Mr.Paice, I hope that they fetch a reasonable amount & help the school-out. They do sound quite nice, & the offer for pictures & signatures to go along with the kit should assure a fair amount of return for the offer.
Peace !
February 28th, 2024 at 21:55nice cap Ian !
February 28th, 2024 at 23:28A worthy cause.
February 29th, 2024 at 02:32Does that man play in some kind of garage band?
February 29th, 2024 at 07:47They are not left handed at all!!!! You set them up for a right hander DOH!
February 29th, 2024 at 09:44If I only had enough money …
February 29th, 2024 at 12:10The drums are individually left handed, not just Ian’s set-up of them? Explain!
February 29th, 2024 at 13:58Oh, I just realized that the Tasmanian was in jest! 🤓
I’m German, humor is no laughing matter for me, I have to work hard at it.☝️🧐
February 29th, 2024 at 14:03Not saying this is the drum set, but I stumbled across this only now, hasn’t been up on YouTube that long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9Tx4_GdCc&t=478s
Bernie had a wonderfully tuneful voice, we all know, but he was no David Coverdale bellowing out Whitesnake chestnuts, yet the way Murray and Paicey recapture that old Whitesnake rhythm section groove (no other WS drummer/bassist team has been able to replicate since then) drives a tear to my eye.
Murray has a great sound. Unsung bass hero.
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And since we’re at it with Paicey curios: I finally got my hands on a CD release of 1978’s “Composition” by Kirby aka Graham Gregory.
https://www.discogs.com/release/6218507-Kirby-Composition
I never even had that on vinyl and I’ve been looking for it for decades!
Ex-Curved Air Kirby was of course also the guitarist of Stretch (at one point an opening act of Dio era Rainbow), he wrote their one big hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smg2S8CssQU
which was sung by Elmer Gantry (real name Dave Terry) whom you know from Jon Lord’s Before I Forget. And original Stretch bass player Paul Martinez (not the guy in the above vid, though it is him playing the audio) was of course with Paice Ashton Lord (and later on with Robert Plant).
Anyhow, back to the CD: Of course the liner notes just credit all the drums on the album to Fran Bryne and some dude called “Ian Paice”, not individual tracks. And I was already moaning, “great, now I’ll have to strain my ears to find out whether it’s the spectacular bespectacled one or not …” – I need not have worried, track 5 (Darkness & Light) kinda jumps at you, it’s almost a Paicey pastiche:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5LNHC0ccvg
Everything you needed to know about Lively Little Ian (and were afraid to ask to) in just three and a half minutes. 🤣💕
February 29th, 2024 at 22:35You’ve got to love Paicey. He doesn’t realize that his fan base would trust their lives with him, he’s such a decent, honest man. Yet there he is doing a full-court pitch like people might actually question his character after all these years. Those drums will go like hotcakes.
February 29th, 2024 at 23:09I can’t afford to bid on the set or house them in our cluttered home but I’d love to be able to donate some cash to Ian’s cause anyway (as I’m sure we all would, however much). Can you reach out and give us a way to contribute?
March 1st, 2024 at 03:31Myself @11: It just occurred to me that it was Ian then in 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5LNHC0ccvg
who invented the drum intro to this little-known tune from 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86URGgqONvA
😂
March 1st, 2024 at 16:45