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Really not a band man
BraveWords have published the second part of their interview with Glenn Hughes. For whatever reason, there’s considerable overlap of content with the first part, so if you get a sense of déjà vu reading it, you’re not alone.
BraveWords: Okay. So picture you applying for a new job, just fictitiously, and you have a resume. What would you put as like your top three moments on your resumé?”
Hughes: “Well, you want the music where just the band Trapeze, before you were born, in 1972.”
BraveWords: ’67. I was five.
Hughes: “Well, what you’re asking me, what are my top five? That album for me was the moment Glenn Hughes found his voice, the voice we all know now. As the moment before Burn, it was the album before Burn when you could hear there’s some difference here with Ian Gillan. So for me, you want the music where just the band was the big ‘Here comes Glenn! Here comes Glenn Hughes’, you know. And I think, I think Burn, of course, the first big album with Purple. Hughes/Thrall in 1982, a big musical album for me. Soul Mover, 2005.”
Read more in BraveWords.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Why does Glenn insist on referring to himself in the third person?
June 6th, 2025 at 06:48That man, GH, is so much into himself it makes me sick. Purple Mk III would have been a so much better band if they kept RG and let DC do all the singing, it wouldnt have been perfect like in the IG days.. but it would have been quite good, the bluesy voice of DC and RG would have been the last line of defence against any soulsteps trying to intrude.
June 6th, 2025 at 09:03Cheers!
We all know Glenn… But this is getting worse and worse, you have to laugh hard reading this interview… Looks like a parody, and we’ve all read hundreds of Glenn’s interviews sur but that one is just incredible.
The answer at the question dealing with Prince sounds like Monty Pythons having fun at His Glenn Hughes King of Arts, Prince of Himself, God of Music. 🤣
June 6th, 2025 at 10:03Well Wiktor, that would have been Mark II with a different singer, wouldn’t it? And Glenn Hughes was a big part of the change RB wanted back then. To my ears it worked very well and I treasure those albums – including Made In Europe – to this day. Stormbringer and Come Taste the Band brought a whole new side of Deep Purple to broad daylight. A more than interesting chapter in that big bad book of the band’s history.
June 6th, 2025 at 13:45Wiktor, never let sentiments get in the way of facts: Burn would have sounded nothing like it does if Roger and not Glenn had played the bass. And not just by differently played and sounding bass lines, but also by the way Glenn’s playing “Americanized” Little Ian’s drumming.
Roger, btw, likes Funk and Soul too, his style of bass playing just doesn’t lend itself as much to it as does Glenn’s, but his underrated The Mask solo album is filled with funky bass playing and soulish arrangements in a Duran Duran’esque way:
https://youtu.be/EbW0WWQDPUk
https://youtu.be/UNxdg-ZuqAU
I understand that Glenn’s grandstanding can rub people the wrong way though it is essentially harmless, but don’t negate his musical abilities and contributions to Mk III-IV and beyond.
Blackmore has always relied on Roger’s reliability and common sense in intra-band affairs, his co-songwriting contributions as well as his production ear, but at the same time never hid the fact that at the end of the day he considers Glenn the more naturally gifted and interesting bass player.
June 6th, 2025 at 13:57